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ainstream media outlets have spent considerable space in recent days trying to reckon whether gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is “surging” to the top tier of the Democratic field or stalling in the second tier. On an anecdotal level, he has been successful enough to be attacked from top tier candidates. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont), who has been clinging to third place, took a soft swipe. He criticized Buttigieg’s comment that he would See page 14 >>

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alloween came early to the Castro last weekend, with the third annual Glow in the Streets block party. Mrs. Vera, also known as David Faulk, center, was the costume contest winner at the

third annual event, held Saturday, October 26, on Noe Street near Market. The party, produced by Comfort & Joy, featured drag, artists, flaggers, and a costume contest.

ased on the findings of a feasibility study it had conducted, the GLBT Historical Society is narrowing its search for a site to build a full-scale LGBTQ Museum and Research Center to San Francisco’s LGBT Castro district. As recently as last month leaders of the archival group had told the Bay Area Reporter that a location in the city’s South of Market neighborhood, long home to LGBT people as well as bars and businesses catering to the leather community, was a possibility. But having digested the 142-page report from the consultants it worked with, the archival group has determined that it makes the most sense to locate the museum project somewhere in the city’s main gayborhood. See page 13 >>

Queer panel tackles anti-black attitudes by Sari Staver

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he LGBT community gives lip service to black people while remnants of anti-black attitudes and behavior still remain, according to a panel of black queer activists. Speaking October 25 at the Commonwealth Club of California, the panel, “When POC is not enough: Anti-Blackness in the LGBTQ Community,” was sponsored in association with Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, Color Bloq, and “The Michelle Meow Show,” which has a partnership with the club. The panelists explored the ways anti-black attitudes affect them in navigating spaces in the community and discussed ways LGBTQ folks can work together to uplift each other, regardless of race, gender, identity, gender expression, or anything else. Panel host Aria Sa’id, a transgender woman who is a founder and executive director of the Compton’s district and founder of the Kween Culture Initiative, warned the audience that the evening’s conversation “will be uncomfortable” and may not have a “happy ending.” While working in city government, Sa’id said she was accused of participating in “oppression Olympics” when she suggested programs to help black transgender women. Sa’id also said that when she arrives at a social event and looks around and doesn’t see any other

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Attendee Chief Esparza, left, joined panelists Nia Ibu, Socorro Moreland, Aria Sa’id, Tuquan Harrison, Corey Baker (kneeling), and Kin Folkz onstage after the “When POC is not Enough’” talk at the Commonwealth Club of California.

black people, “I instantly feel isolated.” At social gatherings, Sa’id said she often spots black performers but rarely other black invited guests. In describing “anti-blackness,” panelist Socorro Moreland, a transgender activist and founder of #brotherhood, defined it as “a deep-rooted hate for a people” based on someone’s perceptions of the group. While attending Berkeley High School, Mo-

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reland said he was “taught to be everything ... except black.” Such perceptions lead people to “love everything about us, except us,” he said. Another definition of anti-black was offered by Tuquan Harrison, a queer cisgender man who is an LGBT policy adviser at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. See page 3 >>

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he San Francisco Planning Commission last week declined to take a discretionary review of a building permit for a proposed Castro falafel eatery. The vote was 3-1 in favor of the discretionary review, but it needed a unanimous vote of the commissioners present so it failed. The decision clears the way for the Flying Falafel Vegan Sandwich Bar to open at the former Outfit on Castro Street, according to Flying Falafel owner Assaf Pashut. As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the owner of Gyro Xpress at 499 Castro Street filed a request for discretionary review by the commission to prevent Flying Falafel from opening at 463 Castro Street. “The Castro district is losing its key retail spaces,” Cem Bulutoglu of Gyro Xpress wrote in the request. “There are three falafel shops on the 400 block of Castro.” The preliminary recommendation from planning staff was not to take the discretionary review. Pashut, who identifies as pansexual, said that he is not sure about the timeline of opening at that location and that it may be occupied in the interim by another business. He needs to obtain permits. “We’ll probably have a temporary pop-up until we have more time next year,” Pashut said in a phone interview with the B.A.R. Friday morning. Following the closure of Outfit, the space was occupied by a pop-up branch of the Indigo Vintage Cooperative until October 6.

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The San Francisco Planning Commission did not have enough votes to review a planned falafel restaurant at 463 Castro Street.

Before the October 24 planning commission decision, Pashut said that he did not know if he would appeal should he lose. “It would depend on how rigid the system is,” he said. “If it’s inflexible and operates illogically, then it might not be worth it.” Jeremy Paul, a permit consultant and expediter who advised Gyro Xpress, said before the decision that he wouldn’t recommend the restaurant appeal. “Either the planning commission cares about a diversity of uses, or the brick and mortar equivalent of a row of food trucks is acceptable,” Paul wrote in an email to the B.A.R. Paul, at first, made similar remarks in front of the commission. “Is the Castro going to be a fast food mecca? Is that what we want? Or do we want to keep a healthy diversity of uses?” he asked.

But then he seemed to change tone. “It’s not about the menu,” he said. “I love falafel. It’s in my blood.” After the hearing, Paul wrote in an email that he doesn’t expect the falafel shop to open. “It was an interesting hearing, and I’m glad to see the planning commission start to notice the impact of their process on the small business districts of SF,” Paul wrote. “The hearing began very late and two commissioners had left so we needed a unanimous decision to win; I have little doubt that we would have won if we had six commissioners present. Despite the result, I don’t expect there will be a falafel shop at 463 Castro Street. I like Assaf and I wish him the very best with his business. But, I’ll continue to get my favorite falafel sandwiches up at Rossi’s Deli, and a killer Gyro plate down See page 13 >>

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arlos Gomez-Miranda has been found not guilty of burglary, but guilty of petty larceny, in connection with a July incident where jewelry and other personal items were stolen from the 18th Street home of a lesbian attorney in the Castro. The verdict was announced after a couple of hours of deliberation at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, October 29, in the courtroom of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Gerardo San2:16 PM doval at the Hall of Justice. GomezMiranda was sentenced to 180 days in the county jail, with 104 already counted as time served. Gomez-Miranda’s trial started Thursday, October 24. He had been charged on a felony count of firstdegree burglary, a count of larceny, and a misdemeanor charge of receiving stolen property. He could only have been found guilty on the third count, however, if found not guilty of burglary, according to the jury instructions. Gomez-Miranda, 31, was arrested at the end of July in connection with the crime. Attorney Angela Padilla, 53, returned to her house in the Castro in early July to find that it had been ransacked. Cigarettes, needles, and dirty dishes were all over the place – and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen, she said. Padilla’s wife and three children also resided in the house at the time, though no one was home when the incident occurred. When Gomez-Miranda was arrested weeks later by San Francisco police, some of Padilla’s jewelry was found on him, trial testimony showed.

Padilla called the verdict “outrageous” in a phone call with the Bay Area Reporter shortly after it was announced. “Sounds like typical San Francisco to me,” Padilla said. “It was an open-and-shut case. His DNA was all over my house. My property was in his backpack. This verdict is outrageous but at least he was convicted of something.” Padilla said that what happened in July was the final straw for her and she is leaving San Francisco after having lived here for 28 years. “The city is lawless. It’s filthy. Crime is unchecked,” she said. “My car has been broken into multiple times.” The defense did not dispute that Gomez-Miranda had been in the house, but insisted that the prosecution had not met the legal threshold for proving the burglary charge beyond a reasonable doubt. During closing arguments Monday, October 28, San Francisco Deputy Public Defender William Helvestine said that Gomez-Miranda, who was homeless, was lured into the house by another homeless man who offered him a place to sleep after he’d failed to find a bed at the MSC-South homeless shelter. His intent in entering the house was not to commit burglary, the attorney said. Helvestine said that GomezMiranda was high on methamphetamine because he’d expected a night out on the street and he had to stay awake and alert for it to avoid getting attacked or robbed himself. “The trial, as I saw it, revolved around this issue of homelessness,” Helvestine said during closing arguments. “It explains why he found

himself on the early morning hours of July 1 in a strange person’s home with a strange man and why the reason he ended up there was reasonable. It wasn’t felonious – he didn’t enter with the intent to commit theft.” Helvestine also said there’s no evidence the amount of jewelry in question was over $950 – the required amount for a grand theft charge. He said the most his client could be guilty of is receiving stolen property. “We’ve heard of a seedy underbelly to this city, I think most of us have no firsthand knowledge of,” he said. “I put him in your hands and I trust you will do the right thing.” Assistant District Attorney Andrew Joseph Clark said that the homelessness defense doesn’t cut it. “There are a lot of good people out there who are not committing crimes who are homeless, and it’s unfortunate that they’re homeless, but they’re not breaking into houses, going through windows, and stealing property,” Clark said during closing arguments. “That’s an important thing to keep in mind.” Clark said that what happened was a lot more simple than what the defense was arguing. Security camera footage from a 7-Eleven shows Gomez-Miranda there at the same time that two 7-Eleven receipts found in Padilla’s home are stamped with. “When he was arrested, he had Ms. Padilla’s property that had been stolen from her house that she reported to the police on the day she had been ransacked,” Clark said. “He stole property from that See page 9 >>

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women. “Hopefully this will spark broader conversations about how framing reproductive health in gendered terms perpetuates health disparities, and what we can do to address them,” Maceo Persson, civic engagement and operations manager of the

San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives, wrote in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter October 28. The queer transgender man supported the sanitary brand’s move and wrote that trans and gendernonconforming people have “always been using menstrual products.” “These products shouldn’t be tied to any specific gender expression or identity,” Persson wrote. “We welcome all changes that acknowledge the existence trans and gender-nonconforming people.” In 2007, Lyon-Martin Health Services, based in San Francisco, became one of the first organizations in the country to drop “women” from its name in order to better serve transgender and nonbinary patients. Lauren Kahn, spokeswoman

for Lyon-Martin, now a program of HealthRIGHT 360, praised the Always move in a statement to the B.A.R. “I’m glad to see that Always made this change,” she wrote, adding that the public announcement signaled acceptance and inclusivity “for the experience of all people with periods” and bringing attention to the “societal lack of inclusivity of people of all genders.” Always’ move to become more inclusive of its customers joins a number of companies that are embracing their transgender and nonbinary customers. This year, Lyft, MasterCard, and Tinder have all announced inclusive policies recognizing gender fluidity – from pronoun usage to utilizing customers’ chosen names rather than legal

names when using their products. Always announced its plans to redesign the wrapper in an October 18 tweet to United Kingdom transgender activist Ben Saunders, reported HuffPost UK. News of the company’s decision started making headlines October 21. In June, Saunders, who was named Stonewall Young Campaigner of the Year, wrote to Always on the company’s Twitter page requesting it remove the female symbol from the packaging around its pads. They pointed out that not all of the company’s customers identify as female. The letter hit a nerve among the transgender and nonbinary community, which rallied around Saun-

word “black” often represents something “sinister or dark.” The language, they said, “teaches us to prejudge,” quoting the prejudicial saying, “if you’re brown, stick around; if you’re black, step back.” Folkz said the use of the term “POC” “feels like a move away from blackness,” noting that people with deeper skin pigmentation are often stigmatized. When black people hear others using the term “POC” to describe black people, “we might think it’s not a safe” space, they added. Folkz described a party they attended, when one of the attendees turned to them with a dirty plate, mistaking Folks for a service person. Folkz put the plate on a cart for dirty dishes and returned to the group. When a black person walks into a room with all white people, they may be reminded that they “can never be the norm for success, genius, and excellence,” qualities that are rarely used to describe black people, Folkz added.

Sharing that experience with another black person in the room is “like being at a family reunion,” they said. An audience member asked why it is so hard for a 15-year-old black person to find a relationship. Folkz said that San Francisco does not have enough spaces where young people can meet, suggesting that activists should try to create “youth-led” events. Another audience member asked how individuals can “cultivate black liberation.” Nia Ibu, a queer cisgender woman who is a clinical therapist, healer, and activist, said that in her work as a therapist, when developing a business model, she is able to decide who she wants to work with. When black people work together, she said, “we can reinforce being black in a culture that society oppresses.” “We need to validate and mirror each other,” she added. A member of the audience, Pax Ahimsa Gethen, a black transgender

man who is a blogger and photographer, told the Bay Area Reporter in an email why he came to the event. “As a queer black trans person, I have too often seen the presence of ‘POC’ used as an excuse for an absence of black folks in an organization – especially at the leadership level,” he wrote. “Black folks bring different perspectives from people of other races and ethnicities, and while all people of color experience marginalization and oppression, anti-black racism is a unique experience. I was glad to hear the perspectives of people from the community on these issues.” Reflecting on the event, Sa’id wrote in an email to the B.A.R., “It was amazing to witness so many people participate in the conversation. We know conversations like these can be uncomfortable and they facilitate a ‘paradigm shift’ and I think the whole panel prepared for more polarizing questions – so

the questions from the audience at the event, I think, were focused on ‘how can we change this?’ which was heartwarming.” Sa’id added that she hopes audience members and listeners increase their awareness on language they use. “The experiences of black people especially in San Francisco – with outmigration of black/African Americans in a city that once had seven times the population 30 years ago than we do now – I left wanting people to think critically about acknowledging institutional and social disenfranchisement of black community – but in LGBT community specifically,” Sa’id added. “I also wanted LGBT nonprofits to have an intentional commitment to addressing ways in which LGBT institutions have used black queer and transgender disparity as a funding model – without appropriately centering or creating pipelines for black queer and transgender leadership.”t

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ome members of the San Francisco Bay Area’s transgender community praised Always for removing the Venus symbol from the packaging of its sanitary pads. The Venus symbol historically represents womanhood and the female sex. According to USA Today, the company said the change will apply to the wrapping on sanitary pads, not the outer packaging on products. Always, a brand of Proctor and Gamble, made the announcement October 19, National Period Day. That day, launched by the Portlandbased organization Period, is a protest to end sales taxes on tampons and pads, sometimes called a pink tax because it predominately affects

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He said anti-blackness is a system of “global oppression” in which “black folks” are on the bottom and continue to be pressed down. Using the term “POC” (people of color) when referring to someone who is black “feels like an erasure,” he said. Corey Baker, a same-gender loving cisgender man who is a librarian, performing artist, and empowerment advocate, urged people facing antiblackness to “push back” toward gaining equity. The notion that everyone should be treated “the same” is wrong, he said. Instead, it’s important to find out what a person needs “to feel welcome” and try to offer that. Kin Folkz, a nonbinary queer person who is CEO of Spectrum Queer Media, a media educator, human rights activist, and founder of Oakland Pride Creative Arts and Film Fest, said in the English language, the

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alifornia officials plan to beef up poll worker training as well as provide “know your rights” information to voters ahead of the 2020 elections with an eye toward protecting trans and gender-nonconforming voters’ access to the ballot box and boosting LGBTQ civic engagement. While California has not enacted voter suppression laws like several other states, some of which compel voters to show an ID, it is nevertheless important to ensure that all registered voters can cast a ballot – both in the March primary and the November general election. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla made the announcement at last week’s Fair Share for Equality policy meeting that was held by Equality California in San Francisco. Problems can arise for trans and nonbinary voters when their names don’t “match” their gender identity. The Golden State does not require voters to show identification to a poll worker before casting a ballot. However, those voting for the first time after registering to vote by mail, who did not provide a driver’s license number, state ID number, or the last four digits of their Social Security number on their registration form, may be asked to show a form of identification at the polls to receive their ballot. In these cases, EQCA noted in a news release, voters’ names and gender markers on their identification document may not appear to “match” their gender identity, expression, or the name and pronouns they use. Padilla said that by working with EQCA, his office can benefit from the state LGBT rights

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group’s expertise and experience to train poll workers better and ensure a welcoming voter environment for LGBTQ citizens. The voting rights initiative will also support the development of content, such as brochures, posters, and digital media, to inform transgender and gender-nonconforming voters of their rights. There are about 218,400 people in the state who identify as trans, according to the Williams Institute, an LGBT think tank at UCLA School of Law. Based on the overall number of eligible and registered California voters as of February, the institute stated that there are at least 190,000 eligible

voters and 150,000 registered voters statewide who identify as transgender. Beyond attempting to ensure a high turnout in next year’s elections, the new materials will also inform LGBTQ people about the 2020 census and the importance of queers participating in it. Thanks to our racist president, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to scare and confuse people, especially Latinos and immigrants, to suppress an accurate count of their numbers. Trans people, too, have endured the bigotry of this president, and many may be afraid to answer the census. Last year’s state budget included $90 million for the 2020 census. The Assembly and state Senate have formed select committees and will work to determine outreach to encourage maximum response to the census, which is critical to determining federal funding and congressional representation for the state. Although President Donald Trump abandoned his scheme to add a question to the census about respondents’ citizenship status, the damage has already been done to frighten millions of people from filling out the forms next year. State officials must reach and inform everyone that the census will not identify non-citizens, and that a complete and reliable count is vital to ensure that California gets its fair share of federal dollars and congressional representation. Voter protection and an accurate census are two very important democratic principles. State officials and EQCA should be commended for combatting the Republican disinformation campaign ahead of time, but a massive effort will be required to counteract the overwhelming battle assured for next year. t

Recalling Purple Hands protests of 1969 by Marc Stein

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alloween has long been one of the queerest of holidays, but on October 31, 1969, San Francisco LGBT activists found new ways to confront their terrifying fears of media misrepresentations and police violence. In their wake, they left behind ghostly new symbols of gay liberation, purple hands, which continue to make apparitional appearances in the work of those who practice the dark arts of queer history. The horrifying tale began on Saturday, October 25, 1969, when the San Francisco Examiner published journalist Robert Patterson’s slashing expose on Folsom Street gay bars, clubs, and restaurants. For Patterson, these “deviate establishments” were “sad” and “dreary” sites for the “sick” ceremonies of “homosexuals,” “transvestites,” “drag queens,” and “male prostitutes.” The frightening feature was particularly hostile to those Patterson described as “semi-males,” “members of the pseudo-fair sex,” “women who aren’t exactly women,” and “hybrid blossoms.” Over the next two days, LGBT critics of Patterson and the Examiner attempted to speak with the beastly journalist and his monstrous editors, who refused to meet with them. On Monday, October 27, two members of the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, a radical gay liberation group that had been staging demonstrations since April, disguised themselves as human beings and entered the Examiner building at 110 Fifth Street, where they reportedly were verbally and physically attacked by Patterson. On Wednesday, October 29, CHF activists were joined by members of two new Bay Area groups, Gay Guerilla Theatre and Gay Liberation Front, for an invasion of the Examiner. Carrying signs and leaflets, they criticized the newspaper for its “malicious, erroneous, and irresponsible” story and called on the Examiner to fire the ghastly Patterson. According to one media source, newspaper workers responded by throwing activist Darwin Dias down a staircase. At this point, CHF and GLF decided to organize a major demonstration at the Examiner at noon on Friday, October 31. Hoping to exorcise the building’s demons, 50-100 protesters peacefully picketed outside the newspaper’s building until they were viciously attacked from above. According to a CHF spokesperson, “Suddenly a plastic bag full of printers’ ink was thrown from a second-floor Examiner office, soaking the pickets and splattering the walls of the building. Someone wiped his hands on the wall. In a few seconds, inked handprints covered the wall and windows. ‘Fuck the Examiner,’ was written by a finger dripping with ink. ‘Gay is,’ wrote a handsome young man just before he was dragged by the hair into the waiting police van.”

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Stevens McClave, inky fist upraised, led the October 31, 1969 picket line at the San Francisco Examiner.

Multiple first-person accounts indicate that after the activists began leaving purple imprints of their hands on the Examiner building (with some reports indicating that Stevens McClave was the first to do so), the possessed police responded by aggressively attacking the protesters. One demonstrator, Michael Carbone, suffered two broken ribs and a torn ear; Dias lost his front teeth. The police also targeted two journalists, Marcus Overseth of the San Francisco Free Press and Leo Laurence of the Berkeley Tribe. Laurence managed to toss his camera film to Larry Littlejohn, president of the Society for Individual Rights, before he was taken into custody. In all, the police arrested 12 or 13 protesters, ranging in age from 19 to 36. All were charged with misdemeanors, including disturbing the peace, malicious mischief, blocking a sidewalk, resisting arrest, using obscene language, and refusing to follow police orders. Five or six were additionally charged with battery on an officer, which was a felony. After the police broke up the demonstration at the Examiner, LGBT activists regrouped at the nearby Glide Methodist Church, where they decided to march on City Hall to protest police brutality. There, at approximately 2 p.m., 15-25 activists formed a picket line outside the building; they later conducted a sit-in in the offices of Mayor Joseph Alioto. Most of the protesters agreed to leave when the mayor’s office closed for the day at 5 p.m.; the three who refused to do so (James Connolly, Larry Clarkson, and Stephen Matthews, ages 19-29) were taken into custody on charges of trespassing, unlawful assembly, and

remaining at the site of a riot. Two weeks later, eight of the activists who had been arrested at the Examiner pleaded no contest to the charge of refusing to obey police orders (the other charges were dropped); they were given five-day suspended sentences and six months’ probation. Al Alvarez, a member of the Society for Individual Rights, refused to accept a similar deal and was acquitted after a jury trial. Media sources do not reveal what happened to the rest, though several indicate that felony charges were dropped against all but one of the activists; the exception was accused of biting the hand of Sergeant Sol Weiner during the Examiner demonstration. In the aftermath of the Purple Hands protest, there was praise for the spirit of queer unity that seemed to prevail during and after Halloween. Of the 12 or 13 activists arrested at the Examiner, media reports identified one as a woman (Karen Harrick/Herrick/Hurrick); one or two used gender-ambiguous names; two had names suggesting they were Latino. The late lesbian leader Del Martin later wrote that another woman was taken into custody but not booked. According to one report about the demonstration at the Examiner, “A transvestite clunked a pig over the head with the picket sign he was carrying. The pole broke and the dazed officer looked shocked as he watched him escape running as fast as he could in his tight skirt, his high heeled shoes clicking like a typewriter as he ran down the sidewalk.” With respect to the demonstration’s racial politics, some may have objected to leaflet language that used the Nword to condemn society’s treatment of the gay community, but the text also called on the community to “oppose the exploitation of all oppressed minorities” and “fight discrimination and racism.” Other signs of LGBT diversity and queer unity emerged after the protest at the Examiner. At the City Hall demonstration, a “black gay” protester “scolded” the police for nearly knocking him down as he tried to enter the building: “City Hall is a public building open to everyone.” In a first-person account of his time in jail, Overseth mentioned conversations with fellow prisoners who were “united in oppression;” they included “elderly alcoholics from the Tenderloin, Blacks, Chicanos, American Indians, Heads and Gays.” Multiple left and queer groups provided financial, legal, and political assistance for those who were attacked, arrested, and jailed on Halloween. A few months later, Martin provided further support for coalitional politics when she reported in a gay publication that Patterson, the See page 5 >>

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an Francisco-based queer activist and organizer Sophia Andary has moved from the realm of street protests and social justice advocacy to having a seat at the table at City Hall. A founding member and co-chair of the Women’s March San Francisco, Andary now sits on the Commission on the Status of Women. Its members not only provide guidance to the city’s Department on the Status of Women but also advocate for the equitable treatment of women and girls in every aspect of civic and private life. Andary is one of two out women serving on the oversight committee. “I am really excited about the commission. I am excited to give a different voice and to be working with the other commissioners. They have amazing resumes and are amazing women who have accomplished quite a bit,” Andary told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview this week. “I never thought I would be a commissioner or even consider politics. But I realize I can bring change to the table.” Appointed to a four-year term on the oversight panel last month by Mayor London Breed, Andary was sworn into her seat October 7 and has already participated in two meetings of the committee. Her new role has been a bit of an adjustment for Andary, 37, a senior analyst for Levi Strauss & Co. who co-chairs the clothing company’s Levi Women’s Employee Resource Group. “I have a lot of learning to do. I also believe I bring something to the table that needs to be there right now,” said Andary. “As an activist I am coming from the standpoint of fighting for social justice and fighting for marginalized people.” Born in Michigan, Andary is a first-generation Lebanese American whose family is a member of the Druze religious sect, though she herself is agnostic. When she was 3 years old, Andary’s family moved back to Falougha, Lebanon. Five years later the family relocated back to the U.S., this time settling in Glendale, California in order for Andary and her sister to attend school full-time. In Lebanon they were often unable to go to school as the country was in the midst of a civil war. “My mom didn’t like the cold so she didn’t want to go back to Michigan,” said Andary, noting that at the time many members of her extended family had settled in Southern California. (Her father is currently in his

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offending Examiner journalist, had been criticized by African American activists for racist reporting in 1968 and 1969. Subsequent developments suggest that Patterson may have been haunted by the ghosts of purple hands. In 1972, rival reporters spilled ink and spilled the beans about a recent series of Examiner stories by Patterson. The stories purportedly were based on a visit that Patterson had made to mainland China, except there was no evidence that he had gotten further than Hong Kong. After Patterson failed to provide any proof that he had visited the mainland, the Examiner fired him. In the meantime, other U.S. newspapers and magazines may have wondered whether they might be the next victims of purple protesters. On September 12, the Gay Liberation

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Mayor London Breed, left, recently appointed Sophia Andary to the Commission on the Status of Women.

home country participating in the street protests against the Lebanese government that led Prime Minister Saad Hariri to announce on Tuesday he would resign. “The government is greedy and steals all the money. Now people are waking up and demanding change; I am really proud of that,” said Andary.) In 2004, Andary graduated from the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County with degrees in international business and French. Four years later she moved to the Bay Area, as she preferred its weather and San Francisco reminded her of her time studying in southern France. A resident of the Outer Richmond, Andary serves as an at-large member on the board of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club. Not feeling welcome as a femme identified woman in the Castro’s bars, she created the monthly SF Lipstick Lesbians meet up for other queer and transgender women that gathers at various nightlife spots around the city. “When I moved here I realized very quickly this city is not for gay women; it is a city for gay men. I realized very early on there were no spaces for women,” said Andary. “I really hated that because one of the things I love about San Francisco is my freedom. I didn’t feel I had that in the Castro. I had a lot of issues, especially as a femme woman, always having to justify being there.” Days after Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016, she found herself sitting in a living room with about a dozen other women interested in organizing a response. It led to the first Women’s March in San Francisco on a rainy Front in New York had staged a major demonstration at the Village Voice to protest the newspaper’s coverage of gay issues and its refusal to accept classified advertisements with the word “gay.” On November 5, just a few days after the Purple Hands protest, the Homosexual Information Center sponsored a demonstration at the Los Angeles Times when that newspaper refused to accept advertisements with the word “homosexual.” Then on October 27, 1970, the anniversary of the first gay confrontation at the Examiner, New York’s Gay Activists Alliance staged an all-day sit-in at Harper’s to protest the magazine’s publication of a genocidal article about homosexuality by journalist Joseph Epstein and its refusal to provide equal space for a response. In reporting on the 1969 Purple Hands protest in the San Francisco Free Press, Overseth wrote that “for many of us it all changed on Halloween.” Fifty years later, much has

Saturday in January 2017. Despite the weather, about 100,000 people showed up to protest Trump. “We were anticipating 20,000 people,” recalled Andary, whose only protection against the elements that day was a cheap plastic poncho. It wasn’t until after the march had wrapped that she realized how large of a turnout it had drown. She remembered thinking to herself “what the hell just happened” when the tail end of the march had set foot on the route. She has remained involved with the local Women’s March chapter, which is all volunteer run, and is helping plan for the fourth such event on January 18 next year with the theme of “Together We Rise.” Andary has also been mentoring some of the youth leaders holding their own march for education taking place in cities around the Bay Area November 9. While she encourages people to take part in such actions, Andary stressed that they need to remain engaged after the march ends or the protest wraps. “I want to see more people getting involved in holding everybody accountable,” she said. “I am really tired of people showing up to a march, taking pictures, patting themselves on the back, and that is it. That doesn’t do anything if you are not standing up for people everyday in your life.” As for what the future holds for Andary, she is focused on her commission work – it is writing a new four-year strategic plan for the city department – as well as her activism and work duties. While she doesn’t plan to run in the March election for one of the seats on the committee that oversees the local Democratic Party, Andary didn’t rule out seeking public office at some point. “One of the reasons I wanted to be a commissioner is to see if this is a route I can take to help create real change. I have done it from the activism, grassroots plank and now I want to see if I can do it in a more citystructured way,” said Andary. “I will be able to answer that question better in a couple of years. This is going to help me figure it out.” t

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changed but some has not in the treatment of LGBT people by the press and the police. To address the ongoing demonization of queer “others” by those who exercise power in our society, it might be time to summon the ghosts of Purple Hands to spook the political reactionaries who continue to terrify and terrorize the most vulnerable among us. t Editor’s note: In a column October 30, Examiner editor-in-chief Deborah Petersen apologized for the incident (https://www.sfexaminer. com/opinion/a-troubling-event-inthe-examiners-history-friday-ofthe-purple-hand/). Marc Stein, a gay man, is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of “The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History” (New York University Press, 2019).

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y husband and I kept seeing Portugal listed as one of “the places to visit in 2019.” The Spartacus Gay Travel Index rated it as tied with Sweden and Canada for the world’s most friendly LGBTQ destination. It’s full of colorful and ancient buildings. Madonna even has a house there. Feeling the same curiosity as so many others, we planned our first vacation in Portugal and started in Lisbon, which has the best air connections to the U.S. TAP Portugal airlines recently started nonstop service from San Francisco to both Lisbon and Porto, and its Stopover program allows a stopover in either city for up to five nights for no extra charge. TAP organized a trip for travel writers in June, which included a flight to Lisbon. Our spacious Business Class seats provided for lie-flat sleeping. Our group of writers stayed at the Pestana CR7 Lisboa hotel, partially owned by one of Portugal’s most famous soccer players. The snug rooms were quiet for sleeping and had effective blackout curtains. Both were important because one block away was Praca do Comericio, a Tejo riverfront plaza renowned for watching sunsets. I found CR7 so well located that husband, Tom, and I stayed there again in September when we both visited. Dinner in June was at the Mini Bar gastropub restaurant in the nearby Chiado district, our first exposure to the consistently creative and delicious restaurants of Portugal. The gushy reviews on Trip Advisor are correct, for once. Chef Jose Avillez has assembled a witty and surprising collection of small plates, ending with what looks like unshelled peanuts on a bed of gravel, but is actually portions of peanut ice cream on a bed of cocoa nibs,

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The view of Praca do Comericio on Tejo riverfront from Castelo S. Jorge is breathtaking.

adding a crunchy, bitter chocolate garnish to the frozen dairy. Wild! During our September trip, my husband and I enjoyed an excellent dinner for 55€ (with wine) at the new Marisqueira Azul seafood restaurant, which faces the plaza. In the nearby Mercado da Ribeira, the Time Out publisher has converted part of the covered market to “curated” restaurant stalls, some run by Michelinstarred chefs. Long tables in the center hold happy diners; most dishes are 15€ or less. We purchased a Lisboa Card for free entry into about 45 museums and monuments, a pass for public transportation, and discounts to dozens of other attractions, tours, and stores. Alternatively, a Zapping pass, loaded with money like a Clipper card, covers local buses, elevators, funiculars, the subway, and even some local trains, for a discounted rate. We visited the Lisbon Story Center to learn more of the city’s history; the show includes a corny, but interesting, animation of the 1755 earthquake and tsunami. That seismic event killed thousands, destroyed most of Lisbon, and is the reason the city has few sur-

viving pre-1755 buildings. A block from our hotel was the famous Tram E28, which ends at the Cemetario dos Prazeres, started in 1833. The cemetery holds so many famous deceased Portuguese that they print a map for visitors. The tram is extremely popular, so try to take it early or late in the day. To go uphill to the Chiado district, we took the Gloria funicular to Rua de Alcantara for dinner at the lively Insolito restaurant, where reservations are necessary to enjoy rooftop dining with a spectacular view. Check out the creative desserts like Go Nuts and Cool Sandwich. After two days in Lisbon, we took the Rede Express bus directly to Portimao in the Algarve, a trip of 3.5 hours. Get tickets in advance; all seats are reserved. The bus passed miles of countryside with vineyards, olive groves, and grazing cows. Our home in the Algarve was the Mirachoro III. For only 70€ per night in September, the Mirachoro provided an apartment with a kitchen, free

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Ascensor da Bica is considered Lisbon’s most picturesque funicular.

parking, and a small pool and snack bar; several supermarkets are nearby and walkable. A free hotel shuttle runs to downtown and the beach, though both are walkable. To see more of the western Algarve, we rented a car from Algarve Car Hire; rates start at 35€ per day for a tiny Fiat Panda. Portimao is an attractive but congested small city, divided between a compact downtown on the Arade River and a beach section called Praia da Rocha on the Atlantic. The waterfront plaza is the place for strolling, people watching, and arranging boat trips; nearby are the visitor center and several good restaurants. One of the best is the Dona Barco restaurant, located in Portimao’s small restaurant row. We had our first taste of perfectly grilled dourada, similar to sea bass. The menu was almost entirely fish; lunch for two was 50€. The unexpected treat was sitting at a long table with about a dozen Europeans. Our immediate neighbors were two Portuguese women from Angola, a former Portuguese colony, and a Belgian couple whose husband was eager to show the immense boars he had hunted. Our political discussion was lively and amicable. Next to that is the Museu de Portimao, usually called the Sardine Museum. In a former sardine factory, this fascinating museum depicts the history of the sardine industry, which dominated Portimao since the 1800s. Rocha is a wide sand beach, with gentle waves, a gradual drop-off, and a comfortable temperature for swimming. Two loungers and an umbrella rented for 12€, but the beach itself is free. Much of the Algarvian coast is rocky bluffs and we wanted to explore the cliff-top hiking. In about 45 minutes (including getting lost), we drove to Benagil for a tasty lunch of dourada and razor clams at O Litoral restaurant (60€). Benagil is a small town with a small beach, popular because sea caves are adjacent to the sandy beach. We followed an easy trail for about 10 minutes to a blowhole, formed when the roof of a sea cave collapses. The sandy area inside the blowhole was full of kayakers and tour boats, all trying to avoid swimmers. An easier walk starts to the west at Carvoeiro, where a boardwalk has been built on the cliff top. To see the caves from the water, the next day we took the Benagil Express boat tour, which enters some of the larger caves. That evening back in Portimao, we experienced the most theatrical dining experience of our trip in the beautiful Michelin-starred Vista Restaurant. We ordered the Chef’s Menu (110€) with a wine pairing and a juice pairing. We had never seen a juice pairing before, and it included a delicious, barely-sweet mixture of melon, celery, and coriander. Before the waiter served the bread, he brought a bowl covered by a clear glass dome filled with smoke.

As he lifted the dome, pine-scented smoke wafted away to reveal a cone of pine-flavored goat butter for our house-made bread. The pre-dessert was called “The oranges from the Algarve.” Our waiter brought a miniature citrus tree with two miniature oranges, which are actually candies with orange ganache outside and orange mousse inside. In the center of Portimao is The Loft, one of the few gay bars of the Algarve, open from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. Admission is only 8€, but we did not stay up late enough to visit. About 30 minutes away by car is the small town of Silves, famous for its ancient castle. The castle is mostly a shell, but you can walk completely around the ramparts and enjoy views in every direction as well as see the former cistern, designed to be large enough to survive long sieges. Back in Lisbon we moved to an apartment managed by Fado Flats, which has apartments in the Chiado and Alfama districts. Our Chiado 9 apartment had two bedrooms for 120€ per night; the private courtyard garden was especially nice for break days. Fado Flats manager Mario Caldeira’s office was across the street; he helped repeatedly with advice, directions, and making reservations. One block away was the Bairro do Avillez complex. We had two exceptional dinners at the beautiful Pateo, which had smooth service and an extensive menu. Also nearby is the less expensive seafood restaurant Adega de Sao Roque; we had a savory crab stew over rice and grilled fresh sardines (50€ for two). The sardines we consumed were worlds away from their canned cousins.

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From late August to late September, Lisboa Na Rua, or Lisbon on the Streets, programs dozens of free events all over the city, many enjoyable without knowing Portuguese. We took a short subway ride to the Estufa Fria de Lisboa, a latticeroofed outdoor garden with very elaborate water features and 10 temporary art installations throughout the gardens. Out Jazz was a free jazz concert in Parque de Bela Vista, with a guitar soloist and seating on the grass with a view over the city to the Tejo River. The next morning we visited the Monasterio de los Jeronimos, which has a church and a cloister; our Lisboa Card enabled us to see the cloisters without waiting. The church is free, the ultimate example of Manueline architecture and popular; visit in the early morning to avoid lines. Manueline architecture is a Portuguese style of Gothic ornamentation popular in the early 1500s, incorporating maritime and even whimsical references to Portuguese discoveries. It was named after monarch Manual I, who reigned from 1495 to 1521, and was largely financed by a surge of wealth from Portugal’s spice trade with Africa and India. Many examples did not survive the 1755 earthquake, but one that did is the proximate Torre de Belem. Down the street from the Monasterio is the famous Pastis de Belem bakery, considered by Lisboans as the originator of the popular egg custards. The lines move fast and you’re guaranteed a very fresh pastry. To take a break from crowds, we spent an afternoon in the Museu Art Antiqua, which holds works by many famous European artists (don’t miss Bosch’s “Temptation of St. Anthony”) plus an extensive collection of decorative arts like furniture, silver, and pottery. Don’t miss the inexpensive restaurant behind the museum with a view over the river, with a bridge resembling our Golden Gate Bridge in the background. See page 13 >>

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rag queen Juanita MORE! is bringing queer party vibes back to Polk Street for Halloween. The neighborhood block party will be October 31, from 7 to 10 p.m. on Fern Alley, between Polk and Larkin streets. The Lower Polk Community Benefit District is teaming up with MORE! for the event, which will pay homage to Polk Street as the destination for the queer community years ago, especially on Halloween. The party will feature live music by IndiviDúo, dancing, food and drink, a costume contest, and a photo booth. The event is free and open to the public.

Manny’s to hold anniversary party

Manny’s, the cafe and event space in San Francisco’s Mission district, will have its oneyear anniversary and election watch party Tuesday, November 5, from 6 to 10 p.m. at 3092 16th Street. Owner Manny Yekutiel wrote in an email that he is using the milestone event to launch a yearlong push to defeat President Donald Trump. Honey Mahogany will be serving as hostess for the evening, which will include drink specials, guest speakers from Bay Area civic life, and Trump piñatas. Additionally, representatives from the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns have been invited to sign up supporters and there will be voter registration cards (English and Spanish). The evening will double as a watch party for the city’s municipal election results and feature political drag, a mock voting booth, and a big physical reveal, the details of which were not available. The party is free but there is a capacity limit. To register, visit https:// bit.ly/32M6BDn.

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Stonewall Dems hold benefit for trans charities

The East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club will hold a unique fundraiser that benefits charities supporting the transgender community. Billed as a night where “instead of working for candidates, our elected officials work for us,” the Friday, November 8, party will feature East Bay politicos serving as bartenders. The event takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. at Spats Bar, 1974 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.

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Karyn Skultety, third from left, accepted her award from Excelerate board members Dr. Ernest Lewis, left, Edward Dadakis, and J. Alex Sloan, board president and chairman.

Elected officials who are expected to be on hand include state Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, gay Emeryville City Councilman John Bauters, Hayward City Councilwoman Sara Lamnin, Oakland City Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney, bi Piedmont City Councilman Tim Rood, gay San Leandro City Council member Victor Aguilar Jr., and gay Berkeley Rent Board member James Chang. Attendees’ tips will support the following organizations: Kween

Culture Initiative, Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, TGI Justice Project, House of GG, and the Transgender Law Center. According to the club, it will match tips dollar for dollar to double the total donation. To register, visit https://eastbaystonewalldemocrats.org/ event-3542740/Registration.

Openhouse ED honored

The Excelerate Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports charities addressing problems and opportunities in American com-

munities, has recognized Openhouse Executive Director Karyn Skultety, Ph.D., with its Leadership Award. “Excelerate Foundation created this award to recognize outstanding progress and leadership in social change and community development,” J. Alex Sloan, the chairman and president of the organization, said in a news release. “We reserve this award for the few who are making a palpable difference in the communities where they live and work, and we feel Karyn Skultety is actually helping change the landscape of LGBT aging in San Francisco.” This is only the second time in 11 years that Excelerate has presented the award, the release noted. Skultety, who is bisexual, joined Openhouse in 2017 and during her tenure has almost doubled the size of the only organization in Northern California exclusively serving LGBT seniors with housing, housing assistance, social services, and community engagement, the release said. Prior to Openhouse, Skultety served as vice president of health services at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. “I am so honored by this recognition from the Excelerate Foundation and for the opportunity to work with See page 14 >>

ALRP marks 36 years with reception

The AIDS Legal Referral Panel will mark 36 years with its annual reception and benefit Thursday, November 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange, 465 California Street (at Montgomery) in San Francisco. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will serve as the host for From the Heart fundraiser, which is expected to draw more than 300 people. ALRP’s mission is dedicated to providing free and low-cost legal services and education to people living with HIV/ AIDS in the Bay Area. It relies on nine staff attorneys and a panel of 700 volunteer lawyers, according to its website. Bill Hirsh, ALRP’s executive director, said that panel attorney Connie Hiatt, JD, will receive the Clint Hockenberry Leadership Award in recognition for her years of dedication and support to people living with HIV/AIDS. ALRP panel attorney John E. Fasesky will receive the organization’s Attorney of the Year Award. The law firm Kosinski and Thiagaraj, LLP will receive the Firm of the Year Award. The reception is a tribute to ALRP’s board members, staff, and pro bono panel attorneys who contribute their time and energy to help clients. Hirsh noted that despite a difficult economic climate for HIV/AIDS fundraising and a 66% increase in its caseload over the last 15 years, ALRP continues to provide its services to over 1,500 people living with HIV/AIDS each year. The food and wine reception will include a silent and live auction, which will feature vacation packages to Palm Springs, Yosemite, and Sonoma; dinner party for 10 with wine pairings at Lolinda; and use of a luxury suite at Oracle Park for a San Francisco Giants baseball game. Tickets are $100. For tickets and more information, visit http://www. alrp.org. Untitled-2 1

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their liquor license, they couldn’t get another one. â€œWe went to the owners and said ‘well, why not put it into a corporation’ so if (Alcohol Beverage Control) takes it, just make another corporation,â€? Robinson said. “In fact, at the Hideaway I was president of the corporation.â€? As the Tavern Guild became more formal and expanded, it provided financial help for sick or struggling bar staff, awarded a bartender of the year award, and had picnics. “We could never have them in the same place twice,â€? Robinson said. It was at the Beaux Arts Ball – organized by the guild – in 1965 that JosĂŠ Sarria declared himself “Empress of San Francisco,â€? an important moment in the founding of the Imperial Council of San Francisco, which continues to this day. Robinson said he remembers the first time he heard of a gay bar opening South of Market – a leather bar called the Tool Box at Fourth and Harrison streets. “It was so funny because they said, ‘who would go South of Market?’ It was all industrial. It became quite the place. But as this went along, these people joined the Tavern Guild,â€? he said. After about a decade in the bar business, Robinson became a barber in what became the Castro district. “No one ever heard of the Castro; it was like going to a foreign country,â€? Robinson said. “We were in the Tenderloin.â€? Horn said that the Tavern Guild worked with Harvey Milk, who popularized the Castro as San Francisco’s gay mecca in the 1970s, and the Coors beer boycott that earned Milk a major ally in the Teamsters union. “They wielded political clout and they did from the get-go,â€? Horn said. “It was interesting to watch from afar.â€? Milk went on to become the first gay person elected to office in San Francisco and California when he won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in 1977. Tragically, he and thenmayor George Moscone were assassinated by disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White in November 1978. The Tavern Guild was hit hard by the AIDS epidemic and disbanded formally in 1995, according to the OAC, but not before its model was copied by groups of LGBT establishments in other cities. Robinson was asked if he could recall any of his co-workers from the early days of the guild for potential interviews. “They’re all dead,â€? he said. t For an earlier story on Robinson, check out https://www.ebar.com/ bartab/barchive/281006.

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black and white photo in the upper right hand corner features a smiling male candidate decked out in a conservative suit and striped tie ensemble. His intense gaze is aimed directly at the camera and, thus, anyone viewing the poster. Beside and below the image is printed a simple request – “Elect José Julio Sarria Supervisor” – above the word “Equality!” In the upper left-hand corner is a reminder in red ink that the election in the city and county of San Francisco will take place Tuesday, November 7. The simplicity of the poster belies its political significance. It is from Sarria’s 1961 bid for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which marked the first time an openly gay person campaigned for elected office anywhere in the world. Sarria, one of the most famous drag queens of his day who died in 2013 at the age of 90, came close to being elected. But his candidacy spooked the local powers that be so much that Democratic Party leaders tried to keep him from running as a Democratic candidate. Faced with the threat of a lawsuit, the Democrats relented but recruited two-dozen people to enter the race to ensure that Sarria had to compete for one of the six seats up for grabs that fall. Come Election Night, Sarria ended up in ninth place with nearly 6,000 votes. Nonetheless, his courage to seek public office as an out candidate at a time when gay people could be imprisoned inspired other LGBT people to follow suit. The poster is now preserved in the archives of the GLBT Historical Society in downtown San Francisco. It is among the various political ephemera the archival group has preserved that documents the LGBT community’s quest for political representation at all levels of government. Although the archival group’s Sarria collection is one of its largest, it has never mounted a full retrospective about the gay icon at the museum it operates in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro district. “We have a small exhibit on José and one of the costumes he wore,” noted Terry Beswick, the historical society’s executive director. Unlike Sarria’s friend Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first gay person to be elected a San Francisco supervisor only to be assassinated a year later, there has yet to be a Hollywood biopic filmed or traditional biography written about Sarria. Director Joe Castel is working on a documentary, “Nelly Queen:

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home. He almost got away with it – but he didn’t. “If you don’t abandon common sense, you realize this home was burglarized,” he added. Juror No. 12, who did not want to be named, said that Helvestine had the better of the argument. “There was no intent. He didn’t have the motivation,” he said of Gomez-Miranda. “To have burglary you have to have intent.” The juror said that there was “no way” the amount of jewelry

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An original campaign poster for José Sarria’s 1961 campaign for San Francisco supervisor is part of the collections at the GLBT Historical Society.

The Life and Times of José Sarria.” He screened a work-in-progress version of the film at the Qfilms Long Beach Film Festival in September and won the audience award for best feature film. In 1998 Michael Gorman published his Lammy Award-winning book “The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of José Sarria,” which is based on multiple conversations he recorded with Sarria. Yet Sarria remains mostly unknown by the general public. “A lot of people have never heard of José Sarria,” said Beswick. “Even among my generation people don’t know him.” Sarria’s political race was just one chapter in his remarkable life. A San Francisco native born to South American immigrant parents, he enlisted in the U.S. Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor and was discharged in 1947.

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Beginning in the 1950s, Sarria rose to prominence with his drag cabaret shows at the Black Cat Cafe, a now defunct gay bar in the city’s North Beach neighborhood. He would beseech the audience members to come out of the closet, telling them that “united we stand, divided they catch us one by one.” He was a co-founder of both the League for Civil Education, which in 1960 formed to protest laws banning bars from serving alcohol to gay people, and the Society for Individual Rights, an early gay rights organization that launched in 1963. In 1965, Sarria created what became known as the Imperial Court System by crowning himself “Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco, José I, The Widow Norton.” The title was in homage to Joshua Norton, an eccentric city resident who in 1859 declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. The court system grew into a major fundraising mechanism for a wide variety of causes, from LGBT the jury saw was valued over $950 (although more jewelry than that recovered was reported to be stolen, according to statements made in court). “It wouldn’t have come close,” he said. Helvestine said he was not surprised by the verdict and that it was his client’s testimony that won the day. “I don’t think the evidence was there from the beginning,” he told the B.A.R. after the verdict. “Anyone in the courtroom for Carlos’ testimony would have found him truthful, upfront, and honest.” t

issues to caring for people living with HIV and AIDS. It now has chapters in dozens of cities across the country as well as in Canada and Mexico. Sarria’s life “really is like a movie,” remarked Kelsi Evans, director of the historical society’s Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives & Special Collections. Two years ago Sarria’s biography was featured in the Oakland Museum of California special exhibit “Over The Top: Math Bass & the Imperial Court SF.” Sarria had recorded an oral history interview in 1990 for the East Bay institution and donated several personal items to its collection. This summer he was among the LGBT icons showcased in the museum’s “Queer California” show. For years LGBT leaders have sought to see Sarria be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, whose honorees are selected by the governor. They are hoping Governor Gavin Newsom will select him for the honor. During Newsom’s first term as mayor of San Francisco, city leaders in 2006 renamed a portion of 16th Street in front of the city’s Castro branch library, which is named after Milk, as José Sarria Court. The GLBT Historical Society’s archival holdings from Sarria’s multifaceted life are so deep that they would lend themselves to myriad exhibits and storytelling possibilities in its planned future permanent museum. Curators could choose from his drag costumes and political ephemera to historic photos and oral histories. “We have so much of this in José’s own voice,” noted Evans. t

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Cushman’s passions were on stage and off by Victoria A. Brownworth

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harlotte Cushman was the greatest American actress of her era, a theatrical superstar and a gender-nonconforming lesbian who worked on stages in the U.S., Britain, and Rome throughout the mid-19th century. For over four decades, she was seen by millions. Tall, strikingly handsome, and highly charismatic, Cushman charmed women across two continents from the stage and her drawing rooms. During the time when women frequently played both men’s and women’s roles, Cushman became known for her “breeches roles,” playing men on stage. Her Lady Macbeth launched her career, but it was her portrayal of Romeo in Shakespeare’s most popular play, “Romeo and Juliet,” that was considered one of the greatest of any actors, male or female, of her era. Cushman was so beloved and admired that when she retired from the stage, her farewell ceremony was described as “the most spectacular in the history of the American theater. Thousands came in her honor to see fireworks and a candlelight procession through the streets of New York.” Even today, theater awards and scholarships are in her name, like the Cushman Theater Award in Philadelphia.

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Onstage Cushman’s powerful presence led women to write her swooning fan letters, many of which remain. Offstage, she attracted beautiful and talented women in the arts and letters. Her career made her quite wealthy, and, in the 1850s, she established a feminist arts colony in Rome for writers and artists – including the most famous American woman sculptor of the period, Harriet Hosmer, and African American artist and sculptor Edmonia Lewis, both lesbians. Cushman sponsored the work of many talented women, including Lewis and sculptor Emma Stebbins, who would be her last partner. Unlike many women of the period who disguised their lesbian relationships, Cushman was open about her love affairs and became known as a polyamorous heartbreaker, who often maintained more than one relationship at a time. She had several longterm relationships, which she considered marriages, as well as short-lived affairs. Cushman’s impact on the women she loved was so intense that one of her early lovers was said to have died of a broken heart when Cushman ended their engagement and another sued her for palimony when she discovered Cushman was having

An unfinished portrait of Charlotte Cushman by Thomas Sully

an affair with another woman. Lisa Merrill, author of “When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators” (University of Michigan Press, 344 pp, 2000), the definitive biography of Cushman, said in an interview with Tim Miller, “Cushman left literally thousands of unpublished letters, mostly written to and from the women she loved. Yet the historical record of her life seemed deliberately to overlook, dismiss, silence, or trivialize her achievements and the importance of women in her life.” Cushman was born July 23, 1816 in Boston. She was trained musically and had a contralto voice. Her father died suddenly when she was 14, leaving her, her mother, and four siblings in financial ruin. That’s when Cushman decided to leave school, where she was a gifted student, and pursue a musical career. In 1834, at 17, she began performing with other famous women opera singers. After some success, she traveled to New Orleans on tour only to have her voice fail from being strained in mature roles at too young an age. Her mentors advised she become a stage actor, and her first acting role was as Lady Macbeth in 1835. Cushman was only 18, but she continued that role in New Orleans, Boston, and Albany, New York to huge critical success. Soon after, Cushman began her period of breeches roles, in “Romeo and Juliet,” sharing the spotlight with her younger sister, Susan. Susan Cushman was married at 14, and then abandoned by her elderly husband when she became pregnant. Charlotte took her in and supported her, even adopting her son, Ned. Eventually, Charlotte led Susan onto the stage where the two performed the lead roles in “Romeo and Juliet,” with Charlotte as Romeo and Susan as Juliet.

The critics were wild for the leading sisters. In one of the ironic contradictions of the era, the reason women frequently played men’s and women’s roles on stage was to quell any notions of impropriety between men and women actors. Passion between two women was not just accepted, but exalted and seen as charming; no ideas about real sensuality or sexual passion between two women existed. What’s more, men flocked to the theater to see women in breeches roles where their legs were exposed. It was within this altered social construct that Cushman thrived as both an actor and a lesbian lover. Merrill recounted, “What was especially intriguing to me was the range of women and men who were apparently drawn to [Cushman’s] power, especially in cross-dressed roles like that of Romeo, one of her most famous. Although she was not the first female Romeo of her era, she was undoubtedly the most successful. When Charlotte Cushman and her sister, Susan, first played Romeo and Juliet for British audiences in 1845, the reviewer from the London Times stated enthusiastically that, ‘It is enough to say that the Romeo of Miss Cushman is far superior to any Romeo that has been seen for years.’ Critics from the major London newspapers found Cushman believable as Romeo, the man, rather than Romeo the woman playing the man.” In the U.S. and Britain, the women’s rights movement – the first wave of feminism – was intensifying. Cushman became an iconic figure of feminist strength while also, ironically, being considered by men to be utterly sexually chaste. In 1889, Lawrence Barrett delivered a lecture trying to explain her success. Cushman, he said, was “a woman of weird genius, somber imagination, great sensibility, and celibate condition” who had been “victorious by force rather than by sweetness.” Celibate condition? Not so much. In 1842, Cushman became stage manager at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. The Walnut Street Theatre is “the oldest continuously operating theatre in the English-speaking world and the oldest theatre in the United States,” and for a woman to be stage manager at that time was incredible. While in Philadelphia and already famous at 25, Cushman sat for a portrait by the painter Thomas Scully. It was during these sittings that Cushman met, wooed, and bedded Scully’s daughter, Rosalie.

Rosalie Scully was herself a painter and had been commissioned to do landscapes (women were prohibited from life drawings at the time) in New York when she was only 19. She also painted miniatures for Cushman. After they met and began to spend time together, Cushman and Rosalie Scully became romantically involved and exchanged many passionate letters. In her diary in 1844, Cushman wrote of wanting to kiss Rosalie so passionately she would “press the breath out of her body.” On June 1, 1844, Cushman sent Rosalie a ring for her birthday. On July 5, 1844, Cushman wrote in her diary that she had “Slept with Rose,” and on July 6, 1844, Cushman wrote that they were “married,” as symbolized by that ring. But the marriage, unlike Cushman’s next two marriages, was not to last. In November 1844 Cushman left Philadelphia to go on an English tour. She did not invite Rosalie Scully to come with her, but the tour did not end the affair. Instead, the discovery by Scully that Cushman had become involved with another woman was the final straw. Scully fell into a severe depression – diagnosed as a “broken heart” – and she died a few months later in 1847 at the age of 29 of a fever.

Expanding career

While her move to Britain had wrecked her relationship with Scully, Cushman’s career expanded dramatically. She was a huge success on the English stage, and it was there that she met Matilda Hays, a British writer, journalist, and part-time actress. The couple embarked on a tempestuous relationship that would last for a decade. Cushman and Hays were public about their relationship and would go to dinners and events wearing similar dresses and holding hands. They were recognized as a couple – yet still perceived as “chaste.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, herself once the subject of rumor for her relationship with the younger Robert Browning, called the Cushman-Hays relationship a “female marriage.” In 1852 Cushman decided to retire from the theater – not for the final time, however – and moved to Rome. It was here that Cushman created her arts colony, which she called a “household of jolly bachelor women.” That group included Hays, Hosmer, Lewis, Stebbins, and writer Grace Greenwood, among others. It was also a site of much lesbian drama, with revolving lovers among the women living there, including Cushman and Hays.

The History Project’s 1996 “Public Faces, Private Lives” exhibit described this enclave as “a group of highly mobile, independent women [who] began enjoying an international transatlantic lifestyle that now seems strikingly modern. These women were respected members of the art world, earned large incomes, and kept company with the intellectual and moneyed elites of the time.” William Westmore Story called it “a Harem of emancipated females.” Henry James called it “The White Marmorean Flock,” in a roman à clef. It was in Rome that Cushman used her now-international fame and wealth to promote the work of her women artist friends, including Lewis and Stebbins. Stebbins was one of the most famous American sculptors and her “The Bethesda Fountain” is at the entrance to New York City’s Central Park. It was in Rome that Cushman fell in love with Stebbins and her relationship with Hays ended – although not completely by Cushman’s choice. Hays had become involved with Hosmer in 1854 and left Cushman for her. Then the couple got back together the next year, with Hays moving back in with Cushman. But in 1857, Cushman began having an affair with Stebbins. One night while Cushman was writing a note, Hays walked in on her. Suspecting that the note was to Stebbins, Hays demanded to see it. Cushman said that the note was not to Stebbins but refused to give it to Hays. A fight ensued in which Hays chased Cushman around the house, pounding her with her fists. The altercation ended the couple’s relationship and Hays moved out. She then sued Cushman, stating that she had sacrificed her own career to support Cushman’s career and therefore was due reimbursement – a modern palimony lawsuit. Cushman paid her an unknown sum and the couple sundered their relationship permanently. Stebbins then moved in with Cushman. The couple lived together until Cushman’s death in 1876. In 1858, Cushman embarked on a tour of America starring as Hamlet, and billed as “a lady universally acknowledged as the greatest living tragic actress.” While on tour, she fell in love with Emma Crow, an 18-year-old actress and daughter of the politician Wayman Crow. She called Emma Crow her “little lover,” and brought her back to Rome where she and Emma Stebbins and Cushman all lived together. In another twist, Cushman introduced Emma Crow to her adopted son Ned See page 14 >>

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ime was, Eureka Valley Recreation Center was at the heart of LGBT sports in San Francisco. And the person most responsible for making that happen was former director of the center, Nancy Dito, a former high school four-sport star who now competes in bocce ball in Sonoma County. I first started passing by EVRC, a block off Castro Street at 18th and Collingwood streets, back in the 1970s. I would see lost souls huddled in the shrubbery outside, and the grounds would often be littered with bottles and needles. It was not a place that inspired engagement. And then Dito came on board in the 1980s and things started coming to life. The center became vibrant with one recreational sports program after another, and Dito helped overcome a cultural divide between the longtime blue collar residents of Eureka Valley and the incoming crowds of new residents from the LGBT community who rebranded the area as the Castro. “I wanted them to get along, not just put up with each other,” Dito, 71, said. “I remember having a meeting and I felt the pull from both sides. Some had grown up in the neighborhood and then the gay community came in. I wanted them both to have a place to congregate, to meet, to play. Seniors and kids – we needed them to all be there. I said, ‘Everybody’s going to get a piece of this. You’re not going to get more because you were born here and you’re not going more because you’re coming in.’” “Susan Kennedy and Gary Frances would go to those meetings,” Gene Dermody, president of the Golden Gate Wrestling Club, said, referring to the former leader of Team SF and wrestler for Golden Gate Wrestling, respectively. “They fought to get sports programs in there. Nancy was

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tough and she pulled it together.” Basketball. Volleyball. Soccer. Tennis and badminton. Wrestling and folk dancing. A women’s night. Sports flourished in the center, and Dito, an athlete down to the core of her soul, was at the heart of it. As she was building the programs and changing the culture, she was a target for aggrieved bigots. “They would call me names as I walked to my car,” Dito said. “They’d yell, ‘You dyke!’ – that kind of stuff. Was I afraid? Probably a little bit. And they were pretty open about it. It’s not like they were doing it where I couldn’t see them. Now if I meet them, they’re very pleasant.” Dito said she started playing sports at the age of 3, encouraged by a father who was an athlete and a mother who was very active. Starting at Mercy High School, which inducted her into its athletics Hall of Fame in 2015, and continuing through City College of San Francisco and then San Francisco State University, she excelled at whatever sport she tried, from basketball

and volleyball to tennis and pingpong. How good a basketball player was she? Well, for a couple of years the Golden State Warriors sponsored a four-team women’s league to play at their games and she was a scoring star. She was selected for national team tryouts when it seemed like the Olympics were going to add women’s basketball for 1972. So, yeah – damn good. After college, she taught physical education before going to work in the city’s recreation and parks department. She worked in the department for 27 years, 22 of them at EVRC. “I loved being with people,” she said. “I loved teaching and helping people. It was a good fit for me.” I asked Dito what her coming out process was like. “I didn’t really know that I was a lesbian until my early 20s,” she said. “In those days bars were places to meet. I’m really honest. For me it was just being obviously out, not announcing it. I told my mother and my father and I did not get a good reception. They ostracized me from the family for many, many years. It’s not really for me to judge. Eventually they both in their own ways apologized and tried to accept. But they were the product of their particular lives.” In 2003 all programs were moved out of the recreation center as it underwent renovations for a couple of years. Dito decided to stay on through that process before retiring. “She put me and Tony Jasinski on the renovation committee,” Dermody said. “She gave us a voice.” Jasinski said he interacted with Dito for about 15 years. “She’s a person of great integrity,” Jasinski said. “I never had a problem with her. She always had the interests of the entire community. She was very supportive of the gay community, but she cared about the entire communi-

ty. Under her the children’s program was very strong. She was rigid in that she knew right from wrong.” One source of contention during the renovation discussions was what to do about the showers that used to be in the center next to the restrooms; they’re gone now. Before coming to the rec center, Jasinski said, gay basketball had been housed in a church in the Haight-Ashbury district, but lost the gym when it was converted into a homeless shelter. Sports activists worried that the city might be tempted to do the same with the EVRC gym if the showers remained. An ugly metal gate barring the stairs to the multipurpose room was removed. The gymnasium got a major facelift. A separated space for youth community programs was created and a playground sparkled in front of the main building. The outdoor field was named in honor of Rikki Streicher, an early LGBT rights pioneer and leader in the formation of the Gay Games. The gymnasium was named in honor of Mark Bingham, the gay rugby player who lost his life fighting the hijackers on Flight 93 during 9/11. Jasinski said the accomplishment of Dito’s he most admired was getting a dog park installed. “The neighborhood demographics had changed,” Jasinski said. “There was a kids baseball field there that wasn’t getting used as much and people were walking their dogs there and making it unusable for baseball. We designed the dog park, which is working really well and there is still a ball field.” Sadly, after Dito’s retirement, the city’s approach to its parks and recreation centers began to change. Some

politicians started advocating for privatization of recreational spaces. A push began to look at recreation centers not so much as community resources but as rental cash cows waiting to be milked. Gradually centers started charging rents rather than encouraging growth of communitybuilding recreation programs. One by one LGBT sports groups started leaving recreation centers. These days at EVRC the LGBT sports presence is pretty much down to basketball, wrestling, and an occasional dodgeball game. And Dito? She’s been with her partner, Jan Farrell, for 41 years. They take Olivia cruises. She’s rekindled her competitive spirit as a bocce ball organizer and competitor with fellow LGBT seniors in Sonoma County. She holds holiday socials to bring people together. “I’m still playing bocce ball and teaching clinics in Sonoma,” Dito said. “There are people who play or write or are musicians or whatever and they can do those things until the day they die. I’m an athlete, but I can’t show you my athleticism any more today. If anyone sees me kind of move occasionally, they know. Physical therapists who work on me say, ‘You were once an athlete. We can feel it underneath, your muscle structure – we know.’” And she rejoices in the growth of women’s sports. “I am so glad that women nowadays have so much more opportunity to play, that mothers and fathers encourage their girls as well as their boys to play,” she said. “There’s so much we have to learn in sports.” And nobody better to teach them. t

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Some football players at Adrian Wilcox High School in Santa Clara have been disciplined following an anti-gay incident.

The incident left the family of the bullied male cheerleader feeling “fearful for his safety – now more than ever,” his father told the Mercury News. The boy had allegedly endured harassment for a month leading up to the incident. The boy’s sister, who was the squad’s former captain before graduating, took her brother home at halftime on the night of the incident, the paper reported. Later that evening she tweeted a warning to the football team and an image of a cake that said, “We love that you are gay!” Despite the homophobic taunts, the freshman returned to school October 21, but he did not attend school last Tuesday because his father wasn’t certain that his son would be protected, he told the Mercury News. The father, who was not identified, called his son “courageous.” “He has a responsibility to his team and to the school. He’s out there to cheer the football team and this is what they do,” the father told the newspaper. A football player who provided screenshots of the incident to the family was also allegedly threatened by his teammates, reported the paper. The father said that if the school doesn’t properly handle the investi-

gation, he will enroll his son in a different school, he told the newspaper. Other parents have also made similar statements in the comments on the change.org petition (https://tinyurl. com/yxaxkdvb) calling for justice for the cheerleader that reached more than 9,000 signatures as of Saturday. Students, teachers, parents, and LGBT organizations have rallied behind the boy.

Disappointment and outrage

Wilcox won the October 18 game 49-21 and is undefeated this season. Last season it won a state championship, the Bay Area Reporter noted in an earlier article. Parents, students, cheerleaders, coaches from other schools, and the South Bay’s LGBT community are not cheering for the team following the incident. They are disappointed and have questions for the school and the district. They are also displeased by the lack of transparency the school and the district provided about the investigation and disciplinary actions. Instead of answering the questions, Gonzalez and the district are focused on moving forward. “I feel that it is critical that we begin the healing process,” Gonzalez wrote in the letter to the community. “From a disciplinary standpoint, the school has taken the actions available given the facts of the case, which range from removal from athletics to suspension from school,” she continued. The district reiterated its and the school’s no tolerance policy for “harassment, bullying, or retaliation of any kind,” in Thursday’s statement. “The high school years tend to naturally be interesting years, but they See page 14 >>

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at Gyro Xpress – they’ve got Stella on draught which makes it perfect. Seriously, the Castro is blessed with great Mediterranean food.” Numerous community members spoke in support of Flying Falafel, including one who appeared to be eating a falafel at the podium until a commissioner asked him to speak

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States, we do not have a museum – outside Berlin – dedicated to LGBTQ history,” he said. “To me, it’s important because of the kids. Still, we have kids in San Francisco who don’t have a sense of belonging, who have no sense of their history – their heritage.”

of the Castro in a storefront it has leased through at least 2022. For this year’s LGBTQ History Month, the B.A.R. asked the historical society to delve into its archives and select objects it envisions could one day be used as the centerpieces of exhibitions in a future, permanent museum. Most of the items featured in the five-part series, which wraps this week with a story focused on LGBT political ephemera, have yet to be put on exhibit for the public. At the archival group’s recent annual fundraising gala, held October 18 on the Ohana Floor atop Salesforce Tower, San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged her support for the new museum project. It was the first time she had done so before a public audience, said Beswick, since voicing her backing of the project during

an editorial board meeting with the B.A.R. ahead of her election in June last year to serve out the term of the late mayor Ed Lee. Seeing a permanent LGBT museum open in San Francisco is “long overdue,” Breed said at the event, which raised more than $100,000 for the historical society’s operating budget this year. “We know we need a place in San Francisco,” Breed said. “Building out a museum – and curating and documenting (LGBT history) – is critical to the success of San Francisco.” Breed noted that when the historical society has applied to the city for funding, “we’ve been there with support. We will continue – in my administration – to look at this through an equity lens.” Beswick said the public commitment for the museum project from the mayor, who is expected to easily win her race for a full four-year term on the November 5 ballot, was a year in the making. He was scheduled to meet with leaders of city agencies this week to present the findings of the feasibility study and discuss next steps. “We can, in San Francisco, in this economy, support a full-scale museum,” he said. “The problem is a building, facility, land. That’s why the mayor’s support is so important.” It will be only the second LGBTQ museum of its kind in the world and the first standalone LGBTQ museum to be built in the United States, noted Beswick in his remarks at the gala. “In San Francisco and the United

more clearly into the microphone. Commissioner Dennis Richards, who lives nearby in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, voted to take the discretionary review because he would prefer to see the eatery move into one of the currently vacant restaurant spaces in the Castro rather than take over a retail space. He took Pashut on a tour of the area and pointed out several spaces he could lease instead. When he was “a young gay boy from

San Jose,” Richards recalled shopping at the Castro’s then numerous retail spaces. Today, he noted, the nature of the neighborhood is changing just as it did years ago in North Beach, which has seen retail spaces go empty while restaurants and bars boom. “We’ve become a retail desert and the neighborhood is in a death spiral,” said Richards, adding that in the right location “I think Flying Falafel can help us get out of the death spiral.”

“I think Flying Falafel can help us get out of the death spiral.” Pashut said in a previous interview with the B.A.R. and at the Castro Merchants meeting last month that even though there are other places to get falafels in the Castro, his eatery is a 100% vegan concept, with “very small” overlap with a couple of other establishments in the Castro. Bulutoglu, in a phone interview Monday, October 28, with the B.A.R.,

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“The big question people always ask is where is it going to be,” said GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick. “Honestly, with these feasibility studies we clearly answered we need to be in a gay-identified neighborhood. We really want to be in the Castro if at all possible.” The study was split into two reports, with one devoted to the economic feasibility of the project. The other looked at various scenarios for combining a museum and archives in one building or housing the two entities at separate locations. It is estimated that a combined facility would require a gross building size of 40,000 square feet, with around 20,000 square feet dedicated for the exhibit area. Such a museum could see yearly attendance of 106,000, estimated the study authors. An admission price of $18 is suggested, with total admission revenue pegged at $954,000. The overall takeaway from the reports, said Beswick, is that the project is financially doable. “The exciting thing for me is they really create a business plan that shows we can operate and sustain a full-scale museum in San Francisco,” said Beswick. The 34-year-old archival group currently stores its vast collection of materials documenting the history of the LGBT community in a leased space downtown on Market Street. It also operates a 1,600 square foot museum on 18th Street in the heart

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GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick, left, greeted Mayor London Breed at the organization’s recent gala on the Ohana Floor atop Salesforce Tower.

Rendering

A rendering for the new museum included in the feasibility study is based on the interior of the vacant retail location that previously housed Pottery Barn at the corner of Castro and Market streets. But there is no guarantee that site, which is reportedly valued at upward of $16 million, can be acquired by the historical society for its museum. A key recommendation in the feasibility study is for the historical society to remain open to different locations and siting scenarios as it pursues the project. As the consultants from AECOM note, a parcel of the size required for a dual museum and archive building is “not often available in the neighborhoods that would be the most logical fit” for the project. “The foundational goals for the expansion and relocation can be realized in a number of different ways, and it is important to acknowledge that the flexibility to take advantage of a good opportunity that meets timing, location and cost needs may play as important a role as square footage projections,” states the report. The study cost $110,000 with $30,000 paid for from city funding and the rest from money awarded to the archival group by the state of Cali-

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One of our favorite museums was the Tile Museum, whose three floors presented tiles from the 15th to the 21st centuries in a former convent. The museum has good labels in English and a simple cafe with an adjacent garden. On the top floor is the spectacular panoramic tile mural showing Lisbon in the early 1700s, before the quake. Another favorite was the large Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, founded by a wealthy oil broker and antiquities collector. Highlights are his large carpet collection and Middle Eastern art and tiles. The galleries were beautiful and spacious, and there are English-guided tours on Sunday and Monday. The collection starts with ancient Egypt and continues to the 20th century. On the recommendation of Fado Flats manager Caldeira, we reserved a table at Fado ao Carmo, a small Fado restaurant close to our apartment. Fado is the Portuguese musical genre born in the 1820s or earlier, characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often expressing a longing for someone or something lost. We started with pureed fava beans with house-made bread, olive oil “so good you can drink it,” and herb butter. Next was a rabbit-filled samosa with marinated parsnip, a codfish croquette with dip of chickpeas, onion and tomatoes, and two mains: an Alentejo-style pork neck and octopus rice served like paella. Dessert was Portuguese flan and chocolate mousse (35€ each including entertainment). Service paused periodically for singer Ines de Vasconcellos, accompanied by two classical guitars tuned for Fado and one Portuguese guitar.

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Boaters, kayakers, and swimmers converge on a popular sea cave near Benagil in the Algarve.

We wanted to swim in the Atlantic once more, so we again took the advice of Caldeira and caught the 45-minute beach shuttle (5€) from Praca da Figueira to the best beaches near Lisbon: Costa de Caparica. The bus drops you off in front of a series of beach-oriented businesses and restaurants. The beach train to gay-popular and clothing optional Beach 19 stopped in mid-September, so we wandered into Ona, a new restaurant featuring “young chefs, BBQ fish, and real wines.” Ona had a sophisticated menu, was reasonably priced, and everything was locally sourced. Our main was manila clams with coriander and garlic, served with toasted house-made sourdough bread to soak up the broth (60€). Back on the wide, sandy beach after lunch, we enjoyed the warm Atlantic among a scattering of other sunbathers.

At the bottom of the hill from Chiado 9 is the Rossio train station, where the trains for Sintra depart. Less than an hour away, Sintra has castles, palaces, and estates, called quinta, and merits at least a full day. The town is located on steep and heavily wooded hills, so visiting more than two sites a day requires careful planning even though there’s a shuttle bus system reaching most sites. Intrigued by descriptions of the “Harry Potter-esque” features of the Quinta da Regaleira, we chose that as our first stop. Regaleira was designed by an Italian architect and theatrical set designer; it was constructed between 1904 and 1910. The neo-Manueline buildings are worth visiting, but more interesting are the follies, water features, grottoes, caves, and underground passages. The star attractions are two Wells of Initiation. Entry to the larger is via a

rotating stone door, which leads to a spiraling staircase around what looks like a multi-story tower buried in the ground. At the bottom are a series of tunnels, one emerging behind a waterfall pouring into a pond and another leading to the second “well” that you ascend to ground level. Allow at least three hours to see the 10-acre estate. On a different and rainy day, we returned to visit the National Palace of Sintra, primarily an indoor experience. It’s the oldest and most historic structure in Sintra except for the Castelo Mouros. As we walked through the rooms, costumed performers dancing to Renaissance music entertained us. The palace has beautiful old tiles and some original furniture, plus a huge kitchen with 100 foot tall chimneys. Another easy trip is the 40-minute train ride to Cascais, a wealthy resort

fornia. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) pledged his ongoing advocacy in the Capitol on behalf of the museum project and the nonprofit in general. “I have always been a strong supporter of funding for the historical society. I will continue that advocacy,” Wiener recently told the B.A.R. “Yes, I would like to see the state help with their museum.” In an interview about the findings in the reports, Beswick told the B.A.R. that the nonprofit is exploring with city officials the possibility of combining the museum project with a housing development, similar to the currently under construction project that will see housing combined with a new home for the Mexican Museum at the corner of Mission and Third streets. “Our next step really is finding a site and finding a partnership that would work and make sense,” said Beswick, who stressed that, “We still don’t have a building and we don’t have the funds to purchase or build our own building.” In 2020 Beswick said he hopes to have a better idea for where the museum could be located and how much of a capital campaign the historical society will have to launch. For now, said Beswick, the nonprofit plans “to focus our efforts and the city’s efforts on A: finding a site, and B: a developer to work with us so we can flesh out those questions,” he said. t Cynthia Laird contributed reporting for this story.

said that his request was purely motivated by the desire to “keep retail in the area so people would dine,” bringing up the example of North Beach – though he did add “our falafels are better.” But, at the end of the meeting, Bulutoglu said he shook Pashut’s hand to congratulate him. There is a Flying Falafel location on the 1000 block of Market Street and another one a block from the downtown Berkeley BART station. t with small beaches and attractive, impeccably clean plazas. Bigger beaches are reachable by bus, but are recommended primarily for surfers. We had a very good lunch at the vegetarian House of Wonders restaurant, sitting on the roof deck and enjoying the “farm to table” selections (30€). Close by, the Historia Paula Rego museum has etchings and prints by the provocative surrealist and expressionist artist. We took a taxi to the ancient Moorish Castelo de Sao Jorge, which looms over central Lisbon. Try to get to the castle soon after it opens at 9 a.m. The massive walls are walkable and provide breathtaking views in all directions. Our final lunch in Lisbon started with a stroll to Miradouro Santa Catarina; miradouro means “scenic overlook.” We passed several river view restaurants on the way to Lapo. Their small plates included Portuguese prosciutto on toast, a salad of Presunto or Portuguese dry-cured ham, and another salad of goat cheese, lettuce, a perfectly ripe pear and fig, and toasted almonds (40€). Buildings in Lisbon are painted in beautiful shades of blue, green, pink, yellow, orange, and tan. Others have facades covered with bright tiles, either patterned or depicting a scene. It’s easy to visit without knowing much Portuguese, but you’ll see smiles when you say please or thank you in the local language. If you want to visit unique sites one day, go swimming the next, and enjoy delicious food all day every day, Portugal is the place to go. t For links to many of the places and accommodations mentioned in this story, see the online version at ebar.com.

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like to see more justices like former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and David Souter, who were appointed by Republican presidents but shifted to the left during their time on the high court. Sanders said he would prefer more justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, viewed as liberal jurists. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was also the target of an internal campaign leak: Someone made public a document that showed a focus group of African American voters in South Carolina found Buttigieg’s being gay was a stumbling block in his hopes of winning over a sizeable number of African American voters. And a report emerged last week that Buttigieg’s campaign was getting help from controversial Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. That came just as the media was turning up the heat on Zuckerberg for including the extreme right-wing news outlet Breitbart as a “trusted” news source on Facebook’s new News tab. Looking at data, Buttigieg continues to succeed in both polling and fundraising. In the latest two national polls to come out since the October debate, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) have split the lead. Buttigieg, the only out candidate in the Democratic field, came in fourth each time. In a Quinnipiac University poll of 713 voters who were Democrats or leaning toward Democratic candidates October 17-21, Warren gar-

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should never be years of pain and heartache,” Gonzalez wrote in her letter. “They should be a time of learning, joy, and innocence as you prepare to take the first major step towards adulthood,” she wrote, reiterating that the school “will never tolerate bullying or harassment of any student.” Gonzalez pledged support for students who are bullied or victims of harassment at the school.

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and the two married several years later. Cushman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1869, and in 1871 decided to return to the United States. She built an elaborate mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. During the last six years of her life, she gave dramatic readings, which suc-

nist David Byler, “rumors of a recent Buttigieg surge are mostly exaggerated” because Buttigieg’s support is still primarily white, well-educated, high-income voters. That shows up most starkly in the fourth state to hold its Democratic nomination voting: South Carolina. In the Palmetto State, Buttigieg was polling sixth, with only 3 or 4% of the vote. A poll taken by the local Post and Courier newspaper October 12-21 showed Buttigieg support doubled, to 9% overall but at only about 5% among blacks. Previous South Carolina polling has strongly suggested Buttigieg was suffering a significant deficit in support among black voters. McClatchy’s D.C. bureau reported last week that an “internal focus group” study by the Buttigieg campaign found that the candidate’s “being gay was a barrier” for black voters. McClatchy said the study covered responses from only 24 black voters participating in three small focus groups in South Carolina, but only one of the 24 said they would consider voting for Buttigieg. “[T]heir preference is for his sexuality to not be front and center,” McClatchy reported the study as saying, posting it online. The study also noted that, “After seeing the mayor speak, most voters in each group seemed to be able to get past his sexual orientation.”

Those are the national polls. In the first state that will conduct presidential party nomination voting, Buttigieg appears to be in better shape. Buttigieg is polling third, even second, now in Iowa, the site of the first presidential nomination contest.

An Iowa State University poll conducted October 18-22 among 598 “likely Democratic Caucus attendees” showed Buttigieg in second, with 20% of the vote. He was behind only Warren, with 28%, and two points ahead of third place Sanders. In a poll conducted by USA Today and Suffolk University, 13% of 500 “likely Democratic caucusgoers” in Iowa said they would “vote for or lean toward” Buttigieg. (The poll was conducted October 16-18 with a margin of error of 4.4 points.) The percentage itself is not impressive; he’s polled as high as 16 points this month. But what is worth noting is that his polling now puts him only 4 points behind Warren (at 17%) and five points behind Biden (at 18%) in Iowa. He has consistently been 11 points behind the front-runners since mid-September. Poll expert Nate Silver, a gay man, called the idea that Buttigieg is surging in Iowa “bullshit.” “It’s possible he’ll surge,” Silver wrote on his website. “ ... But to say there’s been a big Buttigieg surge is so far from reality that, if you simply glance at a table of polls, it almost feels like gaslighting. He’s maybe gained a point or so in the national polls.” Silver said Buttigieg has advantages in Iowa and New Hampshire – both states have largely white populations, and Buttigieg’s home state of Indiana is, like Iowa, in the Midwest. A Washington Post op-ed piece last week made the same point. It said Buttigieg’s “relative political inexperience is probably still a disadvantage” but that he has “successfully executed an Ellen DeGeneres-style charm offensive….” “But as others have pointed out,” said the piece, by Post political colum-

On the plus side, Buttigieg is strong in fundraising. According to records filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Buttigieg has raised a total of $51.5 million through September 30. Among the Democrats, this is the third most raised. (Sanders has raised

$74.5 million and Warren, $60.3 million.) Though it’s not clear whether this will help his campaign, Bloomberg reported October 21 that the Buttigieg campaign has been “quietly” getting help from Zuckerberg, the controversial Facebook founder. Buttigieg campaign spokesman Chris Meagher confirmed that Zuckerberg and his wife sent campaign manager Mike Schmuhl some names of people they would recommend for Buttigieg’s campaign staff. Facebook has become an issue in the Democratic primary, with some candidates, such as Warren, saying mega-corporations like Facebook are engaging in “anticompetitive practices” and violating consumer privacy rights, among other things. On Thursday, October 24, during an appearance in New Hampshire, Buttigieg appeared to put some distance between himself and Facebook. He contradicted Zuckerberg’s congressional hearing testimony – that Facebook has no responsibility to police political ads on its pages. Buttigieg said Facebook does have a responsibility to pull false advertising and advertising aimed at suppressing voter participation. And he said breaking up mega-corporations is an idea that should be considered. Fortune magazine said this week that Buttigieg appears to be taking the lead as the “Big Business candidate” in the Democratic presidential field. In addition to the Facebook connection, it cites that several big corporations – including Netflix, Uber, and Nest – have hosted fundraisers on Buttigieg’s behalf. And he’s won praise from the son of conservative publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch. t

She stated that moving forward the school “will be working collaboratively with our students, staff, and families on activities and bringing diversity experts to campus to act as a resource in assisting our community in the healing process.” Jennifer Dericco, public information officer for the district, confirmed to the B.A.R. there is an LGBTQ+ club on campus that will be working with the school’s leadership. Adrienne Keel, director of the LGBTQ programs at the LGBTQ Youth

Space in San Jose, was critical, calling for the school to “be more transparent.” Keel, a lesbian, told the B.A.R. that as of October 25, the school hadn’t reached out to the youth space, which provides counseling services to LGBT youth as well as competency and sensitivity training to schools. The agency also hadn’t reached out to the school. “Our staff were angered by the news of what this student experienced,” wrote Keel in an email interview with the B.A.R. “He deserves to feel safe doing what he loves and rep-

resenting the school. “I ask the leadership and faculty at Wilcox to lean into their potential discomfort and actually do the work to address toxicity that exists on their campus,” Keel wrote, responding to the district and the school’s statement. “Preserving the school’s reputation should not be the primary focus at this moment.” The space is a part of Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley, a division of Caminar. San Francisco-based GSA Network

didn’t confirm if the school has a GSA program or respond to a request for comment by press time. The Santa Clara Office of LGBTQ Affairs also didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time. The incident comes as Santa Clara County’s new Hate Crimes Task Force is being formed, but hasn’t convened yet, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Vice President Cindy Chavez’s assistant, Beth Willon, told the B.A.R., adding that the incident is on Chavez’s radar. t

invisible,” she said in the release. Skultety accepted the award at Excelerate’s recent luncheon. The award comes with a $5,000 prize for the recipient and a $5,000 grant for the organization.

fully accessible. The autumnal feast is provided by Mollie Stone’s. There will be two seatings, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and from 4:30 to 6. The dinner is free but donations are welcome. People should RSVP to let organizers know which seating they would like

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The aforementioned Openhouse will hold its Fall Feast 2019 for LGBTQ seniors Thursday, November 21, and people can sign up now as it’s expected to fill up. The event takes place at the Green Room in the San Francisco War Memorial, 401 Van Ness Avenue. The venue is

ceeded as much as her theater career had. A year before she died, she went to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts to choose her gravesite. She looked at lots and tombs in prominent positions throughout the cemetery. Finally, she said, “Haven’t you a lot for sale where one could obtain an unobstructed view of Boston?”

She found a spot near the highest point in the cemetery with a sweeping view of Boston and the widest part of the Charles River. She liked it so much she brought a group of friends to visit it and eat lunch. Cushman died of pneumonia in her hotel room at the Parker House in Boston on February 18, 1876, survived by Stebbins, who died six years later. t

nered 28% of the support, followed by Biden with 21%, Sanders with 15%, and Buttigieg with 10%. (The poll’s margin of error was 4.6 points.) For Buttigieg, the result was a 2-point improvement over a Quinnipiac poll just before the October 15 debate. In a CNN poll of 424 Democrats or Democratic-leaning adults nationwide October 17-20, 34% supported Biden, 19% Warren, 16% Sanders, and 6% each for Buttigieg and Senator Kamala Harris (California). (The margin of error was 5.8 points.) For Buttigieg, the result was unchanged since the CNN poll in early September. The CNN poll demonstrated something else: Despite his unprecedented success as a virtual unknown when he started his campaign, Buttigieg is still a relative unknown. The CNN poll found that 37% of 1,003 adults surveyed still “never heard of” Buttigieg. Twenty-eight percent had a “favorable” opinion of him, 23% had an “unfavorable” opinion of him, and 12% had no opinion. The 37% who said they had never heard of Buttigieg was an enormous improvement compared to January, when 77% had never heard of him. But it is still a significant hurdle when compared to Biden and Sanders (who only 3% said they never heard of) and Warren (with 13% never heard of). Even 28% of Democratic voters said they never heard of Buttigieg.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EUGENIA OLVERA ART, 16 PUTNAM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EUGENIA O. RAPHAEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/02/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038818000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BICYCLE COMMUTER SERVICES, 38 EL SERENO CT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELBERT C. HILL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/23/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038816300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREAT ADVENTURES, 2830 A GOLDEN GATE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GAIL MATTHEWS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038805500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SL THERAPY, 414 GOUGH ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHEENING LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038814200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INDIGO X, 18 BARTOL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIN HAO CHUA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/02/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038808300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PALM FINE JEWELRY, 1410 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a general partnership and is signed TESSA ORTON & SAMUEL BILLS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038817000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE HOLLYWOOD CAFE, 2155 BAYSHORE BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed MARIBEL CHAVARRI & MICHAEL CHAVARRI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038812800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOLSOM STREET DENTAL, 1130 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SETIA DENTAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038817100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DJI INVESTMENTS, INC., 2230 RIVERA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DJI INVESTMENTS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038818300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASE FOR MAKING, 4037 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CASE FOR MAKING, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038792900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GATSBYSF, 795 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GATSBY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038799200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOOP SUPPORT, 1201 TENNESSEE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PANEL NINJA, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/19

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038812900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEIT RIMA, 86 CARL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BEIT RIMA LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/02/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038815700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YUMMY HOME PLATE, 177 TOWNSEND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HOME PLATE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/03/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/19.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555285 In the matter of the application of: CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, 1336 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, is requesting that the name CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, be changed to RAMIRO SAENZ TEJADA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 3rd of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555166 In the matter of the application of: TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS, 201 8TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS, is requesting that the name TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS AKA TEREZA ASSIS LEMOS AKA TEREZA ASSIS WILLIS AKA TEREZA LEMOS, be changed to JULIANA DEMICAEL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, on the 3rd of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555281 In the matter of the application of: MEGAN E. INTOCCIA, 2524 FRANKLIN ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MEGAN E. INTOCCIA is requesting that the name MEGAN E. INTOCCIA, be changed to MEGAN INTOCCIA HAPGOOD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 26th of November 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555282 In the matter of the application of: CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, 2524 FRANKLIN ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, is requesting that the name CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, be changed to CURTIS TONGUE HAPGOOD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 26th of November 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038820400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARD HITTING CLEANING SERVICES, 820 PRESIDIO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARCUS GAINES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038820700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADVANCED AQUATICS 888, 140 ANZA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JERAD LEONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038799000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAPI FEET, 2477 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JANELLE TATE GREEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038808900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOOGIE DAWG, 1888 GENEVA AVE #1712, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHEILA K. LANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038816900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAN BAY AREA, 3661 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDUARDO ISAAC DUTSON-GUTIERREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038821900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EPIC AUTOMOTIVE, 341 10TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed WT MANAGEMENT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038811500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WEI GUO HOUSE, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038449000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: ALLEY HOUSE, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/18.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-032194300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: PLAIN & SIMPLE, 149 ADDISON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MELVINA M. HILL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/09.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555303

In the matter of the application of: KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR, 3626 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR, is requesting that the name KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR AKA KRYSTAL CAROL KOBASIC, be changed to KRYSTAL CAROL KOBASIC. 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 December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIVIS REFEXOLOGY MASSAGE AND SPA, 773 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINH AI DUONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INCMEDIA; BALBOA BUSINESS CENTER; INQ; INQMEDIA; ONE CHOICE TRAVEL; AZN EVENTS; ZENNHA; INQCOM, 3739 BALBOA ST #164, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IVAN T. NGUYENVU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038814300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAFEWAY GLOBAL EDUCATION, 2309 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LEI LI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/02/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEW PEW GAMES, 460 BRANNAN ST #77744, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUYI 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 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEW PEW GAMES, 1 BLUXOME ST #214, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUYI 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 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038827500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZAD ACUPUNCTURE, 2211 POST ST #204, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHALA HASHEMIZAD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOROS CHARAS-DESTINATION, 1427 24TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SWATHI LAKSHMANAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038815200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHINATOWN PRETTY, 1314 FULTON ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94117. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ANDRIA LO & VALERIE LUU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038825500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLOOM BLOW DRY BAR, 819 ULLOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BC BEAUTY SERVICES GROUP INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NINES, 2509 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FROM GIRLS, FOR GIRLS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/14/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A TABLE, 4843 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed A TABLE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038828800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACTIVE ASCENSIONS, 236 W.PORTAL AVE, #192, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ACTIVE ASCENSION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038823100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YASMIN, 799 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ELTAWIL BROTHERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/03/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 756 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 3251 20TH AVE, #250K, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 1581 WEBSTER ST, #175, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555316 In the matter of the application of: TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG, 701 TAYLOR ST #509, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG, is requesting that the name TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG AKA TIMOTHY D. ARMSTRONG AKA TIMOTHY ARMSTRONG AKA TIM ARMSTRONG, be changed to TYMN ARMSTRONG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 10th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555322 In the matter of the application of: ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON-HORNSTEIN, 255 STEINER ST #501, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ASHLEY LAUREN NELSONHORNSTEIN, is requesting that the name ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON-HORNSTEIN, be changed to ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 12th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555331 In the matter of the application of: ROSE KHALLOUF & LEO DETOMASO, 1595 33RD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ROSE KHALLOUF & LEO DETOMASO, is requesting that the name OLIVIA KHALLOUF DETOMASO, be changed to OLIVIA ROSE DETOMASO. 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 December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-029691000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: FIVE STAR NAIL & SPA, 2920 DIAMOND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by CUONG VIEN LA. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/06.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555330 In the matter of the application of: PHUOC MINH NGUYEN, 201 TURK ST #301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner PHUOC MINH NGUYEN, is requesting that the name PHUOC MINH NGUYEN AKA DAVID PHUOC MINH NGUYEN be changed to DAVID PHUOC MINH NGUYEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514, on the 17th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MITOMOTO PHOTOGRAPHY, 1508 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAHDE MITOSINKA. 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 10/18/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038842900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SRI PUBLIC RELATIONS, 388 MARKET ST #1300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SRI LAKSHMI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038839800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLA COMMERCIAL CLEANING SVC, 138 GAMBIER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUIS ALFONSO CHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUGFUL, 823 KANSAS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PARASKEVAS APOSTOLOPOULOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038834000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CACHESTARS GLOBAL, 1300 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HERALD DANILO BERMUDEZ AGUILERA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038832000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEI FEI DAYCARE, 460 36TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIFEI BIAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

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Jason Moran in a still from Lorna Simpson’s “Chess” (2013). 3-channel HD video.

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he highlight of Out There’s recent jaunt to New York City was an artistic encounter with the MacArthur “genius grant”winning jazz pianist and bandleader Jason Moran. We’re a big fan of his work. But our encounter with Moran didn’t happen at a jazz club or a concert hall, we found it at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where “Jason Moran,” the first solo museum survey devoted to the jazz artist, is on display through January 5, 2020. Moran is a musical and conceptual artist who has always collaborated with visual and performance artists, and the centerpiece of the exhibit is a set of video screens that show over two hours of Moran

performing with esteemed artists from the visual or theatre worlds like Joan Jonas, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker and Lorna Simpson. Sounds of Moran’s pianism waft enticingly through the gallery. But the visitor is also attracted to the show visually, by a three-part installation entitled “STAGED” (2015). These are three largescale dioramas that meticulously recreate, in the form of so-called “stage sculptures,” the bandstands of three famous music venues that figure large in the history of jazz and the blues: Slugs’ Saloon in New York’s East Village, the Three Deuces in

Midtown, and the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. These re-fabrications are also the staging points for some actual live performances during the show’s run, a program appropriately called “Jazz on a High Floor in the Afternoon.” The baby grand in the re-creation of the Three Deuces stage is programmed with a player-piano roll, so that it plays itself. Each stage is complemented by a display of photos and souvenirs scavenged from its famous club. It’s a brilliant art idea: we recreate architecture all the time, why not bandstands? Music, architecture, art, design, art-making, video, installation,

A replica of the Three Deuces bandstand (part of “STAGED,” 2015), one of three large-scale dioramas in “Jason Moran” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

and performance: this truly is an interdisciplinary show, and it points the way forward to ways that contemporary art museums may consider many different kinds of art practices for display and education. Moran’s artistic exploration is also represented by a series of drawings he made by covering a piano keyboard with paper, coating his fingers with charcoal, and tickling those ivories. The results look something like rubbings of ancient gravestones, the shapes of the black and white keys appearing ghostly through the charcoal scrim. The drawings are named after the titles of the pieces Moran played while making them, so that they function as a sort of visual documentation of musical practice. The old Whitney Museum build-

ing in Midtown, designed by Marcel Breuer, has been taken over by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano, is a beautiful piece of modern architecture set down on the far West Side, at the end of the park-like walking path the High Line, and right beside the Hudson River. Its sparkling mass, its outdoor galleries, terraces and staircases match the water towers and industrial landscape of its surroundings, and enliven the old Meatpacking District, which is now filled with fashionable boutiques and restaurants. Some of us will miss the savage wilderness and urban squalor, and the sexual adventure of the old piers, but for most of humanity this is an improvement.t

Percussive attack on climate change by Philip Campbell

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he San Francisco Symphony celebrates Día de los Muertos with a concert event, community activities, and screenings of DisneyPixar’s “Coco” on November 1 & 2, but colorful decorations are already up at Davies Symphony Hall. Recent concertgoers have been welcomed with festoons and whimsical lobby art. The world premiere of a commissioned work and two impressive guest artist debuts fit the dramatic atmosphere. SFS Principal Percussion Jacob Nissly is one of the orchestra’s standout players, usually showing his skills from the rear of the stage. He changed that, literally moving all over the place, as soloist in the premiere of friend and colleague Adam Schoenberg’s new percussion concerto, “Losing Earth.” A cry for attention to environmental crisis and climate change, the three-part score started theatrically with Nissly making an entrance from the auditorium, drumming an imposing strapped-on set. Other percussionists, stationed throughout the hall, added to the march, but the initial excitement dissipated as the work went on. Statements from guest conductor Cristian Macelaru and the composer covered the universal possibilities of music to communicate and the intent of “Losing Earth” itself, but Nissly’s bravura presentation and Macelaru’s attentive support could not elevate the score much higher than accomplished soundtrack music. Not necessarily a bad outcome, and the pop influences were pleasing to the ear. Still, the subject was let down by the conventional structure and stock ray-of-hope message. Better the audience gets the

meaning from the program notes and concentrates instead on Nissly’s high-energy performance. As pure music, “Losing Earth” is enjoyable and predictable, with a truly exciting ending. Jake did his old friend proud. Last week, the volume was even louder as Ukrainian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk made his spectacular SFS debut playing Prokofiev’s outrageous Piano Concerto No. 1 (1911). A tour de force at any speed, the First requires almost superhuman skill and stamina. With young American conductor Karina

Canellakis in solidarity, Gavrylyuk ramped up the tempi (and temperature) several notches, still managing somehow to articulate every note. I wouldn’t want to hear the sassy score treated so frenetically on a regular basis, but there was no denying the thrills-and-spills wonderment of his daring approach. Gavrylyuk’s returning for an encore, a lovely Rachmaninoff “Vocalise,” was another surprise. By all rights, his hands should been bloody stumps by then, but the pianist was calm and collected, miraculously ready for another round.

After intermission, Canellakis continued her debut appearance with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Opus 60, “Leningrad,” the composer’s mighty documentary soundtrack to the epic story of the 900-day siege of Leningrad by the German army in WWII. Typical of Shostakovich in quasipropaganda mode, the Seventh can turn towards bombast and downright pandering, but, also characteristically, it shows his unerring gift for emotional understanding. Few would call it his greatest work, but no one can say it isn’t evocative of a terrifying time and the endurance of a suffering people. One either commits to the composer’s violently episodic newsreel or heads for the exit after the massive first movement. Canellakis was up to the challenge, and it was clear the mostly attentive audience was, too, though it was baffling to see a young listener texting from start to finish. Of course, he shot to his feet for the inevitable standing ovation.

So who knows? Maybe he was sharing the big adventure with a friend. The full-tilt energy of the famous marching tune in the first movement, which builds “Bolero”-like to a shattering climax, rides chocka-block with passages of grim desolation and sorrow in the rest of the work. A conductor has little room for interpretation. The music is never less than obvious, but that is also the obvious point. Canellakis will get a better chance to show her range when we have her back, and we damned well should. For now she proves a fast talent for bonding with new musicians, and superior ability as a traffic director. The orchestra met the demands of the marathon with admirable willingness, providing some of the richest sounds of the season. Modestly, Karina Canellakis refused a solo bow, pulling Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik from his chair to avoid it. He acquiesced, though everyone, onstage and off, really applauded for her.t

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SFS Principal Percussion Jacob Nissly performed the world premiere performance of Adam Schoenberg’s “Losing Earth” with the San Francisco Symphony and Cristian Măcelaru conducting.

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Guest conductor Karina Canellakis made an SFS debut appearance.

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Scorsese season at the Castro Theatre by David Lamble

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ovember at the Castro Theatre features a grand celebration of both the fiction and nonfiction films of Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, including his latest masterpiece, “The Irishman,” a narrative exploration of the enduring mysteries surrounding the 1975 disappearance of Teamster Union leader James R. Hoffa. The Castro will also screen Scorsese’s magnificent “Rolling Thunder Review” featuring the immortal Bob Dylan. Plus there will be screenings of Scorsese masterworks “Raging Bull” (1980. Best Actor Oscar for Robert De Niro) and “Goodfellas” (1990). Doc Stories Opening Night: “The Apollo” Director Roger Ross Williams and producer Lisa Cortés are expected to attend. Special musical introduction by Fantastic Negrito. As a showcase for African American music and culture in America, Harlem’s Apollo Theater is unique. Director Williams tracks its history with archival footage from the venue, with pivotal moments in black civic history for context, and preparations for a star-studded presentation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me.” Performances and interviews include Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Savion Glover, and Redd Foxx. (11/1) “A Hell of a Story” Q&A 2:16 PM with director Kathy Griffin by Kate Kendell after screening. Hosted by Mark Rhoades. Benefiting the Richmond/ Ermet Aid Foundation, emceed by Sister Roma. Comedian Griffin performs a new set in the aftermath of the fallout she experienced due to a controversial Trumpinspired photo shoot that threatened to end her career. (11/2) Part of Doc Stories film series, “A Tribute to the NonFiction Films of Martin Scorsese,” who is expected to attend. Beloved for his narrative fiction features “Mean Streets,” “Raging Bull” and “The Departed,” Scorsese also has a distinguished career as a non-fiction storyteller. Scorsese will appear for an onstage conversation about his documentary work following a screening of “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story” (2019). In summer 1975, Bob Dylan began a tour across America with an all-star group of singers and actors: Joan Baez, Sam Shepard, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Allen Ginsberg. Using gorgeously restored onstage and behind-the-scenes footage, and contemporary interviews, Scorsese explores artistic self-invent ion. (11/4) “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” (2019) Ronstadt guides us through her early years of singing Mexican canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; and her reign as “rock

queen” of the 70s and 80s. She was a pioneer for women in the maledominated music industry, an early advocate for human rights, and had a high-profile romance with California Governor Jerry Brown. Her incredible voice was lost to Parkinson’s disease, but her music and influence remain. With moving performance footage and appearances by collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne, this bio-doc by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (“The Times of Harvey Milk”) celebrates a timeless artist. (11/6)

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3rd i’s South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond. Diverse images of South Asians through independent film, the 17th annual festival will include work from India, Sri Lanka, Italy, the UK, and the USA. “Ravening” This quietly shocking film blends low-key romance and horror. A doctor and a doctoral student find common ground in their shared love for offbeat meateating traditions. (India) “Namdev Bhau: In Search of Silence” A comic, offbeat take on the road movie journeys through the beautiful landscapes of Ladakh. Driven to the end of his wits by the cacophony of Mumbai, the noisiest city in the world, Chauffeur Namdev sets off to discover the fabled Silent Valley. (India) “Children of the Sun” A period drama takes on caste conflict and British colonial rule in Sri Lanka in the early 1800s. (Sri Lanka) “Bombay Rose” Bollywood at the Castro, an animated tribute. In handpainted animation, a single red rose weaves together three fantastical tales. In chaotic Mumbai streetscapes, Bollywood cinema is satirized and romanticized. (India/UK/France/Qatar, 2019) (all 4, 11/9) “The Irishman” Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organized crime in postwar America told through the eyes of WWII veteran Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a hustler and hitman. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). Harvey Keitel, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, and Bobby Cannavale co-star. (11/10-15) “Larger Than Life: A Celebration of Chris March” Local celebrity Chris March died on Sept. 5, 2019, but lives on in our hearts. Appearances by Joey Arias, Matthew Martin, Tom Orr, the cast of “Beach Blanket Babylon,” Ethel Merman, and more. March made it to the finals of “Project Runway” Season 4. He went on to design for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Meryl Streep and Prince. But he will be remembered most for his decade designing for “BBB.” Free event, but please donate to support Lyric Center for LGBTQQ Youth. (11/16) Warren Miller’s “Timeless” Adventure from the rooftops of the Alps alongside top athletes including Californians Jonny Moseley, Amie Engerbretson, Connery Lundin, and ski legend Glen Plake. (11/22)t

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velyn, a 20ish ingenue in a cheery floral-print dress, wears a grin of unabashed delight through most of the first act of “The Daughters,” which runs through this weekend as part of the San Francisco Playhouse’s developmental Sandbox Series. It’s 1955 when the comic drama begins, and Evelyn, played with palpable curiosity and a mischievous spirit by Olivia Levine, is attending the first-ever gathering of The Daughters of Bilitis, the pioneering lesbian activist organization. She’s tickled pink to be here, and audiences will be, too. We’re in the bohemian San Francisco apartment of Mal (Martha Brigham) and Peggy (Erin Anderson), a couple loosely based on the real-life Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, soon joined by three more guests brave enough to attend a gathering that’s still subject to being raided by the police: Shorty (Em Lee Reaves) and Griff (Molly Shaiken), two pals sporting sharp menswear; and Vivian (Jeunée Simon), a black woman visiting from New York.

Mal is a Roberts Rules of Ordertype who wants the evening to be organized and efficient; Shorty and Griff are primarily here for the prospect of cocktails and same-sex dancing; Vivian seeks flirtatious escape from her East Coast life, where she’s married to a gay man in a mutually stressful deception. Peggy struggles to please everyone at once. And watching them all, dear Evelyn gets to discover firsthand that lesbianism is a manysplendored thing: personal and political, tied to both gender and sexuality, sometimes fractious, sometimes flat-out fun. That variety of perspective and personality, that sense of simultaneous lesbian diversity and unity, is playwright Patricia Cotter’s most salient point. This may strike some San Francisco audiences as old news, but I can’t recall it being at the center of a play before. Regardless, between Cotter’s sharp dialogue and director Jessica Holt’s brisk pacing, old news is good news. “The Daughters” is smart and funny and overdue. The origins of the American gay men’s movement

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Em Lee Reaves, Olivia Levine in “The Daughters,” part of San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series.

were portrayed on stage a decade ago in “The Temperamentals,” John Marans’ dramatization of the

early days of the Mattachine Society. After covering parallel historic ground, “The Daughters” boldly

leaps forward to a second act (and second set of characters) set in 2015, at the Lexington Club, San Francisco’s last lesbian bar, on its final night in business. Rather than playing a congratulatory “You’ve come a long way, baby” card, this second scenario echoes and complicates some of the issues touched on in the first. We see the uneasy reunion between a character and her former girlfriend, now a trans man (Shaiken, in a tender, subtle variation on her first-act role); we meet a woman who remains fiercely attached to butch-femme dichotomies (Simon, a paragon of comic bravado); and, most intriguingly we hear arguments about whether there’s a need for lesbian-only spaces in an era where gender-fluidity is in the spotlight. “The Daughters” leaves the audience at our own place in history, stepping curiously into Act III.t The Daughters, through Nov. 2. Creativity Theater, Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 4th St., SF. Tickets ($30-$40): (415) 6779596, www.sfplayhouse.org.

Shotgun Players: Up with love!

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Scene from Shotgun Players’ “Elevada,” now at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley.

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levada” is a tonic. This singular whatchamacallit of a show, being presented by the Shotgun Players through November 17, effervesces with an offbeat

creativity that will lift audiences out of the doldrums as they watch its characters get swept off their feet. It’s a riff on rom-coms that largely replaces cornball sentiment with a cornucopia of quirks. Silly accents, impromptu dance routines, glittery

projections and totemic Bulgarian deer skulls are all on tap. It’s a theatrical shaggy dog story. There’s even an unseen shaggy dog named Fisherman. “Is this weird?” Kahlil (Wes Gabrillo) asks Ramona (Sango Tajima) after they meet cute then veer peculiar in the first scene. Yes. “It feels weird, but I want to keep on going,” he adds. Agreed, heartily. He’s a tunnel-visioned internet whiz-kid about to score a major deal. She’s a lifelong wallflower jolted into devil-may-care outgoingness by a recent cancer diagnosis. She thinks she’s on the eighth of a frantic series of Tinder-facilitated first dates. He thinks she’s a marketing consultant, there to pitch a polish of his personal brand. His wellmeaning roommate has done some surreptitious swiping on Kahlil’s phone, then sent him off for this alleged business appointment. As soon as we’re introduced to them, we know that the roomie, Owen (Soren Santos), a sweet, slovenly recovering addict, and Ramona’s stern and lovingly overprotective older sister June (Karen

Offereins) are also inevitably bound for coupledom. Offereins and Santos each find surprising depth in what are essentially boilerplate characters. Sheila Callaghan’s loopy script draws a parallel between Ramona’s terminal illness and Kahlil’s ill-defined agreement to sell his selfhood to a major corporation, allowing himself to be fragmented into digital oblivion. You needn’t (and won’t be able to) understand the details; the gist is that our lovers are both living on borrowed time, which frees them to get all giddy and Iddy: Ice-skating! Pole dancing! Spontaneous nookie! Under Susannah Martin’s direction, Shotgun’s stagecraft is as playful as the script. While Erin Gilley’s projections feature film clips of New York that drop us right into “When Harry Met Sally” territory, the slick mechanics of Mikiko Uesugi’s sliding panels and set-pieces never let us forget to appreciate the alternate magic of live theater. Likewise, in a show that happily leans on commercial movie tropes, Martin and her cast lend the in-

evitable romantic complication a surprising gravitas. After a stunning projection-enhanced sequence in which we see Ramona take a long, lonely subway ride to what may well be the afterlife, we meet her again. She’s still very much alive, but a far more troubled character than we’d been led to assume. In keeping with rom-com tradition, everything is tidied up in the end. But rather than an intimate onscreen kiss, we get an expansive theatrical finale. Without giving too much away, it involves a tango. It was only on my way out of the theater that I learned the play’s never-spoken title refers to an aspect of that Argentinian dance. Until then, influenced by an early bit of dialogue about the pharmaceutical industry, I’d assumed differently. And even now, I’m still pleased to prescribe “Elevada” as a highly efficacious mood-enhancer.t Elevada, through Nov. 17 at the Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. Tickets ($7-$35): (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org.

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s it turns out, Pete & Chasten Buttigieg aren’t the only fascinating twosome to come from Indiana. Singing-songwriting sisters Lily & Madeline Jurkiewicz have been at it since high school in Indianapolis. For the pair’s fourth album “Canterbury Girls” (New West), they’ve teamed up with Grammy-winning production duo Daniel Tashian & Ian Fitchuk, who bring some of the radiance they provided for Kacey Musgraves’ “Golden Hour” to this set of 10 songs. Lily & Madeline haven’t abandoned the sonic spirituality of former label Asthmatic Kitty, as you can hear on the empowering gospel pop of “Self Care” and the heavenly harmony of “Supernatural Sadness.” There’s a touch of blue-eyed funk on “Just Do It,” and “Go” and “Bruises” are so pretty it almost hurts. The persistent beat of “Pachinko Song” and the retro rhythm of “Can’t Help the Way I Feel” will motivate listeners to get

up and dance. Lily & Madeline perform on Nov. 10 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Lake Street Dive’s lead vocalist Rachael Price has too much talent to contain in one place. With three solo albums to her name, and more than double that with Lake Street Dive, Price has talent to burn. Price’s new side project, a musical collaboration with singer-songwriter Vilray, has resulted in the creatively titled album “Rachael & Vilray” (Nonesuch). The 12 new songs, all in a retro style reminiscent of Susan Werner’s “I Can’t Be New,” are like a trip down memory lane, except for the fact that they’re 21st-century compositions. Standouts include “I Love the Way You’re Breaking My Heart,” “Do Friends Fall In Love?” and “At Your Mother’s House.” Julie & Buddy Miller have made names for themselves as solo artists and in-demand songwriters for

others for many years. They’ve also released a few albums as a married musical duo. “Breakdown on 20th Avenue South” (New West) is the latest. Julie’s voice, an acquired taste for some, is a cross between Victoria Williams and Rickie Lee Jones, used to great effect on “Till the Stardust Comes Apart,” “Everything Is Your Fault” and “Storm of Kisses.” Canadian cousins Kacy & Clayton return with their third album.

“Carrying On” (New West). It’s a strong set of songs delivered in a retro-country style that strikes a careful balance between whimsical (“The South Saskatchewan River”) and serious (“Mom and Dad’s Waltz #2”) that illustrates the duo’s versatility. Kacy & Clayton perform on Nov. 19 at Fox Theater in Oakland. Neither The Black Keys nor Violet Bell has an ampersand in their names, but both are duos worth

hearing. “Let’s Rock” (Nonesuch), The Black Keys’ (Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney) first album in five years, lives up to the directive of the title. It rocks, which is bound to please longtime fans. The rock of the title takes a few different directions, ranging from lightly funky (“Shine a Little Light”) and country-tinged (“Eagle Birds”) to nearly full-throttle (“Lo/Hi”) and downright mellow (“Sit Around and Miss You,” “Walk Across the Water”). The Black Keys perform on Nov. 20 at Chase Center in San Francisco. “Honey in My Heart” (lizzy. net), the full-length debut album by NC-based duo Violet Bell (vocalist-guitarist Lizzy Ross & fiddler Omar Ruiz-Lopez), is full of sweet surprises. Examples include the saxophone on “Elephant Heart,” the sampled beats on “Swimming Toward Sharks,” the piano solo on “Summer Skin” and the organ on “Let Me Forget.”t

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producing groundbreaking films that laid the foundation for Busby Berkeley, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. In the 1950s, Arthur Murray and Dick Clark brought the dance floor into our living rooms, and in the 70s, PBS brought ballet and contemporary dance to American audiences through live-captured performances and documentaries. In recent years, the explosion of televised competition shows like “So You Think You Can Dance” and “World of Dance” has introduced yet another generation to a dizzying array of dance artists and styles. All of this is to say: the dance film genre is more popular, diverse and dazzling than ever, and the 10th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival reflects that. According to festival founder and director of programming Greta Schoenberg, this year the festival received 370 submissions, which she and her team narrowed down to 124 films from 25 countries, to be shown in five venues around San Francisco, Nov. 2-10. Reflecting on the astounding growth of the festival, Schoenberg said, “The festival has changed and grown because the world of dance film has changed. Online video and social media have had a tremendous impact. When I first started working in dance film, we had to describe what we were doing by words and maybe a photo. Now we can post a one-minute video preview, and before you know it, people around the world are watching and sharing it. It’s really working for us.” A Northern California native, Schoenberg danced with Norwegian National Ballet and in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and San Francisco before turning her attention to dance film in the mid-2000s. At the time, she felt that Bay Area dancers were somewhat isolated and not being represented in the dance-film genre. She launched the festival to provide opportunities for West Coast dancers and filmmakers, a vision she sees becoming a reality today. “This is my community, and I want to continually promote our artists and bring us together,” she said. “Yes, we do show live-captures of amazing international dance companies that you wouldn’t have the opportunity to see in San Francisco. But that’s not the majority of our films. There’s been huge growth in short dance films by Bay Area artists, more diverse types of dance, and more local dancers making and appearing in films. I love our closing night:

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we’ve got people from the voguing community, ethnic dancers, San Francisco Ballet dancers, contemporary dancers, filmmakers and choreographers. It’s my greatest joy, seeing the dance community come together in the same place.” Some highlights of this year’s festival: Sat., Nov. 2: The North American premiere of “Queen + Bejart: Ballet for Life” brings together the music of Queen, fashion by Versace and choreography by Maurice Béjart. If you’re not familiar with Béjart, look up a video of his masterful take on Ravel’s “Bolero,” which will get you excited to check out the festival’s opening-night feature at Lucasfilm Premier Theater in the Presidio. Sun., Nov. 3: Akram Khan’s “Giselle” performed by English National Ballet. The New York Times called this, Khan’s first full-length ballet, “beautiful and intelligent, probably – and improbably – the best work Mr. Khan has created.” Thurs., Nov. 7: “Brava Theater Kick-Off ” is an evening of short films by international and local choreographers, including Hofesh Shechter’s “Clowns,” a macabre dance-comedy of murder and desire; films by Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s Ben Needham-Wood and SF Ballet’s Myles Thatcher; and a performance by Post:Ballet artists. Sat., Nov. 9: “Finding Me” is an evening of documentary short films focusing on unique individuals finding their identity through dance. “The King of Twirl” features Janero, an 11-year-old boy with a passion for baton-twirling. He is the only boy of his age in Northern Netherlands who competes in the sport, but he is determined to prove that baton-twirling is not just for girls. “Dance, Dance, Evolution” explores transgender people’s relationship to dance, and how dance can highlight the internal experience of gendered embodiment. Sat., Nov. 9: “Lil Buck: Real Swan” is a documentary about the revolutionary artist Lil Buck, who specializes in street-style dance called “jookin.” Raised in a poor neighborhood in Memphis, Charles “Lil Buck” Riley skyrocketed to fame after Spike Jonze used his cell phone to capture Lil Buck’s interpretation of “The Dying Swan.” Riley’s collaborators include Madonna, Yo-Yo Ma and the artists of Cirque du Soleil. Lil Buck will be on hand to receive the festival’s first Embodiment Award for Artistic Excellence and Influence.t SF Dance Film Festival, Nov. 2-9, various venues. Tickets/ info: www.sffilmfest.org.

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all it an uptick in the collective unconscious or call it news, there’s no mistaking the mushrooming of new books, fiction and non-, about Fascism, most of them focused on what an elder historian famously called the rise and fall of the Third Reich. There’s even a pink-triangle subgenre, saluting the roles of queer people in the fight against Nazi oppression. “The Ventriloquists” (Park Row Books), the impressive debut novel of E.R. Ramzipoor, makes a rich contribution to the enterprise. An Oakland-based, out lesbian, Ramzipoor has built her large-scale yet finely calibrated novel on a sliver of the graduate work she did at UC Berkeley. There she came upon the efforts of a real-life journalist, Marc Aubiron, to contribute to the Belgian resistance during WWII. Aubiron and his cohorts sabotaged the work of the Nazi Ministry of Perception Management by inserting what we must now call fake news – sendups of the Germans and resistance-supportive disinformation – into Le Soir, a newspaper still published today but weaponized by the Nazis during the occupation. Ramzipoor’s fictionalized Aubiron says it best: “The Germans use Le Soir to take the people’s hope. We will use Faux Soir to give it back.”

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“The Ventriloquists” author E.R. Ramzipoor.

From that sliver of lost history, the author has fabricated a complex, fast-moving tale of intrigue and suspense with a story-line as graphic and addictive as “The Man in the High Castle,” if with less resort to convention and cliche than the TV series. It’s powered as much by its architecture and rhetoric as it is by its compelling plot. Ramzipoor uses carefully demarcated sections to marshal the story into the 20 days leading up to the publication of Faux Soir, tucking those into a present-day time frame. A character named Eliza, who

basically mirrors the author, her research and her fertile imagination, coaxes the stories we read from the memories of a witness, Helene. This framing story contains some of the book’s most emotionally touching writing, and the resulting stories are vastly more substantive than mere flashbacks. While the reader hears from multiple narrators of varying reliability, what both drives the story and makes it cohere is the strength and clarity of the writing. Most of it is in the rhetoric that English best accommodates – the subject-

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verb-object sentence; independent clauses introducing, not following, dependent ones – yielding sentences that fly like arrows all-but-silently to their targets. The language provides a sturdy frame that shows its individual beauties to best advantage. As we first meet the novel’s dominant character, David Spiegelman, a handsome, gay Jew with a knack for words fit for the mouth of others, Ramzipoor writes, “Spiegelman opened three envelopes that lay in a pile on his desk, one after the other, setting the contents aside like organs during a transplant.” The novel’s most florid character, Lada Tarcovich, a lesbian proprietor of a brothel who does right by her girls if by few others, gets involved in a car-stealing caper that lands her in court before a female judge, Andree Grandjean, who promptly locks her up. When Grandjean reappears in Tarcovich’s cell, with more than justice in mind, the marvy madam observes, “The green trousers and work shirt suited the judge, holding her soft places in firm, gentle hands.” The principal characters all have monikers as well as names. Spiegelman is The Gastromancer; Tarcovich is The Smuggler. But lest this tease or confuse the reader, there’s a dramatis personae of main characters at the front of the book, and as the narrative passes from ventrilo-

quist to ventriloquist, the storyteller of the moment is named. The ventriloquism metaphor itself is similarly multilayered, but Ramzipoor elaborates on it in pieces over the span of the novel compellingly but without unnecessary philosophizing. It basically has to do with putting words in the mouths of others not just intentionally but pointedly. Also, talking shit. The Gastromancer Spiegelman learns of it from “Amazing Stories from Far Off Lands,” a book he discovered and purloined as a child. An encyclopedia of wonders, it taught him about the exotic, including “what women looked like naked, what men looked like with other men.” It was sealed into his consciousness by “the photograph in the back of the book, the image of the man with his puppet.” But if ventriloquism is Spiegelman’s signature genius, it turns out that others have at least touch of it too, in that way that the truth of all stories is locked in the view of their tellers. The authorial daring in “The Ventriloquists” is its toggling between comedy and tragedy, farce and the deadly serious. The novel is not only about bravery but also about its being crushed at the hands of the oppressor. Ramzipoor’s skillful juggling of the modes gives her novel, by any measure a great read, its feeling of contemporaneity.t

ing to the play’s healing resolution. “Inheritance” is a commentary on the debt and responsibility current LGBTQ men owe to their “ancestors,” considering the staggering loss and discrimination they suffered. Through AIDS, a whole generation of mentors was lost, not to mention artistic contributions and potential leadership, and both Trumpian politics and economic inequality could undermine our success. Lopez questions whether gay men have become too assimilated. Eric notes, “I miss the feeling that being gay was like being a member of a secret club. In order to fully join, you needed people to help bring you in.” The play asks, what is a gay man’s place post-epidemic? How does one find community and love in today’s tech-driven world? There’s a sense this LGBTQ generation hasn’t reconciled itself with the ghosts of the past. An HIV+ character compares Trump to HIV, “a cunning, pernicious retrovirus that has attached himself to the very core of American democracy and is now destroying the American Immune System: journalism, activism, politics, even voting. Like HIV, he is replicating his genetic material from tweet to tweet, from person to person, institution to institution, across the entire nation.” Despite crackling dialogue, the

play is too long, especially with lengthy monologues and orations that sound like editorials. “Inheritance” could easily lose an hour and its jolt would remain electrifying. At the end of Act I, Part 1, men with AIDS come out of the shadows and announce their deaths. The comparison with “Angels” is apt, particularly regarding scope, but “Inheritance” lacks “Angels”’ magisterial authority and sense of rage. Still, these sharply drawn characters grow on you, and the reader will slowly devour this drama. Lopez re-imagines Forster’s famous aphorism, “Only connect,” into a final affirmation, “You live.” “Inheritance” is a minor triumph, but a triumph nonetheless.t

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atharsis is the purging of the emotional tensions through art. The term, first used by Aristotle describing Greek tragedy’s healing effects on audiences, seems apropos for the new play “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez, an epic of current gay life in New York performed in two parts, lasting a total of 7.5 hours. Commissioned by Hartford Stage of Connecticut, “Inheritance” had astonishing success last year in London’s West End, winning four Olivier (English Tony) awards, including Best New Play. After rave reviews and sold-out runs, it opens on Broadway Nov. 17 with largely the same British cast. Meanwhile, Faber & Faber has published the play ($20), including the West End revisions. All signs point to a smash hit. The Daily Telegraph asserts, “Looking like a modern classic, it

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may be the most important American play of this century so far.” Captivated by Merchant-Ivory’s 1992 film of E.M. Forster’s “Howards End,” Lopez read the book. After discovering Forster was a closeted gay man, he decided to use it as the loose narrative framework for “Inheritance.” He’s updated Forster’s characters using mostly gay men from different generations replacing straight people from various classes. Lead Eric Glass stands in for Margaret Schlegel, while her sister Helen is reinvented as his boyfriend Toby Darling. An unnamed country house serves a tranquil refuge similar to what Howards End provided in the novel. Forster’s intellectual, bohemian, fin de siecle London is transposed into 21st-century, cultured gay urban life. Lopez transforms Forster himself into a character, Morgan, who will help the gay Manhattanites tell their stories and offer advice on their affairs. While Forster is the chief inspiration, American viewers and readers will see a connection with Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize landmark “Angels in America,” not only lengthwise, but in its similar themes of the AIDS epidemic and its devastation, intolerance, with use of magical fantasy elements. Lopez’ play has fewer literary, mythological, Jewish mysticism, and queer political theory references.

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In “Frankie,” the veteran actress Huppert demonstrates her dramatic range amassed over several decades of work, ranging from the mother-son obsessive drama “Ma Mere” (2004) to the eccentric. stardriven American indie comedy “I Heart Huckabees.” The “Frankie” ensemble is fleshed out by Marisa Tomei as Frankie’s close friend; Irish character actor Brendan Gleeson as her husband; Pascal Gregory as her gay ex-hubby; French hottie Jérémie Renier, known for his singular screen debut in the taboo-themed Francois Ozon feature “Criminal Lovers” (2001); and Greg Kinnear,

The center of the play is the doomed seven-year relationship between Eric Glass, an activist, and his boyfriend Toby Darling, a narcissistic, damaged, self-destructive, alcoholic writer, whose ingenuous autobiographical novel, now adapted into a play, is opening on Broadway, starring the socialclimbing actor Adam, with whom he becomes obsessed. They live in Eric’s rent-controlled Upper West Side apartment, inherited from his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Eric and Toby break up over Adam. Eric meets Walter, who talks about his country house, a refuge for his friends with AIDS, cared for as they spend their last days there. The dying Walter tells his longtime partner Henry Wilcox to give the house to Eric, but he ignores the request. But Henry and Eric develop a non-sexual relationship, eventually resulting in marriage. Meanwhile, Adam starts dating the director of Toby’s play, and Toby, feeling abandoned, becomes involved with a homeless rent boy, Leo, addicted to crack, who physically resembles Adam. We learn about Toby’s sad back-story as well as his grim fate. Eric eventually returns to Walter’s house and encounters the only female cast member, Margaret, there. Eric matures and resolves his conflicts with the other characters, lead-

who worked for Sachs in at a time when conservative the moving teenage drama forces lash out at diversity “Little Men” (2016). Spoiler on both sides of the Atlanalert: “Frankie” is driven by tic. Sachs said “Frankie” was the cascading fallout from partly inspired by a 1962 film her extended clan’s realizaby the great Indian auteur tion that Frankie is dying. Satyajit Ray, who showed In a San Francisco conthe consequences when East versation with Ira Sachs earmeets West in today’s global lier this month, he explained film world. The choice of that he didn’t want to shoot the Portuguese resort town the story in America, where of Sintra came from a visit Huppert would not necesto the town Sachs made as Sony Pictures Classics sarily feel comfortable, or a teenager. The director was in her native France, where Isabelle Huppert as the title character in able to draw on observations Sachs feared he might not director Ira Sachs’ “Frankie.” he had made in a diary. be able to operate at his In English, French and best. The compromise of a Portuguese with English the drama to be both an emotional small beach resort in a remote spot subtitles, with a running time of 100 chamber-piece and an exhilarating on the Iberian Peninsula allows for minutes.t cross-cultural relationship drama,

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Arts Events

Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 2019 Turn over a new leaf as mid-autumn arts events make a harvest of entertainments.

Fri 1 GLBT Historical Society

Performance, Protest & Politics: Gilbert Baker’s Art @ GLBT History Museum

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When Doris Fish Resurfaced ‘Blonde Sin’ silkscreens at the 2007 Castro Street Fair

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ound treasure that tells the tale of personal history is a story that has been repeated many times. The documentary Finding Vivian Maier tells the story of how her lifelong passion for photography was discovered after Maier’s death. See page 25 >>

Three of Jim Winters and Michael Wertz’ series of one-off handcolored prints of the Doris Fish silkscreens.

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Thu 31

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GameBoi SF @ Rickshaw Stop The monthly Gaysian K-Pop dance party; a portion of door fee goes to local nonprofits. $8-$15. 9:30pm2am. 155 Fell St. rickshawstop.com

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After Dark @ Exploratorium

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Enjoy cocktails and science demos at the hands-on museum. Oct. 31: Costume night with Nerd Nite, Awesome Orchestra, and Odd Salon. Tactile dome evening hours Fri & Sat, weekly 6:15 and 7:30pm. $20. Pier 15, Embarcadero at Green St. www.exploratorium.edu

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Astrozombie, Jean Genies @ The Chapel Misfits and David Bowie tribute bands performs; also Rusty Chains (grunge tribute band). Rock, zombie, Bowie costumes appreciated, with a contest. $20. 8:30pm. 777 Valencia St. www.thechapelsf.com

Club Papi @ Club 21, Oakland Huge Halloween and Latin music dance party with Kimora Blac, gogo studs in and out of costumes, costume contest with cash prizes. $15. 9:30pm-2:30am. 2111 Franklin St. www.clubpapi.com

Creatures of the Nightlife @ Cal. Academy of Sciences Heklina hosts the always-fun Halloween dance party at the life sciences museum, with DJ Omar Perez, drag acts Landa Lakes, Loma Prietta, Elso Touche; haunted house, scary movie clips, Halloween-themed cocktails, lunar lore storytelling and more. $15. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org

Drag Me to Hell @ Virgin Hotel Juanita MORE! hosts a new Halloween multi-area party at a new stylish venue, with party fun all through the hotel! Enjoy ‘all you can eat drink’ food, drinks and entertainment. Costumed attire, please. Book a room! $120-$175. 8pm-2am. 250 4th St. www.virginhotels.com/ san-francisco/offers/halloween

Swagger Like Us @ El Rio

Haunted Hall @ Eagles Hall, Alameda Paranormal fun at a real house; live music by Jane Blonde and the Goldfingers; DJ Hawk Valentine. $10. 6:30pm-2am. 2305 Alameda Ave., Alameda. Bit.ly/HauntedBayParty

Lip Service @ The Stud Les Ghouls celebrate a Cockettes Halloween, with DJs Raton Rose and Ariel Rose; Mary Vice hosts a drag show. $5. 9pm-2am. 299 9th St. at Harrison www.studsf.com

Nightmare on 9th Street @ The Stud Halloween party with DJs Keenan Orr and Rich King, plus a drag show. $5$10. 9pm-2am. 299 9th St. at Harrison www.studsf.com

PopScream @ Rickshaw Stop ‘80s Halloween party features live music by The Cure and Erasure cover bands Bloodflowers and Erasureesque. $10 (in costume) $15 (not). 8pm-2am. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Speakeasy: All Hallow’s Eve @ Palace Theater The ‘secret’ 1920s-themed interactive entertainment & cocktails night gets spooky with haunted tales and ghosts. $90-$125. Oct. 31; Nov 1 & 2. 644 Broadway. boxcartheatre.org

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Guest-DJ IMfromull/Lee Gorbutt and residents Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, Prince Wolf and Jimmy DePre play classic disco mixes for your retrolovin’ pleasure. $10-$15. 9pm-3am. 299 9th St. at Harrison studsf.com

Sundance Stompede @ Holiday Inn, Regency Ballroom, Space 550 The popular two-stepping linedancing, not-just-country music nights celebrate their annual gathering, with foour nights, 100s of dancers, performers and fans at 3 venues, and on Oct. 31 a costume party and contest. $12-$60. Holiday Inn, 1500 van Ness Ave, Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness Ave., and Space 550, 550 Barneveld Ave., most 7:30pm1am. Nov 3 Stompede Ball 5pm-11pm. www.sundancesaloon.org

Terror Vault @ SF Mint Peaches Christ’s annual horror-fun invasion of the historic building includes a full-scale spooky interactive tour. $62, various tour times. Thru Nov. 10. 88 5th St. intothedarksf.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Rock bands play at the famed leather bar. Halloween night: ‘cold wave’ with Lust for Youth, Crack Cloud and Las Sucias. $8. 9pm-1am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Fri 1 Heavenly Bodies @ Saint Joseph’s Arts Society Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald performs at a benefit for the nonprofit venue, produced by Ken Fulk and Mark Cortale, followed by an after-party disco under the dome, with an openair bistro. $75-$10,000. 7:30pm12am. 1401 Howard St. www.eventbrite.com

John Arthur Hill @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The radio host and singer brings his bawdy musical Broadway songs to the upscale nightclub. $35-$65 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Queer Happy Hour @ Forage Kitchen, Oakland Drinks for LGBTQs and pals, plus vegan and chicken snacks. Weekly 4pm-9pm. 478 25th St., Oakland. www.foragekitchen.com

Ror:Shok @ SF Eagle Day of the Living Dead party with Johnny Rockitt, DJ SuperIntoIt and a zombie costume contest. $5. 9pm2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Stanley Clarke @ Yoshi’s Oakland The 4-time grammy-winning jazz bass player performs. $39-$50. 8pm & 10pm. Also Nov 2, 7:30, 9:30. Nov 3: 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Uhaul @ Jolene’s The popular women’s dance party returns, now weekly. 10pm-2am. 2700 16th St. at Harrison. jolenessf.com

Sat 2 Coffee Festival @ Fort Mason Immersive tasting event with multiple coffee samples, as well as delicious food, desserts, live music. $25 and up. 9am-4:30pm. Also Nov 3. 2 Marina Blvd. www.sfcoffeefestival.com

Woof, GrowlBar @ SF Eagle Early eve canine play (3pm-9pm) and a night for canine cosplay fetishists, pups, furries, with a Best in Show contest. $5. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Lolly Gaggers, Clutch the Pearls, Halford Wives @ El Rio Campy rock night, with an all-women Judas Priest cover band. $10. 9pm11pm. 3158 Mission St. elriosf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, with wild acts and music tribute themes. Nov. 2 is a Robyn tribute night. $15-$20. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Off the Reef @ Bently Reserve Gala celebration/fundraiser for the Ocean Film Festival. Awards, cocktails, vegan dinner, film trailers, live auctions, Speaker Dr. Sylvia Earle, and music/dancing with DJ Bryce Williams. $250 and up. 301 Battery St. intloceanfilmfest.org/benefit

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita More, VooDonna Black and Glamamore transform a man into a “gorgeous” drag queen, with gogo guys, drink specials. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com

Sun 3 Glam Sundays @ Valencia Room New weekly house, funk, soul T-dance with guest-DJs and no cover. 3pm9pm. 647 Valencia St. www.glamsundays.com www.thevalenciaroom.com

Polesexual @ Powerhouse Dakota Pendant’s queer drag, poledancing and variety show. $5. 9pm-1am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Renegade @ Atlas The weekly cruisy semi-private party. 6pm-10pm. $5-$20. Now also Truck Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 9pm-2am. 415 10th St. www.atlas-sf.com

Swagger Like Us @ El Rio Booty-droppin’ hip hop T-dance. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Top Shelf Classics @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko R&B vocalists perform classic hits by Marvin gaye and Aretha Franklin. $55-$65. ($20 food/drink min.). 5pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Mon 4 Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Vamp @ Beaux Women’s night with a sultry vampire theme; goth, red & black, lingerie attire welcome but not required; bondage and BDSM demos, too. DJs Olga T and Jayne Grey. $5-$15. 8pm2am. 2344 Market St. beauxsf.com

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Tue 5 Branford Marsalis @ Yoshi’s Oakland The acclaimed saxophonist performs with his band. $39-$84. 8pm & 10pm. Also Nov 6 & 7. $ 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Cock Shot @ Beaux The weeknight party gets going with DJ Chad Bays. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The Little Mermaid Viewing @ Oasis Watch the broadcast of a live performance of the Disney musical. No cover. 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Truck Tuesdays @ Atlas Super-cruisy night at the new semiprivate club. $10-$20. 9pm-2am. 415 10th St. www.atlas-sf.com

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Wed 6 American Horror Story Night @ SF Eagle Watch AHS 1984, the camp/slasher FX Ryan Murphy TV series. 10pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm10pm. 424 Cortland St. www.wildsidewest.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks at the Hump Day fiesta 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio Midweek drag rave and vocal open mic, with Dulce de Leche, Rahni Nothingmore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and guests. 10pm. 3158 Mission St. http://www.elriosf.com/

Trivia Night @ Detour Games and arcade fun at the renovated former Brewcade bar/ restaurant. 7pm-11pm (free game play 7pm-8pm). 2200 Market St. www.detoursf.com

Thu 7 From the Heart @ Julia Morgan Ballroom AIDS Legal Referral Panel’s 36th annual reception and auction fundraiser features gourmet catered hors d’oeuvres, wine and beverages, a silent & live auction. $100 and up. 6pm-9pm. Merchants Exchange Bldg., 465 California St. www.alrp.org

Glow @ GitHub Trans Lifeline’s fifth anniversary party and fundraiser. Free-$100. 6pm-9pm. 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St. www.translifeline.org

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG Weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St.

Secret Emchy Society, Shawna Virago, Amy Blue @ El Rio Three folk, America alt/country bands. No cover. 8pm-11pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. www.whitehorsebar.com t

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Closer to home, Justin Spring discovered the papers of Samuel Steward in a San Francisco attic, and newspaper truck driver Alan Perry discovered the letters of artist Leo Stillwell to dancer Russell Hartley in a dumpster on Duboce Street. Another story can now be added to the list. In the summer of 2007, longtime San Francisco resident Daniel Detorie was walking on the 300 block of South Van Ness when he came across a box on the street. Contained in the box were silkscreens that had been used to create posters from the Doris Fish and Sluts A-Go-Go show Blonde Sin. Detorie had seen Doris Fish in performance in the 1980s and immediately recognized what the screens were. He had the prints for

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just on the very edge. We wrote a play with music called Blonde Sin, which was a gritty fantasy about showgirls making it on a Bob Hope USO Tour of Afghanistan. Our first review said, ‘Not Bad Enough.’ As I think about it, I’m surprised and delighted the little show was. What is really astounding is that we did 16 costume changes each, in the ladies’ toilet of the Hotel Utah! Sister Boom Boom started her drag career in that show, donning the guise of a Russian ‘defecTop Left: Poster for the play Blonde Sin, tive showgirl,’ a role which was performed at Hotel Utah. later rewritten for the enormous talents Top Right: The ‘Sluts a Go Go’ print of the late Jane Dorfeatures Jane Dornaker (left front) and nacker.” Timmy Spence (lower right front), Miss That first review, X (upper right) and other talents. which said “Not Bad Enough,” was from Left: The cult classic Vegas in Space. the September 11, 1980 Bay Area Reporter. The writer, a few months before giving Mark Tompkin, had them to the artists Jim Winters a suggestion for those attending: and Michael Wertz, who used “The Hotel Utah showroom is them at the Castro Street Fair very small, so reservations are sugthat year. gested. So is a massive dose of your Before discussing the use favorite hallucinogen.” of the prints at the Fair, it’s Although the reviews may not important to understand why have been favorable, the play was a they, and Doris, are important. hit. It ran from September 1980 to Doris Fish was the stage April 1981. Tim Spence, who was name for Philip Mills, who the musical director of Blonde Sin, came to the U.S. from Austratold me: lia in 1976. In 1972, Doris took “Blonde Sin was very popular. Hohis name from Doris Day and tel Utah was really small. You could a cat named Lillian Fish. The only fit at most 81 people into the summer he came to the U.S. room. After New Year’s Eve (when he entered The Tubes’ Talent Jane Dornacker joined the cast) Hunt, which took place at The it was even more popular. People Boarding House (960 Bush Street) would come more than once. Jane on August 8, 1976. was a seasoned performer and was The Tubes had a series of talvery popular. Doris liked that Jane ent contests that year and in San was bigger and taller than she was.” Francisco the contest ended in a Asked for further memories tie, with Doris Fish winning alongabout the event he said, “Eddie side Pearl E. Gates. Gates would go Troia, who was the manager of Leila on to become a backup singer with and the Snakes, should really be Jane Dornacker’s group Lelia and mentioned, because he was the dithe Snakes, and later start her own rector and was responsible for getgroup Pearl Harbor and The Exploting all of the people in Blonde Sin sions. together. And Greg Foss, who was Both Gates and Fish met Dorlater in Vegas In Space, was one of nacker in the summer of 1976, as at the people who came to the perforthe time she was a songwriter and mance multiple times.” performer with The Tubes. One of the reasons that Blonde By 1979 Doris Fish, Tippi and Sin was popular was because of the Miss X were performing Sluts A Gomarketing of the show. There were Go, which would, within the next no ads in the B.A.R, Sentinel or Bay year, evolve into the play Blonde Sin. Guardian for the play. What made In a 1989 SF Sentinel column, ‘The the play popular was word of mouth Doris Decade,’ Fish gave his take on – and some of the things that creatthe performance: ed the word of mouth were the very “Nineteen Eighty was our first silkscreen prints that Daniel Detorie foray into legitimate theater, though found.

Left: Doris Fish in A Midsummer Rat’s Dream. Above: Doris Fish at SF Pride in a Polaroid by an unknown photographer.

In researching this article, I found several art sites online that were selling copies of the original posters that had long ago been plastered all over South of Market by Doris and company during the run of the play. There was a D.I.Y. sensibility to the art, the play and the marketing, which were typical both of the gay scene and the punk scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Once the silkscreens were rediscovered, Detorie gave them to his friends, the artists Jim Winters and Michael Wertz, who were fans of Doris Fish. Concerning the project, Jim Winters wrote, “Michael and I made prints from them –they were still in usable shape– and sold them at Sugar Valley at the Castro Street Fair along with some other Doris Fish/ Vegas In Space stuff that we got from Philip R. Ford. The remaining prints and the screens we gave to the GLBT Historical Society.” Michael Wertz added, “We sold the prints in 2007 as part of Sugar

Valley, the street-fair-within-astreet fair during the Castro Street Fair created and curated by Flower Frankenstein. Sugar Valley is an amazing story in its own right. I believe we ran Sugar Valley for five years.” Years later, Wertz made prints for 25th anniversary of Vegas in Space. There is still a central mystery to the story of the prints, which is how they came to be on the 300 block of South Van Ness 16 years after the deaths of both Doris Fish and Tippi. There is also a message for all of us who have materials we want preserved: make certain to put someone in charge of those materials or leave written instructions. The spirit of Doris Fish, who inspired such artistic chaos in the ‘80s, returned once again last decade for another encore.t The author would like to thank Michael Johnstone, Tim Spence, Michael Wertz and Jim Winters.

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Thu 31 Aunt Charlie’s @ Tenderloin Museum Multimedia exhibit about the historic Tenderloin drag bar, including Beautiful by Night: Photographs from Aunt Charlie’s Lounge by James Hosking, Hot Boxx Girls, photos by Darwin Bell, and There Will Always Be Roses in San Francisco, by Marissa Letiman. Exhibit thru Dec 1. Nov. 7, 6pm9pm, reception for High Fantasy by Raphael Villet. 398 Eddy St. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

The Chinese Lady @ Magic Theatre Bay Area premiere of Lloyd Suh’s play inspired by the true story of the first Chinese woman to arrive on American soil. $15-$75. Tue 7pm, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 2:30pm thru Nov. 3. Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd. www.MagicTheatre.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre Oct 31: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 original, 7pm) and The Thing From Another World (1951, 5:15, 8:30). Nov 1: Documentary Film fest, with The Apollo (7:30pm). Nov. 2: Kathy

Griffin’s A Hell of a Story (7pm). Nov 3: Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1:30, 7:30) and Casino (4:15). Nov 4: Thunder Rolling Bob Dylan documentary (7pm). Nov 6: Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (7pm) and Desolation Center (8:50). $8-$16. 429 Castro St. castrotheatre.com

Dance Nation @ SF Playhouse Clare Barron’s dark comedy about competitive dancers in Florida, with teenagers played by adults. $35-$125. Thru Nov 9. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Driven @ Spark Arts Gallery Boni Alvarez’ new play about an actor who returns home. $25-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm, thru Nov. 17. 4229 18th St. TheRhino.org

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child @ Curran Theater The acclaimed two-part musical based on the J.K. Rowling bestseller begins previews. $59-$300. Openended run. 445 Geary St. www.harrypottertheplay.com

Michelle Meow Show @ Commonwealth Club Meow and cohost John Zipperer discuss LGBT issues with different prominent guests. Weekly, 12pm. 110 Embarcadero. www.commonwealthclub.org

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Puppets & Poe @ Theatre of Yugen Devised Defiance, a macabre theatre work inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 3. 2840 Mariposa St. www.theatreofyugen.org

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27 Years! In Oakland, a dance celebration, woith works by Artistic Director Reginald raySavage. $5-$25. Thru Nov. 3. 1428 Alice St., Oakland. www.savagejazz.org

Fri 1 The Cake @ New Conservatory Theatre Center The Off-Broadway hit’s about a Christian baker whose daughter wants a cake for her same-sex wedding. $34-$49. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm thru Dec. 1. 25 Van Ness Ave. www.nctcsf.org

Death and the Artist @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Mercedes Rein & Jorge Curi’s musical folktale farce about life, death, and art. $25-$40. Thru Nov. 3. 2686 Mission St. sfbatco.org

Ofrenda @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Annual Day of the Dead exhibit of reverential artworks. Day of the Dead celebration Nov. 2, 6pm-11pm. Exhibit thru Nov 16, closing Mole Contest 6pm-9pm. 2868 Mission St. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Performance, Protest & Politics: Gilbert Baker’s Art @ GLBT History Museum Opening reception for a new exhibit of the works and ephemera by and about the creator of the Rainbow Flag. $5. 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

The Rocky Horror Show @ San Jose Stage Company Richard O’Brien’s cult classic musical gets a South Bay production, with Keith Pinto as Frank N. Furter. $32$60. Thru Nov 3. 490 South First St., San Jose. www.thestage.org

The Rocky Horror Show @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre’s final production of Richard O’Brien’s cult classic rock-horror-transvestite aliens musical stars D’Arcy Drollinger as Frank N. Furter. $30$40. Thru Nov. 2. 2961 16th St. https://rayoflighttheatre.com/

Serge Gay Jr. @ Voss Gallery P.S., I Love You, the artist’s colorful pop exhibit of Palm Springs-set paintings. Thru Nov 2. 3344 24th St. https://vossgallery.art/

Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story @ Castro Theatre

Sat 2 The Batman Armory @ Cartoon Art Museum Artwork, Batman props and costumes on display, thru Feb. 16. Pre-Code Horror: Scary Stories and Ghastly Graphics from EC Comics, thru March 1. Free/$10. 11am-5pm daily; closed Wed. 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.org

A Childhood on Fire @ Vogue Theatre Screening of Jason Hanasik’s documentary about an abused young man; part of SF Film’s Doc Stories. $10-$20. 1pm. 3290 Sacramento St. www.cinemasf.com

The Daughters @ Creativity Theater World premiere of Patricia Cotter’s drama about the origins of the lesbian group The Daughters of Bilitis. $30-$40. Wed-Sat thru Nov 2. 221 4th St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Festival of Altars @ La Raza Park Marigold Project’s annual exhibit of Day of the Dead altars. 4pm-11pm. 22nd St at Bryant. Day of the Dead march concludes there. www.dayofthedeadsf.org

From the Tower: Collecting Queer Histories @ SF Art Institute Exhibit of 150 years’ worth of history accumulated in SFAI’s institutional archives as part of an ongoing effort to record and shed light on stories from its LGBTQ community. Thru Nov. 3. Main campus, Fort Mason campus, 2 Marina Blvd. https://sfai.edu

John Sanborn: In Translation @ Telematic The veteran media/video art director-producer has his first solo show in San Francisco. Opening reception 6pm-9pm. Wed-Sat 11am-4pm thru Dec. 14. 323 19th St. www.tttelematiccc.com

Screening of the comedian’s documentary, with a Q&A with Griffin and Kate Kendell. $20-$45. 7pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco @ SF Conservatory of Music Kathleen McGuire, Andy Payne and Jonathon Welch’s acclaimed Street Requiem is performed; a portion of proceeds benefits Larkin Street Youth Services. $25-$50. 7:30pm. 50 Oak St. www.lgcsf.org

SF Dance Film Festival @ Lucasfilm Theater Screenings of amazing dance films, including Queen + Bejart: Ballet for Life, a concert documentary of the ballet company’s works set to the rock band’s hits; $21-$75. 6pm. Festival thru Nov. 10. 1 Letterman Drive. www.sfdancefilmfest.org

SF Open Studios @ Multiple Galleries ArtSpan’s annual citywide showcase of 100s of artists, in their studios, at galleries and special venues. 11am6pm; free. Weekend showings thru Nov. 3. www.artspan.org

Testmatch @ Strand Theater ACT’s production of Kate Attwell’s dual-story about women’s cricket and British colonialism and power. $15-$110. Tue-Sat 7:30pm. Wed & Sat 2pm. Thru Dec. 8. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

Sun 3 Cirque du Soleil @ Oracle Park The amazing circus company brings Amalúna to the big tent. Pre-show festivities 6:30pm. Show 8pm. $54-$300. Wed-Mon most 8pm, +matinees. Thru Jan. 12. 24 Willie Mays Plaza (cross bridge to parking lot). www.cirquedusoleil.com

Living the Shuffle @ The Marsh Berkeley Film director and actor Robert Townsend ( Hollywood Shuffle ) performs his solo show about the ups and down of the movie business. $25-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5:30pm; thru Nov 8. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man @ Oakland Museum No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, thru Feb 16. Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org/

Smack Dab @ Manny’s The band Polythene Pam is featured at the queer open mic and talent night, hosted by Larry-bob Roberts. 5pm. 3092 16th St. www.welcometomannys.com

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Utsav Lal @ Old First Church

Various Exhibits @ NIAD Art Center, Richmond

The acclaimed young Raga pianist performs; part of the SF World Music festival. $5-$25. 4pm. 1751 Sacramento St. oldfirstconcerts.org

Exhibits of art by visiting professionals, and developmentally disabled people. Mon-Fri 10am4pm. 551 23rd St., Richmond. (510) 620-0290. www.niadart.org

Various Exhibits @ de Young Museum Specters of Disruption (thru Nov 10) and exhibits of Modern and historic art, including embroidery, Maori portraits and installations. Free/$28. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.famsf.org

Mon 4 Keith Secola @ Café Valor Wounds Many, an exhibit of works focusing on the artist’s Northern Ute heritage. Thru Dec. 13. 401 Van Ness Ave., lobby. www.sfartscommission.org

Tue 5 Branford Marsalis @ Yoshi’s Oakland The acclaimed saxophonist performs with his band. $39-$84. 8pm & 10pm. Also Nov 6 & 7. $ 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Gallery of Illustrious Queers @ SF Main Library Photographer Jordan Reznick’s LGBT portrait photo exhibit. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Stomp @ Geary Theater The amazing percussive dance and drumming show, a world favorite for years, returns for a short SF run. $39-$125. Thru Nov. 10. 405 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Africa State of Mind @ MOAD Traveling exhibit curated by Ekow Eshun includes 16 artists’ works focusing on the idea of ‘Africanness.’ Also, The Sacred Star of Isis and Other Stories, photos by Adama Delphine Fawundo; also Rashaad Newsome’s Stop Playing in My Face!, a Black queer multimedia installation. Free/$10. Both thru Nov. 15. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

James Tissot @ Legion of Honor

Naked Men’s Sketch @ Eros

Driven @ Spark Arts Gallery

Stomp @ Geary Theater

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James Tissot: Fashion & Faith (thru Feb 9); Strange Days: Dada, Surrealism, and the Book (thru Nov 10), other beautiful exhibits of classical and modern art. Free/$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. legionofhonor.famsf.org

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Safeway Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square

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Opening Day of the annual ice rink, with Assembly member David Chiu, Donna Sachet, SF Giants mascot, and cast members from Harry Potter. 9:30am. www.unionsquareicerink.com

Gypsy @ Alcazar Theatre

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Reconsidering Randy Shilts @ GLBT History Museum

Annabeth Rosen @ Contemp. Jewish Museum

Get naked and take turns modeling at the sex club’s popular weekly event. Donations/no entrance fee. 7pm-9pm. 2051 Market St. www.erossf.com

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, an exhibit of works by the Californian sculptor; thru Jan 19. Other exhibits, too. Free/$17. 736 Mission St. thecjm.org

Richard Caldwell Brewer @ Lost Art Salon

Give Us the Word @ Alley Cat Books

Exhibit of works by the late gay artist (1923-2014). Mon-Sat 10am5:30pm. 245 South Van Ness Ave., #303. https://lostartsalon.com/

Queer Rebels; People of Color reading and music night, with Mason J., Chibueze Crough, Blackberri, Dazié Rustin Grego-Sykes

The classic Styne, Sondheim, Laurents musical about the life of Gypsy Rose Lee and her vaudeville family gets a Bay Area Musicals local production. $30-$100. 8pm. Thru Dec. 8. 650 Geary St. bamsf.org

Panel discussion about the investigative journalism and books by the late writer, with The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts author Andrew E. Stoner. $5. 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org t To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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