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he San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s LGBT Advisory Committee hasn’t had enough members to meet since March, and it’s due in part, a spokesman said, to the growing number of other LGBT organizations that do not have as many rules and regulations over convening as governmental agencies. The committee was established in 1975 to advise the Human Rights Commission on issues affecting the LGBT community. Since its inception, the panel has been partly responsible for the creation of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force and the passage of gender See page 10 >>

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ay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), left, joined gay Emeryville Mayor John Bauters in drag Sunday, October 28, to bike in high heels opposing state Proposition 6, which would repeal the gas tax. Wiener came up with the event after a gas tax repeal supporter – and Orange County congressional candidate – said that

African American museum’s LGBT exhibits detailed analysis by Ed Walsh

n a four-hour visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., I was struck that I didn’t see any exhibits dedicated to the unique cultural experience of LGBT African-Americans. One of the more prominent exhibits on author James Baldwin was titled: “James Baldwin Bearing Witness to the Truth”, but nothing in the exhibit mentioned what I thought was his truth, that he was an openly gay man during a time in the 1950s when that was a serious career risk. His life was reflected is his groundbreaking 1956 novel, “Giovanni’s Room,” based in part on a romantic relationship he had with another man while living in Paris. The $540 million Smithsonian Institution museum opened just two years ago and has a wide range of diverse exhibits: from an examination of discrimination within the African-American community over the shade of a person’s skin color to both a permanent and a large, temporary exhibit dedicated to the “Oprah Winfrey Show.” Glimpses of the Bay Area are included in the museum’s exploration of black migration to California and other Western states. An interesting exhibit recreates a porch in the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, which has long been a popular summer vacation spot for middle and upper income African-Americans. I wondered, did the museum short-change LGBT African-Americans? Is there a reason why not even a small corner in the massive 400,000 square foot museum could be devoted to explore the unique cultural experience of African-American LGBTs? Did it purposely leave out the identity of LGBT African-Americans even in cases where their sexual orientation influenced their work? Even in a four-hour visit, it was impossible to see and read all the exhibits, so had there been LGBT-related exhibits that I missed? In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter, museum curator Aaron Bryant took those questions head-on. It turns out that the works and contributions of numerous LGBT

without Prop 6 she’ll be forced “to take bikes, get on trains, hose off at the depot and try to get to work ... That does not work with my hair and heels.” Wiener, Bauters, and other Prop 6 opponents called her on it and rode the streets of San Francisco in favor of the tax, which pays for road and infrastructure improvements.

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An exhibit on James Baldwin is featured at the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C. but doesn’t mention that he was a gay man.

African-Americans are sprinkled throughout the museum’s various exhibits and their sexual orientation or gender identity are noted. Bryant said that it was not possible to include everything everyone wanted in the museum, but he did not rule out installing an LGBT exhibit in the future. He also noted the museum is taking on LGBT issues on social media platforms as well as LGBT events in the museum. He said there were a couple of LGBT events last month, including an LGBTfocused tweetup discussion October 4. On National Coming Out Day, October 11, the museum hosted a special program featuring black queer feminist Charlene Carruthers in a discussion of her new book, “Unapologetic;” gay comedian Sampson; spoken word poet 2 Deep; and DJ Jim Byers. As for including a mention of an LGBT person’s identity in an exhibit description, Bryant said that with only about 50-75 words to describe a person’s prominence and life’s work, being LGBT doesn’t always merit inclusion in the description. See page 19 >>

he collection of LGBT demographic data by various San Francisco city departments continues to be a work in progress a year after the agencies were required to track such information. According to reports filed by five city agencies, and shared with the Bay Area Reporter this week, work continues on updating the computer systems the departments are using to ensure they include questions about a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI for short. In addition, the reports indicate that asking about gender identity has proved to be particularly complicated. “I think the rollout has been challenging for some departments more than others, primarily because they are working across multiple different systems and platforms, some of which are state level and haven’t quite integrated the state-level SOGI requirements,” said Clair Farley, director of the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives, which has been working with the departments on how to best collect the SOGI data. “Others tried to pilot it small so it was more manageable.” As the B.A.R. detailed in a three-part series last summer, six city departments began using See page 11 >>

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an Francisco AIDS organizations plan to present the city’s former health director Barbara Garcia with an award in honor of her efforts to address the needs of people living with HIV and AIDS. Garcia, a lesbian, had led the city’s Department of Public Health for nearly eight years. She had been with the department since 1999 and was selected as the department’s director in 2011 by then-mayor Gavin Newsom. But, in August, she was forced to resign due to a conflict-of-interest investigation into allegations that she failed to disclose her wife’s income from a college that had received a million-dollar, sole-source contract with DPH, according to media reports. Garcia has not spoken publicly about the allegations against her. Despite the controversy, the HIV/ AIDS Provider Network has decided to present Garcia with its Hero Award. The group is comprised of roughly 20 nonprofit agencies with city contracts to provide HIV services. HAPN co-chair Bill Hirsh told the

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Bay Area Reporter he believes Garcia is the fourth person to receive the honor. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and former AIDS Emergency Fund Executive Director Mike Smith both received HAPN’s Hero Award, said Hirsh, as did gay former District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy in July after losing his bid in June to retain his appointment to the board seat. “We have only bestowed a HAPN Hero Award on a few worthy

recipients,” said Hirsh, executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. “Barbara Garcia is somebody who has done an incredible amount in the fight against the epidemic. She comes from a very community-based perspective. She has always had a great appreciation for the array of services needed to support people living with HIV and AIDS.” The coalition had invited its members to attend a ceremony November 15, hosted by Maitri Compassionate Care, to see Garcia accept the award. But after the B.A.R. made inquiries about the event Monday, Garcia texted HAPN co-chair Lance Toma, CEO of the San Francisco Community Health Center, to say she could no longer attend that day. Hirsh told the B.A.R. they are now looking to reschedule the event to a different date. As for Garcia, she did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Anne Gimbel, executive director of Maitri hospice in the Castro, is on the HAPN executive committee. She told the B.A.R. she offered to host See page 19 >>

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an Francisco will receive a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help close gaps and mitigate barriers in HIV prevention and care services, particularly among homeless people. Mayor London Breed is scheduled to announce Thursday, November 1, a grant that will fund Project Opt-In, a four-year demonstration program to improve HIV patient outcomes in San Francisco. The grant is $2 million annually for four years. “Over the past three decades, the city of San Francisco has made significant progress toward reducing the number of new HIV infections each year, and improving the available services for people living with HIV,” said Breed in a news release. “As mayor, I remain committed to our goal of Getting to Zero, which will take hard work and dedicated services. We know that some groups still suffer disproportionately high rates

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of HIV infections, like our homeless population. With Project Opt-In, we are taking an important step forward in reaching those most impacted by HIV by providing critical and innovative services where they are.” The Getting to Zero initiative aims to make San Francisco the first city to achieve the UNAIDS goals

of eliminating new HIV infections, deaths due to HIV/AIDS, and stigma against people living with HIV by 2020. It relies on a three-prong strategy of expanded access to PrEP, rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy, and retaining HIV-positive people in care. See page 8 >>

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balances governance with working roles, is a tireless networking expert, and is passionate about the agency’s mission,” Virginia wrote in an email. “While much of her success was in the public eye, there was an equal amount of difficult work behind the scenes as she helped manage public relations, worked with activists, negotiated with corporations, saved parade TV coverage, secured major funding, and more. She was the perfect leader at the right time to move the agency forward.”

ommunity activist and TV host Michelle Meow has her eye on other projects now that she has stepped down as president of the San Francisco Pride board, a position she had held since 2016. The board that oversees the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee is expected to elect a new president November 7. Currently, treasurer Jacquelene Bishop is serving as interim president. Meow, a lesbian, also left the board, as her term was up. At the recent annual gala for PRC, which helps people in San Francisco affected by HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, or mental health issues, Meow shared co-hosting duties with out ABC-TV news anchor Reggie Aqui. For Meow, it was all in a day’s work. “The Positive Resource Center is a longtime organization that has evolved to become one of the leading organizations that provides direct services to our HIV/AIDS community,” Meow told the Bay Area Reporter as the evening got underway. “Although San Francisco prides itself in becoming a getting to zero city, meaning zero new infections, there are societal issues such as homelessness, unemployment, mental health, and even racism that prevent some of the most marginalized in our community from getting the services that they need. So supporting PRC is a must to keep our community healthy.” Honorees at the October 12 gala included Vanguard Leadership Award recipient Craig Miller, who was recognized for his AIDS advocacy work dating back to 1984, which included creating the AIDS Walks in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Kaiser Permanente received the Keystone Service Award for its many decades as a leader in health care. Though she wasn’t an awardee, Meow received a thunderous applause when she took to the stage.

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Former San Francisco Pride board president Michelle Meow, left, shared a laugh with ABC-TV anchor Reggie Aqui as they co-hosted PRC’s recent Mighty Real Gala.

“It’s an honor to be here to support the Positive Resource Center,” Meow told the audience at the Four Seasons Hotel. “Tonight really means something magical in these challenging times when leaders move funds around from HIV to detention centers. But we’re resilient and we’re going to show the administration that we’re not breaking down.” She was referring to news reports that the Trump administration moved as much as $266 million from HIV and cancer funds to detain immigrant children. “I served five cycles of Pride, four on the board,” Meow told the B.A.R. after the gala. “I had been appointed and, at the time, been recruited by then-board President Gary Virginia and Vice President Marsha Levine.” Meow, 36, feels that Virginia stepped in to serve on the board in 2014 in order to restore trust and faith in the Pride organization after a very contentious period the year prior, which included harsh criticism of SF Pride after the board rescinded a grand marshal honor to Chelsea Manning, who

at the time was facing a court-martial for leaking government documents to WikiLeaks. (Manning was convicted, served several years in a military prison, and had her sentence commuted by President Barack Obama just before he left office.) “When he passed the baton on to me in 2016, we had already hired an executive director who had years of successful experience of event organizing, and that was George Ridgely,” Meow said. “I believe I stepped into the role for a specific reason as well, and that was to defend and protect the organization, while continuing to restore the faith and trust of the community.” Virginia and Donna Sachet received the Sylvester Community Pillar Award at the PRC gala for their work organizing a Pride brunch benefit that has raised thousands of dollars for PRC. For his part, Virginia said that Meow’s leadership skills were a great fit for SF Pride. “After five years of service, Michelle’s proven herself to be that rare board member who leads by example, delivers on fundraising responsibilities,

During her three years as board president, the organization faced many challenges and legal hurdles, including several lawsuits related to shootings near the festival in 2013 and 2015. At least one of the cases has settled. “It comes as no surprise to our community that my time at San Francisco Pride could be defined by the legal cases we fought, not to mention the growing concerns of our communities as our political environment changed,” Meow said. “With that being said, overcoming those major hurdles and supporting George’s efforts to sustain the organization is a big, big victory. I hang up my hat knowing there’s a contingency plan, a reserve account with funds for the future, a diverse board with more women, people of color, and trans/nonbinary/queer-identified people who support our current executive director, and a growing staff that includes another familiar name in event organizing, our communications director Fred Lopez.” In an email sent through Lopez, Ridgely praised Meow’s tenure. “For more than a decade she has coanchored our annual parade broadcast, and for the past five years on the Pride board, she has demonstrated a deep understanding of the importance of her role as a steward and champion for this important institution that has impacted millions of people,” Ridgely wrote.

He added that working alongside Meow “has been the highlight of my tenure as executive director.” Meow, 36, spoke of why she chose to step down from Pride. Her reasons include a new wife, Orawan Chanpanya, her weekly television show, which airs Sunday nights on KBCW TV, and a sense that it’s someone else’s turn. “I think it’s healthy to pass the baton and give other members of our community an opportunity at leading and serving,” she said. “The major professional reason is that I fell madly, deeply, and profoundly in love with someone from a different country. Navigating the documentation process as a new queer immigrant family during this administration is one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done. I need time and mental space for that.” Meow also hosts a daily radio program on the Progressive Voices Network that airs Monday-Friday from 4 to 5 pm. Like her TV show, the radio show is interview format. “The radio show allows me to spend a lot more time discussing the issues and the subject,” she said. “Both shows focus on LGBTQ inclusion but topics are heavily focused on internationality and social justice issues. I hope people have a better understanding of how the decisions we make, the policies we write, the culture we create, the systems we live in today, all of it has to change in order to fit in equality for all. We are all interconnected and yes, all people matter but Black Lives Matter too, and so on.” Additionally, Meow hosts programs at the Commonwealth Club in which she invites LGBT thought leaders to engage in discussions with an intersectional approach. The current focus of the talks is immigration, though there will also be an upcoming talk commemorating the 40th anniversary of the defeat of Proposition 6 – the Briggs See page 20 >>

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lthough Amazon’s Emmyand Golden Globe-winning streaming television series “Transparent,” is ending, the show’s creator, Jill Soloway, isn’t going away anytime soon. The series, which premiered in 2014, is a comedy drama about a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father, Mort (played by actor Jeffrey Tambor), is a transgender woman. It was the first show produced by Amazon to win a major award, and the first produced by a streaming media service to win a Golden Globe for best TV series. But Soloway, a 53-year-old Los Angeles activist, writer, and filmmaker who identifies as nonbinary, or genderqueer, has ambitious plans. When Soloway, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns, finishes their nationwide tour to promote their recently released book, “She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy”, and wraps up shooting the final episode of “Transparent,” “I have a ton of projects” in the works, they said in a recent telephone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “A Broadway musical, new TV shows, and a book imprint,” Soloway ticked off when asked for specifics. For now, they are having a “great time” on the three-week book tour, accompanied by assorted colleagues, friends, and relatives at each stop. The book describes Soloway’s personal and professional journey after her parent came out as transgender and when Soloway began to erase the lines on their own gender map, deciding they were most comfortable with

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“Transparent” creator and author Jill Soloway, right, was interviewed by activist and cast member Amy Landecker at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

identifying as nonbinary. Soloway noted that the book sales have been “excellent” (as this article went to press, the 241-page memoir hit number one on Amazon’s best seller list in the “theatre/biographies” section) and a New York Times book review called its storyline “fascinating” and said that Soloway’s “deeply considered and honestly depicted quest for an authentic self ... gives this memoir its depth.” In San Francisco, where Soloway had two appearances last week, they wowed the crowd at the Jewish Community Center by offering the audience the first sneak preview of two recently completed songs that will be part of the final episode of “Transparent.” Her sister Faith

Soloway, a lesbian who was a writer on the show, was on keyboard, and Amy Landecker, a co-star of the series, sang both numbers. Clearly, the show’s cancellation was painful to everyone in the cast, Soloway said. “But everything happens for a reason,” they added. The apparent reason behind the cancellation was a bitter dispute among cast members, two of whom complained that Tambor had harassed them. (He has denied the allegations.) Soloway, a founding member of both #TimesUp and #5050by2020, campaigns to eliminate sexual misbehavior and gender inequity in the workplace, was caught between a rock and a

hard place. While Soloway was trying to see if there would be a way to save the show, Amazon fired Tambor and announced that the show would be canceled, agreeing to allow the series a final season, consisting of a single episode, a movie musical. The episode is scheduled to air “sometime in 2019,” according to Amazon. By that time, Soloway had already been thinking that “Transparent” could be adopted into a musical and is “in negotiations” with several off-Broadway producers, hoping to take it to Broadway next. “So it’s not like ‘Transparent’ is ending. I’d say it was transitioning,” Soloway said.

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That’s hardly all that is on Soloway’s plate. Soloway’s production company, Topple, which has created both “Transparent” and another Amazon series, “I Love Dick,” also has eight TV shows and four features under development at Amazon Studios. “I like to keep busy,” Soloway said. And Amazon’s nine-year-old publishing arm has created a Topple book imprint, naming Soloway editor at large with the task of leading the charge to publish “revolutionary feminist voices.” Soloway was hardly an unknown in Hollywood before creating “Transparent.” They had already been a successful writer and producer for shows like “Six Feet Under” and “United States of Tara.” Soloway’s first feature film, “Afternoon Delight”, won the 2013 directing award at the Sundance Film Festival. But when it came to pitching their own shows, “I kept bumping up against a glass ceiling,” Soloway said. While Soloway is grateful for the fame and fortune that they have earned as an artist and producer, “real power” is not on the horizon, they said. “Think of Giancarlo Stanton,” the baseball player who signed a $325 million contract, Soloway said. “Take the entire budget of ‘Transparent’ and all the people we’ve paid” for the past four years, Soloway said. “In total, we don’t even make up for one leg of one baseball player. That’s reality.” “In society as a whole, and definitely in Hollywood, the queers are still very much the ‘others.’ It’s not a glass ceiling, it’s pure concrete,” Soloway said.t

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e must put the brakes on the Trump train wreck – vote Tuesday, November 6. If you have any doubt that your vote matters, just consider the past week. It started with a New York Times article about the Trump administration’s plan to redefine gender based on a baby’s genitals at birth. Following that depressing news, two people were targeted, shot, and killed by a white supremacist because they were AfricanAmerican. Then, suddenly, pipe bombs were mailed to leading Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a news organization, and other critics of President Donald Trump. Cesar Sayoc, the man who was arrested and charged in the case, was revealed to be a rabid Trump supporter who, apparently, took the president’s “enemy of the people” media bashing literally. Then last Saturday, Robert Bowers allegedly shot up a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing 11 people and wounding many others. He was arrested and charged with 29 counts, including murder and hate crimes. The deadly hate that President Donald Trump inspires must be denounced and stopped. Trump’s words do impact the discourse, or lack thereof, in our country and world today. Rightwing lunatics are emboldened to activate their fantasies, whether it’s Bowers, who reportedly told a police officer that “I just want to kill Jews,” or Sayoc, whose van was covered with pro-Trump and anti-media stickers and who was filmed at a Trump rally holding a “CNN Sucks” sign. The president is freaked out about all this media attention focused on his fringe supporters. So, of course, in a cynical ploy, he whips up anti-immigration hysteria. The administration announced that 5,000 troops will be sent to the Mexican border and just Tuesday, Trump said

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he can, via executive order, eliminate birthright citizenship established by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Don’t fall for that one – it won’t happen – like the 10 percent middleclass tax cut he just promised. But keep in mind that many of his supporters don’t really care whether it happens or not – just the fact that Trump said it is enough to get their support. If we want to put a check on this president and his agenda, it’s imperative that Democrats take control of at least one house of Congress; at this point it looks like the House of Representatives is the more likely. Unfortunately, that won’t have an effect on judicial appointments, which are the purview of the Senate. But even a Democratic-controlled House can still put the brakes on many of Trump’s plans and threats.

We will not be erased!

by Clair Farley

ast week the New York Times exposed yet another attack by the Trump administration on transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) Americans by calling for the Department of Health and Human Services to redefine sex for the purposes of Title IX. This new definition states that, “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.” The breadth of this change could be astonishing as it is calling on federal agencies to strip away trans anti-discrimination protections in education, employment, and health care. However, no administrative definition can overrule consistent federal court findings that TGNC people are included in the federal definition of sex. Currently, these federal court decisions protect us from discrimination through federal civil rights laws. This past week, TGNC communities and allies have mobilized nationwide to call out the administration for its hateful and devastating attempt to score political points with this HHS memo just weeks ahead of the election. The Trump administration was hoping this would scare and energize its base with drummed up caricatures of “angry liberal mobs” by wielding transgender lives as one of its featured wedge issues. However, TGNC communities, allies, political leaders, scientists, educators, and legal and medical experts have shown a united front in declaring that trans people #WontBeErased. This is not the first time that the administration has brandished wedge issues to gain political points. We have seen this administration’s ongoing political and cultural attacks against communities of color, immigrants, women’s rights, and trans and LGBTQ communities even before President Donald Trump’s campaign started. We have learned from this history that showing up is only a part of the struggle for justice. One of the best ways to defeat these fearmongers is to make our voices heard at the ballot box on Tuesday, November 6.

A call to action

To all trans communities, you are part of San Francisco and you will never be erased. Many of us are scared right now, and know that you are not alone. Our community is resilient and we have always pushed for a better tomorrow. Our elders didn’t back down at Compton’s Cafeteria and we will not give up now. San Francisco will continue to be a model for the rest of the country. We will uphold our strong

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non-discrimination laws. We don’t erase people in San Francisco. We will continue to work for policies and programs that recognize trans lives. All of us in support of TGNC lives and who are able to should make our voices heard November 6. Make our statement to the Trump administration that we #WontBeErased. And voting is just the beginning. Here are additional actions we can take for trans rights (the following actions were posted in part by American Civil Liberties Union): 1. Bring attention to Question 3 in Massachusetts. This ballot initiative in Massachusetts asks voters whether to retain or repeal non-discrimination protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming communities. In San Francisco, we will hold any state accountable that passes anti-LGBTQ laws through our 12X legislation that bans travel and contracting with a covered state. Action: Contact your networks in Massachusetts and talk to them about the importance of trans equality. 2. Get out the vote. The midterm elections aren’t just about the future of the Congress. They are also about state legislatures, state courts, city council races, and local school board elections. Action: Not only should you vote, help get out the vote with your family, friends, and neighbors. Visit http://www.vote.org for more information. Also, help spread the word of trans candidates running for office across the country. 3. Support trans-led organizations. Most national and larger local organizations are not TGNC-led, resulting in lack of prioritization of our needs. Action: Donate time and resources to local and

East Bay voters could make change at the local level by electing lesbian Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles to the open 15th Assembly District seat. Beckles is the type of politician who will not back down from Trump’s tactics, especially when it comes to the president’s penchant for scapegoating the LGBT community under the guise of defending religious freedom, for example. And the president has repeatedly put California in his sights, particularly our stance on climate change and immigration. San Francisco voters should resoundingly send House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi back to Congress, where she could become House speaker if the Democrats retake that chamber, and can work to curb the president’s power. And for goodness’ sake, vote for Proposition C, so that San Francisco can finally get the injection of cash it needs to get a grip on homelessness and improved services. Finally, California voters should elect Ricardo Lara as insurance commissioner. His opponent, Steve Poizner, was, until this election cycle, a Republican. Now running as an independent, Poizner has name recognition from when he previously served as insurance commissioner, but don’t be fooled by his claim of “independence” from the political parties. Lara, a gay man, would be a strong advocate for health insurance reform, and holding companies accountable, particularly regarding equity for LGBT people. Right now, Lara has an uphill climb, according to political observers, and we need him in Sacramento. This midterm election is the most important in years. Now is not the time to be complacent, or to think that your vote doesn’t count because you live in a progressive area. It does matter. Elections have consequences. And for LGBTs, those consequences could be profound. t

national trans led organizations such as Trans Lifeline, where calls to its suicide prevention hotline have doubled since the Trump administration memo was released last week. 4. Get involved and support your local Trans Day of Remembrance and Trans Week of Awareness events this month. Already in 2018 there are 22 known murders of trans people, primarily trans women of color. We all need to do more to raise trans visibility and end the senseless violence against trans people. Action: Volunteer to support community actions during Trans Awareness Week such as your local Trans Day of Remembrance event. Prioritize and take leadership from trans women of color. 5. Attention allies: Call friends and family to have conversations about trans rights. Educate yourself to make sure you’re challenging the notion of the gender binary and the federal government’s definition of “biological sex.” Make sure your family and friends understand that trans liberation is an integral part of the LGBTQ community. Action: Call or text three cis people in your life about a measure they can take to support trans/ GNC people. 6. Pay attention to the notice and comment periods on proposed federal regulations. Action: follow legal organizations for updates on when you’re able to add your comment on the proposed change. They will give you template and talking points. For this new measure, the ACLU expects the comment period to be in the next two months. 7. Support TGNC journalists, and make sure our major newspapers and media outlets are doing the same thing. Action: Follow TGNC journalists and promote their work. Also, sign up for a mentoring program to support trans and LGBTQ youth and adults. Also join us for a community conversation at the Commonwealth Club Monday, November 5, at 110 The Embarcadero to learn about additional strategies. There is a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6:30. The event is free. For more information, follow us at @TransCitySF or email us at TransCitySF@sfgov.org. #WontBeErasedt Clair Farley, a trans woman, is the director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives. Follow her on Twitter at @ClairJoyFarley.

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Anxious ahead of election

As we wait together as a community with held breath for this national election on Tuesday, November 6, a dear friend shared a phrase that described my psychic mood about politics perfectly: Are we too anxious (paranoid) or not anxious enough? Sums me up. The only thing I can do is www.redtobluesf.org. Good luck to us all. We need it. Charlie Spiegel San Francisco

Prop 12 is needed

Regarding the Bay Area Reporter’s recommendations on California’s ballot measures, I found the comments on Proposition 12 to be baffling [“CA ballot measure endorsements,” Editorial, October 25]. Prop 12 is straightforward and much-needed. It would simply require cage-free conditions and a bit more space for millions of chickens, pigs, and calves. This measure will also benefit the people of California because animals who are crammed in tiny cages are more prone to becoming sick with dangerous bacteria. This bacteria often makes its way into the food supply. More than a dozen studies have found that locking hens in cages results in a higher Salmonella risk compared to cage-free farms. I encourage all B.A.R. readers to vote yes on Prop 12 to reduce animal cruelty and foodborne illness. Jenna Cameron Oakland, California

Yes on Prop 12

Reasonable arguments can be made for or against several measures on the ballot this year, but Proposition 12 clearly deserves a yes vote. Prop 12 will ban factory farming corporations from locking up mother pigs, baby veal calves, and egg-laying hens in extremely restrictive

cages where they can hardly move for their entire life. This practice is cruel and causes enormous suffering. As a registered dietitian with a background in public health, one of the biggest concerns is that caged animals are more likely to become infected with Salmonella and other life-threatening bacteria, contaminating meat and eggs, endangering the lives of California families. Prop 12 is endorsed by the San Francisco SPCA and dozens of other leading animal protection groups, as well as the Center for Food Safety, United Farm Workers, the National Black Farmers Association, National Women’s Farming Association, and the Sierra Club. I urge all California voters to vote yes on Prop 12 for a healthier, more humane food system. Sahra Pak Oakland, California

Applauds statue’s quick removal

I applaud the swift work of Mayor London Breed in removing the offending portion of the Pioneer Monument in Civic Center. It referenced the treatment of the California Indians in the early days of our state. Passing by this monument, so prominently displayed, brought up uncomfortable conversations, not just for the mother who mentioned it to the city, but for all of us. Of what use is it to bring into our children’s lives the suffering and injustices of times past? I share that mother’s, and obviously Mayor Breed’s, desire to keep things positive, to let the past deal with the past. We live in a truly blessed city, for which we owe much to the pioneers. I am happy that our memories of those days need no longer be dragged down my echoes of past sins, such as they may be, so that we can move forward with a clear vision of a bright future for all San Franciscans.

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number of LGBT candidates are seeking school board seats around the Bay Area this election cycle. Some, should they win, will make LGBT political history in their respective cities. One race that has drawn particular attention is that for three open seats on the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education. As the Bay Area Reporter has noted, Mia Satya and Martin Rawlings-Fein would be the first elected transgender public officials in the city if voters choose either candidate come November 6. Phil Kim, a gay man and charter school employee who two years ago lost his first bid for a school board seat, would be the first out Asian male elected official in the city since 2014 when Lawrence Wong cycled off the community college board. Also running are gay educator Connor Krone and lesbian firefighter Lenette Thompson. There is currently only one LGBT member of the school board, Mark Sanchez, a gay former school principal in the district who won re-election to a seat on the governing body in 2016. He had previously served on the school board in the 2000s. In San Jose, three school board races have out candidates. Ray Mueller, a gay married father, is running in the Alum Rock Union School District; Kristin Rivers, a lesbian married mother, is running in the East Side Union High School District; and queer indigenous Latinx-Asian teacher Jorge Pacheco Jr. is running in the Oak Grove School District. Should he win, Mueller would be only the third known person living with HIV to win elective office in the Bay Area. If Rivers is elected, she would be the first lesbian to win public office in the city of San Jose. And Pacheco would be the first out person and first Latino on his school board. “It is 2018 and crazy that I would be

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the first Latino on the school board. Our school district is 50 percent Latino,” said Pacheco, 28, whose mother escaped the Salvadoran Civil War and father is Mayan-Korean. Born and raised in the district, Pacheco said his sexual orientation hasn’t been much of an issue. Instead, he has been able to engage with parents concerned about the state mandate that schools teach about LGBT history due to the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act. “People are saying we don’t want the queer agenda or gay agenda in our curriculum,” he said. “I explain to them what the FAIR Act is and what it isn’t. I let them know your religious beliefs can be respected.” Rivers, 51, grew up in Morgan Hill but has deep family ties to San Jose dating back to her great-grandparents. Her children have all attended the school district, with the two youngest sons now in high school, while she has previously taught English as a Second Language classes for it. After two decades teaching in a different San Jose school district, Rivers took a job in the tech sector in order to afford her children’s college tuition.

Her wife, who graduated from high school in the district, works in the nonprofit sector. Missing her work with students, Rivers decided to seek a school board seat. “As a parent, I really want to contribute,” said Rivers, who has served on a city library commission and the board of San Jose’s LGBT center. “I was looking for a great opportunity to bring all this experience together and put it to work for our kids.” After breaking her ankle while knocking on voter’s doors in late October, Rivers has had to curtail her time on the campaign trail the last few weeks. While one man she had encountered reacted negatively to her campaign material, which features her wife and children, Rivers said she isn’t sure how her being an out candidate will impact her chances in the race. Being a voice for families from various marginalized groups, said Rivers, is why she wants to serve on the school board. “I want to be a champion for teachers, students, and employees who are LGBT or from varied marginalized groups we have in our county,” said Rivers. “Not just the LGBT community but religious groups, immigrant groups, and people of different language groups.” See page 20 >>

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reception next week at the Harvey Milk Photo Center will feature a sneak peek of a new Senior Portrait Project that’s scheduled to open in the spring at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center. The project is being curated and managed by Thomasina DeMaio in collaboration with Adela Dominquez, the facility coordinator at EVRC, located at 100 Collingwood Street. The works in the senior portrait show have been, and continue to be, created every Tuesday afternoon at EVRC, when participating artists meet with senior citizens recruited from all over the city. According to photographer Billy Douglas, typically three or four models are painted each week. Those modeling sessions will continue every Tuesday from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. until December 4. Douglas became involved with the Senior Portrait Project through his earlier participation in Art Saves Lives, which DeMaio founded. He estimated he’s taken about 35 photos so far, 11 of which will be in the November 7 preview of the senior portrait show. Co-curator Dave Christensen, who’s director of the Milk photo center, estimated the images of over 30 different models have been captured as of October 17. He said models were solicited through Art Saves Lives, word of mouth, and posters at EVRC and the Milk photo center. “Some subjects from the earlier

Homeless services

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Although the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections continued to decline overall last year, the homeless population saw an upward trend of new cases. A total of 221 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2017, of which, 31, or 14 percent, were homeless, according to the most recent Department of Public Health’s HIV Epidemiology Annual Report. Project Opt-In aims to address this issue. The four-year project will examine gaps in services while also focusing on transforming health care delivery and practices to lessen the long-term need for such services, according to a news release. This includes homeless outreach, intensive case management, and other lowthreshold support services. Tracey Packer, director of Community Health Equity and Promotion for the DPH, told the Bay Area Reporter more about Project Opt-In and what the funding will do. “The work is focused on going out and meeting people where they are,” Packer said. The grant will help increase staff, strengthen Project

sessions returned with their friends and acquaintances,” he said, noting the project is looking for more models. Since all models are also San Francisco residents, many are LGBTQ, though that is not a criterion for the sessions. Cees van Aalst is a gay man who volunteered to be painted and expressed his delight with the whole experience. “I sat for about 45 minutes while Thomasina was painting and two guys took my photograph and another did a drawing,” he recalled. “Some of the artists talked while they worked, I think to make me less tense, though I wasn’t feeling tense, so I told them how I met the queen of Jordan many years ago.” It’s possible the Senior Portrait Project will be exhibited at both EVRC and the Milk photo center, according to photographer and participant Steven Pomeroy, but he said that has not yet been decided. According to Christensen, the senior portrait show will include an auction of the works, with proceeds going to a new lighting system for the Milk photo center gallery. Douglas explained that its current lighting is fluorescent and the photo center members would like to purchase pin spotlights designed for art works and “gallery type lighting.” In addition to the senior portraits, there will be a contemporary exhibit opening November 7. Media represented in the show include oil and watercolor paintings, drawings, ceramic art, and photography.

Key artists in the show include DeMaio, Douglas, Pomeroy, Ed Terpening, Alexander Nowik, and many more. At least seven of the participating artists exhibited in the Milk photo center’s gay Pride show titled “Art and Pride” in June, and several are senior artists. The show will close Saturday, December 1. All artists in the show reside in San Francisco, according to co-curators Christenson and DeMaio, and represent a diverse age group and ethnicities. The Milk photo center is one of the largest remaining operating darkrooms in the U.S., according to Christensen, and has been in San Francisco for over 75 years. A second edition of the contemporary exhibit will open Thursday, December 6, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Milk photo center. Each quarter, the Milk photo center organizes dozens of classes in photography and related topics. For more information, visit www. harveymilkphotocenter.org or call (415) 554-9522. The Milk photo center is part of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and the exhibits are free and open to the public.t

Opt-In’s monthly health fairs, and greatly bolster HIV and hepatitis C screening for the homeless community. It will also fund data and research to help inform the system transformation, she said. “The current system we have is not meeting the needs of people living outside,” Packer said. “This will help us understand how to change the system and lower barriers to care and services to people with or at risk of HIV.” Another aspect of Project Opt-In will be to increase access to preventative medicine like PrEP, which, if taken as prescribed, significantly reduces the risk of HIV transmission. As previously reported by the B.A.R., locally, PrEP use has risen steadily in San Francisco over the past half-decade, but there are pockets of persistently higher HIV incidence and poorer outcomes after diagnosis, especially among African-Americans and homeless people. According to a news release from the mayor’s office, while 72 percent of all San Franciscans living with HIV were undetectable in 2016, only 32 percent of people living with HIV and experiencing homelessness were undetectable.

Project Opt-In will also partner with organizations that are already providing preventative and other care services to vulnerable populations such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Glide, a nonprofit whose parent is Glide Memorial United Methodist Church. SFAF offers hepatitis C testing at various homeless encampments and at its Sixth Street harm reduction center. “We need comprehensive strategies that reach people in places and at times when they are ready to engage in treatment,” said Lara Brooks, chief program officer at SFAF. “Knowing people face challenges like housing instability or homelessness, providers have an imperative to offer multiple, low-threshold access points so people can get the care they need. One important part of this project is the expansion of hepatitis C testing opportunities at homeless encampments or the provision of HCV treatment.” Packer said DPH and the partnering organizations understand the need for new, innovative ways to reach vulnerable and at-risk communities. “We recognize we need to reach [the homeless population] in a different way,” Packer said. t

Additional models are still being sought for the Senior Portrait Project. For more information, call (415) 831-6810. The November 7 reception takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Harvey Milk Photo Center, 50 Scott Street.

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self-identify as Jewish. Teen-led initiatives may benefit the general or Jewish community, with impact locally, nationally, or globally. Teens must be volunteers and not receive compensation for their services. Teens may apply directly at www.dillerteenawards.org. The nomination deadline is December 18. All applications must be completed by January 8.

GBTQ students enrolling in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2019-2020 academic year can now apply for a Point Foundation scholarship. Point, as it’s known, is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit. It currently provides financial assistance and programmatic support to 97 students. According to a survey by http:// w w w. s t u d e n t l o a n h e r o . c o m , LGBTQ students accrue $16,000 more debt on average than their heterosexual peers, Point officials said in a news release. Moreover, nearly a third of LGBTQ students report being discriminated against because of their gender identity or sexual orientation when seeking financial assistance for higher education. Recognizing these issues, Point provides its scholarship recipients with mentoring and leadership development training as well as financial support, the foundation said. “Despite the constant attacks on our community, our LGBTQ young people are eager to develop the skills they need to fight back against discrimination and become the leaders our country so desperately needs,” Jorge Valencia, executive director and CEO of Point, said in the release. To receive a scholarship, candidates must demonstrate academic excellence, leadership skills, community involvement, and financial need. Attention is given to applicants who have experienced marginalization and/or are working to improve the lives of marginalized groups, particularly the LGBTQ community. Since 2002, Point has awarded more than 450 scholarships. Individuals, corporations, and organizations can support Point by designating a scholarship with a “Name” that recognizes the donor. Named scholarship donors pledge to cover the financial assistance and programmatic support Point provides its scholars. For more information, visit https:// my.pointfoundation.org/donate. Scholarship applications are online until midnight Pacific Time January 28 at https://pointfoundation.org/point-apply/apply-now/.

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annually with $36,000 each to support an ongoing social justice project, or to further their education. Up to five teens from California and 10 from other communities nationwide will be acknowledged for demonstrating exceptional leadership and impact in repairing the world. The awards were the vision of Diller, a Bay Area philanthropist who sought to recognize the next generation of socially committed leaders whose dedication to volunteerism exemplifies the spirit of tikkun olam, a Jewish value

meaning “to repair the world.” Since 2007, more than $4 million has been awarded to 114 teens through the program. In addition to the awards, the Helen Diller Family Foundation is a supporting organization of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma counties. Applicants must be U.S. residents aged 13-19 years old as of the application deadline and

LGBTQ digital media competition seeks entries

To assist California schools in fulfilling requirements mandated by the Fair, Accurate, and Respectful Education Act (SB 48), the Global SchoolNet Foundation and Rainbow Advocacy have launched the Our Pride Video Fest, in which students can spark their creativity and depict the often-untold historical stories and contributions of the LGBTQ community through digital media. The state updated its guidance in 2012 to include LGBTQ people and people with

disabilities in history and social studies lessons. Students from middle school through college can submit short news stories, documentaries, creative fiction, music videos, animation, and public service announcements, following their research on significant LGBTQ people, places, and events. Students who are under 18 are required to collaborate with adult mentors, teachers, or parents. Submissions can range from 90 seconds to five minutes and must be submitted via the FilmFreeway online platform accessible at www.ourpride.org. “The struggles and achievements of the LGBTQ community are components of the civil rights movement, yet many of these stories remain untold,” Yvonne Marie Andres, Our Pride Video Fest codirector, said in a news release. Andres, who also serves as CEO and co-founder of San Diegobased Global SchoolNet, added, “We want all students to become aware of LGBTQ history and to use their imagination to present their findings in compelling ways”. The submission deadline is March 1. t

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Meet Night Ministry’s new leadership team

Community members are welcome to meet the new leadership team of the San Francisco Night Ministry Saturday, November 10, from 6 to 9 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (Heritage Hall), 1111 O’Farrell Street. Following the summer retirement of gay Executive Director Lyle Beckman, the agency, which provides counseling, pastoral care, and crisis counseling, sought a new leadership team. It has hired the Reverend Thomas R. Carter as executive director and the Reverend Valerie McEntee as the night minister. Both are straight allies, McEntee wrote in an email. Carter will also oversee the night ministry’s clinical pastoral education program for seminary students. The event is also the night ministry’s 54th anniversary. A donation of $54 is requested. For tickets and more information, visit www.sfnightministry.org and click on “Events Calendar.”

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identity as a protected category in San Francisco, among other accomplishments. According to the LGBTAC website, the committee of 12 members met officially and conducted business only twice this year, in February and March. The committee usually meets monthly except for December and June, in recognition of Pride Month. The committee had a slightly higher attendance rate in 2017 and held three meetings. The committee positions are volunteer and most

members have full-time jobs outside of their roles on the panel. David Carrington Miree, an HRC staff member who is the spokesman for the committee, said it hasn’t had enough members present at the meetings to satisfy the required quorum, or minimum number of people needed, preventing the committee from voting or conducting business. “Due to this continued failure to establish a quorum, the membership was polled on a number of subsequent occasions as to their intent to continue with their membership for the remainder of the year. Unfortunately, less than

4 percent of the current membership expressed an interest or bandwidth to continue,” wrote Miree, who declined to disclose how he identifies, in an email response. The November meeting has also been canceled. Although there are some “personal” reasons as to the lack of participation among the members, Miree said, the primary reason is the strict rules and time commitment of the role. “The bigger problem is that so many other LGBT advocacy groups in the city have less restrictions and rules and regulations,” Miree said in a phone interview with the B.A.R. “It’s easier for

people to navigate that environment than the rules and heavily regulated government-sanctioned committees.” He listed some of those rules for the advisory committee as being: a residency requirement, a “rigorous” absenteeism policy, and restrictions on when members can convene. “These non-governmental committees tend to be more attractive because they allow for greater autonomy and latitude toward membership convening, work projects, and action items,” Miree wrote in an email response. Susan Belinda Christian, a

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lesbian who is chair of the HRC, echoed Miree’s reasoning and said she and other commissioners, including Mark Kelleher and Melanie Ampon, are considering a revamp of the function and operation of the LGBTAC in order to increase membership participation and complete projects quicker. Christian said the number one thing she wants the committee to do is align its work with the work of the commission. “Aligning projects of the advisory committee with the work the commission is doing is really important,” she told the B.A.R. “It will help bolster and expand the work the agency is doing and bring the community together to be working in alignment instead of on a bunch of different things.” She would also like to see the LGBTAC work closer with members of the community and nonprofit and other LGBT organizations to create a committee to “fit the climate we are in.” Miree said, although currently in a preliminary stage, the revamp may also include establishing a more project-based yearly agenda to recruit members who are interested in those particular activities. “The hope is for the new members coming in 2019 to come in with a set ideal as to what they want to see happen in the community and get more like-minded individuals working on that kind of project,” Miree said in a phone interview. The HRC and the LGBTAC are also looking into changing the structure of the committee to make membership and the associated time commitment more feasible for people wishing to serve, Miree said. A spokesman for Mayor London Breed did not return a message seeking comment. The committee is looking for new members for next year and will start its recruitment process in January of February, later than normal. The commitment of a committee member includes attending the regular meeting the third Tuesday of every month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and an annual weekend retreat. According to the 2017 application, the HRC chair appoints LGBT advisory committee members after an interview process. Despite the lack of formal meetings, Miree noted that the committee has been active in recent years. He said the LGBTAC worked on similar projects that Miree said helped influence the directive issued by Breed last week, which ordered all city agencies and departments that collect demographic data to update their forms, both paper and electronic, so that they include the option of nonbinary in addition to male and female when asking about gender identity. In 2015-2016, the LGBTAC worked on a project called administrative accountability where members reviewed city administrative forms to ensure that they were culturally competent and sensitive to the ever-evolving LGBTQIAA community in terms of self-identification and gender, Miree explained in an email. The most recent minutes, posted in March, reveal that the committee selected certain projects to focus on in 2018 including: the Queer/Trans Immigrant Needs Assessment, renaming the LGBT Advisory Committee, and potentially having one or more of the LGBTAC meetings take place at an off-site location. t

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forms in 2017 that asked the SOGI questions. LGBT advocates argue the collection of such data is needed to gain better insight into the health needs and other issues confronting the LGBT community. The information, they argued, was needed in order to ensure there was adequate funding for programs and services that address the needs of the LGBT community. State lawmakers followed suit by also ordering a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services to begin collecting SOGI data as of this July. Additional state agencies will begin asking the SOGI questions on their forms next summer. “At a time when the federal government is ending data collection about LGBT people, it is critically important that San Francisco continues to ensure that LGBT residents count,” City Administrator Naomi M. Kelly told the B.A.R. this week in a statement. Last Thursday, as the B.A.R. was first to report, San Francisco Mayor London Breed ordered all city agencies and departments that collect demographic data to update their forms, both paper and electronic, so that they include the option of nonbinary in addition to male and female when asking about gender identity. Breed’s order came in response to media reports that the Trump administration is preparing a proposal to limit the identification of a person’s gender to include only “male” or “female” that is listed at birth. The mayoral directive, which took effect immediately, also ordered that the forms expand on title options beyond Mr. and Ms. and include additional choices for pronouns other than just she/her/hers and he/him/ his. The forms must also include a line for a person’s chosen name and use gender-neutral labels such as “parent/guardian” instead of “father” and “mother.”

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Several San Francisco city departments have seen challenges as they implement sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI, questions on various forms to learn more about LGBT people seeking their services.

“Here in San Francisco, we stand in strong support of our transgender and gender-nonconforming residents,” stated Breed in announcing the new policy. “This executive directive is about celebrating the diversity of our communities and building a more inclusive city for all.” The city in 2016 adopted the SOGI collection requirements, introduced by gay former supervisor Scott Wiener, A based on a recommendation from an LGBT aging policy advisory body. Since then, Kelly said her office has “been committed to working hand-in-hand with the city’s covered departments to better collect SOGI information to prevent LGBT health disparities and improve services to LGBT youth and seniors. I look forward to the continued work from everyone involved in this process to help inform the Board of Supervisors as they make budget and program decisions.” As of July 1, 2017 the collection of SOGI data became a requirement for the Department of Public Health; Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development; Department of Human Services; the Department

of Aging and Adult Services; the Department of Children, Youth and their Families; and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Contractors that receive more than $50,000 a year in city funds are also required to collect the SOGI data.

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It has been rolled out in fits and starts, according to the department reports shared with the B.A.R. The main issues the departments have grappled with are the training of staff on how to ask the SOGI questions, the wording of the questions related to gender identity, and updating the electronic record systems being used. “We started learning about the challenges and obstacles right away,” said Farley, who took over the mayoral adviser role in December. “I think, overall, all the departments we worked with were really positive and understood the purpose behind it. There has been a lot of work on the backend across departments to try to push this forward despite the challenges.” For instance, the Department of

Homelessness and Supportive Housing is still phasing in the rollover to its new Online Navigation and Entry System, known as ONE. It reported needing to add its adult shelters, Navigation Centers, and locally funded housing programs to ONE. Initially expected to be complete by this December, the department said it had to push back the timeline “due to some changing departmental priorities.” It noted in its report that “SOGI data collection implementation would be more efficient if providers and staff were trained on a single system that was built out to collect this data.” All new users of the ONE system are being trained on how to collect the SOGI data, said the department. And it is working with the city’s health department, which it shares data with, on how to ask about gender identity, which requires a two-part question inquiring about a person’s current gender and the one they were assigned at birth. “HSH will work on training providers collecting SOGI data to ensure that data collection is done in a safe and non-intrusive way,” stated its report. Doing so will be of critical importance when the department conducts its 2019 Point-in-Time Count of the city’s homeless population. The 2017 count found that 30 percent of homeless survey respondents identified as LGBTQ, and the department will be reviewing next year’s data to see if it is underrepresenting the LGBTQ population. “Serving this population is a key focus of our department and HSH will continue to ensure that all programs are more accessible to LGBTQ individuals who are eligible for those services,” stated its report. The Department of Children, Youth and their Families noted it worked with its vendor, Cityspan, last year to update its contract management system to include SOGI questions. The agency does not collect demographic data, and instead, leaves

it up to its grantees to do so. But because there are still questions on how best to capture SOGI data for those clients under the age of 18, the department opted to only require grantees that work with transitional age youth, 18 to 24 years old, to start asking them about the SOGI questions. It added that it continues to look for “appropriate models and methods” to collect SOGI data of clients “that address issues of confidentiality and consent.” Farley explained that the issue with asking youth under the age of 18 the SOGI questions is often their parents or guardians are the ones who fill out the forms and the city does not want the youth to have to out themselves to their family. “If a form requires a guardian to fill it out or sign it, it can oftentimes put people at risk if they aren’t out to their families,” she said. In its report, DCYF noted there continues to be holes in the SOGI data collected by its grantees of the 1,034 TAY clients they serve. Of the 611 TAY clients that had valid sexual orientation responses, more than a third said they were members of the LGBT community, while 9 percent of 732 TAY clients with valid answers on their gender identity questions said they were transgender. The agency pledged to improve SOGI data collection efforts in the 2018-2019 fiscal year, as it recognizes that “better SOGI data will help the department paint a more complete picture of how well LGBT communities are being served by DCYF-funded programs.” But, in working with Farley’s office on the issue, it reported it would no longer have grantees ask what sex people were assigned at birth. Asking about that information, it reported, “may provide undue burden to participants” and isn’t “necessary in a non-medical context.” The mayor’s housing office also reported it had made changes to how See page 19 >>

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Key state races loom large for LGBTs analysis by Lisa Keen

or those still recovering from the shock that Republican Donald Trump won the Electoral College – and, thus, the White House – in 2016, the prospect of watching midterm election returns Tuesday night might not conjure a desire for champagne. There’s a lot on the line Tuesday: Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, a significant potential to increase the number of LGBTs in Congress, and, of course, the fate of American democracy. But you’re a concerned citizen, and you feel compelled to pay attention as the nation teeters between very different potential outcomes. Chances are, shortly after 5 p.m. (Pacific Time), you’ll know which party will lead the Senate for the next two years. That’s because Democrats must keep their seats in Florida (Bill Nelson), Indiana (Joe Donnelly), and Missouri (Claire McCaskill) to have any chance of holding the majority. As of last week’s polls, all three had only small (within the margin of error) leads over their Republican challengers. Nate Silver’s http:// www.fivethirtyeight.com gives Republicans an 82 percent chance of retaining power. At best for Democrats, RealClearPolitics.com sees the potential for a 50-50 seat tie. (In that case, the tie-breaker, of course, is Vice President Mike Pence.) The House looks a little more promising for Democrats. Fivethirtyeight.com says Democrats have an 84 percent chance of winning the majority. A Cook Political Report last week also gave Democrats a chance of winning the majority. But numerous media and polls in recent days suggest President Donald Trump’s campaign to turn out his supporters has been cutting into Democratic leads. In the end, it’s about voter turnout and not polls. Polls are not always accurate, and the list of examples started long before Hillary Clinton, whom many predicted would win the presidency. Polls around LGBT issues and candidates have been even more unreliable. But the latter has also been changing, too, as public opinion around LGBT people has steadily grown more accepting since 2000. With all those caveats, there is considerable suspense for LGBT people come Tuesday night. Polls show voters are likely to elect a gay man as governor of Colorado and that a lesbian has a good chance of becoming attorney general in Michigan. In Massachusetts, polls suggest voters are likely to reject the first statewide anti-trans ballot measure. And polling looks good for counting the number of openly LGBT members of Congress for the next session to climb from seven to 10. The following is an hour-by-hour guide to the most important races to watch for the LGBT community (all times Pacific).

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Vermont: Christine Hallquist is the Democratic candidate for governor and, if successful, will become the first transgender person to be elected governor of any state. Fivethirtyeight shows her doubledigits behind incumbent Republican Governor Phil Scott. Indiana: Incumbent Donnelly needs to win to give Democrats any chance of taking the Senate majority back. If he loses, the Senate will almost certainly remain in Republican control. As of last week, he appeared to have a margin-of-error lead over his Republican challenger, Mike Braun. While Donnelly has been a strong supporter of LGBT equality, Braun, as a state legislator, voted for anti-LGBT measures.

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Ohio: Gay challenger Rick Neal is running for a House seat for the 15th Congressional District in the Columbus area. Polls suggested he was not likely to unseat the incumbent. The Columbus Dispatch endorsed the incumbent, after mentioning that Neal, a former Peace Corps volunteer, would likely be a “sympathetic voice for refugee resettlement” and had worked on marriage equality. West Virginia: How well Democratic Senator Joe Manchin does is important for the party, but it could also be seen as a measure of how people feel about his vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In 2012, he won with 60.6 percent of the vote.

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Massachusetts: Question 3 represents the first time a state has been asked to vote on a law that currently prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. Polls predict voters will say “yes” to keep the law. But in addition to the tendency of respondents being reluctant to tell a pollster about any position they may hold that seems prejudiced, there has been some apparent confusion about the ballot measure itself. While the latest poll showed 74 percent in favor of keeping the law, about 25 percent of those people also said transgender people should be restricted to bathrooms based on their genitals at birth. Massachusetts: Lesbian Attorney General Maura Healey is expected to cruise to re-election to that statewide office. She’s been a popular, highprofile official, frequently leading lawsuits to challenge actions taken by the Trump administration. As a newcomer in 2014, she won with 62 percent of the vote. The results November 6 could be a good indicator of her prospects to run for governor in 2022. Florida: It’s important that incumbent Nelson (D) retain his seat. He’s in a tough race against Republican Governor Rick Scott for the Senate seat and this race’s outcome is another that will likely determine the party balance of that body. Nelson earned a 94 on his voting record from the Human Rights Campaign. Equality Florida said Scott’s staff promised, after the Pulse nightclub shooting, to issue an executive order to protect LGBT state employees. He still hasn’t. Missouri: It’s important for incumbent McCaskill to retain her seat if Democrats have any hope to grab the majority in the Senate. The polls are extremely tight. In the candidates’ last debate, October 25, a member of the audience asked what they would do to make sure LGBT people are not discriminated against. McCaskill said nobody should be discriminated against because of who they love and that she was “embarrassed that

Missouri still has a law” that would enable an employer to fire someone for being gay. Her opponent, Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley, gave a Trump-like “I’m for everybody” response, carefully worded so as not to use the words gay or LGBT. “All folks” should have constitutional rights protected, he said. Then, he added that he believes “religious believers should have their rights to their free expression of worship.” After Hawley finished, McCaskill asked him directly whether he’d be for changing Missouri law to protect LGBT employees. He didn’t look at her or respond. Tennessee: There’s a Senate seat open here due to the retirement of Republican Bob Corker and a tight race between Democratic former Governor Phil Bredesen and Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn has a marginof-error lead in the polls. Tennessee is Trump territory and Blackburn is an unabashed Trump supporter. Blackburn’s HRC congressional voting record has been a consistent zero. When the Tennessean newspaper asked both candidates whether businesses should be able to deny serving same-sex couples, Blackburn said, “People of faith should be free to practice their beliefs as guaranteed by our Constitution,” adding, “they should never be punished for their beliefs” and that she would “work to ensure our religious beliefs are protected.” Bredesen said, “No, and I think most business owners feel the same. I agree with Justice [Anthony] Kennedy ... that disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market.”

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Wisconsin: Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, initially looked to be in a tough race for re-election. Right-wing conservative donors poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of her Republican opponents early on. They were hopeful, given Wisconsin’s surprise vote for Trump in 2016. But Baldwin has always been popular in Wisconsin, and she quickly outraised the rightwing donors who were trying to unseat her. As of last week, she had a 10-point lead over her Republican challenger. It will be interesting to see what Baldwin’s likely margin of victory will be this year. In 2012, she won the open seat with 50.3 percent of the vote, compared to Republican Tommy Thompson’s 47 percent. Colorado: Congressman Jared Polis is the Democratic candidate for governor and, if successful, could become the second openly LGBT person to be elected governor of any state (Oregon’s Kate Brown, a bisexual woman, was the first). In the last two weeks, polls have shown

Polis with a 7- to 11-point lead. Media in the state say Polis’ being gay hasn’t really been made an issue in the campaign, though the Republican Governors’ Association recently aired an ad, saying “Polis wants to turn Colorado into Radicalifornia,” a term that seems to echo “San Francisco Democrat.” Texas: Lesbian Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez is fighting a 19-point deficit in her bid to oust incumbent Governor Greg Abbott. Given that Abbott’s campaign has vastly outspent Valdez and that he is the Republican candidate in a deep red state, the outcome was probably predictable from the start. But Valdez, the first out sheriff of a major city (Dallas) in the nation, suffered some embarrassment when the Houston GLBT Political Caucus endorsed her primary opponent, and the state’s largest police group endorsed Abbott. Texas: Three gay candidates are running for U.S. House seats: Gina Ortiz Jones (23rd district), Lorie Burch (3rd), and Eric Holguin (27th). Polls last week showed all three trailing significantly. Jones probably has the best chance. She’s gotten tremendous support from the national Democratic Party and, among registered voters, the latest poll showed her trailing by only 4 points, within the 5-point margin of error. (But among likely voters, she’s behind 15.) Burch is 20 points behind in her district; Holguin is 27 points behind. Texas: Democrats are hoping Congressman Beto O’Rourke can unseat incumbent Senator Ted Cruz. The latest polls showed Cruz hanging on with a narrow lead, but fivethirtyeight.com says data show O’Rourke could pull this off. This would be a tremendous relief for the LGBT community. Cruz has a zero record of voting in the interests of the LGBT community and supported numerous anti-LGBT efforts. Minnesota: This is Angie Craig’s second bid for a House seat in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District. Polls show her with a 6-point lead. And on October 25, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune endorsed her, saying, “Craig maintains a reasonableness and a respectful, intelligent, no-drama approach that could help turn the temperature down in a Congress beset by heated rhetoric and gamesmanship.” She narrowly lost two years ago to current Representative Jason Lewis, who’s voting record on LGBT issues hasn’t risen from zero. Michigan: Democratic attorney and Wayne County prosecutor Dana Nessel is hoping to win the attorney general seat for Michigan. The Detroit Free Press endorsed her, saying, “no one running for attorney general demonstrates a more sophisticated understanding of that office’s potential and limitations.” The Detroit

News endorsed the Republican, saying, “The AG shouldn’t use the office to press a personal agenda or to delve into national political and social activism.” That was an apparent reference to Nessels’ high-profile work on behalf of the LGBT community, including a lawsuit that challenged the state’s ban on marriage for samesex couples. Kansas: First-time candidate Sharice Davids, a Democrat, was polling 9 points ahead of Republican incumbent Representative Kevin Yoder last week. If elected, she’ll be the first lesbian elected in Kansas and the first Native American. It was those distinctions that drew considerable media attention to her race in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District after a local GOP official said Republicans on Election Day would send the “radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian ... back packing to the reservation.” In the ensuing uproar, he resigned. Yoder’s HRC score is zero.

7 p.m.

Nevada: The Senate seat held by Republican incumbent Dean Heller appears vulnerable, and Democrats need to win this one to take the majority. Polls showed Democratic Congresswoman Jacky Rosen with a margin-of-error edge going into Election Day. In the House, Rosen has a 100 percent pro-LGBT score with HRC. Heller’s HRC score is zero. Montana: Another critical Senate race is between Democratic incumbent Jon Tester and Republican challenger Matt Rosendale. Tester had a 6-point lead going into election day. Tester’s HRC score is 88.

8 p.m.

Arizona: Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, a moderate Democrat, has a chance to become the first openly bisexual person to be elected to the U.S. Senate and the second openly LGBT person to do so (Baldwin of Wisconsin was the first). At one point, polls showed her with a strong lead, surprising given that Arizona is a heavily Republican state. But the latest polls show less than a 1-point difference between her and pro-Trump rival, Martha McSally. Importantly, on October 23, the state’s biggest newspaper, the Arizona Republic, endorsed Sinema – its first Democratic endorsement in almost two decades. Sinema’s victory is critical to any chance Democrats have of winning a majority in the Senate. Oregon: The aforementioned Brown had anywhere from an 8-point lead to a virtual tie just prior to the election. Some polls now suggest it’s a much tighter race. Brown was the first openly LGBT person to be elected governor of any state, winning a 2016 special election after assuming office the year before upon resignation of the incumbent. Her challenger is a pro-same-sex marriage Republican, state Representative Knute Buehler. California: Bisexual Democrat Katie Hill has waged a very strong campaign to unseat Republican Congressman Steve Knight in the 25th District. Knight’s voting record on LGBT issues has earned him only a 43 from HRC. At press time, two polls showed Hill with a tiny lead, one showed Knight with a small lead. RealClearPolitics called it a toss up. North Dakota: Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is in trouble. Republican challenger Congressman Kevin Cramer is expected to unseat her. HRC scores Heitkamp’s record on LGBT issues at 82, Cramer at zero. But Cramer has a fourpoint lead on Heitkamp going into voting.t

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We f*cking warned you by Christina A. DiEdoardo

n a week that began with the leak of the regime’s plan to regulate trans and nonbinary Americans out of existence, continued with mail bombs being sent to two former presidents and a host of others critical of President Donald Trump, and that ended with the massacre of black people in Louisville, Kentucky and Jews in Pittsburgh by armed bigots, one sentence stays in my mind. We fucking warned you this was coming. That’s not written to smugly indicate schadenfreude. It is, rather, screamed out of frustration and anger, because the lives we lost last week might have been saved if those whom the regime hasn’t gotten around to targeting yet paid greater attention to what those already in the crosshairs have been saying for more than a year. They largely haven’t, because what front-line activists have to say in this regard usually isn’t pleasant. I see the looks on some of my liberal friends’ faces when I tell them what it’s like to stare into the eyes of actual Nazis across a field from you in real time. I see them get uncomfortable when I tell them how fascists yelled, “Heil Trump!” in the streets of Berkeley, how they carried signs that read “The Goyim know!” and pelted us with bagels, both of which were intended as

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A flyer from the white supremacist group Identity Evropa posted directly across from Twitter’s Market Street headquarters is trashed Sunday, October 28, a day after what the AntiDefamation League called the bloodiest attack on Jews in American history took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

anti-Semitic gestures. I see them scuttle like crabs when I tell them about the graphic death threats I and other activists get – from photoshopped pictures of gas chambers to explicit threats to run us over with cars to much, much worse. None of that is pleasant to hear, much less process. It’s much easier for many

to take mental refuge in fantasies that the fascists aren’t really serious; that the scary-looking antifascists in the black hoodies and bandanas are worse than the crowd that deck themselves out in the American flag and claim “patriotism” means throwing those who don’t agree with you out of helicopters. Maybe you even pretend to yourself that not taking a side is somehow the intellectual or more enlightened position and serves some higher good. Sadly, that sort of intellectual laziness leads directly to people being killed, as we saw this week. Both the alleged mail bomber and the Louisville shooter had a history of posting threats on social media, according to multiple published reports. Of course, in both cases, nothing was done about it until they moved ahead with their plans. It doesn’t need to be this way. A coalition led by Oakland activists like mayoral candidate Cat Brooks and Tur-Ha Ak of the Community Ready Corps kept the Proud Boys away from Make Westing in late July. Thanks to the continuing efforts of Berkeley Antifa and the Black Bloc since 2017, fascist organizers in the East Bay have publicly stated they can’t organize a march unless they can convince some band of out-of-town fash to act as “security.” In both these examples, community members from a variety of backgrounds came together to make it clear to even the most oblivious fascist

that they weren’t welcome in our area. Refuse Fascism and By Any Means Necessary have also done yeoman work – especially during the Fifth Battle of Berkeley in August, where they held the line against the enemy in Civic Center/Martin Luther King Jr. park virtually alone thanks to the Berkeley Police Department’s decision to block entry to the park by anyone who wasn’t a fascist. Surely, now that a week like this has removed all remaining doubts as to what the regime and its supporters have in mind for the rest of us, there’s no reason why groups that have been sitting on the sidelines should continue to do so other than cowardice. Pick a damn side and join the groups listed above on the front lines. If you’re not out there with those of us standing up to bigots and racists, you’re enabling their murderous mayhem.

No new cops, no new jails

Chanting “No New Cops! No New Jails!” about 150 people assembled at the steps of San Francisco City Hall Monday, October 22, to demand the closure of the city’s current jail facility at 850 Bryant Street. The action was organized by the No New SF Jail Coalition, Critical Resistance Oakland, Coleman Advocates and the TGI Justice Project.

“I think about the psychological and emotional and physical violence that happens to trans people in jails and prisons and how the jails are disproportionately housed with black and brown bodies,” said Janetta Johnson, executive director of TGI Justice Project. “I think about the corrupt police officers who are sitting in there having the racist discussions and the degradation that is perpetuated against our folks. “We need to stand in solidarity and continue to fight for no new jail in San Francisco,” she said. Three years ago, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted against building a new jail to replace the Bryant Street facility, which is part of the Hall of Justice complex that houses the criminal division of the San Francisco Superior Court and the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, as well as the jail. Since the 1990s, the city has known that the complex is one of the most seismically-unsafe public buildings in our community, to say nothing of the Hall of Justice being riddled with asbestos and other structural issues. Unfortunately, city policy is being pulled in contradictory directions. On one hand, District Attorney George See page 20 >>

Infused herb adds new meaning to tea time by Sari Staver

erved by itself hot or cold – or on the rocks mixed with juices or carbonated beverages – cannabis-infused herbal tea is the latest incarnation of northern California’s favorite herb. You won’t find it in restaurants or bars (it’s still illegal), but dozens of dispensaries and delivery services in the Bay Area are selling Kikoko Teas, a locally manufactured product that has been several years in the making. According to company co-founder Amanda Jones, Kikoko is the only brand of cannabis-infused dried teas legally for sale in California. Other competitors include pre-mixed bottled or canned beverages. Jones, who lives on the Peninsula, and her business partner, Jennifer Chapin, from Marin County, are straight allies who got the idea for the product when a mutual friend, then under treatment for Stage 4 cancer,

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she had the choice to do it again. “Chocolate would’ve been a lot easier, but we would’ve had a lot more competition,” she said. In a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Jones discussed the company’s evolution and how she views the future. As a privately owned company, Jones wouldn’t comment on Kikoko’s sales or revenues, but pointed out that raising capital has become increasingly easy. Now with a total of 30 workers, including 23 full-time employees based in Emeryville, Kikoko is selling “particularly well” in more upscale neighborhoods where sticker shock is not an issue, Jones said. “It’s not cheap,” said Jones, with an average price of around $5 per tea bag, or a bit less when you buy a 10-pack.

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ames Sullivan, a straight man who helped facilitate the funerals of hundreds of HIV/AIDS victims at the height of the epidemic, died October 3 at a nursing home in the city after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. Mr. Sullivan, who went by Jim, was Call Now to Make an Appointment the co-owner of the Arthur J. Sullivan with a Wallbed Expert! & Company Funeral Home, operated for decades at 2254 Market Street. The business was passed down to Mr. Sul2 Convenient Locations livan and his brother, Arthur Sullivan, 550 15th Street by their father. Suite #2 In 2016, Mr. Sullivan sold the busiSan Francisco ness to another funeral home before 415-854-7748 the Prado Group purchased the site for mixed-use development. 2515 S. El Camino Real Jerry Lynn Sullivan, Mr. Sullivan’s San Mateo wife, told the Bay Area Reporter this 650-264-9541 week that Mr. Sullivan was schedNewly Designed Location uled to have his leg amputated due to complications associated with Type Accessories and More From 1 diabetes, but died two days earlier. His death did not come as a shock, she added, saying he had been very ill Largest Selection of Murphy Wallbeds In Town! SFMurphyBeds.com in recent months. “He was a very caring man, he was a very caring person,” she said. “People Wallbeds_053118.indd 1 5/30/18 10:46 AM really thought he was great. He was a very revered man.” She talked about how Mr. Sullivan practically worked up until the day he died and how he was “outstanding” at what he did. The brothers’ grandfather opened the funeral home in 1923, and Mr. Sullivan and his brother took it over in 1970. “He never really retired,” Jerry Lynn Sullivan said. “Funeral directors never really retire. He was doing funerals for friends right up to the very end.”

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In 2009, after Mr. Sullivan suffered his first heart attack and underwent triple bypass surgery, he decided to sell the business to Duggan’s Serra Mortuary in Daly City, which operated it under the Sullivan name until its closing in 2016. In its last year, the funeral home was doing about 225 funerals a month before it was sold to a developer because the next generation of the Sullivan family was established in other career fields and not able to continue the legacy. The Duggan family has since opened Sullivan’s and Duggan’s Serra Funeral Services on Geary Street where Mr. Sullivan worked part-time until his death. A significant aspect of the Sullivan legacy is the funeral home’s contribution to those who died of AIDS. The Sullivans were the people the gay community went to for help burying their loved ones who died during the epidemic that claimed thousands of San Franciscans, his wife said. “They buried the people with AIDS without any question,” Jerry Lynn Sullivan said. “The community appreciated what they did, and when we shut down we had person after person say how much they appreciated what

was done for them.” Mr. Sullivan also had a gay brother who died of AIDS-related complications in 1985. The family received condolences from gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and gay former state senator Mark Leno after Mr. Sullivan’s death, Jerry Lynn Sullivan added. The Castro Merchants honored Mr. Sullivan in its latest monthly newsletter. “Sullivan’s was among the first funeral directors in the Bay Area to provide its professional care and services to surviving family and friends of those lost in the early days of the AIDS crisis, when many others in their profession would not,” the newsletter stated. “We were especially pleased to honor Jim, Art, and Sullivan’s at Castro Merchants’ March 2016 members meeting when they were presented with Certificates of Honor and Appreciation from the State of California Senate, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and Castro Merchants.” According to an obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Sullivan was born April 21, 1942 in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1964 and was a member of the U.S. Army for 25 years, retiring as colonel and chief of staff of the USAR 91st Division. He was a former president of Greater Mission Rotary Club, a longtime lecturer at St. Brendan Church, and a lifelong San Francisco Giants and 49ers fan. In addition to his wife and brother, Arthur, Mr. Sullivan is survived by two sons and a daughter, and two sisters. A funeral was held October 7 at St. Brendan Church.t

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Paul Frederick Miller November 6 1953 – October 25, 2018 Paul Miller, a longtime HIV survivor and community activist, died Thursday, October 25, 2018 of complications following surgery. He was 64 and had lived in San Francisco since 1973. Mr. Miller was born in Genesco, Illinois and moved to Naperville as a young child. He attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale for two years. He was employed at Bank of America, and then in realty management, before joining the staff of the Stop AIDS Project in 1998. During his seven years at Stop AIDS, he “worked tirelessly to prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual, and transgender men in San Francisco. Paul was a gifted, charismatic, sex-positive leader whose vision and commitment was about the health of the community and all of us affected by the HIV epidemic,” said

Steve Abbott, former board member of Stop AIDS Project, which merged seven years ago with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. David Evans, current interim executive director of Project Inform and former program director at the Stop AIDS Project, recalled that “during the early 2000s when the president and Congress were literally trying to shut us down, Paul’s steadiness and kindness were a balm for all of us during that difficult time. He will be sorely missed.” B.J. Stiles, who was interim executive director of Stop AIDS in 2007-08, underscored that Mr. Miller was a hands-on colleague who never hesitated to lead workshops and forums, and who adored the nonprofit’s Geezer Balls. All who knew Mr. Miller remember his love of plants, hummingbirds, and flowers. “And he was treasured for his wit and humor. Paul always had at least one joke to brighten every occasion,” said Stiles. Mr. Miller’s partner, Vincent Rossi, died in 1995. Mr. Miller is survived by his father, Robert L. Miller; seven siblings: Amy, Nora, Rob, Steve, John, Ted, and Meg. His mother, Sally H. Miller, predeceased him in 1997. Mr. Miller’s grandparents were Frederick and Nora Miller; and Margaret and Charles Harris. A memorial gathering is planned for Saturday, November 3, at 1 p.m. at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. He was the recipient of the grove’s Community Service Award in 2003, recognizing his leadership and accomplishments in collaborative, multicultural community-based organizing.

George “Mick” Ridolfi January 17, 1938 – October 17, 2018 George “Mick” Ridolfi, age 80, passed away in San Francisco October 17, 2018. He was born in Santa Rosa on January 17, 1938, a loving son of the late George and Thelma Ridolfi, and stepson to the late Corina Ridolfi. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Bill Ridolfi and Al Azevedo; and by his longtime friend and roommate, Wayne Friday. He is survived by his stepsister, Evelyn Parrish of Healdsburg; niece Margie (Ken) Parrish of Felton; nephews, Denis Parrish, and John (Alicia) Azevedo, both of Healdsburg. He was a bookkeeper for Walgreens for 25 years. He retired in 2003. A funeral mass was held October 27 in Santa Rosa.

Don Smith June 10, 1938 – October 17, 2018 Don Smith, 80, died at Foxdale Village in State College, Pennsylvania. He was the son of the late Marybelle Smith, founding member of San Francisco PFLAG. He grew up in Tyrone, Pennsylvania and received a B.A. in labor relations management in 1960 from Penn State University. After the Coast Guard Reserve, Don moved to San Francisco in 1966, where he lived for 39 years. He retired in 1991 as the wage and salary administrator for UCSF Medical Center. He is survived by his husband, Merrill “Bud” Budlong. Together 42 years, they married in San Francisco City Hall in February 2004 and again in July 2008. During the 1970s, Don and Bud were active in the gay liberation movement and were members of San Francisco FrontRunners. They retired to State College in 2005, where they were frequent guest speakers at Penn State classes, talking about their civil rights experiences. In Don’s memory, please contribute to the charity of your choice, and vote for candidates who support diversity, compassion, and inclusion. Online condolences and signing of the guest book may be entered at http://www.kochfuneralhome.com.

Billye Talmadge 1929 – 2018 Billye Talmadge passed away October 24, 2018 in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Talmadge was one of the founders of Daughters of Bilitis. She, the late Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Helen Sandoz, and more were at the forefront of LGBT liberation in the 1950s and 1960s. They sheltered young lesbians and hired an attorney to help extricate lesbians from jail (it was a jail-able offense in most states to be a lesbian). They held private gatherings in their homes so lesbians had a safe place to meet. Her wise counsel helped many young women to accept themselves. With two Ph.D.s in education she was, at the foremost, a teacher. She won the Golden Apple award for her work with blind and deaf children. Anyone who ever heard her speak will never forget her velvet voice and ability to reach the very soul of those who would hear. For more information, visit bathtubbulletin.com/billye-talmadge-1929-2018/.

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“We have to prioritize and ask ourselves what is the most important contribution that this person has made to American history or world history,” the curator said. When asked specifically about Baldwin, Bryant noted a Village Voice article based on a 1984 interview, three years before his death. Baldwin said in the interview: “The word gay has always rubbed me the wrong way. I never understood exactly what is meant by it.” Writer Richard Goldstein asked, “You never thought of yourself as being gay?” Baldwin replied: “No. I didn’t have a word for it. The only one I had was homosexual and that didn’t quite cover whatever it was I was beginning to feel. Even when I began to realize things about myself, began to suspect who I was and what I was likely to become, it was still very personal, absolutely personal.” In the 1984 interview, Baldwin described his love for another boy when he was 14. Toward the end of the interview Goldstein asked, “You will always come forward and make the statement that you’re homosexual. You will never hide it, or deny it. And yet you refuse to make a life out of it?” Baldwin responded, “Yeah. That sums it up pretty well.” In an excerpt from an undated black-and-white television interview posted on YouTube, Baldwin implied that his background as a poor, black homosexual had a positive influence on his writing. The interviewer asked, “When you were starting out as a writer you were a black, impoverished homosexual. You must have said to yourself, ‘Gee, how disadvantaged can I get?’” Baldwin responded, “No, I thought I hit the jackpot. It was so outrageous, it couldn’t go any further, so you had to find a way to use it.” Bryant noted, “Out of respect for Baldwin and others of this generation we just sort of focus on what was the most important contribution, whether it was professional, cultural or historical contribution to American or world history.”

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In response to the B.A.R.’s queries, Jermaine House, the museum’s supervisory public affairs specialist, noted that the museum specifically

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the award ceremony for Garcia, as she had done for Sheehy’s ceremony. But when asked about the decision to honor Garcia, Gimbel responded, “I don’t think I am going to get into it,” and referred the B.A.R. to Hirsh. He said the circumstances of

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it asks SOGI questions, adding a “decline to answer” option when it comes to the sex-at-birth question. It also was given a partial waiver this fiscal year in collecting the sex-at-birth data from its applicants and clients. Farley told the B.A.R. that the sexat-birth question is primarily of benefit for health care reasons and wasn’t needed necessarily for evaluating if other city services are accessible to the LGBT community. “The majority of the community feedback we are getting is if you are not speaking to a medical provider then answering questions about your sex at birth felt really invasive,” she said. “We are finding it doesn’t make sense to ask it across the board.” As the B.A.R. noted in its series last year, the health department focused on training all of its staff on how to ask the SOGI questions as it worked to update its medical records and intake forms. It reported having now trained 8,000 employees and

The African American museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has LGBT references sprinkled throughout its exhibits.

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• Playbill from “The Colored Museum” by George C. Wolfe; • Original playbill from “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry; • Record album and photo mural of Jackie “Moms” Mabley; • Costume from “The Color Purple” based on the novel by Alice Walker; • Costume from “Monster’s Ball,” produced by Lee Daniels; • Photographs by Jack Mitchell of Alvin Ailey and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; • Clip from “D-Man in the Waters” by Bill T. Jones is featured in the “Dance makers” video; • Photo mural of Josephine Baker; • Introductory collage includes images of Ethel Waters and Wanda Sykes. Moving onto the History Galleries, Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Langston Hughes are quoted along walls throughout the history galleries, House said. The main display case on Rustin identifies his sexuality in the first line, “Bayard Rustin was a gay man master civil rights strategist.” The description goes on to say that his homosexuality troubled some leaders but Dr. King found him to be an invaluable adviser, House wrote. In the Black Power Era section, the Black Feminism picket video features: Pauli Murray, Barbara Smith, Lorde, and Flo Kennedy. The Black Feminism picket includes text or artifacts by/about Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and June Jordan, who all identified as LGBT. “In the section called, ‘The Movement Marches On,’ we have on display a button that says ‘Remember Stonewall.’ Adjacent to the button is text on gay and lesbian movements,” House wrote. On display in Decades section is a photograph from a Million Man March participant wearing an “I AM A BLACK GAY MAN” placard.

mentions that the following people included in the museum are LGBT: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. aide and friend Bayard Rustin; artist Sheldon Scott; painter Kehinde Wiley, best known for his presidential portrait of President Barack Obama; singer/songwriter Big Mama Thornton; “A Raisin in the Sun” author Lorraine Hansberry; and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Bryant added that singer Gladys Bentley is also identified as gay in the music gallery of the museum. The curator wrote in an email, “Paintings by Earl Richardson and Malvin Gray Johnson are exhibited together and the Richardson label mentions that he and Johnson were in a romantic relationship. “Hank Willis Thomas’ ‘Question Bridge’ is a video of black men discussing identity and being black male, and, of course, includes gay men and covers LGBTQ topics,” he added. He said that Lorna Simpson’s “A Lie Is Not a Prophylactic” was created for the Art Against AIDS project, and an excerpt from Rashaad Newsome’s “Shade Composition” plays in Cultural Expression. House compiled a list of some of the items in the museum that are connected with the LGBT community. Starting with the Culture Galleries, the museum’s collection contains numerous objects from Riggs, an American filmmaker, poet, and gay rights activist. A “Tongues Untied” film poster (1989) signed by Riggs

and Essex Hemphill is on display. “’Tongues Untied’ is a documentary directed by Riggs that celebrates romantic love between AfricanAmerican men,” House wrote in the email. “The poster features two shirtless African-American men, with one wrapping an arm around other. The film notably ends by depicting three juxtaposed moving images: obituaries of individuals who passed away from the AIDS virus, footage of the civil rights movement, and footage of Black men marching in a gay Pride parade.” Also on display is an outfit worn by Flip Wilson in character as “Geraldine” on the “Flip Wilson Show.” “Geraldine” was Wilson in drag, and she was the show’s most popular character. Wilson’s many performances as “Geraldine” introduced gender nonconformity into American households. The Taking the Stage exhibition contains a poster from stage play “Beauty Shop” by Shelly Garrett. Garrett plays typically feature flamboyantly over-the-top characters. He helped paved the way for Tyler Perry, whose character “Medea” is also very popular among African-American audiences. The Cultural Expressions exhibition features a video excerpt from Newson’s film “Shades of Composition.” This short film explores gender assignments via gestures and features performance by individuals who eschew gender

conformity. This entire video compilation is one of the highlights of the Cultural Expressions exhibition. On display in the Musical Crossroads exhibition is a display section on Thornton, the first person to record the famous tune “Hound Dog.” The display text and video featuring Thornton mentions her unique style of dressing in work-slacks and plaid shirts, again eschewing gender norms. The Visual Arts Gallery includes works on display by Earl Richardson, Beaufood Delaney, Wiley, Sheldon Scott, and Whitfield Lovell all of whom identify as a member of the LGBT community. Additional items include Sheldon Scott’s “Sweet Boy” painting on display and addresses the LGBT experience. According to Scott, the work expresses the discordance of his relationship to gender, sexuality and femininity. Also on display in the Culture Galleries are objects from artists who have self-identified as a member of the LGBT community. For instance, Loretta Mary Aiken (“Moms” Mabley) was among the first openly gay comedians. She is prominently featured in Taking the Stage exhibition as a groundbreaking comedian alongside Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, and Redd Foxx. More items on display by artists who identified as LGBT include: • First edition of “Rachel: A Play in Three Acts,” by Angelina Weld Grimké;

Garcia’s departure did not impact the decision to honor her. “It is important to recognize her years of service to the community,” he said. “We wanted her to know we were deeply appreciative of the work she has done over many years.” Hirsh noted that Garcia was a fierce advocate for backfilling federal AIDS cuts with city funds. San Francisco

officials have backfilled $16.3 million in federal AIDS funds since the 2013 fiscal year. Garcia was also an early supporter of calls for a plan to end the transmission of HIV in San Francisco, added Hirsh. The community-developed strategy is known as Getting to Zero and aims to cut new HIV cases by 90 percent come 2020. As the B.A.R.

first reported in September, the city recorded 221 new HIV diagnoses in 2017, the lowest number since the start of the epidemic. “She has helped us go beyond just backfilling cuts and expanding capacity through the Getting to Zero effort,” Hirsh said. The Getting to Zero SF committee and the city’s HIV Community Planning

Council are co-sponsors of the event honoring Garcia. The city’s health commission is expected to interview three candidates to succeed Garcia in December; Mayor London Breed will then select her replacement. In the meantime, Greg Wagner, DPH’s chief financial officer, is serving as the city’s interim health director. t

continues to offer additional support as needed. It found that just 12 percent of those asked the SOGI questions declined to answer them. Its goal, according to its report, is to have at least 60 percent of its 93,000-plus patient population in the San Francisco Health Network complete the SOGI questions this fiscal year. “As we approach this higher number, we’ll start to examine health outcomes for disparities among minority orientations compared to heterosexually identified patients and among gender expansive patients compared to cisgender patients,” it stated. “Armed with data for the first time, SFHN can begin to ensure health equity for LGBT patients.” The city’s Human Resources Agency reported that it is still rolling out SOGI collection across its vast agency, which includes three separate departments serving more than 200,000 San Francisco residents. It also noted that the questions and responses about SOGI its record system uses do not align with those used by the city

health department. “While HSA has worked very hard to comply with the ordinance, there is still work to be done in some areas,” it stated in its report. It also noted that the SOGI data so far collected “is not yet high enough” in quality that it can be analyzed “to the extent to which LGBT individuals are under or overrepresented or underserved.” The report did highlight the Department of Aging and Adult Services as being “at the forefront” of collecting SOGI data. But even that agency encountered issues, it noted. For instance, the San Francisco Adult Protective Services had some “technical issues with compiling ‘sex at birth’ data.” It did find that of the 5,180 adults it serves, 241 said they were gay, lesbian, or same-gender loving, while 45 identified as bisexual. Nine people said they were nonbinary and 22 said they were transgender. The city’s In-Home Supportive Services program uses a state-based computer system that was not required to update its forms with SOGI

data until July of this year, so it is just beginning to ask such questions, according to the report. The Public Guardian and Public Conservator programs have also seen their efforts to ask about SOGI delayed as they update their intake systems. The aging department’s other programs have had better success in collecting SOGI data. It is finding that LGBT seniors underutilize the city services that are available compared to heterosexual seniors. Other county aging departments have been contacting the San Francisco agency to train their staffs on how to ask about SOGI. “After one year of asking these questions, we have found that making sure people are well trained is extremely important,” said Tom Nolan, a gay man who is manager of special projects at the city’s aging department, during a recent forum about creating a statewide aging plan that includes the needs of LGBT older adults. But issues remain, noted Karyn Skultety, Ph.D., executive director of Openhouse, a nonprofit provider of LGBT senior services.

“It hasn’t been easy breezy,” said Skultety, who is bisexual, at the forum. “The reality is people are uncomfortable in asking the question, so we are still struggling to get that information here.” The reports from the city departments were shared with members of the Board of Supervisors Tuesday afternoon. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman told the B.A.R. he would likely call for a hearing to discuss the reports in early 2019. She is looking to see if any legislation is needed to ensure Breed’s directive from last week is fully implemented. And her office will be working closely with the city departments on analyzing the second year’s worth of SOGI data that is collected to see how the needs of the LGBT community can be better addressed. “I think this continues to be a work in progress, so we are looking at this as a pilot year. We are learning a lot from it,” she said. “Our office continues to train agencies and grantees. Without additional training, this will continue to be a challenge.” t

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“Through our social media, website, and public programs, the museum is committed to uplifting and highlighting members of LGBT community and addressing their unique challenges,” House wrote in the email. “On the museum’s website, one example is this blog titled ‘Five Trailblazers You Should Know: Pride Edition’ that features Marsha P. Johnson, Moms Mabley, James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey and Audre Lorde,” he added. t

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Brazil elects homophobic president, fuels LGBT fears Like Trump, Bolsonaro has been married three times, most recently in 2013. He has three sons who are lawmakers. Eduardo Bolsonaro was elected as federal deputy October 7 and Flavio Bolsonaro was elected as a senator earlier this year. Carlos Bolsonaro is a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro. Bolsonaro was perceived as the least likely candidate to become president of South America’s largest and most populous country. However, economic hardship, widespread violence, and political corruption and scandal all aided his rise to power, and he rode a wave of discontent. Backed by longtime military supporters, evangelicals, and agribusiness leaders, he armed himself with an unconventional campaign style using social media and instant messaging services. He used these channels to spew his angry vitriol and turned a personal crisis – a lifethreatening knife attack during a campaign rally September 6 – into political gold. Brazilians rebelled against the current state of their nation. Despite being a country that is majority nonwhite, Bolsonaro’s campaign wasn’t damaged by his extreme views. “We cannot continue flirting with socialism, communism, populism, and leftist extremism,” Bolsonaro said in his acceptance speech, translated by Global News. “We are going to change the destiny of Brazil.” Bolsonaro’s controversial antiLGBT, sexist, racist, xenophobic,

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prosecution of those citations, which was followed shortly thereafter by a San Francisco Superior Court judge throwing many of them out at the request of the San Francisco Public Defender’s office. That said, given Mayor London Breed’s decision to prioritize the clearing of homeless encampments and the current lack of a place for residents of those encampments to go, opponents of a new jail are far from tranquil.

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“I get a lot of assumptions. I look very straight, and when people see my name, they expect an Asian lady to show up,” she said. Open about her sexual orientation since she started her campaign earlier this year, Nguyen said she never once thought to hide who she is or her family from voters. Similar to how she was out in her classroom, serving as a role model for students from LGBT families and educating parents who harbored concerns about an LGBT

educator, she wanted to do the same as she ran for public office for the first time. “My hope in putting out my identity as an LGBTQ-plus candidate is so people can see it has to do with visibility. Everybody’s story should be told and safe to bring forward,” explained Nguyen. “For me, I am a Jewish, queer woman married to an immigrant, refugee woman. I check a variety of boxes when it comes to diversity; that is just my life. I have never seen it as a political statement.” No matter the outcome of next week’s races, the list of out education officials in the Bay Area is set to increase. As the B.A.R. has previously reported, two candidates for education board seats automatically won when no one else filed for their races in August. James Aguilar, 18, a gay freshman at San Francisco State University, will be sworn into the Area 6 seat on the San Leandro Unified School District Governing Board on December 11. Around the same time Adam Spickler will be sworn into the Area II seat on the Cabrillo Community College Board of Trustees in Santa Cruz County. He will become the first transgender man to hold public office in California.

nonprofit organization focused on immigration issues such as the legal and social pitfalls of our immigration policies,” Meow said. “I hope that our actions will lead to the social and cultural shift needed in order to really make change and

pass policies for healthy reform.” Meow promises that there will soon be an announcement regarding this new venture. “The last thing I will say is, being seen as a leader, being part of an organization that has meaning to

everyone, doesn’t mean that you no longer belong to yourself,” Meow said. “It doesn’t mean that we stop treating each other with kindness and fairness. We are all responsible for ourselves and our actions. Everyone in our community deserves compassion. There were

alled the “Trump of the Tropics,” Jair Bolsonaro captured 55 percent of the vote against left-wing opponent Fernando Haddad in Brazil’s presidential runoff election October 28. The first round of voting was October 7. Bolsonaro emerged in first place out of a field of 13 candidates. In Sunday’s runoff, Haddad received 45 percent of the vote, according to media reports. BBC reported that some experts said it was “inaccurate” to compare Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain turned seven-term congressman, to President Donald Trump. They liken him being more akin to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. Bolsonaro, 63, joins other conservative Latin American leaders voted into office in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Paraguay and far-right politicians around the world, such as Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, reported the New York Times. Celebrations and protests broke out in Brazil’s streets and on social media following Bolsonaro’s win. “This is a really radical shift,” Scott Mainwaring, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government who specializes in Brazil, told the Times. “I can’t think of a more extremist leader in the history of democratic elections in Latin America who has been elected.” Marta Dalla Chiesa is a 52-yearold lesbian, who owns Brazil

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Gascón has long opposed the construction of a new jail to replace the one at the Hall of Justice and supported measures to reduce the city’s jail population. These include efforts to increase the number of beds at “locked” facilities other than the jail at the county level for prisoners with mental health issues, creating several thousand units of affordable housing,

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Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on a right-wing platform in the mold of President Donald Trump, won Brazil’s presidential election Sunday.

Eco-Journeys with her wife, Lesley Cushing. “It is a terrible blow for democracy in Brazil. He represents the worse of Brazilian politics: a defender of torture, dictatorship, a racist, misogynist, and a homophobe,” wrote Dalla Chiesa in an email interview with the Bay Area Reporter Monday. “We basically went back 30 years, in all senses, in one night.” LGBT Brazilians are fearful of what the future holds for them. Bolsonaro takes office, along with the new Congress dominated by elected conservatives, January 1. Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal Party took 52 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a sweeping number compared to the single seat the party held before the election. Haddad’s Workers’ Party took 57 seats. The chamber, Brazil’s lower house in Congress, has 513 seats total. In the upper house, SLP also took and increasing funding for inpatient addiction services. On the other hand, a new San Francisco Police Department effort to cite and arrest the homeless for sleeping in public seems destined to increase the number of detainees at the jail, given the extensive wait lists for city shelters. However, the SFPD’s approach took two hits in October when Gascón, relying on a decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, suspended

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Gay Franklin-McKinley School District board member Omar Torres opted not to seek re-election this year and had filed to run for a Santa Clara Valley Water District seat representing San Jose. But Torres decided to suspend his campaign, though his name will still appear on the ballot. In the East Bay, lesbian Emeryville resident Sarah Nguyen, 44, is seeking a seat on the Emery Unified School District board. It is believed the married educator who has two teenage sons would be the first LGBT person elected to the oversight body. “Surprisingly, to me, no one has really wanted to talk about it,” said Nguyen. A teacher for 23 years in a different district who now consults on teacher training and tutors, Nguyen told the B.A.R. she has fielded more questions about her family from confused voters. She took the last name of her wife, Huong Nguyen, who is divorced from her previous wife she shares custody of their sons with. The boys have long attended schools in Oakland and will not be transferring to Emeryville, another question Sarah Nguyen said she often fields.

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initiative – a 1978 ballot initiative that sought to prevent LGBT people from working in California public schools. “I am also working on a startup

anti-environmental, and anti-democracy statements have demarcated his political career and presidential campaign. The Guardian reported that he has openly proclaimed, “Yes, I’m homophobic – and very proud of it.” Brazil’s president-elect has the power to undo years of hardfought rights that are supreme court rulings but were never codified into law, Maira Reis, a 35-yearold lesbian who lives in Sao Paulo, wrote in an email interview with the B.A.R. Monday. Sunday night she took to Instagram, speaking out against Bolsonaro’s election. “Bolsonaro has made his entire campaign based on lies about the LGBT+ community,” wrote Reis, who is a journalist and founder of Camaleao.co. Camaleao.co is a company that connects LGBT talent with employment opportunities. One of the biggest falsehoods about Brazil’s LGBT community from Bolsonaro’s campaign was about a socalled gay kit to teach about homosexuality in schools and convert kids into being gay, she wrote. “It’s a lie! This material never existed,” wrote Reis. Bolsonaro’s repeated allegations caused the ministry to issue a statement that the kit did not exist and that the government never bought the sex education book that included a single page on same-sex relationships. The claim was an evolution of one of Bolsonaro’s anti-gay beliefs.t

four of the 81 Senate seats. A record 30 parties will represent Brazil in the next Congress, reported BBC. The LGBT community’s one electoral bright spot was the historic political wins of two transgender candidates, Erica Malunguinho and Erika Hilton, who recently won seats in Sao Paulo’s state congress, reported the Guardian. The White House and the State Department congratulated Bolsonaro on his victory. Trump was one of the first world leaders to call Bolsonaro to congratulate him Sunday, following the election. He praised Bolsonaro again Monday morning in a tweet. “Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won the race by a substantial margin. We agreed that Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade, Military and everything else!” tweeted Trump. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the president-elect late Monday morning. In a statement from Heather Nauert, the department’s spokeswoman, summarizing the phone call, she noted the U.S. and Brazil’s “vibrant partnership.” As the “largest democracies and economies in the world,” she stated, the two countries would work together “to address the 21st century’s most pressing global and regional challenges” based on their “mutual” commitment to “promote security, democracy, economic prosperity, and human rights.”

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At 4 p.m. Thursday, November 1, the Black Spring Coffee Company at 2390 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland will host a meet-andgreet for the aforementioned Oakland mayoral candidate Brooks. Admission is free and house coffee and refreshments will be provided gratis.

After Gary Waddell, Ph.D., lost his bid in June to become San Mateo County superintendent of schools, it remained unclear how long the gay Pacifica resident would remain with the county education office. He has worked there for 12 years, most recently as deputy superintendent of the instructional services division at the county education office. His colleague, Nancy Magee, won the race to succeed lesbian San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools Anne E. Campbell, who opted to retire rather than seek re-election. Magee, a lesbian who lives in Half Moon Bay, is the county’s associate superintendent for the student services division. Following his defeat, Waddell had told the B.A.R. that he hadn’t made any decision about his future employment plans. This past Monday, however, Waddell announced he would be switching jobs, having been hired as assistant superintendent of the Santa Clara County Office of Education where he will oversee work in public affairs, leadership, equity, and educational progress. In a Facebook post, Waddell wrote that he “had an amazing 12 years”

Regardless of the outcome of the midterms, at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 7, Refuse Fascism will conduct an action at San Francisco City Hall to demand the removal of the Trump-Pence regime. All (except fash, of course) are welcome.t Got a tip? Email me at christina@ diedoardolaw.com.

with the San Mateo office where he worked with “stellar” colleagues. He added that he is “excited to begin my next chapter” helping students in the adjacent county. “It has been an amazing run doing work that makes a difference in the lives of children and youth in San Mateo County,” he wrote. “At the end of the day, that’s what it was all about - and it has been my great honor to have served our youth, all of them, but particularly those on the margins who have been historically underserved.”t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on the largely overlooked California judicial retention races on the November ballot. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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raised over $6 million, enough to enable them to hire a scientific team to help develop some recipes. “We had no idea how tricky it was going to be” to develop products that masked the bitter taste of cannabis, Jones said. The women went through several different consultants before they hit upon the formula they have today. “We spent several years developing proprietary technology,” she said. Like many other cannabis companies, Kikoko labels its products with the “feeling” it hopes will come from using the product. The four teas are: • Sympa-Tea (with 3 mg of THC, the psychoactive cannabinoids, and 20 mg of CBD, which is not psychoactive) for people looking for pain relief and calming;

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vaporizing cannabis, when the effects are almost immediate as the THC enters your bloodstream, edibles can take up to 90 minutes to kick in. The Kikoko website notes that someone who drinks a cup of infused tea will typically feel the first effects within 30-90 minutes, but that “it can take longer to reach maximum result.” “Wait at least two hours before drinking a second cup,” the website warns, “or making any big decision.” The website also notes that users drinking the two lowest THC teas “may feel no high effect at all or you may just experience a sense of relaxation.” Unlike new products that can be introduced to consumers via free samples, state law prohibits companies from giving away cannabis in any form, Jones said. “It’s been a stumbling block,” she added. Because state law also prohibits

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554283 In the matter of the application of: ELISHA-JOHN GANAL MCINTYRE, 1938 POWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELISHA-JOHN GANAL MCINTYRE, is requesting that the name ELISHA-JOHN GANAL MCINTYRE, be changed to ELISHA JOHN MCGANAL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 20th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554282 In the matter of the application of: PATRICK-JOSEPH GANAL MCINTYRE, 1938 POWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner PATRICK-JOSEPH GANAL MCINTYRE, is requesting that the name PATRICK-JOSEPH GANAL MCINTYRE, be changed to PATRICK JOSEPH MCGANAL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 20th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038342900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAIA ANDERSON-BUCKLEY; INTERACTIVE HYPNOTHERAPY, 863 24TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed S. HEIDI ANDERSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038341500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KEVIN FRANCIS RAFFERTY ELECTRIC, 18A HALE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KEVIN RAFFERTY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038345600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARBEROLOGY, 380 SANCHEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL S. MCGINTY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/03/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038311700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANTISTATIC, ANTISTATIC US, 747 WEBSTER ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY PENDERGRAST. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038309000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AQUARIUS VINTAGE SF, 3600 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARA LUNDBERG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038339900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VK SOUND, 1215 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IAN LABELLE VAN KEUREN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038335300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HONG KONG PRODUCTS COMPANY, 701 DARIEN WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PETER P. WONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038331400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ON THE MOVE, 198 ROUSSEAU ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed OLIVER MANNION. 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 09/28/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038335900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMAPOLA, 632 CAMBRIDGE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ARLETTE PEREZ & MARICELA PEREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038344200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KABARI, 1788 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed APRIL FINANCIAL, INC (CA).The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038336900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAKER PLACES; FERGUSON PLACE, 1249 SCOTT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 . This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAKER PLACES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/14/93. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038337400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FILLMORE LAUNDRY, 1426 B FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PRK VENTURES, INC. (CA). 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 10/02/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038341000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO OPERA; SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER; SAN FRANCISCO OPERA BRAVO! CLUB, 301 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/26/32. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038338200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YORKLAND PRODUCTION, 150 HOOPER ST #310, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed YORKLAND CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038311500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN GATE BEVERAGE CATERING, 3139 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DELIRIUM COCKTAILS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038338000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOUR FABULOUS ANIMALS, 124 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed C&L ASSOCIATES, INC (CA). 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 10/02/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038337000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Z TOUCH SALON, 1930 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Z UNIVERSE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/18.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038328500

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038346300

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036105200

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038352300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNGRAFTED, 2419 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed UNGRAFTED LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/18.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: KABARI, 1788 19 th AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by CALIFORNIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/14.

OCT 11, 18, 25, NOV 01, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554325 In the matter of the application of: ELIZABETH GROTON KERSHNER, 3244 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELIZABETH GROTON KERSHNER, is requesting that the name ELIZABETH GROTON KERSHNER, be changed to KERSH BRANZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 4th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554306 In the matter of the application of: MICHAEL LEE GARDNER, 1200 GOUGH ST #12A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MICHAEL LEE GARDNER, is requesting that the name MICHAEL LEE GARDNER, be changed to MICHAEL L. BURDENSKI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 27th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554319

In the matter of the application of: ELIZABETH CHRISTINE WILLIAM, 1050 N. POINT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELIZABETH CHRISTINE WILLIAM, is requesting that the name ELIZABETH CHRISTINE WILLIAM, be changed to ELIZABETH CHANG WILSON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 29th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554326 In the matter of the application of: LEAH ALEXANDRA TSANG, 959 NORTH POINT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LEAH ALEXANDRA TSANG, is requesting that the name LEAH ALEXANDRA TSANG, be changed to LEAH ALEXANDRA TSANG PARKIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 4th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038354400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF COAST SIDE CONSTRUCTION, 1616 11TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ESTEBAN M. CRUZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/06/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NAAN N CURRY CASTRO, 4236 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROSEMARY LAMOTTA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUYER PAIR, 2811 14TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BUYER PAIR, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/28/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MT CONSULTING SERVICES INC, 600 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed MT CONSULTING SERVICES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEALING LIGHT DELIVERY, 1049 MARKET ST #404, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HSF HOLDINGS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HFS DISTRIBUTION, 1049 MARKET ST #406, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HSF HOLDINGS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038346900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRIT SF, 1325 DONNER AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMESON TORRES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANDY’S BING, 496 INVERNESS DR, PACIFICA, CA 94044. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WEIXI WEI. 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 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALPINE RUG, 2261 MARKET ST #341, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMIULLAH NAZAR. 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 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038327300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVERYDAY SKATE SHOP, 936 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JUSTIN MARKS & JOHN GRIFFIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347200

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WANDS AND HAMMERS, 150 VAN NESS AVE #709, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WAH TECH LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038343400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAUREATE, 488 PRESIDIO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LAUREL SPE, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-034908100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: BAZAAR CAFÈ, 5927 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MAKIKO WISNER. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/15/13.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554343

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038354700

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038341800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATTIC BOX PRODUCTIONS, 1450 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUKE WILLIS. 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 10/15/18.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347700

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038356700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOMOSOMO, 1419 KANSAS ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ASHISH RAJBHANDARI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER; SF CHINATOWN VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER; SFCVIC, 625 KEARNY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SING TAO NEWSPAPERS (S.F.) LTD (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

In the matter of the application of: KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, 1651 MARKET ST #414, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, is requesting that the name KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, be changed to KEVIN SCOTT DARLING. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 6th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038346400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WK STUDIO, 2624 15TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WYNNE KWEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELIBO; HFS PRODUCTION & MANUFACTURING SERVICES, 1049 MARKET ST #403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HSF HOLDINGS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALEXANDERSON PROPERTIES, 264 FAIR OAKS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIC ALEXANDERSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAMILTON LAW, 18 BARTOL ST #1062, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMANDA HAMILTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038352700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAIA SPLENDOR, 3601 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VALERIA BYKOVA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REAL. RAP. RECORDS, 2906 JENNINGS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANDON O’NEAL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038363000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE RIGHT ONE, 3131 26TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARQUISE DAWAYNE GLOVER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENDERGEN, 625 8TH ST #F05, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed OPENSENSE INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PREMIUM REMEDIES, 2443 FILLMORE ST 380-5637, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MARK VENTURES LLC, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038356000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 49 SQUARE CATERING, 1760 CESAR CHAVEZ #M, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SF FOODLAB LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038359000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE LITTLE CHIHUAHUA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1431 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TLC COCINA LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038336700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEFTY O’DOULS; LEFTY’S BALLPARK BUFFET, 145 JEFFERSON ST #400, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LOD BALLPARK BUFFET LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554370

In the matter of the application of: XIAO CAI, 187 LELAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner XIAO CAI, is requesting that the name XIAO CAI, be changed to XIAO JIANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 13th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038376900

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038369700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONSULT MD TODAY, 1750 VALLEJO ST #601, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DMITRY MELNIKOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038373600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMO CERAMICS, 744 OAK ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SARAH M. OGDEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038369900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LINEA CALIFORNIA, 3445 GEARY BLVD #410, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVGENY SHKURATOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WAH MAY INTERNATIONAL TRAD CO, 1008 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHAN KAT HUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANDY’S & BOBA, 1352 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMANDIP GELLON. 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 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038367500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TASTY RESTAURANT, 5550 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MYO MIN THANT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAMILA KOWALSKA PHOTOGRAPHY, 355 BERRY ST #228, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAMILA KOWALSKA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038368500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIX AUTO DIVISADERO, 1745 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed F. LOFRANO & SON INC (CA). 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 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038368600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIX AUTO 17TH STREET, 3355 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed F. LOFRANO & SON INC (CA). 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 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038370700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, 1560 DAVIDSON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/05/83. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION BAY DENTAL, 588 MISSION BAY BLVD NORTH, UNIT 4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NONNA VOLFSON DDS, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (CA). 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 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038374200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 333 & 335 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE HOA, 333 & 335 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership, and is signed ALICIA JOHNSON & TASANAPORN PITIYANUVATH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038374900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEATFREEZER APPS, 205 16TH AVE #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MEATFREEZER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/25/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037049100 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CAFE SIS, 402 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by JIYEON LEE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/14/16.

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Chita Rivera, private dancer by Jim Gladstone

ave you heard about Chita Rivera’s blockbuster memoir? It doesn’t exist. “I don’t want to write about what I’ve done, or what I’ve got,” the music-theater icon told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent conversation. “We are all so much the same, everybody has the same doggone problems. See page 30 >>

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Chita Rivera: “I’d look silly if I tried running up the walls and doing a split.”

‘Conversion therapy’ & searing drama by David-Elijah Nahmod

ased on the memoir by Garrard Conley, “Boy Erased” is an emotionally riveting new film about a young man in Arkansas, a pastor’s son, who goes to a conversion therapy camp in order to avoid being shunned by his family and friends. Lucas Hedges plays Jared Eamons, a seemingly all-American kid who’s athletic, has a girlfriend, but who’s harboring a secret: he’s attracted to men. See page 30 >>

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24 • Bay Area Reporter • November 1-7, 2018

Super suffragettes by Roberto Friedman

n the eve of this historic and Very Important Election, we can’t say it better than Hans the Franz does with his spectacular outfit. He’s out there in the Castro District streets, resplendent in his declamatory onesie, and it’s all in order to get out the vote – and we mean way out. Send a message in local, state and national contests that the horrible stub-fingered Vulgarian in the Oval Office, and his Vichy enablers in Congress, do not represent us, do not stand for what we and our fellow citizens are all about. Send a message to dangerous right-wing crazies that they shouldn’t feel free to indulge their worst impulses. Return America to its better nature. This is the time to restore good old humanity to the U.S. of A. Count us in, and count our ballots!

that city and school officials would soon be tossing the traditional heaps of soil into the construction site. But before they did, two giant bulldozers performed a synchronized ballet to a brass chorale and fanfare performed by a student band. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen earthmovers spin and gavotte in unison to live music. If this is the kind of innovation that SFCM fosters and encourages, future audiences have all sorts of pleasures in store!

Less is more

“Less: A Novel” by San Francisco author Andrew Sean Greer (Back Bay Books), winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is now out in paperback, and a friend made sure we had a copy. It’s the hugely entertaining tale of (all fictional) Steven Underhill failed novelist Arthur Less, Hans the Franz wants you! – to exercise your Musical grounds once loving partner of poet Out There was excited to democratic right to vote, before it’s too late. Robert Brownburn and attend the groundbreaking hanger-on of the Russian ceremony last week for the River School, who receives At the ceremony, San Francisco Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. a wedding invitation from his exMayor London Breed pointed out Center for Performing Arts in San boyfriend and thus needs to skip proudly that the 27 residents who Francisco’s Civic Center. A major town. Less accepts invitations to all once lived in the building that was expansion for the San Francisco sorts of writers’ gatherings worldrazed for the new center will be able Conservatory of Music (SFCM)’s wide to furnish an alibi. And so we to move back and be housed in the campus, the Bowes Center is a $190 have the pleasure of seeing Less deal new residence at the same stabilized million performing arts center and rent they were paying in the old one, residential tower that will ocproving that it’s possible to cupy 200 Van Ness Ave., create new housing in the right across the street city without displacing from Davies Hall, anyone. SFCM Presiand in near proximity dent David H. Stull to the Opera House, praised the leadership SFJAZZ Center, the in City Hall, including SFCM’s main building, Supervisor Jane Kim, and other arts venues for helping to move that are making Civic the project through city Center such a burgeonpermitting processes, ing and vibrant arts and for other support. district. He called the center “a The new, 12-story building will beacon for the innovative artists provide housing units for 420 conwho will lead the next generation.” servatory students, as well as two From an audience standpoint, the new concert halls, practice rooms, most exciting features of the Bowes classrooms and a recording studio, Center are its two new concert halls. HEADSHOTS STARTING AT $250 a restaurant and lounge. It meets The Jewel Box Recital Hall on the the needs of both housing and with absurd literary conferences, lobby level, seating 100, will have performing space. That’s why lead teaching posts, writing retreats, sprung floors to accommodate architect Mark Cavagnero called travel articles and other excuses for dance performance, and will be it not just a building, but also “an his yearlong journey, from Mexico open to the streetscape by virtue organism for music.” City to Turin, to Berlin, Morocco, StevenUnderhillPhotos@gmail.com of its floor-to-ceiling glass walls. India and Japan, before he returns The Penthouse Recital Hall on the to San Francisco and his nest on the 11th floor, seating 200, will offer a Vulcan Steps. fabulous view of City Hall, Davies NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER: SF’S PREMIERE LGBTQ ARTS CENTER “He floats through the Frankfurt Symphony Hall, the War Memorial airport in a dream, thinking: PassOpera House, and the Van Ness Avport, wallet, phone, passport, wallet, enue scene. A rooftop terrace on the phone. He passes through miles of 12th floor also overlooks the glamleather handbags and perfumes and orous cityscape. We’re promised whiskeys, miles of beautiful Turkish expert acoustics throughout; 90% retail maids.” If you are a writer who of the concerts will be open and free has ever been in these circumstances, to the public. or know a writer who has, this book is At the groundbreaking we nofor you. We chuckled up a junket.t ticed the row of shovels that meant

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26 • Bay Area Reporter • November 1-7, 2018

Adult contemporary charlatan onstage by Jim Gladstone

n 1981, “Fly Away” flapped its way to a middling #55 on the Billboard Hot 100. The record was Aussie singer-songwriter Peter Allen’s biggest American hit. But it isn’t even included in “The Boy from Oz,” the jukeboxcum-junk-drawer musical based on Allen’s life now being mounted by Theater Rhinoceros. The presence of “Fly Away” is not missed. The tune is no more memorable than Allen’s paltry four other U.S. radio hits as a performer, all Adult Contemporary snoozers. Only two of those make the show. On the songwriting front, “The Boy from Oz” would have you believe that Allen hit his peak with “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do).” Played by lanky, limber Justin Genna, he gloats that royalties from the Oscar-winning 1981 David Wilson tune bought him a Malibu Carol Ann Walker as Liza Minnelli, and Justin Genna as Peter Allen in “The beach house. In fact, that song, a smash Boy from Oz,” a Theatre Rhinoceros production directed by John Fisher at the for Christopher Cross, was Gateway Theatre. composed by Burt Bacha-

rach, with lyrics primarily by Carole Bayer Sager, his then-partner, who incorporated one line from a song she and Allen had abandoned years earlier. According to Sager’s 2016 biography, Allen insisted on writing credit, leading to major resentment from Bacharach. A complicating wrinkle ignored in the show’s book – by “Bent”’s Martin Sherman, apparently bent over backwards for a payday – is the fact that the female lead in “Arthur,” the movie, was played by Liza Minnelli, Allen’s still-supportive exwife. Making matters worse still is the fact that, in the show, the song is sloppily used to introduce Minnelli and Allen’s 1960s romance (15 years prior to the tune’s real-life composition). This is all characteristic of a smugness that typifies not just “Oz”’s central character but the entire show, which is way overconfident in assuming Allen’s ultimate irresistibility. Never the beloved pop-cultural juggernaut that “Oz” would have us imagine, Peter Allen was a reptilian carpetbagger and a coattail-hanger. When a young Allen meets Judy Garland while working as a lounge singer in Hong Kong, we watch him brown-nose his way under tailfeathers to get

hired on as her opening act in the U.S. His next move is to marry Minnelli – despite knowing full well that he’s gay – further wheedling his way into showbiz circles. His success story amounts to little more than cunning and celebrityadjacency. Leandra Ramm turns in a strong performance as Garland, managing to capture the legend’s spirit without resorting to either mimicry or camp. Carol Ann Walker pulls off a credible Liza, particularly in the show’s liveliest ensemble number, “She Loves to Hear the Music.” But in “The Boy from Oz,” the real-life stars are turned to supporting characters, and a slimy charlatan is given the spotlight. The production itself, directed by John Fisher, is not particularly noteworthy. There are no sets to speak of (the bulk of the show is played against a dull black wall), and the cast’s energy level rarely rises above high school musical levels. But the biggest problem is the material itself. The whole damn show should just “Fly Away.”t “The Boy from Oz,” through Nov. 17 at the Gateway Theater, 215 Jackson St., SF. Tickets $25$35: www.therhino.org.

Stirring concerts & the ‘King of Opera’ by Philip Campbell

ymphony and Opera lovers have been playing a game of performance ping-pong in San Francisco lately, bouncing between Davies Symphony Hall and the War Memorial Opera House. A parade of guest artists and conductors at DSH, surrounded by Dia de los Muertes decorations, has kept the south side of Grove Street jumping, while the SFO has engaged audiences with ongoing fall repertory and a memorable special event. Most recently Cristian Macelaru, Chief Conductor Designate of the WDR Symphony Orchestra beginning in the 2019-20 season, made his SFS debut with violinist Ray Chen, in a concert largely dedicated to orchestral summations of music from two operas. Richard Strauss’ gloriously raucous Suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” ended an evening that included the world premiere of American composer Kevin Puts’ “Silent Night Elegy.”

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Drawn from his 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning debut opera “Silent Night,” which depicts the Christmas Eve ceasefire during the First World War, the “Elegy” is a vivid synopsis of events surrounding the historical truce. A haunting introduction of the opera’s thematic material leads to the three armies’ battle songs, an agonizing battle sequence, a scene of burying the dead, and a breathtakingly tender close. Puts was on hand to enjoy the warm response. Another American composer, Jake Heggie, was in the audience to join in the ovation. Heggie’s own Christmas Eve opera “It’s a Wonderful Life” receives its West Coast premiere in nine performances at the SFO starting Nov. 17. Listeners who left after Ray Chen’s rendition of Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole” missed the exciting second half, but they were primarily there for Chen’s crisply energetic performance. His encore, the Prelude from Ysaye’s Sonata No. 2 (“Obsession”), was also brilliant. DSH was host the prior week to the return of Pablo Heras-Casado, leading a program of Spanishthemed works by French composers. The pleasant tour, which included some Debussy bookended by Ravel, was ironically most notable for the inclusion of Bartok’s rarely performed Piano Concerto No. 3. The only things Spanish about that stirring performance were the conductor (Granada) and soloist, Javier Perianes (Nerva). They made the Concerto fit the bill with a combination of pianistic virtuosity and sympathetic orchestral support. There was another Spaniard in attendance. Placido Domingo (Madrid) kept a low profile from his loge seat, but once his presence was known, audience members (even DSH staff) couldn’t help sneaking some starstruck looks. Domingo was in town for his highly anticipated SFO matinee concert the following Sunday. Tickets for the one-performanceonly visit with the “King of Opera” were made available to Full Series subscribers originally, and limited to two per household. The event sold faster than a rock concert, and proved the shrewdness (and grati-

tude) of SFO’s marketing department. Domingo has also shown remarkable intelligence in a career that has spanned decades and seen him change from a clarion tenor to a burnished baritone. Other highlights include 12 Grammy Awards, 150 roles in repertoire, over 500 conducting assignments, and 15 years as General Director of Los Angeles Opera. Remember when opera stars used to be part of pop culture? They used to appear on late-night talk shows and even made personal appearances. Perhaps not, but surely you remember “The Three Tenors” – José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti – and their one-night-only show at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium in July 1994. The broadcast of that concert had an estimated 1,300,000 viewers. All three tenors ruled the world of opera for years, and wonderfully, Domingo is unlikely to abdicate any time soon. The recent matinee found the War Memorial packed to the ceiling, including a legion of loyal standees. The atmosphere was crackling with anticipation, and when Domingo made his entrance during the first “set” (Verdi’s “La Traviata,” Act II, Scene 1) wearing a rakishly slanted Above: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Belo:w: Fernando Sancho fedora, the crowd Above: Placido Domingo, the “King of Opera.” simply went wild. The concert was Below: Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. divided into two

satisfying parts, and Domingo also brought two other singers onstage. Young Mexican tenor Arturo ChaconCruz and charming Puerto Rican soprano Ana Maria Martinez joined him, portraying roles in scenes from “La Traviata” and Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra (Act II, Scene 2, 3 & 4). On the handsome set from SFO’s current production of “Tosca,” the attractive and talented younger singers proved perfect foils for Domingo. Each had opportunities to thrill the crowd with solo arias and duets of their own. Everyone held their breath for each of the big star’s vocals. He immediately proved his continued stamina and sustained power. No hints of troubling vibrato or blurry pitch to report. While he may be in his late 70s, he still sings with the power of a man half his age. The second half was mostly dedicated to a potpourri of numbers from Domingo’s beloved Spanish zarzuelas. The fizzy blend of operetta with telenovela plots makes for delightful listening, and obviously, it’s a lot of fun to sing, too. In solos, duets, or finally, in an-all-stopsout trio, Domingo, Martinez, and ChaconCruz had us eating out of their hands. After a generous string of encores, the show ended with “Besame mucho,” replete with disco lighting! Opera is also show business, and “The King” reminded us of how much fun it can be.t

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Orbiting the planet Freddie Mercury

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Rami Malek channels the late rock star Freddie Mercury in director Bryan Singer’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

by David-Elijah Nahmod

ami Malek beautifully channels the late rock star Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the new biopic of Queen, the band Mercury (1946-91) fronted. The film, named after Queen’s famous hit song, pushes the bandmates into the background, and mainly focuses on Mercury. As the film opens, young Farrokh Bulsara (Malek) has changed his name to Freddie Mercury amid the disapproving glances of his conser-

vative Persian parents (Ace Bhatti, Meneka Das), who aren’t happy with their son’s shag haircut and hip “London mod” style of dress. It’s 1970, and the young Mercury spends his time clubbing around London. He soon becomes lead singer for a local band named Smile, and renames the band Queen. Almost immediately Queen is recording hit records and touring for cheering crowds. As the band’s star continues to rise, Mercury struggles with loneliness and with his sexuality.

“I think I’m bisexual,” he tells Mary (Lucy Boynton), his fiancee. “Freddie, you’re gay,” she says, as she ends their relationship. Mercury does come to accept the fact that he’s a gay man, dying of AIDS at age 45. Prior to director Bryan Singer’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Rami Malek had a largely undistinguished career, playing supporting roles in the films “Twilight” and “A Night at the Museum.” With his portrayal of Mercury, Malek emerges as a star in his own right. He looks and sounds like Mercury, and is electrifying in the film’s lengthy sequence at Live Aid, the 1985 mega-concert that benefited famine victims in Africa. Malek, as Mercury, passionately pounds at the piano and struts across the stage, whooping both the onscreen and offscreen audience into a frenzy. The intensity of Malek’s performance during this sequence, and during the film’s other musical interludes, is mesmerizing. Unfortunately, Anthony McCarten’s screenplay is nowhere nearly as powerful as the star’s performance. Too many people who were important to Mercury are seen as cardboard cutouts, with little if any backstory offered as to who they were. There’s Mary, the ex-fiancee, who remains his close platonic friend for the rest of their lives. Mercury even buys her the house next to his. No explanation is offered as to why they remained an important part of each

other’s lives. Mary simply shows up from time to time without saying or doing much of anything. The same can be said for Mercury’s parents, who do little more than stare disapprovingly as their son changes his name and seeks his fortune in the rock world. At the end of the film they’re seen smiling proudly through their tears as they watch Live Aid on television. There’s not even a hint as to how they their feelings about their son’s career came to change. Mercury’s Queen bandmates are also given the shaft. Queen drummer Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy),

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“1200 Block Powell Street #1,” watercolor and gouache (2017) by Timothy Wells.

by Michael Jortner

hen you take in watercolorist Timothy Wells’ new solo show “SF Made in China” at the Jack Fischer Gallery in Potrero Flats and feel the urge to remove his paintings from the wall only to toss them into your recycling bin, Wells may just break into a smile. A longtime San Francisco resident and an openly gay, self-taught painter, Wells, 57, has lived on the Nob Hill-Chinatown border near Powell and Clay Streets for over 25 years. After stepping over cardboard remnants found on the streets outside his apartment for quite some time, Wells had an epiphany. “It occurred to me how beautiful they are,” he said. “They just happened to be incredibly captivating pieces of accidental design.” He must have been onto something, because “SF Made in China,” consisting of “15 or so” painstakingly realized watercolors, according to gallery owner Jack Fischer, opens this Saturday. What does Fischer see in Wells’ work? “I like trash,” he replied. The show’s title reflects two aspects. One, “found material that

has been produced in China,” Wells said, yet “I’m creating the work in San Francisco.” Second, it’s the title of one of his paintings, his representation of the panel of an everyday cardboard box featuring perhaps the most ubiquitous term in our turbocharged consumer culture: “Made in China,” with the initials of our fair city printed above it. The dimensions of each water-

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San Francisco self-taught painter Timothy Wells.

Bohemian Rhapsody opens in theaters on Nov. 2.

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Scene from director Bryan Singer’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

To this artist, trash is beautiful color are substantial, approximately 22 inches by 30 inches. Wells says they are “close to 100% actual size.” With so much trash in his neighborhood to choose from, how does Wells decide which objects to paint and which ones to leave alone? “It just has to appeal to some part of my innate design sense,” he said. “Some have it, and some don’t.” One piece that does have it is “1100 Block Powell Street.” Wells captures the torn edges, dark smudges, delicate curlicues of fraying cardboard and Chinese characters from a Nissin Foods ramen box so realistically I wonder if I’m looking at a photograph. But don’t mention photorealism to Wells. “These are very definitely paintings. And nobody would mistake these for the illusion of a photograph.” “You look at the shape,” he said, “at the accidental graphic design because of the shape.” Somehow I’m reminded of the serif version of the Hebrew alphabet character “Hei.” Once I make this connection I feel oddly comforted. In the piece I find something familiar. Wells insists his show is not intended for any type of art customer in particular. But acknowledging how San Francisco rests on the Pacific Rim and boasts a thriving Chinatown, Wells imagines “people who are familiar with the West Coast, how we are positioned geopolitically, will find this work speaking to their interests and that kind of crossover of cultures.” Have a spiritual bent? You might get a feeling of tranquility from Wells’ work. “Many people have asked me if I am a Buddhist or if this work is intentionally done with Buddhist concepts in mind.” He said they are not, but acknowledges that people “will find them to be very relaxing pieces to look at.” Okay, so what about meaning? Are the works imbued with any? Wells uttered an emphatic “No.” “Except,” he continued, “that even ordinary objects can have a beauty and life of their own.” t

lead guitarist Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and bass guitarist John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello) are always there, but the audience never gets to know who they are. As a biopic, “Bohemian Rhapsody” falls short, failing to adequately examine Mercury’s life and the people in it. Malek, who put so much effort into bringing Mercury to life, and who gives such a brilliant performance, deserves better, as does the audience.t

“SF Made In China” runs Nov. 3-Dec. 22 at Jack Fischer Gallery, 311 Potrero Ave., SF. Reception on Nov. 3, 4-6 p.m.

Works can be previewed at jackfischergallery.com. For more about the artist, visit www.timothywellsfineart.com.

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28 • Bay Area Reporter • November 1-7, 2018

Scandalous behavior in gay England by Brian Bromberger

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was rude. I was vile. I was queer. I was myself,” Norman Scott triumphantly boasts after his salacious court testimony against his former lover Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. The U.S. considered the OJ Simpson case the trial of the century, but for England it was the gay Thorpe charged with conspiracy to murder Scott that made headlines. Created by BBC and now available on Amazon Prime, “A Very English Scandal,” a three-part/three-hour series, is a breezy dissection of hypocritical British attitudes toward homosexuality and insular homophobia. Presented as a jaunty comic caper, this seemingly absurd but true story must be seen in order to be believed. In 1961, Thorpe (Hugh Grant), the wealthy, Eton-educated, charismatic youngest leader of a political party in the 20th century, on a remote holiday meets an attractive stable boy, Norman Scott (Ben Wishaw), just released from a psychiatric hospital. Thorpe gives him his card with the instruction to look him up the next time he’s in London, which he does a year later after his job has ended unsatisfactorily. Thorpe seduces Scott with a jar of Vaseline, initiating him into gay sex, that later Scott will recall at trial as

“having felt like being sawed in half, so that all I could do was bite the pillow!” They begin a secret affair with the closeted, married Thorpe, juggling two separate lives, setting up Scott in a studio apartment, writing affectionate letters to his “bunny,” a nickname given to him because of his frightened look on their first encounter. Scott has already suffered several emotional breakdowns, doesn’t want to be kept a secret, and resents the restrictions placed on him. He will try to blackmail Thorpe by writing a seven-page letter to Thorpe’s mother exposing intimate details about their relationship.

Rather matter-of-factly, Thorpe hatches a lame-brained plot to kill Scott, envisioning it as political strategy, with fellow politician Peter Bessell (Alex Jennings). Previously these two “old queens” had confessed to each other their history of risque gay sexual encounters. The attempted murder was so ludicrous it later became fodder for a famous Peter Cook satire sketch, as it involved recruiting a drunken pilot who bungled the scheme of driving Scott to the countryside. Instead of shooting him, he kills his Great Dane dog Rinka. His gun jams so that Scott escapes. The pilot will be sent to prison for a year, but when released, sells his story to a British tabloid, ultimately implicating Thorpe and three others, leading to their 1979 trial at the Old Bailey. It is not a spoiler to report that after the outrageous remarks by the judge to the jury discrediting the prosecution witnesses and saying Thorpe was a jolly decent chap, he was acquitted of all charges. Amidst the scandal, Thorpe ran for reelection, but lost. Exposed as a homosexual, his reputation disgraced, his political career was over. Despite the dark humor and whimsical style in which it is told, this story is a needless tragedy about repression, denial, entitlement, snobbery, public bigotry, and disgust with

homosexuality. In many ways this sordid tale charts the path of homosexuality in Britain, beginning when it was still a crime, to grudging public acceptance, here raised through the prism of Scott, who, through fits and starts, comes to embrace pride in his gayness. The high point arrives in his testimony when replying to the charge that he was profiteering from his association with Thorpe by giving paid interviews to the media. He says, “I do care how men like me are shoved into corners, masturbated in the dark, then thrown out the door like we’re dirt, like we’re nothing, that we don’t exist and all history books are written with men like me missing. So I will talk and be heard. You can pay me or not, I don’t care, but the one thing you won’t do is shut me up!” The other poignant moment occurs when Thorpe is questioned by a friend as to why he took the risk with Scott. He responds that, unlike most of his sexual encounters that often resulted in violence or abuse, he was kind. Although he responds in horror publicly when he is asked whether he loved Scott (“He’s a man!”), privately he could never escape his own self-hatred and admit his affection. Politically, Thorpe was enlightened, even supporting the 1967 decriminalization law after meeting with the Conservative

sponsor of the bill, Lord Arran, confessing that his closeted brother had committed suicide. Both Thorpe and Scott wind up alone. Thorpe was imprisoned in a loveless marriage undertaken to advance his career, and Scott lived by himself with 11 dogs. The two leads are brilliant. Going against his deprecating romcom image, Grant (forever Clive Durham in “Maurice”) suggests Thorpe may have been a bit of a risk-taking sociopath who uses people. But behind the public charm there is emptiness and shame, humanizing a figure long seen in Britain as a laughing stock. Wishaw conveys the vulnerability yet defiance in his character, more hurt than vengeful, who, like Thorpe, is quite adept at manipulating people, yet has been wounded in the process of discovering who he is. Wishaw’s Norman Scott is a fey tour de force. The disparities of power which can be exploited in relationships will resonate for viewers in this #MeToo era. Aided by a witty script by gay writer Russell Davies (“Queer As Folk”) and helmed by the straight but LGBTQ-supportive Stephen Frears (“My Beautiful Launderette”), “A Very English Scandal” could easily have been twice as long. It emerges as one of the best LGBTQ television series ever.t

Dealing the dirt by Tim Pfaff

hen a writer names his protagonist Judas Stammers, drop any expectation that his novel will embrace naturalism beyond the hyper-real. And in the case of Dale Peck’s new novel, “Night Soil”

(Soho Press), forget everything you think about the Dale Peck of the past – novelist, critic and controversationalist offense-dispenser – and prepare for a work of dizzying, profane, deeply comic imagination. You could without misrepresentation say that the novel’s themes

are environmental degradation (man raping nature), the evils of racism and slavery (man raping man/woman), the necessities and illusions of art (man/woman mindfucking others and themselves), the beauty of ugliness and vice versa – and, this in caps, THE SINS OF THE FATHERS VISITED ON THE SONS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATIONS. But that would be deceptively Uptown. In “Night Soil” Peck builds an edifice out of all manner of dirt, something perhaps only a gay man could have written so captivatingly. If you’re averse to core human experience exposed at levels beneath everyday honesty, give this upliftingly harrowing book a miss. Here, mashed as if through a potato ricer, is the saga. Judas is the delta in which the sap of a family tree as ancient as America runs, expressly to dry up and blow away. A family fortune built on male exploitation – the mining of increasingly deep layers of gold, copper and coal by generations of slaves, only to be covered over and replaced with new enterprises of Babylonic folly (a word Peck uses in its technical architectural sense) – runs out on its first woman of agency, Dixie Stammers, and her gay son, grotesquely deformed from birth. That would be Judas. If you think you smell gay selfhatred here – and, indeed, if strong smells upset you – go back to the comforts of “A Boy’s Own Story” or, if you’ve the mettle, “The Swimming Pool Library.” “Night Soil” tackles internalized homophobia by making it, like the detritus of the Stammers’ catastrophic mine explosion, both the unstable topsoil of this unsparing novel and the ground beneath its feet. And if you thought Garth Greenwell’s renderings of tearoom sex, or Neel Mukherjee’s of cottaging, were brave in their candor, you ain’t read nothin’ yet. “Night Soil” is a book you’re unlikely even to talk to others about, let alone give for Christmas. Yet, for the willing, reading it is equally ecstatic and meditative. Dixie Stammers makes her own fortune crafting, by hand alone,

ceramic pots not only perfectly cylindrical but – and here’s where the art world rolls in with the “added value” – identical to a scientifically provable degree. To say that she has other problems is like saying Lady Macbeth has bad dreams, and her parenting of Judas is as warped as her pots are not, and as mindless as her artistic concentration is not, yet understandable. Judas, accordingly, is in all ways fucked, including by everyone but the objects of his own desire. He’s a survivor by dint of looking into the hearts of matters and report-

Lou Peralta

“Night Soil” author Dale Peck.

ing back in language of prodigal invention. The lowest circle of his personal hell – apart, that is, from chafing loneliness and the ravages of abandonment – is a season (years, not months, though the passage of time is detailed in other ways, both graphic and inward-looking) at an abandoned rest stop turned maleon-male sex trap and scatological temple, where what he first thinks is the eye-watering smell of Lysol is in fact that of stale poppers. Here’s a Peck sentence comparatively plain in its wordsmithery: “Even if you surrounded yourself with life-size pictures of all four walls you’d still miss the squeak of shoes over sticky tiles, the clammy breath of toilet water a few inches below your balls, and of course the smells: of sweat, of cum, of piss, but especially of shit, which has seeped into the drywall like an old coffee pot whose glass has gone irremediably brown.” This is but an introductory offer to Peck’s serrated prose. There are no lavender Valentines or elevating takeaways here. What take their place are less streams of consciousness than insights ejaculated in daredevil, bravura spurts. Judas’ is consciousness at its most observant, as uninhibited in its imagination as it is unblinking in its psychic spelunking. Peck’s unmagical realism coughs up a character as unforgettable as Oskar in “The Tin Drum.” His cantilevered sentences sometimes interrupt their manic flow to comment on themselves or to address the reader directly. And either Peck is adept at neologism, or my own vocabulary is meager. No one less schooled in circular breathing than a symphony bassoonist could read this book out loud, but it warrants, and rewards, being read word-for-word. If you’ve read this far, you’re in this book somewhere and perhaps all over. Even with the most consequential elections of our lifetimes about to be stolen by homophobes, you could do worse than lose and find yourself in this most scathingly American of gay novels.t

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November at the Castro Theatre by David Lamble

he Castro Theatre waits until Turkey Month to get back to its best rep programing. There’s also time for local festivals – check the theatre’s website for details on the Scary Cow and Third i [South Asian] film festivals. “Studio 54” (2018) This lively doc, closing-night film at this year’s LGBTQ Film Festival, may remind some of “54” (1998), the cringe-worthy discomania version from director Mark Christopher. But relax, this film draws on previously hidden sources to show what went on behind the velvet rope. Director Matt Tyrnauer zooms in on Studio 54’s celebrity owners Steve Rubell (dead from AIDS in 1989) and Ian Schrager, who met at college and lived to showcase the exhilarating highs and deadly lows of the club scene. The disco era was a moment when post-Stonewall kids got down with their oppressors, a society crowd used to deciding who was and was not fit to be seen. So strap on your dancing shoes, feather your hair, and get down with this electrifying documentary about the infamous dance parlor where Elton John, Cher, Grace Jones and other celebs bumped up against common guys and gals lucky enough to get past the velvet rope. (11/3, 5) “Harold and Maude” (1971) Hal Ashby directed this intergenerational love story between 20-yearold Harold (Bud Cort) and feisty, 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon). The definitive early-70s cult movie, it has a memorable score from Cat Stevens. “Hal” Ashby was obsessed with

film. He’d smoke some pot, then work all night. His film career got off to an accidental start when he got a temp job as a machinist at Republic Studios. Ashby was born into a Mormon family on the cusp of the Depression, and directed 17 features, seven in the 1970s that practically defined the indie sensibility. His 1988 death in Malibu is widely thought to have aborted another decade of studio-commissioned masterpieces. “Shampoo” (1975) Ashby pulls the ultimate hedonistic rabbit out of the Hollywood hat: Warren Beatty as a woman-chasing hairdresser to the stars. With Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Goldie Hawn and Carrie Fisher. (all 3, 11/7) “Grand Illusion” (1937, France) Jean Renoir offers a taut drama of WWI-era French prisoners of war and their ongoing relationship with

their German warden. In French with English subtitles. “Coming Home” (1978) Another Hal Ashby gem stars Jane Fonda as the wife of a Vietnam-era Marine (Bruce Dern) who’s overseas while she develops a crush on a wounded vet (Jon Voigt). Signaled the beginning of Hollywood’s belated engagement with narrative films critical of the war. (both 11/12) “Touch of Evil” (1958) Queer fans note sightings of a cute Mexican thug in a leather jacket; Janet Leigh tortured by Mercedes McCambridge’s scary dyke; and director Orson Welles getting a third-act send-off from Marlene Dietrich: “You’re a mess!” That this film has possibly eclipsed “Citizen Kane” as Welles’ greatest achievement is due to a magnificent restoration and the unflagging support of co-star Charlton Heston. “Stage Fright” In this 1950 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, an American drama student in London (Jane Wyman) turns sleuth when her actor boyfriend is murdered. With Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Patricia Hitchcock, Richard Todd, Kay Walsh and Sybil Thorndike. Dietrich sings “The Laziest Gal in Town.” (both 11/14) “Blue Velvet” (1986) Director David Lynch’s extraordinary exploration into the Id of young Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) kicks off when Jeffrey discovers a severed ear in the fields outside his deceptively sleepy hometown. Jeffrey has a dangerous liaison with the torch singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini). Even odder is Jeffrey’s hookup with blonde sweetheart

Sandy Williams (Laura Dern). Perceptively, Sandy opines, “I can’t figure out if you’re a detective or a pervert. “ But the most perverse chapters are reserved for Jeffrey’s near-death encounters with dangerous drug criminal Frank Booth, a role that Dennis Hopper inhabits like none other in screen history. “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (1992) The big-screen version of the David Lynch TV serial that attracted a cult following. (both 11/15) “Sing-Along Sound of Music” (1965) I used to consider myself a “Hills are alive” virgin, but I succumbed. You’re on your own as to whether to attend this sing-along extravaganza. (11/21, 23-25) “Milk” (2008) “This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday, November 18. This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination.” It’s a trick from Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard”: a dead man tells the story behind his untimely demise. This Greek tragedy made in San Francisco, nimbly staged by Gus Van Sant from Dustin Lance Black’s meticulously researched screenplay,

becomes a political thriller with a grasp of the nuts and bolts of government, and their impact on real lives. “The Times of Harvey Milk” (1984) The greatest LGBTQ political biopic, Robert Epstein’s Oscarwinning tribute to assassinated SF Supervisor Harvey Milk never grows old. Featuring onscreen interviews with friends of Harvey and a stirring narration by Harvey Fierstein. (both 11/27) “North by Northwest” (1958) Cary Grant calls on his entire skill set in Hitchcock’s thriller, from love scenes with Eva Marie Saint to acrobatic chase scenes. Plus a lovely villain turn from James Mason. “Charley Varrick” (1973) A motley gang holds up a hole-in-the-wall bank in Tres Cruces, NM. The gang leader, Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau), figures it to be an easy, score, only to realize they have knocked off an organized crime bank that launders the proceeds from bigtime crime. Charley plays a dangerous game with Mafia henchmen Maynard Boyle (John Vernon), who dispatches paid assassin Molly (Joe Don Baker) to recover the loot by any means necessary. Directed by Don Siegel. (both 11/28) “The Man Who Fell to Earth” Directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring androgynous David Bowie, 29, as an alien who visits our wet planet in hopes of finding water for his dry one. The film provided the Bowie film template: an otherworldly creature who inspires a perilous mix of lust, envy, S/M, and control issues. A good adaptation of Walter Tevis’ novel. “Pink Floyd The Wall” (1982/ UK): Alan Parker directs this seminal slice of rock history. (both 11/30)t

effeminate Frankenstein monster.” Reed was insatiable in his haunting of New York’s mid-1970s leather bars and sex clubs in Lower Manhattan, such as the notorious Anvil, Plato’s Retreat, Hell Fire and others. “The most significant character Reed met on his late-night rambles through the city was the mysterious Rachael, a transsexual who would become his live-in lover” for several years. According to Reed, many characteristics endeared her to him: the fact that nothing really impressed her, she barely knew his music (and what she heard she didn’t like) and had little interest in his fame. They soon became inseparable. But Lou and Rachael would not last forever. Their breakup would remain a mystery, and Reed never spoke of her again. Reed married Sylvia Morales on Valentine’s Day, 1980. With her moral support and encouragement, Reed entered a rehab program and became a “true believer” in the 12step program. He “ended a life of wild excess to reunite with his love in quiet domesticity.” She said he was not the “fucking faggot junkie he had once been and was now embarrassed by.” Sylvia soon became not only his wife, but also his manager and gatekeeper. The couple bought a house in rural New Jersey, where Reed was more disciplined and produced the album “The Blue Mask.” The New York Times declared it “the most outstanding rock album of 1982,” but it generated little commercial enthusiasm. Rolling Stone commissioned him to interview Czech writer Vaclac Havel about the evolution of his nation’s “Velvet Revolution.” The piece was never published despite Havel’s

“thoughtful responses” while Reed “nudged the conversation toward his own preoccupations.” Sylvia Reed was eventually eclipsed by a more kindred spirit he would meet through the avantgarde scene, Laurie Anderson, when she was invited to play with him at the Munich Art Projekt, an annual festival of new music. Their personal and professional relationships flourished until the end of Reed’s life. Anderson played with him in live concerts and albums while nurturing his talents as a photographer and poet. His rock opera “POETRY,” based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, debuted shortly after 9/11. Reed’s final album “Ecstasy,” “a searing examination of life in a complex, adult relationship,” did not fare well, receiving little commercial or critical reception. But Anderson’s influence on the latter years of Reed’s life and work cannot be underestimated, especially “his adoption of her willingness to cross aesthetic boundaries, his desire to establish himself as an artist beyond rock and roll.” With his death in 2013, Reed’s legend finally received the praise it deserved. From Rolling Stone to The New York Times, he received cover-story tributes. Bowie heralded him “a master.” His memorial was held outdoors at Lincoln Center, and was made up solely of Reed’s voice, guitar music, and songs – no speeches, performances, VIP or press sections. The several hundred people who gathered to remember Reed mingled freely. At a later tribute at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, Anderson lamented, “His incredible complexity and his anger was one of the biggest parts of his beauty.”t

Underground hero by Garland Richard Kyle

Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony de Curtis; Little, Brown & Company, $19.99

omeone once said to Lou Reed, “You always speak in italics. I love that.” I suspect he must have found this remark an amusing observation since his life was filled with colorful if often imagined narratives, tirades, and his “outrageous behavior and innate desire to shock.” Reed could never be underestimated. Whether it was glam rock or punk rock, Reed was a precursor, if not the godfather, of musical styles and rock-n-roll movements. He grew up in Brooklyn, then Long Island, first in Freeport, then in Great Neck, about which he famously ranted, “If you run into a diseased mind, it’s from Great Neck. Nobody goes to more great lengths to escape their upbringing than someone from Great Neck.” In elementary and high school, Reed was a “nervous and frightened” child, “possessed a fragile temperament,” and was prone to panic attacks. His parents believed their son might be schizophrenic, so at 17, he underwent “electroconvulsive therapy” (ECT). In the 1950s, ECT was not an uncommon treatment for homosexuality. Reed was “devastated by the treatments,” and never forgave his parents for what he considered a cruel and unusual punishment. Years later, Reed may have got his revenge when Andy Warhol arranged for The Velvet Underground to perform at a psychiatrists convention held at the Delmonico Hotel. One biographer of The Velvets

wrote that they “were very much a product of their time.” The whole notion of being underground appealed to their sensibilities. Their name came from a book of the same title published in 1963. While it purported “to explore the subterranean worlds of fetishism, consensual extramarital sex, and S&M,” in order “to avoid censorship,” the text carried a certain “tone of disapproval.” Underground filmmaker Paul Morrissey convinced Warhol to manage The Velvets, since “rock artists were becoming something like a new aristocracy.” This gave the new band entrée into the life of The Factory that Reed “adapted with ease and enthusiasm.” While Warhol was “the vacant center around which everything at The Factory revolved,” Reed soon became one of his “lieutenants.” Morrissey made a lot of decisions for Reed and The Velvets, including adding the “imperious” German actress cum model Nico to their repertoire, even though she was a second-rate chanteuse. With the release of their album “The

Velvet Underground and Nico,” the band was deemed “part of Warhol’s multimedia circus.” Its white peeloff banana cover revealed “a pinkish phallic fruit underneath.” Years later, it was proclaimed “among the greatest album covers of all time.” After so much hype, the album “was simply ignored.” With such a letdown, Reed “seemed more interested in drugs and scotch, whatever made him happy.” Reed’s classic hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” which would pay his rent for years to come, was essentially a portrait of Warhol’s Factory and the characters that inhabited this notorious demi-monde. He would come to resent the song’s success, questioning, “How can you be an underground icon when you have a hit?” “Wild Side” was the only Top 20 hit of his career. David Bowie, at only 25, proposed to the record label RCA that he produce Reed’s first solo album. Reed knew this was what he needed, and that he would learn from Bowie’s “knack for grabbing attention.” Bowie said of Reed that “the nature of his lyric writing was unknown to rock. He supplied them with the street and the landscape, and peopled it.” Bowie later confessed he was “nervous about collaborating with one of his idols.” Released in 1972, Reed’s “Transformer” became known as “the degenerate side” of glam rock. He adorned the album cover as a “leggy vamp in high heels and lady lingerie, a hand artfully placed near his crotch.” Reed described the album: “There’s this very well-hung stud looking into a mirror, and looking back at him is this beautiful girl.” Rolling Stone described him as “an

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New York Public Library

Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera in the Broadway musical “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Chita Rivera

From page 23

“I’d be lying through my teeth if I told you I can still sing or dance like I used to. But it’s fun to sing ‘A Boy Like That’ now. It’s a whole different thing. I’d look silly if I tried running up the walls and doing a split. We’re all getting older.” Rivera, who shares a birth year with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has performed on Broadway during each of the past seven decades. In the years between her debut as the principal dancer in “Guys and Dolls” and her lead role in Kander and Ebb’s “The Visit” just three years ago, she has won a permanent place in the firmament of musical theater stardom. She’s originated some of musical theater’s most memorable

Boy Erased

From page 23

Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, two fine actors, co-star as Nancy and Marshall Eamons, Jared’s parents. Marshall is a church pastor, and Nancy is the loving and dutiful wife who always does what’s expected of her. Marshall and Nancy aren’t bad people. They genuinely love their son, and only want what’s best for him. They pray to the Lord and ask for strength and guidance.

full orchestra behind me. It’s outside Among the few non-showbiz under the stars, and I cannot wait. topics Rivera gladly discusses is her My daughter comes, too – she’s a commitment to advocacy on behalf Disney freak.” of children. Last month, Rivera was Surprisingly for such a famous the star and honoree at “Touch the fan, Rivera has never played a charSky,” a New York concert to raise acter in a Disney film. “I was flipfunds for children’s playgrounds. ping around the TV recently,” she “I love and adore speaking to mentioned, seeming to let her guard kids, and encouraging them to down ever-so-briefly, “and I saw express themselves however they that one where Angelina Jolie plays need to,” said Rivera, herself one the witch [‘Maleficent’]. Oh, damn! of five siblings and the mother of That was great, I would have loved Lisa Mordente, a choreographer to do something like that.” t and Tony-nominated actress, for the little-remembered 1981 musical “Marlowe.” Chita Rivera at Feinstein’s at Her dedication is, in part, due the Nikko, Nov. 9-11. $76-$120 ($20 food/drink min.). Hotel to the parental encouragement RiNikko, 222 Mason St., SF. www. vera once received. In 1948, Chita feinsteinsatthenikko.com was spotted by a representative of George Balanchine in her Washington, D.C. ballet class and recruited for a New York scholarship. Rivera’s widowed mother, who worked as a clerk at the Pentagon, allowed her 15-year-old daughter to move to New York and pursue her passion. “When we were kids,” Rivera recalls of her early inclination toward showbiz, “my older brother had a makeshift theater in our basement, and we would do little shows based on Disney movies. I always played a witch, but I didn’t mind. We loved that magical world.” Today, Rivera remains very much in touch with her childhood. “I’ve been invited to go to Disney World again next month,” she exclaimed when asked what she’ll be up to after her Feinstein’s shows. Photofest “They do a Christmas pageant every year, and Chita Rivera in “West Side Story.” for a couple nights I get to narrate the show with a

roles – Anita in “West Side Story,” “Chicago”’s first Velma Kelly, Aurora in “Kiss of the Spider Woman”— and put her indelible spin on more than a dozen others. But the role she’s perhaps best known for is her leggy, lipsticked “Chita Rivera” persona. Rivera has played herself on Broadway twice, in “Jerry’s Girls,” the 1986 Jerry Herman revue; and 20 years later in “Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life.” And she’ll be at it again at Feinstein’s at the Nikko next week, singing songs and telling tales from throughout her career in a four-show run of her latest cabaret show (including afternoon matinees on Sat., & Sun., Nov. 10 & 11). But while “The Dancer’s Life” and Rivera’s concerts incorporate biographical elements, the perspective they provide is narrow and carefully

controlled. Rivera routinely shares selections from a set of carefully curated and well-burnished anecdotes: behind-the-scenes theater stories, brief discussions of her relationships with ex-husband Tony Mordente and New York restaurateur Joe Allen, loving tributes to her father, and an account of the careerthreatening 1986 car accident that gave the literal meaning back to “break a leg.” Still, for an entertainer who has commanded the attention of several generations, Rivera has been remarkably successful at preserving her privacy. Despite her firebrand stage roles, she is humble by nature, and has largely managed to maintain a high profile as a performer while avoiding the prying eyes of celebrity journalism.

They honestly believe that what they’re doing is the right thing to do. They mean no harm, and are unable to see that what they’re doing is the worst possible thing for their son. “I had heard of conversion therapy, which sounded like a religious institution for curing homosexuality,” director-screenwriter Joel Edgerton told the Bay Area Reporter. “What I came out with after I read the book was an emotional connection to a family. They loved each other and went through conflict for no reason at all.”

Edgerton felt particularly sympathetic for the story’s young protagonist. “Imagine being told by your parents, your two greatest heroes, that you need to fix something that’s wrong with you,” Edgerton said. “That’s horrible.” Scenes at the conversion camp comprise the bulk of the film. When he first enters the program Jared is somewhat enthusiastic, confident that he can be “cured.” But as the program’s draconian techniques are revealed to him, he begins to rebel. As he slowly comes to realize that his sexuality cannot be changed, he looks on in disgust as he sees how others in the program are being treated. In one particularly disturbing sequence a young man is forced to kneel before a Focus Features coffin as his campmates line up one by one, beat- Director Joel Edgerton plays Victor Sykes in “Boy Erased.” ing him. The young man is also thrown into an ice-cold bath in front of everyone. Edgerton explained why he made derscore his struggle to understand Soon after, he commits suicide. the film. “I want people to be able and accept his sexuality. But as the Jared eventually decides that he’s to look into a window of a very unstory progresses the audiences sees had enough and walks out of the necessary and backward practice,” Jared come into his own and find program with the help of his mom, he said. “I’d like the film to raise his voice. Hedges beautifully plays who comes to see the error in her awareness, affect change, and open the evolution of this character. ways. Jared’s father isn’t as quick to people’s minds. I want young people Director Edgerton co-stars as come around, but Jared delivers an to know that they’re not the only Victor Sykes, the man who runs the ultimatum. He tells his father that one, I want them to see Jared’s story conversion camp in spite of his lack unless he’s accepted for who he is, and see that there’s a future.” t of credentials. Sykes is neither a pashis dad will lose him forever. tor nor a therapist. Lucas Hedges is superb in the “For years I played characters “Boy Erased” opens on Fri., Nov. lead role. At first he plays Jared as that I theoretically disagree with,” 2, at Landmark’s Embarcadero Cinema, expanding to the AMC a confused, frightened young man Edgerton said. “Serial killers, corKabuki and Alamo Drafthouse who doesn’t know what to do. Two rupt cops. Going to work to do the on Nov. 9. Joel Edgerton will do flashback sequences, one in which wrong thing is kind of exciting. You a Q&A at the Embarcadero on he is raped by a college classmate can’t judge your character. You have Sun., Nov. 4, after the 2 & 2:30 and another in which he experiences to side with your character from acp.m. shows. a brief flirtation with an artist, untion to cut.”

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Thu 1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Live! @ Oasis The popular drag parody of the vampire-hunting TV show returns, starring Michael Phillis and a cast of comic locals, including Kim Burly, Melanie Marshall, Flynn DeMarco and others. $27-$50. 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Thru Nov 3. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Goapele @ Yoshi’s Oakland The local R&B singer performs at the stylish nightclub-restaurant for a fournight residency; two shows nightly thru Nov 4. $39. 510 Embaracdero West, Oakland. www.goapele.com www.yoshis.com

Megan Hilty @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre The Broadway star performs a special concert celebrating the 15th anniversary of the musical Wicked, plus some Smash songs as well. $85-$115. 8pm. 609 Sutter St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Enjoy exhibits, cocktails and DJed grooves at the amazing natural history museum. Nov 1: Brain & Body, with ‘silent disco’ yoga sessions, meditations and more. Nov. 8: Migration themes with talks about butterflies, birds and more, live music by La Pelanga. $12-$15. 6pm9pm. 55 Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org

Sundance Stompede @ Various Venues The annual country-western linedancing, two-stepping weekend draws folks from around the world for lessons & workshops, a kickoff dance, a welcome dance, Hoedown and Stompede Ball with line-dancing troupes performing. $12-$60. Thru Nov. 4. Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness Ave, Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness ave and Space 550, 550 Barneveld Ave. www.stompede.com

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Desperate Living @ The Stud Drag excess with Florida Elizabeth Man, Coco Buttah, and Stevie D Luxe. $10. 9pm-4am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Jonathan Poretz @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The popular local crooner performs Sex, Swagger & Swing: Sinatra and Darin in the Concert That Never Was with a swing band. $30-$60 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Also Nov. 3. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Sat 3 Woof, Frolic, Mr. SF Eagle Leather @ SF Eagle

Prism @ Qube Bar & Grill, San Mateo New weekly LGBT night at the Peninsula restaurant and bar. 8pm11:30pm. 4000 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. www.qubelyfe.com

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Rock out at the leather bar. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

The gay pop singer performs. $46 and up. 8pm. Also Nov 2. 1111 California St. www.sfmasonic.com

Safada @ Oasis

Boob Tube @ SF Eagle New drag show and cosplay/video game costume contest. $5-$10. Free in costume. 9pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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Drag show (Persia, Paju Munro) and dancing with Latin grooves at a Pabllo Vitar vs. Britney Spears night. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Queer short film screenings with Mariah Garnett, Aimee Goguen, Brontez Purnell, Jill Reiter, Michael Robinson and others. 7pm-9pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Vibe Fridays @ Club BnB, Oakland

Juanita’s Drag Brunch @ MORE/Jones

House music and cocktails, with DJs Shareef Raheim-Jihad and Ellis Lindsey. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Sat 3 Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes. Nov. 3 theme is Bjork vs. Robyn, with LOL McFiercen, Lindsay Slowhands, Florida Man, Qween, Strobe, U-Phoria, Mason Dixon Jars, and more. DJ Omar plays grooves. $10-$20 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www. sfoasis.com

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE! and Glamamore’s monthly drag makeover show; this month, District 6 Supervisor candidate Matt Haney! $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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Juanita MORE’s new daytime drag show, with a tasty menu by chef Cory Armenta and food stylist Cole Church. Entrees $14-$21. 11am-3pm. Wednesday Fried Chicken nights, too. 620 Jones St. www.juanitamore.com

Renegade @ Atlas The new super-cruisy sexy event at the SoMa warehouse space; clothes check available. $10. 5pm-8pm. 415 10th St. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/2094886877491354/

Mon 5 Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge Sing along to shows tunes on video, lip-synched, and live, at the Castro bar. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

The monthly canine fetish-wear happy hour (3pm-6pm) precedes the fursuit party (8pm-2am); also the annual leather contest for the bar (5pm8pm). 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The popular daytime party, where $10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes. 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada’s fun drag night with Carnie’s Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht. 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Election Night @ Oasis Watch local and national results on TVs, with Matt Haney, SF Democratic Party members and others. Free. 6:30pm-11pm. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun Weekly fun night of games (video, board and other) and cocktails. 8pm12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Goo Goo Dolls @ The Fillmore The rock-pop band performs as part of their 20th anniversary tour. $55. 8pm. 1805 Geary St. at Fillmore. http://thefillmore.com

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Wed 7 Castro Karaoke @ Midnight Sun Sing out with host Bebe Sweetbriar; 2 for 1 well drinks. 8pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Club 88 @ Flore New weekly piano bar sing-along night with alternating hosts Maria Konner, Kitten on the Keys and Alan Choy. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Kimberly Ford @ Yoshi’s, Oakland The singer-guitarist performs a Celebration of Joni Mitchell with her band. $25. 8pm. 510 Embaracdero West, Oakland. www.celebrationofjonimitchell.com

Shevil @ Powerhouse Drag wildness galore. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com

Thu 8 Absolutely Fabulous Live @ Oasis Edina (Terry McLaughlin) and Patsy (Michael Phillis) return in comic drag performances of episodes from the BBC comedy favorite. $27-$50. Thu 8pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, thru Dec. 1. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Dark Light Divas @ Elbo Room, Oakland Sophilya Leggz hosts the burlesque variety drag show with DJ Bit. $10. 9pm-12am. 311 Broadway, Oakland. www.elbo.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 Latin beats, Lulu and Jacqueline’s drag show, gogo hotties and a packed crowd. $10-$15. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. www.club21oakland.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Sandy & Richard Riccardi, Lauren Mayer @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Political satire comedy song stylists perform at the upscale nightclub. $22-$50. ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

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Juanita MORE! and her Powerblouse crew will give District 6 Supervisor candidate Matt Haney (right) a drag makeover at The Powerhouse on Nov. 3.

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ctober was cute, and it was sweet to end it with such gorgeous weather. My two monthly parties at Powerhouse have helped to raise great money for two organizations that I really care deeply about. On the first Saturday of the month, Powerblouse supports the Transgender Law Center. Their mission to help change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression seems like such a simple thing to me, one that shouldn’t have to be fought for. Over the years I have helped to raise close to $100,000 for their mission. Our

trans brother and sisters are under attack and more now than ever they need our support. Last month we put our friend Miss Teddy in drag. Glamamore and I had been on him for most of this year about letting us give him a drag makeover. Miss Teddy was already everything, but we wanted him to be a little extra. My grandbaby Voodonna Black and sister Honey Mahogany beat the hell out of his face. She was gorgeous and bestowed the name “MaDamn Pump” because of her love of shoes. On November 3, I’m putting District 6 candidate Matt Haney in drag. He doesn’t seem a bit nervous and promises me he’s gonna turn it out. You better, too. On the third Saturdays of the month, I throw a monthly party

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with my bad seed Walter Gomez called Beatpig, which supports the great work of The Q Foundation’s hard work to protect the housing people already have, provide resources to secure new housing, and promote public policy to expand that opportunity for all. Eight years in, and Beatpig still proves to be a whole lot of fun. DJ Sidekick was such an integral part of what we created in the beginning. His sound and corsets set the tone. With his move to Zurich, we added Stanley Frank to our DJ roster, who has turned more than a few nights into pure magic. Stanley lives in the city of angels and will be taking a winter hiatus. It’s hard to find someone who plays music you love, surprises you and then throws in a treat just to get your panties wet on the dance floor as he does. So until summer, I’m excited to announce that DJ Entree will be joining the Beatpig pig pen. His sound is a perfect match. And he ain’t bad to look at. He has been playing all the jams at my drag brunch every Sunday at my new restaurant MORE!jones. He’s a big fan of the MOREburger. It’s hard for me to recommend something on the menu for you to try. I mean, I love all of it. I handcut and season all the bacon on the Hangovah Pizza. The chilaquiles torta is not something you find often outside of Mexico City. And Biscuit Island is heaven on a plate! Who doesn’t want ice cream for breakfast? I also got to attend a fashion show by Mr. David at the Jewish Community Center this past month. Once again I was blown away by all of the work he has done. I own the biggest collection of clothing that he has made for anyone, more than 3,000 pieces. As I watched the show, I started to try and figure out how many pieces he has created in his lifetime, because while he was busy with my couture he was working on pieces for other people. There have got to be 100,000 Mr. David Couture garments floating around the world. Amazing. No one in my life matches the amount of creativity that he exudes.

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political rally for this or that important candidate or cause. We all know about the crisis that our country is in, but my readers know that I believe all politics is local. And look, we don’t live in a bubble. Trump’s toxicity has very much infiltrated our local political world, and it upsets me so much to see transphobic candidates achieve the success they have. So come to my parties and come to my restaurant, sure. But more im-

portantly, stand up loud and make your voice heard. Be a part of the solution, not the problem. Don’t just spread your legs – spread your arms and open your heart to others, too. I urge you to vote on November 6th and ask you to go to my website, www.juanitamore.com/vote2018, to read my Queer Agenda Voting Guide and why I care so much about this city, our state and what’s still worth saving about our country.t

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Cole Escola at a recent Joe’s Pub show.

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This will come as no shock to those who know the Brooklynbased comic actor from his role as neighbor lady Chassie Tucker on At Home With Amy Sedaris or from the viral commercial parody in which he plays a pitch-perfect orange juice pitchwoman. Even fans who first discovered Escola playing Matthew, a bag of catty gay stereotypes, on Difficult People, won’t find the elfin prankster’s lady personae to be much of a stretch. But in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Escola recalled his early years as manly man. “In high school musicals,” said Escola, who grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon (Population 1737), “I was always cast as the romantic lead. There were not a lot of boys who wanted to do theater, and I would get stuck playing Marius in Les Miserables, or Matt in the The Fantasticks, because I was the only one of them who wasn’t tone-deaf. Those parts were awful for me—they made me not want to be an actor.” Instead, Escola suggests, the roots of his eventual career can be found much earlier in his childhood. “I had a little tape recorder and I would talk into it for hours on end, telling stories, then listening to them and retelling them to make them better.” Raised primarily by his mother and grandmother, Escola always had an affection for female characters. “I used to skip school every Monday to have lunch with my grandmother and her friends. I loved to listen to them talk. There’s no way my mom didn’t know, but I guess she didn’t mind.” For much of his childhood, Escola recalls feeling awkwardness around his male classmates. “I always felt like I was intruding on the other boys, like a mother walking into a slumber party; like, “Maaah, leave us alone!” While he says that “grade school and middle school were really brutal, with bashing and everything,” Escola says that things improved in high school. “Once I came out, I was popular. If guys would say ‘You’re

a fag!’ I’d say, ‘Yeah!’ It disarmed them. Also, I was friends with the girls and the guys wanted to get in with the girls.” When he was 18, Escola –now 31– followed a high school boyfriend to New York. The pair broke up, but Escola stayed –save for one three-month retreat home to mom– scraping together a living in retail and occasional sex work before almost accidentally falling into show business. In 2008, essentially as a goof, he and his friend Jeffrey Self began posting largely improvised comedic videos on YouTube. The pair’s combination of clean-scrubbed boyish looks and free-flowing unselfconscious absurdity blew up online, ultimately winning the attention of Logo TV, which packaged their shaggy conversations as a microbudgeted series, Jeffrey and Cole Casserole, winning the pair a much wider audience. During the same period, Escola began participating in Our Hit Parade, a monthly downtown variety show curated by frequent collaborators Kenny Mellman (Herb, of “Kiki and Herb”) and Bridget Everett, in which performers covered current hit pop songs (Escola did a particularly memorable interpretation of Taylor Swift’s “15”). Fueled by his video following and encouragement from his eclectic entertainment elders, Escola ultimately developed a full solo cabaret act, which moved from gay-staple The Duplex to the much higher visibility Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. There, Help! I’m Stuck! proved a sold-out hit and helped his career become anything but stuck. Despite the gregariousness of the characters he’s developed in cabaret and television appearances on shows including Nurse Jackie and Mozart In The Jungle, Escola says that when he’s not working, he’s still very much that little kid with his tape recorder. “I’m a pretty shy person,” he says. “I have a character called the Goblin Commuter of Hoboken, who is born out of my discomfort around people. I do sometimes feel like I am some sort of strange creature when I’m with other people. I like

to stay home in my apartment and watch Turner Classic Movies. Especially if Stella Dallas or Stage Door is on.” On occasion, Escola steps out for a night at the theater. “I saw the Hello, Dolly! revival on Broadway three times,” he exults. “With Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters and Donna Murphy [Murphy subbed for Midler once a week] and

I’m actually flying into Chicago a day before the first day of my tour to see Betty Buckley in the road show. You just plug in a great broad and it works. It’s like Diva Mad Libs.” The night after his San Francisco performance, Escola heads to Portland, for a long-awaited encounter with the leading lady in his life. “My mother has not seen me perform live since high school,” he says.

“But she’s seen the videos and she loves it. She sends me lots of dresses and nightgowns.”t Cole Escola’s ‘Help! I’m Stuck!’ Monday, November 12 at 8pm, Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street. Tickets: $20. (415) 885-0750 www.coleescola.com https://slimspresents.com

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