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Focus turns Bay Area set to mark World AIDS Day to aging with AIDS by Matthew S. Bajko

s the global AIDS epidemic continues to age, greater focus is being paid to older adults living with HIV. AIDS advocates are calling on service providers and health departments to tailor HIV prevention services, including HIV testing, to meat the needs of people aged 50 and above. And new guidelines for doctors with patients who have HIV are being released that highlight the need to focus on preventive care. The issue of an aging HIV and AIDS population has been a growing focus for local health officials for several years now, with new programs being developed to address the specific needs older adults are confronting due to the AIDS epidemic. A 2011 Bay Area Reporter story noted that for the first time people 50 years of age or older accounted for the majority of people living with an AIDS diagnosis in San Francisco. The 2012 HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Report released by the Department of Public Health demonstrated the aging of persons living with HIV, with decreasing proportions in the 30-39 and 40-49 years age groups accompanied by persons aged 50 years or above rising from 42 to 51 percent between 2009 and 2012. The number of people living with HIV in the city age 50 or older last year was 8,063. The second highest age bracket was among 40-49 year olds, who accounted for 5,150 people living with HIV. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 31 percent of people living with HIV nationwide are over the age of 50. As of 2010, the most recent year for federal data due to delays in reporting, an estimated 872,990 persons in the U.S. were living with a diagnosed HIV infection, according to the CDC. By 2015, the federal agency predicts that more than 50 percent of people living with HIV will be over the age of 50. “That is a pretty daunting statistic in terms of the rise in folks with an increased prevalence for HIV disease because of longevity,” said University of Washington at Tacoma professor of social work Charles A. Emlet. “But guess what? Older people have sex and are at risk for HIV regardless of sexual orientation.” During the Gerontological Society of America’s annual scientific meeting held last week in New Orleans Emlet presented a paper titled “The Impact of HIV on the Lives of LGBT Older Adults.” The paper is based on data from the Caring and Aging with Pride project, a national study of more than 2,500 LGBT older adults that issued a groundbreaking report in 2011. The paper’s co-authors were Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Washington and director of the Institute for Multigenerational Health, and Hyun-Jun Kim, a research scientist and director of Caring and Aging with Pride at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Fredriksen-Goldsen oversaw the national LGBT study and was hired to conduct a similar study this year for the San Francisco LGBT Aging Policy Task Force. The researchers reviewed the survey responses and estimated that 9 percent of the 2,560 LGBT older adults were living with HIV or AIDS. They found that the average age was 66 with 58 percent gay men. About half were living at or below 200 percent of the See page 13 >>

World AIDS Day activities on December 1, 2002 attracted two men to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. This year’s observances take place Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1. Rick Gerharter

by Seth Hemmelgarn

vents are planned around the Bay Area this weekend to mark the 25th annual World AIDS Day, which commemorates the lives lost and the work that remains in the battle against HIV and AIDS. Globally, there are 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS, while more than 25 mil-

lion have died of the disease since the first cases were reported in 1981 in San Francisco and other cities, according to aids.gov. “I think more than ever as we look back to the past it informs the way we have to look at the future,” said John Cunningham, executive director of the National AIDS Memorial Grove. “... We’ve had great advances, but we’re still losing far too many people.” He added, “I

look to the future with hope.” The AIDS grove will hold its annual Light in the Grove fundraising gala from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, November 30. The grove is located in the eastern end of Golden Gate Park at the intersection of Bowling Green and Middle Drive East, across from the tennis courts. Tim Hanlon, president of the Wells Fargo Foundation, will receive the 2013 Lifetime of Commitment Award during the Light in the Grove event, which brings together more than 500 volunteers, supporters, and others. According to event organizers, Hanlon has helped lead Wells Fargo to provide more than $17.8 million to AIDS-related causes around the country during the last decade, with more than $575,000 donated to the grove. The banking company and its employees have also contributed more than 5,000 volunteer hours to support the grove. In a statement that the National AIDS Memorial Grove provided, John Stumpf, chairman, president and CEO of Wells Fargo and Company, said Hanlon “has been a driving force advocating for HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness programs, helping Wells Fargo and other corporations dedicate critical resources to raise awareness and help individuals, families and communities impacted by the disease across the country.” Hanlon said in an email that he’s “incredSee page 25 >>

Queer youth hack for social good

by David-Elijah Nahmod

he San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s website could soon be more user-friendly for queer youth, after a group of young hackers took the grand prize in an inaugural hackathon. Dubbed Hack 4 Queer Youth, the event, sponsored by Maven, a company that works to bridge the tech gap, included a diverse gathering of young people who met November 22-24, with a showcase before judges on the final day. They were there to learn and share ideas so that queer kids from all walks of life could embrace computer technology in order to make it easier for them to find safe spaces, connect with the larger community, and to generally improve their lives. There were a number of transgender youth in attendance, and so the issue of helping trans people to find employment was raised several times, as underemployment and unemployment are big issues in the trans community. Figures have varied at different times, but it’s generally been acknowledged that more than 50 percent of transgender people are unemployed or underemployed. The weekend’s final event was a contest in which five youth teams presented web programs they had developed. Each group showed how their program could be used to make the websites of their chosen queer youth nonprofit more user-friendly. Tech professionals and representatives from the nonprofit organizations were present, some of whom served as judges. As each team took to the podium, their presentation was seen on giant TV monitors. The final group ended up winning the grand prize, a gift bag filled with $1,200 worth of prepaid gift cards and other items. The group’s winning program, done for the LGBT Community Center, could help youth find places to sleep, hang out, or other options in one online venue. They wanted to make the information easy to access, all in one central database. Each group’s program was judged according to their tech skills, innovation, whether the program advances the message of the organization it was designed for, and for it’s user friendliness. The first group had developed a program that

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Hackers Serena Wales and Rutie BenDor were both part of the grand prize-winning team at Maven’s inaugural Hack 4 Queer Youth hackathon.

would allow Out Loud Radio, an online radio network for LGBTQ youth, to offer color-coordinated subtitles. The intertitles could be enlarged if needed, so that the hearing impaired could tune in to the programming. The second group wanted the website for the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, a networking organization for LGBTQA youth, to be able to provide quick, easily accessible information on where young people can go for whatever they might need: such as a place to sleep, or a gender-neutral restroom. Group members displayed the mapping system they developed that would quickly show users where such places were located, and how to get to them from wherever they might be traveling. Group three wanted LYRIC’s website to offer badges so that its staff would have instant access to the organization’s donor database, including breakdowns of where donations come from. The idea was that this would help LYRIC to market itself toward “soft” donation areas. Digital badges are the validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in various learning environments.

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Another group created historical badges for Maven’s website so that users could have easy access to information regarding significant events like the Stonewall and Compton’s Cafeteria riots. The Stonewall Riots occurred in June 1969 in New York City. Lasting for three days, the event is credited with launching the modern gay rights movement when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar, fought back against police harassment. The Compton’s riots predated Stonewall and took place in 1966 in San Francisco. Transgender patrons of Compton’s Cafeteria in the Tenderloin said no to repeated attempts by police to push them out of the cafe, which sometimes included trumped up prostitution charges. Participants in the group said that learning about and sharing such events would help users feel more engaged in the community. They hope to create future badges, which would offer information on employment possibilities. “The importance of hackathons and tech conferences is to demonstrate the importance of technology and social media as a vehicle for soSee page 22 >>

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t TDOR events draw hundreds

by Jeanine K. Reisbig

undreds of people crammed into the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, while across the bay in Oakland, a good Samaritan was recognized for his efforts to help a gender non-conforming teen after their skirt was set on fire aboard a bus. The two events, held November 20, were this year’s observances of Transgender Day of Remembrance, when the community pauses to reflect on those killed because of who they are. Some events, like San Francisco’s, also honored others who have died. This year 238 trans people were killed from November 2012 to October 31, 2013, emcee Danielle Castro told the audience at the San Francisco center. Castro surveyed the nearly 400 transfolk and their allies crowding the community center’s Rainbow Room and said, “There are countless losses that have gone unreported. We must continue to forge ahead for our right to live in a world where we are no longer persecuted for being our authentic selves.” This year, San Francisco’s TDOR event focused on the lives of six beloved trans community pioneers who recently died. Each one’s personal journey to be their authentic selves gave memorial speakers much to say about their distinctive legacies: progressive activism, performing arts, community healing, and unique personalities. Jazzie Collins, an African American woman, spent most of her 54 years fighting for the rights of tenants, workers, seniors, and disabled people. Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 1021 political coordinator Gabriel Haaland noted, “She would blow up my phone when she got a passion going on in her heart about issues.” AsiaSF diva Malena Cruz was fondly recalled by fellow performer Tita Aida of Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center. “Malena brought the ladies together ... we were all about the shows and looking hot and fabulous,” Aida said. “A million people must have seen Malena. She would really educate the patrons at Asia SF who said ‘I love a drag show’ and Malena would say ‘we are transgender women.’” Melenie Mahinamalamalama

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Tom Boyer, left, and Maximus Yearian stop to look at the altar honoring transgender people who have passed in the past year. It was part of the Transgender Day of Remembrance activities at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center.

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Good Samaritan Dan Gale, left, is thanked by Oakland interim Police Chief Sean Whent during the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony November 20.

Eleneke studied social justice at San Francisco State University. In February 2008 her far-reaching activism brought her to Geneva, before the United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Eleneke held the U.S. accountable for a lack of economic opportunity for transgender women of color. Her friend Tatiana Kaneholani, a longtime API health educator, remembered, “We put together this group called the Ladies of Passion, to give our transgender girls a place to ground, remember their roots and share who they are as special

transgender women from Hawaii.” San Francisco singer and songwriter Shawna Virago recalled her friend Christopher Lee, founder of Tranny Fest (now the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival) and a trailblazing filmmaker in his own right. “In 1996 his first film came out,” Virago said. “The Trappings Of Transhood was the first feature length film with an entire cast of trans men of color. In 1998, his film Alley of the Tranny Boys – all trans men cast in a feature length erotic film – appeared.” Virago added that a retrospective of Lee’s work will be shown at the New Parkway Theatre in Oakland in late December. Texas native Mike McLeod was the LGBT Community Center’s longest serving team member. “When I first came to the center staff seven years ago, Mike was the facilities staff, really the person who made things happen. Mike did so much work to make sure this space could be used, not just by the L, the G, the B, but the T as well,” said Clair Farley, the center’s manager of employment services. “Mike taught me that we all need to take care of ourselves and each other. Too often we are working behind the scenes or on the front lines. We forget to slow down and really see each other.” Finally, the late Vicki Marlane, a transgender performance artist, was recalled by her friend Felicia “Flames” Elizondo. Known locally as “the lady with the liquid spine” for her performance moves, Marlane performed at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge for 15 years before her death two years ago. She was thought to be the oldest continuously working transgender performer in America. A new exhibit, Vicki Marlane: I’m Your Lady, recently opened this month at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro. Trans March Co-Chairs Tracy Garza and Jamie Rafaela Wolfe concluded the evening with a bright look to the future. “The mission of the San FrancisSee page 22 >>

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Dan Pallotta’s new ride

ome people never change or is in terms of executive salaries fade away: Dan Pallotta is or raising funds. Pallotta talks back, seeking to profit by preachabout how when he was doing ing his flawed management major fundraising his ego was gospel to the nonprofit world bruised because other wealththrough a new organization, the ier people his age were driving Charity Defense Council. Local BMWs and taking European nonprofit executives should run vacations. “There are things you for the hills – quick! are not able to afford,” he said. Pallotta, a gay man, made his “It makes you envious. It makes name in the 1990s through the you wonder, ‘Do I really want to California AIDS Ride and other give up all of those things in the massive fundraising treks like name of helping other people?’” the Avon Walk for Breast CanUm, yes, Dan, you do. cer. Eventually it became obviAre there a lot of nonprofits ous over the years that the AIDS that pay their leaders modest Rick Gerharter Ride in particular began to line salaries? You bet there are. Most Pallotta’s pockets with increasing Participants left San Francisco on the 1998 California AIDS Ride on people don’t go into the field fees at the expense of the chari- May 31, 1998. to make a million bucks and if ties. In fact, Pallotta TeamWorks, they do, they should reconsider the producing company behind their career path. Yet that is about keeping overhead low and pay too little the events, was known for its what we continue to see in the to attract the most talented executives,” in the exorbitant fees, with smaller and smaller preHIV/AIDS field, as well as plenty of other orwords of the Times article. centages of the revenue from the AIDS Ride ganizations that cater to the LGBT community He created this new entity to enrich himself going to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and nonprofits in general. In our view, six-figby doing what he knows best: priming chariand the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. ure salaries are rarely warranted for nonprofits ties to believe in his flawed fundraising model (And let’s not forget, riders themselves were rethat don’t have multimillion-dollar budgets. in order to sign them up as future clients. quired to raise thousands of dollars to When a nonprofit can serve all of its clients, Nonprofits shouldn’t give him $1 to participate.) Finally, even the bloated expand services to help more people, and have support his outdated, inefficient, inSFAF saw the light and in 2002 cut an effective fundraising strategy to sustain its effective, and failed organizational ties with Pallotta TeamWorks; but programs at that higher level, then we can talk philosophy. it took aggressive reporting from about Pallotta’s premise that six-figure salaries That’s not to say that nonprofthis newspaper, countless editorials, are justified, along with lofty and self-serving its shouldn’t spend some money to and a deepening realization by SFAF titles like CEO. Right now, from what we see make money. There are successful and the LA center that it was in their in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, fundraisers who operate on lower best interest to end their contract. those goals have not been met. Some AIDS orbudgets, returning more money to The foundation and the LA center ganizations have reduced client services in retheir agencies. Our problem with went on to create the very successcent years yet salaries have stayed the same or Pallotta’s position is that he takes ful AIDS/LifeCycle, without the increased in the executive suite. Other groups it to the extreme – and San Franhigh overhead, retaining more of struggle to maintain services or have shut cisco’s HIV/AIDS community suffered as a the money for themselves. The loss of the Avon down entirely, so to use Pallotta’s benchmark, result. In the Times interview, he cited a news walk was the death knell for Pallotta and his they are hardly high performing. release by watchdog groups like Guidestar and company collapsed. This World AIDS Day, the 25th annual Charity Navigator called the Overhead Myth, Now, a decade later he’s back. In a recent inobservance of an epidemic that wiped out a the point being that charities don’t need low terview in the New York Times, Pallotta hasn’t generation of gay men and continues to ravoverhead, they need high performance. We changed one iota. He founded the Charity age communities around the globe, let’s think would argue that they need both low overhead Defense Council, an advertising agency caterabout that. and high performance. If it’s costing a group ing to nonprofits. He also wrote a book and Oh, and what’s Pallotta’s salary these days? $50 to raise $100, that is ineffective. High pergave a TED talk and remains committed to Zero, he said in the interview. “We just don’t formance is compromised when an agency is his misguided belief that nonprofits should be have the money right now. We’ve got about not spending money efficiently, whether that run like corporations – they “worry too much $20,000 in the bank.”t

Getting to zero in SF: How close are we? by Scott Wiener and Diane Havlir

xperts from UCSF, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Project Inform, and San Francisco General Hospital are convening a World AIDS Day town hall forum on Monday, December 2, at 6:30 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center to update the community on progress toward achieving the goal of getting San Francisco to zero new HIV infections. Getting to zero is the global theme and objective, and San Francisco has always been a leader in the global fight. Getting tested for HIV regularly and starting treatment is a major part of the effort to get to zero. Four years ago, the UCSF HIV/ AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital became the first program to recommend that patients start antiretroviral medications immediately upon diagnosis with HIV. Within a few months, the San Francisco Department of Public Health embraced the policy, making the same recommendation for all HIV patients in San Francisco: start treatment as soon as possible after infection. Now, United States national guidelines recommend this approach. What are the rationales for early treatment? First, improvements in medications have made them easier to tolerate, so side effects are much more manageable. Second, we now know that from the moment of infection, HIV damages the immune system; providing therapy earlier provides the best chance of restoring CD4+ cells. Third, HIV infection increases the risk of damage to organs such as the heart, which becomes more pronounced as patients age. Getting the virus controlled and suppressed as soon as possible reduces this risk. In addition, case reports from the Visconti Cohort in France reveal that 14 patients who were diagnosed with HIV shortly after infection and then started on drugs immediately

sexual men located in the heart of have been “functionally” the Castro neighborhood. It “will cured. These patients went establish an innovative model for on medications for three and the current and future response a half years and have been to HIV/AIDS – one built around off the medications for over health and wellness, not sickness seven years. Very low levels of and disease. It will combine a virus are detectable in their forward-thinking sexual health bodies. Some believe that as clinic, behavioral interventions many as 5 to 15 percent of for substance use and mental HIV-infected patients who health, and grassroots prevention start treatment within a short outreach to ensure gay and bi time of becoming infected men in San Francisco are seamwill be able to achieve a lessly linked to and maintained similar medication Rick Gerharter in care services and community free functional support,” foundation officials control of HIV. So Dr. Diane Havlir said in a news release. getting tested regSome medical advances are ularly and treated adopted quickly, while others languish – even immediately gives patients a shot though they can help people. Project Inform is at avoiding a lifetime of pill-takworking diligently to make the use of a daily ing and almost certainly makes antiretroviral to prevent infection in HIVfuture HIV cure strategies more negative people who have trouble using conlikely to succeed for them. doms a “fast idea,” instead of a slow one. PrEP, Another benefit of early treator pre-exposure prophylaxis, has been shown ment is that patients with HIV whose virus to be over 90 percent effective in preventing is suppressed below the level of detection in HIV infection in people who use it as directed; their blood are much less likely to infect their meaning a dose every day. Increasing awareHIV-negative partners. An important study of ness of this important HIV prevention tool, couples found that the HIV-infected partner encouraging people who can benefit from was 96 percent less likely to infect their HIVusing it to do so, and protecting their right to negative partner if their virus was suppressed. chose it, are key tasks for Project Inform. Key questions the World AIDS Day town These and other novel projects will be dishall will address are: Four years later, what has cussed along with an update on the numbers been the impact of the change in treatment recently reported by the health department. guidelines in San Francisco? And what other The needle is moving, but much remains to be steps are being taken to move the needle in redone. As a community, we can get to zero. Join ducing new infections? us this World AIDS Day.t Encouraging individuals at risk to regularly test for HIV and, if infected, start medications is just one arrow in the quiver. Highly innovaThe San Francisco LGBT Community Centive initiatives to take us closer to our goal are ter is located at 1800 Market Street. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener repreunder way. SFGH recently launched a program sents District 8, which includes the Castro; “RAPID” that provides immediate treatment Dr. Diane Havlir is chief of the UCSF Divifor persons acutely infected with HIV. The San sion of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Francisco AIDS Foundation is opening its new Hospital and Trauma Center. home for health and wellness for gay and bi-

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How could ‘prank’ go right?

Richard Allen Thomas allegedly sets a high school student, Luke Sasha Fleischman, on fire [“Burned student receives wide support,” November 21]. Thomas’s lawyer, William Du Bois, claims it’s just a “prank that went horribly wrong.” I wonder how Mr. Du Bois considers that setting another human being on fire could possibly “go right?” Jerry Thornhill San Francisco

Bummed at communication lapse

On Monday, November 18, Spectrum Queer Media premiered Beauty and Truth, Alice Walker’s new movie, at the Grand Lake Theater. The previous Sunday, November 10 they showed Looking for Langston and Tongues Untied. I was grateful for the opportunity to take photos of the event. The organizer appeared grateful as well. We traded information. I phoned early in the week to discuss the possibility of exchanging the photos for admission to the Alice Walker movie or volunteering in some other capacity. Phone

calls were followed by emails and a photo was sent as a goodwill gesture. On the night of the event I had received no reply and arrived at the Grand Lake Theater to discuss the event only to be told that had I showed up one hour before show time a volunteer slot would have been available (the event was sold out). The point of this letter is twofold: One, organizations as a courtesy should communicate with their everyday customers. Two, in the gay community, there is a growing trend to place emphasis on major community figures at the expense of the general public. Over the years, I have contributed to the well-being of the overall gay and particularly the black gay community. For example, I have produced book readings for Joseph Beam, Essex Hemphill, and James Earl Hardy. Whether or not I was allowed to attend is secondary to not being communicated with. We need to treat each other better than this. William H. Jones Jr. Oakland, California

Lee, others protest U.S. Attorney Haag by Matthew S. Bajko

hree East Bay Congress members are speaking out against U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag’s targeting medical marijuana dispensaries. In a letter sent recently to Haag, the trio demand that she cease her efforts to close locally regulated and fully compliant dispensaries in California. “It is counterproductive and economically prohibitive to continue a path of hostility toward dispensaries,” states the letter, which goes on to stress that Haag’s U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag actions “directly counter the spirit” of the Department of Justice’s order in August for lawfully abiding dispensabearing) AIDS and LGBT global ries to be allowed to operate, “and is rights activist Michael Petrelis inin direct opposition to the evolving deed run for District 8 supervisor view toward medical marijuana, the next fall, it may be the city’s first will of the people and, by now, comcandidacy by Skype. mon sense.” For due to a legal settlement Joining Barbara Lee (D-Oakstemming from criminal charges he land), a vocal critic of Haag’s acfaced, Petrelis is required to tions, in signing the letter remain 150 feet away were George Miller from the incumbent, (D-Concord) and Eric gay District 8 SuperviSwalwell (D-Pleassor Scott Wiener, who anton). Congressman will be seeking a second Sam Farr (D-Carmel), term on the Board of Suwhose central coast dispervisors in 2014. trict extends north into “Debates are going Santa Cruz and Gilroy, to be impossible,” said also signed the letter. Petrelis, who lives on “It is our view that Valencia Street with his the intent of the Justice partner, Mike Merrigan. Department is to not In June Petrelis pleadenforce its anti-marijuana laws in ed no contest to a misdemeanor conflict with the laws of states that disorderly conduct charge stemhave chosen to decriminalize mariming from his taking a photograph juana for medical and recreational of Wiener inside a bathroom at City uses,” wrote the Congress members. Hall. His stay away order expires In 2011 Haag and three other U.S. June 12, 2016, and Petrelis can’t attorneys in California began targetcontact Wiener or his offices by any ing medical cannabis dispensaries as means including email or through a well as the landlords of their buildthird party. ings. Their actions have led to sevAsked about the possibileral in San Francisco closing down ity of participating via video screen and litigation in the courts. through Skype or some other means Last year, Haag targeted Harborof electronic communication in any side Health Center, a dispensary debates regarding the supervisor with over 100,000 patients and locarace, Petrelis said he was unsure if tions in Oakland and San Jose, with that would be allowed. a property forfeiture action. “I think we would have to go to “It’s time for Melinda Haag to the judge to see about that,” he said. realize what everybody in the East It may not be needed, however, Bay has known for a long time: her as Petrelis acknowledged to the attack on voter-approved medical Bay Area Reporter that he has yet to cannabis increases the suffering of commit to the campaign. Instead, people who can least bear it, while his pulling papers last week with simultaneously endangering our elections officials “is all an explorentire community,” stated Haratory effort right now.” borside Executive Director Steve His goal seems more focused DeAngelo. on putting pressure on prominent progressives who have criticized Candidacy by Skype? Wiener’s tenure on the board to run Should longtime (and bullhorn-

against him. But as the B.A.R. has reported, none have committed to doing so to date. One person who has signaled he may run, out lawyer David Waggoner, has yet to decide if he will. “I have heard rumors that another progressive or two are looking at throwing their hats into the ring and times a wasting. I want these other progressives to get off the fence,” said Petrelis. Asked about Petrelis’s decision, which he announced via his blog Sunday, November 24, Wiener sounded nonplussed and a bit amused. “We live in a democracy and everyone has a right to run for office,” Wiener told the B.A.R. Monday.

Wiener sports a new look

As he readies to run for re-election, Wiener is sporting a new look these days. Since Labor Day he has been wearing glasses to correct for being near-sighted. “Considering my dad is a retired optometrist, it is surprising it took me turning 43 to need glasses,” said Wiener, adding that all through law school and his career as a lawyer his eyesight remained fine. When asked in late October about his showing up to meetings and public events sporting his frames, Wiener joked to the B.A.R. that being an elected official had taken a toll. Recently he began noticing an issue when people would show him images or emails on a cell phone and he needed to extend the screen further away in order to see it. In consulting about his vision issue with his father, he opted to buy prescription glasses rather than wear contacts. “His take was my prescription was not really severe enough to warrant it,” said Wiener. He has yet to update his official photo on the board’s website or on his campaign site online. He plans to do so “eventually.”t Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion, is on hiatus. It will return Monday, December 9. 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) 8615019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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t World AIDS Day marks progress, but much left to do 10 • BAY AREA REPORTER • November 28-December 4, 2013

by Liz Highleyman

n advance of the 25th commemoration of World AIDS Day Sunday, December 1, UNAIDS issued its 2013 annual report, “AIDS by the numbers,” showing that most areas of the world have seen accelerated progress against the epidemic, but some are falling behind. According to the latest figures, at the end of 2012 approximately 35.3 million people were living with HIV worldwide, with an estimated 2.3 million new infections. About 9.7 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy – an increase of nearly 20 percent in a single year – and AIDS-related deaths have fallen by 30 percent since their peak in 2005. The epidemic is growing, however, in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Furthermore, progress has been stymied in many areas by inadequate access to essential services for key affected populations including gay and bisexual men, transgender people, sex workers, and people who use drugs – groups that also bear the brunt of stigma and criminalization. “Every person counts,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe. “If we are going to keep our pledge of leaving no one behind, we have to make sure HIV services reach everyone in need.”

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International donor funding for HIV/AIDS has remained flat over the past several years, but domestic spending in individual countries has picked up some of the slack, accounting for just over half of global resources for HIV, which totaled about $18.9 billion in 2012. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed the PEPFAR

Stewardship and Oversight LGBT media web briefing on Act of 2013, which will excombatting the resurgence tend the President’s Emerof HIV among young gay/bi gency Plan for AIDS Relief, men, in collaboration with initiated by George W. Bush the Human Rights Campaign in 2003, for an additional five Foundation, the National years. Approved by the SenBlack Gay Men’s Advocacy ate the day before the House’s Coalition, and the Ali Forney November 19 vote, the legisCenter, an agency providing lation now awaits President services to homeless LGBT Barack Obama’s signature. youth in New York City. “I’m proud of this comA variety of social factors promise bill, and pleased including homophobia, racthat it has passed,” said ism, depression, drug and alRepresentative Barbara Lee cohol use, and homelessness (D-Oakland). “In the curcontribute to higher HIV rent political climate, where risk among young men who partisanship splits us apart, have sex with men, said JonaJane Philomen Cleland this is a true bipartisan effort Congresswoman Barbara Lee, shown with UNthan Mermin, director of the that saves millions of lives all AIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe during a CDC’s National Center for around the world.” HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, visit to Oakland last year, hailed the bipartisan PEPFAR supports anti- extension of PEPFAR. STD, and TB Prevention. retroviral treatment for ap“Stigma, family and comproximately 6 million people munity rejection, all these third of its total funding, but it did worldwide. In 2011, the UN factors can take a heavy toll not include specific dollar amounts. agreed to a target of 15 million peoon mental health. LGBT youth are ple on ART by 2015. As new evidence more likely to report feeling sad, Prevention in the U.S. has emerged about the benefits of more likely to report attempting suiTurning to the U.S., an estimated early treatment – as well as the reccide, and more likely to have risky 1.1 million people are living with ognition that treatment also serves sex,” he said. HIV, according to the Centers for as prevention – the World Health Gay and bisexual men under age Disease Control and Prevention, Organization this summer revised its 25 account for nearly one in five with approximately 50,000 people guidelines to recommend ART when new HIV infections, with a 22 pernewly infected annually – a numa person’s CD4 T-cell count falls cent increase in recent years, Merber that has not changed in several below 500, which expands the total min explained. In a recent 20-city years. number of people eligible for treatstudy, about half were unaware they The CDC further estimates that ment by more than 10 million. were infected. about 80 percent of people with Lee and Senator Tom Coburn Black men account for more than HIV know they are infected, about (R-Oklahoma), along with 38 other half of new infections among young two-thirds have been linked to care, lawmakers, have requested that the gay/bi men. Studies have shown that 37 percent are retained in care, oneU.S. double the number of people while young black gay men do not third are prescribed ART, and only provided ART through PEPFAR to engage in more or riskier sex or drug 25 percent achieve and maintain vi12 million by the end of 2016. use behavior, their partners are more ral suppression. Replenishment of the Global Fund likely to be HIV-positive due to highWhile new HIV infections have to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Maer prevalence in that community. declined in most population groups, laria is also coming up, with a meet“Young black men don’t take they continue to rise among men ing of stakeholders scheduled for Demore risks, but more black men who have sex with men, in particucember 3 in Washington, D.C. The are living with HIV,” said Daniel lar among young gay and bisexual PEPFAR extension passed last week Driffin, chair of NBGMAC’s Young men and young men of color. continues to limit the U.S. contriBlack Gay Men’s Leadership InitiaThe CDC last Thursday hosted an bution to the fund to less than onetive. “Getting into care, getting on treatment, and lowering viral load

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protect everyone, not just yourself.” Jeff Krehely, vice president of the HRC Foundation, acknowledged that large LGBT organizations have lapsed in their attention to HIV as the movement has focused on same-sex marriage. The movement has been “selling [lesbian and gay] people to mainstream America in a way that’s not always accurate, sort of a sanitized version,” Krehely said. “The community needs to dedicate itself again to HIV” and “put the issue back on the map. ...We need to start re-educating members that there’s a lot more to LGBT quality of life than just marriage equality.” Homelessness is also a contributing factor, advocates said. “Homeless LGBT youth are at ground zero of HIV risk,” said Carl Siciliano, founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center. “So many kids on the street have no way to survive outside of prostitution or survival sex,” he continued, offering the example of a transgender girl on his agency’s waiting list whose choices are to stay in a men’s shelter – a humiliating and frightening experience – or to stay with a man at his apartment in exchange for unprotected sex. “You can educate a homeless kid until the cows come home, but if they don’t have a place to sleep at night there are so many forces leading them to have unprotected sex,” Siciliano said. “If we are not willing to provide housing for LGBT youth, we are consenting to them becoming HIV-positive.” Moderator Thomas Roberts of MSNBC, who is openly gay, raised the issue of whether young people who did not live through the worst years of the AIDS epidemic have become complacent about HIV because they don’t see it as a death sentence. But Siciliano disagreed. “Kids don’t want to get HIV and they don’t feel like See page 22 >>

Liver confab showcases new hep C treatment by Liz Highleyman

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ffective new treatments for hepatitis C were the focus of the Liver Meeting, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, held this month in Washington, D.C. Forthcoming therapies offer cure rates upwards of 80 to 90 percent, even for hard-to-treat groups like people with liver cirrhosis and HIV/hepatitis C coinfected people. “We may be able to cure virtually everyone [with hepatitis C] who comes our way, without regard to the status of the host or the

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genotype of the virus,” Robert ‘Chip’ Schooley from UC San Diego predicted in his keynote address. Schooley, former chair of the National Institutes of Health’s AIDS Clinical Trials Group, compared the timelines for development of antiretroviral therapy for HIV and hepatitis C treatment. While the time from identification of the virus to the first effective targeted therapies was about twice as long for hepatitis C (1989-2011) as for HIV (19831996), the evolution from firstgeneration drugs to well-tolerated, See page 25 >>

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12 • BAY AREA REPORTER • November 28-December 4, 2013

HIV care, prevention councils discuss merger

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iscussion around collaboration between two San Francisco councils that make decisions on HIV/AIDS-related funding are continuing after a proposal to merge the panels was recently nixed. The HIV Prevention Planning Council sets priorities for HIV prevention. The HIV Health Services Planning Council, also known as the CARE Council, prioritizes and allocates federal Ryan White HIV/ AIDS Treatment Modernization Act funding for the San Francisco Eligible Metropolitan Area, which consists of Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. A work group established in 2012 had recommended full collaboration between the two groups within the next two years. Under the suggested model, both councils would have been dissolved and a new council would have been created. HPPC Co-Chair Tracey Packer, who’s also the director of community health equity and promotion at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said the idea for the merger stemmed from concerns around federal cuts to HIV health services and prevention funding. Mayor Ed Lee and Health Director Barbara Garcia “suggested it was important for the two councils to work together,” said Packer, with the question being, “How can the two councils

plan together to ensure around and prevention a continuum of services services which have been for people with HIV and reduced due to decreased people affected by HIV to funding under annual maximize the resources reductions from the fedwe have in San Franeral government due to cisco?” (Garcia didn’t sequestration. Combinrespond to requests for ing prevention and care comment for this story, planning will help us and a spokesman for Lee accomplish this more efwasn’t able to respond ficiently.” Monday, November 25.) At a recent HPPC Jane Philomen Cleland At a joint meeting of meeting, members of the two councils Octo- HPPC Co-Chair that group spoke of a ber 28, Packer and other Tracey Packer sense of fear on the part HPPC members voted of CARE Council memunanimously to approve bers. the plan. The vote of the Some members of the CARE Council was 14-10 in favor of CARE Council that the Bay Area the plan, with two abstentions. HowReporter approached for phone inever, to pass the council, the recomterviews either declined or didn’t mendation required the support of respond. a two-thirds majority. Abstentions However, member Charles Siron, counted as no votes. who’s living with AIDS, said he Packer, who served on the work voted against the merger because group, said she supported the prothere are “a lot” of unknowns as posal because “the work of the two the Affordable Care Act takes effect, councils is so closely related. We including how it will impact Ryan could benefit so much from the White funding. voices on both councils.” Discussion on collaboration is exR. Lee Jewell, a co-chair of the pected to continue. In an interview, CARE Council, also served on the Jewell, who noted he’s HIV-positive, work group and voted in favor of said that Monday, November 25, the the collaboration. services panel would take up “minor In an email, he referred to the naadjustments mainly pertaining to the tional health care reform law and said, number of HIV consumers on any “As we move forward under the [Afmodel that gets accepted.” No future fordable Care Act], we can prioritize votes on the issue involving members and allocate funds to sustain wrapof both councils have been set.t

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enderloin Tessie will hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner for those in need Thursday, November 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary) in San Francisco. Michael Gagne, the volunteer board president, expects to serve several hundred turkey dinners with all the trimmings. Those interested in volunteering should contact Gagne at (415) 584-3252. The Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center in San Jose is holding a Thanksgiving potluck from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. November 28. Main dishes will be provided. Attendees 5:02 PM are asked to bring a side dish to share with others. The center is located at 938 The Alameda. Questions can be directed to fabulous@defrank.org or by calling the information desk at (408) 293-3040.

Macy’s tree-lighting ceremony

After you’ve stuffed yourself with turkey and pumpkin pie, head on over to Macy’s in Union Square for the 24th annual great tree-lighting ceremony Friday, November 29 at 6 p.m. A reusable 83 foot tree will sparkle with more than 33,000 twinkling energyefficient LED lights and 1,100 shiny ornaments. Headlining the festivities will be American singer and songwriter Judith Hill, a finalist from season four of The Voice. Additional performances will feature the San Francisco Boy’s Choir, Glide Ensemble, and Artists in Resonance, a co-ed a cappella group from UC Berkeley. After the fun, shoppers can visit Holiday Lane on the seventh floor of Macy’s. The store will also hold a Christmas tree decorating seminar Friday, December 6 at 1 p.m. in Holiday Lane. Santa Claus will listen to holiday wishes and be available for portraits

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Final preparations are under way for the Oakland Zoo’s annual holiday festival of lights. This year’s illuminating event includes a light show designed by Impact Lighting and powered by 99.7 NOW radio. DJ Strawberry will be on-site to celebrate the grand opening Friday, November 29 at 5:30 p.m. at the zoo, 9777 Golf Links Road. Dozens of colorfully lit animal-themed structures will be situated throughout the zoo for families to enjoy during the evening hours. Santa’s sleigh is also set to arrive, and people should check www.oaklandzoo.org for specific dates. New this year is a storybook maze for children to enjoy. ZooLights runs November 29 through January 5 (closed December 24-25). Hours are Monday through Sunday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults and $7 for children. Oakland Zoo members receive a $1 discount. Children under 2 and adults 80 and over are free.

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No Bully benefit

No Bully, a nonprofit whose mission is to bring innovative and sustainable solutions to bullying and harassment in schools, will present “Broadway Against Bullies” Monday, December 2 at 7 p.m. at Club Fugazi, 678 Green Street in San Francisco. The one-night-only holiday cabaret event will feature stars from some of Broadway’s biggest hit musicals. Some of the scheduled performers include Josh Franklin, Patrick McCollum, and Julia Murney. Tickets are $75 general admission or $150 for VIP, which includes premium seating, dessert and cocktail reception with the cast at Rose Pistola, and gift bags. Guests must be 21 and over with valid ID. All proceeds support No

Academy of Friends will hold its holiday reception Wednesday, December 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Gump’s, 135 Post Street in San Francisco. The event is a fundraiser for AOF. The organization annually hosts its Oscar night viewing party but also holds smaller parties throughout the year to raise funds for HIV/AIDS service organizations. The evening will feature an after-work happy hour with drinks and bites. AOF board chair Howard Edelman and vice chair Matthew Denckla will make remarks about continued efforts to raise funds for HIV/AIDS services in the Bay Area and provide an update about the 2014 Oscar gala, “Return to Emerald City,” which will take place March 2. Tickets to the reception are $20 and can be purchased online at www.aofsf. eventbrite.com. For more information on AOF, visit www.academyoffriends. org.

API LGBTs celebrate at faith event

The Pink Elephant Project, a faith group of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQs and allies, will celebrate with the Pink Elephant Project Showcase Thursday, December 5 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Cameron House, 920 Sacramento Street, in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The event will be held in Culbertson Hall. In a news release, organizers said that members gather monthly to share and explore their stories of faith. Members of the community are invited to the showcase to listen, watch, and taste the fruits of the group’s efforts. Pink Elephant Project is a collaboration between API Equality – Northern California, Network on Religion and Justice, and API Roundtable, a project of the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies for Religion and Ministry. The event is free. To RSVP, visit http://tinyurl.com/lt4gb7c.t

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LGBT leaders praise progress, warn against complacency by David-Elijah Nahmod

eaders of three LGBT organizations talking about the state of the movement said that while they are ecstatic over civil rights gains made this year, in part due to favorable rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, people should not become complacent. The setting for the November 14 panel was the Horizons Foundations philanthropy series that took place at the Bank of America Building. About 100 people attended the event and heard from Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Julie Dorf, senior adviser at the Council for Global Equality; and John O’Connor, executive director of Equality California; Same-sex relationships received a major boost in June when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act and returned marriage equality to California in another case. Additionally, since June, same-sex marriage has

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federal poverty level. “People didn’t expect to live. Then antiretroviral therapy came along and they are living longer and healthy lives,” said Emlet, who began working on AIDS issues for the Solano County health department in the late 1980s through 1999. “There are a number of issues, ways this population is affected adversely.” Those living with HIV or AIDS were less likely to have children, more likely to live alone and have experienced the death of a partner, according to the paper’s findings. Due to the loss of their same-sex

become legal in several other have died, expressing her sorstates, bringing the total to 16 row that so many who fought plus the District of Columbia. for these achievements didn’t Nevertheless, there are still live to see them come to pass. many parts of the country The plight of LGBTs in othwhere full equality has yet to be er countries was a big topic in achieved, and where it remains the light of Russian President unsafe for people to be open Vladimir Putin implementabout who they are. ing laws that criminalize the “The finish line is when all “promotion” of homosexual50 states look like California,” ity. The anti-gay propaganda Kendell said. law includes stiff fines and jail Rick Gerharter “We wake up in the morntime for Russian citizens and ing feeling different,” she ex- Kate Kendell, center, makes a point during a others in the country who plained. “We have protections. “State of the Movement Update” panel sponsored “propagate” homosexuality We are celebrated. This is what by the Horizons Foundation. She is flanked by the to minors. The issue received a tipping point feels like.” widespread media coverage other panelists John O’Connor and Julie Dorf. She pointed to the rethis summer in the run-up to election of pro-LGBT African next year’s Winter Olympics, the electoral victories were, and how American President Barack which will take place in the unprepared her office was. Obama and the election of out WisRussian resort town of Sochi. Putin “I don’t think the NCLR was consin lesbian Tammy Baldwin to the claims that he’s not homophobic, and unique in not having a press release Senate, as well as the marriage equality that the law is meant to “protect chilready,” she said, as the audience joined measures which won by popular vote in dren.” Since he signed the laws in June, her in laughter. Maine, Maryland, and Washington state however, there have been incidents of Kendell took a moment to rememlast year. attacks against LGBT people. ber those activists and others who Kendell admitted how unexpected Dorf said that there would most

likely be a wave of LGBT immigrants from Russia and other countries with similar laws. “There have been two cases of governments trying to take kids away from their families,” she said. Horizons, she pointed out, has a refugee fund for people from Cameroon, another country with draconian anti-gay laws. But the overseas picture wasn’t all doom and gloom. There are countries that have, in the past, made life hard for their LGBT citizens. Some of those governments are now softening their stands, and are considering measures to decriminalize homosexuality. Countries where people might expect to see victories include Singapore, Belize, and Malawi, Dorf said. There was a discussion on how Olympic athletes could be protected while competing in the upcoming Sochi games. “It’s critical that athletes stand up,”

cant trend” globally is the growing number of people aged 50 years and older living with HIV. The agency estimates that, worldwide, there are 3.6 million people aged 50 years and older living with HIV. At the same time, UNAIDS reported that AIDS-related deaths have dropped by 30 percent since the peak in 2005 due to expanding access to antiretroviral treatment. The majority of older people living with HIV – 2.9 million – are in low-and middle-income countries, reported UNAIDS in early November, where the percentage of adults living with HIV who are 50 years or older is now above 10 percent. In high-income countries almost onethird of people living with HIV are 50 years or older, according to the agency. “People 50 years and above are

frequently being missed by HIV services,” stated UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe. “This is costing lives. Much more attention needs to be given to their specific needs and to integrating HIV services into other health services which people 50 years and over may already have access to.” The HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its HIV care guidelines, last revised in 2009, to reflect the fact that people with HIV are now living normal life spans, and their physicians need to focus on preventive care, including screening for high cholesterol, diabetes, and osteoporosis. “In many HIV practices now, 80 percent of patients with HIV infec-

partner there is a corresponding loss of social support as people grow older with HIV, found the researchers. There is “the possibility of double jeopardy,” said Emlet, from living longer with HIV and having elevated stress levels. The respondents in the national study reported having more anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and were more likely to be lonely. “There was no difference in their physical health compared to HIV-negative people. But HIV-positive people had significantly lower mental health,” reported Emlet. “Clearly, there is an issue around social support and social connectedness with this population.” The data from the study was unclear on whether the health issues older adults with HIV or AIDS are facing

stem from HIV, age, or the medications they are taking. The Caring and Aging with Pride project has received federal funding to conduct a longitudinal study of older LGBT adults that could provide more insight. The current survey data “begins to paint a picture of pretty serious risk for these individuals,” said Emlet. “HIV appears to have additional impacts on LGBT older adults.”

Aging HIV epidemic has global impacts

The rise in older adults living with HIV is also being seen across the globe. According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which issued a report on the state of the worldwide HIV epidemic ahead of this year’s World AIDS Day, an “increasingly signifi-

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Hawaii gears up for same-sex marriage by Ed Walsh

joined a group of about 80 people who had packed the gay-friendly Ambrosia bar on Maui two weeks ago to toast victory in the hard-fought battle for same-sex marriage. Just hours earlier, Governor Neil Abercrombie had signed the bill into law that made Hawaii the 15th state to legalize samesex marriage. Maui has long been one of the most popular wedding destinations in the world and business leaders on the island hope that will translate into gays flocking to the Aloha State to tie the knot. Wedding planner Kevin Rebelo was among those attending the celebration. He has arranged gay marriage ceremonies for nearly 20 years in Maui but those ceremonies had lacked any legal recognition. His company, Gay Hawaii Wedding (http://www.gayhawaiiwedding. com), is already fully booked with same-sex wedding ceremonies on the first day, Monday, December 2. One couple getting married that day has been together for 40 years. They were among the first to enlist in Hawaii’s civil unions last year and the couple will be among the first to be married on the first day of legal same-sex weddings. But there is plenty to do in Maui for LGBT tourists not interested in getting married. The single most popular attraction for gays visiting the island may be a beach called Little Beach right next to a much larger beach called – you guessed it – Big Beach. Little Beach is clothing-optional and it is a social focal point for the island’s LGBT community. Musician Steven Tyler can sometimes be seen there leading the traditional Sunday drum circle, a remnant from the beach’s roots as Maui’s hippie beach. The first two people I met there were from San Francisco, not surprising considering the popularity of Hawaii for Bay Area residents. On my first full day on Maui, I had the pleasure of a getting a tour of the island by Wade Holmes, a gay man who specializes in tours for LGBTs through his tour company No Ka ‘Oi Adventures. I traveled from the south side of the island to secluded waterfalls, a hidden lava tube, Red Sand Beach and other attractions that are sometimes missed by bigger tour companies. If you haven’t been to Maui before, an organized tour is a good idea.

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Visitors get bathed in steam from the active Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

After a day of hiking through Maui, I had worked up an appetite. And what better way to satisfy that hunger than a dinner cruise? I met up with Michael Waddell the manager of the gay Sunseeker resort for a voyage on the Alii Nui catamaran. We sat next to a straight newlywed straight from the East Bay. Undoubtedly the voyage will include many gay newlyweds very soon. By the way, the Maui Sunseeker LGBT Resort is a perfect place to stay on the island. The 23room oceanfront property will be expanding into a new building next month that will add another three rooms, with plans to open a breakfast deli sometime next year. Amenities include a clothing optional hot tub, heated saline pool, and a rooftop sundeck. The manager estimates that about half of the hotel’s clientele are gay men, about 30 percent lesbian, and the remainder straight and transgender. The hotel is situated in very gay-friendly Kihei, on Maui’s south side. Maui Sunseeker also operates Sunseeker Activities, a full service concierge for booking the many adventure activities available on Maui and even tours to other islands from Maui. LGBT guests are already booking their weddings and honeymoon stays on the island. If you prefer to stay in an even more intimate gay-owned accommodation, the two-room Tutu (Two) Mermaids on Maui Bed and Breakfast is owned by a couple who used to live in the Bay Area. Life and business partners, Judee and Miranda Kawaiola moved from Alameda to the island 13 years ago. Judee is licensed to perform marriages in

the state and you can arrange one by contacting her through Two Mermaids. Amenities include a swimming pool and on-site concierge service. The inn has already heard from gay guests who plan to return to Maui to get married. There are not any full-time gay bars in Maui but the aforementioned Ambrosia bar hosts a gay night on Sundays and is very gayfriendly every day. Maui Pride is held over the first weekend in October and includes a festival and series of events from Friday to Sunday. The organization awards scholarships annually to deserving youth and focuses on community involvement and education. (More information at http://www. MauiPride.org.)

330,000 acres and grew by 550 acres over the past 30 years after the eruption of Kilauea. Visitors can stand on the rim of the volcano and be bathed in the steam from the hot lava flowing under the surface. You won’t be able to get close enough to see the lava but if you can stay until dark, you will be treated to the red glow of the lava from crater’s center. The park is adjacent to the Puna district on the island, popular with LGBTs. The gay-owned Kalani is a combination bed and breakfast and retreat center. Holmes, the Maui tour guide, is helping to organize a gay men’s retreat at the center, April 15-21. (More information at http:// www.Kalani.com.) The four-unit gay Absolute Paradise Bed and Breakfast is a little more than a mile from Kelani and amenities include a clothingoptional pool and hot tub. It is the place to stay if you prefer a more intimate and even gayer accommodation choice. The Big Island is so big that it is serviced by two major airports, one in Hilo and the other in the Kailua-

Kona area. Most tourists stay in Kailua-Kona because the weather is much drier than the other side of the island. But Volcanoes National Park is much closer to Hilo, about a 45-minute drive away. The drive to the park will take you about 2.5 hours if you are coming from Kailua-Kona. Besides being the drier side of the island, the Kona Coast is also the only place in the U.S. where coffee is grown commercially. Coffee is to the Kona what grapes are to the Napa Valley. The area around the district is dotted with coffee farms and coffee tasting opportunities. Kailua-Kona is also home to the Big Island’s only full-time gay bar, Mask-querade. The bar is in a strip mall and used to be called the Mask. The big sign over the business still has the shorter name. Mask-querade is known as the Cheers of gay Hawaii. The regular locals who hold court there daily are very welcoming to visitors and can point you in the direction of the best things to do and see on the island. If you are in town on Sunday, be sure to stop See page 20 >>

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in for the barbecue between 6 and 9 p.m. The Big Island may soon be home to a second full-time gay bar. My Bar is in an industrial area about a fiveminute drive from Mask-querade and is about to become the area’s second gay watering hole. My Bar was bought out by a gay male couple, Rocco Carbone and his partner, and their straight male friend, Kit Carver, last month. They told the Bay Area Reporter that they plan to market the bar as a gay bar, while continuing to welcome its established clientele. My Bar has always been very gay-friendly and hosts the island’s gay Pride celebration each year. One of the newest accommodation choices on the Big Island is the gay-owned Lava Lava Beach Club, which opened just last year but is already drawing rave reviews. The oceanfront property consists of four 800.367.5030 | www.napilikai.com | Maui, Hawaii cottages complete with a private outdoor shower. The adjoining and TERMS/CONDITIONS: Based on rack rate and availability at time of booking; minimum stay required; date/category restrictions apply; very popular Lava Lava restaurant offers cannot be combined with any other promotions or applied to existing reservations. Travel must be for time periods listed. is worth stopping by even if you are not staying there. The Sheraton Kona is an established oceanfront resort that is well known for the view of the manta ray fish that can be seen from the ocean overlook near the restaurant. The Sheraton is also steeped in history. The hotel offers a complimentary tour of11:21 ancientAM stone ruins that give FO-BayAreaRep-Ad-1-8pg-RED-112013.indd 1 11/12/13 a glimpse into how native Hawaiians once lived. Beach 67, part of the Waialea Bay Beach, is a clothing optional unofficial gay beach on the Big Island. To get there from Highway 19 at mile marker 71, turn onto Old Puako Road, then turn right on Puako Beach Road. Keep going to pole marker #67 and turn onto the dirt road to the parking area. The trail leads to the beach.

Oahu

Oahu is the third largest Hawaiian Island but it is where about 80 percent of the state’s population lives. Most tourists stay in the Waikiki section of the island known for highrise hotels and its postcard views of the extinct Diamondhead volcano. If you are staying in Waikiki, you will pass through downtown Honolulu on the drive from the airport. That’s where you will find state government offices and the former Hawaii royal palace, which is now a museum.

Waikiki is also where you will find the state’s most abundant nightlife, including Hula’s bar and Lei Stand, which may be one of the world’s most beautiful gay bars with its sweeping views of Diamondhead. Hula’s runs a gay catamaran cruise on Sundays for just $20, including a free drink. The other gay mainstays include the LoJax bar and neighboring late-night Fusion nightclub. The In Between bar is just a short walk from LoJax and Fusion. The casually upscale Bacchus is also centrally located a block from In Between. Bacchus has ties to San Francisco. The owner and manager of San Francisco’s 440 Castro are among the partners who own Bacchus. Waikiki is very walkable and you can barhop on foot between all the establishments. Queens Beach is on the far Diamondhead side of Waikiki beach near Hula’s and is Oahu’s unofficial gay beach. It got its name from the island’s royal past, not its current patrons. But unlike Maui’s Little Beach, Queens Beach is not clothing optional. Oahu Pride is the first weekend of June and includes a parade and festival.

Kauai

Kauai is the fourth largest Hawaiian Island and known as the garden island because of its lush surroundings and breathtaking foliage. The island’s gayfriendly beaches are the beach at Lydgate State Park and the clothing optional Donkey’s Beach and Kauapea Beach (a.k.a. Secret Beach). The gay-owned Mahina Kai Ocean Villa bills itself as the gayest bed and breakfast on Kauai. While most of its guests are gay men, the Japanese-style bed and breakfast is all-welcoming. The two-acre property close to Donkey Beach includes an eight-person hot tub and pool surrounded by a lush garden. If you would prefer to stay at a larger full-service hotel, the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa is the top of the line. Just after the same-sex marriage bill was signed into law, the 50-acre 602-room property issued a press release applauding the decision and inviting gay couples to get married at the resort. The Hyatt noted that the first three weeks of December are a slow time on the island so if you can get away then, you can not only be among the first to marry in the Aloha state, but you will be able to get good deals on rooms. The Hyatt is offering a fifth night free special and a free buffet breakfast.t

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22 • BAY AREA REPORTER • November 28-December 4, 2013

Upscale LGBT senior community opens in Santa Rosa by Lois Pearlman

xcited about their imminent move to what is probably the country’s swankiest LGBT senior living community, Gary Gielow and Tom Sharp were sipping wine last Wednesday in a first-floor anteroom of Fountaingrove Lodge in Sonoma County. “We’ve been thinking about something like this for years,” said Sharp, who is 70 and a retired computer programmer and graphic artist. “But they [senior communities] were all straight. And, when it [Fountaingrove Lodge] was this quality it was even more appealing.” “Life is going to be like a resort. It’s not my dad’s old people’s home,” chimed in Gielow, who is 78, a retired winemaker, and in 1957 founded K101 Radio in San Francisco. Built on the flank of the oakstudded hills overlooking downtown Santa Rosa, Fountaingrove Lodge features 64 one and two bed-

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co Trans March is to inspire all trans and gender non-conforming people to realize a world where we are safe, loved, and empowered,” they said. “We strive to create a space for our diverse communities to unite and achieve the social justice and quality each one of us deserves.”

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Dorf said. “So we’re working with the U.S. Olympic Committee.” Pride House International, a coalition of LGBT sports and human rights groups, was urging a same-sex handholding campaign. “I think they should kiss,” said Kendell. “It makes a difference. The

room apartments in a three-story main building and six one or two-

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it’s no big deal,” he said. “If they test positive they’re despondent. Having HIV adds one more layer of stigma.”

Staff set the tables for the first resident dinner at Fountaingrove Lodge, which opened last week.

bars and hors d’oeuvres stations set up to receive the guests. “We’re really excited to finally have it happen,” Cindy Gallagher said. “It took many years, but the city was very supportive of the concept. That never was a problem.” The couple purchased the 9.8-acre property in 2005, and spent the next eight years designing and building it, and squiring it through a sometimesthorny approval process. In the early years some residents at an adjacent development objected to the project, saying it was too large and not appropriate for the setting. But, some Fountaingrove Lodge supporters suggested that the neighbors’ real objection was that it was an LGBT community. By last Friday, two days after the big party, the community was quiet, the air smelled of compost from the freshly dug garden beds, workers were unloading boxes from a couple of huge moving trucks provided by Fountain-

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tion have the virus under control and live long, full lives. This means that HIV specialists need to provide the full spectrum of primary care to these patients, and primary care physicians need a better grasp of the impact HIV care has on routine healthcare,” stated Dr. Judith A. Aberg, lead author of the guidelines and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the New York University School of Medicine. “Doctors need to tell their HIV-infected patients, ‘Your HIV disease is controlled and we need to think about the rest of you.’ As with primary care in general, it’s about prevention.” The updated guidelines, under the heading “Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus,” will appear in the January issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. One of the more significant changes is that patients whose HIV is under

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bedroom bungalows. Amenities include everything from an art studio, a fitness center, wine cave, and private bank branch to a main dining room with a glamorous deck, a heated pool, both community and kitchen gardens, and walking trails. At the grand opening held November 20, Cindy Gallagher, who developed Fountaingrove Lodge with her husband, Bill Gallagher, took a quiet moment to confess that she would be happy when the evening was over. The couple owns and operates several senior communities in California, Washington state, and Nevada under the company name Oakmont Senior Living. Some 500 people had responded to the open house invitations and the building was abuzz with welldressed couples and singles, media reps, local dignitaries, and helpful staff members. Parking was valet only and there were several wine

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cial change,” said Nick Spears of BAYS. “It fosters community. It helps LGBT youth and gives them a foundation

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grove to its new residents, and kitchen staff was preparing to serve the community’s first dinner. About a dozen residents were moving in that day and more were scheduled for Monday, including Sharp and Gielow. Living at Fountaingrove Lodge requires a refundable entrance fee of $189,500 to $925,500 and a monthly charge of $3,395 to $6,125. A second person sharing a unit pays a smaller monthly fee only. The money includes maid service, meal tickets, and most services except private medical. In-home support and medical services are available for an extra charge and there is also a 22-unit “memory” facility on the property called the Terraces. Residents in the active living units are allowed to have up to two pets and a dog park is available for their use. There is also employee housing on the property According to the Gallaghers, the community is already 65 percent reserved.t

use of illicit drugs, in a nonjudgmental manner and determine how patients are coping with living with HIV infection and if they have a sufficient support network. HIV specialists need to be familiar with primary care issues, and primary care physicians need to be familiar with HIV care recommendations, stated Aberg, and the new guidelines are designed to bridge both gaps. “Patients whose HIV is under control might feel they don’t need to see a doctor regularly, but adherence is about more than just taking ART regularly; it’s also about receiving regular primary care,” stated Aberg. “These guidelines are designed to help ensure patients with HIV infection live long and healthy lives.”t

control should have their blood monitored for levels of the virus every six to 12 months, rather than every three to four months as previously recommended. It also urges doctors to be vigilant about screening for high cholesterol and triglycerides, as people living

with HIV are at greater risk due to the infection itself, ART or such thing as smoking and eating unhealthy foods. The guidelines include new recommendations for screening for diabetes, osteoporosis and colon cancer, and suggest patients with HIV infection

should be vaccinated against pneumococcal infection, influenza, varicella and hepatitis A and B. It also suggests that doctors consistently discuss and counsel patients on their sexual history (current and past) and any risky behaviors, such as the

Asked about concrete steps, Krehely suggested that one thing the movement can do is push medical professionals to get training in LGBT cultural competency. But much of what needs to be done involves the “boring bud-

get process in D.C.” to gain things like more shelter beds and mental health services for at-risk youth. “If you’ve had risky sex, you can go to a doctor and discuss taking PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis with anti-

retrovirals), but that doesn’t deal with the underlying problem,” Mermin concluded. “The medical system often deals with that upper level, but unless we deal with deeper issues, we’re not going to solve the epidemic – and if we

don’t solve the HIV epidemic among gay men, we’re not going to solve it for the nation.”t

just about the entire Oakland Police Department command staff gathered in City Hall for the evening’s ceremony. Mayor Jean Quan was joined by City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Lynette Gibson McElhaney and presented a proclamation to event organizer Tiffany Woods of the Tri-City Health Center’s TransVision program. But it was good Samaritan Dan Gale, who was recognized by interim Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent, who received much thanks and ap-

plause from community members. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in a blog post last week, it was Gale, a construction worker, who helped put out the flames on high school student Luke Sasha Fleischman after another student allegedly set their skirt on fire. (Fleischman prefers “they,” “their,” and “them” when people refer to them in the third person, their father, Karl, has said.) Gale, 53, was also riding the crowded AC Transit bus when the November 4 incident occurred.

“I have no idea who did it,” Gale told the B.A.R. “I just saw someone on fire who needed help.” Richard Allen Thomas, 16, has been charged with multiple counts in the incident, including hate crime enhancements. After the City Hall ceremony, attendees took part in a candlelight march to the corner of 13th and Franklin streets, where transgender woman Brandy Martell was gunned down in April 2012. Her case remains open.

Anyone with information about Martell’s murder can send the Oakland Police Department tips anonymously by texting TIP OAKLANDPD to 888777, or by calling (510) 535-4867. Tips can also be given anonymously to Crime Stoppers at (510) 777-8572. The case number is 12-020709.t

Russian government only responds to pressure. Russian LGBT people have said that when others take a stand, they don’t feel so alone.” Issues concerning the transgender community were also discussed. There remains a strong need to provide support for trans people at home and abroad. “Transwomen in Latin America have a 35-year average lifespan,” said

Dorf. She spoke of how uplifting it was to see a 102-year-old transwoman come out on Burmese television. Of course, the equality movement can’t move forward unless the next generation joins in the struggle. “How do we engage the young?” asked O’Connor. “They have different passions. They’re passionate about immigration and trans issues. We still have an enormous amount of work to

do. Some groups exist to hate us. Our adversaries will remain our adversaries. We need to address bullying, suicide, and senior issues.” There is the effort under way by anti-trans groups to repeal Assembly Bill 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act and a coalition of groups has submitted signatures to the secretary of state’s office. However, as of late last week, it was unclear whether

opponents had turned in enough valid signatures, O’Connor said in an email blast. The new law, which has not yet gone into effect, was authored by gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (DSan Francisco) and is designed to ensure that transgender students can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs, and facilities that match their gender identity.t

and a home to foster connections.” Maven co-founder Monica Ann Arrambide thanked Lucas Black of Mozilla, who helped make the event possible; it took place at its headquarters. She said that future hack-

athons were being planned, and that she hoped to organize an LGBT camp, which would bring youth from around the country to San Francisco and pair them with tech workers for projects.

Participants’ name tags included their preferred gender pronoun. “Explicitly stating your preferred gender pronouns ensures that no one makes mistakes about your gender identity,” said Jason Galisatus, 21, a

gay man who recently stepped down as executive director of Bay Area Youth Summit. “We don’t want to put anybody in a box based on how they look, so we defer to the wishes of the individual.” t

Matthew S. Bajko wrote this article through the MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowships, a program of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.

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Thanks for all the turkey by Roger Brigham

eople ask me why I’m always so happy no matter what happens and I tell them it’s because I’m always looking ahead to the good things I am sure are just around the corner. At this time of year, when we all gather round with those dearest to us, consume large quantities of foodstuffs, and contemplate all that we are thankful for – health, partners, parents, country, and such – we inevitably focus on the undeniable blessings. But let us never forget to be thankful for the more troubling things – the stumbling blocks and barricades we encounter that remind us of the value of continuing to fight – and look forward for victories yet to be won. So let us be thankful the NBA showed us this fall how far we still have to go before the business folks who run major men’s professional sports teams really are ready to sign openly gay players. You’ll recall that Jason Collins, the former Stanford All-American who held the school record for field-goal average and was third in career blocked shots before going on to play 12 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, the Memphis Grizzlies,

Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards, came out in April to much ballyhoo. Incredibly articulate and intelligent, he was a free agent at the time but was immediately proclaimed far and wide to be the “first active gay male athlete in a major American pro team sport.” That’s a ton of qualifiers but wasn’t quite true. It was made on the assumption that a team in need of a good big man reserve with excellent defensive skills would sign him ... but Collins has not been signed by anyone. What’s the hold up? As nearly as anyone can tell, it’s because teams are worried that Collins, who would fill a valuable but limited role with any club, would generate a disproportionately large media frenzy wherever his team played. And not only would the novelty of an out player bring media focus on him, it likely would be an unceasing source of non-basketball questions about having a gay teammate to other players. In other words, a lot of bother for people just out to make money playing hoops. His brother, Los Angeles Clippers scout Jared Collins, told ESPN, “My brother and I feel that the NBA is for the best of the best who play basket-

The long haul by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

find that it is all too common for those of us who write regularly on transgender issues to fall into a bit of a trap. There are so many difficult issues to discuss. Week in and week out we see no shortage of horrible news, all of which needs attention paid to it. We’re seeing groups like the Pacific Justice Institute spearhead efforts in California to repeal rights for transgender students, complete with some very duplicitous press releases and other materials. We’re seeing this mantle taken up by other right-wing crusaders. We’re seeing plenty of hatred and anger pointed our way. We’re seeing our community members beaten in Hercules, California, where a trans high school student was attacked in an on-campus incident. We’re seeing plenty being killed in horrible hate crimes. But I want to take a moment and step back from the week-to-week view and look over the decades. In the long view, we have a great many things to be grateful for, and a lot of positives to consider. First and foremost: while there are plenty of earlier examples, it was roughly 60 years ago that transgender issues first really hit the media in a big way, with the New York

Daily News’ famed “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty” headline about Christine Jorgensen. It’s been about 45 years since the same paper reported on the Stonewall uprising with this appalling headline: “Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad.” The media still gets it wrong, sometimes spectacularly. From Chelsea Manning to Sasha Fleischman, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Yet it is getting better. When they get it wrong, too, you can count on the transgender community and its allies to work hard to get the media to correct their mistakes. We now live in a time when Laverne Cox can perform on the small screen, where a transwoman can play a transwoman and get streamed into the nation’s houses in Orange is the New Black. Likewise Glee, the ersatz High School Musical for television, can also host a recurring transgender character. While, again, there is much room for improvement, this is a far cry from those who may have grown up with the transsexual, then gay, then straight and married Jodie Dallas character on Soap, or even the horrible transgender representations on short-lived sitcoms like Ask, Harriet. I must hasten to add, while talking about television and the rest of

Obituaries >> Paul Gaylight Stewart December 4,1948 – October 27, 2013 Paul Stewart, better known to his many friends as Gaylight, peacefully left us Sunday, October 27, 2013 at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco at the age of 64. A Bronx native before moving to San Francisco in 1973, he became a creative force in the San Francisco gay alternative arts scene as both a poet and musician. In the mid-1970s he headlined one of the earliest gay punk bands, Auntie Christ and the Assholes. A spiritual and cultural visionary, Paul attended the first Spiritual Gathering for Radical Faer-

ies in 1979 and stayed involved in that community until his death. He was a practitioner of the Course in Miracles and active member of the Community Miracles Center. During the height of the AIDS crisis he helped care for many ill friends. He later was a caregiver for gay actor David Baker, and Harry Hay and his partner John Burnside. Paul will be greatly missed by his many friends in the Radical Faerie, Billy Club, and California Miracles Center communities. His smile, wit, generosity of spirit and great sense of humor will live on in all who knew him. A potluck memorial celebration of Paul Gaylight’s life will commence on Saturday, December 7 at 1 p.m. at 455 14th Street in San Francisco. For more information email Jerrfaer@yahoo.com or sfrichard@sbcglobal.net.

ball in the world, and my brother considers himself to be amongst that group.” He said his brother is in “the best shape of his life” and hopes he will be picked up by a team when 10-day contracts start in January. Let’s hope so. Otherwise we won’t have a case of someone who was the first athlete denied a chance because he was gay, but because he was honest. Of course, Collins’s non-signing left the door open for Robbie Rogers to be the first out male athlete in the country’s “fifth” major sport, soccer.

Shortly after Collins disclosed his sexuality in Sports Illustrated, Rogers came out of retirement to join the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Collins’s non-signing isn’t the only reminder of the hurdles still to be cleared before homophobia in sports can be declared dead. We got a whiff of that in the Bay Area when we learned this fall that a high school football coach has been fired, not once but twice, after his employers learned he was gay. (See http:// tinyurl.com/ka9u6oy.) The first time was at a religious school, giving him little legal recourse, but this last time was at a public high school. Here’s hoping his lawsuit raises awareness among high school officials that they need to embrace the spirit and the letter of nondiscrimination laws and the coach is back helping young lives soon. While we’re at it, let’s give thanks to the Sochi Winter Olympics, which have brought media attention to the passage of multiple homophobic laws in Russia, all aimed at preventing children from ever learning anything positive about LGBT people – the very sort of information which could spell the difference between a life of despair and suicide and a life of hope and success. Although the International Olympic Committee has protested with inefficacy that the laws aren’t

in keeping with its Olympic charter and done nothing satisfactory to protest the laws, at least the international spotlight is on the Russian oppression of queers. It’s what coaches who lose a tight game lamely call a moral victory. Let us also give thanks for the emergence of transgender mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox, whose disclosure of her transgender status unleashed not just a wave of ignorant antipathy, but also a welcome and refreshing education destroying the myths about perceived advantages trans athletes have. In her successes and her failures, Fox is proving to be a fighter worthy of admiration and a genuinely class act. Decades after Renee Richards became the first celebrity transgender women in sports, Fox’s career serves as a healthy reminder of the ignorance still to be conquered. Lastly, let us give thanks for something that is a blessing no matter how we look at it. Let’s give thanks for the successful launch of the LGBT Sports Summit – the first major coordinated effort for groups concerned with homophobia and transphobia in sports to come together and work in united efforts. Sports is defined in competition that inevitably leaves just winners lording over a pile of losers. How wonderful to see a team of “rivals” working to make all of us winners.t

the media, that GLAAD has recently taken a bold step forward, bringing on transgender writer Jennifer Finney Boylan as its board co-chair. This is a first for the organization, which was formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Indeed, most of the longestablished LGBT organizations are making strides on behalf of transgender people. Even the Human Rights Campaign – with a history of apathy at best toward trans issues – has shown some effort to move forward. Then there is the federal government. In decades past, you’d be hard pressed to find anything transgender-positive from the federal government. Indeed, you’d be hard-pressed to even see the word “transgender,” or any other references to transgender people. We were completely off the record for the most part. You’d be hard pressed to find much of note under former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, or any previous presidential administration. What scant information you might find, I can assure you, would not be entirely positive.

Meanwhile, our current commander-in-chief, Barack Obama, has been on record several times in support of transgender people, and his administration has clearly been supportive of transgender people, from declaring transgender people to be protected under Title VII to the Affordable Care Art, a.k.a. Obamacare, including transgender health care. At this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, both the White House and the State Department published blog entries supporting the event, and Obama sent messages to many involved with TDOR. This is far beyond what any administration has done. This has trickled down, somewhat, to the state and even some local politics, as transgender rights ordinances – in spite of our opponents – get passed through legislatures. In the last few weeks, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act was voted on by the Senate, and passed. This bill is one that has been fought for over the last two decades, and one that transgender activists spent many, many years fighting over the issue of transgender inclusion in the bill. ENDA today is transgender-in-

clusive, and it does not look like that will change again. Now I’m not under any illusions that we’ll see ENDA pass the House of Representatives, as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made it plenty clear that he intends to table it even as others have pointed out that there may be enough votes to pass the bill. Such is the nature of congressional politics today. Still, this should tell us that we have come a long way: the continual, Sisyphean struggle of the past on ENDA – and the many times that transgender people would be excluded from the bill – seems to be fading into our history. More than any of these, it is the transgender community itself that has changed. We have gone from a small group, meeting in back rooms and bars – that is when we did not actively try to avoid each other – to a community that organizes, that stands up for their rights, and that is active. That we stand up for ourselves is the biggest change, and the one that keeps us going forward in spite of those who might stand in our way. This is how we shall continue to move forward into the future.t

NBA player Jason Collins is still looking for a team to sign him, seven months after he came out in an essay in Sports Illustrated.

Gwen Smith is grateful for decades of change. You can find her online at www.gwensmith.com.

Wedding announcements compiled by Cynthia Laird Raymond Laird and Allen Charlton

The day that San Francisco became Gotham City, November 15, 2013, and hundreds descended upon City Hall, Supervisor Scott Wiener performed the marriage ceremony for Raymond Laird and Allen Charlton. It was the 43rd anniversary of their loving partnership. The ceremony was held in the breathtakingly beautiful 1916 board chambers of City Hall. Supervisor Wiener signed the license and marriage certificate on the desk

of the late Harvey Milk. Donna San Juan, Mr. Laird’s niece, and Ludmilla (Niki) Harmasz, a family friend, were the witnesses. The women planned a wonderful celebration for close friends of Mr. Laird and Mr. Charlton, in the couple’s home. Mr. Laird, 63, and Mr. Charlton, 73, are both retired from Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco. Mr. Laird is employed by the Sausage Factory in the Castro, and Mr. Charlton is an administrative assistant for a daycare center. They want to thank everyone who has expressed their love and congratulations for their new life together.

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grove and for generations to come in the many lives he touched. Franco was a part of our community for so many years, making a positive difference with his kindness, generosity, love and creativity.” The public program begins at noon Sunday and will include the Care Choir, which Cunningham said is “a compilation of various houses of worship.” For more information, visit http://www.aidsmemorial.org.

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ibly honored” by the award. “I’ve never thought of myself as a leader or as particularly courageous – I just tried to do what I thought was the right thing when it came to support for people with HIV/ AIDS,” he said. “In the early years of the epidemic, that wasn’t always easy but it always seemed to me to be worth the work and worth the risk. Like most everybody else who lived in San Francisco in those early years, I lost a lot of people who were very close, people who were the family I created when I moved from Cleveland.” Individual tickets for Light in the Grove are $200. Host-level tickets start at $500 and go up to $10,000. The AIDS grove is having its 20th annual World AIDS Day observance from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, December 1, when the international day is officially recognized. Several people will be honored at the AIDS grove event, which is free and open to the public. Phill Wilson, president and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, will receive the grove’s National Leadership Recognition Award. The Black AIDS Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on black people, according to the AIDS grove, and its mission is to stop the AIDS pandemic in black communities. In a statement provided by the AIDS grove, Wilson said, “The facts are that we have the tools at our disposal to bring the epidemic to an end: better diagnostic tools, improved treatments, better surveillance techniques, effective prevention interventions, even enhanced policy interventions. We have the tools to end the epidemic. I believe the greatest challenge we face in HIV/AIDS today is not can we end the epidemic, but will we end the epidemic.” Among other positions, Wilson has also served as the AIDS coordinator for Los Angeles and the director of policy and planning at AIDS Project Los Angeles. He stated that when he got involved in HIV/AIDS policy and advocacy he was “a young black

Liver confab

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easy-to-take options is proceeding faster for hepatitis C. Direct-acting antiviral drugs that target different steps of the hepatitis C virus lifecycle have brought about a revolution in treatment. The old standard of care – pegylated interferon plus ribavirin – cured fewer than half of people with difficultto-treat HCV genotype 1 with a year of treatment that causes side effects ranging from flu-like symptoms to depression. Adding one of the first direct-acting drugs approved in 2011, boceprevir (Victrelis) or telaprevir (Incivek), increases cure rates to about 60 to 70 percent and can shorten treatment time to six months, but they come with their own toxicities. Last Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved the first next-generation hepatitis C drug, Janssen’s simeprevir. Approval of Gilead Sciences’ sofosbuvir is expected soon. At first these new drugs will be used as add-ons to pegylated interferon and ribavirin for people with HCV genotype 1, but all-oral combinations are on the horizon. For people with easier-to-treat genotypes 2 or 3, sofosbuvir plus ribavirin is expected to be the first approved interferon-free regimen. Although it is unlikely to be included in the drugs’ initial approved indications, data from the COSMOS study presented at the conference showed that the combination of simeprevir plus sofosbuvir for

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Other World AIDS Day events in the Bay Area Longtime AIDS policy advocate Phill Wilson

gay man living with HIV who saw the epidemic destroy far too many friends. I watched HIV decimate communities, my communities. I had to become involved. This was the work I was called to do.” Tom Jensen, co-chair of the grove’s board, stated, “Phill is an exceptional leader in HIV/AIDS education and awareness, particularly among at-risk populations and the Black community. He has been an instrumental advocate in shaping public policy that has helped save lives and prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS.” Another grove honoree will be the late Franco Beneduce, whom event organizers called “a legendary AIDS fundraising event producer.” Beneduce, who died in May after a stroke caused by an aneurysm, will be posthumously recognized with the Local Unsung Hero Award. The longtime Bay Area resident was the creator and producer behind Light in the Grove and the annual Folsom Street Fair’s Magnitude dance party. Among other achievements, in the mid-1990s, he also co-hosted Closet-Free Radio, which according to the grove organization was one of the first commercial gay-lesbian radio talk shows in the country. Gina Gatta, former grove board co-chair and last year’s Local Unsung Hero Award recipient, stated, “Franco’s impact, presence, and legacy will always be felt here at the 12 weeks produced a cure for more than 90 percent of genotype 1 patients who did not respond to previous interferon-based treatment. (The study included 167 participants.) Researchers also presented promising data demonstrating cure rates in the 90 to 100 percent range for all-oral combinations being developed by AbbVie (formerly Abbott), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Merck. Response rates were high even for people who did not previously respond to interferon-based therapy and for people with advanced liver fibrosis or cirrhosis, who often have difficulty tolerating interferon. Looking at other difficult-to-treat groups, sofosbuvir plus ribavirin taken for 24 weeks cured 76 percent of previously untreated HIV/HCV coinfected people with genotype 1, while 12 weeks of treatment cured 88 percent and 67 percent of those with genotypes 2 or 3, respectively. Other studies showed, for the first time, that sofosbuvir plus ribavirin taken before liver transplantation prevented HCV recurrence in 64 percent of patients, while the same combination taken after recurrence may offer a cure, data that Mark Sulkowski from Johns Hopkins characterized as “revolutionary.” “For years people have said ‘show us the cirrhotics, show us the null responders,’” Sulkowski said in an overview of new hepatitis C data. Such data was seen at this meeting, revealing “dramatic advances” that will change how HCV is managed. “Now the issue is access, and that will be a challenge,” he concluded.

There will be several other opportunities to recognize World AIDS Day this weekend. From 9 p.m. Saturday, November 30 to 4 a.m. Sunday, December 1, Club Rimshot at Bench and Bar, 510 17th Street in Oakland, will host the official West Coast Turn Up and World AIDS Day launch party for Connecting Resources for Urban Sexual Health, a new health center. The center, which is at Oakland’s Alta Bates Medical Center (3100 Summit Street, second floor), focuses on young gay and bisexual men of color and offers sexually-transmitted infection prevention and other services. The party, which isn’t a fundraiser, will include live music by Trina. General admission tickets are $15. Visit http://www.bench-andbar.com/events_07saturday.php for more information. Sunday, AIDS/LifeCycle will host a remembrance ride from the Sports Basement-Presidio, 610 Old Mason Street, San Francisco, to the AIDS grove. Riders will gather at 10 a.m. in the Sports Basement back lot before embarking on the 10-mile ride. Red ribbons will be distributed to riders and passersby as a reminder of the day’s importance, organizers said. Parking for cars at Sports Basement will be limited. To RSVP, go to www.tofighthiv. org/site/Calendar/1929849121l. A handful of events are planned in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood for Sunday night. Beginning at dusk, or around 5 p.m., at Castro and Market streets, there will be a vigil with a reading including the names of people who

Speaking at an opening-day press conference, AASLD President Gregory Fitz predicted that these new drugs “could easily be $100,000 or more” for a course of treatment. “We’d like to think we could make decisions about what’s best for the individual, but thinking about this on a population scale is daunting,” he said.

Hepatitis testing and epidemiology

Over years or decades chronic hepatitis B or C can lead to serious liver disease including cirrhosis, liver cancer, and end-stage liver failure requiring transplantation. Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver cancer and liver transplants in the U.S., while hepatitis B remains a major cause worldwide. But while an effective vaccine has reduced new hepatitis B virus infections by about 90 percent, hepatitis C is still on the rise. According to Ronald Valdiserri, Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary for health, as many as 1.4 million people in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis B and up to 3.9 million have chronic hepatitis C. Hepatitis C rates are highest in the baby boom generation – people born between 1945 and 1965 – most of whom were infected many years ago. A large study by Lisa Backus from the Palo Alto Veterans Health Administration revealed that about two-thirds of veterans in this age cohort had been tested for HCV and 10 percent of these were found to be infected. Among veterans older than 68 and those younger than 48 years, in contrast, prevalence was 2 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

Director David Weissman’s acclaimed film We Were Here plays Sunday at the Castro Theatre.

have died from AIDS. At 7, the documentary We Were Here, which recalls the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco, will play at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street. A question-and-answer session with director David Weissman and the cast will follow. General admission tickets are $11. Tickets for people age 62 or over are $8.50. After the film, at about 9, there will be a candlelight memorial near the theater. People are encouraged to bring candles and markers. A blank panel will be available “where people can write messages to their loved ones who are no longer here because they died of AIDS or have been displaced from San Francisco,” said organizer Brian Basinger, director of AIDS Housing Alliance/San Francisco. Basinger and others have been drawing attention to people living with AIDS and others who are struggling against high rents and evictions. “We’re also going to invite people to put on their best thinking and write down ideas for what the mayor and elected officials can do about the AIDS crisis and also the housing crisis,” said Basinger. He and others plan to take those ideas to Mayor Ed Lee’s office within days after the vigil. He also plans to carry in demands collected from the Wednesday, November 27 march commemorating the 35th anniversary of the assassinations of former Backus’s study looked at a national database of approximately 5.5 million U.S. veterans. But alarmingly, Valdiserri said, hepatitis C incidence rates in the U.S. have started to increase again for the first time in several years, associated with new infections among young injection drug users. Since 2000 clinicians have also reported outbreaks of apparently sexually transmitted HCV infection among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in cities in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. At the state level, the California Department of Public Health’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch released its first-ever chronic viral hepatitis surveillance report (http://tinyurl.com/myo7prq). According to the report, 10,308 new cases of chronic hepatitis B were reported to CDPH in 2011, with nearly two-thirds occurring among Asians and Pacific Islanders. The health department received 33,190 new reports of chronic hepatitis C in 2011, with more than half occurring among baby boomers. Among the local health jurisdictions with populations of at least 100,000, San Francisco had the highest rate of newly reported cases of both hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C. Describing a “cascade of care” similar to the well-know HIV cascade, Valdiserri explained that about half of individuals living with hepatitis C are aware they are infected. Among those who have been diagnosed, about 35 percent are referred to care, about 9 percent start treatment, and only about 5 percent are

gay Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. On Sunday afternoon from 1 to 4 p.m. there will be a World AIDS Day reading and a reception for the exhibit Safe Sex Bang: The Buzz Bense Poster Collection. The exhibit, which the B.A.R. recently wrote about, includes posters from past safer sex campaigns in cities around the world. It will take place at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission Street, San Francisco. The suggested donation is $5-$50; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, December 2, UCSF, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and other groups are sponsoring “World AIDS Day Forum – Getting to Zero in San Francisco: How Close are We?” at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. People attending the forum, which is free, will get the latest news on the city’s progress against HIV/ AIDS and innovative programs. Experts from the AIDS foundation, UCSF, and San Francisco General Hospital will be among those on hand. For more information, see this week’s Guest Opinion piece. To register, visit http://tinyurl.com/ l5gkh8t.

HIV organ policy equity

In other HIV/AIDS news, President Barack Obama announced November 21 that he signed into law the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act. The bipartisan legislation allows scientists to carry out research into organ donations from one person with HIV to another. “For decades, these organ transplants have been illegal,” Obama said in a statement. “It was even illegal to study whether they could be safe and effective. But as our understanding of HIV and effective treatments have grown, that policy has become outdated. ... The HOPE Act lifts the research ban, and, in time, it could lead to live-saving organ donations for people living with HIV while ensuring the safety of the organ transplant process and strengthening the national supply of organs for all who need them.”t

successfully treated and cured. Recently updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend that all people born between 1945 and 1965 should be screened for HCV at least once, regardless of risk factors. Many people who already know they have hepatitis C have been waiting and will likely start therapy once they can be treated without interferon for as little as eight to 12 weeks and the new drugs will dramatically increase cure rates. Taken together, all of this should contribute to improving what Valdiserri called a “sad bottom line.” “The news from this year’s Liver Meeting couldn’t have been more exciting as it confirmed that the promising hepatitis C treatment pipeline offers real hope to end this epidemic,” Ryan Clary, director of public policy for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, told the Bay Area Reporter. “However, the conference also highlighted the unacceptable percentage of people who don’t know they are infected. We must strengthen our commitment to identify everyone who has hepatitis C and link them to care and a cure.”t

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Legal Notices>> SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: BORIS MARSHUBA, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS IRINA KIRIKOVA CASE NO. FDI13-779890 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE: The restraining orders following are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT, 400 MCALLISTER ST., CA 94102; the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: IRINA AEROV, 789 CABRILLO ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. AUG 08, 2013 Clerk of the Superior Court by AJ GAMBOL, Deputy. NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual. WARNING: California law provides that, for the purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035458300

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 11/14/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: TAG 888 BRANNAN, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 888 BRANNAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. Type of license applied for

47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 10/15/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: VICTORIVIC LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3348 STEINER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 94123-2707. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035459600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASPIRE SALON, 447 SUTTER ST. #428, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMANDA SIMPSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035491300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE QUEERIST, 1085 SOUTH VAN NESS #307, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LISSA DOTY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/21/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/15/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035485300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J & K CO., 2407 43RD AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IVAN NGOK CHUN KWOK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/12/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035470300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASTELLANOS TRUCKING, 1788 19TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SANDRA J. CASTELLANOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035482600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 4 TO THE FLOOR!, 290 TURK ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY KATHLEEN HALL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035454200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TEXIS JEWELERY, 2933 24TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BERTA H. CAMPOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035454100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LANDMARK THEATRES EMBARCADERO CENTER CINEMA, 1 EMBARCADERO CENTER STE. PL1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CINEMA BEVERAGES HOLDING COMPANY, LLC (TX). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAMPOS TRANSPORT, 2275 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BERTA H. CAMPOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/13.

NOV 14, 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035475000

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035454101

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERVE PD, 987 RHODE ISLAND ST. #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SERVE PD LLC (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 11/05/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JAIME’S JEWELRY, 2275 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BERTA H. CAMPOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/13.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549837 In the matter of the application of: WADE LEVAR ANDERSON NANDRAMSINGH, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner WADE LEVAR ANDERSON NANDRAMSINGH, is requesting that the name WADE LEVAR ANDERSON NANDRAMSINGH, be changed to ANDE NANDRAMSINGH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 19th of December 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549946 In the matter of the application of: JOHN ANTHONY RYAN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOHN ANTHONY RYAN is requesting that the name JABARI EZEKIEL FANNER be changed to JABARI EZEKIEL FANNER RYAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 4th of February 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 28, DEC 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035495700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YURPATH; YURPATH SOLUTIONS; 3 BAYSIDE VILLAGE PL. #219, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KIMBERLY J. PUGH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/18/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035494800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MERCI LIMOUSINE, 749 LIBERTY ST., EL CERRITO, CA 94530. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAID LAOUARI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/13/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/18/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035480100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EBISU RESTAURANT, 1283 9TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed KATSUTOSHI STEPHEN & TAKAKO STEPHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/82. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/07/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035484700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITYWIDE TAXI, 2060 NEWCOMB AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BIG DOG CITY CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/12/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/12/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035483900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTH AMERICA INFORMATIONAL EDUCATION ORGANIZATION, 287 TEDDY AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ZHIJIANG LU & RUNHUA ZHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/12/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035487800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHATIME, 2437 NORIEGA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JIAO LI & HONG WEI YIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 11/18/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: LORIS DINER INTERNATIONAL INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 449 POWELL ST., 2ND, 3RD & 4TH FL., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-1503. Type of license applied for

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035458400

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAIWALKS, 3348 STEINER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VICTORIVIC, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/13.

Dated 11/06/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: LARRY MONTEY LIVINGSTON. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 222 HYDE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-3324. Type of license applied for

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035455800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALI’S FINEST PARTY BUS, 1577 OAKDALE AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CALI’S FINEST PARTY BUS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035458500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURRITO LOCO, 850 ULLOA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed FRIENDS DYNASTY, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/13.

NOV 21, 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035485500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BASEMENT, 222 HYDE ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LARRY LIVINGSTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/12/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/12/13.

NOV 28, DEC 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035496900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOTION STARVED, 2626 GOUGH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLEY D. HEYE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/19/13.

NOV 28, DEC 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035504500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARINA GRINS DENTAL, 3210 FILLMORE ST. #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed ELENA HEREDIA DDS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/13.

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42 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - PUBLIC PREMISES NOV 28, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 11/20/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SNAKEBITE LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2200 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114-1506. Type of license applied for

47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE NOV 28, DEC 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035490300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEL SF, 3215 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company and is signed BELAMIS LLC. (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 11/14/13.

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ebar.com TRANSBAY BLOCK 8 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (“OCII”) is soliciting proposals from qualified development teams to purchase Transbay Block 8, a oneacre parcel located in Downtown San Francisco, and develop the site with a high-density, residential project with approximately740 units, 27 percent of which must be affordable to qualifying households, and ground-floor retail in multiple building types, including a 550-foot tower, townhouses, and podium buildings. For a copy of the RFP, visit OCII’s website at http://www. sfredevelopment.org, call (415) 7492439, or email courtney.pash@sfgov. org. Proposals must be received by February 26, 2014. 11/28/13 CNS-2561600# BAY AREA REPORTER

City and County of San Francisco Outreach Advertising 2013 – 12A Newspaper Outreach Advertising Survey

The Board of Supervisors is evaluating the effectiveness of Outreach advertising. Was the information in this ad helpful and/or interesting to you? Please provide your comments at (415) 554-7710 or email board.of.supervisors@sfgov.org. Please include the publication name and date.

Notice of Availability of Request for Proposals (RFP)

Mayor’s Ofﬁce of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) has announced the availability of the RFP for 2014-2015 programs under the following funding sources and program areas: • Community Development Block Grant (CDBG): Capital Projects, HOPE SF Community Building Services, Housing Development and Public Space Improvements; • Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA): Capital Projects; and • General Fund: Capital Projects The RFP is available electronically on MOHCD’s website at www.sfmohcd.org. All proposals must be submitted electronically by 5:00pm on Monday, December 16, 2013. Please visit www.sfmohcd.org for more information.

Tell us where you need curb ramps!

Do you use a wheelchair, walker, or scooter? Do you have trouble getting to the nearest transit stop? You can make a request for a curb ramp in your area by calling 3-1-1. Just jot down the intersection and tell the 3-1-1 operator how a curb ramp would increase access for your neighborhood. There are approximately 50,000 curb ramp locations in San Francisco and we are trying to reach them all. We appreciate your help! This is a project of the Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s Ofﬁce on Disability.

From the Department of the Environment

Guess what? San Francisco has a website that tells you how and where to recycle almost anything! sfenvironment.org/recyclewhere

San Francisco Arts Commission

Join the San Francisco Arts Commission for a Town Hall meeting to learn more about its plans for the future. Director of Cultural Affairs Tom DeCaigny will present our vision for the next ﬁve years and our goals for getting there. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions, share comments and provide input on priorities for arts-related policy in the City. on Sat., Dec. 14, 10-11:30am at the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park. Visit sfartscommission.org.

SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT

AUXILIARY LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TEAM (ALERT)

The San Francisco Police Department has developed a volunteer citizen disaster preparedness program. The ALERT program will train members of the public to assist law enforcement in essential tasks after a major disaster. Such tasks may include: traffic control, foot patrol of business and residential areas, and reporting criminal activity. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age and live, work, or attend high school in San Francisco. ALERT volunteers will first complete the Fire Department’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) training (www.sfgov.org/sfnert), and then graduate into an eight hour Police Department course specifically designed for ALERT team members. For a comprehensive overview, please visit our webpage at www.sanfranciscopolice.org/alert Additional information can be obtained by emailing sfpdalert@sfgov.org, or by calling Sergeant Mark Hernandez (SFPD, Ret.), Coordinator, at (415) 401-4615. The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated into several languages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort to translate the articles of general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and County of San Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions.

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Jeffrey Solomon plays 20 characters in his solo comedy Santa Claus Is Coming Out at the Eureka Theatre. tricals Courtesy Diverse City Thea

he notion that there are 12 days of Christmas, at least nowadays, is less likely to arise from Biblical interpretations than that song that goes on for 12 verses about a partridge in a pear tree. Now that I have wormed that refrain into your head, let’s talk about 12 shows that promise to add a little more fizz to the holiday cheer. 1. Santa Claus Is Coming Out created a stir when playwright-actor Jeffrey Solomon first performed his one-man show in New York (Bill O’Reilly was not amused). Now Solomon’s Santa Claus is coming to town, with Solomon himself playing 20 characters who rattle St. Nick’s closet when a small boy asks for a doll for Christmas. It runs Dec. 19-24, in repertory with David Sedaris’ Santa Land Diaries, at the Eureka Theatre. Info at combinedartform.com. 2. Christmas with the Crawfords, created by Artfull Circle Theatre two decades ago, hasn’t been seen in these parts for quite a while. But if you include Yountville as part of these parts, then the satire of 1940s Hollywood is coming home. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center is presenting Richard Win-

Music for the holidays by Jason Victor Serinus

either industry doldrums nor global warming can stop the flow of holiday releases. Jazz, pop, classical, and a stretch for Hanukkah – here’s our annual helping for 2013. John Fahey Christmas Guitar Soli (Fantasy CD) Recorded between 196883, these lovely, simple versions of holiday tunes chime with the scintillating yet surprisingly innocent sound of Fahey’s acoustic steel-string guitar. A companion to Fantasy’s recent LP reissue of The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album, which sold 100,000 copies in 1968, the album’s spirit is a welcome antidote to overhyped commercialism. New York Voices Let It Snow (Five Cent Records) The New York Voices quartet has a joyful time celebrating its 25th anniversary with jazz-inflected arrangements of traditional carols and 20th-century secular classics, both a cappella and accompanied. Many have a retro, post-Andrew Sisters feel, including a delightful “Holiday for Strings” and a sweet “Sleepers, Wake!”

that sounds like the Swingle Singers come home. Perfect for sipping eggnog while gazing nostalgically at photos of Rockefeller Center. Gil and Orli Shaham Nigunim - Hebrew Melodies (Canary Classics) One of San Francisco’s favorite violinists, Gil Shaham, joins his pianist sister Orli on this collection of Hebrew melodies. The title refers to Avner Dorman’s Violin Sonata #3, Nigunim, which the Shahams jointly commissioned with the 92nd St. Y. Based on the common elements of Jewish melodies throughout the world, Dorman’s sonata is filled with haunting multi-cultural beauty. It also seems right at home with works by Bonime, Achron, Zeitlin, Bloch (Baal Shem), and Williams (Schindler’s List). J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio BWV248 - Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton cond. (Hyperion) Any new recording of Bach’s collection of six oratorios for the Christmas season is cause for celebration. This one opens with such lively and precise rhythms and such full percussion that the ear immediately warms to the prospect of two CDs filled with Bach’s

incomparable melodies and counterpoint. The soloists – soprano Katherine Watson, countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor James Gilchrist, and bass Matthew Brook – are first-class. Every track is a wondrous discovery. Karrin Allyson Yuletide Holiday (Kasrecords1) Jazz great and former Oaklander Karrin Allyson breaks loose with her first Christmas album. Allyson kicks off with a lovely tune of her own, co-written with Chris Casswell, and proceeds to mix other original songs and a few beloved classics (“Winter Wonderland,” “Let it Snow,” Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time is Here”) with gems from Bill Evans, Patty McGovern, Mel Torme, and Dave Frishberg. Karrin is in great voice, and radiates heartwarming energy that hits the spot. Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas (Concord) It’s been around 100 times, and never lost its freshness. This time you can get the late San Francisco pianist Guaraldi’s beloved gem in a special green-vinyl LP pressing, as well as in a 24bit Snoopy Doghouse Edition CD remastering from the master tapes, accompanied See page 43 >>

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chester and Mark Sargent’s version of a star-studded holiday party that falls out of its hostess’ steely grip. Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is Joan Crawford in the new production playing Dec. 6-7. Info at lincolntheater.com. 3. The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes is a fresh edition of an eight-year-old holiday tradition. Two new yuletide episodes from the TV series will be staged live Dec. 5-22 at the Victoria Theatre, but the drag-star cast remains the same: Heklina as Dorothy, Cookie Dough as Sophia, Matthew Martin as Blanche, and Pollo del Mar as Rose. Tickets at trannyshack.com. 4. It’s Christmas, Carole! is the newest creation from the gang that sent an 80-year-old Alice back down the rabbit hole in Wunderworld last summer. This time, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is put into writer Michael Phillis’ creative blender, introducing a grumpy modernday office-worker (Sara Moore) who becomes a convert to glad tidings after a few ghostly visits. Aimed at an allage demographic, the 50-minute show is described as a “human cartoon.” Performances are Dec. 12-22 at Yerba Buena’s Creativity Theatre. Tickets at itschristmascarole. com. 5. Crones for the Holidays: The Sequel reunites lesbian playwright Terry Baum and housewife-turnedSee page 34 >>

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What is COMPLERA? COMPLERA® is a prescription HIV medicine that is used as a complete regimen to treat HIV-1 in adults who have never taken HIV medicines before and who have an amount of HIV in their blood (this is called “viral load”) that is no more than 100,000 copies/mL. COMPLERA contains 3 medicines – rilpivirine, emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. It is not known if COMPLERA is safe and effective in children under the age of 18 years. COMPLERA® does not cure HIV-1 infection or AIDS. To control HIV-1 infection and decrease HIV-related illnesses you must keep taking COMPLERA. Avoid doing things that can spread HIV-1 to others: always practice safer sex and use condoms to lower the chance of sexual contact with body fluids; never reuse or share needles or other items that have body fluids on them, do not share personal items that may contain bodily fluids. Ask your healthcare provider if you have questions about how to reduce the risk of passing HIV-1 to others.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION What is the most important information you should know about COMPLERA? COMPLERA® can cause serious side effects: • Build-up of an acid in your blood (lactic acidosis), which is a serious medical emergency. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include feeling very weak or tired, unusual (not normal) muscle pain, trouble breathing, stomach pain with nausea or vomiting, feeling cold, especially in your arms and legs, feeling dizzy or lightheaded, and/or a fast or irregular heartbeat. • Serious liver problems. The liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and fatty (steatosis). Symptoms of liver problems include your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice), dark “tea-colored” urine, light-colored bowel movements (stools), loss of appetite for several days or longer, nausea, and/or stomach pain. • You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or serious liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking COMPLERA for a long time. In some cases, these serious conditions have led to death. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any symptoms of these conditions. • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. If you also have HBV and stop taking COMPLERA, your hepatitis may suddenly get worse. Do not stop taking COMPLERA without first talking to your healthcare provider, as they will need to monitor your health. COMPLERA is not approved for the treatment of HBV.

Who should not take COMPLERA? Do not take COMPLERA if you have ever taken other anti-HIV medicines. COMPLERA may change the effect of other medicines and may cause serious side effects. Your healthcare provider may change your other medicines or change their doses. Do not take COMPLERA if you also take these medicines: • anti-seizure medicines: carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Equetro, Tegretol, Tegretol-XR, Teril, Epitol); oxcarbazepine (Trileptal), phenobarbital (Luminal), phenytoin (Dilantin, Dilantin-125, Phenytek) • anti-tuberculosis medicines: rifabutin (Mycobutin), rifampin (Rifater, Rifamate, Rimactane, Rifadin) and rifapentine (Priftin) • proton pump inhibitors for stomach or intestinal problems: esomeprazole (Nexium, Vimovo), lansoprazole (Prevacid), dexlansoprazole (Dexilant), omeprazole (Prilosec), pantoprazole sodium (Protonix), rabeprazole (Aciphex) • more than 1 dose of the steroid medicine dexamethasone or dexamethasone sodium phosphate • St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) If you are taking COMPLERA you should not take other HIV medicines or other medicines containing tenofovir (Viread, Truvada, Stribild or Atripla); other medicines containing emtricitabine or lamivudine (Emtriva, Combivir, Epivir, Epivir-HBV, Epzicom, Trizivir, Atripla, Stribild or Truvada); rilpivirine (Edurant) or adefovir (Hepsera). In addition, tell your healthcare provider if you are taking the following medications because they may interfere with how COMPLERA works and may cause side effects: • certain antacid medicines containing aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate (examples: Rolaids, TUMS). These medicines must be taken at least 2 hours before or 4 hours after COMPLERA. • medicines to block stomach acid including cimetidine (Tagamet), famotidine (Pepcid), nizatidine (Axid), or ranitidine HCL (Zantac). These medicines must be taken at least 12 hours before or 4 hours after COMPLERA. • any of these medicines: clarithromycin (Biaxin); erythromycin (E-Mycin, Eryc, Ery-Tab, PCE, Pediazole, Ilosone), fluconazole (Diflucan), itraconazole (Sporanox), ketoconazole (Nizoral) methadone (Dolophine); posaconazole (Noxafil), telithromycin (Ketek) or voriconazole (Vfend). • medicines that are eliminated by the kidneys like acyclovir (Zovirax), cidofovir (Vistide), ganciclovir (Cytovene IV, Vitrasert), valacyclovir (Valtrex) and valganciclovir (Valcyte).

COMPLERA.

A complete HIV treatment in only 1 pill a day. COMPLERA is for adults who have never taken HIV-1 medicines before and have no more than 100,000 copies/mL of virus in their blood.

Ask your healthcare provider if it’s the one for you.

These are not all the medicines that may cause problems if you take COMPLERA. Tell your healthcare provider about all prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements you are taking or plan to take.

The most common side effects reported with COMPLERA are trouble sleeping (insomnia), abnormal dreams, headache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, rash, tiredness, and depression. Some side effects also reported include vomiting, stomach pain or discomfort, skin discoloration (small spots or freckles) and pain.

Before taking COMPLERA, tell your healthcare provider if you: • Have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infection, or have abnormal liver tests • Have kidney problems • Have ever had a mental health problem • Have bone problems • Are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if COMPLERA can harm your unborn child • Are breastfeeding: Women with HIV should not breastfeed because they can pass HIV through their milk to the baby. Also, COMPLERA may pass through breast milk and could cause harm to the baby

This is not a complete list of side effects. Tell your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you notice any side effects while taking COMPLERA, and call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects.

COMPLERA can cause additional serious side effects: New or worsening kidney problems, including kidney failure. If you have had kidney problems, or take other medicines that may cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider may need to do regular blood tests. • Depression or mood changes. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms: feeling sad or hopeless, feeling anxious or restless, have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide) or have tried to hurt yourself. • Changes in liver enzymes: People who have had hepatitis B or C, or who have had changes in their liver function tests in the past may have an increased risk for liver problems while taking COMPLERA. Some people without prior liver disease may also be at risk. Your healthcare provider may need to check your liver enzymes before and during treatment with COMPLERA. • Bone problems can happen in some people who take COMPLERA. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do additional tests to check your bones. • Changes in body fat can happen in people taking HIV medicine. • Changes in your immune system. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider if you start having new symptoms after starting COMPLERA. •

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit http://www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Additional Information about taking COMPLERA: • Always take COMPLERA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it. • Take COMPLERA with food. Taking COMPLERA with food is important to help get the right amount of medicine in your body. (A protein drink does not replace food. If your healthcare provider stops COMPLERA, make certain you understand how to take your new medicine and whether you need to take your new medicine with a meal.) Stay under the care of your healthcare provider during treatment with COMPLERA and see your healthcare provider regularly. Please see Brief Summary of full Prescribing Information with important warnings on the following pages.

Learn more at www.COMPLERA.com

Brief SummaryBrief of fullSummary Prescribing of full Information Prescribing Information

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rifampin (Rifater, rifampin Rifamate, (Rifater, Rimactane, Rifamate, Rifadin); Rimactane, rifapentine Rifadin); rifapentine • Ask your Ask your healthcare provider healthcare if you provider have anyifquestions you have about any questions about (Priftin) how to preventhow passing to prevent HIV to passing other people. HIV toDo other not people. share or Do not share or(Priftin) re-use needles re-use or otherneedles injection or equipment, other injection andequipment, do not share and do not share – proton pump–inhibitor proton pump (PPI) inhibitor medicine(PPI) for certain medicine stomach for certain stomach personal items personal that can items have blood that can or body havefluids bloodonorthem, body fllike uids on them, like or intestinal problems: or intestinal esomeprazole problems:(Nexium, esomeprazole Vimovo); (Nexium, Vimovo); toothbrushes and toothbrushes razor blades. andAlways razor blades. practiceAlways safer sex practice by using safer sex by lansoprazole using (Prevacid); lansoprazole dexlansoprazole (Prevacid); dexlansoprazole (Dexilant); (Dexilant); a latex or polyurethane a latex orcondom polyurethane to lowercondom the chance to lower of sexual the chance of sexualomeprazole (Prilosec, omeprazole Zegerid); (Prilosec, pantoprazole Zegerid);sodium pantoprazole (Protonix); sodium (Protonix); contact with semen, contact vaginal with semen, fluids orvaginal blood. fluids or blood. rabeprazole (Aciphex) rabeprazole (Aciphex)

What is the most What important is the most information important I should information know I should know about COMPLERA? about COMPLERA?

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COMPLERA canCOMPLERA cause serious canside cause effects, serious including: side effects, including:

– St. John’s wort– (Hypericum St. John’s wort perforatum) (Hypericum perforatum)

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– have unusual–(not havenormal) unusual muscle (not normal) pain muscle pain

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• COMPLERA • Changes COMPLERA may affect themay way affect other medicines the way other work, medicines and work,•and Changes in your immuneinsystem your immune (Immune system Reconstitution (Immune Reconstitution other medicines other maymedicines affect howmay COMPLERA affect how works, COMPLERA and mayworks, and Syndrome) may canSyndrome) happen when canyou happen start when takingyou HIVstart medicines. taking HIV medicines. cause serious side causeeffects. seriousIf side you take effects. certain If you medicines take certain withmedicines Your with immune system Your immune may getsystem stronger may andgetbegin stronger to fight and begin to fight COMPLERA, theCOMPLERA, amount of COMPLERA the amountinofyour COMPLERA body may in be your toobody may beinfections too that infections have been that hidden have in been your body hidden forina your long body time.for a long time. low and it may low not work and ittomay helpnot control work your to help HIVcontrol infection. yourThe HIVHIV infection. Tell Theyour HIV healthcare Tell your provider healthcare if you start provider having if you new start symptoms having new symptoms virus in your body virus may in become your body resistant may become to COMPLERA resistantortoother COMPLERA or other after starting your afterHIV starting medicine. your HIV medicine. HIV medicines that HIV medicines are like it. that are like it. The most common Theside mosteffects common of COMPLERA side effectsinclude: of COMPLERA include: Especially tell your Especially healthcare tell your provider healthcare if you provider take: if you take: • • trouble trouble sleeping (insomnia) sleeping (insomnia) • an antacid medicine • an antacid that contains medicinealuminum, that contains magnesium aluminum, magnesium • abnormal dreams • abnormal dreams hydroxide, or calcium hydroxide, carbonate. or calcium If you carbonate. take an antacid If you take during an antacid during • headache • headache treatment with treatment COMPLERA,with takeCOMPLERA, the antacidtake at least the antacid 2 hoursat least 2 hours before or at least before 4 hours or atafter leastyou 4 hours take COMPLERA. after you take COMPLERA. • dizziness • dizziness • a medicine to• block a medicine the acidtoinblock yourthe stomach, acid inincluding your stomach, including• diarrhea • diarrhea cimetidine (Tagamet), cimetidine famotidine (Tagamet), (Pepcid), famotidine nizatidine (Pepcid), (Axid), nizatidine (Axid), • nausea • nausea or ranitidine hydrochloride or ranitidine(Zantac). hydrochloride If you(Zantac). take one of If you these take one of these • rash • rash medicines during medicines treatment during with treatment COMPLERA,with takeCOMPLERA, the acid take the acid blocker at leastblocker 12 hours at least before12orhours at least before 4 hours or atafter leastyou 4 hours after you • tiredness • tiredness take COMPLERA.take COMPLERA. • depression • depression • any of these medicines • any of these (if taken medicines by mouth (if taken or injection): by mouth or injection): Additional common Additional side effects common include: side effects include: – clarithromycin– (Biaxin) clarithromycin (Biaxin) • vomiting • vomiting – erythromycin –(E-Mycin, erythromycin Eryc, (E-Mycin, Ery-Tab, PCE, Eryc,Pediazole, Ery-Tab, PCE, Ilosone) Pediazole, Ilosone) • stomach pain• orstomach discomfort pain or discomfort – fluconazole (Difl – flucan) uconazole (Diflucan) • skin discoloration • skin(small discoloration spots or (small freckles) spots or freckles) – itraconazole (Sporanox) – itraconazole (Sporanox) • pain • pain – ketoconazole –(Nizoral) ketoconazole (Nizoral) Tell your healthcare Tell your provider healthcare if you have provider any ifside youeffect have any thatside bothers effect that bothers – methadone (Dolophine) – methadone (Dolophine) you or that doesyou notorgothat away. does not go away. – posaconazole–(Noxafi posaconazole l) (Noxafil) These are not allThese the possible are not all side theeffects possible of COMPLERA. side effects For of COMPLERA. more For more •

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Paying attention to Ethan Mordden by John F. Karr

f Mordden sounds to you like a place where a Hobbit might live, to me it’s a place of riches. I’m talking Ethan Mordden, my favorite gay author. He’s got two new books out, a cause for celebration. One, fiction; the other, fact. The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man (Magnus Books, paper, $15.95) is described as “A Novella and Four Stories.” The compact volume is Mordden’s first fiction in eight years. Don’t think he’s a slacker – during that time he published at least five nonfiction titles – All That Glittered, looking at the “legit,” non-musical side of Broadway history; Ziegfeld, a biography of Florenz Z.; The Guest List, a very showbizzy study of Manhattan’s reach into American culture; Love Song, a pungent duo biography of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; and the current Anything Goes. If Passionate Attention is perhaps not Mordden’s very best, these stories, which read like erotica but are really windows into the highs and lows of gay love, are still continually entertaining, stimulating, and emotionally rewarding. I don’t know another writer who can circle around the gay heart with Mordden’s sexy, droll hilarity, and then with quiet honesty shoot his arrow right through it. Mordden’s constant bull’s-eyes, so profound and sure, make you put down the book to bask in the splendor of the moment, as he once again illuminates the true nature and beauty of gay friendship. Best news for fans of Mordden’s five-volume Buddies series (and

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comic Carolyn Myers, a team also known as the Crackpot Crones, for more standup and sketch comedy aimed at holiday diversion and subversion. Performances Dec. 14-19 at the Exit Theatre. Tickets at crackpotcrones.com. 6. Help Is on the Way for the Holidays returns for its 12th gathering of Broadway and cabaret stars under the aegis of the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation. Cast members from the touring production of The Book of Mormon and NCTC’s Avenue Q are on

that should be everyone) is that Passionate Attention includes a new Buddies story. It’s the collection’s most overtly sexual tale, although not my favorite. That would be “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” in which the comedy runs the highest and the course of true love the deepest (Mordden, an ardent proponent of gay punctuation, would have that as True Love; my editor foreswears my indulging it in the B.A.R., so I’m always delighted at Mordden’s use). “Hopelessly Devoted” is the tale of a god-like porn star and a small-town Adonis, with a Greek chorus of local queens adding a general bitch’s brew of commentary and punctuation. It shares a common theme with the other stories: the curiously intertwining dependency of sub/dom relationships: a hetero actor “researching” sodomy, a cop and an orphan, a black bodybuilder and a fearful nerd. Mordden’s new nonfiction book is Anything Goes (Oxford University Press, cloth, $29.95). Its subtitle will give you pause: A History of American Musical Theatre. Wait, didn’t Mordden already write that? What about Mordden’s very first book, the 1976 Better Foot Forward, or the much heralded, variously titled seven-volume history that covered the same ground decade by decade? Okay. Mordden owns this territory. He launched his career as the music director of multiple shows, was a student of the BMI Musical

Theatre Workshop, and was both composer and lyricist of musicals; he knows what it takes to write these things, and has an insider’s knowledge of their construction. But his thesis, and the form with which he expresses it, hasn’t changed. So what’s up with this re-do? Unlike lucky Sam Wasson, whose Fosse was allowed 600 pages by its publisher, Mordden has been ruthlessly held to the Oxford Press’ 250-page stricture. That partially explains his highly condensed style; his sentences are packed. So, I found quickly and with great relief, the new book greatly expands on what’s come before. In the first five pages I learned six new things (fans will also rejoice in Mordden’s inauguration of a blog,

the bill along with Bruce Vilanch, Tim Hockenberry, Sharon McKnight, Davis Gaines, Jason Brock, and many more. This year’s event, on Dec. 9 at Marines Memorial Theatre, will benefit Positive Resource Center and Maitri Compassionate Care. Tickets at helpisontheway.org. 7. Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, at age 21, is now old enough to order a Manichewitz. No guarantees, though, that that particular wine is on the menu at New Asia

Restaurant, where Last Comic Standing finalist Gary Gulman headlines the bill at the annual event. The show also features “Florida condo circuit maven” Adrianne Tolsch, Jewish-Indian comic Samson Koletkar, and emcee Lisa Geduldig. There will be dinner and cocktail shows on Dec. 2426. Tickets at koshercomedy.com. 8. Cirque Dreams Holidaze has gingerbread men summersaulting in the air, toy soldiers walking the

with even more stuff that he’s had to leave out of his books; it’s http:// culturaladvantages.blogspot.com). This new overview thus allows Mordden to expand on how and why the various threads of opera comique, light opera, extravaganza, and burlesque intertwined to become the American musical; he can also give more in-depth looks at Jacques Offenbach and Victor Herbert. It also lets him come right up to last season; his previous foray concluded with The Producers, in 2003. I’d like nothing better than to dissect this book page by page, show by show. But that would turn the B.A.R. into the KARR. So call me up and we’ll dish. Show queens

and Broadway academics alike will be glad as Mordden resets standard thinking on the Princess Theatre shows, gives Victor Herbert his due (“he brought classical technique to popular forms”), and tells us what Follies is about. While I’m the sort of show queen who can sing you the hit tune from the unknown 1923 The Stepping Stones, Mordden’s the scholar who will tell you why the show is historically key. Finally, you’ll thrill as he excoriates Arthur Laurents. Oxford Press has even graciously given Mordden an extra 40-some-page allotment, in which he provides the most expanded version of a house specialty, the extended “For Further Reading,” and even better, a Discography. Mordden leads you to all of the good stuff, with his usual thoroughness, high opinion, and wit. How does he do it? Doesn’t matter whether he’s chronicling the history of musical theatre or writing erotic short stories, Mordden is witty, spirited, almost unassailably right-on, and above all, conversational. “Talking to My Pal” is the title of a song that was dropped from Pal Joey. It’s also how I’d label Mordden’s writing. Only one thing. You’ll have to know what a quodlibet is. So look it up before you start reading. (Hint: “I want a wedding in a big church.”)t

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The Golden Girls: The Holiday Episodes reunites, clockwise from top left, Pollo del Mar, Matthew Martin, Cookie Dough, and Heklina at the Victoria Theatre.

tightrope, reindeers skipping rope, and an acrobatic Santa in a stage circus inspired by, but not related to, Cirque du Soleil. Popping up each year in multiple productions to maximize the holiday window, its fifth edition will run Dec. 1115 at the Curran Theatre. Tickets at shnsf.com. 9. Mittens and Mistletoe: A Winter Circus Cabaret is something of a homegrown Holidaze. Sweet Can Productions’ fourth edition of its holiday variety show features live music, comedy performances, acrobatics, juggling, and clowning in a program hosted by clown queen Joan Mankin. Runs Dec. 20-24 at Dance Mission

Theater. Tickets at sweetcanproductions.com. 10. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – An Evening with Connie Champagne as Judy Garland is a title that needs little elaboration, except to say that the SF singer is a world-class Garland channeler, and that she’ll be at Feinstein’s at the Nikko on Dec. 18. Tickets at hotelnikkosf.com/ feinsteins. 11. A Swell Noel features another masterful channeler of a gay icon, in this case Noel Coward as interpreted by Craig Jessup. Coward’s compositions are featured, of course, but expect to also hear See page 43 >>

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For diehard horror fans only by David Lamble

t sometimes behooves a critic to deliver news that lies considerably south of good. The 10th edition of SF IndieFest’s horror division, the Another Hole in the Head film festival (Nov. 29-Dec. 19), labors this year under the daunting double challenge of unfamiliar venues – the Balboa Theater (38th Ave. & Balboa St., SF Muni lines 31 & 38); New People Cinema (1746 Post St.); and Stage Werx – and a program of “independent horror, sci-fi & fantasy” that only the hard-core fan could properly appreciate. The festival flier resembles a national Amtrak schedule. I suggest you consult the info website at www.sfindie.com. Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings (Philippines) For obvious reasons, I won’t belabor the challenges presented when attempting to watch director Jade Castro’s rural village-situated gender/horror mash-up. The title character – a beautiful 21-year-old, goatee-wearing, would-be ladies man – suffers a curse pronounced on his bratty 10-year-old self by his hamlet’s resident queer witch. Slowly, very slowly, Remington finds himself turning sissy-boy and starting to hanker for his threewheel scooter-driving buddy, Jigs. The serial killer, who’s offing the town’s out population, employs a ray-gun that would not have met the stringent standards of my childhood favorite B&W sci-fi classic, Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Thai filmmakers have recently moved beyond this hysterical camp style of comedy. They’ve been rewarded at Cannes for their efforts. Enough said. (12/8, 7 p.m.) My Other Me (Canada) The good news from director Josh Laner’s 86-minute survey of the “Co-

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Scene from director Jade Castro’s Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings, part of the Another Hole in the Head film festival.

splayer” movement among Western Canadian teens is the appearance of a bubbly FTM kid named Lucas. The smart/sassy extrovert demonstrates the results of his hormone therapy and nipple surgery in a manner that I think would be a morale-booster in these difficult times for gender-transitioning adolescents. He’s candid, funny, charmingly self-deprecating: a social tool-box that should serve him well. Lucas rather abruptly leaves the film at the 40-minute mark, after which I stopped watching. Cosplayers are comic-book convention fans who dress up like their favorite characters, a situation that allows a group of socially shy, often home-schooled kids to try on different modes of interaction behind the safety of a mask. (12/7, 3 p.m.) You Should Stop “I’m thinking of you.” “You should stop!” This rather droll snippet of teen horror tracks a self-absorbed shopgirl’s last day on earth. This one has some feature potential. But the balance of

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Scene from director Josh Laner’s My Other Me.

the Lola RocknRolla’s Lezploitation shorts program can be judged by the titles: Night of the Living Gay, I Was a Tranny Werewolf, Dragzilla and Nefertitty. (12/15, 7 p.m.) The bonus for readers who have gotten this far are screenings of two venerable mainstream classics, which are compelling for very different reasons. Jaws Director Steven Spielberg won his spurs for this mid-70s horror romp that arguably changed American moviegoing habits forever. Drawing on Peter Benchley’s instantly forgettable summer beach novel, Spielberg demonstrated his mastery of big-screen storytelling, complete with the sly suburban allusions that would power his later classics like ET. Now that we’ve grown immune to the breakthrough tricks in hot-weather entertainment pioneered by the Jaws team, what remains is a Preston Sturges-quality ensemble of small-town grouches: from Murray Hamilton’s pathetically clue-

less, tourists-as-shark-sushi mayor to Roy Scheider’s spunky charisma as a big-city cop in way over his head, to the nonchalant wisecracks of a young Richard Dreyfuss, to the outrageous third-act scene-stealing of the underappreciated Irish heavy Robert Shaw, who left us way too soon. From the moment John Williams’ shark theme kicks in, you’re hooked for a five-star, 124-minute ride. (12/4, 8 p.m.) The Shining This is a bad movie from a genius, director Stanley Kubrick, whose trademark skill set let him down: hypnotically deliberate pacing, smart scripts from quality fiction, and stars who could act placed in perilous situations. Jack Nicholson overacts so horrendously right out of the box that the whole enterprise feels like an especially egregious preview of Nicholson’s off-screen, living-large “Jack” persona. If you check Nicholson classics – Five Easy Pieces or The Last Detail – you find a toneddown version of the same snarky bad boy, only in better service to the

story. This was the first of a series of Jack going for the big bucks that would mark much of his Reagan years’ oeuvre. Amazingly, Stephen King’s basic premise – innocents trapped with a maniac in a creepy snowbound hotel – holds up despite a minefield of artistic bad choices. This potboiler holds your interest due in no small measure to the pioneering Steadicam shots, and especially the intuitive casting of six-year-old Danny Lloyd as the telekinetically gifted boy who sees through his psychotic dad’s bad intentions. A male Linda Blair, this was his first and last bigscreen turn – a 40-year-old Danny is reportedly teaching high-school science somewhere in the Midwest. (12/5, 9 p.m.) My choice for the festival’s best title: Dustin Miller’s Bath Salt Zombies. Like my 70s San Antonio, Texas mall favorite, Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, the title should be savored like a perfect bon mot stinger from a John Waters monologue, without further investigation.t

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overing in a metaphorical zone shared with coming-of-age gems like My Life as a Dog and The Squid and the Whale, Hong Kong-born, Canadian-raised director Quentin Lee’s fourth queer feature White Frog pivots on the turmoil injected into the life of young Asperger’s-afflicted Chinese American teen Nick (The Twilight Saga’s Booboo Stewart) upon the death of his older brother/minder, Chaz (Glee’s Harry Shum, Jr.). Suddenly Nick must navigate the boisterous pecking order of his bro’s old poker buddies, the disorienting chaos of Chaz’s secret project, a controversial teen drop-in center, and the gravitydefying uncertainties of sexual orientation in a socially conservative Christian family. Lee has carved out a niche among out gay directors with genre-challenging works like Drift and Ethan Mao. Here he fashions a credible portrait of an Asperger’s kid rudely pulled out of his comfort zone by tragedy and a desperate need to achieve a degree of social autonomy. Lee praises his 17-year-old lead for allowing audiences to identify with Nick. “Booboo came in with an audition that was a little more autistic, so I directed him towards an interpretation that was more Asperger’s, from which he found a very convincing character. It so happens

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that my little sister was diagnosed with Asperger’s just two weeks into our production. My family in Hong Kong was unaware of the movie, so you can see a kind of cultural zeitgeist at work. Ultimately, the message of the movie [written by sisters Ellie and Fabienme Wen] was one of acceptance.” Bonus features: behind-thescenes featurette; theatrical trailer.

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36 • Bay Area Reporter • November 28-December 4, 2013

O&A Out &About

My Beautiful Laundrette @ New Conservatory Theatre Center U.S. premiere of Hanif Kureishi’s tale (adapted by Andy Gram and Roger Parsley) about two gay men in 1980s England and their unlikely romance spurred by coowning a laundromat. $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Dec. 22. 25 Van Ness Ave at Oak. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Narratives of Desire @ Mark I. Chester Studio The SoMa photographer’s annual open studio, with kink and leather-themed artistic prints on display and for sale. Get your solo or group photo taken. Open by appointment thru 2013. 1229 Folsom St. 621-6294. www.markichester.com

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The Oy of Sex @ The Marsh Alicia Dattner’s solo show explores her life with ex-boyfriends, family, love addiction, and how they all sometimes clash. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. $20-$100. Thru Jan. 18. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

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ven though it’s a holiday weekend, plenty of extra dishes of culture continue to be served up for eager audiences. Get your fill. Too stuffed to go out? A few very special events are as close as your TV, lazybones.

Fri 29 Arlington @ Magic Theatre Victor Lodato and Polly Pen’s dramatic musical about a soldier’s wife and her sacrifices and doubts. $20-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30, 7pm. Fort Mason Center, Building D, 3rd floor. 441-8822. www.magictheatre.org

Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn @ PBS Great Performances presents a two-hour televised concert with the vocal icon, taped at the new Barclays Center, with guest Chris Botti, Il Volo and her openly gay son Jason Gould. 9pm. www.pbs.org

Dissident Futures @ YBCA Fascinating exhibit and series of events about visions of post-disaster Bay Area imagery; a future imagined in maps, videos, artwork and even a disturbing animal laboratory installation. Also, Kota Ezawa’s Boardwalk, an installation tribute to the Seaside Heights boardwalk (which was just destroyed by fire after barely enduring Hurricane Sandy). Thru Nov. 30. Also, Migrating Identities, an eight-artist exhibition visualizing cultural diversity in the U.S. Thru Nov. 30. 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org

Foodies, the Musical @ Shelton Theater Morris Bobrow’s musical comedy revue of songs and sketches about food. $32-$34. Fri & Sat 8pm. Open run. 533 Sutter St. (800) 838-3006. www.foodiesthemusical.com

Ideation @ Tides Theatre SF Playhouse performs Aaron Loeb’s darkly comic suspense thriller about corporate consultants who aren’t quite sure about an ethically ambiguous project. $10-$20. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. (no shows Nov 28, Dec 4/5). Thru Dec. 7. 533 Sutter St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Fri 29 Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Holiday shows now on sale. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swing-dance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

Macy’s Tree Lighting @ Union Square The 24th annual pagan ritual disguised as a promotion and Christmas event brings holiday cheer to downtown shoppers, with performers Judith Hill, the San Francisco Boys Choir, Glide Ensemble and UC Berkeley’s Artists in Resonance. 6pm. www.macys.com

Acclaimed pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek performs the solo stage adaptation of her book (co-written with Lee Cohen) about her mother when she was a young Jewish musician trying to survive the Nazi Germany regime. $29-$89. 8pm (other Wed 7pm) Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 8. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

The mega-hit multi-award-winning musical comedy parody about the wacky religion returns. Ticket lottery $29. Others $80$210. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. 1192 Market St. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

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Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Berkeley Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show explores the 1960s: Beatles, Black Panthers, MLK, JFK and the KKK. $20-$50. Sat 8:30pm and Sun 7pm thru Dec. 15. 2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Tea With Mrs. Patmore @ Sofia Jewelry, Mill Valley Lesley Nicol, costar of Downton Abbey (the cook) appears at a promotional event for the fine jewelry store, and will sign your Downton Abbey items. 3pm-5pm. 80 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 388-8776. www.sofiajewelrystore.com

U.S. Department of Illegal Superheroes @ Galería de la Raza Neil Rivas’ multimedia exhibit, a mix of dark parody and journalistic critique of government agencies, immigration policies, and race-based politics. Free. Reg hours Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm. Thru Jan. 18. 2857 24th St. at Bryant. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

The Rocky Horror Show @ Boxcar Theatre Live performance of the original Richard O’Brien musical (about sexed-up alien transsexuals) that became a cult film. $20-$55. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Dec. 21. 505 Natoma St. at 6th. www.sfrockyhorror.com

Sing-Along The Sound of Music @ Castro Theatre Enjoy the Julie Andrews classic film adaptation of the rodgers & Hammerstein musical about an Austrian family and their ex-nun governess who escape Nazi oppression through the wonders of singing. Laurie Bushman and friends host, with a costume contest, subtitles, and more of our favorite things. $12-$15. 7pm nightly (except Dec. 1; no shows Dec. 2, 3 & 6). Also at 1pm Nov 30, Dec. 1, 7 & 8. Thru Dec. 8. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Snoopy! @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon theatre company’s production of family-friendly sequel to the Peanuts-themed musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. $25-$75. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Dec. 15. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndStMoon.org

So You Think You Can Dance? @ Warfield Touring production of the popular dance competition TV show. $52-$60. 8pm. Also Nov. 23. 982 Market St. 345-0900. www.fox.com/dance

Top Guys @ Stage Werx Theatre SF Indie presents a wacky stage parody of the the ‘80s Tom Cruise film Top Gun. $20. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Dec. 14. 466 Valencia St. at 15th. 820-3907. www.sfindie.com

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New exhibit of 300 portraits, still lifes, and landscape paintings by the gay British painter. Free-$25. Thru Jan. 20. Also, The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, an exhibit of 150 pieces of exquisite Italian jewelry made between 1950 and 1990, including gems from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal collection. Thru Feb 17. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

In Grand Style, Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty, a new exhibit of works from 1392-1910. Thru Jan. 12. Also, Proximities 2, a contemporary exhibit of works by Bay Area artists focusing on the concept of family, and cultural and geographical distances. Thru Dec. 8. Free (members)-$12. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

National touring production of the Broadway revival of George Gershwin’s classic musical, which won a 2012 Tony Award; performed with a 23-piece orchestra. $40$210. Tues-Sat. 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Wed 2pm. Thru Dec. 8. 1 Taylor St. at 6th. (888) 746-1799. porgyandbessthemusical.com www.shnsf.com

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Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition @ de Young Museum

In Grand Style @ Asian Art Museum

Porgy and Bess @ Golden Gate Theatre

West Coast premiere of Emma Rice’s innovative acrobatic and music-filled adaptation of the classic mythical love story. $20-$72. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949.

The Book of Mormon @ Orpheum Theatre

The visually stunning Montreal circus brings their new show Amaluna, loosely based on Shakepeare’s The Tempest, to their big tent. $50-$140. Tue-Sat 8pm. FriSun 4:30pm. Also Sun. 1pm. Thru Dec. 31. Third St. at Terry A. Francois Blvd. www.cirquedusoleil.com

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ODC/Dance’s annual production of the children’s story ballet about a toy rabbit who longs to become real. $10-$75. Various times, mostly 11am. LGBT Family Day Nov. 30, 2pm. Thru Dec. 15. Lam Research Theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.odcdance.org www.ybca.org

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edgeiphone.com edgeandroid.com Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new exhibit, Vicki Marlane: I’m Your Lady, which displays video, images and ephemera documenting the pioneering local drag, cabaret and carnival perfomer, known for decades of performances. Thru Feb 28, 2014. Also, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, includes archival materials from the historic chorus, lead-curated by Tom Burtch. Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dancetheatre team. $15-$30. 4:30 and 7pm. Saturdays thru 2013. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 623-5300. www.capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org

Sun 1 Impressionists on the Water @ Legion of Honor Touring exhibit of French Impressionist aquatic works. Also, Darren Waterston: A Compendium of Creatures (thru Dec), and permanent exhibits (ongoing). $10-$25. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3600. www.legionofhonor.famsf.org

New Exhibits @ Museum of Craft and Design Dogpatch warehouse is now a museum store, gallery and program space. Inaugural exhibitions are Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey, 1968-2001 and Arline Fisch, Creatures from the Deep. Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm. 2569 Third St. 773-0303. www.sfmcd.org

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Betty Buckley @ Feinstein at the Nikko The iconic Broadway, film and TV singer-actress performs The Vixens of Broadway, her cabaret show of classic “other women,” aka second female leads in hit musicals ( Chicago, Evita, Company, Oklahoma, Into the Woods). $50-$80. Dec 5 & 12, 8pm. Dec. 6 & 13, 8pm. Dec 7 & 14, 7pm. Dec 8 & 15, 7pm. Thru Dec. 15. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St.(866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Hymns to Hermes: The Poetics of James Broughton @ SF Public Library Local activist and archivist Joey Cain’s exhibit of the gay poet and filmmaker includes rare personal items from his estate. Exhibit thru Jan. 16. James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, Main Library, third floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Jason Lazarus: Live Archive @ Contemp. Jewish Museum

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The Battle of AmfAR @ HBO Broadcast premiere of the fascinating documentary about the history of the first AIDS research foundation, with interviews with Dr. Matilda Krim, and footage of Elizabeth Taylor. 8pm. www.hbo.com

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California Native Plant Bloom @ SF Botanical Gardens Seasonal flowering of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 6612-1316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

Student Recitals @ SF Conservatory of Music Free recitals of classical and chamber music by students in various music departments. Mostly 8pm, some at 4pm. Also Dec 3-10, 12 7 15. 50 Oak St. 503-6215. www.sfcm.edu

Tue 3 Butterflies & Blooms @ Conservatory of Flowers Popular exhibit transforms the floral gallery into a fluttering garden with 20 species of butterflies and moths. Reg. hours, 10am-4pm. Free-$7. Tue-Sun 10am4:30pm. Extended thru March 16, 2014. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 8312090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

The News @ SOMArts Cultural Center Fresh Queer Performance with Bay Area artists curated by Jesse Hewitt, including Abby Crain, Detour Dance, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Phoebe Osborne, Mara Poliak and Maryanna Lachman, Mica Sigourney, SexiTude, and Vîv, as well as an additional non-dance performance piece by Bellows. $5. 7:30pm. 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. www.somarts.org

Exhibit of unusual work by the Chicago artist who explores collective public archives, personal memory, and the role of photography and collecting in contemporary art and identity. Also, two exhibits about Jewish life: To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History (thru July 1) and Work in Progress: Considering Utopia (thru Jan 20). 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

We All Die in the End @ Hypnodrome Peaches Christ and the San Francisco Art Institute’s one night of darkly comic ascerbic “Mondo-Skitz-O” cabaret acts, performed by students who took workshops with Peaches. $10. 7pm & 9:30pm. 575 10th St. www.peacheschrist.com

Whoville Skating @ Embarcadero Ice Rink

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It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba @ Contemp. Jewish Museum Release party for the 2-CD set celebrating the “Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s1980s,” produced by the Idelsohn Society. $10-$15. 6:30-8:30pm. 736 Mission St. www.thecjm.org

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories; hosted by Walt Anthony; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. www.SFMagicParlor.com

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians @ Various Cinemas Rifftrax, cast members from Mystery Science Theatre 3000, send up the amazingly awful scifi holiday movie. $15. 8pm. SF Cinearts Empire 3, Century 9 SF Centre, and other Bay Area locations. www. rifftrax.com www.fathomevents.com

Join dozens of LGBT folks and friends for a campy night of skating. Dress as your favorite Dr. Suess The Grinch Who Stole Christmas character, or just wear a elf, Santa hats, and/or a tacky holiday sweater. $10 to skate $4 skate rentals. 7:30 mingle, 8pm skating. Food and drinks after-party at The Holding Company (Embarcadero 2 Center). 4 Embarcadero Center. www. facebook.com/events/324292517709025/

Scott Wells & Dancers @ ODC Theater

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The Golden Girls @ Victoria Theatre Heklina, Cookie Dough, Matthew Martin, Polo Del Mar and guest performers haul out the classic senior women’s TV show scripts and do drag parodies. $30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 22. 2961 16th St. at Mission. www.trannyshack.com

IlluminArts Walk @ Embarcadero, Exploratorium The Black Rock Arts Foundation (the Burning Man folks) present aparticipatory walk along scenic areas of downtown; come dressed up in your favorite lighted playa-style costumes to match outdoor installations of LED sculptures. 5:30-8:30pm. North Beach to Embarcadero, Pier 15 to an after-party (21+) at the Exploratorium. www.BlackrockArts.org

Wells and collaborator Sheldon B. Smith premiere Father On, a new dance work about 21st-century parenting. $20-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 8. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. www.scottwellsdance.com www.odcdance.org Author of In Bed With Gore Vidal, the biography of the prolific author, reads from and discusses his book. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Twisted Sisters @ City Hall Gallery Twisted Sisters: Reimagining Urban Portraiture, a large-scale photo exhibit and art exchange between SF and Zurich. Thru Jan. 27. SF City Hall sfartscommission.org

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Potted Potter @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner’s two-man musical parody of all seven Harry Potter books, in 70 minutes, stops through town along its world tour. $56-$100. TueThu 7:30pm. Gri & sat. 8pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 1pm & 4pm. Thru Dec. 8. 609 Sutter St. (888) 746-1799. www.pottedpotter.com www.shnsf.com

Various Exhibits @ California Academy of Sciences New exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth. Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties most Thursday nights. $20-$30. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Science Exhibits @ The Exploratorium Visit the fascinating science museum in its new Embarcadero location. Free-$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu

We Were Here @ Castro Theatre See David Weissman’s acclaimed 2011 documentary about the local caregivers who assisted our community through the dark days of the AIDS pandemic at a special World AIDS Day screening; director Q&A post-screening. $8.50-$11. 7pm. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Mon 2 Donna Sachet’s Songs of the Season @ The Starlight Room BARtab’s “On the Town” columnist hosts her annual holiday fundraiser concert at the elegant Union Square nightclub with a fabulous panoramic view; Sharon McNight, Abigail, Vicki Shepard, Dan O’Leary and many other singing talents. Proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. $75 and up. 8pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. 395-8595. www.donnasachet.com

Printz Dance Project @ Z Space Soul+Mates, a dance, film and photographic exhibit by Stacey Printz, Teresa Brazen, Sean Riley and Andre Hermann that explores the nature of human connection. $22-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat 4pm. Thru Dec. 7. 450 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.printzdance.org

Will Durst @ The Marsh Boomeraging: From LSD to OMG, the comic wit’s one-man show about aging Baby Boomers. Tuesdays thru Dec. 17. $15-$50. 8pm. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.TheMarsh.org

Wed 4 All About Image @ Robert Tat Gallery New exhibit of exceptional images from a variety of 20th and 21st-century photographers. Thru Feb 22. 49 Geary St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Thu 5 It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba

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38 • Bay Area Reporter • November 28-December 4, 2013

Liz Taylor’s greatest role: AIDS activist

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BO will premiere The Battle of amfAR, a short (around 40 minutes) documentary from filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, on Dec. 2. The longtime Oscar-winning collaborators have an impressive resume, which includes Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, which told the personal stories of several contributors to the AIDS Memorial Quilt. They also documented the history of gay men impacted by the Holocaust in the disturbing, unforgettable film Paragraph 175. The Battle of amfAR, which will air in a special sneak preview on HBO 2 on Dec. 1 in conjunction with World AIDS Day, chronicles the story of how Dr. Mathilde Krim, a brilliant, European-born scientist, found an unlikely ally during the worst years of the HIV epidemic: movie star Elizabeth Taylor. Together they co-founded amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Dame Liz took no prisoners. In a 1980s speech included in the film, she publicly accused the US government of premeditated murder for its refusal to respond to the crisis. Taylor was moved to join the fight after Rock Hudson, her longtime friend and costar, succumbed to AIDS in 1985. “I was made so aware of this huge, loud silence regarding AIDS,” Taylor said. “Then I said: Bitch! Do something yourself!” The filmmakers expressed their adoration for Taylor. “Having been around at the time, we were aware of Taylor’s early and irrepressible commitment to the issue,” they said in an e-mail to the B.A.R. “But neither of us had seen her in action. In the film you can see her bring all her star power, her passion, and her sex appeal to the

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fight against AIDS that is deeply moving and touching. She really did effect meaningful change in the way AIDS was perceived and addressed at a time when most other public figures were silent.” As the film begins, news reports from the early 1980s are seen. A strange new disease is killing gay men. They die quickly and horribly, wasting away in a matter of weeks. As the administration of then-President Ronald Reagan looks the other way, Dr. Krim and Taylor begin rallying the troops, raising crucial funds for research and treatment. Sally Morrison, an amfAR staffer, recalls a postal employee who was afraid to deliver the mail to amfAR’s office out of fear of contracting the disease. Krim, meanwhile, spent much of her time in the lab. By the mid-1990s, AIDS had become somewhat manageable. The filmmakers wisely point out that the crisis is far from over. “I have a manageable chronic condition, as long as I take pills every day,”

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praying for the Facebook IPO to crash and burn, and for the digital personal info-devouring octopus to vanish as quickly as it appeared, this movie is an in-your-face nightmare, conjuring up visions of a nation of abominable entertainers each hosting their own little show. Fans of her Wikipedia resume know the Baton Rouge native’s saga: Hollywood or bust, complete with living in her car until she got fast-tracked as an MTV diva director. In the movie’s hard-sell prologue, we meet a newly humbled Brooks, fresh out the hospital and seemingly friendless. “I was sitting there on Facebook thinking, ‘How can I have 5,000 friends, and not one person has come to see me?’” Her solution was to post an SOS invite, which was quickly oversubscribed: “50 Cities, 50 Strangers, 50 Stories. 11, 467 miles – it’s a lot of fucking driving, dude.” Armed with Xanax and cigarettes and cursing her GPS, Brooks arrives at the Grand Rapid, Michigan digs of road “friend” Mary Lynne, a relaxed, smiley soul busy caring for her friend Ilene, a terminal lung-cancer patient. “I promised Ilene she would not lie there in the hospital, and that I would be the last thing she sees.” This is the road comedy for those praying that the digitally ad-

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Jason Lazarus’ search for meaning by Sura Wood

ining an unusual vein as a selfstyled archivist and editor, the Chicago-based photographer Jason Lazarus retrieves found objects and re-contextualizes salvaged images and text. His recent intellectual explorations and ruminations on the evolving nature of the medium in the digital age are on display in Jason Lazarus: Live Archive, an unconventional conceptual photography exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Lazarus, 37, began his career over a decade ago, before the explosion of the Internet and digital mania, developments that quickly made images disposable and pervasive, and accelerated the process by which they could be produced.

Analog photography, by contrast, is tactile, involving chemical processing in a dark room, and waiting. What has been lost and gained in the name of progress and in a world that makes a virtue of speed is the tacit subject of a show that never asks that question directly, though it does offer space to pause and reflect on traditional photographic presentation, and invites visitors to collaborate in a search for meaning. Lazarus sometimes implies a deeper subject that isn’t actually portrayed in the picture, such as the archival inkjet print of the entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, where that infamous paper-hanger and thwarted artist Adolph Hitler was twice refused admission and declared

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Phase I/Live Archive (detail) (2011-present) by Jason Lazarus, dimensions variable. Installation view, BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Jason Lazarus, MCA Chicago, 2013.

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United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Afterimage Study) (2013), archival pigment print by Jason Lazarus.

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“The Story” by Arnold Lobel, final illustration for Frog and Toad are Friends (1970), graphite, ink, and wash on paper with pasted text.

“unfit for painting.” He was eminently qualified for mass murder, as the world soon learned. For Phase 1/Live Archive (2011-present), the artist recreated signage from the Occupy Wall Street movement. The hand-printed signs, which cover a large wall and then some at the front of the gallery, were drawn from media sources, reproduced in three-dimensional copies that used similar materials and duplicated not only the text but the wear and tear of the original signs. Some of the messages, laced with humor and outrage, are priceless: “I’ll believe people are corporations when Texas executes one”; “Sorry for the inconvenience, we’re trying to change the world”; “I’m 84 and mad as hell”; “I’m too big to fail.” “A march floats by,” Lazarus told me, “but this work serves to stabilize and anchor the experience.” Here’s hoping the wit of those messages lives to see another day. In the installation Too Hard to Keep, an ongoing project since 2010, Lazarus experiments with an ever-expanding collection of personal photographs donated by people who can no longer bear to look at them or see them eradicated from the face of the earth. The morphing exhibit of photos documenting moments or individuals the donors would rather forget provides what Lazarus calls “a graceful exit strategy” for unwanted snapshots. The concept is based on the Jewish genizah, a repository of impure sacred texts that can neither be used nor thrown away. We get a voyeuristic view of the artist’s culling process in a room with two work-tables covered with memories contained in photo albums and tattered pictures of babies, friends out nightclubbing and a cat posing for his close-up. In a back gallery, a real-life classical piano student sits at a grand piano practicing Chopin’s “Nocturne in F minor, op. 55, no. 1,” lending intimacy and note of poignant struggle as he hesitates, wrestling with challenging passages in the score. The music is a small stroke of genius in that its presence and the halting nature of the performance alter the ambience and the way one perceives the rest of the show. The pianist will be on site 15 hours a week, and if it’s true that practice makes perfect, should be sailing through Chopin shortly. Lazarus is an out-of-box thinker with a probing mind, but the exhibition, while teasing out several provocative lines of inquiry, feels unsubstantial, posting ideas without making a statement. Yes, the viewer can complete a work of art, but even though audience participation and interactivity are in vogue, they can also be a cop-out. I’d like to see Lazarus share more of what’s percolating inside that avid, analytic brain of his. Through March 9. Also at CJM: Frog and Toad and the World of Arnold Lobel, a familyfriendly exhibition of charming work by this award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. The 100 original illustrations by the creator of realms inhabited by the inseparable frog and toad, and a host of other philosophyprone creatures who reflect on the human condition, are infused with a delightful, puckish humor. Lobel liked to call himself an “unrepentant anthropomorphist.” In Fables, one of the hundreds of books Lobel wrote or illustrated, a camel dances under the sun in a tutu, and a crocodile trades sleeping in the swamp for snuggling in a warm, dry bed, his long green snout resting on a cozy comforter as he looks up wistfully at a drawing of his mother toiling in the fields. Like his contemporary Maurice Sendak, Lobel endured an unhappy childhood and was partial to misbehaving kids, such as “Prince Bertram the Bad,” who cried all the time and “tore up the roses in the royal garden.” Desks with books are set up for little people who crave being read to. Through Mar. 23.t

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Kuchu culture: the struggle continues by Brian Jackle

t was one of Frameline’s finest moments, as well as the emotional highlight of last year’s 36th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival: a nearly 10-minute, thunderous standing ovation at the conclusion of the Castro Theatre screening of the documentary Call Me Kuchu, now on DVD (Docurama). In the Q&A period, filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika ZouhaliWorrall described what inspired its origin. They had noticed that most media coverage seemed to focus on the victimization of Uganda’s LGBT people (or kuchus, the slang term in Swahili). Little attention was being paid to activists working hard to change their plight. The documentary follows the life of David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay activist, who protested publicly on television and at the United Nations. He was the first person the filmmakers met when they arrived in Uganda. They found him in the restaurant of a huge hotel, the only place he felt safe in the capital city, Kampala. He provided them with names and numbers, as well as introductions to activists in the kuchu community. The filmmakers were struck by his intelligence and passion, and David became the hero of Call Me Kuchu. The film reports on two fronts of the LGBT struggle in Uganda in 2010: a libel suit and the Anti-Homosexuality bill. The libel case was lodged against a local tabloid newspaper, The Rolling Stone (definitely not the one familiar here in the US). They had published LGBT Ugandans’ photos and addresses alongside false claims that they had sodomized children. One salacious headline read: “HOMO TERROR! We Name and Shame Top Gays in the City.” They also published editorials calling for LGBT people to be hanged.

The LGBT activists took them to court, appealing to the rule of law and LGBTs’ right of privacy. The judge ruled in their favor. LGBT people in Uganda have been blamed for prostitution, the deliberate spread of HIV, even a terrorist bombing in Kampala. Homosexuality is seen as a pernicious import from the West. Actually, homophobia and the criminalization of homosexuality have been imported to Africa. In October 2009, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was introduced in Uganda’s parliament by a member who had consulted with American evangelical leaders. The legislation would have imposed a mandatory death sentence for HIV+ gay men, while LGBT people convicted of having gay sex would receive a life sentence. Repeat gay offenders could receive the death penalty. The bill also forbade the promotion of homosexuality, in effect banning organizations working in HIV/AIDS prevention and LGBT rights. A three-year prison term was mandated for anyone who failed to turn in a known homosexual, even their own child. Much of the film follows the kuchu activists’ efforts to prevent this law from being passed. To show they were not just victims but attempting to improve their situation, they adopted as their slogan the rallying cry from neighboring Mozambique’s war of independence: A Luta Continua (the struggle continues). Kato insists the fight must be waged: “If we keep on hiding, they will say we’re not here.” But one year into filming, and just three weeks after the landmark legal victory against Rolling Stone, on Jan. 26, 2011, Kato was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his home. The world media reacted with horror, and the kuchu community was left traumatized. In an eerie way, his death fulfilled a prophecy he made

earlier in the film: “One of us will probably die because of this work.” The film became a tribute to David’s legacy largely through his own words, but it also follows successive leaders such as Long John (present at the festival), who has carried David’s mantle so well that even Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are now talking about LGBT rights in Uganda. Kato has been called Uganda’s Harvey Milk, but he may rather be their Martin Luther King, Jr. Uganda is a heavily Christian nation, though many of the Protestant groups are held under the sway of fundamentalism. Thus the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is fueled by the influence of conservative Christians, who hold workshops with key political figures to spread their message of hate. Scenes of American evangelicals such as Lou Engle and Scott Lively addressing mobs in Kampala are disturbing, as they seem to be brainwashing them

with right-wing slogans derived from Biblical misinformation, while stoking their fears with the false charge that gay people are child molesters. Yet the activist group in Kampala, Sexual Minorities in Uganda (SMUG), is also religious, with many of its participants attending church and praying to God the bill won’t pass. Of course, the Christianity they embrace is far more inclusive than the judgmental Christianity of their opponents. Here the second hero of the film emerges, retired Episcopal bishop Christopher Senyonjo (also present at the festival, one of the grand marshals at last year’s SF LGBT Pride Parade), who has taken great risks in his defense of LGBT rights in Uganda and has been compared to South Africa’s Desmond Tutu. Although straight, with a doctorate in human sexuality, he discovered in counseling LGBT people that they were frightened, unhappy, and felt rejected, wondering whether God loved them. He realized they did not choose to be gay, they were born this way. He helped them find ways to accept themselves, echoing his belief the Gospel of Jesus Christ doesn’t discriminate against anybody, and that God loves everyone equally. He is Executive Director of the St. Paul’s Reconciliation and Equality Center, Kampala, which he founded as a safe house for LGBT people where they could rest from the persecutions of the outside world. He has received death threats, and the reactionary Episcopal Church in Uganda has expelled him. Still, he says of David Kato, “He was ready to sacrifice himself in order to bring about change and justice for the oppressed.” So in many ways this conflict in Uganda is less political than religious, with gay rights seen as the crucial breaking point between religious conservatives and progressive

Christians. The activists are just as religious as their opponents, yet occupy different Christian world views. The battle in Uganda is a harbinger of gay rights struggles to come, where the contenders will not be Protestant vs. Catholic as in the past, but conservative Christians vs. “liberal” (or “progressive”) Christians, evoking different interpretations of Scripture and tradition. In some ways this fight mirrors the one we are now having in the United States over same-gender marriage (how luxurious compared to Uganda, where LGBTs are fighting for their basic human rights, especially the right not to be killed). Gay rights in the US, as well as in Uganda, will never be completely won until these religious issues are resolved. In many ways the gay rights battle is the final, most bitter chapter in the Scripture-as-authority issue. The struggle in Uganda is far from over. In May 2011, following criticism from the West and President Yoweri Museveni, the Anti-Homosexuality bill was shelved. But this year, the current parliament has revived it. Proponents of the bill say it no longer includes the proposed death-penalty and life-sentence provisions for homosexual acts, but it does strengthen laws that stigmatize homosexuality, which is still illegal in Uganda. In years to come, when David Kato is recognized in Africa as the martyr for LGBT rights he is, this film will be a vital historical document detailing his last year of activism. One can only hope that the courageous witness of David Kato and the kuchu community portrayed in this riveting and moving film will spur gay activism and LGBT rights throughout Africa and the world. Until gay rights are universally enjoyed by all people in all nations, the struggle is far from over. A Lute Continua, as David Kato would say, is a battle cry of freedom for LGBT people everywhere.t

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Does disco still suck? by Gregg Shapiro

isco doesn’t still suck if you don’t call it disco. If you call it EDM (a.k.a. electronic dance music) you make it safe for straight people and their gay friends (who have been dancing to it for years). But there are traces of disco everywhere, including a renewed interest in disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder, who was rediscovered by EDM gods Daft Punk and embraced by their legion of fans. But as the homophobia-laced Disco Demolition in Chicago (of course) approached its 34th anniversary, the three-day Wavefront Music Festival, featuring Diplo, Timo Maas, Holy Ghost, and Frankie Knuckles, staked its claim in the Windy City, while electronic-music fests were held around the globe. The mastermind Moroder, along with his muse the late Donna Summer, were the driving force behind disco during its heyday. The Donna Summer remix disc Love To Love You Donna (Verve) is less an homage to the original disco diva than it is a chance for those cursed remixers to get their grubby paws on her classic material and leave what they think is their imprint on it. Because “remix” means something different from what it did when it was applied to extended 12” single versions of tracks during the 1970s (and the dawn of Donna Summer), only a few of the 13 revisited cuts are worth listening and dancing to. Not surprisingly, the Director’s Cut Signature Mix of “Hot Stuff ” by Frankie Knuckles (a gay DJ who has been around since the birth of disco) and Eric Kupper is one of them, as is the Hot Chip Dub Edit of “Sunset People,” the Gigamesh Remix of “Bad Girls,” and the Afrojack Remix of “I Feel Love.” On his full-length debut True (Island), Avicii (a.k.a. Tim Bergling) is this year’s David Guetta, but so much

betta (if you will). Like Guetta, Avicii employs guest vocalists, but what he does with them is far more compelling. Opener “Wake Me Up” finds modern soul singer Aloe Blacc in a country bar, complete with acoustic guitar and electronic beats: disco for the NASCAR set. The country/club theme continues on “Hey Brother,” featuring vocals by Dan Tyminski (of Alison Krauss and O Brother, Where Art Thou? fame), and the addictive “Addicted to You,” sung by Southwestern songbird Audra Mae. Avicii breaks up the mountaintop momentum with hardcore dance-floor workouts such as “Dear Boy,” the ballroom blitz of “Shame on Me,” Adam Lambert’s stand-up performance on “Lay Me Down” and the twisted retro soul screamer “Liar Liar.” Kaleidoscopic pop band Grouplove begins its second disc Spreading Rumours (Atlantic) with the exuberant “I’m with You,” a song that not only summons Philip Glass but also has a kick-ass dance beat, perfect for hippies and hipsters alike. “Borderlines & Aliens” arrives on a funk-rock flotation device, and “Ways To Go” goes a long way in promoting the electro-funk cause. “Shark Attack” has teeth, “Sit Still” makes it impossible to sit, still or otherwise, and “Raspberry” is tart and tangy. They’re dancing in Canada if Olympia (Domino), the second album by Austra, is any indication. The mixed-gender sextet has created an irresistible triumph, merging beauty and the beats. The spooky crackling that opens “What We Done?” becomes a plaintive love call when the vocals begin. “Forgive Me” increases the beats, and “Painful Like” adds a funky bass-line that is sure to go right to your hips and spine.

“Home” takes the classic disco-diva a p p ro a c h – Katie Stelmanis’ dramatic vocals draw you in, and then the beats and bass assume control, taking the listener home and back. On its self-titled Interscope/Vagrant debut, UK quartet The 1975 actually sound more like 1985. Synth beats, retro keyboards and big drums give the listener a (false) sense of nostalgia, as the group revives 1980s dance moves from the Moonwalk to the Sprinkler to the Belinda to slam or break-dancing. Your best bets for strutting your 80s stuff are “Sex” (with its U2 gui-

tar), the synthy “Heart Out” and the white funk of “Girls.”

When Lady Gaga’s influences are discussed, people invariably mention Madonna, as well as Grace Jones and Cyndi Lauper. But what about Terri Nunn of Berlin? Known for her interesting hairstyles, not to mention distinctive fashion sense, Nunn also knew her way around a dance track. Nunn and a new Berlin line-up return with Animal (Something-Music/Fontana), the first studio disc of new material in more than 10 years. Whether Nunn and her Berlin mates were listening to Lady Gaga or vice versa, Animal is a purebred EDM creature. Propulsive songs such as “With the Lights On,” “Nice To Meet You,” “Don’t Make Me Regret It,” “Secrets,” “Break the Chains,” “Somebody To Love” and the title tune would all fit comfortably alongside Gaga on any playlist. After listening to Fitz & The Tantrums’ 2010 debut album, it was easy to lump them in with soul revivalists such as JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound and Sharon Jones & The DapKings. But on its second album, More than Just a Dream (Elektra/Dangerbird), Fitz & The Tantrums expand and update their repertoire to move in a dance-oriented direction. Opener “Out of My League,” from which

the disc’s title is drawn, is a souldance sensation. The dance mood is maintained on the thumping “The Walker” and the vintage disco of “Last Raindrop,” as well as from the dizzying “MerryGoRound” and “Break the Walls.” A number of other artists are also clamoring for your dance dollar. On Good Mood Fool (Secretly Canadian), Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic fame puts listeners in a booty-shaking good mood on songs such as “Those Kids,” “Katie,” “Jessica Brown Findlay” and “Love Won’t Receive.” Ultra Naté has been making us dance since the early 1990s (her songs “Free” and “Found a Cure” are classics of the genre) and continues to do so on Hero Worship (Peace Biscuit) via songs “Everybody Loves the Night,” “Unconditional,” “Right Now,” “Planet Called Love,” “Save Me” and “Hero,” featuring fellow dance-diva Jocelyn Brown. Dancefloor philosopher Robert DeLong (think Owl City’s Adam Young after he grows up and grows a pair) gives you something to think about while moving your feet from start to finish on the amazing and suitably titled Just Movement (Glassnote). Dance multi-hyphenate Colette continues to represent the Second City on her latest full-length, When the Music’s Loud (Candy Talk).t

Genoveva overtures (DG), the more arresting. Instead of taking this music into the otherworld that increasingly is his spiritual precincts, he renders it with an almost blinding clarity and, where appropriate, an unprecedented lightness of touch. Instead of plowing into this high-Romantic German symphony with one of the superorchestras he now leads, Abbado unfurls it over the instruments of his own Mozart Orchestra, and the light shines through. It is once again as if a great German Romantic painting has been cleaned, fulfilling its original power with a wealth of freshly encountered details. At this stage in his peerless career, Abbado sees everything whole, and from above, and the literal brilliance with which he traces the symphony’s long line is impeccable and, better, exciting. Attention, Holiday Shoppers: The once-dreaded Christmas CD box set – infamous for the one

tantalizing tidbit you can’t live without, suddenly available only in a 20-disc set of complete something or other you already have – has a whole new complexion this year. Record companies large and small are ransacking their catalogues (and recordings fresh out of copyright) to make truly interesting collections, many with prices hovering around a dollar per disc. Abbado: The Decca Years and Abbado: The Symphony Edition (DG) are but supreme examples of the genre at its most authoritative. Decca’s Britten: Complete Works and its follow-up, Britten The Performer, are blessings of the Britten Year. But I wouldn’t have wanted to escape the Wagner Year without Wagner’s Vision – Bayreuth Heritage, a 50-CD set ranging from some of the earliest recordings made in Bayreuth (some at a hotel, with piano) to the finest of the new house. They’re priceless recordings you’ll find only here or in only a few other places, and never at the price. Just the other day, a 10-disc set of Astrid Varnay: The Bayreuth Heroine (Intense Media) landed in my mailbox. It’s a superb overview of her art, ranging far beyond Wagner. Now I’m the only guy on my Bangkok soi with Varnay’s matchless 1951 “Ah! je suis seule/ Dis-moi que suis belle” from Massenet’s Thais. Get hunting!t

Revelatory Schumann by Tim Pfaff

here’s a certain category of musician – call them sages – who, when they perform, it’s to a discerning audience heavily interlaced with other musicians at or near their level. The tablets of the law are being brought down from the mountain. Two who have reached and held this status, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and conductor Claudio Abbado, have recently released revelatory recordings of music by the same composer: Robert Schumann. Uchida’s recording, of the Waldszenen, the Second Sonata, and the valedictory Gesaenge der Fruehe (Decca), presents her core recital repertoire of the last year – after it’s been fully digested and, even in the studio, at its most spontaneous. All three make rare enough appearances in that increasingly endangered species, the piano recital, which only adds to the importance of Uchida’s achievement here. The Forest Scenes – too often overlooked, almost as if they were juvenilia – have the feeling of a brisk German walk through the woods, but by an uncommonly acute and notably melancholy observer. Uchida’s playing has a robustness about it even at its most intimate and interior. The colors at Uchida’s command are ideal for this cycle, but it’s the music at its most spare – the “Lonely

Flowers” and the nimble, freespirited, but dark-minded “Bird as Prophet” – that, however counterintuitively, makes the largest impression. Dissonances here are slight and few, but they’re as noticed as anything else in the welter of natural detail. The Sonata emerges as a torrent of fast-running water, dispersing everything in its breathless but sharply focused path. This kind of urgency is mother’s milk to Uchida, who exalts in the formal underpinnings of such strongly impressionable music. She makes an almost startlingly cohesive statement with the work as a whole, a piece of sustained revelry without a moment’s frivolity. Her interpretation sets the stage for spitfire conclusion of elemental force. But as her audiences worldwide discovered, it’s the Songs of the Early Morning we owe her for.

Try, first of all, listening at daybreak to the pieces as Uchida plays them, to get the full force of what Schumann was hearing. Uchida is hardly the first pianist of consequence to have taken on these last coherent works Schumann wrote for the piano before madness claimed him, but of the recordings I know, she’s the most penetrating – seemingly existing in an awe of her own at the austere, sometimes almost growling beauty of these five short pieces. The first of them draws you in on a supple unison melody fragment that dissolves into chords – perfectly voiced by Uchida – in which harmony itself seems to sigh its last. There’s a chorale-like concentration to these works, bundled around some truly melting dissonances and gestures that sound alarmingly like plain old wrong notes. You hear the Earth slipping off its axis in these remarkable miniatures, which ask less of the pianist’s fingers than of her soul. No wonder you hear them so seldom, so close to unendurable are they. Yet in the final measures they take their leave lightly. There’s no more oracular musician on the scene today than Claudio Abbado, which makes his new (and first-ever) recording of the Second Symphony, with the Manfred and

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King Lear of the Great Plains by David Lamble

lexander Payne’s Nebraska opens on a stooped-over figure shuffling along the shoulder of a rural highway. With an upswept mane of white hair framing the haggard countenance of a Big Sky Country Lear, the old man (an Oscar turn for legendary character actor Bruce Dern, back from the dead) stumbles into view: a 77-year-old retired garage monkey on a mission. Our hero has bit into one of the oldest “legit” con games: the junkmail letter informing Woodward T. Grant that he’s won a million bucks. In 1940, Preston Sturges, another Paramount director with an eye cocked for human gullibility, served up an everyman hoodwinked by a cruel prank into thinking he’s struck it rich. Unlike the freshfaced Dick Powell in Christmas in July, Dern’s Woody Grant is old enough to know better, old enough to have seen virtually every sucker in his generation wind up in the local Lutheran cemetery. Throughout this at-times wickedly funny American Gothic satire, Payne and screenwriter Bob Nelson drop breadcrumb-sized clues as to what the hard-of-hearing old fox is up to. Caught by the highway patrol, Woody is grilled by his morose younger son David (a bundle of long-simmering resentments, tightly reigned in, portrayed by SNL alum Will Forte). “Let me take you home.” “I’m going to Lincoln if it’s the last thing I do.” “You didn’t win anything. It’s a complete scam.”

“I’m running out of time.” “Dad, I can’t let you go!” “It’s none of your business!” “I’m your son.” “Then why don’t you take me?” “I can’t just drop everything and drive to Lincoln, Nebraska.” “Ah, what else you got going on?” Nebraska can be seen as a Shakespeare-worthy Survivor episode where everyone in a poor fool’s life votes themselves on or off his island, depending on his degree of guile or pure greed. The first to jump is Woody’s long-suffering wife, Kate (spot-on George Carlin impersonation from June Squibb), dripping with sarcasm. “If I had a million dollars, I’d put him in a home.” Partly to flee his own dead-end life in Billings, Montana, David agrees to shepherd Woody to Lincoln, with a few strategic detours. The first is a roadhouse where we get a glimpse at what an emotionally castrating bastard Woody was in his prime.

“Have a beer with your old man. Be somebody!” “No thanks, I’m trying to quit. Isn’t this the place you used to take me as a kid, where you’d give me a little sip from your beer?” “Sure, a little sip never hurt anybody.” Among the toughest American movies to pull off is one about the

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Holiday music

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by a 20-page booklet filled with iconic images and in-depth liner notes. Tchaikovsky/Ellington & Strayhorn Nutcracker Suites - Harmonie Ensemble/New York, Steve Richman, cond. (Harmonia Mundi) This is so cool: pairing a zippy performance of gay Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker Suite from 1892 with Duke Ellington and gay Billy Strayhorn’s hip alternative from 1960. True, the wildest things about the jazz redo are the titles. Try, for starters, “Sugar Rum Cherry” instead of “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” Richman’s Tchaikovsky performance is stronger on zip than charm, but how can you resist such a fun pairing? Emily Mitchell A Harp for Christmas (Albany) In lovely arrangements by gay flautist and composer Gary Schocker, harpist Emily Mitchell

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Bruce Dern as Woodward T. Grant in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.

plays simple, well-known tunes in the most unaffected manner imaginable. The loving touch that launched Mitchell’s career decades ago is as sweet as ever. Canadian Brass Christmas Time is Here (Steinway & Sons) If you find solo harp too subdued, or fear that you’ll sleep through Santa’s arrival, try the Canadian Brass. They’re not

estranged father/son pair who try to buddy up after years of bad parenting. Paul Shrader’s pitiless 2002 adaptation of the Russell Banks novel Affliction is an example. In Nebraska, Payne doesn’t give in to the feelgood nonsense that a dad who used booze as a cover for mistreating his son can ever be fully trusted. David realizes this as he accepts one for the road. “Bartender, bring me a beer.” “Now isn’t that better, you little cocksucker!” The appearance of the “CS-word” reminds queers that despite the growing roll call of pro-gay marriage states, we’re still far from an American Nirvana. There are no Utopias in the prickly Great Plains character studies of Alexander Payne, just as there were none in his predecessor Sturges’ madcap satires. Woody’s Catholic wife Kate unleashes a gloriously filthy stream of expletives as she tours a cemetery full of her shiftless hubby’s

in the least blaring – you can’t have such a long career without honing your warm, musical sound to perfection – and they’re certainly alive to the swinging and at times humorous potential of their five instruments. With plenty of opportunities to smile, this is a great recital from a great ensemble. Friar Alessandro Voice of Joy

(Decca) OMG, not only is Friar Alessandro Brustenghi cute as hell, but he also has a lovely voice. A d m i t t e d l y, Adam’s “O Santa Notte” and Gounod’s “Ave Maria” are a bit of a stretch for him, but lower in his range, his more relaxed sound is very fine. The thankfully tasteful accompaniments complement the Friar’s touching, openhearted sincerity. The Sixteen Palestrina Vol. 4 (Coro) Who can imagine Christmas without the heavenly sounds of Renaissance music? This Christmasthemed disc has as its centerpiece a work of expansive, sacred beauty, the master of polyphony’s rarely heard

Lutheran kinfolk. In a gesture of YouTube-era defiance, Kate flashes the tombstone of one lecherous old fart. At our Century 9 promo screening, Squibb’s saucy delivery of these Anglo-Saxon word grenades prompted return volleys of laughter. Ironically this is the same Squibb who was Jack Nicholson’s dowdy Omaha wife in About Schmidt, dead in the first act. In Schmidt and Nebraska, Payne uses wives as bait to lure a poignant epiphany out of his straight-laced, old-fashioned, uptight male citizens. Woody is as likely to bare his soul as he is to run stark naked across the dead presidents at Mount Rushmore. The trick – a really old Hollywood third-act bait-and-switch – is to plant our old guy in a place redolent of soul-scotching memories. See Geraldine Page’s old lady stirring a broken family’s vanished dreams in Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful. Bruce Macleish Dern, a Depression-era baby whose uncle was the poet Archibald Macleish, could never convince his upper-class parents that movie-acting was a fit career for a scion of old money. Both parents were dead by the time Dern got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the cuckolded Vietnam vet in Coming Home. Dern told NPR’s Terry Gross that Woody’s big reveal is based on “what I felt about the fact that I didn’t get the support I needed when I was young.” Oscar just might respond to his old buddy Jack Nicholson’s opinion that Dern, long stuck playing psychos, might be the best actor of his generation.t

Missa O Magnum Mysterium. Also included are three double-choir motets and excerpts from Palestrina’s setting of The Song of Songs, Hebrew love poetry that, in Renaissance times, was ironically used to praise the Virgin Mary. Govannen Celtic Christmas (Paradise Music) The instruments are authentic, the acoustic expansive, and the arrangements a curious case of Celtic Homeland meets New Age spaciness, with some lively drumming, clapping, and thigh-slapping energy thrown in for very good measure. The closing hybrid of Celtic dancing meets “Jingle Bells” is a hoot. RÓS Songs of Christmas - Det Norske Solistkor (BIS SACD) This collection of traditional and modern Christmas music, some from Norway, deserves praise for the quality of the recording and the beauty of the singing. Under the direction of Grete Pedersen, the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, sometimes supported by violin, lute and double bass, gifts us with one of the freshest and most haunting holiday recitals of the year.t

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some Jacques Brel, Stephen Sondheim, and Richard Rodgers, along with original songs and holiday tunes. Performances are Dec. 1722 at Aurora Theatre’s Harry’s UpStage. Tickets at auroratheatre. org. 12. Snoopy!!! is the holiday attraction for 42nd Street Moon, which usually digs farther back in the musical theater annals for its slimmed-down productions of seldom revived shows. This sequel to You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown had its premier production in San Francisco in 1975 before going on to long runs in New York and London. Performances through Dec. 15 at the Eureka Theatre. Tickets at 42ndstmoon. org.t

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Broadway Against Bullying at Club Fugazi by Jim Provenzano

ore than a dozen stars of Broadway hit musicals will travel from around the country to participate in this year’s annual Broadway Against Bullying, a fundraiser for NoBully, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that takes antibullying efforts to schools nationwide. The stellar gala performance takes place Monday, December 2 at Club Fugazi, the North Beach home of the long-running show Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon.

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Choose a Theme

’m not one who likes to follow a lot of rules. If you read classic party etiquette guides, it will tell you what fork to serve with which dish and 50 different ways you could turn an ordinary bell pepper into an edible serving dish. Well, I grew up in New Jersey, eating TV dinners off a fold-up tray table while the Jerry Springer double feature was on. Needless to say, I don’t know much about proper utensils or whether you should serve the Hungry Man dinner to your guests from the left or the right. However, what I do know is that San Francisco is an expensive place for everybody to live in. But locals don’t let their $3000 rent for a basement studio apartment in the Tenderloin get in their way of partying. Lively guests, good food, cocktails and bubbly conversation are my cornerstones for a successful party/ Here are some of my tips for throwing a party so amazing

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First, in the invitation you should be very clear about what your party is all about and state what you expect from your guests. I believe a good party has a theme. However, a theme party can be the most wonderful thing ever or go horribly wrong. In my experience, you have two types of people. The first hear of your party theme and immediately run to Mission Thrift and start working on their costume and brainstorming on other ways they can contribute. Then there is the second type, who hears about your theme and thinks, “Oh, that’s fun, but do I have to really dress up? I mean, I’m just so busy. I’ll happily go to the party and hang out and drink all the free booze, but I don’t want to worry about having to wear a stupid costume.” And, they hem and haw over it for weeks, then an hour before the party they are bummed out that they didn’t get a costume and

then they just don’t show up! One year I kept it simple, and wrote in the invite, “Everyone wear a cardigan!” Still, only half the guests wore a sweater and just made it look like an uncanny coincidence that everyone looked like a frumpy librarian who misses the Dewey Decimal system rather than a fun planned event. So, perhaps you can invoke a theme to the party without requiring your guests to do much more than show up and get drunk. Pick a fun theme, like come dressed as your favorite serial killer or dress as the person you most wish was aborted. Maybe the theme doesn’t have to require your guests to participate and you can establish it yourself through the decor, party favors or activities. In an effort to keep it fun and save money on buying excess cups, I make a sticker and crafts station near the glassware. This way, everyone can have fun uniquely decorating their glass to match their personality and they won’t keep picking up a new cup every time they want to pour themselves anSee page 3 >>

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Singing for Change

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apartment, where he happened to be in the middle of rehearsing songs for his sixth annual Manhattan Christmas cabaret show and fundraiser. “The NoBully folks asked me to do it a few months ago, but I didn’t realize how crazy it would be,” Reichard said. He’s also currently touring the U.S. as part of Midtown Men, a four-man musical show with fellow cast members from the original production of Jersey Boys. “But it’s gonna be so worth it, because it’s an experience that gets me out of the world that I’m used to. It’s great to be part of an event and be a part of an organization that truly has a uniquely positive place in the world.” Only days after his December 2 appearance at Broadway Against Bullying, Reichard will be back in New York for his holiday show, which this year raises money for The Actor’s Fund. Then it’s back on tour with his other show. The eighth of nine children raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Reichard attended college at the University of Michigan. With the two school’s longstanding football rivalry,

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NoBully Executive Director Nicholas Carlyle

Reichard said that at Midwestern college gigs, “I get booed on both sides of the border.” He explained that at one point in the Midtown Men show, some audience banter ensues. “One of the Daniel Reichard (third from left) with the Midtown Men cast. other guys called me out for going to U. of Michigan, and my response was, ‘Does it look like I was on the acclaimed performers participate in For the NoBully concert, football team?’” his organization’s fundraisers. Reichard’s contribution will be a bit Although he struggled like any “Bullying touches everybody, and more traditional, and clothed. young performer, Reichard’s talents many of the artists have talked about “This Christmas, I’m getting did land him some select roles early their incidences of being bullied, into the essence of the standards on. and in one case being a bully,” he of songs made famous by Mel “I describe my experience as like said from the group’s offices in the Torme and Dean Martin. I like the climbing a staircase,” he said. “I San Francisco Presidio. “It doesn’t traditional and nostalgic.” Reichard didn’t have too many times where I feel good to be on either side.” joked about the “utterly white and was struggling,” he said of his roles in No Bully began in San Francisco WASPy” aspects of Andy Williams regional theatre and Off-Broadway, in 2003 as a collaboration of and his 1960s TV specials, but including Forever Plaid, the lead educators, psychologists and noted the vocal quality of his work, role of gay artist Keith Haring in lawyers committed to preventing particularly his numbers with his the Public Theatre play Radiant the current generation of students singing brothers as “nearly perfect.” Baby, and a featured performance from enduring the bullying that in the 20th anniversary edition of they experienced when they were in Forbidden Broadway. Safe Schools school. Today, No Bully is helping “I got to be in these shows with NoBully’s Executive Director schools in California, Oregon, some amazing veterans,” said Nicholas Carlyle, who is also an Washington, Texas and beyond Reichard. “Then Jersey Boys came attorney and psychotherapist, stop bullying and transform into along, which has been an absolutely experienced firsthand the reality learning communities which are phenomenal experience.” of bullying at school in the U.K. inclusive of everybody. Local patrons of fundraisers like An Oxford University graduate, “We partner with schools over the NoBully concert, and other Carlyle’s human rights focus the course of the year for prevention nonprofit shows like the ongoing includes being chairman of the and responding to bullying,” which, Help Is On the Way performances, non-profit section of Amnesty Carlyle said, “is both getting more get a chance to see musical theatre International in Britain. He also awareness, but also more attention actors and dancers show off their researched with the late Professor via documented cases via social other skills with favorite songs Eric Rofes the effects of school media. that might be out of their usual bullying. “The incident rates sadly remain repertory. Many of the solo and Although NoBully started ten at about one third of all students group numbers are developed by years ago, the annual gala is now being a target,” he said. “What we the performers in between shows in its third year. Previous concerts have seen, though, over the last and rehearsals. included a 2012 edition of Broadway four or five years, is a much more Such is the case with Midtown Against Bullying, and choral heightened reporting in the media. Men, which had grown as the performances with actor-singers At the same time, we have seen an Jersey Boys cast member performed Taye Diggs (in 2012) and Glee star increase in making schools bullyat various private parties and Darren Criss (in 2011). Caryle free.” fundraisers. “That’s how we grew said he’s happy to have so many No Bully maintains an outreach the show,” said Reichard. versus lobbying stance. “And three and a half years When asked about specific ago we decided to tour LGBT-focused work, and it.” That show includes conservative opposition to occasional symphony perceived ‘pro-gay’ advocacy versions as well. in schools, Carlyle clarified Reichard also got a the broad issues the group chance to sauce up his covers. squeaky-clean image as “We recognize that part of the Broadway bullying happens for all sorts Bares fundraisers, held of reasons,” he said. “LGBT annually at New York’s students are targeted, but also (soon to be closed) students because of their race, Roseland Ballroom. The size or perceived difference. It annual show, which actually makes it easier for features male and female us to get into schools since performers in sexy themed we’re not just an ‘under the strip numbers, was an radar’ pro-gay organization. experience Reichard joked We can see how there are as “torture.” certain religious and political “I spent three months organizations that would go preparing for the idea of it, after us.” and then I turned 30, so it Carlyle dispelled was a bit of a celebration,” stereotypes of proper said Reichard, who English schoolboys. performed initially “Bullying in England in the with other Jersey Boys 1970s was awful,” he said of castmates, but remained his own childhood. “There clothed. He was asked to were extraordinary levels perform as co-MC for a of anti-gay and anti-Jewish recent edition. bullying. England can be “It’s a little bit badass, horribly racist. It comes and its fun, and tons of back to social justice. If my friends are in it,” he we have schools where it’s said. “And that night itself tolerated, school becomes so is electric. Every actor uncomfortable for students says it’s one of the biggest Julia Murney as Elphaba in Wicked. that they’re denied a full and thrills.” safe education.”

This is why, Carlisle said, “We are honored to have the support of these incredibly talented performers who have taken time out of their busy performance schedules to help bring an end to this epidemic.”

Wickedly Talented

Could the character of Elphaba, the green-skinned protagonist in Stephen Schwartz’s hugely successful musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked, be considered an example of the ultimate bullied student overcoming adversity? Who better to ask than Julia Murney, who played the role on Broadway and in its national tour, and who will also perform at Broadway Against Bullying? “Absolutely,” said Murney in a phone interview from New York. “She is someone who has to find a way to properly channel her anxiety and anger by the way she’s being treated. Her initial introduction at school is her job of taking care of her sister, and it’s what she does with pride, even when the dust gets kicked in her eyes too often.” The musical and literary variations on The Wizard of Oz offers a sympathetic back-story to the iconic Wicked Witch of the West. “She could turn around and become evil when her powers manifest themselves,” said Murney of what she cites as one of her favorite characters. “But there is a teacher who sees good in her and helps her rise above the petty attacks. I think it speaks to very many people that there is a feeling of wanting to feel special, and everyone has special gifts, whoever they are.” Murney’s familiarity with the iconic role goes back to her having read the novel, and having worked with composer Stephen Schwartz. Long before she became one of many prominent actresses to portray the role, “I loved the book, and ran around telling everyone, ‘You have to read this.’” Murney noted how the characters did shift a great deal in the stage adaptation, with Elphaba’s roommate Glinda taking on a greater role. “You have to have some point of view,” said Murney. “The notion of these two girls who are so different becoming women who are similar in so many ways is extraordinary.” While she’s aware of the show’s enormous popularity among teenage girls, Murney doesn’t think it was intentional. “They didn’t say. ‘Let’s write a show about girl power.’ It’s just a great story that happened to wildly resonate with people. By the time of the song “For Good,” See page 4 >>

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Party Time

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other cocktail. And, if you’re friends are anything like mine, that would be at least ten times.

Be a Host and Leader

Next, be clear about what you expect of your guests and what they can expect of you. I make it known in the invite exactly what I will provide and since you’re the host, you don’t have to be shy about telling your guests exactly what they can bring. Your job is to carry the theme out and be the orchestrator of the most amazing party ever. This will not only add to the success of the party but will save you the time and effort of having to silently judge the guest that brings bathtub gin and off-brand cola. Hey, this isn’t a college dorm party. Likewise, if you have a lot of gay couple friends attending, you don’t want them all to show up with their best Laura Ashley serving platter stacked with deviled eggs. Don’t get me wrong; deviled eggs are delicious. However, first off, you don’t want there only to be one type of hors d’oeuvres served. And, secondly, it’s going to quickly spiral downhill into an episode of Gay Top Chef and at least one sensitive lad who hasn’t been numbed by your complimentary party bowl of Vicodin yet will become emotionally unhinged when he realizes he used way too much horseradish in his recipe and everyone is eating the other guy’s eggs instead.

Fake the Fancy

I will source my products from multiple places in an effort to get the most bang out of my buck. However, you should buy at least one product that is recognizable as a quality brand. For instance, if Whole Foods sells a certain cracker that you think your guests will recognize, make it a point to buy a few boxes of those and put them at the center of the table. Then you can strategically scatter products from Safeway and the Dollar Store around the rest of the house. Since I enjoy a good sale, if I notice something is on sale and it’s on the list of things I asked a friend to bring, I may send a text saying, “Hey, Safeway has Skyy Vodka on sale this week at a good price.” As much as I hate Safeway, I find they have some of the best prices on booze. And, some of the craziest things happen in the Safeway on Market Street, so just think you get booze and probably a story to tell at the party later.

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The Help

If you’re having a fair amount of people at your party, it’s definitely worth the investment to hire someone as a waiter, bartender or just a general helper to keep the party flowing and the premises clean. If you’re hiring someone, resist the urge to go for the eye candy. Yes, take practical over pretty! Craigs List will be littered with ads this holiday season with listings for a muscular stud who is okay with bartending in nothing but a bow tie and a Speedo. That’s great. But, he’ll most likely have to look up the recipe for a Gin and Tonic. If a haggard 50-year old lady with painted-in eyebrows but a resume stacked with catering experience applies, hire her immediately! Those under-eye wrinkles with caked concealer are not a fashion faux pas, but identification of her years of experience. She knows how to run a party, keep track of the goon who is taking too many bacon-wrapped scallops and will possess equal parts sass and skill in being a liaison between your guests and you the host.

Ratings Game

It’s your party and the quality of it is also measured by the quality of people you invite. You want a diverse group of partygoers who will compliment each other. You should occasionally monitor who is doing a good job of making conversation and being welcoming and who is acting like a jackass. One year, I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner at my place. My boyfriend and I were slaving away in the kitchen trying to get every serving platter of food hot and on the table quickly. However, while we’re frantically working, two guests decided to start serving themselves and begin eating before we were finished and able to sit down ourselves. Needless to say, I marked their names with a big black X over them and they were removed from the following year’s guest list. As the host, you have a duty to the guests, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t rules of etiquette for them to follow either. If you’re skilled enough to do so, don’t be shy to create a post-party Powerpoint presentation complete with pie charts and bar graphs noting how each of your friends did as a party guest. If you have good friends, they will take this unsolicited feedback as constructive criticism and only grow to become a better party guest in the future.

“Are you enjoying my 7-Up gals night, Cheryl?” “Not as much as I enjoyed your ex at the Dinah Classic.”

Don’s about to learn about the joys of a triple-play.

Ask First

It’s late in the evening and perhaps the party has taken a drunken turn for the worse. My rule regarding uncouth behavior is this, “If they asked me before they did it, then I’m cool with it.” For example, if I walk in my living room and you’re

in there smoking pot and you didn’t ask me if it was okay or if I wanted to join you before I discovered it, then out the door you go. I also don’t care if you give a tipsy blowjob in my shower, but yes; ask first. I have no problem holding my pee so you can make a choice now that you

will regret tomorrow. Just ask first! Wow, I just re-read this article and I’m proud of myself. And, you should be too because now you know have access to all my previously secret tips that I never tried before in how to throw the best party possible. Best of luck!!t

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Erasure’s Winter Wonderland

by Jim Provenzano

lectro duo Erasure have a new CD out just in time for the holidays. Snow Globe includes both traditional songs and some original music. Asked about the melancholy tone of the collection of songs, singer Andy Bell discussed Snow Globe in a phone interview from London. “I think it just turned out that way,” said Bell. “The songs that we chose, apart from “White Christmas,” which is really a classic song–the others were quite maudlin. It gave us a sense of forgotten nostalgia, like It’s a Wonderful Life, like a black and white movie.” The album release was preceded by its first single, “Gaudete,” Erasure’s distinctive take on the Medieval Latin carol, which was also a folk hit for Steeleye Span in 1973. Covers of traditional holiday songs like “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and “Silent Night” offer somber takes on the holiday classics arranged by Bell and Vince Clarke. Other songs incorporate their familiar style, as with “Make It Wonderful,” which offers an uplifting theme and lyrics while keeping consistent with the mid-range tempo of the other more somber songs. The duo’s arrangment of “Silver Bells” is most appropriate for the beautifully metallic sound of Erasure. Although the CD’s theme is focused on the holidays, Bell noted, “It was fun having free reign on the production and backing vocals.” Five original tracks compliment the classic songs, with “Gaudete” being a combination of ancient music with a new arragement. The electric beat and reworking of the Latin verse are complimented by the haunting stopmotion animated music video. Reminiscent of the 1960s RankinBass holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Bell said that while he’s familiar with the U.S. TV shows, “It reminds me of the Eastern European style children’s shows. We love that kind of animation, and there were quite a lot of similar children’s programs in the U.K. Some of them are really scary, actually.”

Vince Clarke and Andy Bell

Set in a snow-covered destroyed gothic church where a trio of mysterious monks find a special treasure, Bell and Clarke let director Martin Meunier (Coraline, James and the Giant Peach) have free reign, and said he found it “quite poignant. I thought perhaps the church was going to come back to life completely, but it remains half broken down.” It is this song in particular which perhaps exemplifies a quandary for the openly gay singer. “The video perhaps says a lot about what’s going on with organized religions,” said Bell. Although the song’s translated lyrics are quite Christian (“God has become man, To the wonderment of Nature, The world

has been renewed By the reigning Christ.”), Bell remains realistic about his perspective. “I think it’s changed, a lot of gay people have changed their perspectives [on religion] because we’ve been through so much, being locked out because of who we fall in love with. Frankly, it’s their loss.” A student at a Catholic school as a child (the British term is a ‘cathedral school’), Bell clarified, “I’m not antireligious. We sang hymns, and I was a choir boy. I loved going there, and bought into the Christmas songs. Now, I think just because you don’t belong to a certain faith doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate its music.” That music like “Gaudete” and

A scene from Erasure’s animated music video for “Gaudete”

Singing for Change

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that song is universal, but you can personalize it for ‘doing good.’” Raised in New York City, Murney attended the La Guardia School of the Arts, which was the inspiration for the film Fame. The diversity among her classmates somehow precluded bullying, she said. “It was one of the most integrated schools, from race to religion to sexual orientation,” she said. “We had a transgender classmate in the dance department. He was fabulous, and he was just himself. The kind of bullying we see today didn’t exist. But it was also a bubble. I think about kids today

who love musical theatre, but who live in places like Nebraska and don’t have people to talk to about that.” As a dedicated actress, Murney considered the motivation for bullying behavior. “Certainly, bullying comes from fear, for whatever reason,” she said. “Some of us want to be in a pack, and the pack has to agree on everything. I’ve always been stunned to see the kind of anger and vitriol that comes from people who are specifically racist or antigay. Take gay marriage. It has zero effect on others. I want to say, ‘These guys have nothing to do with you.’ I mean, terrible straight people get married all the time.” In her former role as Elphaba, Murney has received some rather

intense fan letters, particularly from kids who empathize with the suffering character. “I’m not a trained psychologist, just a singer,” she said. “I can’t get directly involved or invested. The best we can do is wish them well.” And helping out in fundraisers by offering her singing talents is another step. “We can at least try, and hopefully some kids will see something that inspires them.” Broadway Against Bullying takes place Monday, December 2 at 7 p.m. at Club Fugazi. Tickets are $75 for general admission seats. A limited number of premium tickets are available for $150 and include reserved seats, tickets to a post-performance dessert reception at

Gregorian chants have remained for centuries is, Bell said, “Quite amazing. We’ve done ‘Ave Maria’ live. A lot of these proses really do have a powerful incantation-like spell, because they’ve been performed for thousands of years. But I do tend to lean toward

years, and has a lot to do with Queen Victoria, back when Christmas cards became popular. I still don’t know what the crackers [paper prizes] are about.” Along with performing radio shows in the U.K., Bell and Clarke

more Pagan aspects.” Asked about British holiday traditions that he enjoys, Bell said that compared to American celebrations of excess, “ours are more like a small birthday party. It’s changed over the

and planning to tour the U.S. by September 2014. Until then, celebrate the sweetly somber side of the holidays with Snow Globe.t

North Beach’s famed Rose Pistola with the cast, and a VIP gift bag. Carl Pantle (San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus) will serve as Musical Director. CBS5’s Liam Mayclem will serve as emcee for the evening. Along with Reichard and Murney, performers include Colin Cunliffe (Pippin, Evita, The Addams Family), Josh Franklin (Anything Goes, Ghost, Jersey Boys, Legally Blonde), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Catch Me If You Can, Hair, Hands on a Hard Body), Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot, Passing Strange), Patrick McCollum (Wicked, Peter and the Starcatcher, Rocky), Missi Pyle (Bare, the films Galaxy Quest, The Artist, and Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory), Keala Settle (Hands on a Hard Body, Hairspray, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, South Pacific) and Alysha Umphress (American Idiot, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).t

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Broadway Against Bullying takes place Monday, December 2 at 7 p.m. at Club Fugazi. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard (Green Street). To purchase tickets, visit www.bab2013.eventbrite.com or call the Beach Blanket Babylon Box Office at (415) 421-4222. For additional information on No Bully, please visit www.nobully.com and their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nobully.

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Groom Zoom by The Swag Bag

ow that November’s pretty much a done deal, the holidays continue at a pace. You’ll be meeting and greeting and want to look your best. Whether or not you participated in Movember, the month-long men’s health awareness campaign (www.us.movember.com), or are a pre-trendy hirsute type with facial hair, you still need to groom that pelt, be it a full-grown beard or ironic pencil-thin mustache. For an expert trim and haircut, we like regular faves Joe’s Barbershop (2150 Market St. 255-9096. www. joesbarbershop.com), Daddy’s Barbershop (4102 19th St. 552510. www.daddysbarbershop.com), and the classic Louie’s in the Castro (422 Castro St. 552-8472. www. daddysbarbershop.com). Between them all, a basic haircut costs around $25, but tip well and it’ll be $30. But for a new style, stop by People’s Barber for vintage ambiance combined with 21stcentury skin and haircare. $38 gets you a shave so close you’ll swear you never went through puberty. An expert beard trim’s a mere $15. 1259 Polk St. 292-4099. w w w. p e o p l e s b a r b e r- s f . c o m Of course, most of us can’t afford a professional shave artiste each time we want a clean mug. You can get some cheap razors by the bundle at Costco or Bed Bath & Beyond. But do you really want to be so mean to the only face you have?

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Virgil gets a little deserved self-grooming.

In Yer Face

But what about that face? Now that it’s a tabula more rasa, you need maintenance, boyfriend. Give your skin a healthy glow with one or all of the lovely facial products, which we got from Organic Male. Don’t be put off by the blandly beige packaging. These lotions are sweet-smelling without being intrusive. The neutral-scented hand sanitizer comes in handy, so to speak, after a night meeting and greeting during high cold & flu season. Organic Male’s selection of creams, lotions, and specialized products are made in Palm Springs

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and shipped fresh to you. (877) 898MALE (6253). www.OM4men.com For quick and easy shopping for grooming gifts, and a nice way to hint to your roommate, date, boy-

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friend, or hubby that they stink, stop by The Body Shop on Castro Street. Although many of the scenets and soaps are a bit sweet and fruity for our taste, they make great gifts and bathroom extras for guests (www.thebodyshop-usa.com). And for a fantastic collection of grooming products with a bit of upscale swank that won’t slice off your bank, sample a few manly products from The Motley. The Los Angelesbased company doesn’t yet have a retail presence, but you can order products online in time to stuff your favorite man (or butch gal’s) stocking (www.themotley.com) Skittish about slapping new goo on your mug? Try to $39 Test Run, a ditty bag full of new products that will also make a great sidebar gift item, or the main event if your man is still clinging to that straggly beard. Plus, shipping is free for this item, and any order over $50. More samplers in the Imperial

The Motley offers stylish and manly grooming products.

Shave Bundle; shave oil, face soap, and Bergmot after-shave for $30, and it comes in a little burlap bag; prewrapped! The Motley’s prices are bit more than the standard stock at Walgreen’s. For example, a corporate roll-on deodorant costs $4, but it’s full of toxins and probably owned by some mega-conglomorate like the evil Koch Brothers. The Motley offers Speick Natural Deodorant Spray ($19), which isn’t. It’s your choice. However, one discount item caught our attention on yet another afternoon spent using one of the multitudes of $5 off coupons from Bed Bath & Beyond. Nope, it’s not a sex toy (we’ll be writing those up in a few weeks!), and not a post from www.Engrish. com. Apparently, the Old Spice knock-off scent is the bluntly coined Every Man Jack. Well, we suppose 99% do. And the other one percent are lying.t

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Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Enjoy the intimate groovy disco night with DJ Bus Station John. $7. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Sat 30 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Special holiday show tickets, including New Year’s Eve, also on sale. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge Weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time’s assured. $8$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th st. at Harrison. www.BootieSF.com www.DNAlounge.com

Club Gossip @ Cat Club Mixed gay-friendly goth-electro-retro-ish club night; monthly (2nd Sat.). $8. 21+. 9pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

Folsom @ Club OMG Get leathery at the mid-Market mini-club, with demos by SF Rubber Men, DJs Damnation and Christopher B. $5 benefits Folsom street Events. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Indie Cent Movember @ SF Underground Celebrate your newly sprouted hipster facial hair at “a really hairy dance party,” with Haute Toddy, Lindsay Slowhands, and cheap-ass drinks. 10pm-2am. 424 Haight St. www.undergroundsf.com

Industry @ Beatbox Susan Morabito DJs at this 7th annual post-Thanksgiving dance event, hosted by the Men of Bare Chest Calendar 2014. Proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. $20-$30. 10pm-4am. 314 11th St. www.industrysf.com www.beatboxsf.com

Fri 29 Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club

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Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

En Vogue @ Yoshi’s Oakland “Free your mind” at a concert by the vocal powerhouse funk women’s trio, at the elegant nightclub-restaurant. $49-$59. 8pm & 10pm. Nov. 30, 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Dec. 1 at 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Fedorable @ El Rio

hether you’ve filled up at the table, or endured a family herding, it’s time to get out for some live entertainment that doesn’t involve pretending to care which football team wins, or playing the guessing game when your inquisitive elderly aunt asks whether you’re a “pushy bottom.” Get out, go do stuff and burn off that stuffing.

Thu 28 [Thanksgiving Day; some venues may be closed. Call first.] Comedy Thursdays @ Esta Noche The revamped weekly LGBT- and queerfriendly comedy night at the Mission club is hosted by various comics (1st Thu, Natasha Muse; 2nd Thu, Emily Van Dyke; 3rd Thu Eloisa Bravo and Kimberly Rose; 4th Thu Johan Miranda). No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 307916th St. www.comedybodega.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, half-off locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men’s bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.BeatboxSF.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarous fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www. edgesf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Free weekly queer dance party, with gogos, prizes, old groovy tunes, cheap cocktails. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. 2823325. www.elriosf.com

Friday Nights @ De Young Museum Season 9 of the popular weekly early evening museum parties continues, with live music and performance, exhibitthemed workshops and food and drinks. 5pm-8:30pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Go-Beaux @ Beaux Gogo-tastic weekly night at the new Castro club. Bring your dollahs, ‘cause they’ll make you holla. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun Open during renovations, the popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Hard @ Qbar DJ Haute Toddy spins electro beats; cute gogo guys shake it. $3. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

HYSL @ The Lookout Shots, drinks and DJed fun with the adorable David and Trevor. $2. 10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Eight bars, more dance floors, and a smoking lounge; the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Picante @ Esta Noche Weekly show with drag queens and the Picante Boys; hosted by Lulu Ramirez; DJ Marco. 9pm-2am. 3079 16th St. 841-5748. www.jceventssf.com

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Release @ Club OMG Weekly party at the intimate mid-Market club; rotating hosts and DJs, Top 40 dance remixes, giveaways, gogo hunks. Free before 11pm. $3. 9pm-2am. 43 Sixth St. www.clubomgsf.com www.facebook.com/ReleaseSF

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Some Thing Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland Live bands, DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland’s premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10-$15. Dancing 9pm4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Magic Show @ Hotel Rex Old-fashioned magic show with Sebastian Boswell III, Adam Sachs and guest performers, weekly in the parlor of the elegant downtown hotel. Two-drink min. Light fare menu. Saturdays thru 2013. $25$30. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. 895-0090. www.MagicattheRex.com

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Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular country western LGBT dance night celebrates a decade and a half of fun foot-stomping two-stepping and linedancing. $5. 5pm-10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www. sundancesaloon.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

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Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with Cock and Bull ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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Donna Sachet’s Songs of the Season @ The Starlight Room BAR/BARtab’s “On the Town” columnist hosts her annual holiday fundraiser concert at the elegant Union Square nightclub with a fabulous panoramic view; Sharon McNight, Abigail, Vicki Shepard, Dan O’Leary and many other singing talents. Proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. $75 and up. 8pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. 395-8595. www.donnasachet.com

Karaoke @ The Lookout Paul K hosts the amateur singing night. 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany hosts the weekly drag and musical talent show, which starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Torch @ Martuni’s

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Veronica Klaus hosts the weekly night of cabaret, jazz and blues music, with Tammy L. Hall and special guests. $15. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.facebook. com/veronica.klaus

Weekly screenings of vintage music videos, and retro drink prices. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Wed 4 Academy of Friends Holiday Reception @ Gumps The nonprofit that creates the annual Oscar party gala hosts a cocktail and hors d’eouvres reception at the historic Union Square store. Get a preview of the Oz-themed “Return to Emerald City” 2014 gala planned for March, and learn about sponsorship opprtunities. $20. 6:30-8:30. 135 Post St. 995-9890. www.AcademyofFriends.org

Booty Call @ Q Bar Juanita More and Joshua J’s weekly night packs the intimate stylish bar with grooves and a groovy younger crowd. $3. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.juanitamore.com www.QbarSF.com

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Brendan Canning @ The Chapel Mellow folk/alt singer-guitarist performs songs from his new CD, You Gots 2 Chill, including the single “Bullied Days.” $15. 8pm. 777 Valencia St. brendancanning.com thechapelsf.com

Whoville Skating @ Embarcadero Ice Rink Join dozens of LGBT folks and friends for a campy night of skating. Dress as your favorite Dr. Suess Grinch Who Stole Christmas character, or just wear a elf, Santa hats, and/or a tacky holiday sweater. $10 to skate $4 skate rentals. 7:30 mingle, 8pm skating. Food and drinks after-party at The Holding Company (Embarcadero 2 Center). 4 Embarcadero Center. www. facebook.com/events/324292517709025/

Thu 5 Betty Buckley @ Feinstein at the Nikko The iconic Broadway, film and TV singer-actress performs The Vixens of Broadway, her cabaret show of classic “other women,” aka second female leads in hit musicals ( Chicago, Evita, Company, Oklahoma, Into the Woods). $50-$80. Dec 5 & 12, 8pm. Dec. 6 & 13, 8pm. Dec 7 & 14, 7pm. Dec 8 & 15, 7pm. Thru Dec. 15. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St.(866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

The Frail, Double Duchess @ Rickshaw Stop Interesting local electro rock band and the astounding queer hip hop duo perform live, with Penguin Prison headlinging with a DJ set. $15. 9pm. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

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Monday Musicals @ The Edge The popular Castro bar shows fun musicals each week. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox

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Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

Planet Booty @ Rickshaw Stop Fun-filled night of white-boy funk and bootie-shaking fun, with Oakland’s hunky Germick brothers and their band. NVO and 8th Grader open. $10. 9pm. All ages. 155 Fell St. www.planetbooty.org www.rickshawstop.com

So You Think You Can Dance @ The Warfield Touring cast of the hit dance competition from season 10 perform (Nov 29 show sold out). $52.50-$68. 8pm. 982 Market St. www.goldenvoice.com

Trina @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Miami-based vocalist makes her West Coast debut for a World AIDS Day event at the popular Oakland club’s Club rimshot night. $15-$25. 9pm-4am. (show around midnight?). 510 17th St., Oakland. (510) 444-2266. www.bench-and-bar.com

The classic leather bar is back, with the most popular Sunday daytime event in town. 3pm-6pm (Also now open daily 11am-2am). 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Brunch @ Hi Tops Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Full of Grace @ Beaux New weekly night with hostess Grace Towers, different local and visiting DJs, and pop-up drag performances. This week, DJ Robin Simmons. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Women’s burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5-$10. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

13 Licks @ Q Bar

Compete for $200 prize in this amatuer strip contest, or watch the newbies get naked. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm11pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio

Tue 3 Block Party @ Midnight Sun

Weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

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Weekly women’s night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com The legendary leather bar gets jock-ular, with beer buckets, games (including beer pong and corn-hole!), prizes, sports on the TVs, and more fun. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall New weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey’s

The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 5527788. www.elbo.com

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. One-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Bebe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down like the strippers, and enjoy a beverage at the erotic male theatre. $20. 8pm and 10pm. Also Sept 28. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www. thenobhilltheatre.com

Soma Country @ Beatbox Sundance Saloon’s monthly SoMa two-stepping dance night now takes place every Tuesday. $8. 8pm-12am. Lessons 8pm. 314 11th St. at Folsom. sundancesaloon.org www.beatboxsf.com

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Pan Dulce @ The Café Open Thanksgiving night; enjoy amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Retro disco tunes and a fun diverse crowd, each Thursday; DJ Bus Station John plays records. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland Hip-hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guests. No cover before 11pm and just $5 afterward. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

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New Celebrities by Scott Brogan

t was a good time at the San Francisco Eagle on November 9. The first annual Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather was held that afternoon. Tony Delfino, the outgoing Mr. Daddy’s Leather (he’s the first, having been appointed) put on a good and thankfully swift contest. With only one contestant, I was afraid that they would feel the need to stretch the proceedings. I thought “Oh Lord, they’re going to make this painful.” But they didn’t. The contest was short and sweet. Aiding in the swiftness were the two fun emcees Sister Phyliss Withe-Litaday and Beth Bicoastal. They were the right combination of fun, snark, and frivolity. They didn’t take it so seriously, as some do, that it became stale or rote. Those of us who have been to a million contests over the years really appreciate that! Nile was the lone contestant. He acquired the needed number of points to score high enough to win

the title and proceed to the Mr. SF Leather contest in February. Most people assume that if there is one contestant, they’re a cinch to win. Not so. There have been times when a sole contestant has not gotten high enough scores. I haven’t seen it, but that’s what I’m told. What makes it tough on these sole contestants is that they’re burdened with carrying the contest and having all of the attention of the judges and the audience. That’s not always easy to pull of. Nile was excellent. He joked with the emcees, showed off his leather well, and even shaved a balloon (this is Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather, after all). The judges (Shwan Kinnear, Nerine, Jay Harcourt, Cody Elkin and outgoing Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather Tony Delfino) kept their questions quick and to the point. Thank you all for doing that. The contest was over before we knew it and Nile was announced as having the required points to win the title. Congrats Nile and good luck at Mr. SF Leather! Thank you Tony for stepping up

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Sister Phyliss Withe-Litaday and Beth Bicoastal put Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather 2014 Nile to the test.

that bringing this new title to fruition, and for being a fun presence in our community.

P.S., I Love Leather

Down in Palm Springs they were celebrating Leather Pride week. That’s always a good time. If you haven’t been, you should go. The weather is, of course, nice and warm. The local are welcoming and usually extra horny. The Mr. Palm Springs Leather contest is naturally a part of the festivities. Mr. Off Ramp Leather 2014 Tommy Hamilton won the title and now proceeds to International Mr. Leather in Chicago next May. First runner up was Clay (Mr. Tool Shed) and second runner-up was Domonic (Mr. Barracks Leather). Congratulations to you all for representing your community so well. If you’re looking for some great, custom made leather/gear, check them out at: www.offrampleathers.com. Don’t forget, the SF Eagle is holding their contest (Mr. SF Eagle 2014) on Saturday, December 14. The contest will start at 3pm (!) and will be hosted by the ever effervescent Lance Holman (Mr. SF Leather 2010 and 1st runner up at IML 2010 - I still think he should have won). The judging panel will consist of Lenny Broberg (Mr. SF Eagle 1992, Mr. San Francisco Leather 1992, International Mr. Leather 1992), Gary Kenyon (Mr. SF Eagle 2009), Marcus Alston (Mr. SF Eagle 2013). Ava Schmidt (SF Girls of Leather, Judges Girl for Mr San Francisco Leather), and Richard Sprott (San Francisco Leather Daddy XXIIII, Mr Alameda County Leather 2009). Alston will be stepping down after a fun-filled year as Mr. SF Eagle 2013. I’m sure there will be a beer bust involved at well. It’s not to late to submit your entry. Contact info@sf-eagle.com or Desmond Perrotto at desmond@ champsf.com. Another reminder: The International Ms. Leather/Community Bootblack is also just around the corner. I believe there are still specials for early registration at the DoubleTree by Hitlon in San Jose. That’s where the contest weekend will take place. Go to: www.imsl.org for details.

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A happy Tommy Hamilton after winning Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2014.

Where’s Andy Cross?

To be honest, I don’t know where the hell he is right now. He’s been all over the place. I haven’t been able to keep up! I should expect that. He’s young and vibrant and I’m, well, not! He was recently in town, but I didn’t get the chance to see him. Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to stop at my place and take care of my needs? What kind of Mr. SF Leather is he anyway? Geez! Seriously, I do enjoy his Facebook updates and seeing his “cummings” and goings. I

sure hope he’s getting some frequent fucker miles racked up. Knowing his partner, Carlton Paul, I’m sure that’s under control. Keep up the great work Andy. You’re really doing us proud, you sexy little stud!

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I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving today. I hope you’re surrounded by loved ones and can enjoy a day of feasting (roast beast, anyone?) and reflection on the many things we have to give thanks for. Enjoy the holiday!t

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ne promise from the Guys Like Us line of movies by director Andrew Rosen was that the sex would start at the top of the scene. And it does. A second promise is sort of concomitant— there would be no plots. And there haven’t been. Both He’s Got the Moves and Hot for You are marked by the application of their performers, who work hard for their money. Some of them get sweaty, which is always a mark to me of a more realtime event. The guys are fervent, not frenzied. Initial insertions of fucking are regularly observed, so continuity is fairly good, even if a basic 20-minute time allotment for each episode can be a little truncating. While the scenes generally launch with tasty smooching and sly canoodling, relationships may not run deep. Our lack of familiarity with the young men distracts us from that, particularly in Hot for You, with four or five of its lads having hardly been seen before. I found making the acquaintance of these attractive newbies pretty enticing. Still, once past the joy of intently performed and closely observed cocksucking, the fucking frequently devolves into something more perfunctory. This may be partly because of the standard stop-andstart, get-it-from-all-angles filming process of mainstream porn, which is a real relationship-killer, especially for newer performers. And newer guys are the rewarding come-on in Hot for You. Especially notable is Jace Chambers, a Falcon Studios husky, butch blond top who looks Lucas Knight and Duncan Black are fresh faces in He’s Got to be a star. His willingness to the Moves. smile reminds me of Dirk Caber; I like a guy who shows some (hasn’t even started to shave), was Connor Kline who snagged personality. His partner is lively, but who bottoms out like a banme into He’s Got the Moves. The dark-haired Devin Dixon, who shee. And Liam Magnuson is just sturdy Marine type is a wily guy confuses me. First thing we see so shiny and all-around hot. I who cracks a sexy smile. I like that of Devin is a very new love his golden pubes, his in a tough guy. In a pair of scenes, looking tattoo across chunky bone, and radihe tops Ray Diaz and bottoms for his bicep. “Angela,” it ant personality. He’s Hayden Richards, who clears out reads. Is that his drag left porn, so I suggest for several minutes so a dildo can name? Or did he you relish this scene. get in there. My, how Kline’s rump come out just after He’s Got the rears right up for that. Richards he got it? Is the payMoves may not have wields it like a plumber, without check for his cocka plot, but it does subtlety, and Kline grimaces in sucking and eager have a hook. Each vireaction. Then the pumping pace bottoming paying for gnette finds someone coming or doubles, and Kline goes yow! and it? going (note to art director—put ouch! But loves it. Kline then sits Black-haired Isaac Hardy and something in the moving boxes on Richards’ cock, his own very tall blond Jake Parker are so fresh so they have realistic weight). It hard cock flappin’ hard as Richat the make out game that ards churns his ass and they smile. They’re havKline churns up a load. ing fun sex. Although it’s Ray Diaz pops an aponly a passing sight, I love preciative smile at Kline the bone-ified tenting when he slowly peeled of Isaac’s briefs. They’re down Kline’s briefs and the pretty much lost in their dude’s steely stiff, plushkissing, while their cocks headed bone broke into are crossing like swords, view. Some mighty good and Isaac’s cock leaks a cock sucking follows, and lovely strand of pre-cum. capping athletic and scenic I go more for Jake’s cock, fuck positions, Diaz shoots though. It’s broader, more a yard away as Kline plugs solidly hard. Even so, I his hairy ass. kinda lost interest as they Without the few teeny fucked. It becomes stanwhiskers that are trying dard issue, “I pump and to pass for a ‘stache and you gasp, then I jack off on goatee, rosy cheeked Luyou.” cas Knight would look like Not so the final scene’s he was 14 years old. He’s fuck, in which fair-skinned, no callow youth, though, dirty blond Ashton Weber and sharply stabs Duncan gets a punchy poking from Black’s ass with his big fat darker skinned Bobby salami cock. Hart, whose low hanging What about Ryan Rose balls flap loosely as he ratin the finale? The star tat-tats that ass. athlete’s body, the movie Ashton Weber and Jake star smile, the friggin’ Parker emerge as guys cleft in his square cut who’ll draw me on. But the chin, and the hard fuck guys who initially drew me he throws handsome Anin are the stars of the andrew Fitch—well, it’s over Falcon Studios thology’s opening. Adorand out on my part.t able Joey Cooper is one Ray Diaz gets topped of those Falcon special- by wily Connor Kline in He’s Got the Moves. www.FalconStudios.com ties who looks like a boy

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