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ongtime activist Kelly Rivera Hart, foreground, reads a statement as he and others participate in a “die-in” in San Francisco’s Union Square Friday, November 12 to call attention to two pieces of federal legislation that would help prevent bullying in schools.

Both the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Non-Discrimination Act are stalled in Congress, and time is running out for action on them before the end of the session next month. “Homophobia Kills” was Rivera Hart’s basic message, as he urged people to “Stop this homophobia now.”

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Oakland mayor-elect Jean Quan supports LGBT projects

by Matthew S. Bajko mong the items on Jean Quan’s to-do list once she is sworn in as Oakland’s next mayor are helping to grow the East Bay city’s newly relaunched Pride event and the establishment of an LGBT community center.

In an interview this week with the Bay Area Reporter following her historic victory – she is the first woman and first Asian American to be elected Oakland mayor – Quan expressed support for the LGBT projects that have been a priority for the city’s queer community.

Oakland Mayor-elect Jean Quan speaks to reporters.

In a surprise upset, Quan emerged as the mayoral winner by securing more second and third choice votes at City Hall.

“I consider the gay community in Oakland under Oakland’s ranked choice voting system an integral part of our diversity and adds a lot of than did former state Senator Don Perata, who richness to our quality of life in our city,” she was the first place finisher on Election Night.

Quan, 61, said she wants the LGBT commu- said.

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“I expect I will have gay staff people and will make sure I appoint gay people.”

During the Pride event this past Labor Day weekend, Quan noted she and fellow at-large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, an out lesbian who came in third place in the mayor’s race, were the only current council members who had booths at the LGBT outdoor celebration. She would like to see Oakland Pride grow into as large of a draw as San Francisco’s annual event in June.

“I am very interested in making Oakland Pride as well known as the June march,” said Quan, who has participated over the years in the San Francisco Pride parade.

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key supporter of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is poised to deal the legislation a significant setback.

Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Commit- Senator Carl Levin tee and a strong supporter of repealing the law which bars openly gay people from serving in the military, said Tuesday he will hold hearings on the upcoming Pentagon study about implementation of repeal.

That study is due December 1 and Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said last Friday that “no one at the Pentagon will comment” on the study’s contents until December 1.

Levin indicated, in his remarks to reporters Tuesday, that he is open to staging separate votes on DADT repeal and on the annual defense authorization bill, which currently contains the repeal language.

“The [defense spending] bill has 849 pages and only two of them are ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” said Levin to reporters, according to a Washington Post account.

“The rest have to do with our troops, they have to do with a whole lot of critically important things.”

Levin has hinted before that he might pull DADT repeal from the defense bill for stand-alone consideration and, following Tuesday’s comments, many now expect that is what he will do.

Passage as a stand-alone measure weakens the repeal’s chances in several ways. It puts it in a long line of pressing issues that are competing for Congress’ attention during the final weeks of the lame-duck session. And, even if Congress does take it up, the stand-alone measure leaves repeal vulnerable to many more amendments from opponents who will likely seek to damage or undermine its intent.

On an optimistic note, Representative Patrick Murphy (D-Pennsylvania), who championed the addition of DADT re-

he statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California plans to continue promoting marriage equality and progay candidates, despite shutting down some offices in a cost-cutting move.

This week, the San Francisco-based group EQCA’s Geoff Kors released tax documents showing an unsurprising, but drastic drop in contributions after the unsuccessful 2008 campaign against the Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban.

Contributions and grants to EQCA were down from about $14 million in 2008 to approximately $6 million in 2009, according to the group’s 990 forms prepared for the IRS. The 2008 990s had previously been available.

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he Board of Directors of Folsom Street Events presented checks totaling $326,161 to nonprofit beneficiaries at a reception Tuesday, November 16 at the Armory. Above, representatives of the groups and Folsom officials were all smiles during the presentation. Folsom Street Executive Director Demetri Moshoyannis noted that all beneficiaries were paid in full at the event. The money represents portions of proceeds from the Folsom Street Fair, the Up Your Alley Fair, and other events held throughout the leather season. This year, the combined events saw about 400,000 attendees whose donations raised the money that was distributed this week.

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus gets new conductor

by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has selected a new artistic director and conductor.

Tim Seelig will start in January.

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Seelig, 59, said he is “completely honored, thrilled, and humbled.”

“It’s absolutely one of the most amazing organizations in all the choral world, and to be selected is beyond my wildest imagination,” he said.

Teddy Witherington, the chorus’ executive director, praised Seelig.

“Tim was selected because he had everything that we wanted and more,” said Witherington. He said Seelig has a history of “producing jaw-dropping choral experiences.”

Seelig’s career, which spans more than 30 years, includes conducting, singing, teaching, and writing.

He currently lives in Dallas, where he’s wrapping up three jobs. He’s been the director of the nonprofit Art for Peace and Justice, on the music faculty at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, and founding conductor of Resounding Harmony community chorus. He recently conducted his sixth appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and he continues to serve as guest conductor for others in the United States and internationally.

At the GMC, Seelig will receive a salary of $92,000.

Seelig said choruses such as San Francisco’s GMC “have all morphed and changed through the years, and I’m sure the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will change according to my style, as well as simply the way of the world.”

He said he has an appreciation for a “truly wide range” of repertoires, and his background includes opera

Correction The November 11 article “LGBTs express disappointment with Pelosi’s speakership,” should have said that since 2006 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has secured $17 million in federal funding for AIDS services around the Bay Area that otherwise would have been cut, with another $4.9 million pending for the 2011 fiscal year. The online version has been corrected.

Tim Seelig has been named the new artistic director and conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

singing.

“There’s a male choral sound that comes out of that” that’s “very exciting,” said Seelig, who said his start date with the San Francisco chorus hadn’t been determined, but it would be in the first half of January.

Shawn Northcutt, Seelig’s partner of almost 12 years, already lives in San Francisco’s Upper Haight neighborhood. Seelig has two adult children and is expecting his first grandchild in December.

McGuire is staying with the chorus through next month’s “Home for the Holidays” concerts, billed as the chorus’ “musical sleigh ride” that take place at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street.

Shows are December 16 at 8 p.m. and December 24 at 5, 7, and 9 p.m.

Special guests on the 24th will include Bay Area Reporter society columnist Donna Sachet.

Tickets start at $20 and are available online at www.sfgmc.org, by phone at (415) 865-2787, and in person at the chorus’ box office at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street.

A special $10 ticket is available in advance via the box office for unwaged (i.e., students, seniors, and those receiving benefits/assistance) upon proof of status.▼

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by Lisa Keen hen Congress came back to the Capitol to start its lame-duck session on Monday, it was suddenly hearing mixed messages from LGBT groups concerning repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Two relatively small and obscure groups that support repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay service issued a statement Monday morning urging the Senate to pass the annual defense authorization bill “whether or not the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is included.”

The mainstream media immediately began reporting that there was a rift in the LGBT community over the issue and that the two groups – OutServe and Knights Out – had called for stripping DADT repeal from the FY 2011 Defense Authorization bill.

Reaction from many in the LGBT community was swift and harsh. Gay political blogger John Aravosis said it was an effort to kill DADT repeal.

Blogger Pam Spaulding characterized it as a “bombshell.” And four organizations – the Human Rights Campaign, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Servicemembers United, and the Center for American Progress – issued a joint statement Monday urging LGBT groups to “send one message” to Congress: “Repeal DADT Now.” “Under no circumstances should DADT repeal be stripped from the underlying Defense Authorization bill,” said the statement. “That is simply a non-starter.”

A co-chair of OutServe, a group of active duty military that issued the original statement, soon issued a clarification of his group’s earlier message.

“Nowhere do we call for repeal to be stripped from the [defense spending bill],” said a spokesman, identified as JD Smith, a pseudonym for an active duty service member.

Smith said that his fellow active duty service members had stood by him when he was under investigation under DADT “and risked their careers in order to protect me.” He criticized Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), who has lead the filibuster against DADT repeal, as being willing to withhold necessary funding from all service members in order to “perpetuat[e] discrimination against gay and lesbian service members.”

And Christopher Neff, deputy executive director of the pro-repeal Palm Center at UC Santa Barbara, issued a statement saying OutServe

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“should be commended for their principled stance in support of every service member no matter the outcome of the lame duck session.”

OutServe’s website identifies itself as a three-month-old organization that claims 1,000 active duty military members. The second group, Knights Out, says it has about 200 members affiliated with West Point academy.

The urgency of having Congress address DADT repeal in the lameduck session was heightened by the November 2 midterm elections. Republicans increased their numbers significantly in the Senate and took over the majority of the House.

Those changes take effect in January.

But until then, both the Senate and the House, meeting in lameduck session, are led by Democrats, most of whom support repeal.

Passage of DADT repeal is given little chance under a weakened Democratic majority in the Senate and no chance in a Republican House.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (Nevada) office would not say when the defense bill might come up on the agenda but a spokeswoman hinted that a vote to try and break the current Republican-led filibuster could come as early as Friday.

The Senate came up three votes short in breaking the filibuster in September, but several Republicans said then that they did not want to vote on the DADT repeal until after seeing the Pentagon study, due December 1, on how repeal might be implemented. Anonymous sources leaked some news about the study last week, indicating that it shows few service members would have difficulty with the change. That seemed to help momentum for repeal proponents.

In fact, Senator Susan Collins (R-

Maine), a key Republican who supported the filibuster in September, joined independent Senator Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut) in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday asking for early release of the study.

“We are hopeful,” said Lieberman and Collins, “that release of the report and the opportunity for our colleagues to review its findings and recommendations will help inform their understanding and alleviate some concerns they may have regarding the military’s capacity to implement repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in a manner that is consistent with our armed forces’ standards of readiness and effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention.”

McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he still opposes repeal and that Congress should have hearings to examine the Pentagon study before proceeding with a vote on repeal. Earlier, McCain was said to be in talks with Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, about stripping repeal language from the defense bill. The Grand Rapids Press, in Levin’s home state, reported that Levin told reporters there that he hopes to pass the defense spending bill and DADT repeal, but “we just don’t know if we can.”

Meanwhile, groups committed to repeal are stepping up pressure for a vote during the lame-duck session.

Members of GetEqual, an LGBT civil rights direct action group, visited Reid’s office Monday morning. Later, 13 veterans and DADT repeal advocates were arrested after they tied themselves to a fence in front of the White House, in an action aimed at urging Reid and President Barack Obama to push for repeal of DADT.▼

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Real Good: Groups get full payment

teve Mueller and Andy Lak display a check for $180,000 at the November 11 distribution party of the proceeds from the Real Bad Party XXII, a dance event held on the weekend of the Folsom Street Fair in September. Representatives from the receiving organizations, Project Open Hand, Maitri Hospice, San Francisco Suicide Prevention, National AIDS Memorial Grove, and Visual Aid are on the right. This year’s event chair Richard Dellefave (standing on chair) was the emcee for the evening’s reception that was held in Supervisor Bevan Dufty’s office. Dellefave told the Bay Area Reporter that the beneficiary groups all received their full payments at the presentation.

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Mixed messages doom DADT repeal T he LGBT community can often be its own worst enemy and that was proven in fine style this week, thanks to two obscure groups who managed to throw a wrench into the fast-moving developments to hold a vote on the defense authorization bill which includes an amendment to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Members of Congress returned to Washington, D.C. on Monday to an odd twist in the ongoing effort to repeal DADT. A news release issued through the Palm Center, a widely respected think tank on gays and military matters, stated that the two small, recently formed groups would accept passage of the national defense spending bill even if DADT repeal language was removed.

The statement, and its timing, caught off guard Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and Servicemembers United, the two main national organizations whose primary goal is to lift the ban – in SLDN’s case since DADT was passed in 1993. And officials at those organizations must have been scratching their heads over this paragraph in the news release from OutServe, a group of active duty military, and Knights Out, a group of gay West Point graduates: “There is nothing more important than loyalty to those with whom we serve. This means ensuring that no one issue interferes with funding the courageous and selfless work our fellow service members are doing around the world. Therefore, on behalf of the more than 1,000 active duty gay and lesbian service members and 500 gay and lesbian veterans we represent, we respectfully urge Congress to pass the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Act to fund the aircraft, weapons, combat vehicles, ammunition, and promised pay raises for all troops, whether or not the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is included.”

It’s quite clear: OutServe and Knights Out’s position is that DADT repeal language does not need to be included in the defense spending bill. It would be nice if it was, but it doesn’t have to be, they say, if it jeopardizes military funding.

A Palm Center spokesman tried to spin the statement by saying that OutServe and Knights Out members were being “principled” – missing the very critical point that the statement sends a mixed message to members of Congress. For some time, and especially in the last several months, SLDN, Servicemembers United, the Human Rights Campaign, and even

Knights Out. Their position creates confusion GetEqual, a direct action group, have been imon Capitol Hill, which we certainly do not need, ploring the Senate to vote on the defense bill and severely undermines the work of SLDN, that includes the DADT repeal amendment.

Servicemembers United, and HRC, among Up until now, all of these organizations have many. They also provide political cover to those had one message: repeal DADT. Heck, Lieusenators who are inclined to support DADT like tenant Dan Choi, a West Point graduate, John McCain. As we are on the cusp of posagain tied himself to the White House sible victory that a vote on an amendfence this week to bring media attenment to repeal DADT will finally come tion to repealing DADT. to fruition, they risk losing all of the lobThe mainstream media, upon rebying and networking up until this ceiving the OutServe and Knights point. Their basic message is, “Oops, we Out statement, wasted no time in don’t really care if the repeal language is pointing to a “rift” in the LGBT commuincluded or not. We just want our amnity over DADT repeal in the final days munition and pay raises.” leading up to a possible vote. And Even if OutServe and Knights the larger repeal groups quickly issued a statement saying they are E DITORIAL Out disagree with the strategy of SLDN and the others, issuing a “united to send one strong and constatement without coordination is sistent message to senators … repeal not the way to air those grievances. And the the unjust and discriminatory law known as timing could not have been worse.

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ as part of the National We call on Senate Majority Leader Harry Defense Authorization Act this year. Under no Reid to schedule a vote during this lame-duck conditions should DADT be stripped from the session on the defense spending bill with the underlying defense authorization bill; that is DADT repeal amendment intact. The next few simply a non-starter.” weeks of the 111th Congress is the communiUnfortunately, we fear some damage has ty’s last, best opportunity to see the end of the been done by the careless and, frankly, countermilitary’s discriminatory, anti-gay policy.▼ productive statement from OutServe and

It’s time for an out queer mayor

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epending on how things work out at the Board of Supervisors in the next couple weeks, San Francisco could soon have its first out queer mayor.

With Mayor Gavin Newsom heading to Sacramento to be lieutenant governor, the board now has the responsibility to appoint a replacement for him. That person will serve as interim mayor until November 2011 when a general election will be held and the electorate gets to choose Newsom’s permanent successor.

There’s some talk about waiting until January after Newsom is sworn into his new position, but we feel that the board should not delay in choosing an interim mayor. At Tuesday night’s meeting, the board approved a plan to start the process, but not quickly enough for our liking.

In the new year, the board faces a budget deficit that some have estimated to be as high as $400 million. A lot of tough decisions will have to be made. New Leaf: Services for Our Community recently closed its doors and many other community institutions and services are at risk of meeting the same fate. We cannot afford additional delays. It’s best to get this appointment done now. The current board has the experience to make the choice. They should do it post haste so that their focus can be on the budget and how to save muchneeded city services from the chopping block.

The mayor and others shouldn’t play politics with this G UEST process. They should put the welfare of the city first. An interim mayor will need time to prepare for the job ahead. Giving that person a head start makes good sense, especially since there are two major holidays coming up before he or she takes office.

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the running for interim mayor. Many of them are good candidates and would be excellent in the job. But the choice has to be narrowed down to one person.

We both supported former Supervisor Tom Ammiano when he ran 10 years ago, and were disappointed when he wasn’t elected our first queer mayor. Ammiano is not in the running this time around. He’s in the state Assembly where he is doing amazing work.

Ammiano would be our first choice for interim mayor, if he were interested in the position.

Since he’s not, we think David O PINION Campos would make a great mayor. Campos is the out queer Latino supervisor of District 9, which covers a large part of the Mission area and Bernal Heights, neighborhoods that are home to many immigrant Latinos, as well as artists, workingclass people, and queer households. His district

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After graduating from Stanford and receiving his law degree from Harvard, Campos returned to San Francisco where he served on the Police Commission and in the City Attorney’s office.

Campos, an immigrant and a progressive, understands the issues that are important to San Franciscans. He is a tireless champion for social and economic justice for all. He’s shown that time and time again.

He sponsored the hearing in March about the treatment of LGBT folks in the city’s shelter system, a hearing that prompted the Bay Area Reporter to call for a separate LGBT shelter where members of our community would be safe from the harassment and violence they often suffer when they seek a bed for the night.

Campos also has experience with the budget process, having gone through it two years in a row. As mayor, we are convinced that he would work well with the entire Board of Supervisors to produce a budget that does not shortchange our community or the vital services we need. HIV/AIDS and homeless youth services, among many others, must be preserved and strengthened. We need Campos in the mayor’s office to protect the institutions that so many have dedicated their lives to creating.

He is also in a unique position, we feel, to gain the support of six supervisors in a vote among his peers to be appointed as the interim mayor.

And to appeal to the majority of San Francisco voters next November to win the election to retain the mayor’s office.

And to become our first queer Latino mayor.▼ Brian Basinger is director of the AIDS Housing Alliance, which receives funding from the city.

Tommi Avicolli Mecca, editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation, has been a queer activist for the past 40 years. For more information see “Run, Campos, Run” on Facebook.

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Disappointed in attacks on Yee

Act now protects LGBT candidates from smear campaigns based on our sexual orientation and gender identity.

I am extremely disappointed in the “backers” of a “deIt is his record that compels me and many of my friends clared candidate for mayor” for their disingenuous hit on in the LGBT community to support and endorse Yee. It his state Senator Leland Yee on the issue of his vote on transheart that compels us to love him and proudly stand by his gender health benefits [“Yee’s vote against transgender health side in his race for mayor of our great city. benefits likely to haunt his mayoral campaign,” The Bay Area Reporter, as a newspaper repB.A.R. blog, November 11]. As those in our comresenting the transgender and gay communimunity know, Yee approached us several years ties, should recognize Yee’s efforts and his longago and apologized for his 2001 vote, which standing support of us and not become the was based on city budget constraints and not mouthpiece for shadow attacks. Shame on his heart or his view toward transgender indianyone who plays into fears and attacks based viduals. Yee owned up, and acknowledged that on our fight for equality, and I believe the his vote hurt many in our community. Unlike B.A.R. did a disservice to our community for many politicians, he had the courage to apolM AILSTROM publishing these shadow commentators withogize and admit he was wrong. He didn’t do out quoting them. that for political expediency, as we all know It’s about our rights, not any one particular candidate, that his current office representing the 8th Senate District and I challenge these shadow supporters to come out into (the west side of the city and communities south of the San the light, and not wait for negative hit pieces later in the camFrancisco border) – is not necessarily healthy grounds for paign. When they do, there will be many transgender people those of us in the transgender community. He apologized who do not agree with their sleazy tactics and will be willing because he wanted us all to know his heart and his true supto protest outside their offices for trying to use our commuport for the transgender community. nity and our rights for their own political gain.

For the shadow backers to continue to attack an individual for having a true change of heart is very discouraging.

Tamara Ching We would never make any advancement of our rights if we San Francisco continued to shun those who have come to understand our fight for equality. We should instead embrace any individPelosi stellar on HIV/AIDS issues ual that admits wrong and welcome the fact that they are I write on behalf of the HIV/AIDS Provider Network, a now unquestionably an ally of our community. If someone coalition of HIV/AIDS service providers in San Francisco has the courage to admit wrong, I challenge any individual and we write in response to the article last week in the Bay to have enough courage to in turn offer forgiveness. MoreArea Reporter about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [“LGBTs over, it shows political maturity on our part when we emexpress disappointment with Pelosi’s speakership,” November brace those who learn.

11]. For the record, there is no one in Congress who has been And if there is any doubt that Yee is a true friend to LGBTs a greater advocate on HIV/AIDS issues than House Speaker and specifically the transgender community, I offer imporPelosi, not now or ever. To assert otherwise is to conflate retant insight to his actual record. He has co-authored the marality. House Speaker Pelosi delivered on health care reform, riage equality bill every year. He co-authored the Harvey which will profoundly increase access to care for people with Milk Day legislation. Each and every LGBT victory across HIV/AIDS and she has delivered on HIV/AIDS funding year the country has been publicly applauded by Yee. In fact, one after year. Especially here in San Francisco, where we stand only needs to go to his state Senate website to read a press reto lose so much in the way of HIV/AIDS funding, we have lease after each court decision on equality to see his persisevery confidence in Congresswoman Pelosi’s leadership betent and consistent efforts on our issues. He has also orgacause she is directly responsible for securing and protecting nized several Valentine’s Day press conferences and celebraour ability to meet the needs of our clients every day. tions of love highlighting LGBT families and their children.

And he led the fight as the lead author of legislation to Brett Andrews, Vice President ensure transgender and gay candidates are not discriminatHIV/AIDS Provider Network and ed against in political campaigns. The Fair Political Practices Positive Resource Center Executive Director

Transgender Day of Remembrance events in Oakland, San Francisco compiled by Cynthia Laird he 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance will be commemorated with events in Oakland and San Francisco. The day has traditionally been a time of acknowledging anti-transgender hate crimes and murder victims.

In Oakland, the Tri-City Health Center’s Trans Vision program will hold its observance on Friday, November 19 in Nile Hall at Preservation Park, 668 13 Street. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the event will start at 7:30. Nile Hall is a few blocks from the 12th Street BART station.

Tiffany Woods, Trans Vision program coordinator, said that this year the event has been endorsed by several lawmakers, including Representatives George Miller (D-Martinez) and Barbara Lee (D-Oakland); state Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro) and former state Senator Liz Figueroa.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge-elect Victoria Kolakowski will be the keynote speaker.

Woods said the ceremony will include speakers from the community as well as a reading of the names of those who are known to have been killed over the past year. The Oakland event also recognizes HIV/AIDS as an epidemic that has disproportionately affected transgender people living in Alameda County.

Following the program, there will be a screening of the award-winning film, Trans Francisco, of which Woods is an associate producer.

In San Francisco, the Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony will be held Saturday, November 20. The LGBT Community Center’s San Francisco Transgender Empowerment, Advocacy, and Mentorship program is coordinating the event in collaboration with other agencies.

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Place beginning at 6 p.m. A program of speakers will follow, along with a reading of the names of known victims. After that, there will be a vigil march through the Tenderloin to the Ark of Refuge, 1025 Howard Street, where there will be a community celebration with food, music, and performances from 8 to 10 p.m.

“We decided to have San Francisco’s DOR 12th year commemoration and march through the Tenderloin in order to involve those that are most at risk for transgenderrelated violence,” orN EWS ganizer Yavante Thomas-Guess stated.

For more in the origins of the Day of Remembrance, see the Transmissions column on page 10.

elections department has made a determination” to declare victory, she said.

A San Francisco Department of Elections worker couldn’t provide confirmation Monday on the number of uncounted ballots or when final results would be available.

According to the preliminary results, the school board is still without an out LGBT member, but like other candidates, Murase has expressed support for LGBT students.

She previously said school leaders “need B RIEFS to hear from our LGBT students. ... I’m troubled when I hear reports that some students don’t feel like they fit in at certain schools, so we need to address those issues head on.”

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Results change in SF school board race With virtually all the ballots counted, Emily Murase has apparently won a seat on the San Francisco Unified School District board.

Murase’s likely victory is a switch from results that had been posted immediately after Election Day. Those tallies had indicated Margaret Brodkin was one of three winners.

But as of Monday, Brodkin was at 14.2 percent, putting her behind Murase, who captured 14.53 percent of the vote. Murase serves as executive director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.

As of Monday, incumbents Hydra Mendoza and Kim-Shree Maufas were at 21.47 percent and 14.49 percent, respectively.

Murase said the updated tallies “are headed in the right direction,” but she said about 2,000 absentee and 15,000 provisional ballots remained to be counted. She was hoping the final determination would be made by Wednesday.

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Special screening of Bullied The Gay Artists Writers Kollective will present a special, free screening of the film, Bullied, A Student, A School, and A Case that Made History on Saturday, November 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Magnet, 4122 18th Street in San Francisco.

The film tells the story of Jamie Nabozny, a gay student who was relentlessly bullied by classmates at his Wisconsin school for four years in the 1990s and filed a federal lawsuit against school officials. He won a precedent-setting federal appeals court decision that spelled out the obligation of public schools everywhere to protect gay students from anti-gay abuse. School officials eventually settled with Nabozny for nearly $1 million. The film is produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program. A discussion will follow the screening.▼ More News Briefs are online at ebar.com.

Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

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an Francisco’s gay village will transform into Santa’s village as the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro lights up the annual holiday tree at the Bank of America Plaza Monday, November 29.

The 24-foot tree is the centerpiece of the tree lighting ceremony, which begins at 6 p.m. and will feature music by local groups and an appearance by St. Nicholas himself. Following the event many Castro stores will stay open for late-night shopping.

In addition to the holiday tree and the traditional bows on the Market Street palms, the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefits District will be decorating Jane Warner Plaza (17th and Market streets).

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UOR holiday sale Forget Black Friday. This year the holiday shopping season kicks off tonight (Thursday, November 18) with a special event at Under One Roof (518-A Castro Street). The festivities run from 6 to 9 p.m. and will feature music, refreshments, and a raffle for a gift basket filled with treats from local retailers.

Under One Roof is a nonprofit retail store that donates 100 percent of its profits (after covering operating expenses) to participating HIV/AIDS service organizations.

Food for the holiday shopping event will be provided by La Mediterranee (288 Noe Street), Hot Cookie (407 Castro Street), and the Sausage Factory (517 Castro Street). Sparkling beverages are donated by Barefoot Wine and Bubbly.

Volunteer Robert Makowka goes deep to put up Under One Roof ’s holiday decorations.

Kane reports he has sold 80 shirts so far, and has already turned over a check for $800 to the Milk Academy.

He will continue to make and sell the shirts as long as there is demand.

Kane hopes to surpass the total for Body’s recent promotion supporting Rocket Dog Rescue, during which more than $3,000 was generated for the pet adoption program.

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Body does Milk good Castro sportswear retailer Body (450 Castro Street) is raising funds for the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy (4235 19th Street) by selling a shirt with the smiling face of Harvey Milk himself.

The shirts, designed by Body owner Petyr Kane, feature Milk’s B USINESS portrait reimagined in the vein of Shepard Fairey’s famous Barack Obama “Hope” poster. The shirts cost $28, and $10 of each shirt sale goes to support the Castro-area school.

Looking for the gift that keeps on giving (with periodic battery changes)? San Franciscobased retailer Good Vibrations is opening a new downtown location to help you find that perfect gift.

In a press release, COO Jackie Strano described the upcoming store sayB RIEFS ing, “Where our other Bay Area stores are more neighborhood/destination-based locations, our new store is over 3,000 square feet in the heart of the downtown shopping and hotel district, easily accessible to tourists and locals alike.”

The new downtown storefront will be the fifth Good Vibrations since its founding in 1977, and is scheduled to open soon after Thanksgiving. For information on opening events, including the address of the new store, visit the Good Vibrations website, www.goodvibes.com.

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Star-gazing with Frances Castro-area eatery Frances (3870 17th Street) may have lost out on the James Beard Foundation Award for best new restaurant, but it brought home a “shiny” consolation prize – a star in the 2011 Michelin Guide.

The Michelin culinary guides are notoriously stingy with their accolades. According to the Michelin website only 91 restaurants worldwide currently deserve the highest rating – three stars – and of those only two are located in the Bay Area. The two local top-performers are French Laundry (6640 Washington Street, Yountville) and the Restaurant at Meadowood (900 Meadowood Lane, St. Helena), both located in the wine country.

Three restaurants in the San Francisco guide have earned the two-star grade, and 39 have earned the onestar ranking. To see the full list visit www.michelinguide.com/us/sf_stars _2011.html.

Museum pops up in the Castro The former location for the GLBT Historical Society exhibit is playing host to another temporary museum exhibit. This time the Museum of Craft and Design has taken over 499 Castro Street for its latest “Pop-up

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Museum” – a series of short-term installations throughout San Francisco, allowing the museum to display its collection while it searches for a permanent location.

The Castro exhibit, entitled “Transference,” opened on November 10. According to museum Executive Director JoAnn Edwards attendance figures have been strong. “The reception to our pop-up museum in the Castro has been phenomenal and we couldn’t be more pleased. On opening night we welcomed over 200 guests,” said Edwards.

The exhibit is scheduled to occupy the space until January 9. Entrance is free for museum members or $3 for the public. For more information visit www.sfmcd.org.

San Francisco wins travel award Gay travel website www.tripoutgaytravel.com has announced the winners of its second annual TripOut Gay Travel Awards, and San Francisco prevailed in the category “Best U.S. Destination.”

The title of Best Global Destination went to New York City, and Madrid’s Gay Pride celebration was selected as Best Annual Gay Destination.

A panel of writers and travel experts produced the list of finalists for each category. Then winners were decided by online voting at TripOutGayTravel.com, a division of the Logo cable network.

AT&T networking with the center The San Francisco LGBT Community Center (1800 Market Street) has announced a partnership with AT&T to create a mobile app and virtual community to extend the center’s work into cyberspace. The initiative will kick off with a reception at the center on Tuesday, November 30, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

New LGBT biz group forms A new nonprofit supporting the gay and lesbian business community has formed. Named the California Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the organization kicks off with a one-day seminar on marketing to the LGBT community. The event will be held December 3 in Los Angeles.

For more information and registration information, visit www.californiagaychamber.com.

The gay chamber of commerce also has a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CaliforniaGayChamber. ▼ Contact Raymond Flournoy at castroshopper@yahoo.com.

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EQCA hands out few zeros to state lawmakers he number of state lawmakers with zero votes for LGBT legislation dropped precipitously this year. Only four lawmakers failed to back any pro-gay bills or resolutions introduced in Sacramento.

It is a significant decline from the last two years, when 24 lawmakers in 2009 and 44 in 2008 received zero scores from the statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California.

According to EQCA’s 2010 Legislative Scorecard, a copy of which was given to the Bay Area Reporter prior to its release today (Thursday, November 18), there were an “unprecedented number of votes for LGBT rights on the floor of the Legislature” and there was “more bipartisan support than in any other year in California history.”

A record 14 pieces of legislation backed by EQCA passed out of the state Legislature this year, with four bills becoming law and seven resolutions being adopted. The governor vetoed the other three bills.

Many GOP lawmakers earned 7 percent or 8 percent scores for voting to repeal a section of code that called on the state to reP OLITICAL search a cure for homosexuality.

Other bills earning Republican support made it easier for same-sex couples to divorce and increased LGBT prisoner safety.

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State Senator Lou Correa was the Democratic lawmaker who received the lowest score on Equality California’s new legislative scorecard.

“Since 2008 we have seen Republicans vote for LGBT bills. One reason is the Republican leadership is not requiring their members to vote against our bills, which is something we had regularly heard had happened in the past,” said EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors.

One yearly trend remained true: the majority of Democrats had 100 percent scores.

The Democrat with the lowest score, 64 percent, was state SenaLou Correa N OTEBOOK tor from Santa Ana. He opposed bills that would have made it easier for LGBT youth to obtain mental health services; improved safety for LGBT prisoners; disallowed employers to

prevent victims of hate crimes from going to court; and extended unemployment benefits to same-sex couples.

“He has come through on key votes but has never been a hundred percent supporter, and we have never endorsed him,” said Kors.

Two Assembly members, Anna Caballero of Salinas and Charles Calderon of Montebello near Los Angeles, at 85 percent, had the second lowest scores among Democrats. They both opposed a resolution calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lift its ban against gay and bisexual men donating blood.

Caballero also opposed a resolution calling for repeal of the federal ban against same-sex marriage, while Calderon voted against a resolution calling for the end to anti-gay immigration policies.

Calderon’s brother, state Senator Ron Calderon, had the third lowest score among Democrats at 86 percent. He also voted against lifting the blood ban as well as a resolution stating opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda.

On the Republican side of the aisle, out state Senator Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield had the highest score with 86 percent. He lost points for not backing the Uganda resolution and a bill outlining that religious leaders do not have to marry samesex couples.

Other GOP lawmakers earning significantly higher scores than the majority of their party included Assembly members Anthony Adams of

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by Chuck Colbert here is a right and wrong way for people of faith to advocate in the secular realm, openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson said recently at a public forum on the future of religion and LGBT equality.

Examples abound of the wrong way to be religious in politics, he explained, for instance, saying, “I’ve got the truth, and it’s the truth for everybody. You’ve got to do it this way.”

The “appropriate way,” Robinson said, is to advocate your values because of your beliefs.

“Then go into the public square and argue them on the basis of the Constitution and mutually agreed upon governmental factors,” he explained. “You can’t argue in the public square what God wants, but what motivates me. That’s the line I draw.”

Robinson’s remarks about the proper role of religion in public life came on Saturday, October 30, a week before announcing his resignation from heading the 15,000-member New Hampshire Diocese. In 2003, his election as the first out bishop in the Episcopal Church infuriated traditionalists. Many considered his consecration an affront to Holy Scripture and Christian tradition. The rub for them is Robinson’s same-sex relationship.

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Reverend Irene Monroe, Gary Buseck, and Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson spoke at a forum on religion and LGBT equality.

on me, but on my beloved husband, Mark,” according to a transcript of closing remarks to the New Hampshire Diocese convention on November 6.

And yet in deciding to step down some years before mandatory retirement, Robinson, 63, said he was resigning – not retiring. Still a bishop, “There is no question that I will continue to be active in trying to achieve full and equal rights for gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual people,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “I am also very interested in how religion intersects with public policy.”

Meanwhile, back in Boston, the Reverend Irene Monroe, an African American writer and theologian, joined Robinson at the forum, along with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and

Defenders legal director Gary Buseck, who moderated the hourlong discussion, held inside the Episcopal cathedral, located in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.

The night before the panel discussion, Robinson received GLAD’s Spirit of Justice award and keynoted the organization’s annual fundraising dinner.

While, “the church plays a remarkable role in secular society,” the bishop said, “we can lay most of the resistance to our full equality at the foot of religious people.”

Agreeing, Monroe singled out the black Church for how “it endangers the African American queer community and our movement.”

Citing significantly high rates of homelessness among LGBT youth of color, high suicide rates, pervasive bullying, religious conflict over coming out, and the “face of HIV among our black heterosexual sisters,” Monroe said, “It’s more than a spiritual crisis.

It’s a public health crisis. What role does the church play in perpetuating unsafe sexual behavior?”

During a question and answer follow-up, Robinson and Monroe were asked about encouraging progressive people of faith to become more active in the political realm and to help them get past the idea that politics and faith somehow should not mix.

The power of “corporate worship” and “collective moral outrage” during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s points to the effectiveness of “the social Gospel active in the lives of scared black folks, moving them from the pews to picket lines,” said Monroe.

“Anyone who says that a religious person should not be involved in the political sphere has simply not read Scripture,” Robinson said. In the Bible, “There is a constant call to the people of God to critique [secular] culture,” he added. “Nothing is mentioned more in Scripture than care for the poor. So I vote to elect candidates and support parties that seem to be most responsive to the needs of the poor.”

Even those who are not religious have a stake in the role faith plays in public life, the bishop said. “You may not like the role religion plays, but if you ignore its role, then that naiveté is going to cost us.”

A good example, Robinson noted, is California’s Proposition 8 campaign.

“A case can be made that the outcome might have been different if the effort had not written off progressive religious voices,” he said.

And, “I am here to say that more and more each day, religious Christians, Jews, and Muslims – faith allies – can be convinced to stand up for us.”

“Religion often gets it wrong,” Robinson said, referring to slavery and women. But “God doesn’t” so “there is no reason to get discouraged,” despite temporary setbacks, “because we know how this [struggle for full LGBT equality] will end. We have a role to play in the ever upwardly spiraling trail on the way to full citizenship.”

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SF Pride begins regrouping

by Seth Hemmelgarn bout a month after the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s top two officials resigned, the organization that puts on one of the world’s largest Pride events each June is slowly moving forward.

A Pride official said an assessment by the city controller’s office has started, and the organization is considering how to replace its executive director. Pride also announced this week that it plans to establish a community advisory committee to help the group rebuild.

The resignation of Executive Director Amy Andre, who started with Pride last October, is effective Friday, November 19. She announced her resignation last month, around the same time board President Mikayla Connell said she was leaving the organization, effective immediately.

Their departures followed a controversy where several beverage partners, typically community organizations who provide volunteers to work drink booths at the festival in exchange for a portion of the revenue, complained that they had received thousands of dollars less than they had expected this year.

Connell eventually said the underpayments came after Andre told the board the groups could be charged for things they hadn’t had to pay for in recent years without “significant ... differences outside normal yearly fluctuations.”

Andre had apparently been under the impression that the groups had been charged for those expenses before, but it turned out that they had not.

Shawn Parker, who along with Nikki Calma, took over as board cochair, said last week that the search for Andre’s replacement is on hold “for about two weeks.” He said that Pride is working with its auditor and the controller’s office to assess finances.

“We really want to understand financially where Pride is sitting, and basically we need to look and see what dollars are coming in through sponsorships” and other areas, said Parker.

Around the time of the resignations, Pride’s deficit for the 2009-10 fiscal year had been estimated to be up to $90,000, with an additional $46,000 owed to beverage partners.

Pride’s budget for the year was $1.5 million.

After Andre and Connell announced their departures, Supervisors Bevan Dufty and David Campos asked the board to cooperate with an assessment by the city controller’s office. The board agreed.

Pride is set to receive a grant of $58,000 from the city’s Grants for the Arts office.

Looking ahead Parker didn’t know how much of the $46,000 owed to beverage partners remains to be paid. He hopes the payments are made by the end of the year, although he said, “that’s a conversation I would have to have with our bookkeeper [Jim Gong] and our treasurer [Jamie Fountain].”

Parker said he didn’t know where the deficit for fiscal year 2009-10 stands. Asked about the possibility of a deficit in 2010-11, Parker said, “I will promise the board will work hard to make sure we don’t have a deficit situation in the following year. … We just can’t do that.”

Discussing the deficit in September, Connell had said that sponsorship money was slow to arrive. Parker said all of that money has since come in.

When talking about the assessment of Pride’s finances, Parker said, “The big thing is we need to understand what is it that we can afford” for an executive director and make sure that the organization “is on sta-

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ble financial footing.” He didn’t know if the next director would make less. Andre’s salary was $105,000.

He expressed certainty that even though the event is just over seven months away, and the organization is still in the early stages of finding Andre’s replacement, Pride is on track for next June’s 41st annual event.

“We have such dependable individuals who’ve been with Pride for so long that really, even if we kind of are still getting an [executive director] established, they’re going to be able to ensure this event still happens, and everything happens in the proper order,” said Parker.

Pride’s institutional knowledge didn’t prevent the beverage partner fiasco, but Parker said, “We are very much working as a whole board” and “very much working with all the individuals that have been there forever.”

He said the board’s considering hiring an interim executive director, or taking “a little bit of time” and finding a fulltime executive director.

Since announcing her resignation, Andre has refused to answer most questions, including why exactly she’s resigning.

Pride hasn’t said specifically who’s handling day-to-day operations, but Parker said at a meeting with the Bay Area Reporter in October that they’ve structured the staff so that the transition would have minimal impact.

One move has been to expand the role of Troy Coalman, who had been associate director of development, to include the title and responsibilities of director of external relations.

Dufty, who along with Campos has offered to help Pride with fundraising and their executive director search, said Tuesday that he’s had a “robust conversation” with some Pride staff and board members “about different entities that might be asked to help sponsor Pride for 2011.”

He said they had “a particularly focused conversation about social media companies,” and he’s met with Mayor Gavin Newsom, as well as some of his staff, for help in “identifying decision makers within these technology companies who might support Pride.” He declined to name any of the companies.

In an e-mail to the B.A.R., Fran-

cis Tsang, a spokesman for Newsom, confirmed there’d been a meeting and said, “We are excited and hopeful to get more local tech companies involved with Pride.”

Dufty said even after his term as supervisor is up at the end of the year, he’s “very committed” to working with Campos “to ensure Pride’s success in 2011.”

Campos said last week that he and Dufty “remain committed to helping in whatever way we can, and I will be meeting with Supervisorelect Scott Wiener. I know that he cares a lot about Pride, and we’re going to work together to make sure we continue to protect that institution.”

Wiener, the out gay man who’s set to take Dufty’s seat as the District 8 representative on the board, said last week he plans to help Pride but declined to comment on any changes he would like to see.

“I want to make sure Pride continues to be successful,” said Wiener, who added, “I need to sit down with the folks from Pride to figure out where they are financially and what the plan is going forward between now and June.”

John Lipp, president of the San Francisco-based group Pets Are Wonderful Support, is a little hesitant. He was one of several beverage partners who had been unhappy with the money his organization received from its work on this year’s event.

In an e-mail Tuesday, he said Gong had written to him that the balance PAWS is owed as a beverage partner is about $2,700. (Coalman confirmed the amount.)

Lipp said he’s asked Gong for a timeline on when Pride anticipates making the final payment. He told the B.A.R. in an e-mail response to questions that his agency hasn’t yet decided whether it will return as a beverage partner in 2011.

“All of us at PAWS greatly value our past relationship with Pride and the importance of Pride in our community,” he wrote. “I do look forward to meeting with Pride’s new leadership team as soon as they’re ready to discuss 2011. At the end of the day, PAWS is anxious to move forward and focus on the future of Pride.”

To apply to get involved with Pride’s community advisory committee, e-mail co-chairs Parker or Calma at president@sfpride.org.▼

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Dancing on graves Across the continent, at the University of British Columbia, a his Saturday is November Transgender Day of Re20, a date set aside more membrance event will than a decade ago to honor be held at the Student those who we lost due to antiUnion Building. Along transgender violence and prejuwith some movies and dice. The date coincides with the workshops, they’ll have death of Chanelle Pickett in Massaa candlelight vigil folchusetts in 1995. It was her murder, lowed up by a dance and that of Rita Hester just three party at the UBC beer years later, which led to the Rememgarden featuring $3 bering Our Dead project and the Day beer. of Remembrance.

Now as you can This year marks the 12th Transguess, I do have an ingender Day of Remembrance. vestment in the Day of Ethan St. Pierre – a transgender Remembrance. As its activist who also lost his aunt, Debra founder, I cannot help but cringe Forte to anti-transgender violence – when it is tacked onto a party – or and I keep watch for the stories, prowhen a beer bust is added. It’s not viding them to other transgender acabout me, however, as the event is tivists every November. We also colmuch bigger than that. It is out there, lect information about all the locaand has a life of its own. tions hosting vigils. I want to The Transgender Day of share some information about Remembrance is a motwo events happening on Noment of activism, when we vember 20 this year. honor those we’ve lost, In New York City, Qtalk is when we seek justice for the hosting its anniversary victims of anti-transgender event, celebrating two violence, and where “amazing, wonderwe make a silent ful years” of being to T RANSMISSIONS commitment the “funnier, bitchier those lost that we version of The will make a better View.” They’ve asked world for those who come after: a many of their friends from previous world where we have the right to years to come by and perform, and a exist. panel of speakers – including GLAAD It has also been a day that brings a President Jarrett Barrios – will be on sense of closure to friends and famihand to talk about the recent rise in ly of the victims, where they can see gay suicides due to bullying. The event that their loss was not in vain, and has a $5 cover charge, and a two-drink that there are people out there who minimum. do care about these people.

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issue of anti-transgender violence is not to be tolerated.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is for Pickett and Hester. It’s for Brandon Teena and Gwen Araujo. It is for hundreds of those we know were killed, and for thousands more we may never know.

This year, too, it is about people like Roy Jones, a 16-month-old infant who was pummeled by his babysitter for acting like “a little girl.” It’s about Ashley Santiago Ocasio who was stabbed to death in Puerto Rico and Azra, a Turkish transwoman who was shot in the back of the head. It is about them and many more.

The event is not about dance parties. It is not about being funny nor bitchy. As important as issues of bullying and suicide are, the Day of Remembrance should not be overshadowed for the sake of ratings or remaining topical. It is a somber, sobering event – and should probably not have cover charges or cheap beer mixed in with the sorrow and anger.

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Author, LGBT ally Betty Fairchild dies

by Cynthia Laird etty Fairchild, a longtime former San Francisco resident and supporter of the gay community, died November 7 in Dallas.

She was 89.

Ms. Fairchild’s daughter, Barbara Fairchild, said the cause of death was old age. She said her mother had been in a nursing home for about a year before her death.

Ms. Fairchild had long been involved with Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. In the 1970s she was a founding member of the Washington, D.C. and Denver chapters of PFLAG. Her passion for writing led her to author a book, Now That You Know – A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, which was published in 1979. Her book was one of the first to address the issues and concerns for

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tute, which focuses on education, went from about $8.8 million in 2008 to approximately $1.6 million in 2009.

“We’re in a sound and healthy financial situation,” EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors said. “That said, given the economy, it’s important to continue to work to increase the donor base and get more people to support the work, not just of Equality California, but all LGBT groups, and really watch expenses.”

He said altogether, total contributions for EQCA and the institute this year come to $5.8 million, through October.

Kors said an anonymous donor contributed $6.5 million in 2008 that the Let California Ring public education campaign, which is hosted by the institute, used primarily for ad buys around the state, including multi-lingual advertisements, about marriage equality. In 2009, the same donor contributed $500,000 to fund field work.

That donor didn’t give money this year, according to Kors.

After Prop 8 passed two years ago, the No on 8 campaign was criticized for virtually ignoring communities of color and voters in the Central Valley and other conservative regions. As a response to those shortcomings, EQCA strengthened its outreach efforts. Kors was one of the members of the No on 8 executive committee.

EQCA had passed money on to the No on 8 campaign.

EQCA’s total budget, including the Equality California Institute and other organizations, is roughly $6 million to $6.5 million.

In recent weeks, EQCA – which besides working for marriage equality had also been promoting LGBT and ally candidates and sponsoring proLGBT legislation – has closed offices in Orange County, Fresno, and San Jose, along with a Sacramento office.

It had previously shut down an office in Riverside.

EQCA’s Sacramento, San Francisco, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Coachella Valley field offices remain open.

“We are significantly reducing the door-to-door canvass program and increasing the coalition work,” and other activities, including a speakers bureau, Kors previously said.

Including Marc Solomon, who had been EQCA’s marriage director, eight people have left the organization. Solomon has accepted a position with the national Freedom to Marry organization.

Andrea Shorter, who had been the group’s coalitions director, is now director of marriage and coalitions.

Chris Moore, who had managed EQCA’s political action committees, also departed. Kors said there wouldn’t be anyone in that position for 2011, “absent something unusual

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parents and helped countless families through the coming out process.

The book became an instant bestseller in the community, long before websites and social networking sites like Facebook, and led to years of Ms.

happening” in terms of a statewide election. Kors said that position tends to be filled for specific election years, and he anticipates someone will be in that post for 2012.

He has said the total cost savings from closing regional offices and Solomon’s position are approximately $1.3 million.

Kors’s compensation for 2009 was about $262,000, the tax documents show, and includes a salary for EQCA and the EQCA Institute. He said that included a salary of $200,000. The board also gave him a bonus of $50,000 in 2008 that was paid in 2009.

He said his salary this year is $180,000, since he took a voluntary, 10 percent pay cut. In addition to his salary this year, Kors said, “I believe I received a $20,000 bonus in 2009 that would have been paid in 2010.”

Even with the recent departures, EQCA is still “a larger organization than we were as far as staff in 2008,” said Kors. At the end of that year, there were 13 staff. As of Monday, there are 19.

Despite the need for caution, Kors said, “We don’t see any further cuts coming. We believe we will have sufficient resources to maintain our current staffing levels and program levels.”

Kors said he’s assuming the board would approve a fundraising goal for 2011 that’s similar to this year’s. He said for both EQCA and the institute, he anticipates the combined goal will be from $4 million to $5 million, roughly.

He said that future fundraising activities would include things like Swim for Equality, a new event that brought in $160,000 this year.

More work There’s still plenty of work to do.

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in August that Prop 8 was unconstitutional. Backers of Prop 8 quickly appealed the ruling. Oral arguments are set to take place December 6.

But one issue that’s come up is whether the measure’s supporters have standing to appeal the case. Both Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Governor-elect Jerry Brown, the Democrat who is currently state attorney general, have declined to defend Prop 8 in court.

Kors said one of his group’s highest priorities recently had been the attorney general’s race between San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley.

More than two weeks after Election Day, the final results for that race still have not been determined.

As of Tuesday night, Harris, a Democrat, had 46 percent of the vote, while Cooley, a Republican, had 45.6 percent.

Harris has said she wouldn’t defend Prop 8 in court. Cooley has said he would.

Fairchild making appearances on television and at conferences, leading to a devoted fan base of gay men and lesbians. The book was reissued and updated in 1988. Her daughter said that it is still in print, but out of date now.

In 1981, Ms. Fairchild fulfilled a longtime dream and moved to San Francisco, where she lived for 20 years.

She continued her involvement with the community, walked in her beloved Golden Gate Park, and in her 70s Ms. Fairchild discovered an interest and talent in watercolors and became an accomplished painter. She continued to paint until her death.

Her daughter said that many older gays probably remember her mother.

“Her greatest activity happened in San Francisco,” Fairchild said.

One of those who knew Ms. Fairchild well is San Francisco resident Jim Chappell, who first met her when he was living in Denver and she came

If he wins, Cooley could at least delay the federal appeal by trying to intervene in the case. The attorney general also plays a role in determining ballot summaries and language, which could have an impact on any future effort to repeal the marriage ban at the ballot box.

A Cooley spokesman has said that Cooley didn’t support Prop 8 in 2008, and that the Prop 8 case wouldn’t be at the top of his agenda if he wins office.

“From the court’s original order on briefing to their order on oral arguments, they’re making the issue of whether the proponents have standing to even appeal” the biggest priority, said Kors. “If they don’t have standing to appeal, we’ve won, so I think we need to see how that issue plays out, because if we can win this in court and have a permanent victory, there would then be no need to go back to the ballot.”

Discussing the possibility of going back to the ballot in 2012 to try to repeal Prop 8, Kors said, “We have to see what happens in the court case in the short term.”

However, he added, “We need to continue building our base of our supporters,” and talking to people who don’t support marriage equality.

“We need to continue to learn as much as we can on how to best move people,” said Kors. He said the group’s working closely with organizations such as the African American-centered Jordan Rustin Coalition through the Let California Ring project to continue developing and testing messages, “so we know the best messages and we’re prepared to respond to whatever our opponents bring at us.”

Kors said Let California Ring’s door-to-door and messaging work is focused primarily on communities of color, as well as encouraging people “to have these conversations on their own.”

He hopes an analysis of door-todoor work will be completed by early next year.

Shorter, the director of marriage and coalitions, recently said, “What we really, really value” more than trying to find a single message “is the power of having conversations with people. ... I don’t think there’s a silver bullet message for any one community.”

In addition to the door-to-door work, which has primarily been part of the EQCA Institute, Kors anticipates more election-related activity, which isn’t part of the institute.

“We now know there will be several special elections for legislative seats for next year,” he said.

Those seats include the one that had been held by the late state Senator Jenny Oropeza (D-Long Beach), whom EQCA had supported. She died October 20 and was posthumously re-elected this month.▼

to visit him. He had somehow found out she was writing her book, and he sent her his story. She later moved to Denver. Chappell later moved to San Francisco, as did Ms. Fairchild.

“The impact of her book was pretty spectacular,” Chappell said. “When you’re trying to come out you wonder what do you do about your parents. Here was a parent saying it was okay. It was tremendously liberating and freeing.”

Chappell said that Ms. Fairchild was well known while she lived in the city, and that she was a sought after public speaker and interview subject for gay publications.

“She had a unique personality,”

Chappell said. “At some point in her life she figured out she didn’t have to follow the rules and she could be who she wanted to be.”

Ms. Fairchild was born in Niagara Falls, New York and went to Michigan State University. She had been married close to 20 years, her daughter said.

Ms. Fairchild is survived by her daughters Barbara and Elizabeth, and a son, Blaine. Another son, Brian, is deceased.

A private family memorial is planned, her daughter said.

Contributions in memory of Ms. Fairchild can be made to Strybing Arboretum, 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way, San Francisco, CA 94122.▼

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Oakland’s LGBT center. Currently, Oakland Pride organizers have been using donated space at Jack London Square they would like to convert into a center.

LGBT leaders want to funnel proceeds from the Pride events toward the running of the center. With the city facing budget deficits due to the lackluster economy and city pension debt, Quan predicted there would be little likelihood her administration could set aside public funding for a center.

“I am very supportive of the center,” said Quan. “They need to do a combination of paid membership thing and a capital fund drive. I will help with that.”

For years LGBT Oaklanders have complained about the lack of out representation on the city’s various public oversight bodies. This year finally saw the appointment of a gay man, Michael Lighty, to the city’s powerful Port Commission, although it wasn’t without controversy.

The council deadlocked 4-4 on Lighty’s appointment, with Quan supporting him, and Mayor Ron Dellums had to cast the tiebreaking vote to see that his pick be given the seat.

Another gay man, Michael Colbruno, was appointed four years ago to the city’s Planning Commission right be-

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peal language to the House defense authorization bill last spring, told the Washington Blade Tuesday that he believes the Obama White House and Defense Department will deliver a “full spectrum of engagement” to pass DADT repeal. Murphy lost

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Hesperia (38 percent), Nathan Fletcher of San Diego (54 percent) and Sam Blakeslee of San Luis Obispo, who started out in the Assembly then won a vacant Senate seat (38 percent).

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the current board members of the Paramount,” said Quan.

To those who know and supported Quan for mayor, it is no surprise to see her reaching out to LGBT constituents. She has a long track record of supporting the LGBT community as an elected leader.

In the 1990s when she served on the Oakland school board, she unabashedly supported LGBT teachers, students, and parents. She helped push through a pro-gay non-discrimination policy and earned the support of many lesbians raising children in Oakland.

“As a school board member you have to fight for everybody’s children,” explained Quan about her policy stances overseeing the public school district.

During her time as a councilwoman, Quan worked with former gay councilman Danny Wan to pass a resolution urging Alameda County to issue same-sex marriage licenses. In 2008 she officiated at several same-sex weddings following the state Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the gay nuptials to take place.

She was also a vocal opponent of Prop 8 that year, speaking out against the anti-gay measure and generating a backlash among more conservative Asian American voters.

“I think she is a progressive politician who does an amazing job tying together diverse communities.

She will be sensitive to the needs and issues of LGBT folks,” said Nancy Fishman, a lesbian who has lived in Oakland since 1998 and volunteered on Quan’s mayoral campaign.

She has seen firsthand how antigay prejudices can harm LGBT people. Her husband, Floyd, is a doctor and treated gay men in San Francisco during the 1980s at the advent of the AIDS epidemic. One of his cousins, who hid his being gay from the family, died from AIDS. While Alameda County oversees the public health care system in Oakland, Quan said she would do what she can as mayor to support HIV prevention and testing services, not only within the LGBT community but also the city’s African American community.

“We need to continue that work,” she said.

Her nephew, Myron Quon, a gay man living with his partner in Washington, D.C. where they are raising a family, said Quan’s embrace of LGBT rights can be traced back to her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley.

“If you are lucky to be going to UC Berkeley, you can pick up the right philosophy and understanding about life,” said Quon, who is actually cousins with Quan on his father’s side but considers her his aunt.

Quan said that having grown up in a traditional Chinese family, it

wasn’t until she went off to college that she learned about gay people.

“What occurred to me was how ignorant I was about the gay community. I realized at Berkeley I had friends who were gay and weren’t out,” she said. “I once asked this huge friend of mine how can you be gay all this time and not tell me?”

Her family has been surprised by Quan’s political success, said Quon, who at onetime worked for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Most Chinese Americans who have won elective office hail either from Taiwan or urban parts of mainland China, he said, not from the provincial capital Canton, from where their family traces its heritage.

“Everyone under the sun in the Bay Area who is Toisanese is very happy,” said Quon, using a term for Cantonese speakers. “It is a bit of a surprise but also very exciting.”

He predicted Quan would seek out input from Oakland’s various communities and push forward the best ideas.

“Everyone will not be happy but it will be what is best for the city,” he said.

Quan will be sworn into office January 3. She pledged that she would work to better the lives of all Oakland residents.

“I am very, very proud to be mayor for everybody in Oakland,” she said. ▼

his re-election bid two weeks ago in the midterm elections and will leave office in January.

But Levin’s apparent readiness to acquiesce to Republican pressure – particularly from Senator John McCain (Arizona), the ranking minority leader on the Armed Services Committee – is clearly a blow.

“This is no time to lose our resolve,” said Human Rights Cam-

paign President Joe Solmonese, in a statement Tuesday. “Chairman Levin has been our advocate and we have every reason to believe that he will continue to push to end this unjust and discriminatory law. DADT came into being by way of the [defense spending bill] and it should be removed by the [defense spending bill]. This can and must get done.”

Levin’s comments came just one

day after two relatively small and obscure groups that support repeal of the military’s ban on gays issued a statement urging the Senate to pass the annual defense authorization bill “whether or not the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is included.” A coalition of larger and better known LGBT groups issued a counterstatement saying, “Under no circumstances should DADT repeal be

stripped from the underlying Defense Authorization bill.”

The Palm Center, a think tank at UC Santa Barbara that has been vigorously promoting repeal of DADT, initially supported the notion of allowing the defense spending bill to go through, even without DADT repeal language. But on Wednesday, it issued a statement suggesting Levin is being manipulated by McCain.▼

ing zero scores were state Senators John J. Benoit of Bermuda Dunes and Dave Cox of Fair Oaks, and Assembly members Joel Anderson of Alpine and Mike Duvall of Yorba Linda. Also on the list with a zero score was state Senator Abel Maldonado.

Before being tapped to become lieutenant governor, Maldonado opposed a resolution calling for an end to the anti-gay military policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the mental health services for youth bill.

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cover on Amazon.com sometime in early December.

“It’s got everything, from politics to football, all the good stuff,” teased Cloutier, a former college football star, in an interview with the B.A.R. this week. “I was angry when the election was over but I wrote about it dispassionately.”

Wanting people to buy the book, the former Vallejo City Councilman declined to go into specifics about what he had written. He did say that it gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at what went on between the election of November 6, 2007, including his arrest in Palm Springs on public intoxication charges, and when he dropped his lawsuit in March 2008.

“I tried to be brief and say in as few words as possible what needed to be said, especially in respect to the Vallejo mayor’s race. I felt like the voters never really got a clear picture from what I would call officialdom about what actually occurred during the election, the recount and the contest,” said Cloutier, who decamped to Miami Beach in 2008 to help the Florida resort town pass a stronger pro-LGBT human rights

ordinance. “I felt like they were owed an explanation.”

He also dives into his athletic career, from his days as captain of his high school football team back in Rhode Island to his time playing for the Brown University Bears. Cloutier was an all Ivy League defensive tackle, and recently, his teammates voted him the best player in his position during the 1980s.

Struggling with his own sexual orientation at the time, Cloutier said he wanted to write about why gay male athletes feel compelled to remain closeted.

As for what he plans to do next, Cloutier is still trying to figure that out. He had been living in Guatemala for six months where he refined the first draft of his book. He met a boyfriend there and may return to the Central American country to teach at a local university in order to be with him.

It is the third time he has fallen in love with a foreigner. While in law school his boyfriend was from Columbia and had to return home; prior to his mayoral race he was with a Frenchman who also had to leave the country.

“I can’t exercise my rights in the same way as other citizens. It really annoys me, so I am dealing with that,” said Cloutier, referring to antigay immigration laws that prevent binational LGBT couples from being together in the states.

Timed to his book’s release, Cloutier will be launching a blog to write about politics and culture at garycloutier.com.

“It will focus on national politics, exceptional books, and artists I know,” he said.▼

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had scheduled their celebration on December 1 (World AIDS Day) or if they might find that in bad taste. If the latter is true, what makes the Day of Remembrance any different?

Also, why host an event on bullying and suicide at your anniversary celebration? Why did they not do that on Spirit Day? Why conflate so many things into such a hodgepodge? But I digress.

Over the last few years, I have heard reactions from people, indicating that the Transgender Day of Remembrance is a “depressing” event. I don’t disagree. It is difficult to hear these stories, and realize that this remains such a large-scale problem.

For that matter, I’d fully support an event that is a celebration of who

we are. I’d love to see, for example, a really big party held every August – the anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot where transgender people stood up against the police in San Francisco – where people of every hue of trans identity could shake their groove things.

I’m all for laughter, dancing, and even a drink or two – but not on this one day. This is not a day to dance on our graves.▼

Gay Vallejo politician pens book

Gary Cloutier, the openly gay mayor-for-a-week of the North Bay city of Vallejo, has penned a memoir about his election three years ago, the recount that forced him out of office, and his legal attempts to be reinstated as the Bay Area’s first elected out mayor.

Cloutier, 48, who has been back in the San Francisco region since August, is self-publishing the 200page book. Called Rough Point, it should be available for $25 in hard-

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fore Dellums took his oath of office.

And LGBT leaders have been pushing, so far in vain, to see an out person appointed this year to the Paramount Theater’s board. In January they did successfully block the reappointment of board president Lorenzo Hoopes, a Mormon who donated to Proposition 8, the ban against same-sex marriage.

They had won a promise from Dellums that he would consider appointing an LGBT person to the board and had forwarded him four possible people. But the issue has remained in limbo and became a flash point in the mayoral campaign when the New York Times reported in its Bay Area section that Kaplan had met with Hoopes this summer.

After he donated to her campaign, she pledged to not block his reappointment to the Paramount board. The revelations angered many in the LGBT community, and likely cost Kaplan votes in her bid to be mayor.

When asked by the B.A.R. this week what her plans were for filling the Paramount board vacancies, Quan said she had thought the council had already dealt with the matter. Should the issue remain unresolved this year, Quan said she would first want to consult with the current Paramount board members before she decides whom to appoint.

“I would sit down and talk with

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and frustration, Qtalk officials did state that they had not meant to offend anyone with their event, and they let people know that they felt this was a good time to bring the community together to discuss how to make things better. It was only then that they opted to add a moment of silence to the event – but not to reschedule it.

It leaves me cold, and questioning exactly how does one “bring the community together” by co-opting a date for an event that has been around for more than a decade. I wonder if their response would be the same if they

Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

This week’s column reports on gay Assembly speaker’s re-election as majority leader.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

Gwen Smith founded the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

You can find her online at www.gwensmith.com.

For details on local Transgender Day of Remembrance events, see the

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OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033101900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HARKINS BUILDERS, 124 20th Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94121.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed John P Harkins. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/05.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033108800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARSIA PRINTS, 1333 Gough Street, #4C San Francisco,CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Fargollyla Nazemi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033107800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENRY’S HUNAN RESTAURANT, 4753 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, signed Jeff Zhu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/27/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033103100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BASIN, 310 Berry Street,San Francisco,CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Man Mohan Sahi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/27/09.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033109600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAX TREATMENT, 4346 18th Street,San Francisco,CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laine Ballard. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033101400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO NURSING CENTER, 5767 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed James R. Preimesberger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/22/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033113300

STATEMENT FILE A-033104600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.B.E.E., 2.BETTER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, 1271 Capitol Avenue,#2, San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Alan Wong. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/26/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/26/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547268 In the matter of the application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name. The application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that DENICE MARIE TUCKER filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to DEN KIRKWOOD TUCKER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 30th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547225 In the matter of the application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name. The application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to BRENDAN MICHAEL MCGARRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 9th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033062500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAVE THANGS ENT., 40 Murray Street, San Francisco,CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Austin Smith. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/04/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033105300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BOISLAND ENTERPRISES, 84 Entrada Court, San Francisco,CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Den Tucker. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/26/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/26/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033109900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as READ GLOBAL, 1016 Torrey Avenue, First Floor, San Francisco,CA 94129. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Nathan Joblin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

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NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547175 In the matter of the application of RYAN TOLAND for change of name. The application of RYAN TOLAND for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that RYAN TOLAND filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to COCORYAN TOLAND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 2nd of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-032351400 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as PHOENIX WORKSHOP, 271-15th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Vivian Ju. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/09.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-032500400 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business was conducted by a general partnership, signed Steven M. Maraccini.

The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/19/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033133000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.BACKLITPRINT.COM, 2.GOFF PHOTOGRAPHY, 3.HEADSHOT SAN FRANCISCO, 4.HEADSHOT SF, 5.SF HEADSHOTS,6.JESSE GOFF PHOTOGRAPHY,7.PRINTMYCANVAS.C OM, 358 Brannan Street,San Francisco,CA 94107.

This business is conducted by a corporation , signed Jesse M. Goff. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/08/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033117900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JACK TRUX,660 Toland Place, San Francisco,CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation , signed Richard Springer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/03/00.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/01/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033125800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Tufo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/04/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033118300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BIOLOQUE, 1566 Guerrero Street,Apt. 3,San Francisco, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Mary B. Rager. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/02/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/02/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033134800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF GOLD RUSH, 1920 Market Street,San Francisco, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Dmitriy Bluvshteyn. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/09/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033136000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOES ARCHITECTURE,22 Montezuma Street,San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Eric D. Staten.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/09/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033126000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.MALIBU LENDING, 2.WWW.BAYBANKERS.COM, 88 Kearny Street,3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/05/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547304 In the matter of the application of DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND for change of name. The application of DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JACOB ELIJAH DIAMOND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 18th of January, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033137400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DCP, 2169 15th Street,#B, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed David Coddington. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/10/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/10/10.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033113900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY APPLIANCE REPAIR, 257 N. Lake Merced Hill, San Francisco, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Yevgeny Elin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033144300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FOULADI PROJECTS, One Otis Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Alexandra Holly Fouladi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/15/10.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033123700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENDERSON DESIGN GROUP, 380 Alabama Street, #23, San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Eric Henderson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/18/08.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033111200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAYES VALLEY INN, 417 Gough Street, San Francisco,CA 94102.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Stephan Forget. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/03/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as GREAT WESTERN BUILDING MATERIALS, 3000 3rd Street,San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Shaun Radcliffe. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/04/10.

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Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: NOVEMBER 22, 2010, 9:00 AM PROBATE DEPARTMENT, RM 204, 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decendent, you must file with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code scetion 9100.

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“Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America, or, Discovery of America,”

by Jan Mostaert, early to mid-16th century, oil on panel.

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‘Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker’ at the CJM • by Sura Wood

only show of landscapes by Salomon van Ruysdael. Documents and photographs related to Goudstikker’s cosmopolitan life before he fled persecution – he died in a tragic accident en route to England as the Nazis closed in on the Netherlands – portraits of Jacques and his wife Desi in happier times, and press coverage of the restitution are also on display.

As in any thriller, clues were left behind. Found in Jacques’ coat was a small notebook containing an inventory of his gallery’s holdings. The little black book would later prove an invaluable tool in tracking down the looted art, which was dispersed throughout the world following the war. Investigations took art detectives to Europe, the US, Canada, Ireland, and as far away as South Africa in

their quest to locate the paintings.

According to accounts, Goring had his eye on the Goudstikker gallery prior to the invasion, and confiscated its contents shortly after arriving in Amsterdam. (A blow-up of a grainy, black-andwhite photo of the Reichsmarschall leaving the gallery, snapped surreptitiously, is on view.) He chose the prize masterpieces for himself and shipped them to Germany, leaving the rest to the administration of his henchman, who pocketed the profits from what was left. “They didn’t take art haphazardly,” said the family’s attorney, Lawrence Kaye, during a recent visit to San Francisco. “It was part of the Nazis’ plan to destroy the Jewish people

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Downfall of a moral crusader ~ by David Lamble ~

ll but breast-fed on New York Times editorials indicting the wicked links between machine politics and Wall Street, I should have gobbled down Alex Gibney’s true-life morality tale Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer with the same relish I found for his skewering of the Enron crowd, The Smartest Guys in the Room. But watching a disgraced white knight – New York’s crusading former attorney general/governor Eliot Spitzer – tumble over on his sword while the baddies smirk and gloat is a bitter cinema pill.

Gibney’s probe of the circumstances that had Spitzer resigning in disgrace after admitting to being the notorious “Client 9” of a highpriced escort service is enriched by his collaboration with writer Peter Elkind, author of Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. The

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The filmmakers scored a coup when they wrangled an on-camera chat with Spitzer, but the former take-no-prisoners prosecutor is remarkably inarticulate when it comes to assessing his own fatal flaw.

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Of those 200, over 40 are now on view in Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, an exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

The show is a sampling of the collection, which had a wealth of 17th-century Dutch Old Masters, Italian Renaissance art, early German and Dutch paintings, French and Italian Rococo, as well as 19th-century French and Northern European paintings. When he ran the gallery, Goudstikker was responsible for organizing the biggest exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens in Holland, and the

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t’s a story that has all the ingredients of a firstrate thriller, except that it’s painfully true. In 2006, after nine years of litigation and with the help of a team of 15 lawyers, researchers and the assistance of an intrepid Dutch investigative journalist, the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Jewish art dealer in Holland whose art collection was looted by Hermann Goring, reclaimed 200 of the approximately 1,400 stolen works from the Dutch government. The Dutch had kept the

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History is a long gay affair

by Roberto Friedman ll these years after the birth of gay liberation, LGBT people are still in the process of reclaiming our history from centuries of invisibility. Now comes a new book exploring some poster art illustrating the largely hidden history of social justice movements, gay rights central among them.

Celebrate People’s History: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press), edited by Josh MacPhee with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, reprints over 100 posters documenting feminist organizers, civil rights leaders, indigenous uprisings, union struggles, LGBT activism and more. Says MacPhee, “The best way to learn history is to visualize it. These posters are a celebration of resistance, and a public recognition of those who fought for freedom in the face of injustice.”

LGBT history figures prominently in the book, with tributes to the AIDS activist group ACT UP, the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in SF, gay rights pioneer Harry Hay, great gay author James Baldwin, and New York’s Lesbian Herstory Archives.

A release party for Celebrate People’s History hosted by the Center for Political Education, 522 Valencia St. in SF, is coming up on Sat., Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. The event will include a retrospective exhibit of People’s History posters and a panel of Bay Area artists signing books. Historian Lincoln Cushing and artist Favianna Rodriguez will speak about the rich legacy of Bay Area printmaking.

Harry Hay poster, from the book Celebrate People’s History: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution.

sight into his collaboration with novel The Picture of Dorian Gray bandmate/manager Claudia Gonson, counts as a touchstone of gay literary and saw the Fields record their Jesus history. The Mostly British Film Festi& Mary Chain knock-off album Disval, coming up next Feb. 3-10, will showcase a remake of Dorian Gray tortion. Directed by Kerthy Fix and History boys (& girls) Gail O’Hara, with appearances by starring actors Ben Barnes and Colin Gay history continues, even in Peter Gabriel, Daniel Handler, Firth. Advance viewers have desuch venues as the Rrazz Room. This Kenny Mellman of Kiki & Herb, Ann scribed it as gloriously over-the-top, weekend (Nov. 19-21) finds a coPowers, Sarah Silverman and others. “almost operatic.” Here’s the billing that sort of “rhymes,” festival blurb. because both Jason Stuart World history “Wilde’s classic 1890 and Michele Balan are novel about a singular Glengarry Globe-Hopper is back gay and Jewish comediFaustian deal has been from his fabulous vacation in Camans. Oy gay! Stuart is an brought to the screen in bodia and Vietnam. Both were reLGBT stalwart, having all its gore and glory. Ben markable, but the former he calls served as the chairman Barnes stars as the title charamazing. “I had intermittent access of the first Screen Actors acter, a naive, vain youth to the Internet in both countries, Guild LGBT Commitwho arrives in Victorian Lonand when I tried ebar.com, it was tee. Balan is the brash, don and promptly sells blocked!” The absolute nerve of Brooklyn stand-up his soul to the devil in regovernments!

O UT T HERE turn for eternal youth- some comic. Both performers “Despite that, the people are have taken their considfulness. Only his portrait warm, friendly, almost naively honerable angst, I’m tellink you, and will age, showing his moral decay in est. Angkor Thom, the Royal Palace, turned it into comedy. Ticket info is every crevice. Colin Firth, who is havSilver Pagoda, and National Museat www.therrazzroom.com. ing a career moment, appears as the um in Phnom Penh are magnificent.

Certainly Oscar Wilde’s classic debauched lord The Killing who eagerly Fields are soberleads Dorian ing and horrifydown the priming. Halong Bay rose path. The in Vietnam is alfilm drips in pemost indescribriod detail and ably beautiful, atmosphere. Diand Hanoi has rector Oliver lots of French Parker takes his colonial influlatest Wilde ences. adaptation (fol“The 58-yearlowing An Ideal old King of Cambodia is a former Husband and dancer, and reThe Importance mains unwed. of Being Earnest) The official story to the extreme is that he is fulfillof gothic horing his Buddhist ror. You feel like vows of chastity, you are accomtaken when he panying Dorian was a monk for a on his rounds of opium dens. A Compton’s Cafeteria Riot poster, from few years. He has publicly exguilty pleasure Celebrate People’s History. pressed support not to be for same-sex missed.” We’re marriage. When certain ceremonies there! Info at www.voguesf.com. call for the presence of a married Last weekend we studied a little member of the royal family, he delemusic history, going to see Strange gates them to others.” Is this a King Powers: Stephin Merritt & the Magwho is seeking a Prince? netic Fields at the Roxie Theater.

Merritt is the gifted songwriter for the Historic opportunity Fields and other bands, and we got to hear his deep baritone crooning faves The most unusual press release from 69 Love Songs and more. we’ve ever received from San Francisco Opera is this. “Great at pushThe film gives a little taste of Merups and pull-ups? Do you put your ritt’s home life with his Chihuahua friends to shame at the gym? Come Irving Berlin in Lower Manhattan, then his uprooting to LA to pursue a page 19 career in film scores. We got some in-

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Opening up a Pandora’s box

by Richard Dodds ix months after her father murdered her mother and then took his own life, Marilyn Pittman had a comedy gig at a San Francisco club. She wanted to cancel, but the owner didn’t want to lose the booking.

At the end of her stand-up routine, she added some material about her parents and their tragic end. “It was good for me as performer-therapy,” Pittman said, “but it was just too raw for the audience. It was too soon.”

Pittman, one of our first out-gay comics, was already moving away from stand-up when her parents died.

Their murder-suicide in 1997, after 49 years of marriage, finally sealed the deal the following year. “You can do comedy when you’re in shock, but then came the grief, and I just didn’t find myself funny anymore.”

Now the events of May 17, 1997 are the centerpiece of It’s All the Rage, a solo show at the Marsh through Dec. 5 that combines elements of stand-up comedy, dramatic confessional, and classic tragedy.

Unlike the awkward attempt to add material about her parents in the 1997 stand-up gig, a primary conMarilyn Pittman combines comedy and tragedy to tell a shocking family cern now is taking care of the audistory in It’s All the Rage at the Marsh. ence. “I want to let you know from the very beginning we are going to have a lot of fun and I’m okay. You worlds very compartmentalized. I burst into tears,” Pittman said. “One don’t have to take care of me, and I’m was afraid the people I worked with of the things I learned in my first going to take care of you.” would view my wildness and intenweekend performing it this time is Working with David Ford, direcsity through that lens, that they how much joy I feel. I know that tor of numerous solo shows, she prewould try to sense an instability or sounds odd, but now I walk off the pares the audience for the inevitable rage. None of that has proven true. stage in complete satisfaction.” excursion to the dark side through There has been a tremenFor more information on It’s All feints and asides. “At one dous level of compassion the Rage, go to www.themarsh.org.▼ point, I kind of step outfrom everyone.” side the performance and That includes her wife, Richard Dodds can be reached sort of walk across the Deb, who a few years ago at BARstage@comcast.net. stage panning the audibegan pushing her to eience as if to say, ‘Are you ther go into therapy or do ready to go there? Bea solo show that might cause you know what this help her better cope with show is about. You know day-to-day life. “I did have what, you’re not ready, a bias against solo shows but let me tell you as therapy,” Pittman about my girlfriend at B ACKSTAGE said, “but I have to say the time.’ And then it doing this show has imgoes off into this funny proved my relationships. I’m calmer, piece.” stronger, and more emotionally In addition to opening a Pandoquiet.” ra’s Box of emotions by delving back After an aborted start on the show into a shattering experience, Pittman in 2007 – “I just wasn’t ready yet” – had two other pivotal concerns beshe developed the final script over a fore deciding that she had a story nine-month process as part of the that should be told. First, she needed Marsh’s New Performance Initiative. the self-assurance that “this is a vi“In 2007, I developed 20 minutes of able piece of theater with some unithe show, and I’m still reading from versal value that both entertains and my mother’s journals and my father’s stimulates dialogue about the effects love letters.” The final version also inof violence in our culture.” cludes Pittman reading from tranPerhaps more importantly was her scriptions from her father’s therapy reluctance to publicly air a family session just a month before he killed story that could somehow color how his wife and then himself. associates in her professional life “My parents were stuck together, would view her. After moving away and were unable to get unstuck,” she from comedy, Pittman has developed said. “I have a lot of compassion for a career coaching corporate executives them, but it doesn’t rule out my own in public performing, and leading classes for journalism students at UCanger about it. A tragedy like this Berkeley, while co-hosting the weekly breaks your heart, but it breaks your radio show Out in the Bay on KALW. heart open.”

“I’ve always been out-gay in those She first performed It’s All the worlds, but talking about my parents Rage at the Marsh in June as part of a was like coming out all over again,” new-works festival. “I walked off the Pittman said. “I had kept those stage after the first performance and

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show us what you’ve got! SF Opera announces a public casting call seeking athletic men with specific skills to appear in an upcoming production in Fall 2011. You don’t need to be a Navy Seal, but we’re looking for something close. This opportunity is the chance of a lifetime for 10 talented men who will have the chance to show off their physical prowess to a crowd of thousands, and to work alongside some of the most prominent names in opera and theater.

“Desired skills include push-ups, pull-ups, body strength, endurance, hand-over-hand, staged combat and

full body control. Ten men will be offered an eight-week union contract. Auditions take place on Sat., Dec. 4, from 2-4 p.m. at Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall, Room B (Franklin St. at Hayes, SF). To schedule an audition, e-mail dance manager Tim Meyer at jmeyer@sfopera.com.” Go get the roles, guys!

Correction of the week, from The New York Times: “An article on Nov. 4 about the San Francisco Giants’ victory parade referred incorrectly to the type of underwear shown to the crowd by first baseman Aubrey Huff. His ‘rally thong,’ which he said he wore for luck during the Giants’ run to the World Series title, was designed for men, not for women.”

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Porn-pandering production

by Richard Dodds t’s been a while since a stage vehicle built around a porn star has graced one of our theatrical temples.

(Ronnie Larsen, where are you?) But rialto beefcake is back in the spotlight at the basement theater at LaVal’s Pizza in Berkeley, as The Play About the Naked Guy skewers both porn-pandering productions and nonprofit theaters with mission statements longer than their lists of subscribers.

Impact Theatre and its audiences are having a good deal of fun with David Bell’s zinger-laden script that isn’t averse to offering some skin along with satire.

The comedy, which had an offBroadway run in 2008, opens with a scene from one of the dreadful “lost classics” that the terribly earnest Integrity Players is intent on inflicting upon dwindling audiences. Their sole investor, the imperious mother of the artistic director’s wife, is cutting off the troupe’s financial lifeline in hopes of luring her pregnant daughter back to high-end suburbia.

When the company’s despondent leading man wanders by, ahem, accident into a gay bar with a pornstar pole dancer, oily opportunity comes knocking at Integrity’s door.

Bell’s play is a woozy, merry, and uneven melding of outlandish farce, inside theater jokes, and a touch of humanity. That humanity comes mainly from Harold, the leading man, who is coming out both to himself and to his colleagues after becoming the sexual student and artistic mentor to porn legend Kit Swagger. “I have a new master, and his name is Uta Hagen,” Kit Swagger declares before going full monty in the final scene. It helps you to know who is this Uta Hagen person, as well as other names and titles that bubble mainly in the

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Jai Sahai (center) plays an actor inching out of the closet who gets dubious support from club boys Adrian Anchondo and Timitio Artusio in The Play About the Naked Guy.

theater world. But these jokes are mainly cherries for insiders, atop an easily accessible confection.

There is a whiff of The Producers in the storyline, with a gay version of producer Max Bialystock ready to pounce on the cash-starved Integrity Players for its enviable venue. Eddie Russini had hits with Naked Boys Running Around Naked, I Am My Own Whore, and Drunken Frat Boys Making Porn, but is running on low when he concocts a script inspired by The Passion of the Christ starring Kit Swagger and co-starring the unhappy artistic director’s pregnant wife as Madonna. “Not the fake one,” he says, referring to the biblical Mary.

Director Evren Odcikin keeps the multi-scene play moving at a good clip in the tight playing area, and has wrought inspired comedic performances. He can’t conquer the too-easy buttons that end many scenes, nor the curiously flat persona that the playwright has given to the porn-star character. And the overall joke wears thin

before the two-act play finally reaches its over-the-top conclusion.

Choice comic moments are provided by John Ferreira as the deliciously conniving producer, Adrian Anchondo and Timitio Artusio as his oh-so-gay minions, Eliza Leoni as the giddily sweet pregnant wife, Brian McManus as her stick-in-the-mud husband, Monica Cappuccini as her wickedly scary mother, and Jai Sahai as the sad-eyed, de-closeting leading man. Steven Satyricon is often imposing as the porn star, but doesn’t lift the sketchily written character.

But props to Impact Theatre for finding this small gem from the welter of plays that often don’t rise high on national radar. The Play About the Naked Guy is straight, gay, bi, and curious – and generally hilarious.▼ The Play About the Naked Guy will run through Dec. 11 at LaVal’s Subterranean in Berkeley.

Tickets are $15-$20. Go to www.impacttheatre.com.

Music scribe on shuffle sk any of us, Alex Ross has the best music-critic gig in the world. Gay author of the Musical Events column at The New Yorker since 1996, when he was 28, Ross has been straining at that bit since taking the job. It’s a good thing, because reviewing music is not really what he does best. What is can be found in his new book, Listen to This (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Its passionate, penetrating chapters talk not about “classical music,” the prevailing notions of which he finds suffocating, but “the music”: all the music that calls to him – and is likely to snare you as you read about it.

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Largely drawn from the bigger pieces he has done for The New Yorker (but all of it significantly reworked and much completely new material), Listen to This breathes fresh air into the way we think about – and, more importantly, hear – music from Bach to Bjork, Radiohead to Schubert, reveling in all of it, condescending to none, and achieving one of Ross’ most urgently stated goals, putting a human face on it all.

For someone who writes superbly with almost eerie predictability, Ross is a volatile, emotional responder to music who can throw you as often as he lands you. His recent piece “The Spooky Fill” (not in the book), about Michael Giacchino, composer of the music for Lost, initially thrilled me with the seriousness with which Ross took music for movies and the tube and the people who make it, at every level. The downside for me was then “checking out” Lost, getting hideously hooked on all six seasons, and never much caring for the score.

You’re not likely to care equally about Ross’ subjects in Listen to This –

including Verdi and Sinatra, Marian Anderson and Kurt Cobain, a host of living musicians and, finally, of all people, Brahms – but you’re sure not to hear them as superficially as you once did, however much you thought you knew them. And what will astound you is that he can do something as outrageous as cover a complete 1998 Bob Dylan tour and write about Dylan’s music-making with both technical acumen and verbal torque.

Ross also writes amusingly, and insightfully, of loading all of Mozart on his iPod and listening to it all sequentially. But his more telling observation is about the impact of the iPod’s shuffle feature. It’s what Listen to This is: music-writing on shuffle. It’s at its most brilliant in the wholly new piece, “Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History,” which epitomizes Ross’ bead on music and is sure to both focus and expand yours. His reflections on the music industry, technology and what he bluntly calls “The Crisis in Music Education” are similarly mind-expanding.

In “Great Soul,” he doesn’t duck the issue of Schubert’s sexuality, but instead gives you three gripping pages about the was-he?-wasn’t-he? controversy, all sides of the debate scrupulously summarized, before coming to his own, sane conclusion: “All signs suggest that Schubert hung back from commitment to anyone or anything, yet his syphilitic condition after 1822 indicates that somewhere he found a physical outlet for his sexuality. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, something’s going on here, but we don’t know what it is.” Then to something he considers, and goes on to demonstrate, is more worth exploring: “We know at least that Schubert emerged a changed man.”

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Diva with a very long run

by Philip Campbell innish soprano Karita Mattila made her triumphant role debut as mysterious diva Emilia Marty in Leos Janacek’s The Makropulos Case last week. Her riveting portrayal in the last production of the San Francisco Opera’s fall season not only defines her astonishing artistry, but also makes for one surprisingly exciting night of theatre.

Janacek consistently showed highly original (and brilliant) taste in his choice of operatic material, and he wrote many great parts for women.

Basing his lyric drama on a play by influential Czech writer Karel Capek (who introduced the word “robot” in his famous drama R.U.R.), The Makropulos Case proves a perfect vehicle for Janacek’s genius for illumination. It also continues to offer the right soprano a major chance at letting the stops out with bravura and over-thetop theatrics.

Bingo! Karita Mattila meets Mr. Janacek yet again. After her hugely impressive successes as the titular heroines of Jenufa and Kat’a Kabanova, here is a part she seems to have been born to play. Plot spoilers aside, the fabulous tale of an opera star who seems to possess the elixir of life (she admits to 337, but doesn’t look a day over 30) comes to fascinating life with Mattila center stage. She grabs our attention with her first entrance, and doesn’t let go until the abrupt final blackout and curtain.

Emilia Marty is certainly one of the most captivating characters in opera.

Her endless career has hardened her to love and compassion, and watching her claw at survival is both repellant and fascinating, like observing a scorpion in a bottle. Mattila has the range, both as actor and singer, to make the cold and seemingly heartless diva a somewhat sympathetic character. Her powerful final monologue sets the seal on a performance of relentless energy that is marked along the way by bawdy humor and icy wit.

The surrounding cast (mostly male) could easily blend into the handsome, mildly expressionist gray, black and white stage design of Frank Philipp Schlossmann. They could also simply remain frozen in the various attitudes of horror and fascination dictated by Olivier Tambosi’s subtly stylized direction. While the real show may center on the star’s performance, the full story could not be told without the believable support of the other players.

In his company debut, bass-baritone Gerd Grochowski repeated his previous portrayals of the Baron Prus (Madrid and Stuttgart) with a memorable stage presence and sonorous tone. He actually managed to take our attention away from the diva at times, especially in the bedroom scene, where Prus expresses his revulsion at the diva’s callous seduction (after they’ve done the deed, of course).

Tenor Miro Dvorsky as Albert Gregor and American bass-baritone Dale Travis as Dr. Kolenaty gave accurate depictions of the other men impacted

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I suppose. It’s the occasional, faint whiff of star-fucker that more bothers me, more even in this kind of writing than in his performance reviews, and the chapters that involve direct meetings with remarkable musicians can become worshipful beyond my comfort zone. As he himself remarks, it’s more demanding to write about a musician such as Hunt-Lieberson, about whom, he frankly admits, “I found it difficult to assume a pose of critical distance, even though I never got closer to her than Row H.” You can feel the effort involved, but he nails this most elusive of

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Karita Mattila as Emilia Marty in San Francisco Opera’s The Makropulos Case.

derwritten by comparison. Smaller parts were given amusing life, offering some welcome comedy relief, by Thomas Glenn as Vitek, and Matthew O’Neill as the loony old Count HaukSendorf. The only other female role of consequence is Kristina. An aspiring singer herself, she is every bit as enthralled by the great star as the men. A bit of a sad sack in the electrifying presence of La Marty, current Adler Fellow soprano Susannah Biller injected the part with a certain sweet innocence. She helped highlight the essentially pathetic demise of the legendary diva. (Oops, another plot spoiler.)

Well, it doesn’t matter much if you know the whole story going in. As a mater of fact, it might help. The intelligent translation used in the supertitles also helps in understanding the plot. But the most important propeller in following the twisted tale lies in the pungent melodies, unique rhythms and lush underscoring of the orchestral accompaniment.

Any Janacek fan, and I count myself one enthusiastically, probably came to the glorious opera scores through the heroic advocacy of the late Sir Charles Mackerras. The recent performances of The Makropulos Case (the first here since 1966) were dedicated to his memory, and conducted, most fortunately, by Jiri Belohlavek in a transcendent SFO debut. When everything comes together perfectly in a puzzle as complex as opera production, we call it one of those historic occasions, a miracle for the memory book. The new SFO staging of an offbeat but typically wise and philosophical opera by a great if

singers, and you’ll be running to the shelves, or the Net, for the recordings he cites.

The last composer I would have wanted him to end his book on is Brahms, but the chapter ate me alive. I followed his descriptions of the music transfixed, listening, against my will, to the German Requiem over my dinner because of what he wrote.

Here’s Ross at his best, on a relatively small moment in Brahms’ Fourth: “There is a joy on darkness here, an animal pleasure in violence. In the first variation, the brass, timpani, and strings make a curious noise – rrrrrRUH! rrrrrRUH! – like the growl of a sleepy dog.”

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rather obscure composer, played to the hilt by a brilliant international star and remarkable supporting cast, is just that sort of special.▼ The Makropulos Case plays through Nov. 28 at the War Memorial Opera House. www.sfopera.com.

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s her new film Burlesque prepares for its opening day at the multiplex, MGM and Fox join forces to present six past bigscreen appearances by the legendary Cher. The set is beautifully packaged, if somewhat bare. Though each film’s theatrical trailer is included, there are no other extras.

Footage from the diva’s many interviews, or interviews with co-stars, would have been a nice touch, as would have Cher’s A&E Biography episode.

The first two titles hearken back to her days with Sonny Bono. Good Times was a poorly conceived vanity project in which Sonny and Cher play themselves getting ready to make their first movie. Much of the actual movie features the duo in extended spoofs of various movie genres, such as Westerns and spy thrillers, as they imagine what their film debut would be like.

Much of the humor falls flat due to Bono’s less-than-stellar thespian talents, though Cher, even this early on, shows herself capable of being in the moment as she recites her lines.

Good Times is notable for the appearance of co-star George Sanders, a great character actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Sanders must have needed the money – he phones it in. Also of note is director William Friedkin, who went on to win an Oscar for The French Connection (1971), which he followed with The Exorcist (1973).

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Chastity, written and produced by Bono, was another vanity project that did more harm than good to their careers – it’s believed that director Alessio De Paoli is in actuality a nom de plume for Cher’s then-husband.

Though not a great film by any stretch, Chastity is a somewhat fascinating character study of an aimless hippie chick who seems to be searching for something she can neither find nor define. Cher shows real acting chops for the first time in the title role, as she sadly wanders into the arms of a young man, then to a brothel, where the lesbian Madam quickly develops “a thing” for her. As the Madam, Barbara London gives a passable performance. Her predatory character may have seemed daring and cutting-edge in 1969, but today’s viewers may find her comical or even offensive.

These days, Chastity is best-known for being the namesake of Sonny & Cher’s daughter, who recently transitioned into Cher’s son Chaz.

Things pick up considerably with 1983’s Silkwood. Cher dressed down to play blue-collar lesbian Dolly Pelliker, and scored a well-deserved Oscar nomination. As co-star Meryl Streep later recounted, the diva left her attitude at the door and was a team player, fully prepared at all times. At the time of this, her first nomination, Cher smiled proudly.

“They [the audience] laughed when my name appeared onscreen,” she recalled. “They weren’t laughing when the film ended.”

Four years later, Cher won the Oscar for her magnificent work in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, which remains her signature film role. As in Silkwood, Bob Mackie’s favorite gown model showed her willingness to dress down for a character.

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Loretta Castorini, she’s a Plain Jane, complete with graying hair worn upward. But after Loretta begins to fall in love with baker Johnny (Nicholas Cage), she visits a beauty salon. In a brief but memorable sequence, Loretta is transformed into Cher! The scene offers her fans a little insight into how hard Cher has to work in order to step into her iconic concert persona.

She earned that Oscar. After doing superb work in several films, Cher mastered the Brooklynese “Guido” accent that was needed for Moonstruck.

She had developed range.

Next on Cher’s schedule, and in the box set, is the delightful Mermaids, set in 1963. Cher is wonderful as Mrs. Flax, a free spirit who loves her daughters (Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci)

but may be more of a child than they.

Tea with Mussolini (1999) was another standout film. In this all-star ensemble drama from legendary and openly gay director Franco Zefferelli,

Cher plays Elsa, a seemingly ditzy society woman in 1935 fascist Italy. This former Ziegfeld Girl who appears to be oblivious to the horrors going on around her has a history of marrying wealthy older men, and spends obscene amounts of money on lavish parties and paintings by Picasso.

It’s all a front. Elsa is secretly Jewish – she’s using her money to help Jews obtain fake passports so they can flee the country. When her truth is discovered, it’s Elsa who must flee.

Though produced on a low budget, Tea with Mussolini is a lavish period piece, beautifully shot on location in Florence. Co-stars Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright all give grand performances as “The Scorpioni,” a circle of British ladies who refuse to leave their adopted Italian home. Also on hand is Lily Tomlin, who steals a few scenes as Elsa’s friend Georgie, an out lesbian who couldn’t care less what others think of her.

After a shaky start, the incomparable Cher went on to have a somewhat sporadic but memorable film career.

Though she remains known primarily as a music icon, her film roles have often been carefully chosen, and do much to highlight her many talents.▼

Kids: still all right

by David Lamble ith Oscar buzz just around the corner on the heels of a very respectable box-office run, this year’s breakout queer unconventional family comedy arrives in an attractive DVD edition.

“Each of my moms had a kid with your sperm.”

“I love lesbians.”

If the classic definition of screwball comedy is a scenario where an autonomous woman challenges the masculinity of the leading man, then Lisa Cholodenko’s witty, rambunctious The Kids Are All Right doubles down on all the genre’s traditional bets. With a young man’s curiosity about the identity of his birth-dad after jealously witnessing his best friend roughhousing with his live-in pop, Laser (Josh Hutcherson) goads his older sister Joni (Mia Wasikowska) into calling Paul (Mark Ruffalo), the still-eligible bachelor and free spirit who, a generation ago, made the almost whimsical decision to contribute to a sperm bank rather than a blood bank.

At first, the moms Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) are merely bemused at the prospect of some face time with their somewhat goofy benefactor. But screwball comedy is dedicated to detonating the best-laid plans, and pretty soon the moms are aghast when Joni seeks to build a real relationship with this not-so-perfect male role model. Nic, the older partner who sees herself as top mom whose word is law, reminds her brood that visitation privileges were not part of the deal when they acquired Paul’s spunk.

“You met him and that’s cool, and now it’s time to move on.”

“I want to see him again.”

“You do?”

Later, in bed, the moms plan their counterattack.

“Look, we have to be smart about this. Yeah, if we act like grubby bitches, we’re just going to make things worse.”

“I know.”

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“I’m with you, Honey.”

“I love you, Chicken.”

“I love you too, Pony.”

This breach in the dam has a slew of hilarious unintended consequences, including a wildly unpredictable series of unauthorized sleepovers, and a wacky drunken dinner party where Nic channels her inner Joni Mitchell. While no mention is made of the dreaded topic of lesbian bed-death, Cholodenko and her co-writer Stuart Blumberg do invoke screwball’s motif of the main couple undergoing a kind of symbolic divorce followed by a magical remarriage.

Bening is a revelation as the bossy but unexpectedly vulnerable top who is suddenly faced with losing her honey not only to a man, but to a guy she considers little more than an eccentric loser. Bening’s great scene unfolds at a dinner party where a little too much wine feeds her suspicions that Jules and Paul have been up to something behind her back. Cholodenko orchestrates Nic’s inner demons by turning down the soundtrack so that we are cradled in her head as she starts to connect the dots.

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A passage to India

by Richard Dodds he title suggests a reverent journey into the world of an ancient religion, and the opening tableau of an elephant-headed Hindu deity sitting lotus-like behind a gauzy curtain reinforces such an impression. But when the title character begins talking to the audience in Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, we are quickly introduced to a highly accessible form of the widely worshipped deva .

Bothersome ants trying to get into the potato salad at a picnic and the Virginia Slims Tennis Tour are among the topics that Ganesh, often called Ganesha, addresses in a prologue explaining his divine presence in all things, and introducing the main protagonists in the story about to unfold. “Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,” he intones as early frictions arise among the earthly characters in New Conservatory Theatre Center’s richly layered production.

We are in the far-from-divine world of airport check-in as two middle-aged American women, best friends who deep down don’t really know each other, embark on a vacation to India. With husbands left behind, each is hoping for a transformative journey that will somehow salve the private wounds they carry.

Their bickering and uncensored culture shock during their travels through India don’t bode well for their personal agendas.

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A Perfect Ganesh was first produced in 1993, and it reflects the death spiral that seemed unstoppable as the AIDS epidemic entered its second decade. Both women have lost children, though not to AIDS. But one mother carries guilt over her own homophobia that pushed her adult son away, with no reconciliation before his gay-bashing murder.

A gay couple, both weakened from AIDS, befriend the women early in their tour, and our host on this tour, Ganesh, is able to foretell a death that awaits the women’s return home.

likely wanted to feel sure that his audiences were also mature enough for the play, at least in terms of evolution of expectations of an NCTC production. The theater has certainly risen to the play’s challenges, and the opening-night audience took it all in with rapt attention.

Arturo Catricala, a resident director during NCTC’s early Pride seasons, returns with a sure and sensitive hand on the complex material.

The roles of the two women traveling together are huge, both in material and in emotion, and Michaela Greeley as the adventurous Katharine and Cheryl Smith as the tightly wound Margaret expertly play off each other, interact with numerous other characters, and deliver solo moments of heartbreaking introspection.

While the cast of characters is fairly enormous, they are essayed by just two performers. Seth Thygesen plays with admirable versatility a number of male characters of various nationalities the ladies meet on their trip, and more importantly plays Katharine’s dead son, whom she conjures in a series of confrontational reveries. Perhaps the biggest delight of the production comes from Sara Razavi as the sweet, soothing, and wise Ganesh, and who also plays a variety of other characters, both male and female, of different nationalities. Razavi does so with such humanity that the distraction of a trunk- and tusk-equipped mask becomes a natural component of the performance.

Prem Lathi’s costume designs are an evocative asset, with Kuo-Hao

Unlikely as it may seem, there is also considerable humor in the play, as well as poignancy that can take you by surprise.

As NCTC Artistic Director Ed Decker notes in a program message, A Perfect Ganesh is a difficult play, and he reports that he had been reluctant to add it to the theater’s McNally canon that has included The Lisbon Traviata, Master Class, The Ritz, and Love! Valour! Compassion!

“To be honest,” he writes, “I wanted to be sure we were mature enough as a company to take it on.”

Though he doesn’t say it, Decker

Pilot to Cho pilot argaret Cho is not the first comedian to make the leap from doing stand-up to singing out. Sandra Bernhard and Lea DeLaria have both released musical albums. But Cho Dependent (Clownery) is in a category all its own. First of all, Cho can sing. She’s no Jennifer Hudson, but she can hold her own and does throughout the album. Collaborating with some of the hottest musicians out there, including queer twin sisters Tegan and Sara (“Intervention”), Brendan Benson (“Baby, I’m with the Band”), Fiona Apple (“Hey Big Dog”), Andrew Bird (“I’m Sorry”), out singer/songwriter Garrison Starr (“Gimme Your Seed”) and Ani DiFranco (“Captain Cameltoe”), Cho delivers a solid set of songs. She maintains her sense of humor from start to finish. I spoke with Margaret shortly before she danced her way onto our TV screens.

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Gregg Shapiro: How much did your experience on the True Colors tour play a part in your wanting to record an album of songs?

Margaret Cho: It was a huge thing.

I had a great time, and I did some music on that tour. Cyndi Lauper really encouraged me to work on my singing voice. Being on that tour really helped shape my musical direction.

You’ve written a few books and screenplays, as well as your comedy material. How does writing song lyrics compare to other kinds of writing?

There is much more restriction on what you can do in songwriting. You have to contain yourself within a

rhythm. It’s a lot more structured. But in a lot of ways it’s similar, because there is an economy of words. The need to poeticize these experiences is what I think is the same.

How did you find collaborators for Cho Dependent?

Some people I knew beforehand, and it was easy to ask them. Like Ani DiFranco, Jon Brion and Grant Lee Phillips. Other people I am a huge fan of and pursued, like Andrew Bird and Rachel Yamagata. It was a different process with everyone to get them involved, but everybody really wanted to

do it. Everybody was really patient in helping me.

Which usually came first, the lyrics or the music?

The lyrics would generally come first. The only time when that was not the case was working with Ben Lee, where he would write music first, then I would write lyrics.

There are a couple of recurring themes, like drugs, which figure in the songs “Intervention,” “Calling in Stoned” and “Hey Big Dog.”

I think the culture of addiction, de-

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As NCTC Artistic Director Ed Decker notes in a program message, ‘A Perfect Ganesh’ is a difficult play, and he reports that he had been reluctant to add it to the theater’s McNally canon.”

Sarah Razavi, top, plays the title character in A Perfect Ganesh at NCTC, with Seth Thygesen, Michaela Greeley, and Cheryl Smith as tourists on a soulsearching vacation in India.

Lo’s simple but elegant set and Christian Mejia’s lighting further enhancing the handsome production. A Perfect Ganesh is a long journey, not only for the characters but also for the audience, but it’s an investment that pays off with a theatrical and

even spiritual richness that is a rare commodity on mainstream stages.▼ A Perfect Ganesh will run through Dec. 19 at New Conservatory Theatre Center. Tickets are $24-$40. Call 8618972 or go to www.nctcsf.org.

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Ampey! @ CounterPulse Adia Tamar Whitaker’s ensemble dancetheatre work about the disconnect between African Americans and Continental Africans.

Part of the Performing Diaspora Festival. $14-$24. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 8pm or 3pm.

Thru Nov. 21. 1310 mission St. at 9th.

(800) 838-3006. www.counterpulse.org

Family fun

by Jim Provenzano

f you’re visiting family over the holidays, or they’re visiting you, and if you’re “the gay” in the family, you need some new material. See some gay and lesbian comics.

Jason Stuart and Michele Balan play The Rrazz Room, Friday, Nov. 19. The two comics share the bill and tell gay jokes, gaily. $30.

10:15pm. Also Nov 20, 10:15pm and Nov 21, 4pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com Marga Gomez performs at La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley. The local lesbian comic with a dead-on take on politics, culture and gay life springs forth with Ticklish, new material that’ll leave you laughing. $20.

8pm. November 19 & 20, 8pm. 3105 Shattuck Ave. (510) 654-6346. www.lapena.org Jason Stuart Concerned about overeating during the holidays? Don’t be as silly as the two gay guys in Skinnyfat. Between Sizes: An Evening with Skinnyfat, includes a screening of the hilarious film about two skinny gay guys who are convinced they’re overweight. Also, a Q&A with the director and stars, and a group discussion on gay body image with comedian Philip Huang, large-community advocate Dan Taylor, psychologist James Guay, clinical nurse and The Adonis Factor star Derek Brocklehurst, and androgMarga Gomez ynous performance artist Phatima Rude.

Drag star Martha T. Lipton (The Failed Actress) hosts. $10. Saturday, Nov. 20. 7pm. LGBT Center, 1800 Market St. at Octavia. www.sfcenter.org Ah, family. They can really mess up your life. But few of us can compare with Bobby Gordon, the cute LA-based writer and Berkeley native, who performs his sensitive, funny and sexy solo show, Debbie Does My Dad, about his life being the shy straight son of porn actor and Playgirl model Howie Gordon. $15. Saturday, November 20. 8pm. 18+ only! Center for Sex & Culture 1519 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org Marilyn Pittman If you think that’s strange, well, you haven’t heard from Marilyn Pittman. The popular local lesbian stand-up comedian and NPR host performs her personal and darkly comic solo show, It’s All the Rage, about a tragic family murder-suicide. $20-$50. Saturdays 8:30pm, Sundays 7pm. Thru Dec. 5.

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia St. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org Happy Thanksgiving!▼

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PICK OF THE WEEK

Bob Mould @ Swedish Hall Founder of Husker Du, Sugar, and the popular Blowoff co-DJ performs solo acoustic music. $22. All ages. Friday, Nov. 19. 8pm.

2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.cafedunord.com

Bongo-Beatin’ Beatniks! @ Oddball Film Screenings of rare 16mm and VHS Beat Era films, including Pull My Daisy, with gay poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlofsky; 8:30pm.

Also, Nov. 20, 8pm, American Mayhem, shotgun rightwing flag-wavers, and another strange show at 10pm. Each $10. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

Broadway by the Year @ San Mateo Performing Arts Center West Coast premiere of the longrunning (10 years in NYC) musical and historical snapshot of the best of Broadway, with show-stopping songs from the 1930s to today. $20$48. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 1:30 & 5pm. Thru Nov. 21. 600 North Delaware Ave. (650) 579-5565. www.broadwaybythebay.org

Cavalia @ AT&T Park Sweeping and acclaimed multimedia show in a gargantuan tent, with 100 human performers, 50 horses, music and pageantry, aerialists, acrobats, and family entertainment. $64.50-$229.50. 24 Willie Mays Plaza at Embarcadero. (866) 999-8111. www.cavalia.net

Cynthia Hopkins @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The Success of Failure (Or, the Failure of Success), a music theater projection performance and scifi folk tale about the pros and cons of evolution. $20-$25. 8pm. Thru Nov. 20 (2pm). Novellus Theater, 700 Howard St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Equus @ Boxcar Theatre Local production of Peter Shaffer’s disturbing drama about a teenage boy’s obsession with horses, and his shrink’s obsession with his obsession. Adults only/nudity. $10-$25.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 505 Natoma St. at 6th. 776-1747. www.boxcartheatre.org

Daniel Park @ Cadillac Hotel Handsome acoustic rock violinist-singer performs original music. 12:30pm- 380 Eddy St. at Leavenworth. 673-7223. www.danielparkmusic.com www.cadillachotel.org

Habibi @ Intersection for the Arts Sharif Abu-Hamdeh’s drama about three generations of Palestinian immigrants. $15$25. Thu-Sun 8pm. Thru Nov. 21. 446 Valencia St. at 16th. 626-2787. www.theintersection.org

Hamlet @ Alcatraz Island We Players’ innovative site-specific staging of the classic Shakespeare play on the former prison-turned state park. $40-$80. Sat & Sun 11:30am & 5pm. Thru Nov. 21. www.weplayers.org

Hiphop DanceFest @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Marcus: or The Secret of Sweet @ American Conservatory Theatre Tarell Alvin McCraney’s acclaimed trilogy of African-American gay-themed plays concludes at ACT. $10-$89. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 21. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Murder for Two @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s production of A Killer Musical by Kellen blair and Joe Kinosian. $24-$44. Wed 7pm, Thu-Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Thru Nov. 21. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Music Concerts @ SF Conservatory of Music Viola Project VII, student-composed works.

Free. 8pm. Nov. 20, Tom Stoppard/André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour for orchestra and actors. Also featuring music by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and poetry by Vladimir Bukovsky; $15-$20. 7pm & 9pm.

Nov. 22, Paul Hersh, viola and piano, and friends perform Elgar Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84; Britten Lachrymae; Bax Sonata for Viola and Piano. $15-$20. 8pm.

Nov. 22, Brass chamber works. Free. 8pm.

50 Oak St. at Franklin. 503-6265. www.sfcm.edu

Or @ Magic Theatre West Coast premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ crossdressing political comedy inspired by 17th-century writer Aphra Behn, who may have also been a government spy. $30-$60.

Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2:30pm.

Thru Dec. 5. Bldg D, Fort Mason Center, 3rd floor. www.magictheatre.org

Palomino @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley David Cale’s multi-character solo show about a Central Park carriage driver. $10-$55.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, Tue & Sun 7pm.

Thru Dec. 5. 2081 Addison St. (510) 8434822. www.auroratheatre.org

A Perfect Ganesh @ New Conservatory Theatre Terrence McNally’s drama about two women who go on a trip to India in search of enlightenment. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm.

Thru Dec. 19. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level.

861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

The Play About the Naked Guy @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Evren Odcikin directs David Bell’s hilarious Off-Broadway hit about schlocky empresarios who produce a Naked Boys show and strike a deal with a porn star to save their theatre.

Yes, there will be male nudity. $10-$20. ThuSat 8pm. 1834 Euclid Ave. www.impacttheatre.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle’s (Tings Dey Happen) multiplecharacter solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru Dec 4. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Ruben Studdard @ The Rrazz Room

12th annual concert of diverse dance troupes from nearby and around the world (France, Belgium, even South Africa) performing the latest moves in two programs. $40. 8pm.

Also Nov 20 8pm, Nov 21 at 2pm & 7pm.

3301 Lyon St. at Bay. 392-4400. www.sfhiphopdancefest.com

American Idol winner performs R&B, gospel and pop music songs. $40-$45. Thru Nov 20 at 8pm. Nov 21, 7pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Language of Angels @ Diego Rivera Theater

Sing-Along Grease @ Castro Theatre

Student production of Naomi Iizuka’s play about ghosts in the caves of a North Carolina town. $10-$15. 8pm. Also Nov. 13, 2pm; 19, 8pm; 21, 2pm. City College Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Ave. www.LanguageofAngels.org

Enjoy singing along to the 50s musical starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. $10-$15. 7:30 nightly Sat & Sun also 2:30pm. Thru Nov. 23. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

The Legendary Pink Dots @ Café du Nord

La Soirée @ Metreon City View

25-years on, the UK electronic-psychedelic band, now a quartet, performs songs from the early days, and new music from their latest, Seconds Late for the Brighton Line. Big City Orchestra opens. Also Nov. 20. $17-$20.

21+. 9:30pm. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.cafedunord.com

French wine and food extravaganza, with proceeds benefitting the French American Chamber of Commerce; business-casual attire. $50-$70. 6pm-11pm. Mission St. at 4th. 442-4717. www.lasoiree.org

Manifestival @ Dance Mission Theatre Bob Mould

programs over 4 nights. Nov. 19, 20; Dance Brigade, Facing East Dance, Labayen Dance, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers and more. $20-$36. All shows 8pm. 3316 24th St. at Mission. 273-4633. www.dancemission.com

Like Oil and Water, Dance Brigade presents more than a dozen local politically-focused dance and theatre ensembles in two different

The Tempest @ Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s classic, about an exiled king, his family, and a big storm. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 28. 277 Taylor St. (800) 838-3006. www.cuttingball.com

West Side Story @ Orpheum Theatre Touring production of the classic Robbins/Bernstein/Sondheim musical update of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York. $30-$180. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm.

Sun 7:30pm. Thru Nov. 28. 1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) SHN-1799. www.shnsf.com

Sat 20 >> Artumnal Gathering @ Bently Reserve Burning Man’s arts grant orgnization’s 4th annual gala; Playa devotees party in three elegant rooms, each overflowing with art, each offering a stunning array of featured live performances including soaring aerial artistry, raffles, silent auction, and music and DJs to dance the night away. Festive Burning Man attire. Dinner 6pm ($250). Party 9:30pm ($35-$45). 400 Sansome St. www.blackrockarts.org/events/artumnal

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Special holiday shows, schedules, including under-21 matinees, thru Nov & Dec. $25-$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Becoming Britney @ Center Repertory, Walnut Creek Molly Bell and Daya Curley’s wacky musical parody of the weird life of Britney Spears. $15-$25. Thu-Sat 8:15pm; Sun 2:15pm.

Thru Nov. 21. (925) 943-7469. www.becomingbritney.com www.CenterRep.org

Bollywood Night @ Harlot Betty’s List women’s night of Bollywood dancing, with DJ Rockaway. $11-$15. 6pm10pm. 46 Minna St. www.bettyslist.com

Bullied @ Magnet Screening of a film about Jame Nabozny, who sued when his school refused to protect him from being assaulted and bullied. 7pm.

4122 18th St. www.tolerance.org/bullied www.magnetsf.org

Café Navarre @ First Unitarian Universalist Chapel Cabaret performances with a holiday theme in a fundraiser for the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of SF. $30-$50. 7pm. 1187 Franklin St. at Geary. www.lgcsf.org

Cinderella Enchanted @ Julia Morgan Center, Berkeley Grammy nominee Frenchie Davis stars in Berkeley Playhouse’s production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, with aerial dancers, kids and animalls and diverse cast. $15-$25. Thru Dec. 6. 2640 College Ave. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Deviations @ UC Berkeley Joe Goode collaborates with students of the theatre and dance department to create a work about veering off course, wrong directions, and unexpected results. $10-$15. Fri-

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St. Francis Choir @ St. Francis Lutheran Church Program of Roman mass works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Missa Papae Marcelli, G.P. da Palestrina. Free. 4pm. 152 Church St. near Market.

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Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Pilar Woodman

Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Mon 22 >>

Sun 8pm. Thru Nov. 21. 101 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley campus. (510) 6428827. www.tdps.berkeley.edu

Sun 21 >>

Forrest Williams @ Marx & Zavattero Gallery

Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp @ The Venetian Room

Fourth solo exhibition of contemplative male figure studies by the New York painter. Thru Dec. 18. Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30. Sat 11am5pm. 77 Geary St. 2nd floor. 627-9111. www.marxzav.com

Costars of Rent and other hit musicals perform Broadway songs, rock and original music. $20-$75. 7pm. Fairmont Hotel, 900 Mason St. 392-4400. www.bayareacabaret.org

Gay Shamanism Class @ LGBT Center

Curious George Saves the Day @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Liz Dale and Ken Gorzyca will lead classes on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 10 AM- 12 PM. Come meet your power animal and spiritual helper and explore non-ordinary reality using drumming. Suggested donation of $25. No one turned away for lack of funds.

More info at www.sfcenter.org/calendar.php.

RSVP to lizsanpablo@aol.com

Ladylike, Crotch @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Monique “Fauxnique” Jenkinson enlists pals Kevin Clarke (Falsetta Knockers), J. Conrad Frank (Katya Smirnoff-Skyy) and Mica Sigourney (Vivvyanne Forevermore) for a night of drag theater. 8pm. Also, Sun, Nov. 21, Keith Hennessy performs his acclaimed solo show and installation, Crotch. 8pm. $20 or $35 for both. 1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Pastor Tom Show @ KUSF Dr. Tom Polcari’s LGBT music and talk show. 4pm. Weekly on 90.3 FM.

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only! Extended, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Psycho-Geography @ ATA Gallery Short films about abandoned western towns, Eastern Europe village life, and Lynn and Ira Sach’s’ Last Address, which documents the last NYC homes of artists who died of AIDS. $6. 8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. 648-0654. www.othercinema.com

SF Hiking Club @ Point Reyes Join GLBT hikers for an 8-mile hike along the remote beaches of Point Reyes from South Beach south to the lighthouse. Wellbehaved dogs welcome. Carpool meets 8:45am at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores.

(650)763-8537. www.sfhiking.com

Fascinating exhibit of 80 drawings by Margret and H.A. Rey, cocreators of the impish monkey books, and how their daring escape from the Nazis in Europe was aided by their drawings. Also, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, and Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations (both thru March).

Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Thu 1pm-8pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. Thru March 13. www.thecjm.org

Forever Tango @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre Luis Bravo’s dance show stars former local instructor (and Dancing With the Stars pro) Cheryl Burke, with 12 dancers, a live band, and hot tango dancing. $55-$100. Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm. Also Wed, Sat, Sun at 2pm.

Thru Jan. 9. 609 Sutter St. 2nd floor. 7716900. www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com

Classic chanteuse performs jazz gems from the 1930 and 40s. $25. 8pm. 2-drink min.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Tom Hill @ Magnet Exhibit of pop art-styled works by the gay painter. 8pm. Exhibit thru Nov. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Tue 23 >> Angels in America at 20 @ Museum of Performance & Design Exhibit documenting the award-winning Tony Kushner drama. 401 Van Ness Ave. 2554800. www.mpdsf.org

The Color Purple @ San Jose Center for the Arts

Requisitedance, Kristine Anderson and Alison Williams premiere new dances. $10-$20.

8pm. 975 Howard St. 518-1517. www.975howard.com

States of Kinesis @ Nieto Fine Art

Concert of opera and pop songs by the America’s Got Talent finalist. $25-$40. 7:30pm.

401 Van Ness Ave. www.GeorgeKomsky.com

Exhibit of works by a trio of artists –Eric Bailey, Peggy Gyulai and Fernando Reyesusing colorful imagery of the human form.

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. Thru Dec. 11. 565 Sutter St. 393-4511. www.nietofineart.com

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio

Yoga Classes @ The Sun Room

Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Heated, healing weekly yoga classes in a new location. Suggested donation $10-20. 12pm1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St, 3rd floor.

794-4619. www.billmohleryoga.com

Exhibit of pottery and paintings. Thru Nov. 16. 552A Noe St. 4371642. www.rubys claystudio.org

Wed 24 >> Galeria 4.0 @ Galeria de la Raza 40th anniversary exhibit, with Latino/Chicano works spanning four decades. Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm (Tue 1pm-7pm) thru Jan. 29, 2011. 2857 24th St. www.galeriade laraza.org

Palo Alto Players’ local production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the classic film. $23-$34. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. 1305 Middlefield Rd. Thru Nov. 21.

(650) 329-0891. www.paplayers.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 License to Kiss II is the new show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with Kevin Kent, plus acrobats, magic, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Tom Shaw Trio @ Martuni’s Jazz crooner Benn Bacot joins the local trio in an intimate concert. $7. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205. www.tomshawtrio.com

Unveiled @ Femina Potens

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Women and Power in the Middle East, a group exhibit of photos and art about Arab women’s struggles. Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm thru Nov. 28. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

Ice Skating @ Union Square Rink

The Winter’s Tale @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley Hiphop DanceFest, Friday.

Register for free on BARtabSF.com and

enter to win one of five (5) $25 gift certificates to Bursa.

Winners will be randomly selected from BARtab registrants through November.

Visit BARtabSF.com today!

South Bay production of the musical based on the Alice Walker book and the Stephen Speilberg film. $20-$75. Tue-Wed 7:30pm.

Fri-Sat 2pm & 8pm. Sun 1pm & 6pm. Thru Nov. 28. 255 Almaden Blvd. 792-4111. www.broadwaysanjose.com

40th anniversary celebration of the Latino gallery, with a new performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a silent auction, catered food and more. $40-$65. 4pm-9pm. 2781 24th St. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Nicholas J. DiBlasio @ Ruby’s Clay Studio

PUB GRUB • NIGHT BITES BUNCHES OF BRUNCHES

David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Dance Showcase @ The Garage

George Komsky @ Herbst Theatre

EATING OUT

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104

Galeria de la Raza Gala @ Brava Theatre Center

Sunset Boulevard @ Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley’s production of Shakespeare’s tragicomic romance. $12-$15. Fri & Sat 8pm, some Sun 2pm, thru Nov. 20. 1301 Shattuck Ave. at Berryman. (510) 649-5999. www.aeofberkeley.org

Amanda King @ The Rrazz Room

Celebrate the holidays (or exhaust visiting relatives) at the retail center of town, with a round of ice skating. $4.50-$9. 10am-10pm.

Powel St. at Geary. Thru Jan. 17. www.unionsquareicerink.com

Turkey Day Potluck @ Castro Country Club Holiday pot luck meal at the Castro sober space. Bring a dish, volunteer. 12pm. www.castrocountryclub.org

60 West Portal, San Francisco, CA Tel: 415 564 4006 • www.bursa415.com

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G Man wins Mr. International Rubber

by Scott Brogan n Sat., Nov. 6, G Man won the title of Mr. International Rubber (MIR) 2011 in Chicago. He was one of nine contestants, the first runner-up title going to Roger from the Netherlands, and second runner-up to Chicago’s own Johnny Switch. The contest was truly international, with contestants from France, Germany, Italy, and of course the US and Canada. G Man is the current Mr. Southeast Rubber, and hails from Atlanta. The prize package for G Man was worth over 10k, and one lucky person who purchased weekend tickets early was awarded a custom latex catsuit valued at 1k from Rubbellion.

Congratulations to G Man, the producers and volunteers. I wish I could have been there, but my husband and I were on our big gay cruise around Hawaii, but I’m told it was an exciting and fun weekend. Afterwards, G Man said, “In my time as Mr. International Rubber, I want to focus on helping communities develop their own local events, both here and interG Man is Mr. International Rubber 2011. nationally.“ I hope he succeeds. It’s increasingly difficult for many of us to travel to events outside of our immesince 2002. That’s when she and a few loween 2010“ was a huge success. The diate communities. We all should strive others decided to do “something for SoMa Bar & Business Guild joined to get out there in our communithe kids,” and hit upon the idea of a toy forces with the Sisters of Perpetual ties and support as many events drive rather than simply asking for Indulgence for this event, held siand causes as possible. Myself inmoney. The beneficiary is the Sunburst multaneously at all SoMa bars. cluded! I know it’s easy to get Projects, which provides family supHopefully this will become a new wrapped up in our day-toport services, including Camp Suntradition. day lives, or get sucked into burst, the nation’s first therapeutically I can’t believe the holithe Internet and lose track designed summer-camp program for days are here again! Oh well, of time, but let’s try to get HIV/AIDS children and their families. time to brave the crowds for out there to socialize and Toys are the name of the game, so if turkey (yum!), dressing support our communities. you want to donate be sure it’s a new, (yum!), and maybe a few While we were away, unwrapped toy. If you want to donate gifts (Mr. S Leather, here I Halloween hit San Francisthat’s fine too, as all money colcome!). While you’re out L EATHER there, stop by one of money, co with the festive fervor it lected goes towards scholarships to pay always does. My SoMa for less advantaged campers at Camp Mama’s Toy Drive events.

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thu., Nov. 18: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Thu., Nov. 18: Edges Wet Munch at Renegades Bar (501 W. Taylor St., San Jose), 7 p.m. Happy hour, 4-7 p.m. Go to: www.edges.biz or www.renegadesbar.com.

Thu., Nov. 18: Predicament and Playful BDSM with Stefanos and Chey at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission).

Doors open at 7:30 p.m., event 8 p.m. $15-$20 admission. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Thu., Nov 18: Locker Room Thursdays at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). DJ Hotwire. Comp clothes check. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thu., Nov. 18: Sweet Spot, Double Inverted Flogging playshop with Angela and Iain at the SF Citadel. Doors open at 7 p.m., workshop 7:30 p.m. $15-$25 admission.

Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Nov. 19: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Nov. 19: The SF Citadel & Maestro Stefanos present the original celebration of female submission & male dominance in The Master’s Den: Auction. 7:15 p.m.-1 a.m. Single Dominants: $30, Accompanied Dominants: $20, Submissives: $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Nov. 20: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Nov. 20: Uniforms at Chaps Bar, drink specials.

Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Nov. 21: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear .com.

Sun., Nov. 21: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhousesf.com.

Mon., Nov. 22: Cheap Ass Happy Hour at Chaps.

Every Mon.-Thu., 6-9 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 4-9 p.m. $1 shots, $2.50 beers and $2.75 well drinks. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Mon., Nov. 22: Whip Works, monthly single-tail peer group facilitated by Daddy Darin at the SF Citadel.

8-10 p.m., doors open 7:30 p.m. $10. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Nov. 23: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse, 9 p.m. Celebrate your tats and piercings, then have some nasty fun! Go to: www.powerhousesf.com.

Tue., Nov. 23: Skins n Punks at Chaps Bar. Drink specials, skins and punks. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Nov. 19: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom).

Featuring live shower boys. 10 p.m. No cover, drink specials. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Tue., Nov. 23: Beginning Animal Roleplay Class presented by Anna at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m. $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Nov. 19: Backpack! Hot Buns contest/entertainment at the Powerhouse, seeking the best buns in SF. Winner takes $100, backside becomes the model for next month’s poster. $5 suggested donation, money raised benefits the AIDS Emergency Fund and Under One Roof. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Nov. 24: Leathermen’s Discussion Group upstairs at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). 7:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfldg.org.

Fri., Nov. 19: Rope at Chaps Bar. Hosted by Jorge Vieto of the Leather-Kink Network from Stop AIDS. Go-go studs at 10:30, free coat check, drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sat., Nov. 20: Back Bar Action at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back patio and bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Wed., Nov. 24: Leather Buddies at Blow Buddies.

Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Nov. 24: Busted! at Chaps Bar. This week’s edition: Nips (show off your nips, or enjoy the nips of others). Starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Nov. 24: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. 10 p.m. Drink specials if you’re shirtless. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

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by John F. Karr he box cover shows a guy taking a mouthful of manseed. So I glommed right onto Swallow Seed Co., a new Raging Stallion flick in which the simple objective is an OCS climax for (almost) every scene.

It’s perhaps historical, and, I hope, the beginning of a trend, that the centrality of the OCS in gay sex is being reclaimed and reasserted by a movie that comes from a major American company with an established director and no obsession beside the tasty good fun of a fizz feed.

Here’s how SSCo. slaked my desire.

Scene One. Empty office. The company is closing down. Boss Ethan Hudson lays off staffer Marco Cruise, and then lays him. But not before sucking him silly. Ethan’s resisted his attraction to his employee for so long, but tumbles when Cruise pulls out such a lovely chubby. It’s double wide, pink and creamy, smooth and straight.

Ethan talks dirty when Cruise goes down on him, and Cruise pulls out the cock to whisper in appreciation, “That cock’s rock hard.” Indeed it is.

Deep-dish rimming ensues; clack. Ettienne throws a concentrated Marco’s certainly got a deep dish. fuck that grows brutal enough to Marco talks extra dirty, urging Ethan make Dominik cry out. And he’s had to fuck him like a pig. I wonder, just lots of brutal fucks. Most of Ettienne’s how does one fuck a pig? Is there a load misses its target, but you better history of pigs getting butt-banged, believe Ettienne has his mouth right balled, and generally though consenin there when Dominik shoots, scarfsually greeked? Or does that mean, ing up all the jizz there izz. fuck him like a pig fucks? And just So despite it being a while before how do pigs poke? Whatever. the movie first delivers its Ethan’s a good poker, repeatadvertised come-on of a edly poppin’ Cruise’s accomcum-in, you should now modating pucker. When be sufficiently warmed Marco sits on it, lifting up up. Because here comes slightly, Ethan pistons the first act finale, with from below. He cums on a climax that sure Marco’s head – not the proved climactic at my exact target you wanthouse. ed for a cum-eating Scene Three. The movie’s first juice jet, Kitchen. Two dudes start K ARRNAL but a hot scene together. Sage K NOWLEDGE strokin’ nonetheless.

Daniels is one of them; Scene Two. Stairya’ll know how hot and well. Power top Ettienne Gray going hung he is. The other one’s Heath Anup and deep hole Dominik Rider thony, in his second feature. The newgoing down slam together. They curse comer had made a couple of loops for each other out, realize it’s their last Falcon Str8Men, and took an instant day, and quit the calumny so Ettienne hold on me with his first outing, a can whip out his cock for a plunge heated scene with Spencer Reed in into Dominik’s mouth. Ettienne’s got Falcon’s Dripping Wet 2. Lean Heath a fine cock. Even Dominik says so, and sure is foxy with his faux hawk, soul he’s sucked a lot of cocks. When Dopatch and sly attitude. He starts out minik sits on Ettienne’s cock, we see smooching with Sage sooo slow, and the six silver rings in the piercings up so spontaneously – they both make the underside of his balls. Clackety the same move at one point, and

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laugh together over the collision. Sage makes a symphony of slurps while exhilarating on Heath’s sterling, steely cock. Then Heath gives up his honey hole to Sage’s strong assault. They crescendo excitingly, til an abrupt cut to Sage jacking off into Heath’s yawning mouth. “You want that seed?” Sage growls. That’s a sweet song of a sentence to Heath, who surely does want that seed. And though Sage’s furious pumping splats it across Heath’s temple and into his hair, there’s still some left to pop a couple blasts into Heath’s mouth. Then Sage gets what Heath has to give, right in the maw.

Scene Four. Warehouse. A dildo solo for Marco Cruise, perhaps the best of a series of such solos he’s been compiling in a couple of movies. The guy’s toy doesn’t flirt with his ass.

Marco’s need is urgent, and he bangs the hell out of his butt.

Scene Five. Another part of the warehouse. Ex-employees Tommy Defendi and Jake Austen punish boss Ethan Hudson with rude boffing. The boss takes it, and he takes both their loads. That’s punishment?

Written, directed and edited by Andrew Rosen. Bruno Bond filmed, and Dominick Pacifico, minor9 and JD Slater provided suitably sexy music. Plenty of pics at www.RagingStallion.com. ▼

Leather + The drive was such a success, with over 4,000 toys donated, that Mama & Co. added an additional beneficiary, the SF Police Dept.’s “Operation Dream.”

This nonprofit organization works year-round with disadvantaged youth, staffed with SFPD officers who donate their time to improving the life of families in public housing. During the holidays, the officers work to ensure that every child in SF public housing gets a holiday gift. I remember one year how eloquently Officer Lenny Broberg told me how our simple gesture brightens the faces of these children, giving them happiness and restoring their hope.

That’s something money can’t buy. So skip a Starbucks coffee (or two), and donate some toys. Again, be sure they’re new and unwrapped. The toys you donate could be the only toys the children see all year. Besides, who doesn’t love shopping for toys? Be sure to pick up a special one for yourself, if you know what I mean.

Check Mama’s website, www.mamasfamily.org, for details on upcoming toy drives. I’ll provide info in the calendar each week. Coming up: Nov. 21, the SF Ducal Court Toy Drive & Show, 5 p.m. at Aunt Charlie’s (133 Turk); Nov. 27, the Lone Star (1354 Harrison), Bear Beer Bust Toy Drive, starting at 4 p.m.

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Mama Sandy Reinhardt and “Sexy Santa” Tober Brandt collect toys at one of Mama’s annual toy drive events.

This past Sunday, the SF Leather Daddy’s boys and the SF girls of Leather co-hosted a toy drive beer bust at the Eagle (12th & Harrison). It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but thanks to the generosity of our community, they collected over 14 garbage bags full of toys, plus over $800 in cash.

If you can’t attend an event, you

can drop off toys at the following (beginning Nov. 25): Body (450 Castro); Chaps (4057 18th St.); the Edge (4149 18th St.); the Mix (4086 18th St.); and Phantom (516 Castro). More locations may be added, stay tuned. If you’re still unsure but want to help, please email me at: leather@ebar.com.▼

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Blurred visions Virgin Territory by James Lecesne; Egmont USA, $16.99

ames Lecesne is a busy man. In addition to co-founding and facilitating the LGBTQ suicide-preventative Trevor Project, he’s also an author, an actor, and an activist.

It’s been three years since he published his previous novel, Absolute Brightness, about the murder of flamboyant teenager Leonard Pelkey on the Jersey Shore. The book won The William Morris Award, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His new novel, Virgin Terri-

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Kids/All Right key style that smacks of 1970s Diane Keaton.

Beginning with his outsized portrayal of Laura Linney’s black-sheep brother in the 2000 sibling comedy You Can Count on Me, Ruffalo has been this past decade’s go-to guy for unpredictably loose-cannon men.

Here, he projects an idiotic sincerity that allows us not to hate him for being the catalyst for Nic and Jules’ domestic meltdown. There’s perhaps no better example of an actor who can make doing all the wrong things seem like a perverse badge of integrity.

Hutcherson nails some of the story’s most unsettling beats as the

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and steal everything they had. They destroyed them every which way.”

That such a monstrous murderer, epic thief and thug could be obsessed with fine art is a contradiction that remains an impenetrable mystery. One theory posits that Goring fancied himself a Renaissance man, and the acquisition of great art completed the fantasy. “It’s the only good thing about them [the Nazis], that they loved art, because they saved it,” said Marei von Saher, Jacques’ daughter-in-law and heir, who initiated the claims process, in 1997, that wasn’t settled until a decade later.

“Untitled,” a late 19th- or early 20thcentury oil painting of two mischievous young schoolgirls, originally thought to have been painted by French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (it has since been attributed to an unknown artist of the period), provided one of the more emotional episodes for the family. It had been watched over by

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tive should Obama falter.

Client 9’s juiciest moments arise from the unrepentant testimony of Spitzer’s mortal enemies, such as the ex-pugilist former State Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno, or Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who comes across as the kind of guy who regards taking down Spitzer as mere foreplay before going after Harry Potter.

(Opens Friday.)

Today’s Special Based on an Obie Award-winning play by The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi, this is the closest thing on my menu to that tiniest of genres, the Thanksgiving Day film.

(Nobody’s reprising the genre’s singular classic, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains and Automobiles.)

The David Kaplan-directed comedy sizzles when it focuses on the odd bond between an unemployed sous chef (Mandvi) and a charismatic cab driver/master chef. These two men,

my life”). It is while on the course that he meets a diminutive woman who leads him to a “vision” of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the “BVM”) on the trunk of a tree. This ethereal sighting spurs on a media frenzy of epic proportions, which incites a flock of Virgin Mary followers to descend upon Jupiter, all to observe the “miracle” at hand, and to pray for cures to physical maladies.

Angela, the pretty daughter of one of the traveling devotees, invites Dylan to join the “Virgin Club”

sensitive jock boy who’s been programmed to be a little nervous about the two moms thing, without necessarily embracing his sperm-banksanctioned dad. Luckily, he more than holds his own with a cast of comedy heavy-hitters. Laser has a lovely debate over whether it’s better to be buried or cremated while shooting hoops with donor dad.

Later, the filmmakers round out the Whole Earth humor, giving Bening a brilliantly sarcastic anti-composting tirade. The film has the very now feel of treading across more than one precarious class/gender/lifestyle divide.

Features include the journey to forming a family, the making of The Kids Are All Right, the writers’ process, and feature commentary with director/co-director Cholodenko.▼

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tory, again very cinematic and written for a young-adult audience, follows 15-year-old Dylan Flack, motherless since age six and subsequently transplanted with his father to Jupiter, Florida. It’s depressing enough that he must care for his grandmother, Marie, afflicted with dementia from Alzheimer’s disease, but his father is the distant type as well – utterly useless to his son during such a crucial time in his emotional and social development.

To pass the months of summer vacation, and to stay busy while his best friend Corey is away learning French in the Alps, Dylan caddies at a local golf course (“it’s better than sitting around the house and hating

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pendency, drugs and alcohol is very fascinating. I’ve had my own issues with drugs and alcohol, and probably in a lot of ways I’m still there. It’s a place to write from. There are also other elements of dependency on the album, that’s why it’s called Cho Dependent, because there are songs about dependency on people and on ideas of who people are.

I really liked the country numbers, “Hey Big Dog” and the murder ballad “I’m Sorry.” Was it fun to put a little twang and two-step in your style?

Absolutely. I am a big country fan.

Especially alt-country like Patty Griffin, who is phenomenal, and who wrote “Hey Big Dog” with me. I love

along with her friends Crispy and Desiree.

Ever the rudderless teenager, Dylan is inducted into the Club, discovers a desire for Angela, and begins to open his mind to other possibilities, like rejuvenating his relationship with his father, truly “listening” to his grandmother’s creative yet outlandish stories, and finding true love, where previously he’d only imagined a life of unfathomable loneliness.

There’s nothing outlandish in Lecesne’s safe, well-intentioned, playfully written novel, only a plucky teenager and his newfound friends, who find hope, mystery, friendship and love in the most unusual of places. ▼

Gillian Welch. There is a lot of country in my voice as well, so it makes sense to do it.

having met each other. We sort of conducted this whole thing online. We didn’t finally meet until we came together to record it.

I also really liked the Dylan-esque “Lice.” Do you know if Bob Dylan has heard this homage?

Have you started thinking about possible collaborators for the next album?

No, but I hope so. I hope he likes it!

It’s actually a parody of “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright.”

Yes! I have songs that are ready to go. I’ve written and recorded one with Lucas Silveira of the Cliks.

Your sizable LGBT fan-base will be thrilled by the dance track “Gimme Your Seed.” Are there plans for remixes, and are you ready to become a disco diva?

We are speaking shortly before you make your debut on Dancing with the Stars. Are you looking forward to that?

I would love to be a disco diva, and I love that song. I haven’t had any plans for remixes yet, but there should be some coming.

The hidden track is very funny.

“Lesbian Escalation” is a song I wrote with Rachel Yamagata, a wonderful singer/songwriter from Chicago. We wrote the song never actually

Yes, I really am. I am rehearsing, and I can’t wait to start.

Which of your songs would you like to dance to on Dancing with the Stars?

I’d like to do “Your Dick,” because actually that is a perfect Viennese waltz.▼ Margaret Cho will perform on Dec. 4 at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in SF.

the head of a human crouching a housekeeper at the among the rocks as a devil figgallery for years, and was ure pulls the tail of a yellow pig. returned to Jacques’ The portrait of the Queen of widow when she came Poland, “Louise-Marie Gonzaback to Amsterdam in ga de Nevers” (17th century), is 1946. It has been with

by Fernando Bol, one of Remthe family ever since. Nobrandt’s most famous students. tably missing from this Like his mentor, Bol specialized Dutch collection are in dramatically lit history paintworks by the greatest of ings and portraits. After this the Dutch masters, Remwork was stolen, it was given to brandt; Goudstikker Hitler for his grandiose museowned works by the um project in Linz, Austria. artist, but they are among the missing.

Reclaimed is somehow less Highlights of the exsubstantial than anticipated, hibition include Sabut the show itself is not the lomon van Ruysdael’s point: it’s a platform for restor“View of the Dunes Near ing Jacques’ legacy and explorZandvoort” (1662); ing the larger context. It’s esti“Young Woman with “Louise-Marie Gonzaga de Nevers (1611-67), Queen of mated that over 100,000 artBlack Collar and Flowers Poland,” by Ferdinand Bol, 17th century, oil on canvas. works stolen from Jews rein Her Hair, known as main unclaimed because their ‘The Frivolous Girl’” owners have died or don’t “Temptation of Saint Anthony” (18th century) by Pietro Antonio Rohave the funds to initiate a claims (c.1520). A mannerist painter influtari; and the first painting restituted to process that can drag on for years. enced by Hieronymus Bosch, de Cock the Goudstikker heirs, Jan Wellens de While the artwork is worth seeing, it depicts a monster with bird claws and Cock’s surreal, nightmarish vision, is, finally, the intriguing and heart-rend-

ing story behind the exhibition – the ghost of a vanished way of life for European Jews, and the theft of cultural property and its rightful return – that gives the show its power and gravity. A sense of profound sadness and loss, rage against injustice and a note of triumph reign over it. And there’s also the stubborn reality of justice denied: over 1,000 of the Goudstikkers’ paintings are still unaccounted for. Restitution would seem morally straightforward, but for some private collectors, dealers and museums who’ve retained Goudstikker’s paintings, that hasn’t been the case.

“We’re continuing to search for all the missing paintings,” says Kaye. “The goal of the family is to find every last one. It will probably never be finished, but we’ll pursue it as long as we have the energy. We’ll get it done.”▼

commentary, Scorsese quotes an artist whose painting based on the film is captioned, “Jake fought like he didn’t deserve to live.”

It’s no exaggeration to call Raging Bull the Citizen Kane of fight films.

Loosely based on the autobiography of middleweight champion La Motta, the film skips over Jake’s real life of petty crime, including his belief he had killed a man during a botched holdup.

The film is bookended by scenes of a retired Jake making a semi-pathetic living as a third-rate comedian.

Using the classic film-within-afilm trick, Scorsese has Jake (an unrecognizably bloated Robert De Niro, who ate his way through Europe to play the older Jake) reading the monologue from On the Waterfront where Brando’s Terry Malone blames his mob-boss brother for the ruin of his once-promising ring career. Having sat through some of the most wrenchingly violent domestic scenes ever filmed, Raging Bull’s audience is all too aware of the multiple levels of irony as a great actor impersonates a bad one.

The destruction of Jake’s marriage to the beautiful Vickie (Cathy Moriarity) is foreshadowed when she casually describes his next opponent as “good-looking.” The Tony Jeniro fight is a virtual public mugging to which tickets have been sold. Jake’s brutal demolition of the young prospect’s face – mob boss Tommy Como quips to a henchman at ringside, “He ain’t pretty no more,” as the duo duck the backwash of ring blood – becomes a horrifying demonstration to Vickie that a beast is loose in her world.

The film underscores a primal sibling rivalry between Jake and Joey (Joe Pesci, more than holding his own with De Niro) that assumes faintly sexual overtones. Jake gradually subverts these into a paranoid jealousy, hallucinating that Joey is cheating on him with Vickie.

This is as rigorous an examination of the roots of American violence as Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, and its dark comedy beats parallel the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man.▼

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who could only meet in a failing Jackson Heights Indian family-restaurant farce, have a goofy chemistry that allows you to forget the corny family subplot. One realistic note: the early scenes reveal sanitary practices at the Tandoon Palace that would make a restaurant inspector feel he’d been transferred to the River Ganges.

Based on his saucy meal-prep scenes, one can only hope that Bollywood vet Naseerrudin Shah consents to another English-language food fight. (Opens Friday.)

Raging Bull (plays Nov. 24 at the Castro Theatre) I used to torture the queer boys in my private cinema club with semi-annual showings of Raging Bull, as if I somehow delighted in their pained expressions when confronted with the wild-animal soundtrack that accompanied the mashing of noses and jaws, or the risibly homophobic dialogue, “I don’t know whether to fuck him or fight him.”

I regret nothing. No apologies!

Over the decades, this genius-level work has, like Bertolucci’s The Conformist, embedded us in the head of a

delusional, crafty wife-beater who commands our full attention, if not our hearts, by movie’s end. “I’m not an animal!”

Thirty-five minutes into arguably the best American film of the last 30 years, a young woman is ordered by her lover to take off his pants; her tongue begins a slow cruise down his chest, beginning where a forest of dark hairs gives way to the plain formed by a washboard stomach. Before her tongue glides below the beltline, her lover leaps up and runs into the bathroom to pour a pitcher of ice water over his now-flaming crotch. To screenwriter Paul Schrader, the scene illustrates the theory of Deadly Sperm Backup, or DSB. “That’s what happens when you don’t sleep with women – your sperm goes up to your brain and makes you crazy.” DSB is the least of Jake La Motta’s problems as the film’s insanely self-destructive anti-hero.

Martin Scorsese and Schrader create an astonishing portrait of a man whose fists and thick head win his fondest dreams before macho jealousy destroys his treasure. In the DVD

Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker shows at the Contemporary Jewish Museum through March 29, 2011.

For more info: (415) 655-7800 or www.thecjm.org.

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