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Vol. 42 • No. 45 • November 8-14, 2012

Obama re-election thrills LGBTs

by Lisa Keen

P Rick Gerharter

District 5 Supervisor-elect London Breed shares her happiness with supporter Kim Travaeliane at an election night party.

Breed wins D5 supe race by Matthew S. Bajko

he city’s first bisexual supervisor saw her tenure at City Hall come to an end Tuesday night, bringing to a close one of the most divisive election battles San Francisco has experienced. See page 11 >>

eople were dancing in the streets in San Francisco’s gay Castro district and partying on the sidewalks in Oakland Tuesday as President Barack Obama took the lead and won re-election after a hard-fought campaign against Republican Mitt Romney. Hundreds of people gathered in the Castro for an election night street party November 6 that turned into an exuberant celebration once Obama was declared the winner and marriage equality measures had passed in Maine and Maryland. “Our community said never again will you take away our rights,” said John Lewis, a longtime marriage equality supporter, from the stage set up at the corner of Castro and Market streets. His husband, Stuart Gaffney, added, “This is what history looks like: electing the first president who supports marriage equality.” Gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) told the crowd, “It is good to be queer in America tonight.” He marveled at the fact that the president, despite coming out in May in support of marriage equality and fighting to repeal the federal ban on same-sex marriage, could nonetheless win re-election with a majority of votes from Americans. “Yes, we can be first-class citizens in this

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The Castro district filled with people who danced in the street upon hearing that President Barack Obama won re-election.

country,” said Leno. Others were also happy with the outcome. “I am glad to see Romnesia gone,” transgender senior advocate Jazzie Collins said. Across the bay in Oakland, gays and lesbians

were equally upbeat at a party in the Uptown neighborhood. Brendalynn Goodall, president of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club, was thrilled See page 11 >>

Four historic wins for marriage equality by Chuck Colbert

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College board member-elect Rafael Mandelman shares a smile with supporter Curt Robinson.

Mandelman wins City College seat by Seth Hemmelgarn

n out gay man has won election to the board of the troubled City College of San Francisco, preliminary election results show. As of Tuesday night, November 6, attorney Rafael Mandelman had 13.76 percent See page 11 >>

aine made history on election night as voters approved a ballot measure granting gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Unofficial results, with 87 percent of the vote tallied, showed Question 1 passing by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin. The measure asked voters, “Do you wish to allow the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?” Adding to the historic night, voters in Maryland also approved a same-sex marriage law that the Legislature had passed earlier this year, while in Minnesota, a constitutional ban went down to defeat. A referendum in Washington state that would uphold that state’s marriage equality law also won, the campaign said Wednesday morning, meaning same-sex marriages will take place there, too. In Maine, supporters were overjoyed at the victory. “Supporters from Portland to Presque Isle thought that truth and love are more powerful than fear and deception,” Matt McTighe, campaign manager of Mainers United for Marriage, told hundreds of jubilant supporters who gathered in Portland at the Holiday Inn by the Bay.

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Mainers United for Marriage campaign manager Matt McTighe addressed supporters on election night.

McTighe, who is openly gay, thanked Maine voters who “put family over politics by voting ‘Yes’ on 1 tonight.” He added, Maine has “proved that voters can

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change their hearts and minds if we tell them our stories” and “give our fellow citizens a personal connection to people whose lives and families are touched by this issue.” The Associated Press projected the win about midnight, Eastern time, with opponents conceding the race shortly after 1:30 a.m. Meanwhile, in Maryland voters gave their approval to same-sex marriage by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent with nearly all precincts reporting. In Washington state, Washington United for Marriage Wednesday morning declared victory, stating that the referendum would pass. With 60 percent of the vote in, R74, as the ballot measure is called, was ahead with 65 percent of King County and is performing well in eastern parts of the state. “This is a clear win,” campaign manager Zach Silk said in a statement. “We have run the numbers every which way, and we can now confidently say that we have won.” Statewide the measure was leading 52 percent to 48 percent. In Minnesota, a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage was defeated, 51.3 percent to 47.6 percent. See page 13 >>

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Hetch Hetchy plan goes down the drain by Seth Hemmelgarn

an Francisco voters chose not to drain Hetch Hetchy reservoir and to support City College through a parcel tax, among other measures, preliminary election results showed this week. As of Tuesday night, November 6, Proposition F was being defeated by a vote of 77.41 percent to 22.59 percent. The measure would have mandated San Francisco to develop a plan to eliminate the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, which provides water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities, and return Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to the National Park Service to be restored. The plan also would have led to the adoption of efficiency practices such as waste filtration, water recycling, and conservation. “We had a very broad coalition of No on F supporters, and we’re very heartened by the fact that San Franciscans saw through the deception that really was at the forefront of this campaign,” said P.J. Johnston, a spokesman for the Save Hetch Hetchy, No on F campaign. He said the measure’s proponents “tried to sell voters on a bill of goods all about water recycling, which is a good thing, to try to hide the fact that it was really about draining Hetch Hetchy reservoir, which is a bad thing.” An email blast from the Prop F campaign indicated that their side had trouble grappling with what appeared to be a clear victory for opponents. “Did we win or lose? You decide,” the subject line said. Mike Marshall, executive director of Restore Hetch Hetchy, said in the message that even though the Water Conservation and Yosemite Restoration Initiative didn’t pass, “we accomplished much of what we set out to do.” “For the first time ever, San Franciscans were asked to imagine a different future that would increase their water security and reverse the damage the city has done to Yosemite National Park,” Marshall said. He added that Restore Hetch Hetchy would spend the next two years leveraging its new support, in tandem with “multiple legal strategies ... to advance the cause of water

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Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park

reform in [San Francisco] and environmental restoration in Yosemite.” Local voters also chose to save City College of San Francisco, the beneficiary of Proposition A. The measure authorizes a $79 tax on each parcel of residential and commercial property in the city for eight years. As of Tuesday night, Prop A was winning 72.48 percent to 27.52 percent. The community college has been facing serious leadership and financial problems. Rafael Mandelman, whom preliminary election results showed had been elected to the school’s board this week, cheered Prop A’s apparent passage. “It makes a huge difference,” Mandelman said. “It shows San Franciscans really love our public schools.” Mayor Ed Lee backed the proposal, along with several other propositions that were headed to passage, based on preliminary results. Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said the passage of measures such as Propositions C, the housing trust fund, and E, the gross receipts tax, are examples of “what he campaigned on” in terms of ensuring housing for all and creating jobs. “He is very pleased” because the consensus building and collaboration work the mayor’s done in the last year “have really paid off,” she said. Proposition C, a Charter amendment that Lee proposed with support from the Board of Supervisors and others, was passing by a vote of 64.82 percent to 35.18 percent as of Tuesday night. The measure creates a Housing

Trust Fund that replaces the redevelopment agency, which was eliminated by Governor Jerry Brown. With their support of Proposition E, voters approved a gross receipts tax. San Francisco has been the only city in California that imposes a tax on payrolls. Prop E replaces the payroll tax with a graduated business tax based on gross receipts. The measure appears to have won 70.56 percent to 29.44 percent. Proposition B, which is known as the Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond and was passing by a vote of 71.98 percent to 28.02 percent, authorizes the city to borrow up to $195 million by issuing general obligation bonds to fund repairs and improvements to local parks and open spaces. Currently the mayor, sheriff, and district attorney are elected in November of one year, and the city attorney and treasurer are elected in November of a different year. Proposition D consolidates off-year municipal elections with all those positions running in the same election. Unofficial vote tallies showed that measure winning 83.2 percent to 16.8 percent. Finally, voters also weighed in on Proposition G, making it city policy to oppose “corporate personhood.” The measure was passing by a vote of 80.7 percent to 19.3 percent. Supervisor John Avalos proposed the measure, at least partially in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision.▼

Prop 30 passes; other measures get mixed results by Seth Hemmelgarn

overnor Jerry Brown had reason to celebrate this week as California voters passed Proposition 30, a measure seen as crucial to the state’s schools and his legacy. “Last night, Californians made the courageous decision to protect our schools and colleges and strengthen the California dream,” Brown said in a statement Wednesday morning, November 7, as preliminary results showed Prop 30 passing 53.9 percent to 46.1 percent. “We joined together as Californians first in a resounding victory for education and fiscal integrity. The people of California have put their trust in a bold path forward and I intend to do everything in my power to honor that trust.” The measure raises the income tax on those at the highest end of the income scale, while families making less than $500,000 a year will pay no additional income taxes. It also temporarily increases the sales tax by a quarter of a cent. The revenue generated through Proposi-

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Governor Jerry Brown

tion 30 prevents $6 billion in cuts to the state’s schools this year and is expected to provide billions for the schools in the future, according to the governor’s office. The sales tax increase, which is effective January 1, will expire in four years. The income tax boost for the

wealthiest taxpayers, which takes effect starting with the 2012 tax year, will end in seven years. Union representatives and others were celebrating, as well, as they saw the defeat of Proposition 32, which would have prohibited unions from using payroll-deducted funds for political purposes. Among other provisions, it would have applied the same use prohibitions to payroll deductions, if any, by corporations and government contractors. Unofficial results Wednesday showed Prop 32 losing 43.9 percent to 56.1 percent. Courage Campaign Chair Rick Jacobs said in a statement, “Today, the powerful special interests, fueled by largely unregulated and undisclosed out-of-state money, were beaten by a powerful and effective alliance of working men and women – organized labor, community groups and average people who care about our future.” Backers of Proposition 34 weren’t as fortunate. The measure would See page 12 >>

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Haney, incumbents win school board seats by Seth Hemmelgarn

oters have returned three incumbents and added a new member to the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education this week, unofficial returns show. Sandra Lee Fewer, Jill Wynns, and Rachel Norton, who already serve on the board, are to be joined by Matt Haney, according to preliminary results as of Tuesday night, November 6. Fewer had 16.85 percent of the vote, while Wynns had 14.16 percent, Norton had 13.55 percent, and Haney had 13.3 percent. The board, which oversees a budget of $597 million, does not have an out LGBT member (no out person ran this year) but the winners all support efforts to increase student safety, including for LGBT pupils, and curriculum that includes lessons on LGBT history. In response to a Bay Area Reporter questionnaire earlier this year, Haney, like all other candidates, expressed strong support for LGBT students. However, Haney pointed out there are more concerns facing students and families in the city. “We have to figure out how to deal with our budget challenges,”

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New school board member Matt Haney

he said in an interview Wednesday morning, November 7. He said even with the tentative passage of Proposition 30, the state measure that increases taxes in order to support education, “We still have a budget deficit we have to deal with, and I think for the board to be able to maintain things that are working and build on those things, we have to make sure we have the resources to do that.” Norton also expressed concern about finances Wednesday.

She said if Prop 30 passes, “We’re going to have a little breathing room on the budget,” but “some small cuts” would need to be made for the 2013-14 school year. Fewer and Wynns have also voiced worries about the budget, while also talking about working to improve the experiences of LGBT students. Fewer, who was elected to the board in 2008, said in her questionnaire responses, “We have a lot of work to do to change the culture of SFUSD schools” around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning issues. “Our data tells us that LGBTQQ youth are three to four times more likely to be truant, harassed, bullied and sadly, contemplate suicide. Clearly, we must respond.” Wynns told the B.A.R. in her responses, “The support and expansion of our Support Services for LGBTQ Youth is a high priority for me.” There was one open seat on the board as Norman Yee’s term was up and he opted to run for supervisor in District 7. As of Tuesday night, Yee appeared to be winning that race, with 28.2 percent of the vote. It’s not clear how that may change as a result of the city’s ranked-choice voting system.▼

Tough night for out CA legislative candidates by Matthew S. Bajko

t was a tough election night for three out California legislative candidates, as the trio came up short in their respective bids for state office. In Oakland, Assembly candidate Abel Guillen, who identifies as two spirit and dates both men and women, lost his bid for the 18th Assembly District seat. Gay Latino activist Luis Lopez was defeated in his race for the 51st Assembly District, based in the Echo Park and Eagle Rock neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Out in the Central Valley, lesbian Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) appears to have failed to secure a state Senate seat. “I don’t think it hurts our caucus going forward. We have an openly gay speaker of the Assembly, so the leadership in the Assembly is LGBT leadership,” said Alice Kessler, Equality California’s legislative advocate. “We held our numbers in the caucus. We of course want to increase those numbers, but we are not losing any ground in terms of our pro-equality Legislature.” In the victory column Tuesday was lesbian Stockton City Councilwoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, who easily won her bid for the 13th Assembly District seat. She is the first out female of color elected to the state Legislature. Based on unofficial returns, Eggman received 54,776 votes or 63.5 percent, while her GOP opponent, K. “Jeffrey” Jafri, received 31,433 votes or 36.5 percent. Tuesday night Eggman shared a local news story about her “landslide” victory on Facebook, adding the short message, “Thank you, everyone!” Eggman will join the five out incumbent state lawmakers who were also on the ballot and sailed to victory Tuesday night. Her election brings the membership of the LGBT Legislative Caucus to six, one

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East Bay LGBT Assembly candidate Abel Guillen came up short in his race.

Assemblyman-elect Rob Bonta is heading to Sacramento and will represent parts of the East Bay.

person short of its historic high of seven members due to the departure this year of term limited lesbian state Senator Christine Kehoe (DSan Diego). Heading into Election Day all three of the defeated candidates were facing strong head winds and nasty campaign attacks. Yet none saw their sexual orientation be blatantly used as part of any smear campaigns. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in October, some had questioned if homophobic tactics were being used in Guillen’s race. His opponent, Rob Bonta, played up being a married father with kids in his mailers, but the Alameda city councilman scored well on LGBT issues according to EQCA’s political action committee. The two had sparred in recent weeks over crime and economic issues. In the end Guillen failed to pull off a victory. According to unofficial returns posted by the Secretary of State’s office, Guillen received 48,470 votes or 49.2 percent, while Bonta garnered 50,028 votes or 50.8 percent. Galgiani, who came out as lesbian last fall, also saw last minute attacks from backers of her opponent, Assemblyman Bill Berryhill

(R-Stockton). Based on the unofficial returns, she received 100,317 votes or 49 percent, while Berryhill came in first with 104,305 votes or 51 percent. The nastiest of the legislative battles was between Lopez and his opponent, nurses’ lobbyist Jimmy Gomez. The two traded barbs over polar bear hunts, domestic violence, and their Democratic Party bona fides. In the end Gomez crushed Lopez in the race, winning with 49,022 votes or 60 percent, based on the unofficial returns. Lopez received 32,398 votes or 39.8 percent. While the final outcomes will not be determined until all of the absentee and provisional ballots are counted, it does not appear likely the results will change. “I don’t think anyone can overcome,” said Kessler. For the five out incumbent state lawmakers who won re-election Tuesday, their races were cakewalks as they faced little opposition from GOP challengers. In San Francisco gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) easily defeated local Republican See page 13 >>

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uesday’s election made history in several races. The country’s first African American president, Barack Obama, won re-election, which was arguably more dramatic than his victory four years ago. Voters in Wisconsin elected the first openly gay senator by sending Tammy Baldwin to that chamber after her seven terms in the House of Representatives. Gay congressional candidates won House races in several states, including, it looks like, California, meaning that when the new Congress convenes in January there will be six or seven out representatives. But it was the victories for marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state – and the defeat of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota – that really stand out, now that the elections are over. The turnaround in marriage equality votes – until Tuesday the LGBT community had never won at the ballot box – is a sea change from four years ago, when Proposition 8 was on the ballot in California. In that election, Obama’s image appeared on a mailer from the Yes on 8 campaign in a late-October effort to sway African American voters to cast ballots in favor of banning same-sex marriage. The mailer included a statement that Obama made during a presidential forum at pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in August 2008: “When asked to specifically define his views on marriage, Obama has stated that he believes ‘marriage is the union between a man and a woman.’ ‘Now, for me as a Christian, it’s also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.’” Four years later, Obama changed his position, having “evolved” as he so famously put it, and came out in support of marriage equality in a nationally televised interview. That happened in May, right in the midst of his re-elec-

tion campaign. Obama’s use of the presidential bully pulpit not only reversed the public’s negative opinion on the issue, but also led to groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passing a resolution supporting marriage equality. In Maryland, faith leaders supportive of same-sex marriage were featured in the campaign, as they were in Washington state and Maine. While Maine voters rejected same-sex marriage just three years ago, on Tuesday, they approved it in an affirmative ballot measure that LGBTs and allies placed on the ballot themselves. The victories this week reveal another powerful development: scare tactics like the ones employed by consultant Frank Schubert – who ran the Yes on 8 campaign here four years ago

and had a major hand in all four initiatives this year for the anti-marriage equality side – are less effective. The same could be true for the secretive anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. The lies and false statements surrounding marriage equality no longer mislead voters easily. Public opinion is changing and now eight states (not including Washington) and Washington, D.C. have legalized same-sex marriage. Oh, and one other thing: with its inclusion in this year’s platform, support for marriage equality is now embedded in the Democratic Party. That will not change. Future Democratic presidential candidates will have to support marriage equality to have a shot at the nomination. If Obama’s public support for marriage equality proved one thing, it’s that such a stand is not detrimental at the polls. That will only continue as more and more people embrace full equality for LGBT Americans.▼

Personal safety in the Internet age by Greg Carey

s Castro Community on Patrol volunteers pass out safety fliers and whistles, we are often asked whether hookup crimes are on the increase. The answer is that we don’t know because so many crimes go unreported. We know that they happen, but so many go unreported that there is no way to view trends accurately. The Internet has taken blame for creating new types of crimes. If an assault, robbery, or homicide can be connected to an online hookup from Craigslist or Grindr, the public or media are ready to blame technology. The truth is that meeting strangers in gay or straight bars has occasionally led to unfortunate circumstances for centuries. Technology simply gives us more ways to meet strangers. San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert explains, “Now we can order in and request what we want just like selecting the toppings on a pizza that is delivered to our door.” There is no proof that the number of technology-based crimes is any worse than old-fashioned face-to-face meetings. Rather than fearing technology, we can learn to use it to protect ourselves for those few cases in which a date turns into a crime. We should all learn to record details about potential dates before we meet. When you do so, remember that the records must exist somewhere outside your smartphone, because there is a pretty good chance that your phone will be one of the first things stolen. A picture inside the phone that has not been placed on the Internet is the same as no picture at all. At the very least, e-mail the information to yourself or text a friend. Once the information is on the Internet, it can be recovered, even if your phone has gone missing. It is also important to keep at least one of your friends updated with all of your screen names and which social sites you use. They need to bring this information to the police if something happens to you, as the police cannot track contacts without the screen name and site details. (Your friend does not need your passwords.) What should you capture? If you meet someone online, e-mail a screen-capture of the profile to yourself or leave a printed copy at your home if you will be meeting elsewhere.

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Castro Community on Patrol Chair Greg Carey hands out safety materials in the gay neighborhood.

At the very least get the site and the person’s screen name into an e-mail or text. When meeting in person, try to get a photo of the person. If the person is reluctant about having their picture taken (maybe they have good reasons to be on the down low) at least e-mail the name they gave you, a brief description and when/where you met.

Underreporting Now, let’s talk about that other pesky problem. There is too much unreported crime. People often come to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence or CCOP with tales of fairly serious crimes (assaults, robberies, date rapes, etc.) that were never reported to the police. There are many reasons for the underreporting. People are embarrassed that they found themselves in a situation they could have avoided. Perhaps there is fear that the police will be disrespectful because of the victim’s sexual orientation. Maybe the victim is not out to family or co-workers. Or, there is a feeling

that nothing can be done to arrest the suspect who has already left. Failure to report crimes increases the danger for everyone, because the police don’t know where to focus their resources. The LGBT community becomes less of a target when criminals know that crimes will be reported and that people are watching out for each other’s well being. The essence of the Stop the Violence program run by CCOP and the Sisters is that violence against our community is not tolerated. We need to do a better job of reporting to turn that from a slogan to action. A safe community is built with layers. The layer with the most victims is the uninformed public that leaves the house unprepared. Above that layer is the informed public who is willing to read a safety flier or take a selfdefense seminar to learn how to take care of the safety of themselves and their friends. The next layer involves a trained public in the form of neighborhood watch and community on patrol groups that provide extra eyes and ears. The next layer is made up of professionals, such as the Patrol Special Police and security guards. The final layer consists of the public safety officials such as the police, paramedics, district attorney, etc. All of these layers must work together to create a safe neighborhood. Reporting involves a degree of trust and respect. If you ever feel that you were not treated well when reporting a crime anywhere in the city, please contact us (info@castropatrol.org). Castro Patrol works closely with the SFPD and the district attorney’s office to improve how the police and LGBT community work together. Please consider becoming a CCOP patroller. Our next training is January 19. Details are at www.castropatrol.org. Finally, “like” the Stop the Violence page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ StopTheViolenceSF) to be kept up to date on crimes and the latest safety information. Together, we can make a difference.▼ Greg Carey is the chair of Castro Community on Patrol, a program of San Francisco SAFE (Safety Awareness for Everyone). Carey moved to the Bay Area from South Dakota in 1991 after being a founding member of the Sioux Empire Gay and Lesbian Coalition in 1978 and Eastern Dakota AIDS Network in 1985.

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Reader glad he moved south So once again, a group of gay and lesbian people have decided to marginalize the sub-communities. The leather and transgender flags, and the AIDS ribbon, will no longer be flown, nor will the dead of any part of the community be remembered [“Leather flag to fly no more above the Castro,” November 1 blog post]. I hope the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro is happy with its decision, because the marginalized members of the community are not. For the first time, I find myself glad that I no longer live in SF.

to define for yourself based on your own goals and belief systems: What is healthy eating for me? Can I go to a buffet? We look at your goals and figure in your sexual behaviors and validate what’s going to lead you back to the behavior you don’t want to do. To meet the criteria for hypersexual disorder, the behavior must be causing harm. If a person is engaging in a particular sexual behavior and it’s not hurting them or others, it’s not a problem. Additional criteria are listed on the SARP website. The SARP program offers gay men a free confidential initial consultation. For more information, visit www. bayareasexaddict.com. Vernon Lee, Ph.D. San Francisco

Luke Owens Cathedral City, California

Money should be used to help poor

Half-baked arguments on nude ban

Wouldn’t it be great if the Knights of Columbus [“Catholic group gives big bucks to fight marriage equality,” October 25] used all that money they put into opposing gay marriage into feeding and helping the poor, which is “supposed to be” a very Catholic thing to do?

With profound unease and increasing incredulity, I have followed the glib, half-baked arguments advocating the ban on urban nudity. Are you seriously suggesting, people, that we sit idly by and blithely accept the prospect of fewer rights, less freedom? I find it mind-boggling and infuriating. What era, what century, what country, what city do you think we’re living in? I strongly recommend that you take a long, long look at exactly what it is you’re proposing. Perhaps, ironically enough, it’s time that you remove yourselves from your unfathomable place of privilege, even if only temporarily. Perhaps it’s, in fact, time that you break out of your cushy, custom-made Castro cocoons, make the unimaginable sacrifice of skipping out on your bi-annual pilgrimage to Hawaii, and travel, or better yet, live in any number of places around the globe where the essential right of freedom of expression is routinely and brutally disregarded on a daily basis. Perhaps only then would you gain that much-needed sense of perspective so seemingly lacking. Perhaps only then would you begin to get a glimpse of what a slippery slope you’re ignorantly asking we all slide down together. Reading the letters of the Bay Area Reporter week after week, I’ve come away with the distinct impression that many of you actually believe you’re living a life à la A Clockwork Orange, whereby your oh-so-sensitive eyes are pried wide open, forcing you to stare in abject horror at the distasteful nudists who don’t happen to fit neatly into your pitifully narrow prescribed personal aesthetic. You are, however, entirely free to shift your line of sight ever so slightly elsewhere. As I myself am free to choose to do. Just as the nudists themselves are momentarily free to behave in the non-harmful manner of their choosing. I highlight here not your petit-bourgeois, prudish level of comfort but rather the paramount concepts of freedom and choice, as after all, liberty is really what it’s all about in this incredibly unique place and time. Selective rights is nothing more than a bulldozing tool of repressive regimes; selective rights, then, has no proper place within progressive societies. I assure you from painful experience, it’s infinitely more unsightly to have to stand by and watch hard-won, precious freedoms ripped out of one’s grasp than it is to watch a handful of aging, overweight men innocently and, yes, bravely enjoy themselves by celebrating the very fact that they, at least for now, can.

Terrrie Frye San Francisco

Are you a sex addict? Scott Brogan raised this question in his Leather column in the October 18 Bay Area Reporter [“Are you a sex addict?”]. I read on with great interest hoping to learn more about what is a sex addict. But Mr. Brogan never answered the question. Instead, he made light of the illness and the people suffering from it. Perhaps he had no choice since he did point out that he was not a psychologist or psychiatrist. Well Mr. Brogan you are in luck. I am a psychologist. I have been treating men and women with sexual behaviors problems, 12 blocks from the Castro, for the past 15 years. The Sex Addiction Recovery Program continues to offer confidential assessment and treatment to persons whose sexual behavior is out of control. But not everyone needs the program. As you noted Mr. Brogan, some men are just horny. Indeed, those men would not meet the criteria for sex addiction or hypersexual disorder, as it is also known in the clinical field. You do not have a problem with sex if you hang out at Jane Warner Plaza and stare at nude men. You do not have a sex addiction problem if you spend time at Steamworks or the Watergarden. If you chat online and eventually hookup with someone, it does not mean you’re a sex addict either. The critical issue, Mr. Brogan, is whether your out-ofcontrol sexual behavior is interfering with your life and you feel powerless to change it. Clinically speaking, sex addiction is masturbating to online porn while at work. Your employer tracks your behavior on the main server, and you lose your job. Sex addiction is spending hundreds of dollars on male escorts through RentBoy.com. Then, at the end of the month, you have no money to pay your rent. Sex addiction is having to register as a sex offender after engaging in compulsive masturbation sitting in your car on Noe Street. The SARP program advocates something called “sexual sobriety.” This can take different forms, but typically involves eradicating “unwanted sexual behavior,” whether that’s obsessive masturbation or sex with escorts. We treat it very much like sobriety for an eating disorder. You have

Daniel Crose Oakland, California

NLJGA Fall Honors reception Compiled by Cynthia Laird

member of Sigma Episolon Omega, UC Berkeley’s gay fraternity. The Bob Ross Scholarship is $2,500 and is funded by the Bob Ross Foundation. Ross was the founding publisher of the Bay Area Reporter until his death in 2003. The B.A.R. and the foundation are totally separate and distinct legal entities. Tickets to the Fall Honors are $25 for NLGJA members and $35 for non-members. For more information, visit www.nlgja.org and click on “Local Events.”

he Northern California chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association will hold its annual Fall Honors reception Wednesday, November 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market Street in San Francisco. This year’s honorees include former Curve magazine editor Diane Anderson-Minshall, now executive editor at the Advocate; and Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman, hosts and producers of the radio show Out in the Bay, which is celebrating its eighth year in 2012. (The show is heard at 7 p.m. Thursdays on public radio station KALW, 91.7 FM.) The chapter will also present J.D. Morris with the 2012 Bob Ross Scholarship. Morris, 20, is a junior at UC Berkeley and serves as the opinion editor of the Daily Californian. A native of Salinas, Morris moved to Bakersfield when he was 16, and it was there that he developed a strong interest in journalism. A rhetoric major at Cal, Morris has served on the staff of the newspa-

Ice Rink’s Giants Pride tonight Scholarship winner J.D. Morris

per, first as student government beat reporter, then university news editor, and now the opinion editor, where he coordinated the endorsement process for this year’s election cycle. In addition to his work at the Daily Cal, Morris completed a full-time reporting internship this summer at the Orange County Register. He is also a proud

The Union Square ice rink will hold Giants Pride Night tonight (Thursday, November 8) from 6 to 11:30 p.m. The ice will be lit up in orange and fans are encouraged to come out in their favorite Giants garb for a fun night of celebration. The ice rink, sponsored by Safeway and presented by Alaska Airlines, has a $10 general admission cost ($6 for kids 8 and under) and there is a $5 skate rental fee. The first 100 fans to arrive tonight wearing Giants apparel will receive a complimentary skate admission for their guest that evening. Local radio stations KMEL See page 12 >>

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Baldwin wins Senate bid in Wisconsin by Lisa Keen

n a historic victory Tuesday, Representative Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Her victory, along with the wins of at least five of seven openly gay candidates for the House of Representatives, marks a new high for the number of openly gay members of Congress: five. The previous high was four. The success of openly gay candidates come against a backdrop of partisan control in the Senate and House which will remain the same as before – Democrats control the Senate and Republicans control the House. In her acceptance speech, Baldwin, 50, acknowledged the historic nature of her win.

“I’m well aware that I will have the honor to be the first woman senator from Wisconsin, and I’m well aware that I will be the first openly gay member of the United States Senate,” said Baldwin. “I didn’t run to make history. I ran to make a difference – a difference in the lives of families struggling to find work and pay the bills, a difference in the lives of students worried about debt and seniors worried about their retirement security, a difference in the lives of veterans who fought for us and need someone fighting for them and their families when they return home from war, a difference in the lives of entrepreneurs trying to build a business and working people trying to build some economic security,” said Baldwin.

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Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin

Mark Takano was holding on to an early lead for the 41st Congressional District seat in California.

The five other openly gay victors Tuesday night were incumbent Democratic Representatives Jared Polis of Colorado and David Cicil-

line of Rhode Island. Joining them will be two new members of the House – Mark Pocan, who has won Baldwin’s seat from Wisconsin, and

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Sean Maloney of New York. And as of Wednesday morning, Democrat Mark Takano had taken a doubledigit lead in his race for the House seat representing the 41st Congressional district of California. Also Wednesday morning, there was still a chance that one more LGB congressional candidate might pull off a victory. Openly bisexual former Arizona state Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D) has taken a small lead in her battle for a seat representing the 9th Congressional District of Arizona, which includes Tempe, Mesa, and Scottsdale. The only loss among openly gay congressional candidates Tuesday night was Republican Richard Tisei, who lost a very close race against Democratic incumbent John Tierney in Massachusetts.▼

Lesbians, gay man win transit seats by Matthew S. Bajko

ut candidates seeking Bay Area transit seats Tuesday racked up victories in three counties. Tom Radulovich, a gay man who is executive director of the transit ad-

vocacy group Livable City, easily won election to a fifth term representing San Francisco on the BART board. Joining him will be newcomer Rebecca Saltzman, an out lesbian who works as an environmental policy advocate for the California League of

Conversation Voters. She won a seat on the BART board representing parts of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. On the Peninsula Moss Beach resident Sabrina Brennan, an out lesbian who owns her own digital graphics company, won a seat overseeing the San Mateo County Harbor District. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, November 7, Brennan was the top vote getter among the six candidates seeking three harbor district seats. She garnered 87,079 votes or 24.52 percent. The other two winners were incumbents Leo Padreddii, the commission’s current vice president, and Pietro Parravano, its secretary. It was Brennan’s second attempt to gain a seat on the obscure body that oversees two marinas, and she becomes its second out commissioner. In 2010, Robert Bernardo, a gay man who works for the Port of Oakland, won a seat on the body. Brennan, who is married to Aimee Luthringer, posted a thank you to her supporters early Wednesday morning on her Facebook page. “I appreciate your time, contribu-

tions, endorsements, advice, phone banking, precinct walking, event planning, graphic design, print work, web development, home cooking, email marketing, training and words of encouragement,” she wrote. “It took a focused and dedicated group to win tonight. I’m deeply grateful for all your support!” Saltzman, who lives in Oakland with her wife, Caitlin Stone, won with 37,405 votes accounting for 54.57 percent of the vote, according to unofficial returns. Her opponents fell far behind, with Anthony Pegram garnering 21,584 votes or 31.49 percent and Fred Wright Lopez receiving 9,092 votes or 13.26 percent. In the San Francisco race, Radulovich won with 73.74 percent of the vote for a total of 64,936 votes, according to unofficial returns. His closest challenger was Luke Lucas, who received 13,185 votes or 14.97 percent. In the BART board race for a seat that represents parts of San Francisco and Alameda County, incumbent Lynette Sweet lost her bid for re-election. According to unofficial returns in the two counties, Sweet’s vote total was 8,144, falling behind that of her op-

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Rebecca Saltzman won a seat on the BART board.

ponent, El Sobrante resident Zakhary Mallett, who came in first with 10,423 votes. “I think I will do a better job representing San Francisco anyhow. Muni riders should not have to pay higher than necessary fares to subsidize a select few San Francisco BART users’ free rides on BART,” Mallett wrote in a comment posted to his Facebook page Wednesday morning. “My constituents in San Francisco disproportionately bare this Muni/BART crosssubsidy effect. Not fair!”▼

Health panel OKs trans access to care by Seth Hemmelgarn

eeking to correct a policy that had been viewed as discriminatory, San Francisco’s seven-member Health Commission voted unanimously Tuesday, November 6 to improve access to health care for transgender people. Healthy SF is the city’s locally designed and funded universal health care program that was launched in 2007. It currently provides hormone treatment and mental health services to transgender participants, but administratively excludes sex reassignment surgery and denies coverage for certain surgical procedures to transgender people when the same procedures are provided to non-transgender participants The panel resolved Tuesday to develop a program separate from Healthy San Francisco to provide sexual reassignment and genderaffirming surgeries to the city’s uninsured transgender residents. Before the vote Tuesday, Theresa Sparks, the transgender executive director of the city’s Human Rights Commission, told commissioners that for her community, “This is one of the most significant advances ever.” She expressed optimism that their action would be felt nationally and around the world.

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Health Commissioner Cecilia Chung

Along with developing a separate program, health commissioners also voted Tuesday to amend the regulations implanting Healthy SF and medical reimbursement account provisions of the city’s health care security ordinance to remove sexual reassignment surgery and genderaffirming surgeries from the list of excluded services. Their resolution also modifies Healthy SF program materials to reflect the change. The actions of the panel, which serves as the governing and policy-

making body of the Department of Public Health, follow a resolution recommending the changes passed by the Board of Supervisors in July. Gay Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced that resolution, which called on the health department to provide medically necessary transitionrelated care for transgender people and to remove exclusions under the city’s health care security ordinance. Wiener told commissioners Tuesday that the city has “helped lead the way” in ensuring access to health care for transgender people, and “We have an opportunity to continue San Francisco on the cutting edge.” The health department’s Tangerine Brigham said that the separate program would start in the fall of 2013 to contract with community providers to do the procedures with people who are uninsured. Officials will also look at expanding the health department’s ability to do the procedures so that by the 2014-15 fiscal year the work is not contracted out for the full range of surgeries. Transgender Commissioner Cecilia Chung suggested the “genderaffirming” language to the resolution, saying, “Not everybody needs to do corrective surgery on their genitals.” For example, she said, some people “just need chest reconstruction surgery.”▼

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Rebecca Kaplan won re-election to the Oakland City Council.

Sean Sullivan came up short in his race for District 3 on the Oakland City Council.

Gibson-McElhaney campaign

Lynette Gibson-McElhaney was declared the winner in the District 3 Oakland City Council race.

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Richard Fuentes was defeated in his race for the Oakland School Board.

Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore won re-election

Kaplan secures second term on Oakland City Council by Matthew S. Bajko

akland at-large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan beat back a challenge Tuesday from her colleague, District 5 City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, to secure a second term and put her at the top of the list of possible mayoral candidates in 2014. After five rounds of ranked-choice voting tabulations, released Wednesday, Kaplan came out ahead with 49,212 votes or 60.74 percent to win her race. “We’re winning, and it’s good. It’s a beautiful day in Oakland and a beautiful day in America,” Kaplan told the Bay Area Reporter during an election night party. In a note she sent out to supporters Wednesday morning, which included an appeal for contributions to help pay off her campaign debts, Kaplan thanked her backers for helping her win. “We’ve won the campaign, but work for our city won’t stop,” wrote Kaplan. “We’ll take a moment to celebrate – to take pride in the fight we won – and our efforts toward progress will continue without pause. For safer streets. For prosperous people. And for a government you can trust.” In the waning days of the race LGBT leaders in the East Bay had accused De La Fuente of making homophobic attacks against Kaplan after his campaign sent out emails that appeared to mock Kaplan’s appearance and work to delete from the city’s police codes rules against cross-dressing. “Homophobic attacks once again did not work in Oakland and we re-elected one of the most positive, forward-looking officials in the country and she serves our city well,” said Michael Colbruno, co-chair of the United Democratic Campaign in Oakland and a leader of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club. Kaplan told the B.A.R. that, “In both elections, nationally and my own, people are not falling for fearmongering and candidates that have lots of money and are nasty. It’s a proud day.” De La Fuente made the decision to seek the at-large seat rather than re-election to his district seat in hopes winning citywide would bolster his chances at becoming mayor in 2014. Beleaguered Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is up for re-election in two years and is likely to be challenged should she decide to run again. With De La Fuente out as an elected official, Kaplan automatically moves to the head of the line of potential mayoral candidates having lost to Quan in 2010. But she has pledged

not to jump into the race unless Quan bows out from running. In the meantime, Kaplan will remain the lone out member on the council, as gay nonprofit executive Sean Sullivan lost his bid for the District 3 seat. It was Sullivan’s second stab to represent the West Oaklandbased district. According to unofficial returns, Sullivan landed in second place after five rounds of ranked-choice voting. He had 4,914 votes or 46.24 percent but it wasn’t enough to put him into the winner’s column. Instead, the seat went to Lynette Gibson-McElhaney, Neighborhood Housing Services of the East Bay executive director, who ended up on top with 5,714 votes or 53.76 percent. Another gay candidate in the race, landlord Alex Miller-Cole, landed in last place Tuesday night and saw his 1,296 votes redistributed to other candidates under the instant voter runoff system. While Sullivan had told the B.A.R. on election night that he remained “hopeful,” he conceded he had lost Wednesday morning in a note he posted on Facebook. “Sadly, I did not win,” wrote Sullivan. “Don’t believe your eyes. Though I came in first through traditional voting, Oakland employs rank choice voting. Votes of the losing candidates are transferred to other candidates until a candidate receives 51 percent. Sadly, I was not that candidate.” He added that he is “happy and I am free” and looking forward to pursuing non-political interests. “While these are not the results I was hoping for I look forward to resuming a life of family, friends and fun. Before politics, I did many things that I have of late neglected, like yoga,” wrote Sullivan. Richard Fuentes, who is Sullivan’s boyfriend and was running for the District 3 seat on the Oakland school board, was also holding out hope Tuesday night after coming in second in his race. “It’s still so early,” he told the B.A.R., waiting to see how the ranked-choice voting would play out. But the first place finisher Tuesday, incumbent Jumoke Hinton Hodge, easily won re-election. Her total after two rounds of IRV was 7,135 votes or 61.13 percent, while Fuentes ended up with 4,537 votes or 38.87 percent.

Berkeley contests Berkeley voters Tuesday elected their city’s first out lesbian into public office by choosing Judy Appel for one of two school board seats up for grabs in the famously liberal city.

Clarification The November 1 article “’Spirits’ find celebration, diversity at exhibit” about a local Day of the Dead exhibit included a photo of one of the altars by artist Elizabeth Oscar Maynard that featured an image of lesbian pioneer Phyllis Lyon. Lyon is not deceased, as are some of the others depicted in Maynard’s altar. The Bay Area Reporter did not state that Lyon had died, but wanted to clarify that despite the exhibit being a mixed media tribute to the deceased, Lyon is very much alive. The online version has been updated.

Appel is the executive director of the LGBT-focused Our Family Coalition, and is raising two children with her wife, Alison Bernstein. She came in first place with 18,776 votes or 42.04 percent. Landing in second was Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, the mother of a gay son, with 13,821 votes or 30.95 percent. Gay Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore easily beat back two challengers to win re-election to his District 2 seat. He received 2,156 votes or 60.07 percent, according to the unofficial tally. Gay Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington came up short, however, in his bid to oust Mayor Tom Bates, who won re-election Tuesday. Worthington garnered 6,956 votes or 21.30 percent, but Bates easily defeated his five opponents with 18,057 votes or 55.29 percent. And in Alameda, gay nurse Leland Traiman failed to win a seat on the Alameda Health Care District Board. The executive director of the Rainbow Flag Health Services and Sperm Bank, Traiman landed in last

place in the four-person race for two seats on the hospital oversight panel.

Sacramento council race too close Steve Hansen, a senior regional manager at Genentech who used to work for the statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California, was hanging on to a tiny lead Wednesday in his bid to become the first out person to serve on the Sacramento City Council. According to unofficial returns, Hansen had 7,121 votes or 49.99 percent while his opponent, Planning Commissioner Joseph Yee, was close behind with 7,093 votes or 49.79 percent. “The end of the campaign isn’t here until every vote is counted in a fair and transparent manner,” Hansen wrote in an email Wednesday to his supporters. “While we are up by 28 votes today, there remain many thousands of uncounted vote-bymail ballots and provisional votes.” He said he was “very proud” of the campaign he had waged and urged his backers to remain positive as they await the final vote count.

“The county registrar has a solid track record of fair counting, and I am hopeful that no voter will be disenfranchised by the process or the participants,” wrote Hansen.

Gay GOPer loses in San Diego Gay Republican San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio came up short in his mayoral bid, conceding the race Wednesday to Congressman Bob Filner (D). DeMaio had upset many in that city’s LGBT community by pledging not to address gay issues should he be elected. According to the Los Angeles Times, DeMaio trailed Filner 52 percent to 48 percent in unofficial returns.▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www. ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @twitter.com/politicalnotes.

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▼ Nudity ban heads to SF supes by Matthew S. Bajko

proposed ban against public nudity in San Francisco is headed to the Board of Supervisors as opponents of the measure weigh their legal options to bar its implementation should it be approved. Since the board does not meet next week, the issue will be taken up at the supervisors’ November 20 meeting two days before Thanksgiving. It is unclear if majority on the 11-person board will back the ban, though Mayor Ed Lee has already indicated he will sign it into law. At a special meeting Monday, November 5 the board’s City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee unanimously recommended that the nudity ban be approved. Committee members District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu and outgoing District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, joined by the ban’s sponsor, District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, voted in support of the legislation. “The idea of having a sense of community and all walks of life be comfortable in the neighborhood was very compelling to me,” said Chu. “I do think because of how people feel strongly about public nudity that respect needs to go both ways.” The committee’s usual third member, appointed District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, was a no show. Coming the day before the November 6 election, Olague was instead focused on her campaign to win a full term on the board. The proposed legislation is in response to complaints about nudists congregating in Jane Warner Plaza in the gay Castro district. It would outlaw nudity on city sidewalks, streets and on public transit but exempt street fairs and parades. After hearing complaints from the leather community, Wiener removed the word “buttocks” from his legislation. Some had questioned if people wearing chaps or other ass-bearing attire as they bar hopped or headed to fetish events like the Folsom Street Fair would be violating the law. Wiener insists he never meant to restrict people from wearing revealing clothes. He changed the language so it would ban a person from showing their “genitals, perineum, and anal region” in public. “At the heart of the issue is that seven days a week in the heart of the Castro men, and it is almost always men, are showing their genitals to

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Activist Gypsy Taub was briefly detained by sheriff’s deputies outside the hearing room of the Board of Supervisor’s City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee Monday. She had stripped in the meeting room as the committee took public comment on Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposed nudity ban.

anyone who walks or drives by,” said Wiener, a gay man who lives nearby in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood. Such behavior, said Wiener, “is no longer random and sporadic. It is no longer a quirky part of San Francisco.” Opponents of the law say it is unnecessary and violates civil liberties. They also question if chaps would still be legal despite the word change in the legislation. “I ask that you reject it. We lead the nation out of the dark on many issues,” said Paul Lucas. Gilbert Criswell added, “I feel this is a war on gay men.” At one point during the hearing Gypsy Taub disrobed at the lectern in the midst of her public comments and started chanting, “Long live body freedom, down with Scott Wiener.” Sheriff’s deputies escorted Taub, a Berkeley resident who hosts an online show about nudists, out of the room into the hallway where she continued to chant in front of television cameras for several minutes. All of the other speakers remained clothed over the course of the nearly two-hour hearing. In total 37 people spoke out against the legislation, with 22 speakers voicing support. Longtime Castro resident Ed Allen said he has frequented nudist colonies and found them to be “wonderful,” but he objects to having to see naked people “in my backyard.” “This is about misbehavior, not personal expression,” said Allen. Jeff Johnston, the owner of an eponymously named tax service near

the plaza, said his clients are “uncomfortable” having to walk by the area and see the naked men. “I don’t want to apologize and be embarrassed that I chose the Castro to do business,” said Johnston. Castro resident Gabriella Schultz said the nudists act out of a “sense of entitlement” and have turned the city’s LGBT district into “a laughingstock.” “We are not Harbin Hot Springs. We are a neighborhood,” said Schultz. Several speakers who spoke out against the ban said they did so because they do not feel a citywide nudity ban is needed. They argued that the legislation should instead be tailored to solely address the issues being raised in the Castro. “It is reckless because it covers the entire city in trying to deal with the problems at one plaza,” said Russell Mills, who also expressed concerns that media coverage of the issue will drive away tourists from events where nudity has long been tolerated, such as the Bay to Breakers race and the Pride Parade and festival. “Common sense should tell you to reject this legislation and find a better solution,” said Mills. Mitch Hightower, who organizes an annual nude-in at the Castro plaza, told the Bay Area Reporter after the meeting that the urban nudists plan to fight the ban in court if adopted. “We will try to get an injunction to stop the ban from going into effect,” said Hightower.▼

OutLoud radio marks 10 years by Elliot Owen

en years ago, Noah Miller founded outLoud Radio to send stories of LGBTQ youth over the airwaves in response to a gap he had noticed in media representations of queer people. Today, outLoud Radio is a well-known San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that creates regularly accessible first person radio broadcasts created by LGBTQ youth that participate in the organization’s variety of programs. Next week, outLoud’s decade of growth will be celebrated at its anniversary gala, Ten Years of Making Waves, at the Brava Theater Center located at 2781 24th Street in San Francisco at 7 p.m. November 14. The event will feature NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro in an onstage discussion with KQED’s Scott Shafer and several of outLoud’s youth producers. “This gives us a chance to look back on the impact we’ve made over this last 10 years,” Miller, outLoud’s director, said. “It’s a feeling of responsibility to teach the power of storytelling not just for the people listening, but for the people telling.”

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Christine Yang, 20, talks about what she’s wearing and why as part of a discussion about gender presentation during an outLoud Radio intergenerational storytelling project pre-recording discussion.

Shapiro was invited to participate in the event because showcasing the relevance of his career to outLoud’s youth and supporters seemed like an appropriate and engaging choice, Miller said. Shapiro is the first NPR reporter to become a correspondent before age 30 and has been awarded several journalism prizes in his career. “[Shapiro] is an accomplished

journalist who has covered some of the most important beats there are – the Supreme Court, the White House and the 2012 presidential campaign,” Shafer, the openly gay host of KQED’s the California Report, told the Bay Area Reporter. “And he’s done it as an out gay man. He’s a terrific role model for aspiring LGBT journalists.” See page 12 >>

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with the president’s re-election. “I thought I would go to bed not knowing” the outcome of the race, she said at the local Democratic Party’s celebration at Z Cafe. “I’m ecstatic. The next four years we’ll see more for the LGBT community. I’m completely ecstatic.” Michael Colbruno, the out co-

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of the vote. That places him on the board along with incumbents Steve Ngo, who had 14.35 percent; Natalie Berg, who had 13.67 percent; and Chris Jackson, who had 13.01 percent. Voters cast a total of 517,748 ballots in the race, according to unofficial returns. In an interview Wednesday, November 7, Mandelman said his priority would be “to restore financial stability at the school” and “preserve the great programs and classes that the college has, and to begin to restore and rebuild morale at the institution.”

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Appointed District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, buffeted by critics on both the left and right, failed to secure a full four-year term representing the Haight and Western Addition at City Hall. She had been appointed earlier this year by Mayor Ed Lee to fill a vacancy and becomes the first sitting supervisor to be defeated in more than a decade. “It’s all good. I don’t regret it,” Olague told the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday night as she watched election results come in with her supporters at Rasselas Jazz Club in the Fillmore. “Obama winning is a plus. That is awesome.” London Breed, who grew up in the district in the Fillmore and now serves as the executive director of the African American Art and Culture Complex, emerged the winner in the hotly contested race. “The most heartfelt and deepest thanks to all of you and thank you for never giving up,” Breed posted on Facebook late Tuesday night. Because of her backing Mayor Ed Lee last year in the mayoral race,

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chair of the United Democratic Campaign in Oakland, credited the hard work of volunteers and elected officials for helping turn out the vote. “People like Mayor [Jean] Quan called people all over the country to vote,” said Colbruno. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), a longtime ally of the LGBT community, told the crowd, “You made President Obama get

four more years.” The Obama victory – he won both the Electoral College and popular vote – came on the same night the LGBT community won unprecedented battles in three states over marriage equality and Wisconsin elected the first openly gay U.S. senator. The victories prompted comment from many political pundits throughout the night. “This country is really chang-

ing,” remarked CNN commentator Paul Begala. “We’ve just elected our first openly lesbian senator, Tammy Baldwin. ... We re-elected a president who endorsed gay marriage. Nineteen years ago, I was working for Bill Clinton ... and we thought it was progress to pass ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’” The results on LGBT issues Tuesday night, he said, “might be one of the most wonderful things about tonight.”

The Obama victory was especially sweet for many LGBT people given the Republican ticket’s staunch opposition to equal rights for gays in marriage, the military, and nearly every other arena, contrasting with Obama’s support. “As the first president to sign a pro-LGBT bill, the first president to speak out in support of the freedom to marry, and the president who See page 12 >>

Mandelman, who ran unsuccessfully for District 8 supervisor two years ago, thanked a broad coalition of the LGBT community for his victory. “I was so gratified that the LGBT community was so supportive of my campaign. From the Bay Area Reporter to the Toklas and Milk Democratic clubs to Mark Leno and Tom Ammiano and David Campos, I really felt the whole community had my back,” he told the B.A.R. in an email, referring to gay politicos in the state Senate, Assembly, and Board of Supervisors, respectively. The community college, which has nine campuses and 86,000 students, has recently faced losing its

accreditation due to problems that were addressed in a critical report issued in June by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. One of the nine campuses, in the Castro neighborhood, is expected to close next semester. The commission outlined a series of shortcomings, including an inadequate funding base, lack of a planning process, a failure to react to ongoing reduced funding, and inadequate administrative leadership. The passage of Proposition A is expected to help the school. The local proposition, which had garnered 72.48 percent of the vote as of Tuesday night, authorizes a $79

tax on each parcel of residential and commercial property in the city for eight years. Berg, who’s served three terms as the board’s president, said Wednesday that this term would be her last. “I don’t intend to run again. ... This is going to be a very productive four years for me,” she said. “I think we need to take control of the financial situation, and I intend to do that,” she said. Among other things, Berg said she’d work to ensure the school isn’t spending “money we don’t have in anticipation of money we might get. We’re going to pay as we go.” City College is “by far the gem of San Francisco,” she added. “We’re

the first chance for some people, and we’re the last chance for some people.” When Mandelman joins the board, he won’t be the only out member. Another gay man, Lawrence Wong, currently serves on the panel. His seat is up in 2014. One incumbent lost Tuesday. Rodrigo Santos, whom Mayor Ed Lee appointed to the panel in August to serve out the remaining few months of Trustee Milton Marks III’s term, came up short in his quest for a full term. Marks died due to a brain tumor. Meanwhile, interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman began work at the college November 1.▼

Olague had failed to draw much support from progressives. Her vote to support a waterfront development also soured progressives on her candidacy. That began to change when she bucked the mayor and voted in early October to reinstate Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi to his elected office. Lee had suspended Mirkarimi, the former District 5 supervisor, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of false imprisonment in a domestic violence case involving his wife. The District 5 race was further upended when a woman who works for Lee went public with accusations that one of the candidates, Julian Davis, had inappropriately groped her at a bar. Although Davis denied the charges leveled against him, it derailed his campaign. In recent weeks independent groups, backed by supporters of the mayor’s, attacked Olague for her vote in support of Mirkarimi. Meanwhile Breed was accused of being a pawn for developers and landlords after the local Realtors association created an ad supporting her bid. Heading into Election Day the

race appeared to be wide open. But after several rounds of rankedchoice voting, Breed emerged the winner with 11,019 votes or 56.19 percent. Olague placed second, based on the unofficial returns, with 8,591 votes or 43.81 percent. College board member John Rizzo was third, with 6,583 votes or 28.22 percent, while Davis came in fourth with 4,757 votes or 19.36 percent. At her election night party Olague all but conceded she had lost, saying she was ready to go back to community organizing. She also called out the downtown backers, such as Ron Conway, and two of Lee’s gay staffers, chief of staff Steve Kawa and senior adviser Tony Winnicker, for being behind the attack ads and “sleazy money” funneled into the race. “If nothing else it feels awesome to be liberated from both the left and the right. We are completely independent and it is awesome,” said Olague, who left Wednesday for a five-day vacation in Oslo, Norway. “Now is the moment to bury the hatchet and move forward together, even though I won’t be serving as

your supervisor, most likely.” Olague wasn’t the only out candidate to come up short Tuesday night. Gay journalist Joel Engardio lost his bid to win the open District 7 supervisor seat covering the neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks. Having run unopposed for his District 9 seat, gay Supervisor David Campos coasted to victory and is already seen as a leading candidate to seek the city’s 17th Assembly District seat in 2014. District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, who also ran unopposed for a second term Tuesday, may also seek the state legislative seat as both he and Campos will be termed out of office in 2016. Other incumbents on the board were also victorious Tuesday, with District 3 Supervisor David Chiu beating back several lesser-known opponents and District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar handily defeating his challenger, David Lee, for his district centered in the Richmond. Mar received 11,504 votes or 54 percent while Lee fell short with 7,876 votes or 38.48 percent. Based on unofficial returns Wednesday, it appears that labor leader Francis “FX” Crowley will

be joining Breed on the board as the incoming District 7 supervisor. Crowley emerged the winner in the open race after five rounds of ranked-choice voting. On election night outgoing school board president Norman Yee had held a slight edge. But his vote tally dropped him into second place under the instant voter runoff system. By Wednesday Yee had 8,724 votes or 49.05 percent while Crowley was in first place with 9,062 votes or 50.95 percent. As for Engardio, he landed in fourth place, with a final tally of 3,455 votes or 16.10 percent. He told the Bay Area Reporter Wednesday that he was pleased with his campaign but his partner is ready for him to return to being employed after spending the last year focused on the race. “There is no reason to be disappointed at all,” said Engardio, who went to see the movie Cloud Atlas Tuesday to keep his mind off of the election results. “My partner, Lionel, has been so great in helping me with the campaign. But I think he wants me to get a good paying job, preferably in the private sector.”▼

Obituaries >> Terry Rex Spray November 6, 1951 – September 18, 2012

The tapestry of Rex’s life wove many vibrant threads. Born in Frankfort, Indiana to Paul Spray and Eunice Godbey Spray, Rex graduated from Purdue and became a banquet chef. Rex later earned a nursing degree from City College SF in 1984. As a SF General Hospital nurse and Department of Public Health case manager, Rex cared for people impacted by trauma, mental illness, and poverty. Rex treated each person with dignity and was beloved by his clients. A fierce activist for social and economic justice, Rex advocated for workers, patients, and public services by serving as shop steward, negotiator, trustee, vice president, and president of SEIU Local 790. Rex shared the last 19 years with his beloved partner Tim Stewart. A generous, playful uncle, Rex remains in the hearts of his nieces and nephews, as well as siblings John (Lillian) Spray, Edwin (Sharon) Spray, Emily (Sonny) Lahee, and Diana (Gearren) Bodish. He relished art, travel, good food, and recently, TV show Glee and band Bonnie Dune. A memorial will be held at the Neptune Society, 1 Loraine Court, San Francisco on Friday, November 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. All welcome. Rest well Rex. A job well done.

TL gay bar Deco Lounge closes by Seth Hemmelgarn

gay bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has closed, making it the fifth LGBT watering hole to close in recent years. Deco Lounge, 510 Larkin Street, has been sold, and the bar’s last night was Monday, November 5. It’s not clear what the new owners’ plans for the spot are. Paul Xavier, 54, a gay man who’s owned the bar for six years, said in a September interview that he was selling the liquor license, furniture, and other assets because “a bar is a lot of work.” Deco has “always had its popularity,” Xavier, who’s retiring, said. However, a small business “needs an owner who is more hands-on, and I just don’t have the time or energy to do that,” he said. In an interview this week, Xavier said he sold the bar for $200,000. Records from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control show Cameron Andrew Maddern as the managing member of BB Empire, LLC, which has filed a liquor license transfer application. Maddern couldn’t be reached for comment.

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Deco Lounge workers Kurt Gilbertson, left, and DJ Dirty shed tears for the loss of another gay venue in San Francisco and the loss of their jobs late last month; the bar closed Monday.

Xavier, who worked through a broker to sell the bar, said he’s spoken to one of the new owners. The man’s first name is Cameron, but he didn’t know the man’s last name, he said. He believes that there are other partners involved, as well, but he doesn’t know much about what the new owners plan to do with the

space. David Delgado, 41, who’s been assistant manager at Deco, said in September that the buyers “have expressed some interest in [keeping] nights that are doing well,” including the Friday drag shows and Go Bang parties on Saturdays. “They are going to close for a

while and do some construction,” he said. “Who knows what they’re going to do when they reopen?” Remodeling work would probably include the bathrooms. “Deco was such a fun place,” Delgado said. “It wasn’t the Castro. It wasn’t South of Market. It was just its own neighborhood bar.” The business is a block away from Polk Street, which once played a more prominent role in the city’s gay culture, before the Castro district became better known. “I’ve been around for so long I remember when Polk Street was the mecca of gayness in the world,” Xavier said. “Back then, we had the gay parade down Polk Street, and pretty much straight from maybe Washington down to Post there would be gay bars on every block.” Xavier has a business partner, but he declined to share information about him. The closure of Deco follows last year’s closing of the Eagle Tavern in the SOMA district. The new owners of that establishment haven’t yet announced an opening date. Other bars that have shuttered include Trigger, Lime, and Club Eight.▼

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Prop 30

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have repealed the death penalty as the maximum punishment for people found guilty of murder and replaced it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. It also would have directed $100 million to law enforcement agencies for investigations of homicide and rape cases. The proposition was failing 47.2

OutLoud radio

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Shortly after its founding, Miller, 33, realized that outLoud’s impact on the youth participants. Some shared that they had written about outLoud in their college entry essays, characterizing their experience with the organization as the most important thing they had done in their lives. Others expressed that participating in outLoud provided them with the opportunity to explore their identities and to define themselves. DJ Thompkins-Michael, a 23-year-old gay participant, is one

Obama

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made open service in our armed forces for gays and lesbians possible, LGBT Americans have won a major victory tonight,” said Jerame Davis, head of the National Stonewall Democrats. Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, calling Obama the “most pro-equality president ever” said, “There is no doubt that we will continue to see tremendous progress toward full equality like we’ve made during his first four years.” “While some pundits predicted the president’s support for marriage equality would hinder his campaign,” added Griffin, in a statement released Tuesday night, “we know the opposite is true. President Obama’s historic and heartfelt declaration that all loving and committed couples should be able to marry further rallied millions of voters and sparked conversations that advanced marriage campaigns around the country. His re-election after expressing support for marriage equality is further proof that the momentum is on the side of marriage for all families.” Log Cabin Republicans, which in late October endorsed Romney, did

News Briefs

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and KYLD will be there until 10 p.m. handing out Giants champs placards. The ice rink is open through January 21 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. with the exception of December 31, when it will close at 9:30. Tickets are available at the ticket window in Union Square.

Ewaste collection near the Castro Electronics recycling company EwasteSF will be having a collection event this weekend near the Castro neighborhood and people can drop off old or discarded items. There is no cost. The company will be holding the collection at Safeway, 2020 Market Street at Duboce, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11. Company officials said that all electronics – anything with a cord or motor – will be accepted, including computers, TVs, computer monitors, cell phones, laptops, hard drives, medical equipment, and fax and copy machines and printers. As an added bonus, 3 cents a pound of all TVs and monitors collected will go to the AIDS Emergency Fund. For more information, visit www. ewastesf.com.

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percent to 52.8 percent, preliminary results showed. In a statement Wednesday morning, Jeanne Woodford, the official proponent of the campaign backing Prop 34 and the former warden at San Quentin State Prison – where she oversaw four executions – said, “While we are disappointed by this narrow loss, the conversation on the death penalty in California has changed forever. For the first time ever, millions of voters know that

the death penalty is exorbitantly costly, and that it costs far more than a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.” Voters passed Proposition 35, which increases criminal penalties for human trafficking, by a vote of 81.1 percent to 18.9 percent, according to unofficial tallies. The measure, which was drafted in part by former Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly, increases penalties for human trafficking.

Critics have contended that Prop 35 has the potential to target innocent parties, among other concerns. Proposition 36 revises the state’s three strikes law to impose life sentences only when new felony convictions are serious or violent. As of Wednesday morning, that measure was passing 68.6 percent to 31.4 percent. State voters also approved Propositions 39 and 40, which are related to a business tax for energy fund-

ing and state Senate redistricting, respectively. They rejected Proposition 31, which would have established a two-year budget cycle; Proposition 33, which would have allowed insurance companies to set prices based on whether the driver previously carried auto insurance with any insurance company; Proposition 37, which was related to labeling genetically engineered foods; and Proposition 38, an education tax.▼

of the youth members who has been affected by outLoud. He is part of the intergenerational storytelling project, a three-month program that brings together LGBTQ elders and youth to swap queer stories with each other and share them on air. “OutLoud gives LGBTQ youth and older people a voice that sometimes we don’t have,” said Thompkins-Michael. “It’s life changing and humbling to listen to someone else’s story. It makes you appreciate your life, the things that you have.” Cedar Lay, a 20-year-old gay participant, echoed ThompkinsMichael’s sentiment. Lay was kicked

out of his Pennsylvania home in early 2012 for being gay. He relocated to San Francisco four months ago after spending six months on the streets in Atlanta. “When you’re homeless you think you don’t matter,” Lay said. “You don’t have a voice. It’s awesome that outLoud Radio gives us a chance to use our voices and to learn from other voices, too. I feel more powerful because of outLoud.” Youth from all over the Bay Area have joined the ranks of outLoud. Once enrolled in a program, participants have the opportunity to earn stipends through their internship

work. OutLoud Radio is sponsored by Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center but is funded by individual donations with help from the Horizons Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation. This year, outLoud hopes to function within a budget of $80,000, Miller said. Within the next 10 years, Miller hopes to secure a designated space for the organization, expand programming and audience, and strengthen partnerships with local media platforms and radio stations like StoryCorps, the Public Radio Exchange, and KQED.

“My dream for us is to one day have our own studios,” Miller said. “Also, I see us as working with more youth, reaching more people through the Internet, shifting our focus from teaching young people the technical skills of media production to thinking about how to craft a story that will engage and move people through podcasts and YouTube, changing more hearts and minds.” Tickets for next week’s event are $25 general admission or $100 for a VIP reception and can be purchased online by visiting gala.outloudradio.org/.▼

not issue a statement Tuesday night. In his victory speech in Chicago late Tuesday night, Obama said that most Americans hope the country is a place that provides good education, a strong economy, and, among other things, a country that “isn’t weakened by inequality.” He also paid homage to the “diversity” of Americans. Obama said he does not believe the country is as divided as pundits suggest, and that it doesn’t matter who you are, including whether you are “gay or straight,” “you can make it here in America, if you’re willing to try.” The apparently heavy turnout of Democrats for Obama seemed to have paid off for LGBT candidates and ballot measures, with prosame-sex marriage ballot measures passing in Maine and Maryland, and the unprecedented defeat of a proposed ban on same-sex marriage in Minnesota. A marriage equality referendum in Washington state also looked like it would pass Wednesday. Obama’s victory in Wisconsin also apparently helped propel Representative Tammy Baldwin to a historic win as the first openly gay person elected to the U.S. Senate. Baldwin’s election also was reason to celebrate, said gay San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener.

New OutServe-SLDN director in SF Allyson Robinson, the new executive director of OutServe-SLDN, will be the special guest at a reception and fundraiser Tuesday, November 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. Robinson, a transgender woman, was named to the post last month. OutServe-SLDN is the new name for the organization, which is a merger between OutServe and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Robinson, 42, is a former Army officer. She said last month that among her top priorities would be the fight for full equality for all. While LGB service members can serve openly, transgender military service is still prohibited. Organizers of the local reception include retired Navy Commander Zoe Dunning, retired Navy Captain Bob Dockendorff, Julian Chang and Wade Estey. Individual tickets start at $100 and can be purchased online at www.sldn.org/ (click on “Upcoming Events”).

DIFFA’s Dining by Design hits SF Design

Industries

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President Barack Obama greeted former President Bill Clinton at one of his last campaign stops in Bristow, Virginia November 3.

“It is amazing. Just the fact we are sending a lesbian to the U.S. Senate is beyond amazing. With Tammy Baldwin and Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts in the Senate, take that. Mitch O’Connell,” Wiener told the B.A.R. as he was leaving the Castro party, referring to the Republican Senate minority leader from Kentucky. While Romney did not make same-sex marriage a prominent issue in his campaign, he and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan

made indirect attacks against Obama over his support for marriage equality in particular. Ryan, in a conference call sponsored by the National Journal with right-wing activist Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition on Sunday, November 4, said Obama was taking the country down a path that “compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian values, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation

Fights AIDS, or DIFFA, is back with its Dining by Design national tour, which will be in San Francisco November 14-15. The event is an unforgettable dining experience that brings together interior designers, architects, and other creative types to create over-the-top installations. This year’s local event, the last of the season and the only West Coast stop, features a portable street dining unit, or PSDU. The EDG firm is behind the plan, which will put a “street food spin on dining out,” according to CEO Jenifer Johanson. Dining by Design benefits DIFFA and the Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital. There are two events people can attend. The first is the table hop and taste party on Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m. It is a preview party with table viewing, silent auction, hosted bar, and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are $100 online (www.diffasf.org) or $125 at the door. Next Thursday is the main event, the gala dinner. A reception and silent auction begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 8. Tables start at $5,000; limited individual seats are offered at $500. Both parties will be held at the Galleria, San Francisco Design Center, 101 Henry Adams Street.

Lyon-Martin wants you to Dazzle Lyon-Martin Health Services wants people to celebrate the clinic’s transformation and support its programs by attending Dazzle, a gala that is taking place Thursday, November 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Guerrero Gallery, 2700 19th Street in San Francisco. The clinic, which primarily serves uninsured women and transgender patients, is in the process of recovering from its financial meltdown in January 2011. Significant progress has been made since then, and the clinic remains open and serving its clients. Dazzle will be an evening of music, off the grid food trucks, fabulous cocktails, and inspiring stories from patients. Tickets start at $75 and can be purchased online by visiting www.lyonmartin.org.

Help Tessie for turkey day With just two weeks until Thanksgiving, Tenderloin Tessie, which is planning its annual holiday dinner for those in need on November 22, is now accepting offers of help from community members in order to make the event a success. Michael Gagne, president of the

in the first place.” A Romney campaign robo-call in Virginia also attacked Obama on religious values. (Obama ended up winning the state.) And another robo-call, released last Thursday, warned “President Obama used his health care plan to declare war on religion, forcing religious institutions to go against their faith.” Early returns suggested that heavily gay sections of key states, including Ohio, may have played a role in Obama’s eventual win in the Electoral College. At press time, Obama was leading in both the popular vote and electoral vote. And early exit poll results published by the New York Times indicated that 76 percent of voters who identified as gay voted for Obama – a percentage that matches most previous election data historically. The popular vote, at press time, stood at 60 million for Obama and 57.3 million for Romney. The electoral vote was 303 for President Obama and 206 for Romney. (To win, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes, regardless of the popular vote outcome nationally.) As of Wednesday, Florida was the only state that was still too close to call.▼ Matthew S. Bajko and Cynthia Laird contributed to this report.

Tenderloin Tessie board, sent out an email last week explaining the situation, which is similar to last year. The volunteer organization lost the kitchen it used to cook the turkeys two years ago. Gagne is hoping that someone knows of a hotel or commercial kitchen that could help out this year, as about 50 16-pound turkeys need to be cooked a day or two before Thanksgiving. Another option, Gagne said, would be for Tessie volunteers to go into a place that has a commercial kitchen and cook the turkeys. The third option, which Gagne hopes to avoid, is having individual people cook a turkey or two and drop them off Thanksgiving morning. For the actual dinner, to be held at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary) from 1 to 4 p.m., Gagne said that volunteers are needed for several shifts, including loading and unloading supplies (10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and making stuffing (4 to 8 p.m.) on November 21; set-up, decorate (9 a.m. to noon), help with the dinner (noon to 4 p.m.) and clean up on November 22. Those interested in helping out should contact Gagne at tenderlointessiedinners@yahoo.com and indicate which day and shift they are available. Gagne needs your full name and a phone number.▼

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Election 2012 >>

Candidates

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Party Chair Harmeet K. Dhillon for the new 11th Senate District, which now covers the entire city. Leno won with 217,474 votes or 84.5 percent, according to the unofficial tally. Gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) also easily won a third and final term in the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lower chamber. He received 116,623 votes or 86.1 percent, while his GOP opponent, gay lawyer Jason Clark, received 18,855 votes or 13.9 percent. On the Peninsula gay state Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) sailed to victory in the newly drawn 24th Assembly District. He easily defeated his GOP challenger, Chengzhi â&#x20AC;&#x153;Georgeâ&#x20AC;? Yang, with 81,615 votes or 70 percent. Gay Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) claimed a final third term representing Assembly District 53 with 82.7 percent of the vote Tuesday. Assemblyman Ricardo Lara (DBell Gardens) ran unopposed for the

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newly drawn Senate District 33 seat. And Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) defeated gay GOPer Ralph Denney in the race for the 78th Assembly District seat. She secured a second term with 80,763 votes or 61.7 percent, while Denney earned 50,142 votes or 38.3 percent.

Other races In other legislative races, LGBT ally Phil Ting, San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assessorrecorder, beat back a challenge from Michael Breyer, the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, to win the Assembly District 19 seat. Ting had 66,191 votes or 58 percent, based on the unofficial tally, whereas Breyer had 47,857 votes or 42 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel great. I feel I ran a campaign talking to San Franciscans about the issues they care most about,â&#x20AC;? said Ting, who stopped by the Castro Tuesday night to address the throngs gathered in front of the Castro Theatre to watch election returns. In Sacramento Andy Pugno, one of the architects behind Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban against same-sex marriage known as Prop 8, lost badly in his

Historic wins

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End of long losing streak For LGBT rights activists and same-sex marriage advocates, the likely four-state sweep ends a ballot measure losing streak in 32 states. Victory in Maine was a reversal of fortunes. Three years ago, Mainers overturned a same-sex marriage law that had been passed by the Legislature and signed into law by thenGovernor John Baldacci. Just as having lead time for conversations with voters and the financial resources for a sustained campaign make all the difference, taking matters of faith seriously also provided an essential ingredient of a winning strategy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had 250,000 conversations with Mainers and expect a turnout of 750,000. Do the math,â&#x20AC;? said McTighe in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were everywhere in the state because we had more time to go out and have those conversations.â&#x20AC;? Mainers United also started running ads in early July and kept them on the air, both television and radio, all the way to Election Day. The ads, said McTighe, were the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;amazing and powerful ads our movement has put together, telling powerful, honest stories from real life Mainers about why marriage matters.â&#x20AC;? Altogether, social media networking, phone banking, face-to-face conversations, canvassing neighborhoods, and door-knocking enabled Mainers to connect their personal experiences of marriage and family with those of same-sex couples who seek to make the same kind of lifetime commitment. Mainers United also raised more than $3.4 million for a sustained campaign. Unlike 2009, Question 1 was placed on the ballot by marriage equality advocates. And this time, they also included a faith and religion component in the campaign strategy and collaborated with independent faith coalitions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 2009 campaign was basically a secular campaign,â&#x20AC;? said the Revered Marvin Ellison, president of the Religious Coalition Against Discrimination, one viewing â&#x20AC;&#x153;support for marriage as a basic civil right for all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When RCAD showed up [in 2009], the campaign was grateful but did not know what to do with us,â&#x20AC;? Ellison said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This time around the campaign understood from the beginning that religion would be a decisive factor.â&#x20AC;? The campaign early on decided to tackle the religious issue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While religion would fuel the opposition, it would also provide

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Maryland Governor Martin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malley spoke to the crowd at the Question 6 party Tuesday night; voters there passed the same-sex marriage measure.

the energy and perspective to support marriage equality,â&#x20AC;? Ellison explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of avoiding religion the campaign wisely had learned to draw upon it and rely on the partnership and support coming from the faith community.â&#x20AC;? Organization also helped. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were much more organized, better staffed, more visible and vocalâ&#x20AC;? too, said Ellison, â&#x20AC;&#x153;encouraging people to do the grassroots conversations and holding educational forums.â&#x20AC;? RCAD is a statewide, multi-denominational organization of clergy and faith leaders.

The opposition It was not surprising that opposition came from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. Bishop Richard J. Malone released a pastoral letter late in October, urging the faithful â&#x20AC;&#x153;to vote your faith,â&#x20AC;? adding â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any Catholic who supports a redefinition of marriage â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or so-called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;same-sex marriageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is unfaithful to Catholic doctrine.â&#x20AC;? But Catholics for Marriage Equality had a message of its own, taking out quarter-page and halfpage ads in all five of Maineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major newspapers on the two consecutive Sundays before the election. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two people of the same sex can and do fall in love, feel deeply the natural human impulse toward lifelong commitment, nurture children steadfastly, and yearn for the societal recognition of their commitment,â&#x20AC;? nearly 200 signatories stated in their advertisements, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This truth does not dishonor marriage, it reveres it.â&#x20AC;? Catholics for Marriage Equality held conversations among the faith-

bid for the Assembly District 6 seat. Pugno had 42,673 votes or 30.9 percent, while his GOP opponent, Assemblywoman Beth Gaines (RRocklin) crushed him with 95,351 votes or 69.1 percent. Lastly, in the race for the fiercely fought over Assembly District 50 seat, which encompasses the gay enclave of West Hollywood, the two straight Democratic candidates are awaiting to see who will be the winner as the tally is too close to call. Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom held a slight edge as of Wednesday morning, with 69,280 votes or 50.1 percent, against Assemblywoman Betsy Butler (D-Marina Del Ray), who had 69,062 votes or 49.9 percent. Should Butler be defeated, it will be a consolation of sorts for supporters of Torie Osborne, a lesbian who lives in Santa Monica who was defeated in the June primary. Osborne and her backers had decried Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to move into the district, which they had argued should be held by an out candidate who lives within its boundaries.â&#x2013;ź

ful, too. Members held discussions about â&#x20AC;&#x153;love, commitment, family values,â&#x20AC;? said Cynthia Murray-Beliveau, a board member. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t argue with what the bishop said,â&#x20AC;? she explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came to much more of an understanding with many people of what family values truly are.â&#x20AC;? Apparently, those efforts paid off. Unofficial results show that in the localities of Augusta, Biddeford, and Lewiston, same-sex marriage gained ground from three years ago. In fact, marriage equality won by more than 1,000 votes in Biddeford, both heavily Catholic and Franco-American. Catholic University junior Ryan Fecteau, a Biddeford native who logged more than 200 days with the campaign, explained, in speaking with voters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stressed the importance of being Catholic and supporting marriage equality were not mutually exclusive.â&#x20AC;? In the cases of Franco-American voters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I handed the phone to a volunteer who spoke French,â&#x20AC;? Fecteau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be persuading people who would probably not have been persuaded if there had not been a French-speaking person in the room.â&#x20AC;? Overall, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No matter how you do the math, more than half of Maineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholics had to have voted â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;yes,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Anne Underwood, co-founder of Catholics for Marriage Equality. Matters of faith played out in Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The win for marriage equality in all four states is a clear faith victory,â&#x20AC;? said Sharon Groves, director of religion and faith program for the Human Rights Campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The growing edge,â&#x20AC;? added Groves, who worked with all four campaigns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is how to work with diverse faith communities in culturally competent ways.â&#x20AC;? The outcomes of the four marriage equality ballot battles Tuesday will likely influence the U.S. Supreme Court, which is set to decide November 20 if it will hear several cases dealing with anti-gay marriage laws. One is an appeal seeking to overturn federal court rulings that Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on same-sex marriage known as Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, the Supreme Court justices pay attention to elections. It is clear there has been a tectonic shift in public sentiment on issues of marriage equality,â&#x20AC;? said Alice Kessler, Equality Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislative advocate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The outcome of those four state ballot measures, I believe, will bode well for our litigation in California.â&#x20AC;?â&#x2013;ź Matthew S. Bajko contributed to this report.

Legal Notices>> SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF EBART VEHICLES BACKGROUND The eBART Project will introduce a new rail passenger service between the existing Pittsburg/ Bay Point BART Station and a new station in the City of Antioch. The eBART Project will use independently propelled railcars known as Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) that operate on a standard gauge railguideway to be constructed and owned by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (â&#x20AC;&#x153;BARTâ&#x20AC;? or the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Districtâ&#x20AC;?). The guideway will be on an exclusive right-of-way located in the median of State Route 4 (SR4) for the exclusive use of eBART. The eBART Project is subject to regulation by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and is subject to other regulations, standards, and codes as indicated but is not subject to regulation by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed Proposals will be received until the hour of 2:00 S P 7XHVGD\ )HEUXDU\ DW WKH 'LVWULFW 6HFUHWDU\ÂˇV 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH UG )ORRU /DNHVLGH Drive, Oakland, California 94612 (mailing address: P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, California, 94604-2688) for the Procurement of eBART Vehicles, Request for Proposals (â&#x20AC;&#x153;RFPâ&#x20AC;?) No. 04SF-140. Such Proposals will thereafter be accepted or rejected by the District. The Proposers DUH UHVSRQVLEOH WR HQVXUH WKHLU 3URSRVDOV DUH UHFHLYHG DW WKH WLPH DQG ORFDWLRQ VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;HG 7KLV procurement will be based on competitive negotiation procedures as provided in California Public Contract Code Section 20229.1. This Contract is subject to the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Small Business (SB) Program that includes a preference for Proposers who meet or exceed the SB Subsupplier participation goal of 1% of their Total Base Order Proposal Price excluding Allowances and Option Proposal Items, established for this Contract. Proposers that meet or exceed the SB Subsupplier participation goal will be eligible for a preference in their price in an amount equal to 3% of the lowest Total Base Order Proposal Price received from a responsive, responsible Proposer, up to a maximum of $1 million, only for the purpose of evaluation anddetermining Award of the Contract. If the District should issue a Request for Best and Final Offers (BAFOs), the District will reevaluate the eligibility of the Proposers for the SB preference and will recalculate the amount of the SB preference based on the BAFOs. However, the actual Contract awarded will be for the amount of the initial Proposal or the negotiated BAFO, as applicable.Proposers that do not meet the SB Subsupplier participation goal will not be eligible for the preference. Proposerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention is directed to the Instructions to Proposers, Paragraphs 7.B.5 and 16.A.4 and Supplementary Conditions Article SC7.5 that more fully describe the terms of the Small Business Program. Inquiries regarding the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Small Business Program shall be directed to the 'LVWULFWÂˇV 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH RI &LYLO 5LJKWV /DNHVLGH 'ULYH WK )ORRU 2DNODQG &$ 7HOHSKRQH at (510) 464-6100, or to BARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Website at: www.bart.gov/ocr . The time for receipt of Proposals may be extended by the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s General Manager, or authorized representative, from the above-stated Proposal due date. 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Each Proposal shall be submitted on the prescribed Proposal Forms and shall be for the entire Contract including all Proposal Items. The District may reject any and all Proposals. $OO ZRUN VKDOO EH SHUIRUPHG LQ DFFRUGDQFH ZLWK WKH /DZV RI WKH 6WDWH RI &DOLIRUQLD Special attention is directed to General Conditions Article P7.11 outlining the Supplierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UHVSRQVLELOLWLHV IRU DIĂ&#x20AC;UPDWLYH DFWLRQ UHODWLQJ WR )DLU (PSOR\PHQW 3UDFWLFHV 7KH 'LVWULFW KHUHE\ QRWLĂ&#x20AC;HV DOO 3URSRVHUV WKDW LW LV WKH SROLF\ RI WKH 6DQ )UDQFLVFR %D\ $UHD Rapid Transit District to ensure that Suppliers who contract with the District do not discriminate or give a preference in the award of Subcontracts on the basis of race, national origin, color, ethnicity, or gender. Proposerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention is directed to the Supplementary Conditions which set forth the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NonDiscrimination Program for Subcontracting for this Contract. Inquiries regarding only the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1RQ 'LVFULPLQDWLRQ 3URJUDP IRU 6XEFRQWUDFWLQJ VKDOO EH GLUHFWHG WR WKH 'LVWULFWÂˇV 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH RI &LYLO 5LJKWV DW /DNHVLGH 'ULYH WK )ORRU 2DNODQG &$ RU WHOHSKRQH Proposerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention is directed to the Instructions to Proposers Paragraph 7.B.6 entitled &HUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ 5HJDUGLQJ )LQDQFLDO &RQWULEXWLRQV 7KLV 6HFWLRQ GHWDLOV WKH 3URSRVHUÂˇV UHVSRQVLELOLW\ IRU FRPSO\LQJ ZLWK %$57 %RDUG RI 'LUHFWRUÂˇV 5XOH UHJDUGLQJ Ă&#x20AC;QDQFLDO FRQWULEXWLRQ OLPLWDWLRQV Proposerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention is directed to General Conditions Article P9.3.1 which permits the substitution of securities by Supplier for any monies retained by the District to insure performance under this Contract. 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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC12-548999 In the matter of the application of: JOANNA LEA SWYERS for change of name having been ďŹ led in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOANNA LEA SWYERS is requesting that the name JOANNA LEA SWYERS be changed to JOANNA LEA ELLSWORTH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 6th of December 2012 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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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-034644800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSTA, 931 Steiner St., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Brian S. Haight. 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 10/12/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-034666000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAKE COQUETTE, 1501 Cortland Ave., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Gabrielle Feuersinger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 10/17/07. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/12.

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NOV 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034652100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TWINKYCLEAN; MODEL MAIDS, 33 Higuera Ave., SF, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Eric Michael Moren. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/12.

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Legal Notices>> SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for Language Translation and Interpretation, Request for Proposal No. 6M5033, on or about November 1, 2012, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, December 11, 2012. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to provide in-person interpretation services and document translation services. The objective of this solicitation is to provide continuously available services from an experienced and qualified firm. The District presently intends to enter into a three-year Agreement with two one-year options with the CONTRACTOR selected. A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 20, 2012. The PreProposal Meeting will convene at 10:00 a.m., local time, at BART Offices located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor – Main Conference Room #1700, Oakland, CA. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting the District’s Disadvantaged Business Program will be explained. All questions regarding DBE/ WBE participation should be directed to Cindy Chan, Office of Civil Rights at (510)464-6574 – FAX (510) 464-6324. Prospective Proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District’s Contract Administrator, telephone (510) 464-6543, prior to the date of the PreProposal Meeting. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after November 1, 2012) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: A PDF version of the RFP will be sent to all firms on the Interested Parties List at time of advertisement; or (1) By E-mail request to the District’s Contract Administrator, Aminta Maynard, at amaynar@bart.gov (2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District’s Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6543 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By attending the Pre-proposal Meeting and obtaining the RFP at the meeting. Dated at Oakland, California this 29th day of October, 2012. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 11/8/12 • CNS-2401682# BAY AREA REPORTER

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034638400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEAH GOLDSTEIN PUBLIC RELATIONS, 1630 Sacramento St. #4, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Leah Goldstein. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034636700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COMMUNITY LENDING NETWORK, 1 Sansome St. #3500, SF, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Mark Richard Moonier. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034639900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 79, 707 Sutter St., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed June Sun Park. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034642700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J + H LIMO SERVICES, 1435 5th Ave., Oakland, CA 94606. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Hung Huynh. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/11/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034651800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BIG AL’S ADULT BOOK STORE, 556 Broadway St., SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Khaldoun Al-Salti. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/12.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN RULE PLUMBING, 285 Justin Dr., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Dennis Gilchrist. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/05/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/12.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WC GALLERIES; WC SOLUTIONS, 2166 44th Ave., SF, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Andrew Nunez Agliata. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/12.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARLA BAKERY, 710 42nd Ave., SF, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Amy Marietta Brown. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/12.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ILIMO, 2383 26th Ave., SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Ismail Ezzikhe. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/12.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EM CAFE, 2407 Ocean Ave., SF, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Young Wang, Zhen Xing Deng, Chong Tseng & Shao Lun Zhang. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/26/12.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THREE BEES NURSERY; TRIPLE BK LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 1921 Clement St., SF, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed Three Bees Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034636400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CUP & CAKE CAFE, 2 Beach St., SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed E&Y Enterprises LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034613800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRIDGE AHEAD; TRU PERSONA; REQUEST QUOTES; THE HOME PROJECT; 1819 Polk St. #477, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed The Bridge Ahead LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034632000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA CHAVELA, 661-663 Divisadero St., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Latin Hospitality Group, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-548998 In the matter of the application of: CHELSEA ANN DEMING for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHELSEA ANN DEMING is requesting that the name CHELSEA ANN DEMING be changed to CHELSEA DEMING ELLSWORTH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 6th of December 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034641500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AVENS INTERNATIONAL, 100 Rae Ave., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Kolja Rodici. 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 10/11/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034650300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF HOLISTIC HEALTH; CASTRO HOLISTIC HEALTH CENTER, 2191 Market St. #D, SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Rachele Ferraro. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/01. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/12.

OCT 18, 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 10/09/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SUZANNE NGAYING LO. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 6928 Geary Blvd., SF, CA 94121-1621. Type of license applied for

21 – OFF-SALE GENERAL OCT 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 10/15/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: LAMDUAN SOMCHIT. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 121 W 25th Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403-2259. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE OCT 25, NOV 1, 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034656000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOMA APPS, 550 S Van Ness Ave. #205, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Dwayne A. Ratleff. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/12/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/12.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GARCIA DESIGN STUDIO, 647 Connecticut St. #2, SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Garcia Studio, Architects Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/13/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/12.

OCT 25, NOV 1, 8, 15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034610300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRESTIGE LIMOUSINE, 350 Bay St. #100-73, SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Prestige Limousine, Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/29/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/12.

OCT 25, NOV 1, 8, 15, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034639800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER’S, 133 2nd St., SF, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ER Partners, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/12.

OCT 25, NOV 1, 8, 15, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 10/23/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: F M SMOKES AND WINES INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 57 New Montgomery St., SF, CA 94105-3438. Type of license applied for

21 - OFF-SALE GENERAL NOV 1, 8, 15, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 10/26/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: BRAINWASH INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1122 Folsom St., SF, CA 94103-3928. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE NOV 1, 8, 15, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-549017 In the matter of the application of: PAULINA MARIE OLAYA SMITH for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner PAULINA MARIE OLAYA SMITH is requesting that the name PAULINA MARIE OLAYA SMITH be changed to MASON JAIRO SMITH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 13th of December 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-549067 In the matter of the application of: AMY LYNN HARPER for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner AMY LYNN HARPER, is requesting that the name AMY LYNN HARPER, be changed to TOBI AMY- LYNN HARPER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 8th of January 2013 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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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AP AUTO SERVICE, 3501 Geary Blvd., SF, CA 94118-3212. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Aung Shwe Maung. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/29/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-548822 In the matter of the application of: TANYA B. BERNSTEIN for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TANYA B. BERNSTEIN is requesting that the name TANYA B. BERNSTEIN be changed to TANYA KAMINSKY BERNSTEIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 17th of January 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034666200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POST STREET DEVELOPMENT, 1355 Post St., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Anne Molloy. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034673600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BIGPAULYFILMS, 8 Sala Tr., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Paul Harper. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034668100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COMPASS FOR FAMILIES, 3611 California St. #202, SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Lorenza Arnal. 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 10/22/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034686000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL CALAMAR, 428 11th St., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Juan C. Gonzales. 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 10/30/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 notice of application FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF alcoholic beverage LICENSE Dated 11/01/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ATTHAPON INKHONG. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 312 Divisadero St., SF, CA 94117. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE NOV 8, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034681000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF CITY IMPACT HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER, 140 Turk St., SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Clint Ladine. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/26/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/26/12.

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NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034643100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENTERTAINMENT DESIGNER, 2690 Filbert St., SF, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed The Evan Bailyn Foundation LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/12.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034699100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BULLION ONE, 130 Clement St., SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JD Bullion Exchange LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/05/12.

NOV 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034693100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUSEYIN OZYOL LIMO, 229 Font Blvd., SF, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Huseyin Ozyol. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/02/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/02/12.

NOV 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034699900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOCUSED LIVING COACHING, 2043 Fulton St., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Maureen Gammon. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/05/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/05/12.

NOV 8, 15, 22, 29, 2012 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name FILE A-033757700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: POST STREET DEVELOPMENT, 1355 Post St., SF, CA 94109. This business was conducted by a husband & wife and signed by Patrick Molloy & Anne Molloy. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/11.

NOV 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012 notice of application FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF alcoholic beverage LICENSE Dated 10/25/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: DAUNELL AND HIGGINS INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2323 Market St., SF, CA 94114-1617. Type of license applied for

42 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE – PUBLIC PREMISES NOV 8, 2012 notice of application FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF alcoholic beverage LICENSE Dated 10/31/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: JISHYAT LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 4737 Geary Blvd., SF, CA 94118-2908. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE NOV 8, 2012 notice of application FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF alcoholic beverage LICENSE Dated 11/01/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ATTHAPON INKHONG. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 312 Divisadero St., SF, CA 94117. Type of license applied for

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Natalie Wood, in spirit at the Castro Natalie Wood: the last great movie star?

Broadway veteran Tommy Tune will introduce his new cabaret show Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room on Nov. 11.

by Richard Dodds

ommy Tune has nine Tony Awards for his work on Broadway as a director, choreographer, and performer; he was in two big-screen movie musicals, including Hello, Dolly!; he has been on television dozens of times; and he has toured extensively with his theatrical revues featuring backup dancers and an orchestra. What he has never done, but will do in San Francisco for the first time, is appear

as a solo performer on a cabaret stage. “It’s going to be a really different experience for me,” Tune, 73, said about his Nov. 11 appearance at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room that is part of the Bay Area Cabaret season. “In a theater, I am here and you are there, and we have footlights between us, and I’m reaching across the footlights hoping to pull you to me. Now it will be an intimate dance between the performer and the audience, because See page 26 >>

by David-Elijah Nahmod

he Castro Theater will celebrate the legend of Natalie Wood on Nov. 9-11. Wood (1938-81) was one of only a handful of child stars who successfully transitioned into adult roles. Showing a versatility that not many actors had, she received three Oscar nominations by the time she was 25. She was one of the greatest beauties the film industry has ever seen. Her beauty was natural. She was as riv-

eting to behold off-screen sans makeup as she was in any of her films. Looking back on her career, it’s impressive to realize how many bona fide classics appear on her resume. She may also have been the first Hollywood star to publicly support LGBT people. Her friendship with the openly gay playwright Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band) is recounted in the recent documentary Making the Boys. Wood mentored the aspiring young See page 20 >>

Jay DeFeo’s sensual repertoire by Sura Wood

Jay DeFeo working on The Rose (1960), photo by Burt Glinn.

ay DeFeo’s art is a perfect balance of the heart and the mind, a sublime integration that gives her work its power and that’s on voluptuous display in the first major career retrospective of this beloved Bay Area artist. Fleshing out her personal and artistic biography, the strong suit of the new exhibition, which opened last week at SFMOMA, is its fresh consideration of DeFeo’s sensual repertoire, dating from the 1950s through the final group of small, square, oil-on-linen paintings she completed in 1989, shortly before her death at age 60 from lung cancer. Even though DeFeo was an established, highly regarded figure in the art world, and had enjoyed commercial success since the 1980s, she was a woman, a biological fact that helps explain but doesn’t justify

why a much-deserved overview like this current one has been so long in coming. Well, it was worth the wait. The 130 works on view range from sculptural paper collages, jewelry pieces and her experiments in photography to awe-inducing, gigantic canvases that marry sculpture and painting. Many of the latter read as three-dimensional with their molded, copious layers of paint – as much as a foot thick in some areas on a given canvas – that she would scrape with a palette knife and reapply in a labor-intensive process of building up and breaking down her materials, often while she was perched on a ladder. Charting her own course, she went full-in for the long haul on single projects that could take years – it appears the world went away for

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DeFeo when she was in her studio. Partial to oils, she temporarily switched to acrylic for health reasons; it was an allegiance that didn’t last. Making subtle connections between seemingly disparate mediums and an unrepentant dynamism may describe her approach, but even in the relatively twodimensional realm of photography, the operative word is texture, and then some. “Incision” (1958-60), for example, is a primal eruption of grays and swirling dense mounds of lava-like blacks that resemble fired ceramics and are anchored by strings underneath the paint; the effect induces an uncanny sensation of disembarking on a planet in the throes of evolution, perhaps See page 18 >>

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Lovely creatures by Roberto Friedman

fter all the tumult of recent days – the SF Giants sweep, Halloweenie, Sandy the Superstorm, Pres. Obama’s Herculean efforts to keep the Greedy One Percent (GOP) at bay – Out There is all verklempt. But here are a quick five items to divert and amuse us. 1. Hotness abounds. The second Barihunks calendar has just been released, featuring over a dozen of the sexiest men singing in opera today. The Barihunks (www. barihunks.blogspot.com) site pro-

motes baritones or basses known for having both great voices and the beefcake goods. Combining “baritone” and “hunk,” the term is believed to have been coined by director Francesca Zambello to describe a performance by baritone Nathan Gunn in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. Singers featured in the calendar include Duncan Rock, Dan Kempson, Christopher Temporelli, Craig Verm, David Adam

Moore, Justin Hopkins, Jonathan Estabrooks, Michael Mayes, Michael Hewitt, Xavier Edgardo, Charles Rice, Michael Adams, Peter Brathwaite, Randal Turner, and Zachary Gordin. All proceeds will be donated to young artist programs. 2. Coming up! Scrooge & Marley, a modern-day film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol featuring the first-ever gay Scrooge, is coming to SF’s Castro Theatre on Sun., Dec. 16. Acclaimed out actor David Pevsner portrays Scrooge, former Saturday Night Live star Tim Kazurinsky plays the Ghost of Jacob Marley, and six-time Emmy Award-winner Bruce Vilanch appears as Fezziwig. Fezziwho? Lesbian actress Megan Cavanagh and emerging gay actors Ronnie Kroell and David Moretti also star. Tony Award-winning actress Judith Light narrates the story. You can see the film’s trailer online at www.youtube. com/watch?v=nO3GBqxO_Xw. 3. Show/Off, a drag variety show starring Pristine Condition and DJ Dank, will have its premiere taping at the Box Factory, 865 Florida St., SF, on Thurs., Nov. 8. The monthly show will feature performers from the SF underground scene. Comedian Andrew Roberts and drag queen Pippi Lovestocking warm up the audience at 9 p.m., then the taping’s at 10 p.m. This month’s guests include Mama Dora, Jada D’Angelo, Ferosha Titties, Maria Konner, Miss Prick, Missy Thelioma, Bearonce Growles, Natasha Muse, and Birdie Bob Watt. Suggested donation is $5. The best performances of the night will be posted on www.underthegoldengate.com. 4. RIP Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti, 84, one of the few prominent women architects of post-

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our own in a prehistoric era. DeFeo, who was Catholic, was clearly transported by Renaissance art, and her exposure to the ubiquitous depictions of angels she saw in Florence during the early 1950s in-

Baritone Dan Kempson with (and without) his Barihunks T-shirt.

war years. Best-known for converting the 1900 Beaux Arts Gare d’Orsay train station in Paris into the Musée d’Orsay, Aulenti also converted SF’s old Main Library into the Asian Art Museum. Thank you, Ms. Aulenti, for keeping that Beaux Arts building’s spectacular grand staircase intact (memo to SFMOMA). 5. OT was in the opening-night audience last Saturday for the returning Lion King at the Orpheum Theatre. Julie Taymor’s genius animal costumes and the cast’s inspired characterizations still amaze

in this Disney classic. Afterward we hoofed it hyena-style to the Rrazz Room after-party for soul food and sparkling wine. Several samplings of gently candied yams later (managing to avoid the cake pops!) we found ourselves straining the seams of our compression garments dancing to beats laid down by KBLX DJs. Surrounded by limber, lithesome cast members, plus-one Pepi was inspired to ever-more elaborate dance steps until the inevitable occurred. Crestfallen, he confided, “I think I split my Spanx!”▼

formed many works, including “The Annunciation” (1957/59), a 10’ x 6’ oil of angel’s wings whose delicate feathers coalesce in an aura of celestial beauty. Star shapes, wings and cruciform motifs surface throughout her four-decade career. Her soaring, tactile paintings from the 1950s and 60s are filled with religious fervor, a reverence for the divine and proportion. Their inspirational iconography is abstract and impressionistic, as opposed to figurative and literal. “The Rose” (1958-66), DeFeo’s most storied work, will be the reason many will make a pilgrimage to the museum, and it’s worth the price of admission. For some, the experience is akin to going to Lourdes, and could prove more salutary. A towering, immense, textural painting as imposing as a religious relic, its forms, rippling out from a central starburst, emerge from the canvas in a bas-relief like an excavated archaeological find or a cryptic message from a distant civilization. It’s a stunner. Not surprisingly, a legend grew up around the painting. Though it’s revealing to see it in the context of a comprehensive exhibition, it’s in a class by itself, and handsomely installed accordingly, flanked by slate-gray platforms and lit from the sides. Weighing in at almost two tons and morphing through several

different titles over the eight years it took DeFeo to finish it, “The Rose” nearly obscured the entire frame of a bay window in the spacious Fillmore Street apartment and studio where she painted it. When she was forced to leave in 1965, a hole had to be punched in the wall and a forklift used to extract it. Before leaving, she removed the torn pieces of painted paper she had stored under her bed for many years. She sprayed the salvaged fragments with fixative to seal in the dust and dirt, singeing the matted papers, and then pressed them onto a trio of panels for “Tuxedo Junction” (1965-74), a piece named after a Glenn Miller composition. They recall the infamous burned-paper series John Cage produced a decade later. In the 1970s, encouraged to make photo-collages by assemblage wizard Bruce Conner, she began photographing items close to home such as vacuum cleaners, dismembered mannequins, an obsolete telephone, and her dental bridge. My favorite is “R. Mutt,” a pair of images she shot of the crumbling plaster cast removed from her dog’s leg, elevating its stature to that of a lost relic. Despite deteriorating health in the last year of her life, DeFeo made modestly scaled, poignant paintings whose subjects merge with their backgrounds: a dying bird yielding to mortality, mountain peaks obscured by fog and darkness. Her final work, “Last Valentine,” a butterfly wing receding into the creamy ether, is a postcard from the edge. Fade Out. Farewell.▼

On the web This week, find Philip Campbell’s review of Yuja Wang and Lang Lang with the San Francisco Symphony, and Victoria A. Brownworth’s Lavender Tube column online at ebar.com.

Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, at SFMOMA through Feb. 3.

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Drama queens by Richard Dodds

ophocles, it is said in one account, died of happiness after winning a final playwriting competition at the Dionysia – the ancient Athenian version of the Tonys. The story is one of several likely apocryphal renderings of Sophocles’ death, but by all accounts, he lived a long and productive life. That did not translate into the subject matter of his seven surviving plays, which all center around murder and suicide. While the Athenian theater did have comic playwrights, with Aristophanes the best remembered, tragedy, and its resultant catharsis, was the prestige dramatic format of its day. Elektra fits firmly into the pattern, while also reflecting some of Sophocles’ theatrical innovations that helped change the trajectory of Western theater. Director Carey Perloff ’s current production of Elektra at ACT amplifies on the innovations while preserving its mournful, vengeful soul. It’s as fine a representation of the Greek tragedians as you’re likely to find ’round these parts. That does not mean it can’t lose its grip on an audience despite the streamlined 88-minute translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker that Perloff first directed in 2010 at the Getty in Los Angeles. While copious blood is spilt, it is always offstage with a later description to come. That was the Greek way, and Grand Guignol it’s not. What do flow mightily are tears, as Rene Augesen spends much of the 88 minutes copiously weeping as the title character. She is mourning the death of her father, King Agamemnon, at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra, who actually has some defensible motives for justifiable homicide. But Elektra is completely undone, as much for the loss of her father as for the overriding need to avenge his death. As her mother, sister, and stepfather admonish her to get over it, Elektra prays for the return of her long-absent brother Orestes to carry out the honor killings she craves. Perloff ’s production merges classical elements with more modern motifs to mostly effective results. The exterior of the family home in Ralph Funicello’s set resembles an early 20th century villa, and is surrounded by a chain-link fence topped by barbed wire. Costumes by Candice Donnelly are also a hybrid that are fine except in a couple of cases in which they veer into toomodern distractions. Those occasional distractions are also mirrored in Wertenbaker’s otherwise robust translation that pulls occasional laughs, some intended, some likely not, with anachronistic phrasings. Augesen must be applauded for sustaining the draining intensity of her Elektra, and Olympia Dukakis provides balancing concern and sensitivity as an amalgam of the traditional Greek chorus. Of

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Rene Augesen, as the title character in ACT’s Elektra, lashes out at her mother (Caroline Lagerfelt) for the murder of her father in director Carey Perloff’s production.

the supporting cast, I especially liked Caroline Lagerfelt as Elektra’s mother, who projects the kind of regal flightiness of such 1930s movie stars as Miriam Hopkins. As Elektra’s sister Chrysothemis, Allegra Rose Edwards can’t quite overcome her introduction as a clueless nitwit accentuated by a costume more appropriate to avant-garde week on Project Runway. The leather jacket and muscle shirt worn by a late-arriving Orestes is attractive on Nick Steen, but again pulls attention in the wrong way. Onstage cellist Theresa Wong provides doleful underscoring created by composer David Lang. Greek tragedy is the forerunner to just about all of the theater we know today. But it is what it is, and that means it won’t necessarily give dramatic satisfaction familiar to contemporary audiences. But ACT’s Elektra goes a long way to filling that divide without violating its ancient Greek heritage.▼ Elektra will run at ACT through Nov. 18. Tickets are $25-$100. Call

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Documentary evidence by David Lamble

he 11th Annual San Francisco Documentary Film Festival runs Nov. 8-21 at San Francisco’s Roxie Cinema, Terra, 518 Gallery and Berkeley’s Shattuck Cinemas. Here are some highlights. Ann Richards’ Texas In hindsight, one of our most important and possibly tragic recent elections was the bitterly fought 1994 contest between then Texas Governor Ann Richards (born and raised in Lakeview, Texas) and Texas Rangers CEO George W. Bush (born in Connecticut and raised in Midland). Years after her bruising defeat, Dorothy Ann Willis Richards would describe the “whispering campaign” against her masterminded by W.’s political “brain,” Karl Rove. “The Bush Campaign and the Christian Coalition put fliers under the windshield wipers in all of the cars in church parking lots that had a black man kissing a white man and said, ‘This is what Ann Richards wants to teach your children in the public schools.’” Some pundits would later claim that Richards – who shot to national fame keynoting the 1988 Democratic National Convention with wicked one-liners such as her caustic putdown of W.’s dad, George H.W. Bush, “born with a silver foot in his mouth” – seriously underestimated W., for whom the campaign was both payback and a dress rehearsal for the White House. Filmmakers Keith Patterson and Jack Lofton gather an articulate army of Richards’ friends – Bill Clinton, Lily Tomlin, Willie Nelson – to place her meteoric career in perspective. A onetime juniorhigh history teacher, by the 1970s Richards was spearheading a grassroots upheaval in what had been a white boys club running the Texas Democratic Party. By 1976, when she was elected to the Travis County Commissioners Court (like the SF Board of Supervisors), Richards had backed a rainbow coalition of feminists, blacks, Mexican-Americans, gays and lesbians to win seats in the Texas Legislature. It was precisely the company she kept that the Bush forces zeroed in on. “They said, ‘A lot of these people who worked for her are not married,

Natalie Wood

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writer in 1960s Hollywood, introducing him to her friends and colleagues. At about this time, Crowley wrote the screenplay Cassandra at the Wedding, which he wrote with Wood in mind. As Crowley recalls in Making the Boys, Wood agreed to play twins in Crowley’s film, one of whom was a lesbian. She was advised against this by her friends, who told her that taking such a role might damage her career. Wood refused to heed this advice, and was set to do the film until 20th Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck pulled the plug. Wood and Crowley remained friends. Years later, when Crowley was unemployed, Wood arranged for him to work as a script writer/consultant on Hart to Hart, her husband Robert Wagner’s hit TV series. By this time it was the late 1970s. Being gay in Tinseltown was still unacceptable, yet Wood stood by her friend. Her death by drowning in 1981 remains shrouded in mystery and controversy. Her star in the Hollywood firmament remains fully intact. The three-day celebration at the Castro, presented by master showman Marc Huestis, includes some of Wood’s best-known classics. The centerpiece event takes place on Sat., Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m., with a screening of Splendor in the Grass (1961). Wood’s sister,

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Wannabe comic Michael Agostini appears in Broken Mike.

and if they’re not married, maybe they’re gay.’ The next step was, ‘Well, maybe if she has [supporters] who are gay, maybe she’s gay.’ The fact that I’d been married 30 years and had four kids seemed to make no difference at all.” Ann Richards’ Texas recalls a kind of Lone Star Camelot when it was both hip and a hell of a lot of fun to be a Texas lefty. The film recounts some of this good old gal’s lasting achievements, the establishment of an all-girls leadership academy, and a book’s worth of Bubba-vanquishing toasts. “May you be as rich as a Republican, and enjoy the sex life of a Democrat.” (Shattuck, 11/14; Roxie, 11/18, 21) Broken Mike “Is it true that you Americans can no longer torch a fag [British slang for cigarette] in public?” “I think in Texas you can still do that.” There are moments in this amusing if queer-comedy-free zone where wannabe comic Michael Agostini’s desperation shows. Doubling as Broken Mike’s director and as the Seattle International Comedy Competition’s least-funny guy standing, the balding ex-history teacher is at least a good sport as a parade of bratty 20-somethings whiz by to a niche on cable TV.

Bond girl Lana Wood, will appear on the Castro stage for what’s described as “an honest, open discussion, personal and completely truthful. No holds barred.” As she prepared for her Castro appearance, Lana Wood spoke to the B.A.R. by phone from her home in Southern California. She said that Splendor, a then-daring drama of young love and sexuality, is her favorite film of her late sister. “I love Splendor in the Grass,” she said. “It’s dear to my heart. How Natalie blossomed in it. It was a very giving and brave performance. What Natalie gave is something that not a lot of actresses have. She was beloved by everyone. She was the girl next door, but a little bit naughty – sexy, but not in a nasty way. She gave everything to her roles, she gave part of herself. Natalie laid it all out there.” As she spoke of her sister, Wood’s voice cracked every now and then. She was, after all, talking about a beloved sibling who died young. Wood is delighted that Natalie remains an icon after all these years. “What she gave, her body of work, should not be forgotten. We should never minimize the impact that films, books and art have on us.” Wood also called the Oscar winner West Side Story another of her personal favorites. The classic musical was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, updated to the then-violent

Broken Mike provides an odd barometer on the gender wars: a young female comic, Natalie Gray, wins top honors while barely appearing in the film; the winning guys manage several pokes at prevailing standards of homo panic. “Rory freaked me out, we Frenchkissed tonight.” “I see girls walking in the park, sit down, and one girl lies in another girl’s lap. Now I’m walking through the park with my buddy Bill. Maybe I want to lie in Bill’s lap, and look up and say, ‘You know, man, your goatee looks so different from down here.’” Apart from a gaggle of Canadians going for funny in Seattle, and a treehugging comic’s almost coming to blows with a surly logger crowd, the doc’s defining moment has Agostini rip off his shirt to reveal a big-girlsize bra. Later he taunts the youngest, cutest and runaway first-place winner. “Anybody want to have sex with Jeff Dye?” (Roxie, 11/16, 20) Battle for Brooklyn Had Walter O’Malley gotten his way a half-century ago, Brooklyn’s Atlantic (train) Yards would be the site of a domed Dodger baseball stadium, and there would be no San Francisco Giants. Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s doc has the pacing and cliffhanger reversals of a great postseason series;

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From Keith Patterson’s documentary Ann Richards’ Texas.

an intimate tale of a holdout, a guy who fought NYC’s plans for the Barclays Center basketball arena; and a riveting saga of how the powers of eminent domain allow cities to bulldoze neighborhoods in the name of Big Sports. (Roxie, 11/9, 15) A Girl Like Her Ann Fessler explores the bitter truths behind the needs of unwed pregnant women to be seen as “good girls” during the Eisenhower years. Strong archival clips shine a light on customs requiring that young women conceal their condition in secret maternity centers, then give up their little bundles of joy for anonymous adoption. According to Fessler, between 194573, a million and a half women lost kids to adoption, with the vast majority from upwardly mobile white families. Before 1972, women who

“Hollywood’s newest sister act” Natalie and Lana Wood.

Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The film was considered groundbreaking not only for its complex choreography, but for its frank depiction of racial tensions, a generally unspoken topic at that time.

“There aren’t a lot of films that completely hold up and mesmerize, but West Side Story is one of them. It should be seen over and over again.” Though it’s not part of the Castro program, Wood recalled the 1956

became pregnant in high school or college were promptly expelled. Of the 100 women Fessler interviewed, 30 never had another child. (Shattuck, 11/10; Roxie 11/17, 18) Fight Life I’ve often wondered if the buff guys in mixed martial arts ferociously grappling each other in positions seldom obtained outside of sex are ever uncomfortable that their passionate, uncompromising engagement with other hot young men might be misunderstood. James Z. Feng’s otherwise excellent doc fails to address this point. He does embed us in the daily lives of three Bay Area MMA fighters who pursue their unforgiving sport for low wages, and often without health insurance. (Roxie, 11/10, 11)▼ www.sfindie.com

western The Searchers with great fondness, in which she and her sister played the same character. “It’s another film that holds up well,” she said. “I recommend watching the Blu-ray, which looks stunning.” Wood is very excited about the Castro show. Best known as Plenty O’Toole in 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, she said that she passed up an opportunity to attend the premiere of the new James Bond film Skyfall in order to honor her sister. “I will enjoy every second of it,” she said of the Castro show. “It will be beautiful to sit with people who love Natalie.” Join Lana Wood and host Marc Huestis on Sat., Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. for the great Natalie Wood classic Splendor in the Grass. At 12 Noon that same day, Matthew Martin will appear on the Castro stage as Mama Rose for a screening of Gypsy. Sun., Nov. 11 offers a 2 p.m. screening of singalong West Side Story. Other films in the three-day program include Rebel Without a Cause, This Property is Condemned, the late-60s sexual revolution satire Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and Inside Daisy Clover, in which Wood co-star Robert Redford played a thinly-veiled gay role.▼ For a full schedule, visit www.CastroTheatre.com. Tickets: www.ticketfly.com/ event/168497 or (415) 863-0611.

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Incredibly Loud

Pat Loud celebrates her celebrity son in new photo book by Jim Provenzano

elevision ate my family.” That apt quip from Lance Loud succinctly describes his quick rise to fame when An American Family, the acclaimed documentary series, aired on PBS in 1973. Along with his parents’ divorce and other familial strife, Loud came out as gay, a first for any network, and his family became a media sensation that forever altered the nature of television. Almost 40 years after the show’s premiere, and more than a decade after Loud’s death of AIDS in 2001, Lance’s mother Pat Loud, with help from photographer Christopher Makos, have published Lance Out Loud (Glitterati Incorporated, $50), a beautiful 240-page hardcover photo book that celebrates the life of her son. “Lance always said he didn’t know he was coming out,” said Pat Loud in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “He was just being himself. He was a marvelous character who had some inner light that just shined.” Discussing the book shortly after a release party in New York City, Loud, now 86, said she’s proud of the book, which “tells more than Lance’s story. It tells something about pop culture, which he was so involved in. He really understood it innately. I don’t know how a kid living in Santa Barbara could absorb so much.” True, fame seemed inevitable to Lance, who wrote letters to Andy Warhol, who replied. Loud recalled one night when the pop artist called the then-14-year-old Lance, and convinced him not to run away to New York City until he was older.

Loud and Makos will attend an event to promote the book on Nov. 9 at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum, which archived Lance’s correspondence with the Pop Art guru. In the series and afterward, Lance fronted the irreverent punk band The

Mumps, whose members went on to other musical achievements. His high school friend Kristian Hoffman would later help shape Klaus Nomi’s band and write some of his biggest hits while performing with his own ensembles. Bandmate Rob Duprey would later join Iggy Pop’s band, and another high school pal, Jay Lee Daugherty, would later tour with Patti Smith. Although The Mumps never landed a major label deal, they played on bills with Talking Heads, Blondie, The Ramones, Cheap Trick and other groups, often at Manhattan’s famous

club CBGB. After the band broke up, Lance continued his celebrity status by focusing on pop culture features for Interview, Details, The Advocate and other publications. He also remained a fixture at nightclub events in New York City and Los Angeles. “David Keeps, then Lance’s ed editor at Details, said that beca cause Lance had a certain cele lebrity quality, they relaxed with h him,” said Loud of her son’s c charisma. Lance also chose to share his d demise with the viewing public, d documented in the 2002 follo low-up TV special, Lance Loud: A Death in An American Fami Discussions of his crystal ily. m addiction and HIV infecmeth t tions are interspersed with reflections on the original series. Such biographical details a not included per se in the are n book, which Pat Loud innew s stead called “a celebration” of L Lance’s life. Packed with essays b bandmate Hoffman, Makos by and friends and family, with previously unpublished candids of Lance, family and celebrity photos, drawings, even pages from Lance’s datebooks, Lance Out Loud shares a delicious jumble of ephemera that visualizes the life of its subject, whose oftrepeated life philosophy was, “Never be boring.” Loud acknowledges that creating such a book as Lance Out Loud in a vastly changed world of publishing is a bit of a dare. “Publishing’s in terrible shape,” she said. “You can download so many things. Now it’s like music. Who even wants a CD?” Despite having worked as a literary agent (she helped get Andrew Holleran’s bestseller Dancer from the Dance published) and a bestselling author

Photographer Christopher Makos (left) and Pat Loud (center).

(Pat Loud: A Woman’s Story, published in 1974), Loud said, “It never occurred to me to do such a thing.” Longtime friend Makos simply called her up, and told her his publisher shared the idea of a book about Lance. “‘Do you have pictures?’ he asked. I have everything,” said Loud. “I never threw anything away.” Makos and Loud perused hundreds of photos and other bits of memorabilia, then assembled them as a sort of collage in book form. They even considered adding a music CD attachment, but instead settled on bar codes that link a reader’s cell phone to online videos. Asked if editing down her son’s life for the book was difficult, Loud agreed. “That was painful. I cried every day for a year when Lance died, and I could do it again, but I don’t. Now I see what a life he had. It was almost like he knew that he wouldn’t have a long life. He crammed everything into his 50 years.” Loud clarified that the book is not a “whitewashing” of the darker side of her son’s life. “He was such an interesting person. He was one of the great innocents. But he was always on the wrong side of something.” In reflecting on her experiences, Loud agreed that her family wasn’t exactly a typical one. Originally from Eugene, Oregon, the Louds’ Southern

California life was interspersed with vacations to Europe. “We wanted the kids to have a sense of their place in a world that wasn’t frightening and huge, and they had an understanding, sort of beyond their years. They got to see a lot of the world.” The 2011 HBO dramatized film Cinema Verite, about the family and the filming of the show, revived interest in the series, which PBS aired in a marathon broadcast, also in April 2011. Loud said she enjoyed the dramatized version. “I was so flattered that Diane Lane played me!” she said. “And Tim Robbins was marvelous.” The original series spawned an entire genre of broadcasting, from MTV’s The Real World to a slew of vastly inferior “reality” shows. Loud expressed astonishment that so many of the shows are heavily scripted, and that so many people continue to jump at the chance for fleeting fame and long-lasting humiliation. For a time, Lance, Pat and her family, and even An American Family producer Craig Gilbert, were on the wrong side of media critics, until they made a series of TV show appearances, most notably on The Dick Cavett Show. Loud recalls those difficult times, and the media barrage. One magazine called Lance “the evil flower See page 26 >>

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Thu 8>> Carmelina @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s production of the rarely performed musical about a WWII “widow” who gathers three men who may be the father of her daughter. This is the musical that inspired the Broadway hit Mamma Mia! $25-$75. Wed 7pm. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Nov 18. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha The weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. www.comedybodega.com

Laughing Stock Comedy Show @ 4N5 Anthony Sandoval, Charlie Ballard, Kollin Holtz, John Hoogasian and Hector Rodriguez offer diversely witty comic acts. $5. 7pm. Gallery/Bar 4N5, 863 Mission St. 522-2440. galiara.com

The Submission

by Jim Provenzano

ou know that feeling you get when something seems gay, and you’ve enjoyed it before, but it’s come out again just to make an even gayer point? How about when an LGB or T event continues its annual annualness by showcasing talented artists once a year? Enjoy the cyclical repeats of favorites and recreate new/old memories.

The Submission @ New Conservatory Theatre A controversy in the literary world? Deja proof! Jeff Talbot’s sharp play explores affirmative-action and bias in literary contests, when a gay writer submits a play about life in the projects, and hires an African American actress to pretend to be the author. $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 16. 25 Van Ness Ave. at Market, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

The Lion King @ Orpheum Theatre Disney’s long-running musical (and the highest grossing Broadway show in history) based on the animated film makes a return to the Bay Area. $32.50-$150. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 1pm. (closed or different times for some holidays). Thru Jan. 13, 2013. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

Literary Death Match @ Contemp. Jewish Museum 49th edition of the comedy literary event, with celebrity judges Ayelet Waldman, Richard Kramer ( Tales of the City film director), Josh Kornbluth and an all-Jewish writer line-up. $5-$10. 7pm. 736 Mission St. 655-7881. www.thecjm.org

Eli Conley at the Transgender Film Fest night (Sean Dorsey Dance, Shawna Virago, Eli Conley and more), then short films thru Sunday. $12-$15. ThuSat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Nov 11. 1310 Mission St. at 9th. www.sftff.org

The Songbird of Paris @ The Marsh, Berkeley Joni Takanikos stars as French singer Edith Piaf in an intimate production of Martha Furey’s musical near-solo drama. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Thru Dec 1. 2120 Allston Way near Shattuck. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Fri 9>> Blade T. Bannon’s Daddy Hunt

Thu 8: Blade T. Bannon @ Books Inc, Castro You’ve seen these hunks on the street, in the bars, and perhaps in other more revealing situations. See them again at the photographer’s signing and discussion of Daddy Hunt, his erotic monograph featuring local hunks, a few of whom will attend. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. www.bladetbannon.com www.booksinc.net

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson @ SF Playhouse Imran G at Metrosexual Comedy Night

Fri 9: Metrosexual Comedy Night @ Deco Lounge The gay comedy night features ‘favorite flaming straight guys (now that’s familiar), hosted by Shanti Charan, with Sammy Obeid, Dave Studebaker, Steve Lee, Raymond Santos, Imran G, Marc Abrigo. $10. 8pm. 21+. 510 Larkin St. 346-2025. www.decosf.com

Fri 9: Wilder Times @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Four one-act plays by Pulitzer Prize winner, former Berkeley resident and closeted gay playwright and author Thornton Wilder (I knew there was something funny about Our Town ). $32-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Dec. 9. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Thu 8: Dudley Saunders @ Casa Sanchez, Amnesia Enjoy dinner and/or drinks as the gay folk-rock singer performs music from his fourth album, Monsters. Free. 8pm. 2778 24th St. 282-2402. Also Nov. 10, 7pm at Amnesia, 853 Valencia St. 970-0012. www.dudleysaunders.com www.casasanchezfood.com

Thu 8: Transgender Film Festival @ CounterPulse The 11th annual trans film fest includes live dance, theatre and music opening

Local singer/actor Ashkon Davaran (the Giants’ “Don’t Stop Believin’” anthem, Beardo ) stars in Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s presidential musical, an acclaimed rock rendition of the life of one our first and most controversial elected leaders. $30-$70. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Nov 24. 450 Post St. (2nd floor of Kensington Park Hotel). 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

David Sanborn @ Yoshi’s Oakland The prolific multi-Grammy-winning jazz saxaphonist performs with his band. $30$45. Fri & Sat 8pm & 10pm. Sun 6pm & 8pm. Thru Nov 11. 510 Embarcadero West. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Electra @ American Conservatory Theatre A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff directed this new translation (by Timberlake Wertenbaker) of the timeless Greek tragedy, which features actress Olympia Dukakis. $30-$100. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov 18. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Freeplay Dance Crew @ Vertigo

Dudley Saunders

Darling Gunsel

Tue 13: Darling Gunsel @ Beatbox Hey, these guys look familiar. The new local band (Ricky Terry and Dr. Scott of Ejector, and New Zealand vocalist Jezabel) perform at the release party for their new CD, Unresolved Heart. $10. 8pm. 314 11th St. www.darlinggunsel. com www.beatboxsf.com

An Iliad @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

World Music Festival @ Kanbar Hall

Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War and its effect on soldiers and families on both sides, as told by one elderly survivor. $17-$73. Tue, Fri, Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov 18. 2015 Addison St. at Shattuck, Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

13th annual innovative festival, with traditional opera masters from Azerbaijan, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mali, Spain, Tibet and other countries participating in a three-program series, The Opera Project. $12-$89. Also Nov 10, 8pm and Nov 11, 7pm. Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. 292-1233. www.sfworldmusicfestival.org

John Nieto @ Nieto Fine Art Gallery owner showcases his own art; new colorful pop paintings depicting wild animals and Native Americans. Thru Nov 30. 565 Sutter St. 393-4511. www.nietofineart.com

A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Archbishop Riordan High School Student production of the Shakespeare comedy. $5-$8. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov 18. 175 Phelan Ave. 587-5866. www.riordanhs.org

Natalie Wood Films @ Castro Theatre Three-day screening of films starring the San Francisco-born star, with a special guest talk/interview with her sister Lana Wood. Nov 9: Rebel Without a Cause (2:30, 7pm) and This Property is Condemned (4:45, 9:15). Nov 10, Gypsy (12pm), with guest-host Matthew Martin as Mama Rose, and Love With the Proper Stranger (3pm); Splendor in the Grass (7:30pm) with Lana Wood. Nov 11, sing-along West Side Story (2pm), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (7pm) and Inside Daisy Clover (9pm). $8.50-$25. 429 Castro St. 863-0611. www.marchuestispresents.com

Hip hop dance ensemble performs in a fundraiser for the Embarcadero YMCA’s Youth Chance High School. Dancing, gogos, 10% of the bar goes to the cause. 9pm-11pm. 1160 Polk St. www.facebook.com/FreeplayCrew

The Hundred Flowers Project @ Thick House Crowded Fire’s world premiere production of Christopher Chen’s political dystopic drama where a theatre troupe struggles with producing a play about the rise of Mao Tse Tung, only to see the world outside their stage changing drastically. $15-$35. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 17. 1695 18th St. 746-9238. www.crowdedfire.org

Sat 10>> Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ Calvary Presbyterian Church LGBT-inlcusive symphony performs De Falla’s Dance from La Vida Breve, Bruch’s Concerto for Viola and Clarinet with soloists Jodi Levitz, viola and Susan Barnes, clarinet, Copland’s Quiet City with Jamie Hops, trumpet, and Beethoven’s Symphony #5. $15-$30. 8pm. 2515 Fillmore St. at Jackson. (800) 595-4TIX. www.bars-sf.org

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. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Eyes Wide Open @ W Hotel Gala fundraiser for the Trevor Project, with participation of Reason to Party and Artful Gentlemen men’s couturier. $50-$100. 9pm-2am. 131 3rd St. www.trevorsfrtp.eventbrite.com

Kronos Quartet @ Dance Palace

Shocktoberfest 13 @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers presents Shocktoberfest 13, an evening of horror and unhinged comedy with two world-premiere one-act plays and a classic: Coals of Fire by Fredrick Whitney, The Bride of Death by Michael Phillis, and Rob Keefe’s The Twisted Pair. $25-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 17. 575 10th St. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

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Acclaimed local music ensemble performs at the Point Reyes arts space. $15-$32. 8pm. 5th St. at B St., Point Reyes Station, Sausalito. 663-1075. www.dancepalace.org

Nayland Blake @ YBCA

Thu 15 Goapele @ Yoshi’s, Oakland Singer-songwriter and Bay Area vocalist who blends soul, jazzand hiphop in a unique blend, performs live. $30. (dinner and menu items extra) 8pm & 10pm. Sun 7pm & 9pm. Thru Sun Nov 18. 510 Embarcadero West. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Play Fair @ GLBT History Museum Play Fair! The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Make Sex Safer, an exhibit of safe sex promotional efforts. Also, For Love and Community: Queer Asian Pacific Islanders Take Action 1960-1990s, an exhibit organized by queer and transgender Asian Pacific Islanders. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

Prince Herman @ Magnet “Stained Glass Pornography,” an exhibit of the local artist’s fascinating religious erotica glassworks. Thru Nov. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

The Rainmaker @ Shelton Theater N. Richard Nash’s drama about a traveling con-man who romances a small town woman gets a local production. $38. Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru Dec 22. 533 Sutter St. at Powell. (800) 838-3006. www.sheltontheater.org

Theatre Flamenco @ Cowell Theatre The vibrant local flamenco dance company performs new and repertory works in their 46th annual season. $20-$40. 8pm. Also Nov 11, 2pm. Fort Mason, Buchanan at Bay sts. 826-1305. www.theatreflamenco.org

The White Snake @ Berkeley Rep Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman’s ( Argonautika, Arabian Nights ) visually stunning mystical drama based on a Chinese legend of romance and magical powers. $22-$99. Previews. Opening night Nov 14. Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat 8pm. Wed 7pm. Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Dec 23. Special events thru run. Roda Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 6472949. www.berkeleyrep.org

FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX! , the former Bay Area artist’s new exhibit of conceptual and assembled found-object, personal installations and artworks, each with queer themes, including a DJ booth with his own large record collection; and Nathalie Djurberg’s amazing colorful creature sculptures. $12-$15. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.naylandblake.net www.ybca.org

Off the Beaten Path @ Harvey Milk Photography Center Group exhibit of visually compelling photos of San Francisco’s well- and least-known parks. McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan St. at Fell. Photos also on exhibit at the Harvey Milk Center (50 Scott St.) and the Parks Emergency Aid Station (811 Stanyan St.). Thru Nov. 30. 554-8919. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Pearlesque @ Mill Valley Community Center Gala fundraiser for the Marin LGBT center, with comics Justin Lucas and Dana Goldberg, Senator Mark Leno, performance by Post: Ballet, live auction with vacations and luxury items, food, drinks and a dessert bar. Dinner 6pm-8pm. $150. Dance party 8pm-11pm. $45. 180 Camino Alto Mill Valley. www.spectrumlgbtcenter. org/spectrum-events/

Phantoms of Asia @ Asian Art Museum Exhibit of bold contemporary art with perspectives on life, death, nature and other themes. $12-$15. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Reviving Spirits @ Progressive Grounds OutLook Theater Project’s “queer séance” performances by Anthony Julius Williams, musician Winston Berger, Roger Bovary, Star Amerasu and others, evokes the souls of ancestors in a participatory evening ritual. Jason Wyman hosts. Free. 5pm. Also Dec. 8. 2301 Bryant St. www.outlooktheaterproject.org

Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance @ de Young Museum Direct from the Centre National du Costume de Scène in Moulins, France, this exhibit displays costumes, photos, videos and ephemera documenting the amazing dancing and choreography of the world-famous gay dancer. Thru Feb 17. Also, Chuck Close and Crown Point Press, an exhibit of the painter’s printmaking works; also, permanent exhibits of Modern art. $6-$20. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

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Tue 13>> Double Features @ Castro Theatre Interestingly paired films: Nov 13, Lawless (7pm) and Killer Joe (9:10pm). Nov 14, Keep the Lights On (3pm, 7pm) and Forty Shades of Blue (4:55, 9pm). Nov 15, The Intouchables (2:30, 7pm) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (4:45, 9pm). $8.50-$11. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

The Drag Show @ Various Channels Stu Smith’s weekly LGBT variety show features local talents, and not just drag artistes. Channels 29 & 76 on Comcast; 99 on AT&T and 30 on Astound. www.thedragshow.org

Fri 9 Hour of Power @ The Garage “Dr. Zebrovski” presents a strangely comic “dancing psychic” night of entertainments, with Kevin Seaman, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Maryam Rostami and Beatrice Thomas. $9.99-$19.99. 7:30 pre-show 8pm curtain. Also Nov 10. 715 Bryant St. at 5th. www.zebrovski.brownpapertickets.com

SF Hiking Club @ Mt. Tam Join GLBT hikers for a 7-mile Mt. Tam hike with a stop at Laurel Dell. Well-behaved dogs are welcome on this hike. Bring lunch, water, sturdy boots, layers, hat, sunscreen. Carpool meets at 8:30 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. 577-9367. Also, Nov 11: street hike through Cole Valley, Parnassus Heights and the Castro. 9:45am at Woodland & Parnassus. 378-5612. www.sfhiking.com

The Sound of Music @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley Rogers & Hammerstein’s classic musical about the Von Trapp family, and their Austrian struggle with a new nanny, and Nazis, gets a local production. $17-$35. Thu-Sat 7pm. Also Sat 2pm. Sun 12pm, 5pm. Thru Dec 2. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays @ Exit Theater Cutting Ball Theater performs August Stringberg plays in repertory; The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican and The Black Glove, and Storm and Burned House. $10-$75. Thu 7:30pm, Fri & Sat 8pm & 2pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov 18. 277 Taylor St. 525-1205. www.cuttingball.com

William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism @ de Young Museum New exhibit of varied and little seen Modern Art works collected by the New York art patron with a diverse taste, including paintings by Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Also, This World Is Not My Home: Photographs by Danny Lyon, thru Jan. 27. $10-$20. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Women 我們 @ Chinese Cultural Center Exhibit of video works, installation art, photography, sculpture, and more by a diverse array of LGBTQ artists including Mu Xi, Yang Meiyan, He Chengyao, and other emerging artists based in China as well as five U.S.based artists, among them Man Yee Lam and Stella Zhang. Tue-Sat 10am-4pm. Thru Dec. 15. 750 Kearny St., 3rd floor (inside the Hilton Hotel). 986-1822.www.c-c-c.org

Sun 11>> Desert Jewels @ MOAD North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection, an exhibit of nearly 100 pieces of jewelry from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, plus documentary photographs. Thru Jan 21. $5-$10. Members free. WedSat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

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

Dia de los Muertos @ Oakland Museum of Art

Start Out @ Hot Italian, Emeryville

Special exhibition of Day of the Dead altars by artists, schoolkids, and museum docents; guest-curated by Eduardo Pineda. 12pm4:30pm Also, The 1968 Exhibit, a touring exhibit of the historic year, with ephemera, protest posters, interactive media; extended thru Nov 2012. Also, Bay Area figurative art; Dorothea Lange archive, early landscape paintings, Gold Rush Era works, California ceramics. Gallery of California Natural Sciences. $6-$12. 1000 Oak St. Oakland. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org

East Bay fall networking event for LGBT entrepreneurs, investors and professionals, at the acclaimed new pizzeria/restaurant. 6pm-8pm. 5959 Shellmound St., Emeryville. (510) 922-1369. www.startout.org/city/san-francisco

The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League @ Contemp. Jewish Museum Group exhibition of fascinating photos from 1936-1951 taken by members of the progressive collective that documented the eras of postwar struggles, McCarthy blacklists, and urban life. Other exhibits ongoing. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

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

Tommy Tune @ The Venetian Room Broadway choreographer and performer (nine-time Tony Award-winner) brings his new solo show Taps, Tune and Tall Tales, his story of 50 years of musical theatre history, to the elegant hall at the Fairmont Hotel. $40-$47. 950 Mason St. 392-4400. www.bayareacabaret.org

Wesla Whitfield @ The Rrazz Room Classy local singer performs jazz and R&B classics with the Mike Greensill Trio. $35$45. Various times thru Nov 21. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Mon 12>> Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. This week, Perry interviews Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond, and performer Curt Branom, 10-year veteran of the world’s longest-running musical review, Beach Blanket Babylon. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.comcasthometown.com

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Wed 14>> Jet Black Pearl @ The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret Satirical comic accordion-playing songstress performs her show Sex, Slugs & Accordion, Wed nights, weekly thru Nov 14. $10. 8pm. 2120 Allston Way, near Shattuck. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

LGBT Book Club @ Books Inc. The book club discusses The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell. 7pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

NLGJA Fall Honors @ Café du Nord National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association’s Northern California chapter honors Diane Anderson-Minshall, former editor in chief of Curve magazine and now executive editor of The Advocate, and Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman, who are the hosts and producers of radio show Out in the Bay. 6pm-8pm. 2170n Market St. www.nlgja.org www.cafedunord.com

Thu 15>> Age, Diversity & Gender Fluidity @ GLBT Museum Forum sponsored by the San Francisco Dyke March, 7pm-9pm. Also, see the exhibits Play Fair! The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Make Sex Safer, an exhibit of safe sex promotional efforts. Also, For Love and Community: Queer Asian Pacific Islanders Take Action 1960-1990s, an exhibit organized by queer and transgender Asian Pacific Islanders. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

Green & Gold Gala @ Conservatory of Flowers Golden Gate Park arboretum’s annual festive fundraiser, with a Boomtown Barbary Coast theme. See the garden railway exhibition, enjoy drinks, food, live music and “burlesque” entertainment, plus a visit from ‘Emperor Norton.’ Black tie, business or themed attire. $95, $150, $250 (VIP 5:30pm) and up. 7pm-11pm. 100 JFK Drive. 831-2093. www.greenandgoldgala.org

Lady Rizo @ The Rrazz Room The slightly zany yet vocally serious New York performer returns. $30. 9pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Lois Banner @ Books Inc. Author of Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox discusses her book about Marilyn Monroe. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. www.booksinc.net

Susanna Hoffs @ Red Devil Lounge Lead singer for The Bangles performs music from her third solo album. Evolution Eden opens. $20-$25. 8pm. 1695 Polk St. www.reddevillounge.com

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Portraits and curios from the world of pop, including excerpts from Lonely Boy (Paul Anka in underpants!) and Todd Haynes’ Superstar, the banned cult classic Karen Carpenter story enacted with Barbie dolls! $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

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Seen in the Castro during Halloween season: devils, skeletons, and naughtily costumed dancers.

Costume partying by Donna Sachet

n the South we say, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” so we celebrated Halloween several times, beginning on Sat., Oct. 27, at Metronome Dance Studio, where GLAAD hosted Haunted Broadway. This spacious setting with soaring ceilings and sweeping staircases proved the perfect location for guests to roam from a photo booth to an extensive buffet to well-stocked Stoli vodka bars. Costumes ranged from Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, and Ethel Merman to characters from Edward Scissorhands, Book of Mormon, and Sweeney Todd. The most enigmatic may have been the guy dressed in black stretch fabric from head to toe with a wig atop his head. He was a drag queen shadow. The lively crowd included Adam Sandel, John Marez, Thomas Ogden, Cassandra Cass, Drew Cutler, Ken Henderson & Joe Seiler, Kevin Shanahan & Michael Montoya, Kevin Levey, J.R. Fisher, Jennifer Sha Chan, David Wong, Louie Marco, Matt Buchanan, and Arthur Allione. From there, we made an appearance at BeatBox for Julian Marshburn’s birthday celebration, where it became apparent that our Glinda the Good Witch costume was not made for dancing, but the various devils and other naughtily costumed dancers reveled late into the night. On Halloween night itself, we stayed in the Castro, strolling from LookOut to Café Flore and ending at The Edge. Patrik Gallineaux and Mister Kenshi hosted the VIP party at LookOut, which was packed wallto-wall with celebrants. Costumes here included drag, superheroes, and Roman soldiers. Cockatielia once again demonstrated her style and creativity as she hosted a crowdpleasing Halloween drag show at Café Flore, where the windows fogged up and some guests fogged out. The Edge featured a cowboy and Indian theme, basically feathers, chaps, and lots of skin. Out on the streets, the midweek holiday and the light rain certainly thinned the crowd, but a generally festive air prevailed. Police were everywhere, but friendly and supportive, particularly when we stumbled upon Lenny Broberg, who escorted us for several blocks through the pedestrians. San Francisco welcomed the World Series-winning Giants home in style last Wednesday, starting with a ticker-tape parade and ending with a carefully staged ceremony in Civic Center. In the confident

care of Gary Virginia, we wound our way from Muni through the masses to the VIP-tented entrance, where our seats awaited, facing City Hall and an orange-carpeted stage, with two huge video screens on each side showing the progress of the parade. We’ve never seen so many media trucks, satellite dishes, and news anchors in one place! We exchanged pleasantries with Supervisor David Campos, Fire Chief Joanne HayesWhite, Police Chief Greg Suhr, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, Audrey Joseph, Angela Alioto, Ellen Magnin Newman, Leah Garchik, Jo Shuman, John McCann, and Janet Reilly. As the parade ended, the stage quickly filled with dignitaries, including Mayor Ed Lee, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Willie Brown, Frank Jordan, Gina Moscone, George & Charlotte Shultz, Dick Blum, and even Tony Bennett. When Renel Brooks Moon, AT&T Park’s “voice of the Giants,” announced the arrival of the coaches and players, the crowd, estimated at over one million, really went wild. Sports fan

or not, everyone got caught up in Giants mania. We count ourselves truly lucky to have experienced this civic celebration, and we heartily applaud this dream team. Last Sunday’s Bay Area Cabaret presentation of Mary Wilson in concert at the Fairmont Hotel’s storied Venetian Room was a triumph. She took us on a musical journey from the early Supremes through her solo career with captivating personal stories along the way, then took time to greet her guests personally after the show. Check out the rest of their season, which runs through next spring, including Tommy Tune, Peter Gallagher, Elaine Paige, and Nellie McKay. Get dressed up and treat yourself to a special night of entertainment in a luxurious location. This Friday offers you a rare chance to peek into the prestigious University Club atop Nob Hill, where we are hosting a cabaret benefiting the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys. Enjoy drinks, food, a silent and live auction, and music featuring solos, ensembles, and special guest Amanda King in the oldworld charm of this historic private club. You are sure to remember this as an “only in San Francisco” evening.▼

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Seen in the Castro during Halloween season.

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Stuffed animals by John F. Karr

rt isn’t easy, it’s been said. Especially the art of story-porn, like LucasEntertainment’s largely incoherent Awake! and overwrought The Last Day. But the company scores a quartet of hits with its themed anthologies. As reported a couple weeks ago, The Power of Love romanced me down to the cockles of my cockle, if you know what I mean, with separate scenes unified by a romantic theme. And now we have three more swell collections. LucasEnt delivers Greece My Hole and Newcummers, and LucasRaunch offers the bonerific Boy Toys. All three allow us to enjoy deeply felt sex acts in beautiful locales, free from the shroud of story. You’ll be thinking that because I’m a charter member of Boys4Toys that my report on Boy Toys will be partial. But check it out yourself and see that I’m not biased at all. It may be unimaginatively titled, but without neglecting cocksucking, rimming, and fucking, it’s got a plentiful and fulfilling emphasis on toy play. By my count, it’s got eight dildos, three anal beads, two inflatables, one bulbed, one double-ender, one giant butt-plug, one lube bottle used as a dildo, and one DP of toy plus cock in tandem. And though Boy Toys was filmed by four directors (Lucas, Killian, Crisco, Pam) in three cities (Barcelona, Montreal, Mykonos), it’s all of a piece. It may miss some tasty fillips of ass play, like buttplugging a fucker, sucking a guy while he’s stuffed, or even drawing out its intense, speedy action onto sustained plateaus of pleasure. And there’s only one fellow among the five bottoms who cums with anything inside his sphincter. But the more standard varieties of plugging that the movie indulges are truly scenic and remarkably effective. One couple dildo-flip each other, while two others go for oral cum-shots. Ask the magic mirror who’s the most insertive of all, and find Tate Ryder proving his credentials in an impressive finale. After swallowing up the entirety of a 12-incher, plus a variety of ever larger ridged, ringed, knobheaded and spiked rubber tools, he sits down on a doozy of a fat, bright red butt-plug, and blasts a load in the supercharged way that only preceding dildo play can provoke. And then he gulps down his buddy’s big load. Newcummers and Greece My Hole feature some rough-edged fellows whose earnest and rough-edged play has a verisimilitude that’s lacking in the fantasy land of so much porn. They come across as guys, not porn stars, even though some of them definitely are porn stars. There are too many tilted camera views for my taste, but the image in both movies is crisp and warm. The scenes in Newcummers take place in masculine, sparsely furnished bedrooms; Greece My Hole moves some scenes out onto terraces overlooking the fantastic vistas of Mykonos, Greece – hence the movie’s snappy title. In Newcummers, directed by Brandon Jones and Adam Killian, the vibe is relaxed, the sexuality pervasive, and the connection between performers palpable, believable. Johnny Venture’s cock is imposingly bigger and fatter than the brazen erection of Edji Da Silva, but, surprise, Johnny’s the bottom. Handsome, hairy Edji Da slams Johnny around until the excited bottom eats his cum. Kyle Quinn gives himself expertly to Franco Ferarri, and Brandon Jones takes an invigorating ride atop Nick Ford, his steely cock slamming hard against belly and thigh as he bounces. Muscle dude Max Chevalier tops Nikko Brave, and Hayden Colby survives his bout with

Will Helm and Marco Sessions double up in LucasEntertainment’s Boy Toys: a fulfilling emphasis on toy play.

delicious Adrian Long. The lean, tousle-haired fucker gives forth a thriller Old Faithful orgasm. Greece My Hole, directed by Killian and Chris Crisco, is #47 of the LucasEnt Auditions series, so interviews with the performers precede their sex. Two of the couples casually introduce themselves, and Killian is an upbeat host to the other three. There’s a pleasing new tone to these interviews; they’re sexy and relaxed. Unlike many previous Auditions interviews, Killian knows the performers’ names, and his questions engage rather than accost. Despite the

giggles of these good times, it only takes the guys a moment to switch into sultry make-out, then ramp it up to the strong passion of their sex mode. Rafael Carreras sure knows how to get Marco Sessions ready for a nasty fuck, deep-throating Sessions’ cock while finagling greasy fingers way up his butt. Two fine couples later, two sets of virtuosos deliver star power. Vito Gallo and Trenton Ducati flip each other in a hot session, and for an even hotter finale, Adam Killian does the same with Jessy Ares. When LucasEnt isn’t getting tangled up in tales, it delivers undiluted and potent sex.▼ www.LucasEntertainment.com

Edji Da Silva and Johnny Venture in LucasEntertainment’s Newcummers: the connection between performers is palpable.

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Other side of the mountain by David Lamble

n engaging new film about a fractured two-person family offers a personal view-askew of the euro crisis. Early in French/Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier’s Sister, we see a frantic little urchin, almost a rebooted version of Macaulay Culkin’s plucky little “terrorist” in the Home Alone franchise. But this hoodie-adorned little boy is busy plundering a wealthy ski resort of anything not attached. Simon’s method is to assume the aura of a snow brat, then abscond with expensive skis, gloves and the like. The boy moves his “inventory” down the resort’s lift to the bottomlands, where pint-sized customers wait. Simon slips up and finds himself trapped in the resort’s restaurant storeroom. The boy is confronted with an even more crooked guy, a brash British kitchen-worker who catches Simon with pricey skis several sizes beyond his. The two thieves take each other’s measure, Simon discovering how good his ski-catalogue English is. The result is Dickens mixed with a dollop of Francois Truffaut. “Money, give me my money for the skis. You understand?” The man heaves packages of uncooked pasta at Simon: “Here, take

Tommy Tune, appearing Nov. 11 at the Venetian Room, has amassed nine Tony Awards as a performer, director, and choreographer.

Tommy Tune

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we’re all in the same place.” With a lingering hint of a drawl, he likened the experience, or at least his expectations of it, to his childhood in Texas. “This is like entertaining in the living room, like when I was a little boy and my parents’ friends would come over and my father would always want me to get up and dance,” Tune said from his Manhattan home. “I just hated it, but I had to do it because he was paying for my dance lessons. Now it’s by choice.” His life back in Texas will be a part of Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales, the title of his autobiographical solo show premiering at the Venetian Room. “I’m telling intimate stories about my life and career, and the songs that I’ve chosen are not necessarily from the shows I’ve been involved in, but ones that will help me create the arc of my story.” And there will be tap dancing. “Oh, sure. That’s the first thing I did, and my career grew from my feet up.” And grew and grew, both creatively and vertically. The 6-foot-7 Tune won his first Tony Award in 1974 for his kick-starting performance in the musical Seesaw, and more Tonys flowed his way for his direction and choreography of such musical hits as Nine, Grand Hotel,

it, for Christmas. Now fuck off!” “Oh no, Mister, it’s not good. Give me my money for the skis, you understand?” Simon (prepubescent Kacey Mottet Klein, who debuted as an eight-year-old squirt in Meier’s surreal 2008 first feature, Home) is everything in this scrupulously detailed drama about a hapless underclass residing in the shadow of an affluent Swiss ski resort. Barely 12, with toothpick legs awaiting an adolescent torso, just tall enough to ride the lifts, Simon is such a wellorganized thief that he knows when to hide away in a bathroom stall or pretend to be a well-mannered boarding-school lad who assists a befuddled English tourist (Gillian Anderson). In his moment with the English lady, we sense that Simon longs for such an upscale mom. Every euro Simon snags is spent in a shabby little flat he shares with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) who’s drowning in a sea of temp jobs and feckless boyfriends. At first Simon and Louise play like carefree kids, tossing around sandwiches stolen from rich tourists: “This stuff tastes like shit!” Then Louise confesses she’s left her stupid café job, and Simon senses things are drifting out of control. Soon all his black-market euros won’t be enough to maintain

Tommy Tune co-starred with model-turned-actress Twiggy in the 1983 Gershwin-based musical My One and Only.

and The Will Rogers Follies. The final new show that he helped create to reach Broadway, the sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, had a brief run in 1994, but one of the songs from Carol Hall’s score is included in Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales. “I do the song ‘I’m Leaving Texas,’ which fits me to a T,” he said. Other selections include songs by Carol King, Leiber and Stoller, and Lerner and Loewe. “I sing some Gershwin, of course, because I am a Gershwin tune,” he said, “and I reenact my first New York audition, which was ‘You Gotta Have Heart.’ It’s interesting that I chose that song for my audition, but you really do need heart to be in the theater.” After the short run of the new Whorehouse, and a broken foot that waylaid the Broadway-bound Busker Alley that starred Tune, he has absented himself from Broadway despite the critical and popular acclaim that greeted most of his work. “A lot of things happened, a lot of deaths,” Tune said, mentioning the names of numerous collaborators who have died. “And there have not been the people who do what I don’t know how to do who have come to me with material worthy of doing.” AIDS played part of the role in the accumulating losses, including the death of a long-term partner in 1994. AIDS slammed Tune in a different way when Lucie Arnaz,

this inverted relationship where the kid tries to civilize a miserable adult. He’s trapped between his dreams of the “white gold” awaiting him on the mountain and the hand-tomouth life of an untutored orphan. Ursula Meier describes the joy of her second collaboration with the impish Kacey Mottet Klein. “The first time, he was eight. We made a big casting search in Switzerland and found him in the street. I fell in love with him, with his face – when you put the camera on him, something happens. But he had never acted before, so we had to teach him everything. I wanted him to understand what acting means. With Home, there was a big click, and he really understood.” David Lamble: He really becomes “the little thief ” stuck among the boarding-school brats at the resort. Ursula Meier: It was difficult for Kacey to look like a professional thief because he was a child. I don’t like to repeat things on the set, it inhibits spontaneity, but with Kacey we repeated the actions of the first scene 100 times so he could mimic the fluidity of a professional thief. There’s something odd transpiring between Simon and the English tourist (Gillian

his co-star in the touring edition of My One and Only, told him in 1986 that she would no longer kiss him onstage. “I just talked to her yesterday, and we’re friends, and it really wasn’t about her, it was the times,” he said. “But when that entered the sacred space which is the theater and messed that up, that’s when it was, like, too much for me. It was very bad because it made me feel contaminated.” Tune has “tested the waters,” he said, of new relationships since 1994, but nothing long-term has emerged. “Don’t forget we lived through the coming of AIDS, and that can really fuck you up,” he said. “I’m sure it affected our psyche. And then came the Internet and hooking up, and that doesn’t interest me. It’s like getting a mail-order bride.” Tune has had intense relationships with both men and women, which, he said, “has given me a broader view, a higher point I can look from, that has helped me in my creations and interpretations. In this show,” referring to Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales, “I hope I’m creating something original.” After his San Francisco performance, Tune and pianist Michael Biagi will take the show to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency not long before New York’s premier nitery is set to close. “That’s why I’m finally doing it, because through the years they’ve asked, but I never saw myself doing it because of the intimate scale.” Tune’s upcoming touring calendar then has him alternating between the new cabaret act and his theatrical show Steps in Time. Asked if he is enjoying life as he pushes toward the middle of his seventh decade, Tune took a moment to reflect. “I am hugely grateful for my life, and there are bruises and hurts and wounds, and some of them are healed and some are not. I think as you age you realize that life is not all a fabulous performance. If it were, we wouldn’t need to seek out the entertainment and enlightenment that comes with a nice evening in the theater.”▼ Tommy Tune will perform Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales at 5 p.m., Nov. 11 in the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room. Tickets are $47. Call 392-4400 or go to www. bayareacabaret.org.

Scene from Ursula Meier’s Sister: a view askew of the euro crisis.

Anderson). She’s an apparition of a mother for Simon: she’s beautiful, she speaks another language, maybe he falls in love with her, like a child can with a teacher. But when she knows the truth, she doesn’t want to see him anymore. He discovers why adults dissemble. It’s funny because a kid who’s trying to “un-learn” being a thief should learn about honesty. Yeah, every time he tells the truth, very bad things happen to him.

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of the family.” “WNET [New York] basically threw us under the bus,” she said of the sponsor station’s lack of postairing support. Loud admitted a bit of naiveté at the time. “Daily life is pretty boring to people outside the family,” she said. “It’s like when you show home movies of your kids riding the merry-go-round. We thought when we did the show that that’s what we were doing.” A memorable scene in both the documentary and dramatized ver-

Simon and Louise’s story reflects the euro crisis. There’s no place for them in this flattened-out economy. Simon is like a capitalist, he feels he can change, elevate his life with the cable car. His ski pass is like a passport. Louise, on the other hand, is fed up with everything – boss, boyfriend, job – she prefers to escape. Simon wants to buy everything with his money, he wants to buy love. But you can’t buy love, of course.▼

sions took place far from the nowiconic family setting. Loud admits she was a bit shocked upon her first visit to Lance at New York City’s Chelsea Hotel (where the first footage of the series was shot). Imagining a quaint inn, she not only smelled the distinct aroma of marijuana, but also met her first transgendered person, Holly Woodlawn, in Lance’s hotel room. “Even through all that, I knew Lance was where he belonged,” she said. “It was what he had chosen for life. Pop culture was such an important thing to him. He understood the anthropology of the day in ways I never will. He embraced it so joyously.”▼

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