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Time to elect gay mayor?

Not for some LGBT voters

by Seth Hemmelgarn

by Matthew S. Bajko

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lmost three weeks after the abrupt resignation of former Executive Director Roland Palencia, Equality California has announced it’s bringing in a veteran consultant to help guide the Joan Garry organization through staffing, financial, and other troubles.

Joan Garry, former executive director of the national Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is coming on board to serve as “chief strategy and transition consultant,” EQCA spokeswoman Rebekah Orr said in a statement Wednesday, November 2.

Garry won’t serve as interim executive director, Orr said. Julie Anderson, another consultant, will also be joining in the efforts.

Orr said in an email that Garry and

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mailer paid for by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund has been hitting LGBT voters’ mailboxes in recent weeks calling on them to elect San Francisco’s first out mayor.

The national group is backing former Supervisor Bevan Dufty in the race, one of two out candidates.

The campaign piece features a quote from former Supervisor Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay politician.

“We don’t want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays,” stated Milk.

The mailer goes on to state, “We have an opportunity to elect a qualified, experienced, out mayor.

There has never been a more important time to elect one of us See page 16 >>

Gay state Senator Mark Leno spoke at a press conference at Harvey Milk Plaza last week in support of Dennis Herrera following questions about Herrera’s support for same-sex marriage.

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Activists assail San Francisco’s dwindling black population B.A.R. election endorsements General election >> San Francisco Mayor Bevan Dufty, first choice Dennis Herrera, second choice Ed Lee, third choice District Attorney George Gascón Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi

Ballot measures >> SAN FRANCISCO PROPS Vote YES on A, B, C, E, F, G Vote NO on D, H

Emeryville City Council Ruth Atkin

College of Marin Board Stephanie O’Brien REMEMBER TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 8!

by Heather Cassell

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an Francisco prides itself on diversity and being a beacon of freedom of expression and independence that attracts people through its golden gate, but the reality is much harsher, according to African Americans living in the city.

Black people – mostly middle and upper class – are decamping from the city by the bay.

Many black youth native to the city – straight and queer – are also leaving at the first sign of opportunity elsewhere.

“I’m upset,” N’Tanya Lee, a panelist at a recent discussion about out-migration of African Americans hosted by the University of San Francisco, told a room of nearly 100 audience members, “because we are not upset enough.”

Leaders of the city’s African American community are beginning to tackle the issue, which was the topic of a 2009 report from the Mayor’s Task Force on African American Out-Migration. The task force was formed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom to find out what was happening to the city’s African American community.

Four decades have seen San Francisco’s African American population decline from

N’Tanya Lee, former executive director at Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, makes a point during the State of Black San Francisco presentation at the University of San Francisco.

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a high of 88,000 in the 1970s to an estimated 46,779 by 2005, the most recent figures available. According to census projections the city is trending toward an attrition of its black community to an estimated 32,200 African

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Americans residing in the city by 2050.

The loss of blacks means that the city’s African American gay community is even smaller. Many LGBT African Americans joke See page 16 >>

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Halloween mostly peaceful

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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alloween night in the Castro was mostly peaceful Monday, but San Francisco police are investigating an attack on a transgender woman that occurred in the Mission.

In that case, Ricky Hodge, 38, was arrested on charges including aggravated assault and terrorist threats. Police are considering the case a hate crime.

According to police, the incident occurred at about 9:40 p.m. in the 500 block of Valencia Street, near 17th Street.

Hodge allegedly approached the victim, identified only as a 43-yearold white transgender woman.

Lieutenant Teresa Gracie, head of the SFPD’s special investigations division, said Hodge said, “Fucking faggot, I don’t like you. I’m going to kill you.”

She said he also called the victim “queer.”

San Francisco Police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi said that after threatening to kill the victim, Hodge allegedly struck her on the

Rick Gerharter

Costumed partygoers Brenda Weatherby, Alex Chevalier, and Michael Pratt got into the scary nature of Halloween in the Castro Monday night. Police reported few problems, although a transgender woman was attacked in the Mission.

side of the forehead.

After the victim noticed Hodge had brandished a pocketknife, she pulled out a can of Mace and sprayed him in the face, Manfredi said. Hodge fell to the ground. The victim called police and waited

at the scene for officers to arrive, according to Manfredi.

The victim, who was left with “slight redness” on her forehead, refused medical treatment, See page 17 >>

Plaque purchased for Jane Warner Plaza

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he plaque explaining the person Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro is named after has been purchased and will likely be installed by the end of the year.

The Castro parklet is named after the lesbian San Francisco Patrol Special Police officer whose beat included the city’s gayborhood.

Warner, who penned the Bay Area Reporter’s crime column, died on May 8, 2010 at the age of 53 after a battle with ovarian cancer.

A year ago this month city officials dedicated the outdoor area on 17th Street at Castro and Market in honor of Warner. But a fundraising effort that former Supervisor Bevan Dufty had promised to lead failed to materialize after Dufty left office last December and his attention turned to his mayoral bid.

After the B.A.R. reported about the lackluster fundraising earlier this year, community leaders redoubled their efforts. Then a donation of $800 made on October 20 by the Triangle Martial Arts Association, Community Action Program and Community Patrol USA secured the final piece of funding needed to pay for the plaque.

“Jane was a strong supporter of my ideas surrounding Community On Patrol Service groups, and she supported and helped Castro Community On Patrol (CCOP) during her last years of service,” wrote Ken Craig, chief of Community Patrol USA and grand master instructor and president of Triangle Martial Arts Association, in an email announcing the donation. “CP-USA works to further those ideas in San Francisco and beyond, so it’s fitting I think that CP-USA is in a position to be able to come to the aid of Jane and hopefully get that memorial plaque into production and up in the plaza at last.”

Last week Alan Bayard, president of the city’s Patrol Special Police Officers Association, went to Bocci Memorials in Colma and ordered the approximately 30 inches by 26 inches bronze plaque. It cost roughly $5,000 and is expected to arrive within four to six weeks.

“Unfortunately, it has taken too long. I would have liked to seen it

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A heart of purple flowers mysteriously appeared in Jane Warner Plaza last week; the plaque honoring Warner will soon be installed.

done a little bit earlier. But better late than never,” Bayard told the B.A.R. Tuesday, October 25 prior to traveling to Colma to finalize the plaque purchase.

The plaque will be attached to the side of one of the plaza’s concrete planters that faces south down Castro Street near the entrance to the Twin Peaks bar. Initially it was to be placed on top of the planter. But that position was nixed, as it would impose on people’s views.

“After talking with people in the Planning Department and Castro business district, it was decided to put it on the side of the planter box,” explained Bayard. “By putting it on the side of the concrete planter box it is not sticking up and not in anyone’s way. Yet it is still large enough to be seen.”

Warner’s friends and co-workers had hoped to install the plaque before November 7, which would have been

her 55th birthday. Now the plaque will arrive sometime in late November, at the earliest, and is expected to be installed by mid-December.

Bayard said he is hopeful it will not meet the same fate as that of a bronze plaque from Harvey Milk Plaza across the street. That marker honoring the late gay supervisor was stolen last month.

“The nice thing about Jane Warner Plaza is it is situated right on street level unlike the plaque stolen at Harvey Milk Plaza. With this being on street level, just about anybody coming by can see it,” he said. “I am hoping with some really good glue and some really large bolts, it won’t be able to be removed.”

An unveiling ceremony for Warner’s plaque will be planned once a date is determined. Until then, people are invited to gather at the plaza November 7 to remember Warner.▼

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Support for the Occupiers T

he scenes at two Bay Area Occupy camps could not have been more different last week: Oakland’s law enforcement officers fired tear gas and other non-lethal projectiles at protesters, seriously wounding an Iraq war veteran who was demonstrating, while the San Francisco police apparently called off a raid on the encampment near Justin Herman Plaza and donated portable toilets were brought in. The tents remain in both camps, and protesters decrying corporate greed among the wealthiest 1 percent continue to get their message out, as muddled as it sometimes is.

But that’s the beauty of free speech and free assembly, two rights guaranteed under the Constitution. So we call on elected officials in the Bay Area to vigorously support those rights as the Occupy movement enters its third month. The televised images of the Oakland raid were painful to watch and Mayor Jean Quan’s subsequent attempts to explain the action were ineffective. In San Francisco, interim Mayor Ed Lee’s response is more measured; he has allowed the protesters to remain at the plaza so far. And while officers congregated on Treasure Island last week and Police Chief Greg Suhr unconvincingly characterized it as regular “training,” there has not been police action on the camp.

Sometimes free speech is inconvenient or makes people uncomfortable. When First Amendment rights are involved, however, it’s important that elected leaders support those rights. They should not be stifling free speech and assembly under the guise of enforcing minor concerns like no tents or camping in parks.

For those out of work and out on the streets tidy rules are the least of their problems. So far we’ve been impressed with the Occupiers’ ability to express their frustration with direct action and less impressed with

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Occupy San Francisco demonstrators shared their message during one of their regular marches last month.

the heavy-handed tactics that Quan employed in Oakland.

The protesters’ primary message is the growing awareness of the wealth inequality that is evident between 1 percent of the country and the rest of us. Just this week, Bank of America seemed to get the message, too. It announced that it was scrapping plans to charge customers $5 per month to use their debit card. (Other banks recently said they would also forego the charge.) And

while bank officials won’t credit the Occupy movement, it’s clear that the ongoing protests in many American cities played a factor in the decision. As Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent noted Tuesday, a bank official had acknowledged to him that the atmosphere has been changed in palpable ways by the protests and the media coverage of them.

So, score a victory for the 99 percent.

And as the movement continues, San Francisco needs to maintain its standing as a liberal, tolerant city that can handle a few hundred campers in a park that nobody uses.▼

Brave new world: Test, treat, and PrEP

by Luke Adams and Race Bannon

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e are both community organizers and spend a lot of time talking with the target populations of the long-awaited New Directions in HIV Prevention in San Francisco. As those changes take shape and the rest of the country looks on to see how we will make them work, we felt that it was time to address some misunderstandings. We also wish to address some reckless and deceptive misinformation in the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s ad campaign against Truvada and in the recent Guest Opinion [“DPH’s risk behaviors: A case study,” July 28] by Billay Tania and some members of Off the Grid.

Tania argues that the outgoing San Francisco HIV prevention model has proven successful – that HIV has decreased over the last decade, and so he questions the move to a new test-and-treat model. Tania’s statistics fail to account for the following discrepancy.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, when the “use a condom every time” message was being widely heeded amid the carnage of a barely treatable disease [Catania, 1991], San Francisco went from averaging over 600 to about 300 seroconversions per month [Coates & Collins, 1998]. But as of 2010, evidence tells us (depending on the study [Catania 1991, CDC 2002, Foster et al. 2011, Rosenberg et al. 2011]) that only one-third to one-half of sexually active gay and bi men are using condoms even “frequently.” That’s in the age of undetectable viral load thanks to effective medications. Yet last year, depending on which set of numbers you use, San Francisco had between 300 and 700 seroconversions all year [SFHIV/HPPC 2011; CDC 2011]. The outgoing model of risk/harm reduction hasn’t been an ongoing success; it has been an increasing failure – biomedical science has succeeded far better.

AHF argues that an aggressive test-and-treat strategy regarding all sexually transmitted infections – including HIV and hepatitis-C – and promotion of the pill for negatives (pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP) is “abandoning gay men.” This reminds us of the parents in Texas who shrilly oppose giving their daughters the HPV vaccine because “it will make them have sex.” We have news for the parents in Texas: your daughters are

already having sex and, if they aren’t yet, they will. We have news for AHF: people have been voting with their bodies and widely having unprotected intercourse since the mid-1990s.

Let’s also take a look at the six points AHF uses in its campaign against Truvada use in PrEP. AHF disingenuously trumpets the statistic that Truvada was 42 percent effective in the overall iPrex study. However, that was because of the number of persons in the study who did not take the drug every single day as required.

In those who stayed on protocol, Truvada was more than 95 percent effective at protecting the HIV-negative partner.

AHF admits that the African studies showed Truvada more effective, but seeks to discount these because the partners knew their serostatuses. In other words, in the African studies, the negative partners really knew they were having sex with positive partners. So why would AHF pretend this is not evidence the drug works?

AHF condemns the researchers on the one hand for not giving them the numbers they want, but on the other hand condemns them for abiding by standard scientific study protocols – you can’t have it both ways.

AHF – which treats mostly low-income and uninsured patients – cites in-house selfreport surveys in which more than half of their respondents stated they wouldn’t want the pill if they had to pay more than $60 a month for lab and doctor visits, or when they heard of possible side effects or possible resistance.

The reality is this: Many insurance companies are paying for the viral load lab tests and the Truvada necessary to begin PrEP; there is new federal and pharmaceutical funding for a study to see how many sexually active people will use the pill, and that may portend more publicprivate funding; and all medications have the possibility of side effects and all antiretrovirals have the possibility of resistance.

AHF, which has used self-reporting to state that people won’t want to pay for PrEP, claims that self-reporting is unreliable in the iPrex study when participants talked about additional prevention measures they might be using.

In other words, AHF’s six points are a lot of bunk. However, we can agree with AHF about this: There should be further studies about both Truvada and HPTN052 for use in PrEP, and we should keep looking for the most effective HIV prevention medications we can find. In the meantime, we know Truvada can be effective, and the sooner we can get sexually active HIV-negative folks on it, the better.

We now know – because we have seen the evidence – that lowering the community’s viral load works. When poz people are stable on medications and have undetectable viral loads, they are over 90 percent less infectious [Pilcher et al, 2004; Wood et al., 2009].

When HIV-negative people go on PrEP, their protection rate greatly increases. We know that people who abuse alcohol and stimulants (coke, crack, speed, ecstasy) are more likely to raise viral load in their own bodies and in the community. We know that not giving intravenous drug users syringe exchange raises the community’s viral load. We know that not getting regularly tested and treated for STIs – and by “regularly,” we mean at least every three months – raises the community’s viral load. We know that many of our new HIV infections come from these subsets, especially the relatively newly infected, unaware that they have a high viral load. But know this: those people standing in line at City Clinic and Magnet and Tenderloin Health and elsewhere every three months to get their tests and, if needed, treatment or referrals, are not to be looked down on; they are the community’s heroes!

So what is the socially responsible answer?

Some wish to use public health and housing money for 1970s-style consciousness-raising groups. The real-world alternative is to get more people more access to more testing and more treatment (for STIs, HIV, and for alcohol/ drug abuse) and more language-appropriate services/case management and, where needed to that end, more housing (separately for users in recovery – dry, for users who’ve relapsed but wish to re-track – damp, and for active users – See page 14 >>

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What’s up with Victory Fund?

What in the world is the national Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund thinking attacking San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera?

Even to promote former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who I support for mayor, even a political action committee organized to promote lesbian and gay candidates, should never attack a local hero of SF’s LGBT movement. I’ve worked hard in the LGBT legal movement nationally and in San Francisco for over 20 years, and never been more impressed than I was with Herrera and his entire office while they have ceaselessly fought for my marriage equality.

And to do it with negative smear piece I just got in my mailbox, leaves me speechless, and of no mind to support the Victory Fund ever again. To me, it smells like a dirty trick engineered against the power of the LGBT community’s vote for either of our two hero candidates – Herrera or Dufty – and perhaps for Ed Lee. Shame.

Charlie Spiegel, Esq. San Francisco

SF sheriff’s race We are law enforcement officers, firefighters, longtime staff of the sheriff ’s department, assistant district attorneys, and LGBT activists. We represent all sides of both the criminal justice and the LGBT communities: from putting the most serious and violent offenders in custody to creating programs responsive to those who commit offenses and for those who have survived violence. We are also active in the fight for equality for our communities.

While we come from every angle of both the public safety system and the LGBT movements, we all agree on one thing: Chris Cunnie is the most qualified person to become the next sheriff.

Following Mike Hennessey will not be an easy task. He has served San Francisco with distinction for years. But we

have seen Cunnie in action: as Hennessey’s appointment as the undersheriff, as a twice-decorated police officer walking the beat, as the head of investigations for the district attorney’s office, and as CEO at nationally known treatment center Walden House, we know without a doubt Chris is the best person for the job.

Only Cunnie intimately understands the way to keep us safe is to balance prison time for serious and violent felons with programs like job training, drug treatment, violence prevention and other ways to make sure people have the opportunity to get back on track for their sake and ours.

And, as LGBT activists, we know Cunnie will be the best choice for our community.

We’ve worked with Cunnie personally and know he is the best choice for the LGBT community.

That’s why Cunnie has earned the endorsements of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Supervisor Scott Wiener, former Supervisor Bevan Dufty (#2), and Treasurer Jose Cisneros.

We hope you’ll join us in supporting Chris Cunnie for sheriff.

Len Broberg, Half Moon Bay Keith Baraka, Cecilia Chung, Brian Leubitz, Rebecca Prozan, and Sunny Schwartz San Francisco

Thanks for erotic diversity Kudos to John Karr for exploring more of the erotic diversity in our community [“Rising Sons,” Karrnal Knowledge, October 27]. Let’s hope some of the impresarios of the porn world take a cue and start casting more of the Asian and Pacific men whose hotness can be found on display in almost any club, gym, or street corner of the queer world today.

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Undercover cops to search out thieves at Castro bars compiled by Cynthia Laird

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an Francisco police will soon be going undercover in Castro neighborhood bars in response to concerns about thefts.

San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Station’s liaison to the LGBT community, said the operation would begin this week, but he wouldn’t specify when.

Officers would be “specifically looking for individuals that target bars for theft of property or criminal activity,” such as pickpockets and purse snatchers, he said. He said the operation would continue “until the problem is solved.”

Limbert said overall crime in the area is down over the last three years, but he wants to see further decline.

“If we’re getting two reports out of a bar on a specific night, that’s two too many,” he said.

Limbert acknowledged Castro bar-goers might be nervous about undercover police visiting nightspots, but he suggested that would be good in the case of people with nefarious intentions.

He also said the officers wouldn’t be easy to spot.

“They’ll blend. ... That’s why they’re ‘undercover,’” he said.

Tim Eicher, a part owner of the Castro bars QBar, Midnight Sun, and the Edge, said thieves’ favorite targets are cell phones.

“They seem to love iPhones,” he said, adding that wallets are also popular.

He said there appear to be several thefts in one night, then some time passes before more incidents occur.

Eicher said he and other venue operators who are part of the group Castro After Dark are working with police and Supervisor Scott Wiener’s office “to come up with a plan to get ahead of the situation.”

He said components include encouraging people to be aware of what’s going on around them and

keep an eye on their belongings.

“It’s not safe to leave your bag or jacket in a corner of the bar somewhere and expect it to be there in an hour,” he said.

Club operators are also working on a text messaging system so they can keep each other aware of incidents and possible suspects as they occur “so everyone will know immediately” to be on the lookout.

MCC-SF to unveil brick pathway After a slight delay, Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco will hold its ribbon cutting and unveiling ceremony for the “Miracle on Eureka Street” brick pathway Sunday, November 6. There will be a brief ceremony at 12:30 p.m. (after the morning service) followed by a reception. The church is located at 150 Eureka Street in the Castro.

Earlier this year the church sold bricks as a fundraiser when it became necessary to repair the sidewalk in front of the building. According to the church’s newsletter, the brick campaign raised just over $63,000, more than enough to cover the repairs as well as pay off some outstanding bills.

Those who ordered commemorative mini bricks will be able to pick them up after the ribbon cutting. For more information, see www.mccsf. org.

LGBT seniors documentary screening Openhouse, an advocacy organization for LGBT seniors, will host a screening of the award-winning documentary Gen Silent, about the challenges LGBTs face as they age, Sunday, November 6 at the Delancey Street Theater, 600 Embarcadero, in San Francisco. A reception begins at 5 p.m., followed by the screening at 6 and a discussion with Openhouse Executive Director Seth Kilbourn at 7.

The film examines how years of oppression have left many LGBT elders not just afraid, but also isolated.

The film is described as inspirational and shows how LGBT seniors can work with dedicated professionals and volunteers to create critical support networks that are necessary for people as they age.

Tickets to the event, which is cosponsored by New York Life, are $25.

They can be ordered online at www. openhouse-sf.org (click on the “donate now” button).

There will also be a special community meeting in partnership with New York Life on charitable giving on Wednesday, November 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street.

StartOut networking event StartOut, an organization dedicated to fostering and developing entrepreneurship within the LGBT community, will hold a networking event Tuesday, November 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kunst-Stoff Art Space, 1 Grove Street, second floor, in San Francisco. Admission is free and there will be a cash bar.

People can come and meet successful LGBT and LGBTsupportive entrepreneurs, founders starting their own businesses, aspiring entrepreneurs, and the people who help make them successful – investors, lawyers, bankers, and others. The event will also feature five entrepreneurs who will describe their businesses and then “tell us what they need” from the community to be more successful. Other than asking for money (because everyone needs that), everything is fair game, such as office space, coder, a head of engineering, or website designer.

Then the audience offers their help and suggestions.

To register to attend the event, visit sfnetworkingnov8.eventbrite.com/.▼ Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

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Scout’s honor

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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obby Montoya wanted to join the Girl Scouts.

Born with male genitalia, Bobby decided at age 2 that she was a girl. She dresses and acts like a typical American 7-year-old girl.

Her mother, Felisha Archuleta, has been supportive of her child, even holding “princess parties” for Bobby’s birthday. Recently, she tried to get Bobby into the Denver chapter of the Girl Scouts of Colorado, a part of the Girl Scouts of the USA. You know, the folks who sell cookies every spring.

When Archuleta approached the local troop, she was rebuffed.

Indeed, the troop leader reportedly said things that humiliated Bobby, driving her to tears. After the story hit the news, however, higher ups with the Girl Scouts of Colorado presented a very different view than the troop leader.

“Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade

as members,” read the Girl Scouts’ press release. “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.”

I should add that they do expect transgender Girl Scouts to be very definitive in their gender identity – or as Rachelle Trujillo, the vice president of communications for Girl Scouts of Colorado, said to a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, “If she does want Bobby to join, they need to make a decision, that as a family, that we are going to entirely have her live her life as a girl.

If they do so, we are happy to have her as a member.”

Perhaps the reason for this statement is, as the group claims, Archuleta framed her request using male pronouns for Bobby, and this led to the initial resistance. While that may have been the case, it still doesn’t sound like it was handled well.

Officials with the Girl Scouts of Colorado have said they will be altering their training programs

and reaching out to Archuleta and Bobby, and presumably welcoming them to be a part of the Girl Scouts experience.

Trujillo said that they only hear of one or two cases of a transgender child wanting to join a year, and that they’ve only encountered transgender kids wanting to join the group in the last three or four years.

I can tell you, with certainty, that the Girl Scouts have had transgender members before. Aside from the high likelihood that some of their members transitioned away from girlhood and into a male identity, I, too, was a member of the Girl Scouts. No, really.

In spite of being – at the time – an only child, and being years away from publicly admitting to my preferred gender, I was part of the Spanish Trails Council of the Girl Scouts back in the 1970s. One of my aunts was a troop leader, and my mother opted to assist her. In order for her to do this, she would have to bring her kid along. The upshot was that I was made an honorary girl scout. No, I did not have the uniform – aside from an awful daisy pattern and bric-a-brac vest that we all had in our troop – but I did earn a handful of badges, and was

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welcome to participate in all our events and activities.

Even though I was definitely considered a separate animal from the others in scouts, I know I did get a lot out of the experience. Frankly, I wish I could have experienced it in my preferred gender, and really

been a truly equal party to this experience. I loved the experience I had, and feel it did contribute to who I am today, but I know it could have been much more.

We live in an interesting time.

Much like Trujillo indicated, it is only in the last few years that we’ve seen parents beginning to accept their children’s transgender status, and have attempted to accommodate the needs of their transgender offspring. It is a far cry from the days when I was an ersatz Girl Scout, when the very notion of a child displaying tendencies outside their birth gender would have been met not with acceptance, but with scorn and derision.

With this rise in acceptance, we’re also seeing the inevitable pushback, with people like Fox News commentator Dr Keith Ablow leading the charge. Hot on the heels of an article warning parents not to let their children catch a glimpse of Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars, for fear that “transgender rays” will strike their child and turn them transgender, he’s turned to the debunked science of Dr. Paul McHugh to fight against sexual reassignment.

Ablow also dredged up last year’s J. Crew advertisement, where creative director Jenna Lyons painted her son’s toenails. It seems as if Lyons is now dating another woman, leading Ablow to dig back to the 1970s, claiming that Lyons is trying to feminize her son because she’s the classic “man hater” stereotype.

This is the world these parents have to navigate. People who, like Ablow, would equate acceptance of transgender children by their parents as a form of child abuse.

While I think there may still be some issues along the way with the Girl Scouts of Colorado and its stance on transgender children, it’s certainly a big step above what may be out there from other groups and schools these parents may have to confront. I’m sure it’s far beyond anything we may ever see from the Boy Scouts of America, too.

So I applaud the Girl Scouts of Colorado for moving in the right direction, and presenting a Girl Scouts that is open to all girls.▼ Gwen Smith wishes she still had her badges. You can find her online at www.gwensmith.com.

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Herrera’s role in Prop 8 fight often overlooked

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One group is working to place a Prop 8 repeal measure on the ballot next year, but Herrera said he was not aware of it and is unsure if he would launch another committee.

“I would want to consult with the community and see where that would be and where we are at in our legal action on the case,” he said, referring to the ongoing federal lawsuit against Prop 8. “I would have to review the whole thing. I would do whatever is best so that we have marriage equality in California as expeditiously as possible.”

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n July 2008 San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera launched Californians Against Eliminating Basic Rights. Serving as chair, he held one-on-one meetings with potential donors, hired his own campaign consultants, and commissioned polling to gauge public sentiment.

The focus was on protecting the California Supreme Court ruling that May allowing same-sex couples to marry in a lawsuit Herrera’s office had brought before the state courts.

Anti-gay groups had placed on the fall ballot that year Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that would overturn the court decision and ban same-sex marriage in California.

“I thought it would be a good continuation to continue in the political realm what I had done in the legal realm and stay in the forefront of the battle for same-sex marriage in California,” Herrera told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent interview.

As his primary campaign consultant Herrera hired the firm Griffin Schake, led by principals Chad Griffin and Kristina Schake.

One of their main tasks was to reach out to donors who may not have seen marriage equality as a cause to support.

Big money contributors included Levi Strauss and Co. and Ray and Dagmar Dolby, which both gave $25,000; Monterey Bay Aquarium Executive Director Julie Packard, who gave nearly $24,000; and local private investor F. Warren Hellman, who donated $10,000.

Herrera raised a total of $1,162,203 that year for his No on Prop 8 committee. Griffin’s Hollywood connections secured celebrity donors such as actor Brad Pitt, who gave $100,000 to Herrera’s committee. Gay television producer Greg Berlanti gave $25,000, while actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle gave $5,000.

Yet Herrera’s Prop 8 fundraising activities often go overlooked.

His official mayoral campaign website does not mention his committee against Prop 8 under his accomplishments for LGBT rights.

Instead the focus is on his legal fight to secure marriage rights for LGBT couples.

“I have spoken about it. I was proud to be in this battle for seven years both as a lawyer and in taking an active role to raise money,” said Herrera. “I will tell you this, when most people talk to me about it, they focus on the legal work. That stuff comes up first.”

His raising money for his own committee did spark concern among the leaders of the Equality for All, No on 8 campaign. The larger umbrella coalition of LGBT and allied groups was finding it hard to raise money on its own that summer and felt the two efforts were confusing donors.

Lorri Jean, CEO of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center who served as a leader of the main No on 8 group, said Herrera’s committee was viewed as “a renegade thing.”

“It absolutely did hamper abilities to fundraise. It confused people,” said Jean. “We had an official campaign.

Herrera, he hooked up with other people and he started trying to reach out to Hollywood.”

Two other Equality for All leaders, then-Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors and National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell, met with Herrera to express their concerns and ask him to combine forces with their committee.

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“Dennis had created a separate committee that had hired fundraisers and campaign consultants. Equality for All asked Dennis to join the executive committee so that everyone was working together in a coordinated way and to avoid confusion among donors that was occurring,” wrote Kors in an email. “Dennis agreed to the request, which resulted in several of the consultants he had retained, including political, fundraising and media consultants, joining with the consultants Equality for All had retained.”

Herrera acknowledged, “there was concern” expressed and that he understood “people wanted to make sure there were unified efforts.”

“Geoff and Kate and those guys especially didn’t want there to be ... different groups not speaking with one voice,” added Herrera. “We decided to make sure that everything was unified and coordinated to combine our efforts.”

On October 1, 2008 Herrera cut a check for $100,000 for the Equality for All campaign. He made three other donations to the group, in the end giving $661,500 or little more than half of what his committee was able to directly raise.

“Dennis Herrera raised more for the No on 8 campaign than any elected official in the country, forget San Francisco,” Griffin told the B.A.R. “If anyone can counter that I would love to speak with them. Dennis Herrera is responsible for raising millions of dollars for the No on 8 campaign.”

It is impossible to know the exact amount that Herrera’s efforts raised for the fight against Prop 8. After he agreed to join forces, his committee continued to collect checks from some donors while others were funneled to the larger No on 8 campaign. And it played a key role in a Los Angeles fundraiser that raised more than $4 million.

“I know that Dennis and the folks that were part of the committee he created raised a great deal of money for No on 8 including around the Hollywood event in October of 2008.

I just don’t recall the specific amounts and timing of all of it or how much came into each entity,” wrote Kors.

“What I am certain of is that Dennis helped raise a very significant amount of money for the No on 8 campaign and has been a strong advocate for marriage equality.”

Jean told the B.A.R. that in any future campaign she would hope Herrera and any other politician would not form their own committee.

“Hopefully he would never suggest to anyone else that they do something similar. Any politician who wants to help needs to help within official confines of the campaign,” she said.

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Central Valley legislator comes out The number of out gays and lesbians in the state Legislature grew to eight this week with the coming out of Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani (D-Livingston). The Central Valley lawmaker disclosed for the first time she is a lesbian to the Stockton Record.

During an interview Tuesday she told the newspaper she could no longer remain closeted while teenagers struggling with their own sexual orientation turn to suicide.

Rumors that Galgiani, 47, was lesbian first surfaced when she ran for office in 2006. But she told the Record that it wasn’t until after being elected that she came to terms with being gay.

She plans to move back to Stockton where she grew up and seek the newly drawn 5th Senate District, which is made up mostly of San Joaquin County. The city could elect two lesbian lawmakers to represent it next fall as out Stockton City Councilwoman Susan Talamantes Eggman is running for the new 17th Assembly District seat. ▼

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Former gay ambassador opens up in new memoir

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ames Hormel, the openly gay San Francisco philanthropist and an heir to the Midwestern meatpacking company famous for its Spam product, could have likely avoided a nasty battle over his nomination as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg if he had instead accepted an offer in 1997 to become the consul general in Bermuda.

Three years earlier former President Bill Clinton’s decision to name him ambassador to Fiji sank under opposition by officials in the South Pacific country and a Republican takeover of Congress in the fall of 1993. Undeterred, Hormel continued to lobby for a diplomatic post.

He was named a delegate to the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission in Geneva as he sought to bolster his resume. Then came the offer of the Bermuda post, which did not require as extensive congressional vetting as an ambassadorship did.

Yet Hormel saw Bermuda more as a vacation on a tropical island than a serious foreign policy assignment.

If he accepted it, the Clinton administration “would think that they had done all they needed to do for me, and by extension, the LGBT constituency.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a longtime friend, counseled Hormel to accept the position. Republicans were dead set against seeing an out gay man be confirmed an ambassador, she warned, and would eat him alive.

“Too naive to conceive of the assault the far right would launch against” him, Hormel “felt driven to push ahead.” Then on October

Former Ambassador James Hormel stands next to boxes of his new memoir.

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6, 1997 Clinton named Hormel ambassador to Luxembourg.

Hormel recounts the episode in his new memoir Fit to Serve: Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.95). The autobiography is co-written with former Hartford Courant reporter Erin Martin.

It recounts the anti-gay character assassinations Hormel faced as religious conservatives set out to torpedo his confirmation. Although he sailed through a committee hearing, Hormel was never brought up for a vote in the Senate.

Religious leaders like televangelist Pat Robertson labeled him a pedophile and accused him of being anti-Catholic and unfit to serve in a predominately Catholic country.

Several Republicans placed holds on his nomination due to the anti-gay attacks, so Clinton eventually used his recess appointment power to bypass the Senate altogether. Thus

on June 29, 1999 Hormel became America’s first out ambassador.

“I feel I served a very useful purpose doing what I did,” Hormel told the Bay Area Reporter during a phone interview this week.

Shortly after Clinton won the 1992 election, Hormel had dinner with Bob Farmer, at the time the Democratic Party’s national treasurer. Farmer was the first to suggest Hormel seek a presidential appointment.

Farmer, who is gay, was in fact named consul general to Bermuda in 1994 and served until 1999. Out to Clinton and other officials in Washington, Farmer did not publicly discuss his sexual orientation until years later in an interview with the Advocate.

Hormel, on the other hand, felt he was in a position in life where he could be out and force the country to discuss if a gay person could be a direct representative for the President.

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Mailers in SF mayor’s race irk LGBT voters

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ampaign literature focused on San Francisco’s mayoral race that two gay political groups produced has sparked a backlash among LGBT leaders.

The first is a hit piece against City Attorney Dennis Herrera that features a fish hook made out of money and criticizes him for accepting campaign contributions from donors who “have reeled in some really big city contracts.” The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which is supporting openly gay candidate Bevan Dufty for mayor, paid for the mailer.

The second is a letter labeled “From the Desk of Supervisor Scott Wiener” in which the gay politician writes about why he is supporting Herrera, his former boss, for mayor. The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club paid for the mailing sent to voters in Wiener’s District 8, which includes the Castro.

Backers of Dufty and interim Mayor Ed Lee on the club’s board are furious about the letter, which they contend downplays the moderate LGBT political group’s second-choice and third-choice endorsements of Dufty and Lee, respectively, in the race. They have also questioned why Alice paid for several billboards that prominently feature Herrera and not its other two mayoral endorsees.

Both mailings are causing major headaches for the two political organizations. And in the case of the national Victory Fund, whose main mission is to elect out LGBT people to elected office, it has sparked condemnation from both Herrera and Dufty for launching a negative attack in the race.

Dufty told the Bay Area Reporter that as soon as he learned last week about the fund’s mailing against Herrera he called CEO Chuck Wolfe and left him a message asking the group to desist.

“I left a message for Chuck reminding him I’ve always campaigned on a positive basis and I don’t see this helping me to be negative against anyone in this race,” said Dufty. “My druthers are they not send anything else out that is negative. It is not who I am.”

Herrera, long considered a strong ally of the LGBT community, even prior to his legal work for marriage equality, said he thinks it is “perfectly appropriate” for the fund to work to elect Dufty and has no qualms with them paying for two other mailers that highlight why Dufty should be mayor.

Nonetheless, Herrera said he was disappointed to see them launch the attack against him.

“I was a little bit surprised they took the extra step to send out a negative piece on a straight ally.

I don’t think that is particularly necessary,” said Herrera.

Wolfe did not respond to a request for an interview. Victory Fund spokesman Denis Dison told the B.A.R. that the mailers are how political campaigns are waged.

“The reality is we fight hard for our endorsed candidates and we make no apologies for that,” said Dison, who refused to say if this was the first time the group had paid for a negative mailer. “I won’t comment on that and will just say this is a tactic not unknown to anybody who works in politics with any regularity.”

The Victory Fund mailers have upset LGBT voters supporting both candidates in the race. Adoption lawyer Charles Spiegel, a Dufty backer, was so incensed he added Herrera campaign signs to his windows.

“I don’t think it is responsible for

a community-based organization like they are to do attack ads on our strong allies,” he said.

Longtime gay activist Cleve Jones said he is “furious” over the mailer and, in a letter he distributed last week, told Wolfe “you really screwed up.”

“It would be one thing if they gave money to Bevan Dufty and Bevan had the balls to put out that attack under his name. But for the attack against Dennis Herrera to go out under the name of the Victory Fund is outrageous,” Jones, who is backing Herrera in the race, told the B.A.R. “It is a terribly stupid move one their part.”

In his letter Jones called for local political consultant Joyce Newstat, an out lesbian who is working for Dufty, to resign from the fund’s Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute’s board of directors.

Newstat told the B.A.R. in an emailed response she had nothing to apologize for and had nothing to do with any of the fund’s independent expenditures.

“I will never apologize for working or volunteering to elect LGBT people to office here in San Francisco or around the country,” wrote Newstat. “Cleve Jones is

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The Alice Club’s billboard in support of Dennis Herrera has drawn fire from some board members who say it minimizes the club’s second-choice endorsement.

certainly within his rights to support the straight candidate over the qualified gay candidate – but he has no right to attack me for whom I work and choose to support.”

Alice board in heated dispute Heated exchanges have also erupted amongst members of Alice’s board over its independent expenditures in the mayor’s race.

In a letter and emails leaked to the B.A.R. and other news outlets the club’s co-chairs Bentrish Satarzadeh

and Reese Aaron Isbell have come under fire for how Alice is backing Herrera’s bid to be mayor. They are accused of misappropriating “substantial funds” to promote Herrera while downplaying the club’s other two endorsed candidates for mayor, Dufty and Lee. “While our club may not have been used to attack other Democrats, our club is being used to pick and choose among our approved endorsements who and/or what is to [be] supported through our campaign mailers,”

wrote Kevin Cheng, a co-chair of the club’s political action committee, in one email. “That is wrong. Alice is better than that. And I expect our leadership to be held to a higher standard.”

Cheng is one of 16 board members who signed a letter criticizing the mail piece signed by Wiener sent to voters in District 8. They have called on the club to send out another letter highlighting all three mayoral candidates and to apologize to Dufty and Lee. Among the signatories are former Dufty staffers Alex Randolph and Rebecca Prozan; Pride board President Lisa Williams; Lee spokesman Francis Tsang; and Andrea Shorter, formerly with Equality California.

Satarzadeh and Isbell told the B.A.R. that the charges in the board members’ letter are inaccurate and that they followed rules the club voted to adopt earlier this year. A slate card committee comprised of themselves and representatives from all three of the endorsed mayoral campaigns oversaw the production of the mailer and billboards.

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Kenyan ex-pat aims to help gay countrymen

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backlash is hitting LGBT Africans who are courageous enough to stand up against blackmail attempts by authorities and governments attempting to criminalize individuals attracted to members of the same sex.

The African experience brought Kenyan LGBT activist and political asylee Lourence “Larry” Misedah to San Francisco last month with Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Johnson and Misedah, who fled his native country to neighboring Uganda for eight months during 2007-2008 only to return and leave again to begin a new life the United States in 2010, sat down for a conversation with the Bay Area Reporter October 23.

The 28-year-old Kenyan expatriate now resides in Houston thanks to the help of international LGBT activist friends. He discussed the plight of African LGBT activists and the state of Kenya and Uganda’s gay rights movements.

Prior to leaving his home country, Misedah worked for six years with HIV/AIDS and LGBT rights organizations after he publicly came out at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in 2007.

Misedah was in the Bay Area on behalf of IGLHRC to attend a fundraiser, where he spoke about his experiences. About 70 people attended the event; Johnson was unsure how much money was raised.

Roar of the lion Africa’s LGBT rights movement continues to heat up throughout the continent as severe antigay legislation continues to be introduced in various nations, a backlash to gains made by LGBT activists within the past half-dozen years, Johnson said.

Compounding the LGBT movement in Africa is international pressure, most recently by the U.S. and Britain. Within the past several weeks the British government has proposed decreasing funding to nations that violate LGBT human rights and called to legalize homosexuality in its 54 former commonwealths. Many of the nations inherited anti-gay laws when under British rule.

“The British government did not consult with us,” said Misedah, concerned about how the U.K. government’s actions will affect LGBT Africans.

On October 25, debate over Uganda’s anti-gay bill was resurrected by the country’s parliament. Nigeria introduced its third attempt at an anti-same sex marriage bill October 18, which is being fast tracked through the legislative process, according to media reports. Two men arrested in Cameroon in late July remain in custody after their October 10 hearing. Another gay man convicted in Cameroon in June continues not to do well in prison, according to international human rights activists.

“The anti-homosexuality bill was ... really an irrational and illogical backlash,” by the right wing against “ethical, legal, and moral attempts by the emerging LGBT movement to advocate for a basic set of rights that were starting to have impact,” Johnson said.

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Lourence “Larry” Misedah, left, and IGLHRC Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson were in San Francisco recently to speak about current work in Africa.

government’s recent actions. To his knowledge, African LGBT activists weren’t consulted by the British government.

“Yes, we appreciate international support, but this needs to be done with consultation with us,” continued Misedah, not led by the U.S. or U.K. on behalf of African LGBT communities. “We appreciate you trying to stand up for us, but you need to consult us to know how this will affect us as people.”

Two-thirds of African nations still have “explicit or implicit criminalization of same-sex relationships encoded in their laws,” said Johnson.

IGLHRC supports the locally led struggles against those laws, he explained.

The U.S. has taken an approach similar to IGLHRC, supporting LGBT activists through advocacy and aid, Misedah believes.

U.S. support has opened a passage for African LGBT activists who are learning to leverage that through documentation when lobbying in their countries, especially for HIV/ AIDS health care and prevention services, but also to push for LGBT rights, he said.

Johnson agreed that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s leadership has brought a “moral authority” to the international community. Many African leaders, such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Presidents Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi and Paul Kagame of Rwanda are standing up against homophobia on behalf of their citizens and are also taking a leadership role.

Their attempts often find their own “morality and integrity” being attacked and being the recipients of gay-bashing and -baiting, Johnson pointed out.

African and gay Until recently, Kenyan LGBT individuals were isolated, believing they were the only ones in their community; some expressed the desire to take their own lives, said Misedah. Older gay and lesbian individuals were forced to marry people of the opposite sex. Younger queer Kenyans felt comfort from their problems with alcohol, said Misedah, who also felt the cold hand of isolation until he came out.

Coming out liberated Misedah, he no longer suffered from the isolation and instead became a beacon for others.

“I felt sort of obliged in order to speak for those who did not have a voice,” said Misedah. “I just felt that we needed to speak more and let the society know the challenges that

LGBTI people were facing.”

He worked first with Ishtar MSM, one of Kenya’s first organizations to provide health services to men who have sex with men. He served as the spokesman for Sexual Minorities Uganda’s first media campaign.

Misedah, in collaboration with IGLHRC, drafted the first Declaration on Transgender Rights for Central and East Africa in 2007 and continued to work on capacity building in Africa with IGLHRC. He spoke at the African AIDS conference in 2009.

Misedah, among others, risked the threat of up to 14 years of imprisonment under Kenya’s penal codes sections 162 and 165 for attempted or homosexual behavior under “carnal knowledge against the order of nature.”

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Advocate founder Aristide ‘AJ’ Laurent dies

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Mr. Laurent was born in Magnolia Springs, Alabama in 1941, the son of Duval “Buck” Laurent, a farm hand, and Elizabeth “Betty” Weeks, who tended the family’s livestock and garden. He was an altar boy and choir leader at his local parish, St. John’s Catholic Church, and taught catechism to younger children. He spent summer months picking and shipping gladiolas at the farm where his father worked.

After graduating from Weeks High School in 1960, Laurent joined the United States Air Force, where he served four years. He was a signals intelligence operator in Karamursel, Turkey, and later taught new recruits at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.

Mr. Laurent’s sexual orientation was an issue during and after his service. He was investigated by Air Force officials during his service

in Turkey and questioned by federal agents after his discharge, he recounted. Despite threats, he refused to inform on other gay service members and remained proud of his military service. He held a sign at the 1993 March on Washington that featured a copy of his honorable discharge under the words, “I Served My Country! Did Rush Limbaugh?”

In the 1980s, Mr. Laurent purchased a printing firm serving the entertainment industry. In 1996 he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and given two years to live. “Thanks to the prayers and support of friends and family – and some highly qualified medical professionals – I have lived many years past the doctors’ predictions,” he wrote in a letter released after his death.

Despite his illness, Mr. Laurent remained active. He indulged his love of gardening and wrote emails to a wide circle of friends and online acquaintances, providing passionate commentary on the news of the day and humorous updates on his life and treatment. He developed an interest in genealogy and embraced his Creole (mixed race) heritage. Many relatives who identified as white were shocked when they saw their family trees in his meticulously researched histories.

Friends said that Mr. Laurent spent his final months in hospice care with several caretakers and “my loyal band of crazy friends.”

In his final letter, he wrote, “If you are reading this I’m dead. Deader, as the saying goes, than vaudeville.

But don’t feel sorry for me, I’ve had a truly blessed life.”

Mr. Laurent is survived by his nieces, Tina Weeks and Natalie Dykes of Magnolia Springs, a nephew, Kevin Weeks of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and hundreds of friends and “cousins” around the country.

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never be filled.

The survivors in Todd’s immediate family include a stepmother, a brother, a sister, and several nieces and nephews as well as his extended San Francisco family, strong in both numbers and admiration.

Todd was born and raised in Hawaii, where his ashes will be scattered soon.

He moved to the mainland in the early 1980s, establishing a career as a hair and make-up artist and did hair for several Hollywood movie stars. (He talked me into becoming a redhead!)

He also worked as a bartender at

the famous Phone Booth bar in the Mission. Todd’s passions were movies and politics. A close friend remarked only the other night that he was in great command of his facts in both areas. Todd was a complicated man and we clashed on occasion over our 12-year friendship, but never a more loyal and devoted friend ever lived. At Todd’s request there will be no funeral service but a celebration of his life will be held on November 5 by a host of his close friends (for more information, call 415-272-9343). Rest in peace, our beloved friend.

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ristide J. (“AJ”) Laurent, a pioneer in the gay rights movement and a founder of the Advocate newspaper, died at his home in Los Angeles on October 26 after a long illness, friends announced. He was 70.

Mr. Laurent helped start the Los Angeles Advocate in 1967, working alongside Richard Mitch (Dick Michaels), Bill Rau, and Sam Allen, who had taken over the Pride newsletter and renamed it.

Mr. Laurent, then working at ABC Television with Rau and Allen, helped produce early issues of the Advocate in the studio’s basement print shop and wrote a nightlife column (“Mariposas de la Noche”) under the pseudonym “P. Nutz.”

At the time, everyone on the paper used pseudonyms, he once noted.

“It was dangerous to be a ‘pervert’ prior to the liberation movement.

You didn’t use your real name for fear of reprisals, not only harassment by the LAPD, but the ever-present possibility of losing your day job, family and friends,” he wrote in a 2007 blog marking the publication’s 40th anniversary.

When the Advocate was sold and relocated to the Bay Area in 1975, he moved with it, but Mr. Laurent didn’t stay long. He returned home shortly afterward and helped start NewsWest, a Los Angeles-based newspaper intended to fill the void left by the Advocate’s departure.

NewsWest folded in 1977.

Mr. Laurent was at the forefront of many marches and several causes, including the anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967 he participated in pre-Stonewall “Black Cat” protests against police harassment of gays. In the 1980s, he was part of the ACT UP movement that fought indifference to the AIDS crisis. In 1993, he attended the historic gay march on Washington.

But it was an act of charity that got him in trouble with the Los Angeles Police Department.

In 1975 Mr. Laurent was one

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of 40 arrested during a charity “slave auction” benefiting the Gay Community Services Center held at the Mark IV Bathhouse in Hollywood. The raid, which deployed more than 100 officers and cost a reputed $150,000, became a public relations disaster for the police and a rallying point for the gay community. Felony slavery charges against those arrested were later dismissed.

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Obituaries >> William Todd Scholz April 18, 1955 – October 16, 2011

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wet). We think the truly progressive answer is the latter.

HIV infections do indeed intersect with some of the difficult needs of San Francisco’s vulnerable and marginalized communities.

The long-term answer has not been to provide community organizing groups at agencies for these individuals. Historically, without the medical advances we have now, that was all in which DPH could place the public’s hope.

Today’s answer is that, in an age of very limited resources, money for community organizing has to come from elsewhere, and public health and housing monies need to be spent on actual medicine, and on

more language-appropriate access and case management for it. We also need new dedicated revenue streams.

Finally, in his guest opinion, Tania asks whether medical professionals will “take on transforming the root causes of HIV.” The root cause of HIV-disease is a retrovirus.

Progressive social change, in this case, is exactly about empowering people with culturally-useful access to real health care to save their real lives. And that’s just what we meant in the 1980s when we were shouting for “drugs into bodies.” The Brave New World is here; get with it.▼ Race Bannon and Luke Adams are longtime community activists. Bannon writes at www.Bannon.com and Adams is a drug counselor, minister, and MFTI.

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Gay mayor?

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as the mayor of the gayest city in America.”

Yet many LGBT voters disagree, and instead, are backing a number of the straight candidates in the race.

While they would like to see an LGBT person one day occupy Room 200 at City Hall, they contend this is not the year to break that lavender glass ceiling in San Francisco’s politics.

“Clearly, electing an LGBT mayor is important to many LGBT people.

Certainly it is for me. But I think it is a more complicated issue than that,” said gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, who is supporting his colleague District 11 Supervisor John Avalos for mayor.

A candidate’s sexual orientation is just one factor among many LGBT voters look for in determining who should become mayor, said Campos.

“I think it is not just about that. It is also there are many things that go into choosing a mayor,” said Campos, who endorsed as his second choice in the race City Attorney Dennis Herrera after his commitment to fighting for marriage equality back in 2004 came under attack. “You want

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Anderson “will conduct a strategic and focused assessment of EQCA as an organization, from programs to development, and develop a shortterm strategic plan for EQCA that will serve as roadmap for a new executive director search.”

Orr said the money to bring in Garry and Anderson is being provided by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund. She wouldn’t say what the women would be paid, or how much money Haas is giving.

Matt Foreman, director of gay and immigrant rights programs at the Haas Jr. Fund, didn’t respond to an interview request Wednesday morning. Garry didn’t respond to a Facebook message. Anderson couldn’t be reached.

EQCA last month announced the Haas Jr. Fund would be providing $220,000 for its new Breakthrough Conversation project. It is not known whether that money has already been awarded.

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that they can count themselves on one hand and often are the only black face in a room in San Francisco.

But it isn’t a laughing matter and LGBT African Americans know it, with many expressing anger and distress over the situation even as they express a profound love for San Francisco.

“It doesn’t make any damn sense if you are an African American gay person, why would you be in San Francisco?” asked Lee in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter after the panel discussion. Lee said that sometimes, she and her wife sit down together and say, “Now wait a minute, it’s really depressing being black and raising a family in San Francisco.”

Departing Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, an advocacy agency, a few weeks ago, Lee, 42, is volunteering for John Avalos’s mayoral campaign and doing grassroots consulting before beginning her academic career at USF in January, she said. She’s also enjoying spending more time with the couple’s 4-year-old son.

Deep roots The problem is complex and multilayered, from African American homeowners who took advantage of their houses being valued at millions of dollars during a once hot housing market to housing

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someone responsive to the needs of the community, that may also include LGBT allies who may not be members themselves of the community. It is not an easy thing to do. It is a difficult, difficult decision.”

Some LGBT voters may determine how to mark their ballot with a desire to make LGBT political history. But not everyone steps into the voting booth with that goal in mind, and this year is no exception.

“The LGBT community is not monolithic. I think a lot of us support having LGBT elected officials. But we also make our choices on a specific race and a specific candidate,” said District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who is backing his former boss, Herrera, in the race as his top choice, Dufty as second, and interim Mayor Ed Lee third. “It is not surprising to me there is a diversity of thought on the mayor’s race. I hear it everyday talking to constituents and other LGBT people about who they are supporting.”

This is not the first mayoral race in the city to divide the LGBT community. As far back as 1995, when lesbian former Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg ran for mayor, LGBT voters have been faced with deciding

if they should elect one of their own.

No matter who is in the race, the LGBT community’s allegiance has never fallen lock step behind the out candidate. When gay Supervisor Tom Ammiano decided to take on Mayor Willie Brown as a write-in candidate in 1999, they both had significant LGBT support.

Four years later in 2003 LGBT voters

were split again between Ammiano, out lesbian former Supervisor Susan Leal, then-Supervisor Gavin Newsom, and former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez.

Each time no one questioned whether an out person could be mayor, said gay Democratic leader Rafael Mandelman.

“In San Francisco we believed in

1995 and in 1999 and in 2003 that we could elect a gay mayor. We have been down this path with some pretty amazing people,” he said. “I think it is super important, I think hugely important, for San Francisco to elect a queer mayor. But I think the reality is it is not going to be this year. There are many other things at stake in this election.”

A poll conducted last month for the local news website Bay Citizen and the University of San Francisco found that only one in 10 gay and lesbian respondents said they would select Dufty as their first choice. Lee attracted the most LGBT support with 17.6 percent, with Avalos and Herrera both at 16.2 percent. But undecided also attracted 16.2 percent.

The poll results were based on telephone interviews of a random sample of 551 likely San Francisco voters between October 7-13.

According to USF professor Corey Cook, 12 percent identified as gay or lesbian and another 1.5 percent said they were bisexual.

Cook said he was surprised by the polling results. Dufty’s poor showing among LGBT voters may be due to a lack of media attention, said Cook.

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Garry served as GLAAD’s executive director from 1997-2005. Since then, she’s developed a nonprofit consulting business in which she focuses on executive director and board coaching, strategic planning, and leadership transition work. She also co-chaired the LGBT finance committee for Obama for America 2008, according to Orr. Anderson served on the Los Angeles finance committee for Equality for All, which raised nearly $30 million for the No on Prop 8 campaign. That campaign worked unsuccessfully to defeat the Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban, which California voters passed in November 2008. EQCA’s leadership was involved in the campaign.

Orr said that EQCA expects to begin the process of recruiting for a new executive director in early 2012 “but will clarify that timeline and the details of the job description over the next few months.”

Garry will work daily with staff to oversee programmatic, development, and communications

work. Board members will oversee operations, Orr said. Neither Garry nor Anderson will be the new permanent director, she said.

Foreman said in an interview last month that in the spring, the Haas leadership program had granted $36,000 to the EQCA Institute “to facilitate leadership transition.” He said that a balance of over $20,000 remained.

Asked if there would be any more contributions from the leadership program, Foreman said, “I’ll just say the Haas, Jr. Fund considers the Equality California Institute a vital partner, and we want to do everything we can to ensure its continued success. That means yes, we will be open to additional requests for additional support.” The institute is EQCA’s education branch.

Over the last decade, EQCA has helped push through state legislation addressing everything from housing protections to marriage equality.

Palencia’s resignation came after he’d been on the job for just over three months. Other staffers,

including marriage and coalitions director Andrea Shorter, have left or been let go. Board members of the organization, which has bled hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2008, have been silent about any specific plans they have to ensure EQCA’s survival.

Orr recently provided copies of 2010 990 tax filings for EQCA and the institute in response to a request from the Bay Area Reporter.

The documents show that total net assets for the groups at the beginning of the year were about $2 million. Orr said that figure is now $740,000.

Orr couldn’t provide specific answers to questions about the documents when asked last week, and board members contacted by the B.A.R. – including EQCA board Treasurer Jeannette Yazedjian – didn’t respond to interview requests.

However, Geoff Kors, who left EQCA in March after nine years on the job, responded to emailed questions about the tax documents.

The files show that contributions

and grants to EQCA alone dropped from about $5.8 million in 2009 to approximately $3.2 million last year.

Money contributed to the institute declined from around $1.6 million to nearly $1.5 million.

Kors said that in response to California voters passing Prop 8, EQCA opened field offices in cities ranging from San Diego to Fresno in order to engage marriage equality supporters through door-to-door canvassing and bringing in a street canvassing firm, among other efforts.

“Many newly engaged supporters, as well as major donors, were eager to support that effort in 2009,” he said, and the organization expanded their list “by hundreds of thousands of donors and supporters.”

But in 2010, support for the fieldwork “had cooled a bit,” and donations dropped. Staff and offices were cut.

Kors, who said he’s enjoying doing volunteer work and hasn’t applied for any jobs, said he’s “optimistic” about EQCA’s future.▼

prices and rents that continue to tick upwards for renters trying to stay in the city. Employment increasingly is a challenge, especially through the ongoing economic crisis, and is only compounded by miseducation of generations of the city’s black youth and crime and violence in the neighborhoods, said black community leaders.

“The situation facing black San Franciscans is really quite a state of emergency,” Lee told the audience, backed by the six other panelists.

Lee pointed to education as a measurement of how the city and the African American community are failing its black community and itself with a 50 percent dropout rate and two out of 10 black students not prepared for college.

“You can go to any of the schools and see brilliant, brilliant creative black children being told to be quiet, being talked down to, and being disrespected, not loved,” said Lee. For the city and its black and LGBT communities it means losing a crop of talented young queer activists and civic leaders.

Lee’s experience is that queer black youth in “disproportionate” numbers have been the “most willing to step up and organize in their community” around the many issues impacting the African American community, she said.

Black queer youth are out and actively participating in the community, said Lee, who has worked for 30 years in both the

African American and LGBT communities. Unlike previous generations, the new generation finds that they don’t have to leave their community to be who they are. In that sense, the gay mecca has given the youth “a little social capital,” buffering them a bit from racism and homophobia, she said.

Still black LGBT youth, like their straight counterparts, aren’t enticed to stay in San Francisco.

“Young black people – queer or not queer – they do not want to stay here,” said Lee, because they can’t afford to, nor are there many black cultural institutions or things for black youths to do. “Community liveliness – it’s not here.”

findings and recommendations in the report.

All of these issues are not only black issues, but queer issues, Lee said, pointing out that the city’s middle class is actually the working poor due to the cost of living in San Francisco.

There are few well-to-do black LGBT people, especially women, said community leaders.

Most black lesbians are “working class or moderate income people” who are often raising their own and extended families’ children, said Lee. “It’s in our interest to organize multiracially with people whose basic concerns are living wage jobs, affordable housing – that aren’t necessarily ‘queer agenda,’ but it’s the agenda that is going to make it possible for working people to stay in the city,” Lee continued.

Andrea Shorter, who until recently was the marriage coalition director for Equality California, agreed.

“No movement works in isolation” movements are in “conversation with each other” and “stem from the civil rights movement,” she said.

With the November 8 election around the corner, San Francisco’s African American community is carefully scrutinizing the mayoral candidates.

Retaining a vibrant African American community touches on a higher value held close to San Francisco’s heart, according openly gay mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty and Shorter, who is supporting

Dufty’s campaign because of his black agenda, she said.

Shorter questioned if the city that prides itself on “widely held principles of leading human rights” is managing the displacement of African Americans from its borders through economics and policies.

It comes down to the city’s “perceived public value of having a thriving African American population,” said Shorter, who celebrates her 20th anniversary living in the city this month. “In San Francisco, we aspire to be what we say we are: A city about fairness, equal opportunity, justice, humanity and dignity.”

Being raised after school in Harlem’s community agencies and antipoverty programs where Dufty’s mother worked, shaped his beliefs and black agenda, a cornerstone of his campaign, he said. Dufty’s black agenda touches on the task force’s recommendations, but takes it further addressing health, LGBT, and other issues (www.bevandufty.com/ content/black-agenda-san-francisco).

Dufty isn’t the only politician paying attention to the African American community. Avalos’s campaign addresses issues affecting communities of color through its community platform (avalosformayor.org/issues/ communities/).▼

Jane Philomen Cleland

Mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty, left, talked to voter Jason Beers at the Divisadero farmers market last weekend.

The way forward Lee believes that the way forward for the African American community and other communities of color in the city are movements led by the people for the people.

“We need more political work that is driven by the people most directly impacted,” said Lee. “Folks from the ‘hood have the right to speak for themselves, come up with policy solutions for themselves, and build power for themselves.”

Addressing a variety of key factors from affordable housing, education and employment opportunities, and cultural and safe neighborhoods, is the only way for the city to retain a healthy and vibrant African American community, according to the community leaders citing their

To read the mayor’s office’s report, visit www.sfredevelopment.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=292.

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Gay mayor?

From page 16

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether the media creates it or not, I think the perception is he is not one of the major candidates,â&#x20AC;? said Cook. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the forums people tell me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I really like Bevan Dufty.â&#x20AC;? He comes off very likeable. But when it comes time to vote, he ends up not getting peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choices.â&#x20AC;?

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Mailers

From page 11

committee was formed according to our bylaws and the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precedent.

We did exactly what we have done historically,â&#x20AC;? said Satarzadeh.

Isbell added that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all elections involve passionâ&#x20AC;? and that the mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race this year is no exception.

Dufty and Herrera both declined

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Halloween

From page 2

Manfredi said. He said Hodge was transported to California Pacific Medical Center, Davies Campus.

As of Tuesday, November 1, Hodge was in custody in San Francisco County jail on $105,000 bail, but the district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet filed charges, according to law enforcement officials.

Manfredi said Hodge has no known address and it appears heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a transient.

Hodge and the victim didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to know each other, he said. He also said no witnesses could corroborate the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know

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Ambassador

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It sounds like noblesse oblige, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean it that way, but the truth was that being open about my sexual orientation was not going to cost me a job,â&#x20AC;? he wrote.

He first thought about penning the book amidst the fight over his ambassadorial appointment. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until about five years ago that he began work on it. It evolved from a retelling of the battle over his diplomatic post into a fuller portrait of his own personal history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without being open about our sexuality, which is odd because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business, but without being open about it we arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to get very far in our struggle for equality,â&#x20AC;? said Hormel, who will turn 79 on January 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had originally conceived the book as a political

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Out in the World

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well-to-do family, found himself banished from his family and cut off from his educational support at the university, where he eventually obtained his bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in environmental planning and management, he said.

Usually, families look the other way in regards to their LGBT family members who have financial resources and contribute to their families. Poor queer Kenyans, however, often find themselves in â&#x20AC;&#x153;deep trouble,â&#x20AC;? said Misedah.

Queer women are often found in Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights movement, which works with the LGBT movement, said Misedah. While the law is enforced mostly on gay men, lesbian women find themselves being persecuted as victims of â&#x20AC;&#x153;corrective rapeâ&#x20AC;? or murdered with their families, rarely seeing justice, Misedah said.

In South Africa out of the 24 murders of queer women there has been only one reported conviction, but the suspect was â&#x20AC;&#x153;let go,â&#x20AC;? he added.

No matter what economic and

November 3-9, 2011 â&#x20AC;˘ BAY AREA REPORTER â&#x20AC;˘ 17

Dufty dismissed the polling results as being based on too small a sample.

He said he knew all along that he would not have a lock on LGBT votes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel a lot of support from people in the community. I never believed I would have universal support,â&#x20AC;? he said.

As the race winds down to its last few days, Dufty said he is confident he will attract support from more LGBT

voters as they focus on the race prior to casting their votes Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recognize that as we draw closer to it more and more people from our community are embracing me and giving me encouragement and hope,â&#x20AC;? said Dufty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether at a BART station or one of the many places I am going, I am feeling a surge from people in the community and I am grateful.â&#x20AC;?â&#x2013;ź

to discuss the Alice Club infighting.

Wiener told the B.A.R. he takes exception to characterizations that Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full endorsement slate are mere â&#x20AC;&#x153;footnotesâ&#x20AC;? in the letter he signed. The third paragraphâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last sentence lays out the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three ranked-choice candidates, and they are listed again on the backside of the letter along with Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire endorsement slate.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;My response is they are wrong. It accurately reflects the ranked-choice voting,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dennis Herrera is the number one endorsee of the club. It is completely appropriate to accentuate your number one more so than number two and three. I understand folks in Alice are fighting very hard for their candidate, but this letter was accurate and appropriate.â&#x20AC;? â&#x2013;ź

if video surveillance footage of the incident was available.

Near the Castro neighborhood, there were a handful of other incidents that occurred around Halloween night.

Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Police Stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liaison to the LGBT community, said a transgender woman was arrested after she allegedly stole another womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iPhone in the 400 block of Castro Street. The incident occurred at about 12:30 a.m.

Tuesday, November 1.

Limbert described the suspect as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a little drunk,â&#x20AC;? and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She sees an iPhone, and she wants it, so she

reaches in the other girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse and takes it.â&#x20AC;?

He said the other woman demanded the return of her phone, and the two fought â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoving and pushing, as girls do. Then the police got involved.â&#x20AC;?

Limbert said the suspect, who was arrested but whose name he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately know, also had four other phones in her possession.

He said there were some other incidents involving cell phones Monday night, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how many. He said in one case at Castro and 15th streets, the suspect used a gun, and got away. He couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a description of the suspect.â&#x2013;ź

memoir. The more I talked with Erin, I realized it had to be much more autobiographical.â&#x20AC;?

The book delves into Hormelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood and college years.

He recounts his suppressing his homosexuality during his marriage to Alice Parker, with whom he has five children. They divorced in 1966 and Hormel moved to New York City the following year.

He admits he smoked marijuana and describes how the FBI once tried to recruit him to be an informant. In 1975 he landed in San Francisco with former boyfriend Larry Soule and soon worked his way into the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite cultural and political circles.

At first Hormel didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tout his involvement in gay causes. But the advent of the AIDS epidemic changed his thinking. He was a founder of the Human Rights Campaign and marshaled his personal wealth to

donate at least $4 million to 40 various organizations between 1983 and the early 1990s.

He wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;funeral by funeral, AIDS gave me and many others a new life.

We were no longer just a community â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we were a political constituency.â&#x20AC;?

Looking back at his life was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;painfulâ&#x20AC;? process, said Hormel, but he has no regrets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to avoid regrets because those donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accomplish anything.

They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really help to move us forward,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, if I could only have done that differently.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If I could, who knows where I would be now?â&#x20AC;?

Hormel will read from his book at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday, November 3) at Books Inc. at 2275 Market Street in the Castro. At 6 p.m. Friday, November 4 he will be at Book Passage inside the Ferry Building.â&#x2013;ź

social class, nearly all Kenyans who are perceived to be LGBT or are actually LGBT face being kicked out of school, losing their homes and jobs, suffering from blackmail, performing sexual favors, and other harassment and violence by authorities and community members, Misedah and Johnson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blackmail is one of the most ubiquitous human rights violations that gay men in Africa face and it is probably the most insidious because it plays on shame,â&#x20AC;? said Johnson, talking about IGLHRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s findings in its report â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa,â&#x20AC;? published earlier this year.

Currently, Kenyan LGBT activists are working on decriminalizing homosexuality in Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penal code, getting sexual orientation and gender identity protections included in Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new constitution, continuing to provide HIV/AIDS care and prevention services that have been successful at reducing transmission, and most importantly, documenting LGBT human rights violations.

African LGBT activists are seeing

a change due to international support. Zimbabweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangiraiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government announced October 24 that he wants to â&#x20AC;&#x153;enshrineâ&#x20AC;? LGBT rights in the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new constitution.

Ghanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney general and minister of justice, Martin Amidu, is considering UNAIDSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; request to provide protections to LGBT individuals to help combat HIV/ AIDS in his country, reported Africa Report.

Misedah said he is grateful for international support from countries like the U.S. and organizations like IGLHRC that are aiding African LGBT activists to lead their own movements.

Now safe in the U.S., Misedah is considering graduate school and building his American life, but Kenya and his fellow Africans arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t far from his heart or mind.â&#x2013;ź

Other incidents

To read the IGLHRC report, visit www.iglhrc.org/ binary-data/ATTACHMENT/ file/000/000/484-1.pdf.

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OCT.13,20,27,NOV 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033863400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DAMON DOGG STUDIOS,20 Navajo Ave., SF,CA 94112.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kacy French.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 10/04/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/11.

OCT.13,20,27,NOV 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033866600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GIOVANNIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA BISTRO,3839 Mission St., SF,CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Eddy Sosa.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 09/06/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as BASHFORD AND DALE,1019 Church St.,SF,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sarah Bashford.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 03/29/07. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRANSWAY,524 Union St., SF,CA 94133.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Vitaly Danekin.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/11.

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This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Vena Shotiveyaratana.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 10/11/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NEW INCENTIVES, 625 Bush St.,Apt. 420,SF,CA 94108.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Svetha Janumpalli.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/11.

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The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOON GALLERY,1057 Howard St., SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Errol Matricia.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as RMB TRANSPORT,4430 Balboa St., SF,CA 94121.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Robert M. Babick.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 1/15/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DULCE MARTIN, 50 Laguna St.,#608, SF,CA 94102.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Martin Fernandez.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 10/13/11.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as GIOVANNI’S PIZZA BISTRO,3839 Mission St.,San Francisco, CA 94110.This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Maricela Perez. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/10.

oct.13,20,27,nov 3,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs Dated 10/20/11 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : PTE RESTAURANT INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1325 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122-2308. Type of license applied

41- On-sale beer and wineeating place Oct. 27,Nov.3,10,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-548156 In the matter of the application of JOANNE MARGARET RISBERG for change of name. The application of JOANNE MARGARET RISBERG for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that JOANNE MARGARET RISBERG filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JOANNE MARGARET WELSH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 1st of December, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

oct.20,27,Nov 3,10,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-548062 In the matter of the application of JENNIFER LAUREN ALESIO for change of name. The application of JENNIFER LAUREN ALESIO for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that JENNIFER LAUREN ALESIO filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JENNIFER LAUREN ALESIO MALONEY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 17th of November, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

oct.20,27,Nov 3,10,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-548061 In the matter of the application of CAITLIN ANNE MALONEY for change of name. The application of CAITLIN ANNE MALONEY for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that CAITLIN ANNE MALONEY filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to CAITLIN ANNE ALESIO MALONEY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 17th of November, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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oct.27,Nov 3,10,17,2011 statement file A-033888300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GRISWOLD SPECIAL CARE,155 Clifford Terrace , SF,CA 94117.This business is conducted by a corporations, signed Steven C.Jones.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/13/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as QUINTEROS RESTAURANT MEXICAN FOOD, 393 Eddy St.,SF,CA 94102.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Hermelinda Jaime.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/17/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SEXYCLUBWEAR4ME.COM, 1247 Exposition Drive, St., #F,SF,CA 94130.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Asiana Chau Nguyen.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/14/11.

oct.27,Nov 3,10,17,2011 statement file A-033894600

oct.20,27,Nov 3,10,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs

oct.27,Nov 3,10,17,2011 statement file A-033910600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MINERVA’S LAUNDERETTE,262 Noe St.,SF,CA 94102.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Lauchlin O’Sullivan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 3/22/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/11.

In the matter of the application of PEDALIN NIKKIE SORIA for change of name. The application of PEDALIN NIKKIE SORIA for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that PEDALIN NIKKIE SORIA filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to SUNSET SORIA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 15th of December, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as COLE & HAYES COIN WASH & DRY,2100 Hayes St.,SF,CA 94117.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Lauchlin O’Sullivan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business VIRIDIAN DOCUMENT SERVICES,370 7th St.,#10,SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Reiser.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/11

Nov 3,10,17,24,2011 statement file A-033872000 The following person(s) is/are doing business RELIEF CONSULTING SOLUTIONS,2107 Van Ness Ave.,Unit 2, SF,CA 94109.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Ben Erickson.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as STROGANOFF RESTAURANT, 418 Beach St.,SF,CA 94133.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Alex Rabinovich.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CREATIVE TANGENT,27 Hattie St.,SF,CA 94114.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laurence Bruketta.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WAYFARER GENERAL,1552 Guerrero St., #4,SF,CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Cassandra M.Anderson.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ONE DOLLAR ONLY,4550 Mission St., SF,CA 94112.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Hameed Aziz.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as SO GOOD BAKING COMPANY,1078 Howard St.,#303, SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Leo D. Sheridan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CREATIVE B’STRO, 2325 Third St.,SF,CA 94107.

This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Jill Bendziewicz.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 1/02/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SIP & DIP BAKED GOODS,610 Webster St.,#14,SF,CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Olive A. Loew.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 10/14/11.

statement file A-033916300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as RON SCHMIDT…AUTHOR, 515 John Muir Drive,A 501,SF,CA 94132.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Ronald H. Schmidt.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 10/27/11.

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oct.27,nov 3,10,17,2011 statement file A-033894400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YOSEMITE PROPERTIES,100 Winston Drive, SF,CA 94132.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Warren Anderson.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/17/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/11.

oct.27,Nov 3,10,17,2011 statement file A-033894100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as AZUCAR LOUNGE,299 Ninth St.,SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Jonathan Ojinaga.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/11.

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What’s love got to do with it?

San Francisco Opera’s gender-bending ‘Xerxes’

by Jason Victor Serinus Countertenor David Daniels and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Handel’s Xerxes.

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his seems to be San Francisco Opera’s season for a gay spin on opera.

Following its production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, in which director and production designer John Pascoe decided to portray two male warriors as lovers, the director of Handel’s Xerxes, Michael Walling, declares in the program that Handel would have surely “recognized the city’s famous queer culture.”

Although Walling acknowledges that only circumstantial evidence suggests Handel may have been gay, he notes the composer’s delight in “the gender-bending possibilities of Baroque opera.” Walling’s revival of Nicholas Hytner’s marvelous production, which won England’s Laurence Olivier Award in 1985 for

“Outstanding New Opera Production of the Year,” turns Handel’s gender-bending on its head by assigning the male castrato role of Xerxes to mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and the female soprano role of Arsamenes, Xerxes’ brother, to countertenor David Daniels. Given that Daniels is as gay as can be, you end up with a comedy in which almost everybody and their mother is doubly confused in matters of love.

Walling not only understands the camp elements of the plot, he also has a fine ear for what is happening in the music. Time and again, hilarious hand movements and facial expressions underscore the emotional turmoil and ironies of Handel’s florid runs. Walling also takes advantage of the production’s setting

to mock the attitudes of fashionable London in ways that lavender audience members will enjoy. Any attempt to encapsulate the plot is bound to elicit the laughter that Handel and his anonymous librettist were aiming for. Xerxes, the clueless King of Persia, begins the opera by declaring his love for a tree. Once beyond that gorgeous outpouring, “Ombra mai fu,” Xerxes loses sight of the tree amidst a jungle of lovelorn confusion.

King X suddenly transfers his love to Romilda (soprano Lisette Oropesa), who is the daughter of the commander of Xerxes’ army (bassbaritone Wayne Tigges). Romilda, however, is totally in love with Xerxes’ brother Arsamenes, who wishes to reciprocate her love. Complicating

that triangle, Romilda’s sister Atalanta (soprano Heidi Stober) is also in love with Arsamenes.

Along comes Amastris (contralto Sonia Prina), the foreign princess who is betrothed to Xerxes, dressed in gender-bending male soldier drag.

To add to the gender confusion, Elviro (bassbaritone Michael Sumuel), Arsamenes’ servant, at one point enters disguised as a rather gigantic maiden selling flowers.

Natural bounty The flowers might just as well have been reserved for the music. The cast and conducting are extraordinary. Graham, as See page 32 >>

Figuratively speaking ‘Pissarro’s People’ at the Palace of the Legion of Honor

by Sura Wood

C Normally hanging on the wall of Ann and Gordon Getty’s mansion, Camille Pissarro’s “Jeanne Pissarro, called Cocette, Reading” (1899) is part of the exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Pissarro’s People.

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But he had other serious pursuits, including printmaking (he had his own press), figure drawings which

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he never sold or showed publicly, and perhaps most surprising of all, an abiding commitment to anarchist politics, though it was the philosophy he embraced, not the violence.

Pissarro’s People at the Legion of Honor, the first exhibition to concentrate on his drawings and figurative works, connects the artist’s life-long humanism to his See page 32 >>

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utobiographies and memoirs are a lot of fun because you get to step into another man’s shoes while you read them. In the case of Every Step You Take, the new memoir by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Jock Soto (with Leslie Marshall, from Harper), those would be his toe shoes.

Now retired, Soto’s career trajectory was meteoric. “I had started at age three when I performed ceremonial dances with my Native American mother on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. At age five I began my formal ballet training in Phoenix; at age 13 I moved to New York to attend the School of American Ballet, the famous ballet institution founded in 1934 by the philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein and the legendary dancer and choreographer George Balanchine; when I was 16 Balanchine invited me

to join the New York City Ballet.” It all happens rather quickly. “I was one lucky little Navajo-Puerto Rican-gaywould-be-ballet-dancer.”

Soto is candid about his career, his private life, his enrollment in the school of life. The chapter entitled “First Love, First Job, First Trip, First Tiramisu” begins: “The first time I noticed the handsome blond man staring across the dance studio in my general direction I looked over my right shoulder to see who was behind me.” Key phrase: behind me. The course of true love does not run smooth. “For one thing, I was still 15 and I had no idea what ‘being in love’ entailed in practical terms.

And then there was the fact that Ulrik was involved with another man – a rather prominent man in the ballet world.”

But about that first tiramisu? “I didn’t know what mascarpone was at the time, and when there was none at the grocery store I substituted

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Porn king/queen Chi Chi LaRue.

another exotic-sounding cheese – Gorgonzola – figuring it would do just fine. I should have realized from the sloshing and spillage in the taxi that something was wrong. The smell alone was unbearable.” At chapter’s end Soto presents his recipe for a genuine, non-disgusting tiramisu.

That is what is truly remarkable about the book: Soto had a legendary career in dance, but it seems what he really wants to do is write cookbooks.

Every chapter ends with a detailed recipe: “New Year’s Day Bagel-andCaviar Treat,” after Balanchine; or “My Penne Polonaise,” after a familiar ballet step. This reminds Out There of the time we interviewed Greg Louganis upon the publication of his memoir, Breaking the Surface. (He welcomed us into his Ritz-Carlton suite wearing a terry-cloth bathrobe, but that’s a story for another time.)

Recently retired, Louganis was one of the greatest Olympian divers of all time, but it turned out what he really wanted to do was write doggy and kitty books. But we digress.

If you’d enjoy reading about behind-the-scenes intrigues and dramas at the NYCB, put this book on your reading list. Even if you only care about Soto’s amorous pursuits, there’s plenty here to satisfy. “When I look back on this period of my life, my catalog of cringe-worthy mistakes goes something like this: the Screamer, the Architect, the Hollywood Agent, the Wannabe Pop Star, the Famous Painter, the Gossip Columnist, and the Velvet Mogul.” Send your educated guesses to our in-box.

Telling tales We have a couple of blind items to share as well, but first: some boldface names we can drop with impunity.

Seen kibitzing over the dessert tray in the Tapis Rouge VIP tent during opening night of Cirque du Soleil’s new production Totem: ACT artistic director Carey Perloff and author Armistead Maupin, with husband in tow. Nowhere near the dessert trough: Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone. Chatting away with SF society doyenne Denise Hale: the SF Chronicle’s hardest-working columnist, Leah Garchik. Catching up with Good Times Santa Cruz editor Greg Archer: little old OT, showing pal Pepi a big night out.

OK, now for the gossipy bits. This blogger around town gets a little loopy around celebrities and famous names. When her friend the political columnist showed up for dinner with that son of a legendary columnist, she couldn’t wait to brag about it to her readers. But a word to the wise: this is the same dude who was seen drinking day into night at the bar in one of his late father’s favorite haunts – then letting his lady friend pick up the check.

This SF society figure puts a great deal of effort into social-climbing strategies, and is always happy to get a mention in the glossy pages of the Nob Hill Gazette. But surely that periodical’s editors didn’t mean to ruffle feathers by giving the item the glaring headline, “This Old Bag!”

Being Chi Chi Porn king & queen Chi Chi LaRue multitasked recently with photojournalist Cornelius Washington, answering questions while conducting her sound check at the red-hot club Underground SF, opining on everything from the future of SMBD film to lesbian breast sizes.

Cornelius Washington: Chi Chi, you are an original member of my pornorazzi. Now the spotlight’s on you. Legendary porn and fetish people have submitted questions for this interview. Think you can handle it?

Chi Chi LaRue: I hope I can handle it. Run ’em!

like dropping the needle on the record, everyone screams and starts shaking their asses! That’s what I’m about, as a DJ. Porn star Justin Dragon asks: When you DJ leather fetish events, what do you want to see?

Hot men, darling. Tons of hot, naked men, all having a good time, wearing whatever makes them feel good and sexy. No bitchy looky-loos with camera phones, taking pictures and sending them all over the Internet. I want to see hot women, too. Sexy women with beautiful bodies; butch lesbians with their big, floppy tits hanging out like bologna, but no looky-loos.

Master piercer, suspension artist Fakir Musafar asks: Where do you think SMBD films will go in the future? And now that you’re slim and wearing great corsets, will you allow me to photograph you in one?

The future of SMBD films, for me, will be whatever’s fierce, safe and consensual. I will be honored to have him photograph me in a corset. I love his work.

SMBD writer, lecturer Race Bannon asks: What’s your all-time favorite rock song?

“Cherry Bomb” by The Runaways.

I also love to spin Lil’ Kim’s “How Many Licks?” The dance floor gets really sexy when I play that. Shirts come off, pants come down, and the bumping and grinding begins!

What do you want your fetish films to tell people?

I want them to get that it’s all just sex, darling, and that anything could be a fetish. I create the films for myself and what I want to see, and that’s why I put in unexpected things: young, skinny twinks; heavy, bearded daddies, anything I think will be hot.

What’s your next project?

I’ve just created a new film, Cocktrap. It’s fierce!

Porn star, DJ Ricky Sinz asks: Now that you’re lean and mean, what drag do you wear that you couldn’t when you were larger?

I’m rocking Dior, Chanel, Vivienne Westwood, names, names, names, darling. To be able to walk into a designer boutique and buy luxury ready-to-wear is fierce!

I love dancing to your music. Even your sound check had me going.

Lots of porn people are horrible DJs. What’s your secret?

My job’s to make people dance, drink and feel sexy, so they’ll fuck, sooner or later. That’s all. I’m not here to impress my friends. I want to make people lose control! There’s nothing

Ricky wants you to know that his porn studio contract has expired, and would you book him?

He and I have talked. I think it would be interesting to work with him. He’s hot, and I want to work with all hot people. Now Cornelius, enough questions! Let me finish my sound check. Go shake your ass!▼

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O Pioneers!

by Richard Dodds

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he daily headlines are a sorrowful place to dwell these days, and the governor of Texas and candidate for president just lent cause for another tear to roll down many American faces.

“Rick Perry urges New Hampshire to repeal gay marriage law,” report news services as our possible future leader goes stumping for votes in the Granite State. That the reversing of civil rights gains can be proffered as a noble cause by a credible contender for the White House makes two upcoming productions that reflect back on gay-rights pioneers seem particularly relevant.

At New Conservatory Theatre Center, the founding of the Mattachine Society by Harry Hay and his colleagues in 1950 is at the heart of Jon Maran’s critically acclaimed The Temperamentals, starting performances Nov. 4. The following week, Theatre Rhinoceros will open its season with an encore production of SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience, John Fisher’s meta-theatrical look at San Francisco’s own queer with a cause who shook up the city’s repressive ways in the 1950s and 60s.

The Temperamentals, first staged in New York in 2009, takes its name from the term Hay borrowed from 1920s slang for homosexuals. An ardent member of the Communist Party, he formulated a manifesto that identified homosexuals as an oppressed minority. Playwright Maran, best known for the Pulitzer-nominated Wicked Little Things, explores the creation of the Mattachine Society largely through the personalities of and romantic relationship between Hay and rising fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, as well as the men they try to recruit for an organization originally dubbed Bachelors Anonymous.

F. Allen Sawyer is directing NCTC’s production with a cast that includes Steve Salzman as Harry Hay and J. Conrad Frank as Rudi Gernreich, with Justin Gilman, Seth Thygesen, and Jeffrey Hoffman as a variety of other characters, including Hollywood director Vincente Minnelli, who recommends retention of the discreet coded language long used by homosexuals.

The Temperamentals will run through Dec. 18 at NCTC. Tickets are available at 861-8972 or www.nctcsf. org.

Theatre Rhino’s Artistic Director John Fisher first staged his play SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory in the spring of 2010. He wanted to return to the play, hoping to broaden its audience and also to improve the play itself. “I’m going to tighten it up, make it better,” he said when Rhino’s new season was announced.

The venue this time is the SoMa performance space CounterPulse, though much of the original cast will be back. Tom Orr and Jean Franco, who play variations on Sarria, will

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Donald Currie and Tom Orr return to their roles in an encore production of John Fisher’s Sex Rev: The Jose Sarria Experience, opening Theatre Rhino’s new season.

be joined in this outing by Carlos Barrera as the third Sarria persona in a production that not only tells Sarria’s story but also plays with the conventions of live theater.

Donald Currie is also back as a kind of surrogate for the audience as he observes, at first with disdain, and then with respect, Sarria’s flamboyant journey from a waiter and drag performer at the Black Cat Cafe to politician and gay rights defender who goes on to found the Imperial Court System, which became a major fundraiser when AIDS struck the city.

SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience will run Nov. 10-27 at CounterPulse. Tickets info at www. therhino.org or (800) 838-3006.

All about Eve & Rita As Berkeley Rep prepares for the exit of the opening show of its season, it has announced a special attraction that will close it out in June. Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, the current attraction, has added another performance to an already extended run. The autobiographical play with music, created by Moreno and Berkeley Rep Artistic Director

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J. Conrad Frank and Steve Salzman play Rudi Gernreich and Harry Hay, founding members of the pioneering Mattachine Society, in Jon Maran’s play at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

Tony Taccone, will now conclude its run on Nov. 13 – less than a month before Moreno’s 80th birthday.

The newly announced production is the world premiere of Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature, set to run June 15-July 15. The author of The Vagina Monologues is adapting for the stage her recent book I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World. Ensler based the collection of fictionalized monologues on actual encounters as she traveled the globe after The Vagina Monologues became an international sensation.

“Emotional Creature is about being a girl in the world in 2011, and about discovering the girl in each of us,” Ensler said. “It is about changing the verb from ‘please’ to ‘create’ or ‘defy’ or ‘resist’ or ‘imagine.’ It is about telling secrets and breaking taboos and building a posse.” A cast of young women, directed by Jo Bonney, will perform the monologues and interpolated songs.▼ More info at www.berkeleyrep.org.

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Steel Burkhardt (center) plays Berger, the leader of a tribe of hippies, in the revival of Hair now at the Golden Gate Theatre.

Flower power

by Richard Dodds

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here is peril in referencing any current event in a review that won’t see print for a week. The warm front that provides analogies in some story may have given way to blustery winds by publication time, and the reader should not be expected to do sense-memory exercises to get your drift. But in the three-year span since the revival of Hair opened as a joyous outdoor attraction in Central Park, it feels as if the country has had a mass mood shift. The latest example: Grownups who were around when Hair was new, and may think they still

embrace its spirit, are now debating if tear gas is an appropriate response to those mangy protestors who don’t clean up after themselves.

The touring edition of the Hair revival opened a day after the Oakland police action against the Occupiers, and it surely resonated with many in the audience as an anti-war protest described in the musical is met with a similar assault.

The cautionary note to self at the top of this story notwithstanding, along with the upcoming pun, but Hair seems to be growing since the revival first opened.

Setting the civics lesson aside, the cultural evolution of the past 40plus years has radically changed the landscape from an us-against-them division separating the generations, a dominant theme in Hair, to swathes of boomers and their progeny who have no intention of ever appearing to have left their glory days behind.

The woman sitting in front of me at the Golden Gate Theatre had her two pre-teen daughters on either side of her – despite the no-one-under-age-21 rule for this engagement – and I soon could predict when she would whisper to each child: LBJ, draft cards, LSD, and sodomy were among the terms that needed some sort of translation.

“Fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck” was left to stand on its own.

All of the above is an effort to give context to the success of a show that for a long time seemed unrevivable in Broadway terms. We are ready to be poignant about that flash of idealism that swept across the land, while just a decade or two ago the show may have seemed a clownish rendering of hippie antics.

In fact, the creators of the show, lyricist-librettists James Rado and Gerome Ragni and composer Galt MacDermot, were both celebrating and poking fun at their subjects.

Virtually every cliché of that time was represented, but in this colorful, playful new production directed

by Diane Paulus, it all barrels forth without apology. A giddy anticipation was palpable in the theater before the show began, and what happened on stage – and often

throughout the theater – was soon in reciprocation with those feelings.

The show takes its sweet time to put a plot into motion, happy enough to build a mood through its stillcatchy musical numbers and short character sketches. After all, this is a show that casts its arms wide open from the first lyrics that declare, “This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.”

When the story does start to develop, mostly based around the characters of Claude and Berger, who share a bond with hints of homoeroticism, emotions can turn somber as the tribe of friends also face their first winter on the streets of New York. Berger, played with charismatic brio by Steel Burkhardt, is the tribe’s de facto leader, and potently puts over the title song. His engulfing spirit is laced with selfcentered hedonism, and he can’t understand why the more reserved and conflicted Claude, sensitively played by Paris Remillard, won’t simply blow off his draft notice that will assuredly include a ticket to Vietnam. Claude’s reserve goes on temporary hiatus as Remillard powerfully declares “I Got Life.”

Woven through this scenario are a variety of subplots and tangents, many involving who loves whom.

Lots of unrequited love is involved, as in Sheila’s feelings for Berger, reflected in Sara King’s powerful rendition of “Easy to Be Hard,” and sweet little Crissy’s infatuation with a boy named “Frank Mills,” plaintively delivered by Kaitlin Kiyan.

Moving to the casual-appearing but vibrant choreography by Karole Armitage, the entire cast throws off an energy that feels sincere inside and out. Hair, as realized in this new production, is more than a stroll through a purple haze of nostalgia.

Good times reign supreme at the Golden Gate Theatre, but they can still be bittersweet. The way we were wasn’t the Eden briefly imagined, and the way we are can’t even pretend it might be so.▼ Hair will run through Nov. 20 at the Golden Gate Theatre. Tickets are $31-$200. Call (888) 746-1799 or go to www.shnsf.com.

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Black-and-white world

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laywright David Mamet has very publicly converted from “braindead liberalism” to a conservative philosophy that eschews the concept of social justice as a job for government. It’s every man for himself, as he assumes a level playing field – an assumption, however, that remains contested.

In his newest play Race, a title that is baiting the audience even before the curtain rises, the playing field is more like the deck of a ship in a raging storm than anything remotely level. There is a black vs. white dynamic through much of the 95-minute play, now in a tidy, often engrossing production at ACT, but the interlocutors seldom line up along the expected racial divide.

Mamet wants more to talk about subjects that can usually put any polite conversation into deep-freeze than to offer remedies, solutions, or poultices for an angry debate begun before the country was formed.

And perhaps Mamet, in addition to rousing an audience with his button-pushing ways, believes no progress is possible until people can say what they are thinking – really deep-inside thinking.

The opening lines of Race quickly set the tone as a black attorney is aggressively coaching a famously rich white client on how he should talk about black people. The advice: He shouldn’t, no how, no way.

Charged with raping a black woman in a hotel room, the aristocratic Charles Strickland is learning a harsh lesson. “You’re guilty because of the calendar,” says the black lawyer’s white partner. Fifty years ago, that reality would have been reversed.

Mamet delves beyond obvious racial antagonisms into deeply rooted human nature that can

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Anthony Fusco, Susan Heyward, and Chris Butler play members of a law firm hired to defend a rich businessman (Kevin O’Rourke, right) from charges of rape in Race at ACT.

express itself through group guilt or shame. And it wouldn’t be a Mamet play if cynicism of human nature and the institutions that flow from that didn’t fall into the spotlight.

“There are no facts of the case,” says one of the lawyers. “There are only two fictions.”

In a plot device reminiscent of Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, an apparently guileless young woman upsets the game plan of two supercharged men. But devices begin to pile up, and the fuss over a sequined dress becomes a bit silly. The play ends, for me at least, unexpectedly, when a blackout is followed not by another scene but by the curtain call.

Even so, director Irene Lewis sustains an intensity that holds the audience, abetted, of course, by Mamet’s bracing use of language and an ability to steadily catch an audience unawares. There is also

a fine cast at work here, including ACT regular Anthony Fusco as the white lawyer, along with ACT firsttimers Chris Butler as his black partner, Susan Heyward as a newly hired legal assistant, and Kevin O’Rourke as the accused.

In his earlier plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet powerfully conveyed an unsavory societal microcosm that both condensed and magnified its larger implications.

More recently, with the sexualharassment play Oleanna and the political satire November, and now with Race, he is narrowing in on hot-topic issues. He can do that well, but the slope is slippery when you hitch your wagon to a headline news service.▼ Race will run at ACT through Nov. 13. Tickets are $10-$85. Call 7492228 or go to www.act-sf.org.

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Live divas

by Gregg Shapiro

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eloved, longtime friends of the LGBT community, diva icons Bette Midler and Cyndi Lauper are the kind of artists who must be seen in concert in order to be fully appreciated. Fortunately, two new live DVDs have arrived to give as many people as possible that opportunity.

The concert doc DVD/ CD set To Memphis, with Love (Megaforce) begins with Lauper talking about her introduction to the blues and her memories of dancing wildly to her mom’s blues records when she was a kid. As a teen, Lauper went into the city to see blues artists performing live. As an adult, Fats Waller came to her in a dream and told her to do the old blues songs and interpret them her way, like Janis “Joplin did in hers.”

Interspersed with backstage and rehearsal clips shot in black-andwhite, the concert performance, filmed in color at the Warehouse in Memphis on Dec. 2, 2010, captures Lauper’s live energy. Whether she’s strewn across the grand piano or dancing barefoot, she is always riveting. In addition to the array of blues standards (“Crossroads”), Lauper also rewards fans with her own tunes, including “She Bop,”

“Change of Heart,” “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “Who Let in the Rain?”

With a crack band of musicians including Allen Toussaint, Charlie Musselwhite and others, as well as special guests Tracy Nelson (who duets with Lauper on her “Down So Low”) and Jonny Lang, Lauper sounds like she was born to sing these songs. But as was the case with her 2010 album Memphis Blues (from which nine of the 11 tracks are

p presented live), you really h have to love the blues to get the full effect. This is not just some casual affair.

Cyndi Lauper is no poseur.

The all-singing, alldancing The Showgirl M Must Go On (Image E Entertainment), Bette M Midler’s triumphant rreturn to Las Vegas at tthe Coliseum at Caesars P Palace, features the ““fucking goddess” backed u up by a 13-piece band, the C Caesar Salad Girls dancers aand her vocal trio, the H Harlettes. The “people’s d diva” performs more than aan hour’s worth of “hits, gglitz and tits” in front of 44,500 of her closest friends, aand you, too.

The performer who o opened the door for largeb breasted trashy singers o opens the show dressed in a sparkly holographic p pantsuit, later changing in into a floor-length, autumncolored gown, a dramatic black sequined dress, a pink showgirl getup and black sequined pants and white sequined top. The still-divine Miss M alternates between telling stories and regaling the audience with her Soph jokes, and performing uplifting renditions of some of her best-loved songs, including “The Rose,” “From a Distance,” “Wind Beneath My Wings,” and others.

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Scene from Oranges and Sunshine: ‘Wouldn’t you like to live where it’s sunny all the time?’

Down Under outrage

by David Lamble

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re you one of those lesbian socialists?” By the time the indefatigable social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) hears this drunken curse from the lips of a former battered boy orphan in Oranges and Sunshine, her life has turned topsy turvy. Once happily stuck in a rut running support groups for sad adults who have lost track of their birth families, and running her own nest with three tots and a loving hubby in sleepy 1986 Nottingham, England, Margaret feels she’s fallen down a moral rabbit hole. Margaret’s unlikely crusade begins when a young woman insists that she was involuntarily deported from Britain as a child and sent,

along with other young “orphans,” on a boat to Australia, where the children were required to work for religious orders under conditions, rife with abuse, approaching slavery.

Armed with a grant from British social services, Margaret sets up a special office Down Under, determined to give as many of the now-adult survivors a sense of where they came from before time runs out. Oranges and Sunshine gets its title from a broken promise made to one of the boys by an unscrupulous social worker who cooed, “Wouldn’t you like to be where it’s sunny all the time, and you get to pick oranges off the trees?”

Based on a harrowing true story and a long-simmering scandal about the illegal deportation of up to 130,000 British children to Australia, a practice began around 1900 and continued until 1970 (as detailed in the book Empty Cradles by the reallife Margaret Humphreys), Oranges and Sunshine is constructed by the filmmakers (writer Rona Munro and

director Jim Loach) like a loosely connected series of anecdotes, each progressively darker until Margaret hears confessions of young boys raped by Christian monks.

Eventually our lady nightingale so identifies with her charges that she can’t even abide a Christmas broadcast of the Vienna Boys Choir.

Playing like a companion piece to The Magdalene Sisters, the 2002 fictional exposé of young women abused in an Irish Catholic home for wayward girls, Oranges and Sunshine reserves its emotional sucker punch for the unlikely bond between Margaret and a former boy victim, played with a chilling repressed menace by David Wenham (Lord of the Rings). We fear the now bitterly sarcastic adult survivor will take his rage out on Margaret, until the pair take a cathartic journey into the Outback, where their inner monsters are released. The veteran Emily Watson is a fantastic audience surrogate for the modern world’s staggering load of untold sorrow.▼

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Scene from Revenge of the Electric Car: Maybe this time, battery-powered beauties are no fad.

Plugged in & dropped out

by David Lamble

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n 2006 doc-maker Chris Paine served up a spicy tale of corporate intrigue and betrayal, Who Killed the Electric Car?, with Mel Gibson as the voice of morally offended consumers. Paine’s witty, exhaustive report showed the draconian process by which General Motors executives at first promoted, then recalled and destroyed a nifty fleet of electric coupes, leaving many celebrity owners, including Danny DeVito, heartbroken.

Five years later, and look what’s happening! Paine’s new piece Revenge of the Electric Car reunites us with DeVito as the little guy gets his hands on a Chevy Volt fresh off the assembly line. The gag’s better if you recall DeVito playing a pushy little aluminum-siding salesman (Tin Men) whose big moment each year was when he got behind the wheel of a new Cadillac.

Paine sets out to show that maybe this time the new breed of batterypowered beauties are no fad or Detroit dodge to circumvent fleet fuel standards. The film follows four intrepid car-makers – two vets: the swaggering GM corporate salesman Bob Lutz and the man who saved Nissan Motors, Carlos Ghosn; and two newbies: Tesla Motor’s Internet startup boy wonder Elon Musk and gasoline engine converter Greg “Gadget” Abbott.

For a while it seems that the four men are, each in his own way, on a fool’s mission. Lutz’s beloved GM declares bankruptcy, and Pres.

Obama becomes the Chevy Volt’s largest investor. Ghosn is seen betting the ranch and the future of Nissan on his ability to sell a massmarket electric car right out of the gate. Tesla’s Musk and “Gadget” each face the ruinous pitfalls of entering the car business from scratch.

Paine’s four-in-one tale gets off to a slow start but quickly picks up steam as he shares his guys’ all-toohuman missteps. Revenge ultimately becomes a green-tech success

story rooted in a sound and often hilarious assessment of human nature, and an insider look at a sexy Californian (Musk) who bets everything on his $100,000 electric soap-box racer.

Martha Marcy May Marlene “Marcy May, where are you going?”

It is to the credit of first-time writer/director Sean Durkin that from the moment his bewildered and bewildering girl-on-the-lam heroine flees a Manson family-like Upstate New York cult to the last shot of her in the back seat of her older sister’s sedan, on the verge of something perhaps worse than a nervous breakdown, we never lose interest in the fate of this inscrutable woman with four first names, a psychologically nuanced set of performances by Elizabeth Olsen as Martha Marcy May Marlene.

I confess that the gimmicky title (it will make sense once you’ve seen the film) still doesn’t roll off my tongue. But the film itself, all 101 minutes, works its magic once you get used to Durkin’s other overused gimmick, the whipsawing between Marcy’s two worlds: the waking dream of the farm to which young runaways are lured and symbolically raped by the cult’s controlling leader, Patrick (John Hawkes); and the upscale summer house occupied

by Marcy’s manipulative older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and Lucy’s gregarious prick of a British hubby, Ted (Hugh Dancy).

In a slippery emotional arc where the title character never comes entirely into focus – that’s not a bad thing, merely a controlling truth of this film, where a wise newcomer shows his stuff but doesn’t reach for more than he commands on a Sundance budget – it stands to reason that the parts that stick are stand-alone set-pieces, like the scary sequence where Patrick, Max (Christopher Abbott) and Watts (Mysterious Skin’s abused urchin Brady Corbet) teach their gals how to shoot in the woods. Beginning with the macho sparks of guys strutting

their stuff by showing the ladies how to hit a target, then escalating to Patrick’s stunt of pushing Marcy to kill a cat as a measure of his absolute control over his bitches, and Max’s preemptive murder of the feline, we get a graphic illustration of why Americans are so reluctant to let go of their pistols.

Despite a splendid ensemble (particularly Hawkes), Olsen’s the real deal here, projecting an endearing vulnerability in the cult scenes, especially her “rape” night with Patrick, while displaying a lack of social boundaries by invading Lucy and Ted’s bed while they’re fucking. This unbridled, childish acting out, verging on lunatic, is punctuated by a line she tosses their way before bathing in the nude. “Is it true that married people don’t fuck?”

There’s a menacing balance between Olsen’s little girl lost in a cult and her rude yet often spoton dishing of Lucy and Ted’s privileged lifestyle: they’re like the overindulged 1% living high off our national hog. Olsen and Durkin dare us to choose sides as to just who’s the most put-upon in the Marcy, Lucy, Ted tug-of-war.

The sisters’ resumption of their childhood wars – for which Marcy’s retreat into the cult becomes a kind of armed truce – is deftly mimed by the actors without giving us enough information to take sides.

Martha Marcy May Marlene, besides being the pick of this year’s Sundance litter, is a psychological thriller that will hang around through the awards season. Some will want to finish Durkin’s film for him (it’s the year’s best cliffhanger ending), some will feel a tad cheated, but the film adds to the luster of a year that has already witnessed a superior puzzler about Americans’ obsession with religious fundamentalism, High Ground, which took a different tack to the problem of cults vs. families. As a cryptic cult lass whispers to Marcy during kitchen chores, “It takes time to find your role in a family.”▼

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Desdemona @ Boxcar Theatre

The Temperamentals @ New Conservatory Theatre Center

A play about a handkerchief, Paula Vogel’s comic romp plays on the backstage drama of three women in Shakespeare’s Othello. $15-$35. Mon-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm.

Thru Nov 5. 505 Natoma St. www.boxcartheatre.org

Jon Marans’ hit Off-Broadway drama about 1950s gay activist Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich, and their struggle to form the historic Mattachine Society; stars J. Conrad Frank (Katya Smirnoff-Skyy). $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 18 (no show Nov. 24). 25 Van Ness Ave at Market, lower level.

861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Doubt: A Parable @ Live Oak Theatre, North Berkeley

O&A Out& About

Sunil Gupta’s prints at The Matter Within

Airbourne

by Jim Provenzano

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quality is in the air we breathe,” wrote Langston Hughes in a 1938 poem that still resonates today. The Air We Breathe, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, showcases 30 diverse artists’ and eight poets’ take on same-sex marriage. An accompanying book will be on sale as well. Free$18. Thu-Tue 11am-5:30pm. 151 Third St. Thru Feb 20. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org The Matter Within at Yerba Buena Johanna Calle Center for the Arts might take your breath The Air We Breathe away. The fascinating new exhibit of contemporary Indian art installations, sculptures and other media includes Sunil Gupta’s alluring gay photo sets Love, Undetectable and Sun City. A special artist-curator panel on modern Asian art takes place Nov 9, 6:30pm. Free-$12. Exhibit thru Jan 29. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 9782787. www.ybca.org Other visual art with a decidedly queer angle includes When I Grow Up at the LGBT Center, a group exhibit of mixed media art by local LGBT elders. Thru Nov. 16. 1800 Market St. Donald Rizzo’s art www.sfcenter.org For more gay art, Donald Rizzo’s Shadows, Secrets and Silhouettes, the artist’s exhibit of paintings, gets an opening at the Castro Country Club.

Saturday November 5, 1:30pm-3:30pm. Thru Jan. 2. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org Gay in America could not be more clearly stated, well thought and inspiring. Meet photographer Scott Pasfield at Magnet. He’ll present a slideshow and discussion of his new photo book. Saturday, November 5, 7pm. 4122 18th St. A book-signing with drinks and hors d’oeuvres follows at Under One Roof, 518A Castro St. www.scottpasfield.com www.magnetsf.org Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze at SOScott Pasfield’s MArts Gallery opens Friday, November 4. The Gay in America diverse group exhibit of women’s art takes on body objectification, using men and their, uh, parts. Opening events include a performance by Chanel Matsunami Govreau. Free. 6pm-9pm, with other events through the exhibit run. Thru Nov. 30. Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. www.somarts.org

West Coast premiere of Stefanie Zadravec’s play about two former rock musicians on opposite sides of the Bosnian War. $15-$30.

Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm.

Thru Nov 5. 533 Sutter St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Isaac Bader @ Magnet Opening reception for Passages, Bader’s exhibit of subtle egg tempera paintings exploring the illusory concept of ‘reality.’

8pm-10pm. Exhibit thru Nov. 4122 18th st. at Collingwood. www.magnetsf.org

Life Gone Viral @ The Marsh Charlie Varon and Jeri Lynn Cohen perform and co-wrote (with director David Ford) this comic show about the hazards of Internet exhibitionism. $20-$50. Thu 8pm. Sat 8:30pm.

Sun 3pm. Thru Dec. 4. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Making Porn @ Box Car Theatre Ronnie Larsen returns with a new production of his popular play about, well, making porn, starring muscle stud Matthew Rush, with guaranteed male nudity; adults only! $25$50. Thu 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm & 10pm. Sun 7pm. Extended thru Nov. 27. 125A Hyde St. www.ronnielarsen.com

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh Veteran lesbian comic performs Not Getting Any Younger, a new solo show about her ‘coming of middle age.’ $15-$50. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Sun 3pm. Extended thru Dec 17. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company @ Novellus Theater Light Moves, the company’s mutlimedia dance work with live music and poetry, is performed. $20-$30. 8pm. Thru Nov. 5. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.ybca.org

Oh Kay! @ Eureka Theatre

Karen Zack

42nd Street Moon’s production of George and Ira Gershwin’s 1926 musical comedy about Long Island bootleggers during Prohibition. $20-$50. 6pm. Wed 7pm. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Nov 20. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

Fri 4 >>

Art Films @ Oddball Film AmFAR Gala @ Ken Fulk Studio

Violet Eyes in the Red City, an elegant dinner and party fundraiser Chaka Khan for the American Foundation for at the AIDS Research, AmFAR gala and an homage to Elizabeth Taylor, with host Andy Cohen (Bravo TV), guest chefs Gary Danko, Chris Borges and Yigit Pura. Dinner $2500. 6pm (sold out). Party $250. 9pm. 310 7th St. 402-0303. www.amfar.org

Artery Project @ Various Venues San Francisco Arts Commission’s expansive lineup of arts events include gallery exhibits, store window installations, dance, music, outdoor performances and more. Ongoing. www.sfartscommission.org/artery

Short films about Latino art in LA, Diego Rivera, Day of the Dead and more. $10.

8:30pm. Also, Nov 5, 8pm, short films about modern art from the ‘50s-’70s. $10. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

Cat Lady @ ODC Theater Kristina Wong, dubbed the “Asian American Lily Tomlin,” plays an eccentric cat collector with some unusual drag friends in this darkly comic show. $17-$20. 8pm.

Also Nov 5, 8pm. Nov 6, 7pm. 3153 17th St. www.kristinawong.com www.odcdance.org

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park The Montreal circus spectacular returns with Totem, a visually striking exploration of human evolution, from amphibians to those who seek to fly. Look for the big tents across the bridge and east of the AT&T Park. $55-$360. Thru Dec. 11.

(800) 450-1480. www.cirquedusoleil.com/totem

Pelleas & Melisande @ Exit Theatre Cutting Ball Theater company’s production of French symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama about forbidden love between straight in-law royals. $10-$50. Thu 7:30pm.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm. Thru Nov 27. 277 Taylor St. (800) 838-3006. www.cuttingball.com

Race @ American Conservatory Theatre David Mamet’s scathing courtroom comedy about a white man accused of assaulting a black woman. $10-$82. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 13. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Sticky Time @ Brava Theater Crowded Fire Theatre’s production of Marilee Talkington’s multimedia scifiinspired woman’s journey through time.

255-7846. $10-$30. Thru Nov. 18.

2781 24th St. www.brava.org

Student Concerts @ SF Conservatory of Music Nov 4, 8pm, violinists perform student works. Nov 5, 8pm, French horn repertory.

Nov 6, jazz works (11am) and violin repertory (8pm). Nov 8, 8pm, cello works. Nov 9, 8pm, piano class and Baroque Ensemble concert, 7:30 & 8pm. Nov 10, guitar works.

Free. 50 Oak St. 503-6265. www.sfcm.edu

World premiere of Bill Cain’s new play about religion, and how parents’ sins ruin their children’s lives. $14-$81. Wed & Sun 7pm. Tue, Thu Fri Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm.

Thru Nov. 28. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. at Shattuck. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

New fun line dance classes taught by Sundance Saloon’s Sean Ray, with a special LGBT-anybody-inclusive ambiance, and not just country music. $14. Weekly Saturdays, 6pm-8pm. 351 Shotwell St. www.odcdance.org

Fear Over Frisco @ Hypnodrome Theatre

Honey Brown Eyes @ SF Playhouse

How to Write a New Book for the Bible @ Berkeley Rep

Line Dance Classes @ ODC Dance Commons

John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning play about faith and the search for truth gets a local production by Actors Ensemble. $12-$15.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 19. Shattuck St. at Berryman. www.aeofberkeley.org

Thrillpeddlers’ new trio of Noir-Horror oneact plays, penned by “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller, offers a post-Halloween thrill. Prepare to be shockingly entertained. $25-$35.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 19. 575 10th St. at Division/Bryant. 377-4202. www.thrillpeddlers.com

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Master Harold and the Boys @ Phoenix Theatre Cat Lady at CounterPulse, Fri.

Transgender Film Festival @ CounterPulse 10th annual celebration of cinema shorts by and about transpersons from around the world. $12-$15. 8pm. Also Nov. 5. 1310 Mission St. www.sftff.org

Two Dead Clowns @ Box Car Theatre Ronnie Larsen performs two one-act plays about serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and John Waters’ film actor Divine. $25-$30.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Fri & Sun 7pm. Thru Nov. 27.

125A Hyde St. www.RonnieLarsen.com

Working for the Mouse @ Exit Theatre Trevor Allen’s critically acclaimed solo show about his sex and drug-filled misadventures working at Mauswich, aka Disneyland, as an employee portraying Pluto and other characters. $15-$20. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Thru Dec. 17 (no shows Thanksgiving weekend). 156 Eddy St. (800) 838-3006. www.workingforthemouse.com

Sat 5 >>

Animales y Nahuales @ Back to the Picture Gallery Group exhibit of Mexican folk art in wood, clay, and paintings, depicting people and their animal spirit guides. Portion of sales benefits SF SPCA and Rancho El Uno Reserve. Artists’ reception Nov. 12, 7pm, with music, wine and food. 934 Valencia St. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. www.backtothepicture.com

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. $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

Cabaret @ The Stage, San Jose Kander & Ebb’s Tony Award-winning musical based on the Christopher Isherwood novel gets a local staging, based on the cabaret-style Broadway revival. $20-$45.

Wed & Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Extended thru Nov 6. 490 South First St., San Jose. (408) 283-7142. www.thestage.org

Collected @ Museum of the African Diaspora Subtitled Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation, this new exhibit displays more than 100 objects that help narrate the struggles and contributions of African Americans in California. (Special event Nov 3: The Art of the Suit, an evening event showcasing men’s fashion in the Sapeur cult and the Black Dandyism subculture. $25-$30. www.artofthesuit.eventbrite. com) Thru March 4. 685 Mission St. at 3rd.

358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Don Giovanni @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera’s production of Mozart’s 1787 serio-comic opera buffa about a lying womanizing nobleman who eventually goes to hell; in Italian with English supertitles. $21-$330. 2pm. Also Nov 10 at 7:30pm. 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

Ethel Merman @ Martuni’s Belt down strong and tasty drinks as the belter-singer shares Broadway and camp classics with the Tom Shaw Trio. $7.

7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Athol Fugard’s comic drama about British school boys and their gay professor gets a local production. $20-$40. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 19. 414 414 Mason St. #601. (800) 838-3006. www.offbroadwaywest.org

Menlowe Ballet @ Bayside Performing Arts Center, San Mateo Premiere season of a new dance company headed by former Oakland Ballet choreographer Michael Lowe. $25-$40. 2pm & 7:30pm. 2025 Kehoe Ave. (510) 5226096. www.menloweballet.org

Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup @ Berkeley Rep Tony Taccone and Rita Moreno’s must-see solo show about the award-winning actress’s life and times; with music, two very handsome back-up dancers, and a four-piece band. $14-50-$73. Tue, Fri-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm.

Extended thru Nov. 13. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

SF Hiking Club @ Mount Tamalpais Enjoy a 12-mile strenuous hike to the very scenic mountain top in Marin, with LGBT outdoors enthusiasts. Carpools meet at 8:45am at the Safeway sign, Market St. at Dolores. 279-5570. www.sfhiking.com

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 The new show Up in the Air, about a struggling radio station, stars Geoff Hoyle, blues musician Duffy Bishop, and a slew of amazingly talented acrobats, singers, musicians, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63-$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm) Thru Dec 31, when the show goes on hiatus for World Cup Sailing pier renovations. Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

A Weekend With Pablo Picasso @ Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek Center Repertory Company’s production stars playwright and Culture Clash’s Herbert Siguenza as Pablo Picasso. $38-$43.

8pm. Tue-Wed 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sun 2:3pm. Thru Nov. 19. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. (925) 943-7469. www.centerrep.org

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Carmen @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera’s production of Bizet’s passionate opera. $21-$330. 2pm. Also Nov 9 (7:30pm), 12, (8pm), 15, (8pm), 17 (7:30pm), 20 (2pm), 23 (7:30pm), 26 (8pm), 29 (7:30pm) Dec 2 (8pm) and 4 (7:30pm). 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

Faith Winthrop @ the Rrazz Room Fabulous octogenarian singer-songwriter performs her witty cabaret act. $27.50.

4pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.therrazzroom.com

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Lamplighters Gala @ Herbst Theatre Musical theatre company known for its quality Gilbert & Sullivan productions hold its annual fundraiser party and show, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Amazing Race Around the World in 79½ days, or, if it’s Tuesday, This Must Be Basingstoke,” including performances, champagne and auctions. $55-$97. 4pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. 392-4400. www.lamplighters.org

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Maharaja @ Asian Art Museum The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts, an expansive exhibit showcasing textiles, jewels and items from the heyday of the early Indian empires. Special events thru exhibit run. $7-$17. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm.

Thu til 9pm. Thru April 8, 2012. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Outlook Video @ Channel 29 Monthly LGBT news show; this month, Rainbow Women’s Chorus, gay youth, Skinnyfat the movie, Bobby Jo Valentine, and Dance-Along Nutcracker preview. 5pm. PST, also online. www.outlookvideo.org

SF Hiking Club @ Mission District Join LGBT hikers on an informative tour of the district’s beautiful local murals. Meet at Café Venice, 3325 24th St. 10:15am. www.sfhiking.com

Mon 7 >> Carly Ozard @ The Rrazz Room

Local singing sensation performs “Something Wonderful,” a musical journey of young adults struggling to find love. $25.

2-drink min. 8pm. Thru Nov 9. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.carlyozard.com www.therrazzroom.com

Picklewater Clown Cabaret @ Stage Werx Theatre Fine Mustaches, a fun variety show of clowns and acrobats from various local companies (Pi, Circus Finelli), all poking fun at facial hair. $10-$15. 7pm & 9pm. 446 Valencia St. at 16th. www.picklewater.com

Q Comedy Showcase @ Martuni’s

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

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Marilyn Pittman headlines a night of LGBT laughs, with Dolores Trevino, Tessie Chua, Shelly Steward and host Nick Leonard.

Joe Wicht’s Piano Bar follows.

1st Mondays. $5-$15. 8pm.

4 Valencia St. at Market. www.

Qcomedy.com

Takacs Quartet @ Hertz Hall, Berkeley

Marilyn Pittman at Queer Comedy

Chamber music ensemble performs works by Dvorák and Haydn. $60. 3pm. Bancroft Way at College Ave., UC Berkeley campus. (510) 642-9988. www.c alperformances.org

Tue 8 >>

You Roll Away Your Stone, I’ll Roll Away Mine @ Right Window Gallery Rotating group exhibit of varied photographic works curated by Jason Hanasik; Abner Nolan, Patrick Hillman, Melissa Wyman. Thru Nov. 992 Valencia St. at 21st. www.rightwindow.blogspot.com

The Bangles @ The Fillmore

item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Startout @ Kunst-Stoff Networking reception for LGBT entrepreneurs, sponsored by the new nonprofit organization, with drinks, and an opportunity to pitch your project. Free. 6pm-8pm.

1 Grove St. www.sfnetworkingnov8. eventbrite.com www.startout.org

Wed 9 >>

Dream Queens Review @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Drag show each 2nd and 4th Wednesday at the classic Tenderloin bar, hosted by Collette LeGrande-Ashton. No cover.

10pm. 133 Turk St. 441-2922. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square Opening day of the Safeway-sponsored ice rink in the middle of downtown’s busy shopping district. A portion of ticket sales benefit Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco. $5-$10. 10am-11:30pm. Thru Dec 31.

Powell St. at Geary. 781-2688. www.unionsquareicerink.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the fascinating exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items on display. New mini-exhibit focuses on the legacy of activist and performer Jose Sarria. Free for members-$5.

Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Quintessential 80s girl band is still kicking, playing hits and music from their new CD Sweetheart of the Sun. $27-$40. 8pm.

1805 Geary Blvd. www.thebangles.com http://www.livenation.com/the-Banglestickets/artist/863430

Thu 10 >>

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s

Enjoy a night of women-led bands rocking, with Trio Garufa, Eda Maxym’s Imagination Club. $15-$20. 8pm. 2781 24th St. 6417657. www.brava.org

Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu

Beth Custer Ensemble @ Brava Theatre

Carolyn Mark, Vagabondage @ Soluna Café

Hair

Alt-country singer performs with the local fun folk-punk duo. 7pm. 272 McAllister St. www.carolynmark.com www.emchy.com

Collective Brightness Contributors @ SF Public Library Reading event for a new gay poetry collection about faith and spirituality, with Editor Kevin Simmonds, Dan Bellm, Ruth L. Schwartz, Amir Rabiyah and Daniel Redman. 6pm. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, third floor, Main Library, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org Joan Marcus

Joshua Bell @ Davies Symphony Hall

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Footloose

hat’s that in the air wafting west from Oakland? Oh, that’s teargas, a substance that was mentioned in the love rock tribal musical Hair, now playing at the Golden Gate Theatre. It’s rare that I use the phrase “must-see,” but with this personal favorite, we all need a little hair peace. $31-$95. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 20. 1 Golden Gate St. at Market. (888) 7461799. www.shnsf.com Many of the groovy Hair cast members will also perform at One Night Only Monday, November 7 at the Marines Memorial Theatre. It’s the latest Broadway performance benefit for the Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation, with special guests Bruce Vilanch, Jai Rodriguez and Savion Glover Jeanie Tracy. $25-$75. 7:30pm. 609 Sutter St. www.HelpIsOnTheWay.org Who doesn’t love to see men dance?

How about the best tap dancer in decades? Savion Glover performs with Bare Sounds, his rythmic back-up dance duo, as part of the SF Jazz Festival. $30$75. Saturday, November 5. 7pm & 9pm.

Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org Like Sally O’Malley, some 50-year-olds have still got it, and West Side Story is definitely one of them. See the Oscar- West Side Story winning 1961 screen adaptation of the Bernstein/Robbins/Sondheim Broadway classic as part of a national simulcast celebrating the film’s 50th anniversary and BluRay DVD release. Screenings include taped interviews with actor George Chakiris, singer Marni Nixon, and producer Walter Mirisch. $10.50-$12.50. Wednesday, November 9. 7pm. Century 9 Cinema, 835 Market St. www.FathomEvents.com – J.P.

Acclaimed violinist performs, with pianist Sam Haywood, works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Ysaye and Franck. $15-$140.

201 Van Ness Ave. 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org

Mark Twain Plays @ Humanist Hall, Oakland Shoestring Players perform staged readings of the author’s little-known early 1900s gender-bending short fiction, “1002nd Arabian Night,” “Wapping Alice” and “How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson.” Donations. 8pm. Also Nov 11, 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. 411 29th St. Oakland. www.humanisthall.org

Ottmar Liebert @ The Rrazz Room Flamenco-jazz guitarist-singer performs. $42.50. 8pm. Also Nov 11 (8pm), 12 (7pm & 9:30pm) and 13 (7pm). 2-drink min.

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

Same-Sex Dancing @ Queer Ballroom Ongoing partner dance lessons and open dancing in a variety of styles- Argentine tango, Cha Cha, Rhumba and more; different each night. $5-$25 open dancing to $55 for private lessons. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. www.QueerBallroom.com

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

For bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com

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▼ What were you on Halloween?

by Scott Brogan

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he Unofficial Official Gay Holiday known to mortals as Halloween is over. It looks like we all survived. We should feel lucky.

Unbeknownst to many out there, we were in jeopardy of having some of the fun ripped right out our favorite night. By whom, you ask? By the incredibly inane attempt at starting a campaign, or “movement,” titled, “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume.”

Oddly enough, they received a lot of press. I happened to catch a CNN report about this campaign, started by a group of Ohio students to “educate” people about dressing up in what they perceive to be racially insensitive Halloween costumes.

The examples I saw of their poster campaign featured college-age kids from various ethnic groups holding photos and looking very sad and hurt. For example, one featured an Asian girl holding a photo of someone in a Geisha costume.

The rest featured representatives of other cultures with similarly themed photos in their hands. You get the idea.

What does this have to do with leather/kink? Let me explain. I found the whole “movement” to be much ado about nothing. I joked about it to a few people, and I was surprised when someone actually told me they don’t like it when people dress up in “leather” for Halloween. Really? I couldn’t understand where that was coming from. How is that different from, say, the circuit crowd for whom Folsom Street Fair is just one stop on their tour, so they rush out the night before to buy and wear the appropriate “costume?” They see it as a theme rather than a celebration of the leather/kink lifestyle.

Should we be offended?

Am I too easy-going to care? Or am I just “too easy?” I get confused.

I’m Irish. Should I be offended if someone wears a leprechaun

Scott Brogan

Halloween featured Yours Truly, Scott Brogan, as a vampire.

costume? Or better yet, how about a peasant person with flaming red hair, lugging a sack of potatoes?

Considering the lack of education these days, I doubt people would really “get” that costume. Should my husband of German descent be offended if someone dresses up as a Bavarian Oktoberfest barmaid? Should female impersonators be upset over all the guys in drag?

Should maids in France revolt over those sexy “French maid” costumes? Of course, it didn’t take long for people to spoof the campaign, with posters featuring a real cat holding a photo of a girl in a cat costume, a real dog holding a photo of a guy in a dog costume, and my personal favorite: Bela Lugosi as Dracula holding a photo of a guy in a vampire costume.

The ensuing debate over the issue made me wonder: Have we tried so hard to be sensitive to everyone that we’ve ended up raising a hypersensitive generation who will spend weeks worrying about what people wear on Halloween? Cultural diversity is what built our country and helped to make us great.

Embrace it. I like to think that our own community celebrates diversity and acceptance like no other, hence my surprise at someone being offended by a “leather”-themed Halloween costume.

I understand where these people are coming from, to a point. I certainly don’t condone something worn with the intent to offend, but I can’t help but say: “Come on, let’s get our sense of humor back.

It’s Halloween, it’s supposed to be fun.” Besides, don’t we have enough to stress out about these days than what people wear? Seriously.

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Coming up in leather and kink Thu., Nov. 3: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). Show off your undies for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com Fri., Nov. 4: Flash “End of Days” at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). Zombie-infested, Mad Max, apocalyptic, End of World-inspired photographic play party. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org

Sun., Nov. 6: Men in Gear Monthly Leather Beer Bust at Kok Bar. $8 if in gear, $10 if not. The fun starts at 3 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com Sun., Nov. 6: Sunday Furry Sunday presented by Castro Bear Presents at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com

Fri., Nov. 4: Koktail Klub at Kok Bar. Malibu KOKtails for $4.75. Same Happy Hour pricing! 4-9 p.m.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com

Sun., Nov. 6: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com

Fri., Nov. 4: Monthly Go Go Studs Event at Kok Bar. Jager and Shiner specials, $2 cover after 11. 9 p.m.-Midnight. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com

Mon., Nov. 7: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. Prizes, insane fun and ridiculous questions!

8-10 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com

Fri., Nov. 4: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). 10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys, drink specials, loads of fun! Go to: www.trucksf.com

Mon., Nov. 7: Happy Hour After Gym at Kok Bar SF. All-day happy hour Mondays; Tue.-Thurs. 6-9 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 4-9 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com

Fri., Nov. 4: Michael Brandon presents Locker Room at The Edge (18th & Collingwood). Celebrate your sports-gear fetish with go-go dancers, shot specials, giveaways, and more. Go to: www.edgesf.com.

Mon., Nov. 7: Dirty Dicks at The Powerhouse.

4-10 p.m. $3 well drinks. Go to: www.powerhousesf.com

Sat., Nov. 5: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 100% SoMa Beef & Co. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf Sat., Nov. 5: Nasty at The Powerhouse. Get nasty with specials and hot men! 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Nov. 5: Steamworks hosted by Michael Brandon at The Edge. Bar specials and surprises. 9 p.m.-Midnight. Go to: www.edgesf.com Sat., Nov. 5: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 plus membership. Go to: www. sfcitadel.org.

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on Facebook for details.

Sun., Nov. 6: PupTart fundraiser for Magnet hosted

by JB Kern at Marlena’s (488 Hayes). Raffle prizes, 50/50 drawing, shots, and special guests/entertainers. A head-scratching, tail-wagging good time! All money raised goes to Magnet. Search for PupTart

Mon., Nov. 7: Rope Peer Workshop at the SF Citadel. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Doors close at 8:30 p.m. $10 donation required. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org Tue., Nov. 8: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust 9-11 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com Tue., Nov. 8: Ink & Metal at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com Wed., Nov. 9: Golden Shower Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). This is a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play till late. Go to: www. blowbuddies.com Wed., Nov. 9: Bear Bust Wednesdays at Kok Bar SF. $6 all you can drink Bud Light or Rolling Rock drafts. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com Wed., Nov. 9: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. Specials for shirtless guys. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www. powerhouse-sf.com

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Japanese jousting

by John F. Karr

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ooking around for a sexo that featured unpixelated sex scenes of Japanese models, I found the fairly negligible Erotic Ninja series, which featured neither ninjas nor eroticism (see Karrnal Knowledge, 10/27/11), and Daddy’s Asian’s 3, from the company Gay Asian Twinkz. It’s pleasing to report that it’s better, but that’s only mild praise.

All the scenes of Daddy’s Asians 3 take place in decently appointed though typically nondescript hotel rooms. The Erotic Ninja film allowed us to look out large windows of its barren hotel room.

I didn’t know which dark and handsome downtown city skyline I was seeing, but was told later that the red faux Eiffel Tower I saw is in Tokyo. I was more immediately certain that Daddy’s Asian 3 was filmed in Japan, since although there are no windows to provide geographic clues (things are actually a little claustrophobic), in at least one of the scenes I can hear women speaking Japanese in the hallway outside the room. I wonder if they can hear the giggling within.

Giggling? Ah yes, this movie’s gonna get a little fetishistic.

Extending over two hours, Daddy’s Asians 3 delivers eight scenes of interracial Daddy/Son sex.

“Daddy” is Daddy Mike Reynolds.

Though there’s a new boy in each scene, Daddy Mike appears in every one. So it’s imperative we like him. He’s sorta cute, and sorta young.

You can sense the bear cub he once was; he’s still more teddy bear-ish than bear, although you can see that’s what he’s going to age into as his waist continues to expand over his belt line, and the fatty deposits above his chunky cock begin to obscure its length. And here’s something

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unusual in porn – his untrimmed bush obscures his balls. He may be a mite well-padded for porn-star status, but it’s hard not to like him.

He’s a most congenial host, and he turns ardent and intent when the kissing and penetrative sex finally come along.

I say finally because these more common forms of sex are preceded and intermingled with Daddy Mike’s preoccupations, which make the film sort of a fetishist specialty.

He warms his boys up with such lengthy tickling sessions that you’ll find the movie a rare gift if you like giggling Asians and have bemoaned the scarcity of films that feature them. Most of them seem genuinely ticklish, but some of their response may be due to shyness and the modesty of

th their culture; Daddy Mike is patient, and builds his cconquest slow enough for tthem to adjust. Daddy Mike aalso spends a good deal of ttime fondling their feet. He’s a cconfirmed toe-licker, and such a foot-lover that it’s upon his p partner’s pedal extremity that h he most frequently chooses to lleave his load.

It’s curious that the credits ggive many of the performers international-sounding n names. Certainly, the last n names Nakashimi and N Nabulong seem Japanese tto me. But what gives with H Hunter Ramos, Xavier, and Vahn Valdez? Several o other names seem to m me Philippine or Thai, b but what do I know?

W Whatever their names, the u undeniably cute boys are w waif-like twinks, smooth aand slim – although X Xavier is a little chubby.

L Like the other boys, o once he’s been tickled aall over (armpits, soles o of feet, tummy, crotch), h he’s an eager cocksucker.

II’ll admit, I could go for D Daddy’s delicious-looking lilittle fatty myself.

Like the others, Xavier sseems willing to be fucked, b but not truly eager. Daddy M Mike calls the fucking “painful pleasure,” but the boy’s accommodation seems to me a bit of a struggle. Once again, Daddy Mike is easy on his partners, never too aggressive in the way that American porn dotes on. He has to be – one or two of the boys just can’t take it. The boys stay pretty quiet during sex, emitting soft oofs and contained gasps while being fucked.

They enjoy riding Daddy’s cock more than recumbent positions, though Daddy prefers their rumps up, faces down in a pillow.

Daddy also seems to like his lads in restraints, and though you could never call this a bondage movie, a couple scenes do begin with the boys tied down in a spreadeagled position. You’ll find Daddy’s Asians 3, with Daddy Mike’s own descriptions of his scenes (effusive encomiums, you can be sure), along photos of each scene, at www.

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From page 30

Let’s roast Lenny On a lighter note, mark your calendars! Around the time of the Leather Alliance Weekend next March, there will be a big tribute/ celebration/roast of our own Lenny Broberg. Next year marks the 20th anniversary of his winning the title of International Mister Leather. Can you believe it’s been that long? And Lenny’s still around! You can’t keep a die-hard leather man down, that’s for sure. Especially a microphone hog like Lenny. Just kidding. It takes one to know one, and you all know that I know what I’m talking about.

Joking aside, Lenny has done so much for our community it makes the head spin. He’s the epitome of the tireless community supporter and mentor that we wish everyone could be. Plus, he’s one hell of an auctioneer.

I’ll post more information as details are finalized. It’s going to be big. People from all over the country have already confirmed they’ll be here. It’s not happening until midMarch, so we have plenty of time to get our costumes together. Oops, I mean “non-offensive cultural attire.”▼

Ray Tilton

Lenny Broberg, circa mid-1990s.

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Xerxes

From page 21

superb in baroque coloratura as she is in romantic lyricism, tosses off one interpolated embellishment after another with the warm, seductive sound for which she is prized. She may not be ideally suited to some of Xerxes’ most furious outpourings – her sound is smooth where it would ideally be more pointed and brilliant – but her voice and artistic commitment sweep all before them.

Daniels, who often sings duet with or follows Xerxes in song, has an equally smooth, astoundingly fluent voice whose size and weight are a fine match for Graham’s. As with many members of the cast, he embellishes like crazy (which is what Handel would have wanted in such a crazy opera). Both Daniels and Graham invest their long-breathed, roller

coaster lines with so much feeling as to underscore Handel’s ability to accurately portray the emotional inner life of his characters.

Prina’s huge range, emotional force, and uncommonly clear articulation of mile-a-minute runs are just as impressive as they were in SFO’s 2008 production of Handel’s Ariodante. Her first aria elicited cheers. Stober, previously confined to lyric roles here, displayed such ease with coloratura and such bloom on top that it feels as though we are first hearing all she has to offer.

Making her San Francisco Opera debut, 2005 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions winner Oropesa displayed a most engaging light soprano with an especially lovely top. The top does not boom out, as does everyone else’s, but its sweetness cuts right to the heart. Sumuel, a big man who

Countertenor David Daniels and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Handel’s Xerxes.

Felix Sanchez

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can click his heels with the lightness of Tinkerbell, has an extremely handsome, coloratura-fluent voice that is a pleasure to listen to. Tigges’ instrument may be less exceptional, but how many bass-baritones with particular strength on bottom are fluent in coloratura? Hands down, this is an exceptional cast.

Gay conductor/harpsichordist Patrick Summers and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, together with a few baroque instrumentalists, make it all possible. Summers has the sweep and rhythms of the baroque in his blood, and draws the best out of his singers. The chorus is more seen than heard, but acts its intentionally faceless part flawlessly. You have five more opportunities to see this superb, consistently delightful production.▼ www.sfopera.com

Rick Gerharter

A study sketch and Camille Pissarro’s painting “Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Café au Lait” (1881), part of Pissarro’s People on exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor.

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Pissarro

From page 21

idealistic world view of a better, more egalitarian society to come, après le revolution. There’s plenty to savor among the nearly 100 oils, luminous pastels like “Peasant Woman Lying in the Grass” (ca.

1880), drawings, lithographs and etchings, which span his entire career, from his early years in Paris – he participated in the first Impressionist show and the seven that followed – to his death in 1903.

Born into a Sephardic Jewish family on the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas, Pissarro was not only older but worldlier than the other Impressionists, whose background was strictly Parisian, and was also the only one to focus on domestic workers. He ennobled the toil of manual laborers, and elevated the collective work of individuals; there’s enough ruddy-cheeked peasantry on display to make a social realist smile. While he resided in the countryside in Pontoise, relatives, maids and local servant girls modeled for him in works such as “Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Café au Lait” (1881) and a study that hangs next to it. The woman in “Peasant Woman Gathering Grass” (1881) wasn’t in the landscape or even outside because, like many of Pissarro’s paintings, it was a studio creation. Critics attacked the inorganic positioning of the figure, which, yes, does look inserted into the scene. Yet it succeeds. In these and other oils, Pissarro employed a chalky technique in which the palette appears muted and washed out rather than flush with the rich, resonant color one usually associates with the Impressionists.

The show opens with the first of four self-portraits of the artist, looking like Biblical titan Abraham, though he was only 43 when he painted this early canvas. The three at the close of the exhibition, including one completed very shortly before his death, are poignant and communicate a real sense of the humble, avuncular man behind the pictures, who can also be seen in wonderful black-and-white

photographs, alone or surrounded by his large family.

Visitors will find it difficult to tear themselves away from the first gallery with its wealth of portraits of his wife and children, who were central to his life and happiness. Five of his eight children lived to adulthood. Unlike his own father, who pressured him to relinquish his art career, Pissarro encouraged his sons to join the “family business,” thus producing the largest family dynasty in Western art.

Several entrancing works depict his favorite daughter, Minette, who died at age 9. She’s lovingly portrayed in “Jeanne Pissarro, Called Minette, Sitting in the Garden, Pontoise” (ca.

1872), seated sideways in a garden in full bloom, dressed in a flowered frock and spring bonnet. In “The Artist’s Daughter,” painted the same year, her long ash-blond hair falls across her young shoulders. She wears a serious expression and a straw hat trimmed with blue ribbons; fresh-cut flowers lay on her lap. “Dead Child” (1874), suffused with the grief of a broken-hearted father, is an austere lithograph of Minette, withered from illness, asleep and alone on her bed two months prior her death.

Pissarro painted suffering as few Impressionists could or did.

In contrast, “Jeanne Pissarro, Called Cocette, Reading” (1899), painted in an airy, light-filled room of the family’s Rue de Rivoli apartment overlooking the Tuileries garden, is reminiscent of Bonnard or Vuillard with its intricate patterning and warm domesticity. Seated on a red couch in flowered blouse and pinafore, an oriental rug on the floor and her father’s works-in-progress hanging on the wall behind her, she’s absorbed in reading a book with a red cover, a reference to anarchist literature. Then there’s the adorable five-year-old Georges in “Child with Drum” (1877), standing in front of blossoming young cherry trees at the height of spring, and banging on the instrument strapped across his small frame.

Pissarro may have had Goya in mind when he created the gritty See page 33 >>

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is story is among the most improbable in Hollywood history. A pretty, poorly educated mama’s boy from Castellaneta, Italy immigrated to New York, worked as a gigolo/tea dancer, was arrested in a vice raid (records of which were destroyed), moved to San Francisco then to Los Angeles, where MGM executive June Mathis made him a silent screen star. His name remains synonymous with an ardent lover. His smash film The Sheik resulted in a brand of condoms. Women flocked to his pictures, thrilled by his seductive performances. Straight men were threatened by his graceful eroticism and ridiculed his masculinity. His first, unconsummated marriage, to lesbian actress Jean Acker, lasted six hours. His own sexual orientation remains ambiguous. His death at 31 was a media sensation. Rudolph Valentino’s (1895-1926) life seemed more like fiction than reality, and thus a perfect subject for Ken Russell. His Valentino (1977), starring Rudolph Nureyev, has just been released on DVD. The film opens with newsreels of the riots following Valentino’s death, with grieving female fans storming the Manhattan funeral parlor where his body rested. Then

legendary stage and screen star Alla Nazimova (Leslie Caron) arrives, mourning over his casket, draping it with the vast cape she’s wearing and fainting several times. Each collapse is at a different camera angle so that her grief is properly recorded by the many reporters and photographers.

A flashback takes the audience to a Manhattan ballroom, where Valentino thrills middle-aged ladies who pay to dance with him. Many hope for more private pleasures.

The most erotic moment in the movie, however, is his sensational tango with Vaslav Nijinksy (the great Anthony Dowell, who was Nureyev’s contemporary at the Royal Ballet).

Nazimova and her protégée (and perhaps lover), dancer, actress, designer Natacha Rambova (Michelle Phillips), nee Winifred Kimbell O’Shaughnessy, stepdaughter of cosmetic king Richard Hudnet, whom Valentino would marry, had a huge influence on his career. He played Armand opposite Nazimova’s Marguerite in Camille, became a star in The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, and had several big hits, including The Sheik (1921) and Blood and Sand (22), but Rambova felt these films weren’t sufficiently artistic. She designed the costumes for The Young Rajah (22), a failure, as were several subsequent pictures, in which he was

lost amongst her fantastic sets and clothes.

Rambova controlled his comeback film, Monsieur Beaucaire (1924), which revealed Valentino’s welldefined body. It also flopped, and she was blamed. Without her, he reclaimed his boxoffice power with Cobra (25) and Son of the Sheik (26), released after his death from peritonitis following surgery for appendicitis and a perforated ulcer.

Unfortunately, Russell doesn’t respect his subject, he condescends to it. Unlike the brilliant Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which satirized the transition from silents to talkies, Valentino is almost ineptly campy, although gorgeously filmed.

Nureyev is unconvincing as an Italian, but his smoldering sex appeal conveys much of what audiences felt for Valentino. Alas, Russell often has him posing, declaiming, or defending his masculinity in divalike ways – with one exception.

After a Chicago journalist called him a “pink powder puff,” Valentino challenged him to a boxing match, and won. That sequence, which includes a reference to his penis being “the eighth wonder of the

world,” is filmed with a hallucinatory brilliance. Although the camera loves Nureyev, Russell’s shallow luridness killed whatever potential the great ballet dancer had in movies.

Nazimova, a fairly open lesbian and acclaimed for her stage triumphs in Chekhov and Ibsen, is reduced to caricature. Caron, however, is marvelous in her overthe-top performance. Phillips is an authoritative Rambova, and Russell conveys her gifts for design – the costumes and sets dazzle.

Russell’s screenplay includes

s scenes of drunken revelry f featuring stars of the period, i including Fatty Arbuckle (a g grotesque William Hootkins).

C Carol Kane appears as a party g girl, and former Dead End K Kid/Bowery Boy Huntz Hall p plays producer Jesse Lasky w with believable coarseness.

J John Ratzenberger, years before C Cheers, has a bit.

The film skirts the issue of V Valentino’s sexuality. Many o the women in his life were of le lesbians or bisexual, including s silent screen star Pola Negri, a alive when the movie was made an thus omitted from the story. and H reportedly had affairs with He ri screen Latin Lover Ramon rival N Novarro, with tango singer/ d dancer/actor Carlos Gardel, and with writer Samuel Stewart, who claimed to have fellated him and kept some of his pubic hair as a memento.

Pauline Kael wrote that Russell didn’t cheapen everything he touched deliberately – that it was instinctive. The production values of Valentino are far from cheap, and the subject matter is compelling – yet Russell’s vulgarization, while often gripping, is ultimately disappointing. Rudolph Valentino’s life deserves a serious assessment.

Perhaps someday it will get it.▼

his matchless Mariinsky Orchestra as I write, it’s not too late to salute his recent-enough Parsifal,

recorded from live performances at the Mariinsky Concert Hall in June 2009 (on the Mariinsky house label, a phenomenon the whirling-dervish, sleep-is-forbabies Gergiev has initiated with several of “his” orchestras). Brilliant as he undeniably is, Gergiev is only reliably so with this orchestra, and then not always with Wagner. But when all of the above are firing on all cylinders, as they were for this Parsifal, you’ll forget there ever was a Bayreuth.

Heading a dream cast is the Gurnemanz of Rene Pape, whose brand-new Wagner CD for DG is a must-have, giving what is unequivocally the best-sungever Gurnemaz on record. Gary Lehman’s Parsifal is heroic-sexy, Violeta Urmana’s Kundry smokes, and the Russians elsewhere in the cast cook. It’s the Parsifal I reach for first these days.▼

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Parsifal’s trance

by Tim Pfaff

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ow that the gold dust has settled, it seems safe to say that San Francisco Opera’s Ring gave us our next great Bruennhilde.

And in these weeks, the ring at the Met may pass from James Levine to pinch-hitting Fabio Luisi (in the new Siegfried), confirming our next great Ring conductor. This could only be good news in Wagner World, where things aren’t really going all that much better than down there in Nibelheim.

As San Francisco’s best-ever publicist was fond of saying, the fish stinks from the head. Friends who have been making the pilgrimage to the Wagner Festival for a quartercentury reliably report that you could get badly hurt in the traffic out of Bayreuth last summer, where for the first time in decades there were seats available at the door for some performances and empty seats in Festspielhaus. Gott in Himmel.

To understand why, look no farther than the infamous 2008 production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Katharina Wagner (yes, great-granddaughter of the Master), one of the two new co-directors of the Festival, recently released on DVD (Opus Arte), the only way to fully savor this piss-on-Germanarts-spiel.

“This piece has a very unfortunate history,” spake Katharina, in a masterstroke of 21st-century doublespeak, “and at Bayreuth, above all, we need to address this issue.” Critics and audiences alike have marked her vandalism Return to Sender.

So, good that Parsifal, the Master’s

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Pissarro

From page 32

urban imagery for Les turpitudes sociales (1889-90), a book whose 30 anarchist drawings, done in pen and brown ink, are reproduced to scale.

In “Capital” a banker stands on a pedestal above a sea of desperate

last opus, flew the coop, against his orders, to land, for the first time, in Amsterdam in 1905. It was there, more than a century later, that the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, under Jaap van Zweden, gave a recently released (Challenge) concert performance that ranks as among the best ever, and would have been easy to miss.

As it must be to capture this elusive if magnificent score, the recording is wonderfully spacious, and van Zweden’s grasp of it down to its finest detail as well as over its very long arcs is clear from the start. And even if the cast is fairly standardissue European at this moment in the Zeitgeist, they’re all heard at their best and work in fine ensemble.

If, like me, you think that a Parsifal stands or falls on its Gurnemanz, you’ll relax into Robert Holl’s sterling performance from his first, noble utterance. And as Kundry – the only significant female voice in the opera, long misperceived as having a homosexual agenda – Katarina Dalayaman gives a performance tinged with mystery, sex, and bondage in just the right doses, and in far steadier voice than she was in her equally insightful concert Goetterdaemmerung Bruennhilde for Elder and the Halle.

In the title role, Klaus Florian Vogt gives an accurate, deeply musical performance in a voice with a deceptively boyish sound (it’s long, hard music, and he nails it) that fits the idea of the “pure fool” perfectly.

I wanted a little more of the heroic klang over the long haul, but Vogt redeems it all with a melting Good Friday Spell. The omnipresent Falk

beggars clamoring to get their hands on the money bag he’s clutching.

The Eiffel Tower, an edifice that symbolized everything the artist hated, is in the background; “Suicide of a Stockbroker” and “The Hanged Millionaire,” evoking casualties of greed and financial collapse, have an uncanny resonance with our own

Struckmann lavishes attention on a deep-suffering Amfortas.

But the real test this recording passes is that you forget all the details as you fall into the opera’s telltale spell, without which a performance has nothing. If someone tries to tell you what Parsifal means, turn an indulgent ear. I know people who have translated it for performance who have scratched their heads for acts at a time, wondering what it all means. But we Parsifal hands all know it when we hear it, and this recording is one of those holy spaces. Challenge throws in a bonus DVD of about 80 minutes of the concert, which is handy if you want to know that the (excellent) harpist chews gum. Otherwise, you’ll want to take this music uninterrupted.

With Valery Gergiev coursing around the California coast with

troubled economic moment. But as overtly political and heartfelt in their advocacy as they are, they can’t compete with the evanescent beauty of his paintings or their power to move.▼ Through Jan. 22, 2012.

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