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Expansion of SF LGBT senior housing begins
LGBTs begin returning home after fires
Willi’s Wine Bar in Santa Rosa, California was destroyed in the wildfires.
Representatives from Openhouse, Mercy Housing, Wells Fargo, local politicians, construction personnel, and others celebrate the groundbreaking of an LGBT-focused senior housing project at 95 Laguna Street.
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orth Bay LGBTs hit hard by the firestorm that ripped through the heart of wine country began returning home as evacuation orders were lifted and firefighters gained control more than a week after what has now become the worst fires in California’s history. As of Wednesday, the death toll stood at
42, officials said, and includes one person who died at a hospital of smoke inhalation. Firefighters from throughout the state were joined by those from outside California – including Australia and Canada – to help contain the wildfires, which were mostly in Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma counties. Some people continued to wait anxiously See page 17 >>
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he asphalt of a former parking lot is rapidly being torn up in order to start construction on a new home for lowincome LGBT seniors in San Francisco. Work on the site at 95 Laguna Street began last Friday, October 13, and an official groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday,
October 17. Invited guests donned hard hats representing the colors of the rainbow flag and wielded shovels to ceremoniously turn over dirt for the occasion. “Today, we redouble our commitment to our groundbreakers, our LGBT seniors, and the community we want to build with them,” said Karyn Skultety, Ph.D., who became the
LGBT history curriculum choices expand
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any public school children in California likely know that the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk was the first out elected LGBT leader in the state due to his winning his board seat 40 years ago this November 8. Numerous schools throughout the Golden State teach about the pioneering LGBT rights activist every year on or near May 22, which was Milk’s birthday and is now an unofficial state holiday in California. Ever since 2010 the sitting governor declares the date Harvey Milk Day, due to state lawmakers eight years ago designating it a day of special significance. With schools in session when May 22 falls on a weekday, the annual commemoration of Milk allows schoolteachers an opportunity to bring an LGBT history lesson into their classrooms. Various educational materials about Milk have been created to assist teachers who do. Over the last decade, as more and more educators have sought to teach LGBT history lessons, their curriculum choices have expanded. Their efforts received a significant boost from the passage in 2011 of the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, a California law that requires K-12 history and social science classes to include historical contributions of LGBT and disabled people. “Overwhelmingly teachers want to make
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Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected in California.
sure they are covering this curriculum and want to make sure they are doing it not only because the state education code says they must do it, but because this is a much more complete, relevant, and recognizable way to teach history and the related social sciences,” said Beth Slutsky, Ph.D., a program coordinator at the California History-Social Science Project Statewide Office at UC Davis, where she also teaches history. Her office was contracted by the state to
assist with incorporating the provisions of the FAIR Act into what the state’s public schools are teaching. Its work resulted in the state’s Board of Education last summer updating the History-Social Science Framework that sets out what children are to be taught in kindergarten through 12th grade. LGBT subject matter is now expected to be presented in the second, fourth, fifth, eighth, 11th, and 12th grades. The topics run the gamut from LGBT people who have made significant contributions to society, like Milk and lesbian social worker Jane Addams, who in 1931 was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, to broader subjects like the state’s role in the fight for marriage rights for same-sex couples and how gender identity has been viewed differently by various cultures. Last month, the statewide education board’s Instructional Quality Commission approved nine history-social science K-8 textbooks that incorporate the LGBT subject material after a strong advocacy push by LGBT leaders and educators. The FAIR Education Act Implementation Coalition continues to call for revisions to a 10th textbook the commission approved that omits some of the required LGBT history lessons. The state Board of Education is expected to adopt the new textbooks when it meets in early November. Schools statewide will then be able to purchase the textbooks once they are approved for purchase.
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“As early as next academic year we could see the textbooks in classrooms,” said Don Romesburg, a gay San Francisco resident who is an associate professor and chair in the Sonoma State University Women’s and Gender Studies Department and the lead scholar of the FAIR ACT coalition. “The textbooks are a great starting point and a great base from which to jump off from teaching about LGBT history.”
More materials needed
Despite the inclusion of the LGBT history lessons in the textbooks, supplemental materials will still be needed to give students more in-depth instruction on specific topics. Asked if there were enough lesson plans currently available on LGBT issues, Slutsky replied “yes and no” depending on the subject matter. “It is easier to build lessons around modern topics because the resources are digitized and students can access them pretty easily,” she explained. For instance, in 11th grade modern U.S. history, students can readily find a wealth of material about the LGBT rights movement. Harder to find, noted Slutsky, are “credible and readable” primary and secondary sources about Native American two spirits, which students in fourth and eighth grades are expected to study. “Certain topics have terrific lessons and See page 17 >>
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• If you do become HIV-1 positive, you need more medicine than TRUVADA alone to treat HIV-1. If you have HIV-1 and take only TRUVADA, your HIV-1 may become harder to treat over time. • See the “How To Further Reduce Your Risk” section for more information. TRUVADA may cause serious side effects, including: • Worsening of hepatitis B (HBV) infection. TRUVADA is not approved to treat HBV. If you have HBV, your HBV may suddenly get worse if you stop taking TRUVADA. Do not stop taking TRUVADA without first talking to your healthcare provider, as they will need to check your health regularly for several months.
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he San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency board voted earlier this month to install a plaque in the Castro Muni station honoring Tom Nolan, a gay man who sat on the transit oversight panel for many years. Nolan served as the SFMTA board’s chair from 2010 to 2017, and was first appointed as a member in 2006. Nolan led other transportation projects in the Bay Area, including serving as the founding chair of the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. He formerly served on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. Many in the LGBT community know Nolan from when he served as executive director of Project Open Hand, which provides meals and groceries to people living with HIV/ AIDS and other illnesses. Throughout his career, Nolan has advocated for projects like the extension of BART into San Mateo County and to San Francisco International Airport, the Central Subway, and the Muni Forward program to improve and expand Muni service. He also led the SFMTA board as it approved groundbreaking programs like Muni’s all-door boarding policy and free Muni for low- and moderate-income youth, seniors, and people with disabilities. Due to term limits, Nolan left the SFMTA board earlier this year.
Cohen to hold cannabis forum
San Francisco Supervisor Malia
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Cohen will hold a cannabis forum to introduce the District 10, and citywide, community to the legal cannabis industry landscape. State voters approved Proposition 64, the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative, last November. It allows adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants indoors. Now, San Francisco is working through its own regulation and permitting ordinance. The forum will take place Saturday, October 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third Street. Topics include the proposed permitting and regulation that Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jeff Sheehy
introduced last month, job opportunities, and equity programming and records expungement for activities now legal under Prop 64. Some legal services will be provided onsite, according to a news release. Panelists will include Juell Stewart, communications director for Hood Incubator; Jude Pond, the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellow from the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; Christine Johnson, the San Francisco director of SPUR, a nonprofit research group; and Nikki Elliot, director of the San Francisco Office of Cannabis. Interested people can RSVP for the free event by visiting https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-cannabisforum-tickets-38368567418.
Maitri names new ED
Maitri Compassionate Care, which operates a hospice in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, has announced it has hired a new executive director. Anne Gimbel will start at the nonprofit October 30. Gimbel is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has worked in Chicago, her hometown, and Los Angeles. Her prior experience includes serving as executive director of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a nonprofit serving Illinois, and development director at Make-A-Wish Foundation in Century City and Geffen
Playhouse during the 14 years she and her husband lived in Santa Monica. For the past five years Gimbel has been the regional director of the Alzheimer’s Association of Coachella Valley that includes Palm Springs. “Anne Gimbel brings to Maitri a seasoned leadership experience with aging populations, and a proven track record of development success in the nonprofit sector,” Maitri board President Michael Niemeyer said in a statement. Gimbel and her husband have adult twin sons living in San Francisco and Oakland, and two granddaughters. Gimbel will take over for Bill Musick, who returned for a second stint as executive director after the departure of Michael Sorensen, who resigned after about six months on the job. According to Maitri, Gimbel’s salary will be $115,000.
AIDS quilt exhibit at Grace Cathedral
For the 30th anniversary of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, 29 panels will be on display at Grace Cathedral beginning October 22. The exhibit will culminate with a special event on World AIDS Day (December 1) at 7:30 p.m. that will include the rededication of the cathedral’s recently renovated AIDS Interfaith Memorial Chapel. The panels can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Grace Cathedral is located at 1100 California Street. The exhibit is free and open to all. For more information, visit https:// goo.gl/tM2u74
Auditions for queer walking tour
EyeZen will present Out of Site, a queer history walking tour, and is now seeking performers, musicians, artists, and collaborators. According to a news release, people must live in the Bay Area and be comfortable with interdisciplinary devised ensemble theater in which the cast participates in the creative process. The work premieres in March and may continue through the summer. Performers need to be reasonably available beginning in January and be able to begin work later this month. Trans, genderqueer, and cis men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds with strong acting, dance, and music skills are encouraged to apply. The project pays $1,500-$2,000 depending on experience, skills, and involvement. Auditions are scheduled for Saturday, October 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at CounterPulse (upstairs studio), 80 Turk Street in San Francisco. There is an additional audition date October 25. Those interested in auditioning must complete a form by Friday, October 20, and can view it at https://docs.google.com/ forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnRGx9TP_ Nkslvih3o_-MAcK-SQyt a Y R w _ p L G a x _ Vu Q i R z C w / viewform.
SF Suicide Prevention raffle
San Francisco Suicide Prevention is holding a travel raffle and people can enter online or by mail until the drawing November 3. See page 18 >>
Healey brings Trump resistance to SF
by Sari Staver
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hen Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey sued the Trump administration for the seventh time this month, pundits speculated that the state’s top law enforcement official might be eying a run for governor. “Political moves renew talk of a Maura Healey run for Corner Office in ‘18” read the October 15 headline in the Boston Herald. But two days earlier, Healey, a lesbian, told the Bay Area Reporter she had “definitely ruled out” a run for the state’s top office. “What I’m doing right now is too important to me” to leave now, she said in an interview at the Fairmont Hotel following an Emily’s List luncheon, where she was the keynote speaker. Healey, a Democrat and the first openly LGBT attorney general in the country, has sued the Trump administration over a variety of issues, including the newly issued rules giving employers the right to deny women birth control coverage by claiming religious or moral objections as well as the changes in the Affordable Care Act that could increase premiums and cut subsidies. “We will stand with you on the front lines,” Healey told the audience, “and we will see Donald Trump in court. We will not back down.” Healey pointed out that she is not opposing the Republican president because he belongs to another political party, but rather because “his actions are illegal and undermine basic American values.” Healey acknowledged that she intends to continue in politics, but plans to run for state attorney general for at least one more term. In her first election, in 2014, Healey defeated former state Senator Warren Tolman in the Democratic primary and then defeated Republican attorney John Miller in the general election. In that election, she said in response to a question, being a lesbian did not seem to affect the vote. “But
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey spoke in San Francisco last week.
then, I have nothing to compare it to,” she said, noting that this was the only time she ran for elected office. When she ran for office three years ago, there was another topic that sparked a lot of interest among Massachusetts voters: her two-year stint as a professional basketball player in Austria. “I did that for two years and then decided it was time I got a real job,” she said. Healey described her life growing up in a small town in New Hampshire. Following her parents’ divorce, her mom sold her wedding ring to raise cash so that Healey and her brothers would have a place to play basketball, she said. “If you work hard and if you play by the rules and get a few opportunities, anything is possible,” said Healey. Healey thanked the audience for their involvement with Emily’s List, “a group that really matters,” she said. Emily’s List works to elect prochoice Democratic women to office. “They have been able to convince women – myself included – that they have a chance to win,” Healy said of the national organization. “When I first thought about becoming ‘the
people’s lawyer,’ I wondered if it was a crazy idea. But it was Emily’s List – and some of the people in this room – who gave me the confidence to run.” Alexandra De Luca, Emily’s List press secretary, said that while the organization doesn’t have “hard statistics on the number of LGBTQ women in our pipeline,” it has made a “concentrated effort to elect more LGBTQ women up and down the ballot.” “Just this cycle, we have endorsed Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual member of Congress, for her run for the U.S. Senate,” De Luca wrote in an email, adding that Emily’s List had backed Sinema for her House races. She said that the group has supported out Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), who faces re-election next year, and Danica Roem, a trans woman who is running this November for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates against an antitrans candidate. Before she was attorney general, Healey, 46, served as chief of the office’s civil rights division, where she spearheaded the state’s challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She was then appointed chief of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau and then chief of the Business and Labor Bureau before resigning in 2013 to run for attorney general. The previous attorney general, Martha Coakley, ran for governor but was defeated by Republican Charlie Baker. Healey lives in Charlestown with her partner, Gabrielle Wolohojian, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. While some days can be dispiriting to women, times when “all of us feel overwhelmed by the barrage” of announcements from the Trump administration, Healey said that overall, she finds inspiration “everywhere.” When attending town halls in Massachusetts, she said, “I meet people with an energy and a vigor that I’ve never seen before.”
“I also think back to the Women’s March” earlier this year, she said. “I recall what Gloria Steinem said.
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overnor Jerry Brown moved California forward this week when he signed Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act, making it easier for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to obtain state-issued identity documents that correspond to their gender. Now, in addition to the usual “M” and “F” gender markers, there will be an “X.” While the majority of people identify as male or female, a growing number identify as neither. SB 179 creates a nonbinary gender category on California birth certificates, drivers’ licenses, identity cards, and genderchange court orders. Some California counties had already begun using a third category on the gender-change court orders. Significantly, SB 179 removes the outdated requirement that applicants obtain a physician’s letter stating that they have undergone appropriate medical treatment and replaces it with self-attestation. This is a groundbreaking development. California now becomes the second state, after Oregon, to create a nonbinary gender for state identification documents. The National Center for Transgender Equality’s last survey of trans people was published in 2015. As a recent USA Today article pointed out, nearly one-third of transgender people said they were harassed, assaulted, or denied service because their ID did not match their gender presentation, according to the NCTE survey, which drew 27,715 online respondents from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and U.S. military bases overseas. The Transgender Law Center, which co-sponsored SB 179 with Equality California, underscored this point. “We’re asked for identification everywhere from banks to bars to airports,” TLC Executive Director
Kris Hayashi said in a statement, “and it can be devastating and even dangerous for nonbinary and transgender people to navigate life with an ID that doesn’t reflect who they truly are.” The survey also revealed that only 11 percent of trans people reported that all their personal identification documents recorded their name and gender consistent with their gender identity. SB 179 will help thousands of Californians. The fate of SB 179 remained up in the air until Sunday, the last day Brown could sign or veto legislation. In a statement, lesbian state Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who co-authored the bill with gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), thanked the governor “for recognizing how difficult it can be for our transgender, nonbinary, and intersex family members, friends, and neighbors when they don’t have an ID that matches their gender presentation.” She also pointed out that California continues to play a leadership role in advancing LGBT civil rights.
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Another Atkins bill that Brown signed, SB 310, makes it easier for transgender people incarcerated in state prisons or county jails to change their legal name or gender marker. The Name and Dignity Act is similar to policies San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy adopted locally and requires correctional officers to use their new name and pronoun once a person has completed a name and/or gender change. Enacting bills like SB 179 and SB 310 – Brown also signed Wiener’s bills modernizing criminal penalties for HIV transmission (SB 239) and creating an LGBT seniors bill of rights (SB 219) – also speaks to the effectiveness of our gay and lesbian state lawmakers. LGBT legislators have been consistent over the years in developing bills that solve problems faced by the community, and have highlighted issues that might otherwise have been overlooked by straight colleagues or allies. These particular bills needed – and received – support from straight allies, but having out lawmakers in positions to create positive social or legal change is a great benefit to California’s LGBT community. And we’ve been fortunate to have gay-friendly governors for the past couple of decades. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vetoed same-sex marriage legislation, signed other important bills benefitting the LGBT community. Transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are making their voices heard like never before. While many often face unique challenges, the NCTE survey also showed a marked increase in acceptance by family members, colleagues, classmates, and other people in their lives. As more people come out, states can make their lives easier by easing barriers to securing government IDs that reflect today’s complex society.t
Trump’s refugee death sentence by Jessica Stern
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n October 1, with the start of the 2018 fiscal year, President Donald Trump’s aggressive restructuring of federal funds and policies became a reality. The cuts he has introduced, under the veil of national security, are blatantly discriminatory, and speak loudly to his xenophobic, antirefugee, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim agenda. Notably, Jessica Stern Trump’s recent decision to slash annual refugee intake by more than half will lead to violence and even the deaths of countless people facing persecution daily, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people. The decision to take an ax to the asylum program, cutting the maximum number of refugees down to 45,000, has brought the admissions rate to an all-time low. More than half of the 110,000 spaces allotted in 2017 by the Obama administration will be lost. This change comes at a time when the United Nations high commissioner for refugees estimates there are nearly 22.5 million refugees worldwide, and amidst a global crackdown on LGBTIQ rights and people. In just the past few months, over 180 people perceived to be LGBTIQ have been arbitrarily arrested, mistreated, and even tortured in Egypt, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia alone. Since Congress enacted the Refugee Act of 1980, no president has ever lowered the refugee ceiling by this degree. The previous record was set by President Reagan who in 1986 set a limit of 67,000. In reality, few administrations have ever hit their respective ceilings. In 2002, following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. admitted just 27,000 refugees, the lowest it has ever welcomed. This record breaking low occurred while the ceiling was still set at 70,000 individuals for the fiscal year, 25,000 more than this year. The administration’s refugee restrictions comes on the heels of yet another unveiling of indefinite travel restrictions on six majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. In these nations, homosexuality can be punished
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with up to 10 years in prison or even death. OutRight Action International has documented more than 40 people killed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and the border territories, for alleged homosexuality from 2014-2016 alone. Not only are his policies flagrantly discriminatory and anti-Muslim, but by closing the doors to people from these places, Trump is standing idly by while countless LGBTIQ people suffer state-sanctioned violence and even murder. Those who are Muslim and LGBTIQ stand to
suffer twofold. All the while, Trump continues to use fearmongering and spews rhetoric pitting refugees, immigrants, and Muslims against the presumed safety of the American people. What Trump fails to understand is that these policies are not going to make Americans any safer. All of these blockades are set against the backdrop of an already rigorous vetting process that sometimes takes up to two years to complete. This lengthy process includes multiple interviews, checks against FBI and Homeland Security databases, fraud checks, fingerprinting, and photographs. With Trump’s increased vetting procedures, the process could now take even longer, without significantly improving the process altogether. These policies will instead put the lives of people fleeing rogue governments, persecution, criminalization, and war on the line; forcing people who have already been languishing for years in unsafe environments to continue to suffer. This is particularly true for LGBTIQ people who not only face discrimination and violence at home but often face even harsher treatment in places of first resettlement. These policies are indicative of this administration’s wider isolationist disposition and attempts to undermine a global system of multilateral cooperation. In September, Trump took the stage for the first time to speak to the world’s leaders at the United Nations General Assembly,
where he positioned sovereignty over multilateral relations. Saying “sovereign(ty)” over 21 times in his speech he stated, “Success depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty to promote security, prosperity, and peace for themselves and for the world.” However, in this globalized and interconnected world, it is multilateral cooperation – not isolationism – that is going to promote security, prosperity, and peace. The refugee crisis cannot be addressed through policies that are nearsighted and discriminatory. Now more than ever we need an America that is part of the world, not one that is against it. The U.S.’s new refugee ceiling signals a need for other nations to step in and bolster programs that rescue and resettle people in extreme duress. Every nation has a moral obligation to address and relieve human suffering. But regardless of who steps in to fill the vacuum, nothing absolves this administration of its inaction in the face of crisis. LGBTIQ people face some of the most violent forms of persecution worldwide. Every day, dozens of LGBTIQ people are rounded up, detained, and even tortured for no other reason than being perceived as gay or transgender. By imposing this refugee ceiling and the travel ban, LGBTIQ refugees will be turned away and lives will be on the line. Trump is allowing for these LGBTIQ people to continue enduring extreme violence and is denying them of the only safety and freedom they may have had. Despite the empty promises he has made to the LGBTIQ community, Trump’s actions make him complicit in the discrimination against LGBTIQ people globally. It is clear that the way to make Americans safer is not by closing our doors but by demonstrating respect for people from every country and ensuring that we put human rights and dignity first. t Jessica Stern is the executive director of OutRight Action International. For more information, visit outrightinternational.org.
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Signing sweep for Gov. Brown on LGBT bills by Matthew S. Bajko
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or the fourth year in a row, California Governor Jerry Brown did not veto any of the LGBT-related bills that landed on his desk during the legislative session. Among the eight pieces of legislation that he signed and will take effect January 1 are bills that make it easier for transgender or gender nonconforming people, including those in prison, to update their state-issued identification documents, reduce the criminal penalties for people who knowingly transmit HIV to their sex partners, and allow certain convicted sex offenders to petition to be removed from the state’s registry. The number of state agencies required to collect LGBT demographic information will also expand, and LGBT seniors living in assisted care facilities will have greater rights because of the bills Brown signed into law this year. The governor did not issue any signing statements for the LGBTrelated legislation enacted this year. Asked for comment, Brown’s deputy press secretary Ali Bay told the Bay Area Reporter, “We will let the governor’s signature on each of these bills speak for itself.” Brown’s signing of the legislation state lawmakers passed in 2017 further cements his legacy as the most LGBT-friendly governor in the state’s history. During his current two terms in office, Brown has signed into law 60 bills that protected the rights of, or improved the health of, the LGBT community in the Golden State. And over the last seven years, Brown has vetoed just six LGBT-related bills. The tally is based on the B.A.R.’s coverage since 2011, the start of Brown’s third gubernatorial term, and the legislative scorecards annually compiled by Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy organization. “With these signatures, Jerry Brown has cemented his legacy as the most LGBTQ-friendly governor in California history,” stated EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur, adding that the organization is “grateful that Gov. Brown has once again proved himself to be a steadfast ally of our community with his support of these bills so vital to LGBTQ health and well-being.” Former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brown’s predecessor, vetoed 17 LGBT-related bills during his seven years in office and signed 38 into law. Based on a list of legislation compiled by the California LGBT Legislative Caucus and published reports, recalled Democratic Governor Gray Davis signed 26 LGBT-related bills into law while in office between 1999 and 2003; he vetoed at least three. Brown’s LGBT bill signing record is sure to expand in 2018 as the Democrat prepares to leave the governor’s office for a second time due to term limits. He first served two gubernatorial terms in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, when he made LGBT history by signing into law a 1975 bill that repealed California’s anti-gay sodomy laws. Evan Minton, a transgender legislative staffer and co-chair of the California Democratic Party’s LGBT Caucus, told the B.A.R. that Brown’s legislative legacy on LGBT rights will be front and center for the caucus members as they determine which of the candidates running for governor to support in 2018. “The California Democratic Party’s LGBT Caucus appreciates Governor Brown’s longstanding friendship. It is due to Governor Brown – along with LGBTQ activists, grassroots
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Some of the activists who lobbied in support of the LGBT-positive legislation signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, including state Senators Toni Atkins and Scott Wiener, rear center, gathered Monday at the LGBT Community Center to celebrate their victories.
Democrats, and fair-minded legislators – that California’s LGBTQ residents have gained so many of the rights and protections we now have,” wrote Minton in response to the B.A.R.’s request for comment. “As we look to gubernatorial candidates for 2018, we are keeping a close eye on who we believe will most effectively build upon Governor Brown’s meaningful legacy.”
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Sunday, October 15, the last day this year for the governor to decide on the 977 bills sent to him, Brown signed the two laws governing a person’s sex and name listed on their ID authored by lesbian state Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego). Senate Bill 179 – the Gender Recognition Act of 2017 co-authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) – allows people to choose “nonbinary” as the gender on their birth certificates and other documents. “I want to thank Governor Brown for recognizing how difficult it can be for our transgender, nonbinary and intersex family members, friends and neighbors when they don’t have an ID that matches their gender presentation,” stated Atkins. Added Wiener, “For too long society has forced people into gender boxes. It’s time for government to get out of the way and let people live their lives authentically as who they are.” SB 310, the Name and Dignity Act, makes it easier for transgender people incarcerated in state prisons or county jails to change their legal name or gender marker. It also requires corrections officials to use the new name of a person who obtains a name change and to list their prior name only as an alias. “Transgender people are disproportionately impacted by recidivism due to being pushed out of traditional economies, housing and health care,” stated Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project Executive Director Janetta Johnson. “A person exiting prison with identification documents that actually match who they are has an exponential impact on their ability to access life-giving services without some of the discrimination that comes with having identification documents that don’t match their gender presentation.” EQCA’s Zbur stated that SB 310 will “ensure that transgender inmates will be treated with dignity, which in turn will help them to begin their successful reentry into society after incarceration.” SB 384, authored by Wiener and backed by law enforcement officials across the state, creates a three-tiered system for California’s Sex Offender Registry with registration periods of upward of 10 years, 20 years, or life. Low-level offenders, such as gay men arrested during undercover sting operations at public parks or highway rest areas, will be able to petition to be
removed from the registry, while highrisk offenders will remain on it for life. SB 239, co-authored by Wiener and gay state Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), modernizes the state’s HIV criminalization laws adopted during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It requires proof that transmission of HIV did occur in order for a person to be prosecuted for intentionally transmitting the virus to a sex partner. Wiener’s SB 219 – the Seniors Long Term Care Bill of Rights – protects LGBT seniors from being discriminated against in long-term care facilities throughout the state. Modeled after a similar policy that San Francisco officials adopted several years ago, it requires employees at such facilities to allow same-sex couples to live together and to use the preferred names and pronouns of transgender residents. SB 396, the Transgender Work Opportunity Act authored by gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), makes California the first in the nation to require businesses to train their employees about transgender issues. It amends the two-hour sexual harassment training requirement in the Fair Housing and Employment Act to include training on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation for supervisory employees at companies with more than 50 employees. The bill also calls for employers to display a poster with information on transgender rights in the workplace developed by the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing. It also authorizes workforce development boards to target programs to transgender workers and calls on the statewide Workforce Development Board to include representatives from the LGBT community. Assembly Bill 677, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), requires state agencies that deal with education and employment issues to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) on their forms and surveys. It will increase the number of state entities asking such questions to 10 by July 1, 2019. AB 1556 by Assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) updates the state’s Fair Employment and Housing Act to use gender inclusive language, such as “person” or “employee” instead of “he” or “she.”t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column looked at the increasing tensions in an LA Assembly race. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.
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SF’s Armory offering non-porn tours by Seth Hemmelgarn
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an Francisco’s Armory, the massive brick building in the Mission district that was once the headquarters for the National Guard, and then the home of a company known for fetish porn, is offering tours to highlight its non-porn history. Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth still owns the building, at 1800 Mission Street, but earlier this year he moved film production to Nevada. Since mid-September, Matty McCauley, 28, the tour department manager, has been leading 90-minute tours to show off the 200,000 square foot site, which includes the well known drill court, a shooting range, and a room that once housed a swimming pool. In the past month, about 100 people have taken the tour, including people who trained in the building. Tickets are $25-$35. “Some people didn’t really know what they were walking into,” he said, including people who’ve lived in the city for years but have never been inside the structure. “The building never stops,” said
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Matty McCauley stands under a concrete buttress that supported massive training guns on the floor above at the Armory. The room now displays photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
McCauley, who’s a transgender man. “... It took me at least a month to not get confused” about which way to go in the hallway. There’s also plenty of history to get lost in. Among other things, the Armory serves as a reminder of the military’s role in helping grow San
Francisco’s gay population. Men stationed in San Francisco would often stay at the Armory, including men who were part of the “blue discharge,” which refers to the blue papers the armed forces used to give gay military members “undesirable” discharges. After the National Guard vacated the building in the mid-1970s, the Armory stood empty until 2006, when Kink bought it and transformed many of the rooms into porn sets. McCauley doesn’t touch on Kink in the tours. “We wanted it to be accessible to everybody, and not just adults,” he said, adding, “Regardless of Kink being here ... we’re still a historical landmark.” A landmark that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the structure may not be significantly altered.
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On the tour McCauley does talk about the Gold Rush of the 1840s bringing a population boom to San Francisco, and how that led to the state’s National Guard being formed. The current Armory was completed in 1914, two years after
construction started and about eight years after the 1906 earthquake that leveled much of the city. After the earthquake, “they decided they needed something that was going to be bigger and stronger” than other armories had been, said McCauley. Primarily, “they wanted to be able to house 1,500 soldiers.” The best known of the Armory’s 160 rooms is likely the drill court, where soldiers used to practice their drills and have boxing matches. Now the site of concerts, the drill court, with its shiny hardwood floors and high, arched ceiling, can hold almost 4,000 people. But as massive as the drill court is, it only accounts for one-fifth of the Armory’s square footage. The basement once housed a swimming pool, a mess hall, and a shooting range. The pool has been filled in, but the shooting range still features the cubbies where soldiers used to stand to shoot from one side of the long concrete room to the other. Not far from the shooting range is the ammunition vault, which held all the explosives. McCauley said it
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was “the safest spot in the Armory.” If anything exploded, the solid steel doors would keep it in. Armory spokesman Mike Stabile said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter, “When we took over the building back in 2006, we were entrusted with its history and legacy, and we’ve been serious about researching and preserving what we’ve found ever since. These new Armory tours give us the ability to bring people back in to the building to share that history, adding to the collective memory of a neighborhood at a time when so much else is changing. So we regard the tours the same way we do the sporting events, the fundraisers, and the concerts at the Armory – as part of a larger project to remake the building into vital, living resource for the Mission and the city.” Anyone with photos or other materials related to the Armory’s history, especially military-related social events, may contact McCauley at matty@sfarmory.com.t For more information about the tours, visit http://www.sfarmory. com/tours/.
Painter discusses barriers for artists with disabilities by Belo Cipriani
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ccording to a 2012 Census report, 56.7 million Americans have a disability. This figure translates to roughly 19 percent of the population – making people with disabilities the largest minority group in the country. But despite the size of this demographic, people with disabilities have the lowest numbers of educational attainment and work participation – facts that queer and deaf artist Bex knows all too well, and believes heavily impacts artists with disabilities. “Having the time and the space to create art is a luxury,” said Bex, who uses only one name. “Disabled people are twice as likely to be poor compared to able-bodied people, and far more likely to be unemployed.” The 28-year-old San Francisco Bay Area resident believes people with disabilities face discrimination and lack of access – despite the existence of the Americans with Disabilities Act – and that people with disabilities incur additional costs that create barriers to art training. “The cost of living for disabled people is higher than average due to
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medical care and adjustment costs,” she said. “And that’s all before you even get to the art world side itself.” Bex was born and raised in Los Angeles, and is the only deaf person in her family. She said, “When I was finally diagnosed, I was about 1.5 years old. It took a while to get the diagnosis, because my mother unfortunately had to deal with a succession of extremely dismissive doctors, one of whom even
suggested that it was all in her head.” “Initially,” Bex continued, “my parents were pretty upset and sad about the fact of my deafness. There’s a story about my mom despairingly talking about it on the phone with my grandmother, and grandma just goes, ‘So what? Just teach her sign language.’” Bex’s journey into the arts began as a small child, and her earliest drawings were in pen. “According to my parents, I didn’t care that I couldn’t erase, so pencils, colored pencils, and crayons came much later,” she said. She moved on to oil painting by the age of 7 and, at 18, moved to northern California to study at the California College of the Arts, where she completed her undergraduate degree and a MFA in comics. But while Bex was able to pursue an art education, she pointed out that most people with disabilities are not able to attain training due to cost. “The most expensive colleges in the country are art schools, not Ivy League schools. Ivy League schools, being rich,
distribute a lot of financial aid to their students – so if you make a list of the 10 most expensive four-year, private, nonprofit colleges and subtract the average amount of grant/scholarship aid at each institution, a majority of the list would consist of art schools and conservatories,” she said. The artist also said that navigating the art world is tougher for people with disabilities – especially for those without art contacts. “Breaking into the art world demands copious amounts of networking, and a lot of that begins in art school,” she said. “Unless you’re awarded a full scholarship, the playing field is usually not level, and I think it’s why so many disabled artists’ work ends up being categorized as outsider art.” Bex’s brush strokes have been described, by the arts and design magazine Eclectix, as a mixture of surrealism, science fiction scenarios, and a female under the influence of German Expressionism, and she stated her disability, queerness, and Jewish faith have all had some impact on her work. “There is a very strong sense of abjection in my work. I believe it rises not just from being queer, but also
from being disabled, as well as Jewish – the implicit knowledge that just by having the audacity to merely exist, you are loathed,” she said. The painter mentioned her art is not about deafness, but admitted she does share some themes with other deaf artists. “There are sometimes themes such as isolation that do have a history of being in other deaf artists’ work as well,” Bex said. “It’s a specific kind of isolation – not the universal, generic sort, but one that stems from a bakedin language barrier and lack of comprehension on hearing people’s parts. They might distantly relate, but have never personally experienced it.” Bex interned with the Emmywinning show “Robot Chicken,” and is now working on a graphic novel. You can follow her on Twitter @radiant_spores or visit her website at www.bexfreund.com.t Belo Cipriani is a disability advocate, a freelance journalist, the award-winning author of “Blind: A Memoir” and “Midday Dreams,” and the spokesman for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Learn more at www. belocipriani.com.
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October 19-25, 2017 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 11
1954 Miami murder leads to ‘homosexual panic’ by Graham Brunk
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he “homosexual panic” that started in the 1950s can be traced back to one event – the murder of Eastern Airlines flight attendant William T. Simpson in August 1954. Maybe more importantly wasn’t the murder itself, but how Miami Daily News reporter Milt Sosin covered the tragedy.
The man: A gay flight attendant
Like most gays at the time, Simpson lived a pretty modest life. He was 27 and among many gay men who worked for Eastern Airlines as a flight attendant. Eastern Airlines was based in Miami and was Dade County’s largest employer at the time. He was a low-key guy who would often skip the “crew parties” that were planned among his co-workers. He rarely visited the underground gay bars that existed in Miami at the time. Simpson had no family nearby. He came to Miami in 1951 from Louisville, Kentucky for his career and his sexuality. For the most part, the gay community in Miami lived in obscurity, but if you were gay, you knew Miami was full of gay men. On the evening of August 2, 1954, Simpson landed at Miami International Airport after a final shift working aboard a flight from Detroit. For most of the flight, his colleague, fellow flight attendant Dorothy Hoover, remembered him having a giddy attitude, mentioning several times a date he had planned for that evening.
A photo in the Miami Daily News shows accused murderers Charles Lawrence and Louis Killen in the spot where they “rolled” William Simpson.
Sosin suspected Simpson was gay because of the location in which the murder took place. Sosin referenced the potential killer as a man and suggested that it was possibly a sex crime. The story immediately gained traction, but rather than trying to report on the heinous crime itself, Sosin instead focused on Simpson’s sexual orientation. At the time, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in mainstream media. Following the police investigation, Sosin learned that police felt they were busting a colony of maybe 30 gay men in the area, but he
knew he had a major story when he learned that police discovered the area was actually home to about 500 gay men – much larger than they could have imagined. The follow-up front-page story focused on Simpson’s sexual orientation, rather than the crime, in a story on August 9, 1954 with the headline “Pervert Colony Uncovered In Simpson Slaying Probe.” The article detailed that nearly 500 gay men conjugated in a northeastern part of downtown Miami around where the Omni Center is today. The article went on to further accuse Simpson of mixing with the wrong crowd and getting involved in “gay drama,” which it suggested might have been the motive behind his murder. One investigator quoted in the article even claimed the murder might have been because Simpson was looking to become “queen” of the colony.
The trial: Gay panic defense
There was no doubt about who committed the crime – Lawrence and Killen both admitted to the murder – but, even so, they played the gay panic defense, testifying in November 1954 that, while they did like to “roll” gay men, Simpson took it too far. They claimed Simpson made them feel unsafe and made unwanted sexual
advances toward Lawrence. The jury appeared to be influenced by the fact that local newspapers alarmed them and the rest of the public about the activity that was going on. The Miami Herald and Miami Daily News mostly ignored the trial, instead focusing on stories of homosexuality around the Miami community. With the term “pervert” being used to describe Simpson in court, the jury might have also felt sympathetic to Lawrence’s claims. Lawrence and Killen were eventually convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Both men are alive today and in their 80s, living in Palm Beach County. South Florida Gay News contacted both men by phone. Lawrence hung up after learning what the call was in regards to and Killen never returned the voicemail. Sosin died in 2000.
The aftermath: Media warns community of the gays
Simpson’s murder was the catalyst of what quickly seemed like endless homophobia in South Florida. Various Christian activist groups stepped up and called for Dade County politicians to rid the area of homosexuality by raiding known gay bars, clubs,
The reporting: Murder blamed on ‘gay drama’
Sosin, the Miami Daily News reporter, was on the story from the moment it broke. He wrote his first frontpage article aptly titled “EAL [Eastern Airlines] Man is Slain on Lovers Lane” in the afternoon edition of the paper August 3, 1954. Along with the headline, there was a picture of the head of Simpson’s corpse.
Graham Brunk, born and raised in South Florida, is a librarian in Palm Beach County and has an interest in local LGBTQ historic events.
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The murder: A heinous crime
Simpson reportedly left his NW Fourth Avenue apartment around 10 p.m., according to his landlord, who was the last to see him. Two hours later, his body was found face down in some gravel by Dick Cline and his girlfriend, Joan, at a spot near the Arch Creek Bridge, near NE 134th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. Today, a Flanigan’s Bar & Grill marks the spot, but in the mid-1950s this area was a lovers’ lane, featuring a small, secluded beach area under the bridge where one could park a car right along the Little Arch Creek waterway and engage in sexual activity. Simpson never made it to his date. It is believed that on the way there he was propositioned by a young man named Charles Lawrence on the side of the road. Unknown to Simpson, Lawrence was notorious for “rolling” gay men (as local media called it then) – luring them to a secluded spot where his accomplice, Lewis Killen, would jump out and help rob the victim. Usually, Killen would wait until Lawrence began engaging in sexual activity with the victim before attempting the robbery. Killen and Lawrence would not kill their victim, but in Simpson’s case, for reasons still not clear, something spooked Lawrence when Simpson didn’t cooperate like other victims had done. Lawrence shot him in his left side and Simpson, stumbling out of the car yelling, “Leave me alone! Leave me alone!” finally tossed over his keys and wallet before collapsing a few yards away. According to the North Miami Police report, Lawrence and Killen made off with $25 and claimed they thought Simpson would live. They said they were surprised when they found out the next day that he had died.
and hangout spots. WTVJ ran a documentary warning people of the dangers of gay people in the mid-1960s. All three major area newspapers (the Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, and Ft. Lauderdale News) would run article after article throughout the 1960s informing readers to be aware of their neighborhood surroundings and who their neighbors might be, in the event that one was gay. In response to this panic, the state of Florida set up the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (commonly known as the Johns Committee). This committee was responsible for distributing literature throughout the state warning citizens of gay activity. The committee also targeted, interrogated, and stripped teachers of their credentials whom members suspected of being gay. In the 1970s, singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant launched her now infamous “Save Our Children” campaign in MiamiDade County against the LGBT community – showing gay panic was still alive and well. t
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Gay liberation figure Charley Shively dies by Michael Bronski
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harley Shively, one of the pivotal figures in the gay liberation movement, died Friday, October 6 at the Cambridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Home, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been a resident since June 2011, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 79. At the 1977 Boston Gay Pride march, Mr. Shively became infamous for his burning of the Bible – as well as his insurance policy, Harvard diploma, and teaching contract – as a protest against oppressive institutions. This act of incendiary and effective political theater – it nearly caused a riot – later obscured his work as an organizer, scholar, poet, and publisher. Born in poverty in Gobbler’s Knob, Ohio on December 8, 1937, Mr. Shively excelled in high school and entered Harvard College in 1955. After being granted a master’s in history at the University of Wisconsin in 1959, he entered the Ph.D. program in history at Harvard. During this time he worked at Boston State College where he was active in New University Congress, anti-war working groups in the American Historical Association,
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and other anti-Vietnam war activities. His graduation from Harvard in June 1969 coincided with the Stonewall riots; that summer Mr. Shively began what was to be his life’s work: gay liberation. His vision of gay liberation was deeply, and uniquely, inflected by his study of, and belief in, anarchism. After helping form Gay Men’s Liberation in Boston he worked on the first issue of Lavender Vision, a 1970
co-gendered gay liberation newspaper, and a year later helped form the Fag Rag collective, which published the first national post-Stonewall gay political journal. In Fag Rag Mr. Shively published a series of 12 essays, beginning with “Cocksucking as an Act of Revolution”, that became foundational to post-Stonewall gay male political theorizing. Written in a conversational tone with a mixture of personal confession, everyday anecdote, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Mikhail Bakunin, Kate Millett, and Shulamith Firestone, these influential pieces became canonical. During the next decade the ever-changing Fag Rag collective was held together by Mr. Shively’s presence and persistence. He was also responsible for founding Fag Rag Books, the Good Gay Poets collective and Press (which published noted poets such as John Wieners and Ruth Weiss), and Boston Gay Review, a journal of cultural criticism. Along with his political essays Mr. Shively’s academic work included the six volume edited “Collected Works of Lysander Spooner” (1971) – a 19th century social anarchist – and “A History of the Conception of Death in America,
1650-1860,” his doctoral dissertation (1987.) His groundbreaking research on Walt Whitman resulted in two books – “Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman’s Working Class Camerados” (1987) and “Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers” (1989) – which he viewed as an expression of political commitment as well as academic research. A lifelong poet – he first published poems in high school – Mr. Shively wrote at least one poem a day. His “Nuestra Señora de los Dolores: the San Francisco Experience” was published in 1975. He was active in the Boston poetry scene, particularly Stone Soup Poets. Mr. Shively understood himself primarily as a poet – his poems were spare, imagist, almost religious – a word he would have rejected – and mystical in their intensity. He leaves three finished poetry manuscripts. During the 1970s and 1980s he was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, and along with Fag Rag, wrote frequently for Gay Community News, Gay Sunshine, The Guide, and poetry journals. Almost always dressed in overalls, and speaking in
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his slow, southern Ohio drawl – an inflection he often used for ironic effect as he made his arguments – he was a ubiquitous figure at political meetings and rallies. During this time, he taught full time, traveled to Kenya, Ecuador, and Vietnam on three Fulbrights, and was hired as a tenured professor at University of Massachusetts-Boston in the American Studies Program, after Boston State closed in 1982. Mr. Shively’s partner beginning in 1964, Gordon Copeland, died in 1994, the year Mr. Shively was diagnosed with HIV. He retired from the University of Massachusetts in 2001 and began exhibiting signs of Alzheimer’s a few years later. During this time he traveled to Paris to do research on homosexuality and the French Revolution. Mr. Shively’s legacy is in his writings, and also in the example of his insistent refusal – always with humor – to follow the rules, and often not even to acknowledge them.t Michael Bronski is a professor of the practice in activism and media, and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University.
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n article in the current New Yorker magazine quotes President Donald Trump as “joking” that Vice President Mike Pence is so hostile to gays he “wants to hang them all.” Meanwhile, on Sunday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who’s long opposed equal rights for LGBTs, dispatched a Justice Department prosecutor to help with a hate crime case in Iowa in which a trans person was murdered. The New Yorker article, “The Danger of President Pence” by Jane Mayer, in the October 23 issue, discusses why Pence could be more dangerous for liberals and progressives than Trump. Pence’s involvement with anti-gay politics began years ago with a friendship with Paul Weyrich, according to the article. Weyrich, founder of various right-wing organizations, used anti-gay messages as a way to rally conservative voters. It continued in the 1990s when he joined the board of the Indiana Family Institute, which “campaigned against equal rights for homosexuals.” When he ran as a Republican for Congress in 2000, his platform promised to oppose “any effort to recognize homosexuals as a discrete and insular minority entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws.” Most notably, when he was governor of Indiana, Pence signed a “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” that enabled employers to discriminate against LGBT people. And according to the New Yorker, Pence signed the legislation into law surrounded
to take an unusually active role in prosecuting a hate crime against a transgender person. According to the New York Times, Christopher Perras, a Justice Department lawyer, will serve as a county prosecutor in the case involving the murder of Kedarie Johnson, a 16-year-old whose family said was gay, identified as both male and female, and occasionally went by the name Kandicee. An official at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund said that while Sessions’ office was “right” to assist in the prosecution, “It is the height of cynicism for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to use this – frankly rare – instance of civil rights enforcement under his tenure to deflect from the current department’s sustained opposition to its historic mission.” Under Sessions, the DOJ has reversed Obama era policies that increased protections for people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. “For Sessions now to seek credit for helping prosecute hate crimes against transgender people,” said Sharon McGowan, Lambda Legal director of strategy, “is akin to him handing out gasoline and matches and then looking for a pat on the back when he prosecutes someone for committing arson.” Log Cabin Republicans, the national gay Republican group, commended Sessions’ action, saying it was the “first time a Republican presidential administration has assisted in pursuing anti-LGBT hate crime charges. ...” t
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Death of the Outgames, 2006-2017 by Roger Brigham
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hen the Miami World Outgames went belly up at the end of May, angry LGBT sports activists and athletes said they wished the licensing body would go out of business. Conversely, when the Sin City Shootout wound up in a court battle over ownership of the event, many of those same activists said they wished the dispute could be resolved amicably and quickly. There is now a good chance that both wishes can come true. A federal district court this month ordered the Greater Los Angeles Softball Association to settle its ownership dispute with Sin City Shootout director Eric Ryan before a private mediator. Originally, the suit was scheduled to be heard next spring – well after the January sports festival is set to be held – but this month the judge told the litigants that he wants their dispute settled in mediation – in December, if not sooner. Both parties will spend the next few weeks gathering documents and affidavits and mustering their legal arguments. You know: lawyer speak. The overall reality for athletes the past decade as the Shootout blossomed into the gigantic multi-sport festival so many have loved and come to expect is that GLASA volunteers pretty much tended to softball matters, volunteers from each of the other smaller sports tended to their sports matters, Ryan took care of lining up hotels and venues and making sure the site was up – and everyone hooked up at the multiple parties after the daily sports events were over. Simple and straightforward. Let us pray sanity prevails and the festival returns with those same parties in the same places in February. Change the name – the word “Shootout” when mentioned with Las Vegas has an entirely different meaning now than
Members of the original Outgames organizing committee greeted journalists on a paid junket to Montreal in 2004.
it did just last month – but keep the personnel and mechanisms in place. But back to the Outgames. While LGBT sports enthusiasts wait to see what criminal or civil charges the organizers of this year’s canceled event may face, it appears the licensing body has shut its virtual doors and died after a decade of operations. The Florida state attorney’s office confirmed to the Bay Area Reporter this week that more than four months after the last-minute cancellation of the 2017 Miami World Outgames, which cost hundreds of athletes from around the globe their vacation time and travel expenses, it still has not concluded its criminal investigation into how the organizers handled incoming funds. “I have been told by the prosecutor handling the matter that we are still interviewing witnesses,” Ed Griffith, spokesman for the state prosecutor, told the B.A.R. Monday. Meanwhile, the website of the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association, the decade-old organization that licensed the Miami event with an assurance that organizers could expect 15,000 registrants, has been taken offline. Go to http://www.
glisa.org these days and you’ll find the URL “parked” on godaddy.com with an invitation to buy. Attempts to contact current GLISA board members have been unsuccessful. Immediately after the Miami cancellation, the current board had said it regretted the situation and planned to learn from its mistakes while moving forward. But almost simultaneous with that pledge, past GLISA co-presidents called for the board to give it up, writing in an open letter, “We urge that the board of directors of GLISA International halt all current and future activities. It is time for GLISA to cease to exist.” The Miami implosion was just the biggest in a string of recent GLISA-related disasters. Two 2016 continental Outgames were canceled by presumptive hosts St. Louis and Auckland – and Winnipeg pulled out as host of a future North American Outgames, saying that after the Miami collapse, the brand name had become “toxic.” The GLISA continental websites for the North American and Asia Pacific Outgames associations are nearly as dead as the global GLISA site. The North American site appears not to have been updated since 2011. The
Asia Pacific site is still using Miami 2017 as its main promotion. Neither site mentions plans for the future. And so GLISA shuffles off this coil of relevance. It was founded by organizers of the original 2006 Montreal Outgames (which lost around $5 million) to grant licenses for future Outgames. Montreal had been chosen to host the Gay Games for 2006 but walked away from years of negotiations with the Federation of Gay Games in late 2003 to create its own rival event. Serious talks to join the Gay Games and the World Outgames into a single global event started around 2007 and were alive as recently as March 2016, when the FGG ended the negotiations, calling a joint venture “high risk.” (See March 3, 2016 B.A.R. blog post, “FGG breaks off talks with GLISA over single LGBT sports event.”) Consistently through talks GLISA insisted on sharing revenues equally but declined to have an external professional assessment made of the worth of each brand, pushed to allow proxy voting rather than the inperson meeting the FGG used, and demanded conferences make up an equal share of the budget with sports. In the GLISA Outgames model, there was almost no interaction or oversight of host organizers, no standing sports committees and officers to provide expertise and advice. This left host cities to make unilateral decisions on tournaments, did not draw enough interest from potential hosts to create a truly competitive bid process, and drew fewer and fewer sports participants in each quadrennial iteration. The events also increasingly shifted focus toward conferences and paid speakers and away from tournaments and recreational athletes. The
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breaking point came in Miami, when the opening and closing ceremonies as well as almost all of the sports events were shut down, but the sparsely attended conferences, cultural events, and parties proceeded. It was in that last naked moment in Miami that frustrated athletes finally acknowledged that the GLISA Emperor may look fabulous, but he had no track cleats, wrestling singlets, or basketball shorts. The legacy of the World Outgames has been one of division, distrust, and disillusion. Many of those left in the lurch on the beaches of Miami say they have lost faith in LGBT organizers, never want another Outgames, and do not know if they will ever compete in a large-scale LGBT sports event again. Which, of course, is the wrong conclusion. The Outgames, from Day 1, were never about the sports. Not a second. They were organized largely by nonathletes and catered to nonathletes. This was apparent in each iteration with the focus of their communications and marketing efforts on parties, ceremonies, and conferences. Parties, ceremonies and conferences. Focused on what tourists will be able to hear, drink, and see – not on what athletes of all skill levels and all backgrounds will be able to achieve. Be able to do. Be able to tackle. The Gay Games, which more than a decade ago turned the corner on getting hosts to manage budgets, have been focused on the sports experience for LGBT athletes throughout its 35year history. Ditto the Sin City Shootout throughout its 11-year history. Don’t let the failed Outgames experiment bench you on the sidelines.t
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Moore’s supporters rally ahead of civil trial by Christina A. DiEdoardo
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trial is scheduled to begin Monday, November 6 in the death of Berkeley trans woman Kayla Moore. Thanks to a ruling last October by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in Moore v. City of Berkeley, the jury’s verdict could have an impact far beyond the Bay Area by providing a new way to hold police departments accountable for the deaths of those in their custody. It may also turn out to be a fine example of how revolutions sometimes don’t just happen in the streets, but in courtrooms. According to court papers, the case began February 12, 2013, when Berkeley police officers went to the apartment of Moore, a black trans woman with a history of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, to do a welfare check. The Berkeley Police Department was aware of Moore’s mental health issues when officers responded to her apartment. After some initial confusion, they confirmed that she was not wanted for any crime. While Moore was experiencing a delusional episode (including what was described later as verbal “rambl[ings] about dinosaurs” and concerns about being “followed by the FBI”) she wasn’t threatening anyone or herself. Nonetheless, BPD decided to detain her for a psychological evaluation under Welfare & Institutions Code 5150. That statute imposes some specific requirements as to what police are required to do in these cases, like telling the prospective detainee that they aren’t under criminal arrest, but are being detained so they can
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Supporters of Kayla Moore gathered at Berkeley City Hall October 10 for a rally and march.
be taken to a facility for an examination. In cases where the person is detained at home, as Moore was, they are supposed to be allowed to select and take, with officer approval, some personal items and be permitted to call a friend or relative to tell them where they are going. However, according to court papers, the officers ignored these requirements and simply grabbed Moore’s wrists and attempted to handcuff her. A struggle ensued and four officers held down different parts of her body until she could be restrained. Shortly thereafter, Moore stopped breathing and died. The standard way for the survivors (in this case, Moore’s father, Arthur Moore) of those who die in police custody to sue for damages
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is under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the federal statute that provides relief to those injured “under color of law” (i.e., by government officials like police officers). However, a series of decisions from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court over the last several years have made it easier for police officers to claim qualified immunity for their actions and harder for plaintiffs to hold those officers accountable. Initially, the Moore case was no exception to this trend. On October 14, 2016, Breyer partially granted the city of Berkeley’s motion for summary judgment, which dismissed Arthur Moore’s Sec. 1983 claims, including those for wrongful death and excessive force against the city and the officers, on behalf of his late daughter. While the case could have ended there, it didn’t, because Breyer also rejected the city’s request to dismiss Arthur Moore’s claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If the jury finds that Kayla Moore was a qualified individual with a disability due to her mental illness, that her actions were a result of that disability (and not an intentional act to resist arrest) and that the BPD failed to accommodate her disability, the city could be financially liable for her death. Ironically, the BPD has had a policy, which is set forth as General Order T-19 and which instructs its officers how to interact with persons affected by physical or mental disabilities and to comply with the ADA, since January 1, 2000, more than 13 years before Kayla Moore died. Based on the court filings, it appears the officers who detained See page 17 >>
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as their homes were in the path of the Nuns and Oakmont fires. By Wednesday, the Nuns Fire, which threatened the Robert Mondavi Winery, was 80 percent contained. The Tubbs Fire was 91 percent contained. Evacuation orders were lifted for Calistoga and the perimeters of the city of Napa October 15. By Tuesday, tens of thousands of evacuees began to return home as more evacuations were lifted. Reservations at accommodations and restaurants are replacing cancellations, said gay owners of local bed and breakfasts. “It’s certainly been a hell of a week up here. Things are calming down. We are trying to get the businesses up and running,” said Brian Dingman, a 50-year-old gay man who co-owns the Juice Shack with his friend Doug Randolph, 45, who is also gay. Chefs, bakers, and restaurateurs, such as bakery owner Christian Sullberg, a queer man, and Terri Stark, an ally, came together to feed evacuees and first responders last weekend. The culinary artists are taking feeding the masses to the next level by forming a charity to help with what’s expected to be a long recovery, Stark said. Stark co-owns six restaurants with her husband, Mark, and employs 400 people. The couple lost Willi’s Wine Bar in the Tubbs Fire that roared through Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park and Fountaingrove neighborhoods. “Right now, we are just trying to get our business back going so we can stay in business,” said Stark, who distributed the 52 displaced employees to her five other restaurants while the couple rebuilds. “Sonoma wine country is still here and has beautiful things to offer,” added Stark, noting that visitors are a huge part of supporting California’s premier wine region. “There was devastation in many areas, but you know, it’s not like everything is gone.” However, it’s going to be a long process to return home for many LGBT residents who called the Fountaingrove and Oakmont neighborhoods in Santa Rosa home as well as other parts of Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma counties. Officials said that an estimated 5,700 structures burned to the ground. Some North Bay LGBTs are still reeling from fleeing for their lives, and the loss, while others are now eyeing relief and recovery efforts to get life back to normal.
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other topics I know all sorts of community groups and educational groups are working to create resources about right now,” she said. “There is a huge focus for libraries and schools around the state to create these lessons.” Oral historian Glenne McElhinney, a lesbian who focuses on LGBT history, is working with the state Department of Education to create four short documentaries about various LGBT historic subjects for use in California classrooms. The videos should be released sometime in 2018. While she is keeping three of the films’ topics under wraps for now, she has disclosed that one will focus
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Kayla failed to comply with it. Since there’s less negative case law on ADA claims versus the police
Harrowing escape
Paul Pendergast described a harrowing escape with his husband, Rob Zelenka, and their 10 neighbors on a single-lane country road between Calistoga, Kenwood, and Santa Rosa October 9. The 50-something gay men had to battle high winds that took down a 250-year-old pine tree that fell across the road around 11 p.m. October 8, the night the fires started. The men and their neighbors took out their chainsaws to cut through the tree to clear a path on the road. A live power line also fell across the road. When the men were done around 2 a.m., they smelled smoke and saw fire fast approaching. They maneuvered under the power line to escape the blaze, Pendergast told the Bay Area Reporter. The men were allowed back to their home later that week, but they were evacuated a second time Saturday, October 14, when a different fast-moving inferno came directly toward their home. They went to Pendergast’s cousin’s house in Freestone with their cat, Jack, and two dogs, Cody and Lucy, and hadn’t returned home as of Tuesday morning. “It’s been an excruciating week,” said Pendergast, who is vice president for public policy at the Golden Gate Business Association, the LGBT chamber of commerce. “The devastation is just horrendous. We know a lot of LGBT people who have been displaced. People have lost their houses, especially in the Fountaingrove area, and some people we know are still not back in their houses in the Oakmont area, because there are a lot of LGBT people in that neighborhood as well.” Queer couple Pedro and Katalina Magdaleno escaped with all of their animals as the Redwood Valley Fire approached their family ranch in Mendocino County. The couple awoke in the middle of the night to a sound that could have been a tree falling onto their property. When they stepped out of their house, the sky was red. “We looked out and we saw the sky was red. You could see the flames from our house,” said Magdaleno, 29, a gay man, who also helped his neighbors evacuate. The couple got their animals out, but they didn’t get any of their personal belongings, he said. “I never imagined my house would have a fire,” he said, recalling a month and a half ago when he was evacuated following a different fire. “I said, ‘Tomorrow we will be home.’ Well, I was wrong. There was no home to come home to.” The ranch buildings burned to
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the ground and the couple is now homeless and staying in different locations, he told the B.A.R. His wife, Katalina, a 21-yearold transgender woman, is staying where she is pet sitting for the moment and is taking their loss hard, he added. “I feel like I’m grateful that I’m alive. I’m grateful that I can wake up every morning and kiss my wife or see her or just feel like you know it’s going to get better,” said Magdaleno. Magdaleno is a graduate student studying social work, and is pressing forward with the help of his boss, who is a lesbian. She opened a spare room in her home for him, he said. He’s working to get his family what they need while helping the local community with relief and recovery efforts despite his own tragedy. He’s also trying to keep life as normal as possible, attending board meetings as a member of the Mendocino Pride Alliance. “The LGBT community is going to have a lot of needs in the shortterm and also in the long-term with help with this disaster,” said GGBA’s Pendergast. A sense of normalcy is only a perception, according to some. “This whole area will be forever changed. No way will it be what it was. It’s just unbelievable,” said Dingman, a Sonoma Valley native.
said Fleischer, who has placed three families in temporary homes and helped a dozen households find alternative housing in Marin, Napa, and Sonoma. “We are going to continue to do anything we can to help.” Dingman said that the fires have affected many of his employees and their families. His businesses survived, but the four locations in Santa Rosa were just opening their doors again, while the locations in Petaluma and Rohnert Park reopened October 11, he said. His stores have put out collection bins for donations to help employees affected by the fire and gathering clothing to take to local donation spots, he said. However, he knows at least 21 friends – LGBT and straight – as well as his own family members, who have lost their homes and/or businesses due to the devastating fires. Some are staying with friends and family around the county or San Francisco or camping out in recreational vehicles. “It’s heartbreaking working in the stores. Everybody has a story. Everybody knows somebody that lost a home,” said Dingman.
Hope and kindness
position now to learn the importance of loving and being responsible for one another.”
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For wildfire updates sign up for http://www.nixle.com. For road closure updates, visit http://roadconditions.sonomacounty.org. For housing, Airbnb’s Open Home program was activated last week. The San Francisco Hotel Council and San Francisco Travel have partnered with Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau to provide discounted hotel rates at a number of hotels around the Bay Area, with some offering free breakfast, parking, and welcoming pets. For more information, contact Kevin Carroll, executive director, at kcarroll@hotelcouncilsf. org or visit, http://www.sonomavalley.com/fire. Share Sonoma County is arranging housing for displaced residents. For more information, contact SHAREfire@petalumapeople.org or visit http://www. facebook.com/cityofpetaluma/ posts/1594477753941501. To volunteer, visit the Petaluma People Services Center, 1500 Petaluma Boulevard, South, Petaluma. Tech workers created a public Google doc listing free housing. Visit https://docs.google.comspre adsheets/d/1yeWV1dRiKFo8M1 yX64--V6HLQZBSQSSenfqdoUnsiOI/edit - gid=0. AMSI Real Estate Services, which has offices in Marin, San Francisco, and San Diego, opened up its vacant homes for temporary housing to fire victims and is helping people navigate insurance claims. For assistance, call (415) 447-2000 or email contact@amsiemail.com. To volunteer, visit https://docs. google.com/document/d/14ZhXD NaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvN vDqV7xcwn95s/preview. Mendocino’s North Coast Opportunities Volunteer Network, call (707) 462-1959 or visit http:// w w w. n c o i n c . o r g / p r o g r a m s / volunteer-network. Napa’s Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership has a place where people can find volunteer opportunities and sign up to help. Visit https://cvnl.galaxydigital.com. The Billys Foundation, a gay men’s organizations located in Mendocino and Sonoma, is supporting individual members, gathering donations, and raising funds for the most vulnerable communities affected by the fires. To donate, visit https://thebillys.org/donate.
Individuals and businesses are stepping up to aid people in the relief and recovery. Graton Resort and Casino in Rohnert Park announced it’s donating $1 million to aid the victims of the fires. Additionally, it has temporarily housed about 100 of its employees impacted by the fires and has created the Team Member Assistance Fund to provide basic necessities to the resort’s employees. The resort is giving families impacted by the fires who are in the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which owns Graton Resort and Casino, $5,000, said Greg Sarris, tribal chairman. The casino is managed by Station Casinos. “It’s not a sin to be generous,” said Sarris, a 65-year-old gay man, who recently published a history of the Sonoma Valley, “How a Mountain Was Made: Stories.” In San Francisco, Robb Fleischer, a 54-year-old gay man who is the co-founder of AMSI Real Estate Services and is a past president of GGBA, has been working to place people in the company’s vacant homes and help process insurance claims as well as donate supplies for basic needs. “I can say our hearts go out to all of those that have been affected,”
Yet, there is hope amidst smoke and rubble. “Customers coming in and talking to others in line, which you don’t see. You see that now. It’s sad that it takes something like this to bring a community together, but at the same time it’s brought a community together,” said Dingman. Gary Saperstein, who returned Monday to his home in the city of Sonoma, agreed. “It’s an amazing thing witnessing the human kindness pulling together to help people out,” he said. “People open up their homes, the things that should happen when these kind of things happen.” Others also noted a renewed sense of community. “It’s been reassuring for me as a board member to see how many of our community have stepped up to help the broader community around us,” said Ken Kunert, 71, a gay man who is the secretary and treasurer of the Billy Foundation, a gay men’s organization in Santa Rosa. The foundation is working to activate its emergency relief fund for its nearly 2,000 members, some who were evacuated and one who lost everything, he said, adding that the board will then examine the best ways it can expand its focus to help the wider community. Sarris pointed out that nature doesn’t discriminate. “I’m just so proud of our community,” he said. “All of us are in a
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on the LGBT community’s successful fight in 1977 and 1978 to defeat the Briggs initiative. The ballot measure would have banned gays and lesbians from working as teachers in California’s public schools, and its demise marked a turning point not only for the LGBT community in the state but across the country. In addition to the film, McElhinney and the other members of the Victory Over Briggs Commemoration 2018 committee are working with San Francisco State University’s history department to create a website that can serve as an online repository to house scholarship about and ephemera from the fight against the Briggs initiative. It is a part of LGBT history few students today learn about in school. “Looking back now it’s amazing how influential those two years were
yet how underreported and unrecognized they are,” said McElhinney. “A big reason we are doing this Victory Over Briggs Commemoration is we hope to get young scholars to look at these years and their influence.” This summer Slutsky compiled a list of different LGBT history lesson plans that have already been created for teachers to use in their classrooms for a blog post she wrote about the FAIR Act that can be found at http://chssp.ucdavis.edu/ blog/FAIR. One link she included is for a 28-page lesson plan the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project created last year about Charley Parkhurst, one of the most famous of the state’s stagecoach drivers who lived as a man but was born female with the given name of Charlotte.
He is one of the people students are now expected to learn about in fourth grade. Another site included in the list is http://www.faireducationact.com/, which has separate pages listing various lesson plans on LGBT topics by grade level. The LGBT-focused nonprofit Our Family Coalition compiled the materials and maintains the site. The UC Davis program has partnered with the California Historical Society to create a website called Teaching California that will include lesson plans tailored to the new educational framework created in partnership with archives, libraries, and historical societies around the state. “The idea is to make it a California story, so whatever topic a teacher is covering California is front and center,”
said Slutsky. “It is a way to really bring local LGBT history into a broader narrative in the course of study.” All of these educational materials combined with the updated textbooks will result in “a huge step forward,” Romesburg said, in seeing schools fully implement the provisions of the FAIR Act as teachers will feel they have the information they need to teach LGBT history. “I really imagine in the next couple of years, with the framework, with the law, with the textbooks, and with these developed lesson plans there is going to be a really robust way for teachers to find what they need to really implement LGBT history education across the state,” predicted Romesburg, who explains the FAIR ACT requirements for teachers at seminars held by the UC Davis program.t
than there is on excessive force, a verdict in favor of the Moore family could have ripple effects far beyond Berkeley. According to a 2015 investigation by the Washington Post, nearly one in four people killed by the police suffered from mental
illness. If their families can show the officers violated the ADA, they may be able to obtain damages even if a judge determines the use of force by the police to have been reasonable, which could spark a revolution in finally holding the cops accountable.
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From 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, October 22, Soja Mind/Body will conduct a Baseball Bat Self-Defense Workshop at 3015 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley. The cost is $50 and it’s a BYOB
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Financial planning day
The Financial Planning Association of San Francisco, in partnership with the city treasurer’s office and public library, will hold its eighth annual financial planning day Saturday, October 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the main library, 100 Larkin Street. Bay Area residents will get to meet one-on-one with dozens of highly qualified certified financial planner professionals to discuss their personal finance questions, concerns, and interests. Organizers said the event is a good opportunity for a free, private
consultation with an expert on a variety of personal finance issues, including debt management, retirement planning, investment strategies, income taxes, insurance, and estate planning. Programs will run throughout the day covering budgeting and credit counseling. There are no strings attached. Financial planners are volunteering their time and will not pass out business cards, marketing materials, or sell products or services. They will be stationed at tables and will meet with one individual or one couple at a time. There will also be informative classroom workshops. For a complete schedule, visit https://goo.gl/NwKaE8.
SF HRC seeks members for LGBT panel
The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is seeking members for its LGBT Advisory Committee for 2018. The committee identifies and addresses issues and concerns of the LGBT and HIV-affected communities and advises the full commission on policy recommendations. The LGBT advisory committee is looking for members who are active in the community and who possess demonstrated experience and knowledge in subject matter areas dealing with racism, youth, aging, HIV/AIDS, anti-bullying and violence, civil rights, disability, women’s rights, class, gender identity, bisexual visibility, faith-based advocacy, intersex, and health issues. Applicants must be able to make a firm commitment to attend advisory committee meetings on the third Tuesday of every month from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and participate in a related working group. Interested people can download
and complete the application at http://sf-hrc.org/sites/default/files/ LGBTAC New Membership Application 2018 term year.pdf or send a letter (via mail, fax, or email) detailing why they would like to serve on the committee. Email correspondence can be sent to David Miree at david. miree@sfgov.org; faxed to (415) 4315764; or sent via mail to Miree at SF Human Rights Commission, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94102. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Friday, November 3.
Shanti HIV retreat set
The Shanti Project will hold its “Honoring Our Experience” retreat for people impacted by HIV and registration is now open. The retreat will take place December 8-10 at Saratoga Springs Retreat Center, 10243 Saratoga Springs Road in Upper Lake. Organizers said a special invitation is extended to women, people of color, trans people, young adults, elders, and HIV-negative people. There is no cost, as it’s a program of Shanti. Those who attend are asked to refrain from alcohol and drugs immediately before and during the retreat, as this leads to greater clarity and group cohesion. Additionally, the workshop requires full participation involving sharing, experiential exercises, group activities, and connecting with one another with the goal of mutual healing. Gregg Cassin, a long-term survivor of HIV and staff member at Shanti, will facilitate the retreat, and has been leading such events for LGBT HIV and at-risk youth for 25 years. For more information and to register, visit https://goo.gl/pMi9tj. Priority is given to people who have not previously attended a retreat.t
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nonprofit’s executive director earlier this year. When it opens in the spring of 2019, likely in March or April, the building will be home to 78 seniors 62 years of age or older. Fifteen of the units will be reserved for those at risk of being homeless and another six for low-income people living with HIV or AIDS. An additional unit will be reserved for an onsite manager, bringing the total number of apartments in the building to 79. The $24 million building will be adjacent to the 40 units of affordable senior housing that opened last fall known as the Openhouse Community at 55 Laguna. The $16 million project, which repurposed a former college building, was a joint venture between Openhouse, the LGBT senior services agency based in San Francisco, and Mercy Housing California, which develops below-market-rate housing. Mercy and Openhouse will also jointly oversee the new building; Wells Fargo provided the financing for its construction. A lottery will be held in late 2018 to select residents, with the aim to see a majority be from the LGBT community, although straight seniors will be able to apply to live in the building. “We are hoping to have great success finding LGBT seniors to live in the units when we are done,” said Doug Shoemaker, Mercy’s president, adding that the new building “is going to be lovely.”
It will be named the Marcy Adelman and Jeanette Gurevitch Openhouse Community in honor of the couple that founded the nonprofit nearly two decades ago. Gurevitch, a psychotherapist who died in 2003 at the age of 54, and Adelman, Ph.D., 71, a psychologist, initially called it Rainbow Adult Community Housing. It was their response to seeing friends evicted from their apartments and struggling to remain in San Francisco. Asked if the naming honor came with a dedicated apartment in the building, Adelman laughed and responded with a succinct, “No.” She described the new building as being “the heart of the hub of the whole campus.” With more than 1,700 people on the waiting list for the 55 Laguna units, Adelman acknowledged that the additional units at 95 Laguna are only a small step toward addressing the housing needs of the city’s senior population. “When people ask me if this will meet the need, the answer of course is, ‘Hell no.’ But it is the foundation to do that. We can leverage all the progress that we have made here on future projects,” said Adelman, who in September was appointed to the California Commission on Aging by state Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Leon (D- Los Angeles). As of now, though, Openhouse has no immediate plans to pursue additional senior housing developments, Skultety told the Bay Area Reporter this week. Its focus in the near term, she said, will be on
expanding its programs and bringing its services “to the next level.” A key component will be providing seniors with assistance in finding housing and applying for belowmarket-rate units in the city. Openhouse will have more than 7,000 square feet of space in the new building to use for community events and classes. It will be in addition to the agency’s offices at 65 Laguna Street, known as the Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center due to a $1 million donation from the foundation of the B.A.R.’s founding publisher. The agency is planning to have a computer center and an art studio in the new space, Skultety said Tuesday, as well as a lifelong learning center offering foreign language lessons, yoga classes, and other activities where “seniors will not only be the students but the teachers as well.” On the second floor will be a large space for community events with a capacity of 200 people. A balcony will overlook the entranceway, which will have its own address of 75 Laguna. Adjacent to it will be the entrance to the residential units and a street level communal area with a kitchenette that looks onto Laguna Street and the public mews that leads up into the adjacent housing developments. Each floor of the building will have a lounge for residents where they can gather and relax. “The design of the building has always been about community,” said Bruce Prescott, the project architect whose firm is Santos Prescott and Associates.t
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037743800
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIGHT & COLE LIQUOR, 1699 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CINDY ZEIDAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/25/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EIGHTEA, 91 6TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRIAN ZHAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/17.
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SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037766100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHARLIE’S JANITORIAL & GENERAL INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR SERVICES; CHARLIE’S JANITORIAL SERVICES, 2954 25TH ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS EDUARDO GONZALEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/17.
SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037763300
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOSAIC, 128 S.LAKE MERCED HILLS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALEXANDER DEL SALTO. 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 09/15/17.
SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037764500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIAM ORCHID CRYO, 518 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SIAM ORCHID LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WOW THAI BISTRO, 701 RANDOLPH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WOW THAI BISTRO, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/18/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HERB’N VEGAN, 1501 CORTLAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HERB’N VEGAN LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COLLEEN MATTHEWS LCSW & ASSOCIATES; PURE FOCUS FAMILY SOLUTIONS, 1321 EVANS AVE #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed COLLEEN MATTHEWS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037781700
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUST TUK IT, 1135 CAPITOL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CLARENCE J. HARDY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037783300
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRISA TOURS, 3322 BUCHANAN ST #308, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTINE BARNETT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037776700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPA BEM-TI-VI, 3150 18TH ST #262 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALESSANDRA CAVALLERO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037772600
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AKIWEE, 1373 46TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FUJIAN HO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/18/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/2017.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037780300
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBWAY #51109, 177 TOWNSEND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ARASH SHAHVALI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/18/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEX RICO, 433 BARTLETT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed DAVID J. SANCHEZ JR; BARBARA M. SANCHEZ; FRANCISCO M. SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/71. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/17.
SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037749900
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037776300
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIDS KINGDOM, 1840 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROSIMEIRE HERRINGTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/01/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WASABI BISTRO, 524 CASTRO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed UNITED RESTAURANT CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/26/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/17.
SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037766500
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037779900
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PURE 710SF, 49 KEARNY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 710 SF INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/17.
SEP 28, OCT 05, 12, 19, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037769500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DR. PAUL’S, 1250 MISSOURI ST #312, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DEFINED CONCENTRATES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037780700
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THANH THANH CAFE, 2205 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THANH HA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/21/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE TABOO, 600 YORK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JIN HOUSE CAFE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/05/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/17.
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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037770400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAKER PLACES’ ACCEPTANCE PLACE, 1376 4TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAKER PLACES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/90. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037770500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAKER PLACES’ JOE HEALY DETOX PROJECT, 101 GOUGH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAKER PLACES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/90. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037781800
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC HALL OF FAME; SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC WALK OF FAME, 1353 BUSH ST #112, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO SOUND (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 09/29/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037781600
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUSIC CITY REHEARSAL, 1353 BUSH ST #112, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed PACIFIC EQUITIES WEST LLC, GP OF MUSIC CITY LP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/17.
OCT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2017 SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF BERNALILLO, STATE OF NEW MEXICO CHILDREN’S COURT DIVISION NO. D-202-SA-2017-020 IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION PETITION OF DANIEL LUKE GONZALES NOTICE OF PETITION FOR ADOPTION STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO NOUFAL HADIOUI AND THE PARENTS OF NOUFAL HADIOUI:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Daniel Luke Gonzales, the above-named Petitioner, has filed a Petition for Adoption of the minor child, Khalila Adrianna GriegoMorrow born November of 2002 in the above referenced action. The biological mother, Misty Gonzales, consents to the step-parent adoption. Unless you enter your appearance within twenty (20) days of the date of the final publication of this Notice in the Second Judicial District Court, Children’s Court Division, before the Honorable Marie Ward, judgment by default will be entered against you. The date of the final publication is October 26, 2017. Respectfully submitted: LITTLE, GILMAN-TEPPER & BATLEY P.A. Randy W. Powers, Jr. Attorneys for Daniel Gonzales, 316 Osuna Rd. NE, Suite A, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107 (505) 246-0500
OCT 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037779000
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BANOU COUTURE, 27 CYPRESS LANE, DALY CITY, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARYAM ARIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/28/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF WILLIE BELL HOWARD IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-17-301275
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIE BELL HOWARD. A Petition for Probate has been filed by LUSTER DONNEL HOWARD in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that LUSTER DONNEL HOWARD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Oct 31, 2017, 9:00am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: ALMA SOONGI BECK, ESQ. (SBN: 197383) LAKIN SPEARS, LLP, 2400 GENG ROAD #110, PALO ALTO, CA 94303, 650-328-7000.
OCT 12, 19, 26, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037790600
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XU’S DESIGN LAB, 2259 18TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIACEN XU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037782200
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RADEFF DESIGN STUDIOS, 956 ILLINOIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TRACY E. RADEFF. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/30/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037785100
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037765400
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY AREA EFFICIENT MOVERS, 1238 NORTHPOINT DR. #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed EZIZ TACHMURADOV & DZIANIS VASILEUSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037791800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMERALD ISLE TRUSTS & ESTATES, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HALLINAN & HALLINAN PC (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 10/05/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037772500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACCOUNTING PARAMEDICS, 291 PUTNAM ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SIMKEINASO, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037792500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHELLAC NAIL BAR, 702 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed STRAND SF LLC, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037791500
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANDY HILL FLOORING, 5235 DIAMOND HEIGHTS BLVD #108, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SANDYHILL BUILDERS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/17.
OCT 12, 19, 26, NOV 02, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037777900
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WIN YEN COMPANY, 2747 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANNIE YUEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037799100
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RIA HEALTH, 44 GOUGH ST #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DXRX 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 10/03/17.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MYBIKESKILLS.COM, 431 ELLINGTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON SERAFINOAGAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/13/17.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037800600
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLUE SIGHT TOURS, 20 DESCANSO DR #1124, SAN JOSE, CA 95134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SEYED AHMAD MIRFAKHRAIE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037773100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANFRANCISCOTIM.COM, BARBARY COAST PRESS, 37 ALPHA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TIMOTHY P. KEEFE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037797900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMSA BUILDING SERVICES, 1114 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CYNTHIA PAREDES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037800300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLOUD GRAPHICS & PRINTING, 832A STOCKTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JING JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/13/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037798400
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PONTE ROMA TOURS, 555 PIERCE ST #244, ALBANY, CA 94706. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARYAM ETTEHADIEH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/17
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037769300
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PSALM RES. CFE, 565 GROVE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILLIAM SACRO ENCARNACION. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/21/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037799000
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: QUARTS N PINTS, 2434 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed SUSANNA CUI CHEN & YU YING CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/13/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037801100
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF SUPER CAB, 1407 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SF SUPER CAB (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/17.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 5 DEGREE TEA HOUSE, 2527 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LEE’S KITCHEN CHINESE FOOD INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037776200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TENROKU RAMEN, 3251 20TH AVE #250C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TENROKU RAMEN INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/26/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037798500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DCOPPER+, 1017 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DCOPPER+ LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/17.
OCT 19, 26, NOV 02, 09, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037797400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE WILLOWS, 1582 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed THESE THREE TREES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/10/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/17.
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Wondrous World of Tom of Finland by David Lamble
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arly in the new biopic “Tom of Finland,” opening Friday, our hero is a Finnish soldier guarding his country’s northern border from enemy attack. Touko Laaksonen, as he was then known, spots what turns out to be a Russian soldier parachuting down and landing a few yards away. Grabbing a sharp hunting knife Touko confronts the man and proceeds to stab him to death. What would be a traumatic moment for any mortal turns out in this case to jump-start one of the most amazing artistic journeys of any gay man in the 20th century. See page 28 >>
Cho business! by Sari Staver
M Comedian Margaret Cho: “2016 was really hard.”
argaret Cho says that life is going “really, really well” these days. There’s her new show “Fresh off the Bloat,” selling out in most cities, coming to the Castro Theatre on Oct. 21. Later this year, she’s taking the onewoman gig to the UK and Europe. TNT recently ordered a pilot of a show she wrote, “Highland,” now in production. “And I have a new boyfriend, and I am very happy,” she said in a telephone interview with the B.A.R. See page 22 >>
Star Kathleen Turner: “I’m not a diva.”
Unmistakable voice by David-Elijah Nahmod
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n “Finding My Voice,” film and Broadway star Kathleen Turner will take to the stage of Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko for an evening of music from the Great American Songbook. Turner will also share stories from her celebrated career, which includes starring in mega-hit movies like “Body Heat” (1982) and “Romancing the Stone” (1984), as well as her Oscar-nominated turn in “Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986). She is also a Tony-nominated stage actress, having starred in productions of “The Graduate” and gay playwright Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” See page 28 >>
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Art-loving down on The Farm by Roberto Friedman
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hen Out There goes to an art museum, there’s always one initial, telling click of an art buzz, like that moment when the caffeine kicks in after downing a double espresso. When we visited the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University (students call it “The Farm”) earlier this month, that click came in front of an oil painting by Alice Neel, “The Arab” (1976), a striking portrait composed in the artist’s spare but vivid style. We were high on art. That canvas hung alongside some great examples from the work of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Claes Oldenburg and a small but very beautiful Wassily Kandinsky. As wall texts make clear, the Cantor’s art collection was very much selected with teaching in mind. So there are representative if not exhaustive displays of various disciplines in, say, Asian Art, and some pretty great totems and masks from Oceania, but only a few. That’s how it goes throughout the museum, in Early European, African and Native American Art, and art of the Ancient Americas. We sought out the very strong Modern & Contemporary Art galleries. Two small untitled Philip Gustons from 1969 (a KKK conehead, a gloved hand) are all you really need to know about the artist’s great late period. There’s one Calder, one Noguchi, but they are of the highest caliber. One Edward Hopper urban nightscape could be, well, is a textbook illustration of his work.
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Auguste Rodin, “The Age of Bronze” (1875-76), bronze, cast c. 1920, part of a reinstallation of the Cantor Arts Center’s Rodin galleries.
For all its roots in art history, the Cantor shows a strong sampling of 21st-century a large, untitled Best Weddingart:Photographer Barry McGee work in 125 individual as voted by BAR readers pieces (2015); a print from Isaac Julien’s Baltimore series, “Angela in Blue #1” (2003); a Todd Hido photograph from his Outskirts series (2001, printed 2016); a Nick Cave soundsuit (2015). We also visited the quite current exhibit “Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser,” a diverse presentation of conceptual and sound art throughout the museum and outside; it shows until Jan. 7, 2018.
But the Cantor is worth a visit for its wealth in the work of the great sculptor Auguste Rodin alone. “Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body” is ongoing, a recent reinstallation of nearly 100 Rodin sculptures drawn from the Cantor’s holdings, the largest collection of bronzes by Rodin in any American museum. They fill a few galleries and a sculpture garden outside, and include his great expressive portal to the “Gates of Hell.” Right next door is the bold new building for The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, a beautiful installation of the famous cache of American paintings and sculpture bestowed by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. The treasures are given ample room to breathe, including a stunning Mark Rothko, “Pink and White over Red” (1957), oil on canvas. A current exhibition, “Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure,” runs through Feb. 12, 2018. Coming soon to the Cantor are three exciting new exhibits: “The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution,” “Earthly Hollows: Cave and Kiln Transformations” and “The Buddha’s Word @ Stanford,” all opening Oct. 18. Find more info at museum.stanford.edu. We stayed overnight at The Clement Palo Alto, a small, highend hotel that graciously offered us hospitality. It’s like staying in a luxurious villa where you have run
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Being back at Stanford University was bittersweet nostalgic for OT, because we went to grad school and taught classes there some years ago: freshman comp and a course with curriculum we developed ourselves, for the IAC program. We called it “Literature of the Gay Male Experience,” and led seminars on novels by James Baldwin, Jean Genet and Thomas Mann. Later, students told us it appeared on their transcripts as “Gay Male Experience.” We’ll take credit for that. A few years ago, at a fashionable dinner party, somehow the topic came up and we told a woman we’d just met that we were a Stanford grad. “Every single person I’ve ever met who went to Stanford,” she said, “has told me within 20 minutes of meeting me that they went to Stanford.” We had to admit she had a point. And now we’ve just done the same to you. Busted!t
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2016 was “really hard,” she said. Cho spent time in an inpatient drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation program, and later lived in a sober living facility. Trump’s win was “horrific,” but it has provided material for her new show. Although her new TV pilot is not yet scheduled, Cho said the show, which she wrote and produced with “Lost” alumna Liz Sarnoff, is timely and should be “very well-received.” It’s the story of a Korean-American
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family that goes into the cannabis business. Given the “booming market” for marijuana, and upcoming legalization in California, “we hope it will be a big hit.” Cho, an advocate for the legalization of cannabis, says she no longer uses the herb. “I smoked a lot when I was younger,” she said. “I kind of reached the saturation point with it, but I’m still an advocate and love the culture” of cannabis. Born and raised in San Francisco, Cho has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. She used to keep an apartment here, but now “stays in different places” when she visits. At one point, she lived in an artists’ commune with 28 people. “I’m kind of old for that now,” said Cho, 48. She has “always identified as bisexual,” which can be “a strange place in terms of the [LGBT] community. We’re not exactly welcomed, and we’re not exactly shunned. I’ve always been a part of the gay community,” she said, explaining that her parents owned a bookstore that was at the “epicenter of gay life.” Her career took off in 1999 when her groundbreaking off-Broadway one-woman show “I’m the One That I Want” toured the country to national acclaim and was made into a bestselling book and feature film. In 2001, Cho launched “Notorious C.H.O,” a 37-city national tour that culminated in a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. The show was recorded and released as a feature film. In 2003, Cho had a third soldout national tour, “Revolution,” and in 2005, a concert film, “Assassin.” In
2007, Cho toured with Cyndi Lauper for a Human Rights Campaign benefit. When Cho’s mentor Robin Williams died in 2014, Cho set up shop in various locations in San Francisco, raising money for the homeless community, as a memorial to her friend. In 2015, Cho filmed her Showtime special “psyCHO” in New York City, and the following year, released her album “American Myth.” Cho says a “highlight” of her life was meeting her “new boyfriend” Rocco Stowe, a Los Angeles comedian. “We’ve been together for six months, and it’s been wonderful. He’s very special.” When travelling with the show, Cho said she “keeps it pretty minimal because I’m cheap and don’t like to spend a lot.” She enjoys the crowds and is grateful for the warm reception she receives. While parts of the show are updated with political anecdotes, a lot of it focuses on Cho’s time in rehab. Rehab was a “big part of my life” for the past two years, “and it wasn’t always easy.” Touring can be exhausting, she added, but there “always seems to be something to look forward to,” like a visit to San Francisco. “Yes, the city has changed, but I still love it. I just can’t wait to get up there.”t Margaret Cho’s “Fresh Off the Bloat” plays the Castro Theatre on Sat., Oct. 21. Cho plays the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on Fri., Oct. 20. The early show is sold out; tickets for the late show are $32$47. Info: MargaretCho.com.
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Haunted by rabbits – and stories by Richard Dodds
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omeday we’ll laugh about this – a phrase often spoken about a mortifying social event in an effort to defuse it in the moment. In other words, it will become a good story, and it is our stories that help bind us to others who are both present and departed. It’s not surprising that Daniel Handler would make this a centerpiece message in his first foray into a full-length play; he has been famously telling stories of “unfortunate events” that eventually empower the children they befall in a series of young-adult novels under his pseudonym Lemony Snicket. In Handler’s new play, the “imaginary comforts” become a grownup parallel to unfortunate events as a collection of variously troubled adults eventually find healing warmth in the unlikeliest of places. That would be in “The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit,” which is the subtitle of Handler’s “Imaginary Comforts” having its world premiere at Berkeley Rep. The play at first seems an oddball collection of situations, characters,
and tones, but the threads And down the rabbit eventually tie together even hole Handler’s play goes, as if their meandering qualithis earnest low-end rabbi ties and erratically drawn clumsily prepares a eulogy characters continue to for a man she never met collide. The absurdism and but about whom she gleans downright silliness sprina bedtime story he’d tell his kled through the 90-mindaughter involving a rabbit ute play ease some of the that gets double-crossed need for stylistic consisin a deal it had made with tency, and if not all of the a human. As Rabbi Naomi situations pay off beyond Mittleman bumbles her their sometimes-shallow way into the lives of the conceits, an overriding various family, friends, and Kevin Berne playfulness ultimately acquaintances surroundkeeps spirits aloft. Danny Scheie, left, and Michael Goorjian rehearse a ing the deceased, she pro“Imaginary Comforts” play about the ghost of a dead rabbit in the opening vides the closest thing to a opens with a neophyte scene of Daniel Handler’s “Imaginary Comforts” through-line. playwright cluelessly having its world premiere at Berkeley Rep. Margo Talkington, in directing a down-on-hisa series of just-off outfits luck actor in a sketch about by Meg Neville, is a little The reason for this scene is rethe vengeful spirit of a dead rabbit. too aware that Naomi is supposed vealed considerably later on, but you “I will stalk you like the falcon stalks to be a comic character. Theatrical can usually count on rabbits being the camel,” declares the ghost before humor, especially when the world referenced one way or another. Rabthe aghast actor playing the rabthat contains it is a little wonky, bits and Judaism. And how do they bit politely suggests, among other works best when the characters play fit together? Well, rabbit is one letter things, that the simile is not extheir situations without projecting away from rabbi, a fact that leads actly spot-on. It’s an amusing scene, an awareness that they’re supposed to some foolishness as the ghostcrisply played by Michael Goorjian to be funny. That’s more the case of-a-rabbit playwright mistakenly as the goofball author and Danny with Julian Lopez-Morillas as the responds to a young female rabbi’s Scheie as the sardonic old-pro actor. recently passed addiction therapist, online dating profile.
Susan Lynskey as his plainspoken daughter, Jarion Monroe as his gruff best friend, Cassidy Brown as the daughter’s on-a-whim husband, and Sharon Lockwood as the grieving widow. Tony Taccone has directed the new play with an off-kilter zest, matching what Handler has provided in his script, and the intriguing set by Todd Rosenthal of rearranging walls and doors easily accommodates scenes in which the final words of dialogue in a preceding scene become the first in the subsequent scene. As messages begin to evolve in this play of uneven pleasures, we hear that truth isn’t always necessary in a job that requires solace, whether in the form of fractured fairy tales or the stories that make up a religion. “What are the chances,” Rabbi Naomi is challenged, “that something real will ever comfort anybody?”t “Imaginary Comforts” will run through Nov. 19 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets are $45-$97. Call (510) 647-2949 or go to berkeleyrep.org.
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underestimate Mozart’s or Anderszewski’s ability to amaze. The central Andante was reflective and surprisingly dark; the outer movements were brisk, and the technical challenges were met with ease. It was a virtuoso performance achieved without mugging or theatrics. The biggest crowd-pleaser of the night was Smetana’s gorgeous Vltava from “Ma Vlast,” and it was very well done. I still felt more thankful for the inclusion of Janacek’s “Taras Bulba.” The composer’s tangy harmonies and inventive orchestrations and the rumble of the mighty organ underscored the special feeling of the performance. The orchestra conveyed a contagious excitement.
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etween the raging Northern California fires, hurricane destruction in Puerto Rico, and the horrific mass shootings in Las Vegas – not to mention confounding tweets from a president out of control – there is an apocalyptic mood in the air. It affects us in obvious and subtle ways, but life goes on and we keep seeking comfort and expression in music. San Francisco Symphony cellist Barbara Bogatin made a brief statement to that effect last week at the start of the second half of a concert in Davies Symphony Hall. Musicians and administration of the SFS are also discussing practical ways the organization may help Threnody notes benefit victims of the The previous week devastating fires. showcased the return of The past two weeks at Krzysztof Urbanski to DSH have also started the podium at DSH. The a season-long miniprogram opened with festival celebrating visitKrzysztof Penderecki’s ing foreign conductors, eerily agonizing “Threnpresenting music of ody for the Victims of their native lands. Guest Hiroshima.” Performed artists from all over join only once before by the in. We give props and SFS, it isn’t hard to unthe ubiquitous standing derstand why the brief ovation for diversity at (10 min.) work is so rare. the SFS, as international With the mood of the visitors appear at Davies country and the presithroughout the month dent’s threats, however, of October. it would seem a timely Above: Czech Advance word on guest conductor reminder. Urbanski kept young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa a tight rein, and the orJakub Hrusa has been Below: Polish guest chestra responded with glowing, and his recent conductor Krzysztof concentration. It was SFS debut made good Urbanski. no lighthearted curtainon the buzz. His selecraiser, but it definitely tions, described in the drew us in. program as a “Bohemian Rhapsody,” The only way to follow such offered a satisfying taste of musical a sobering statement would be treasures from the Czech Republic, with a complete change. Mendelsand showed his careful and loving sohn’s beloved Violin Concerto in understanding of the repertoire. E minor did the trick. It was good Opening with a controlled but to see young Augustin Hadelich suitably festive “Carnival” Overture back at center stage as soloist. His by Dvorak, and ending with the technique is dazzling, and his tone infrequently heard and characterisis marvelously sweet. I found myself tically thrilling “Taras Bulba,” Rhapcomparing him favorably to other sody for Orchestra by Leos Janacek, violin masters and favorites: PinHrusa also framed the performance chas Zukerman, and even the late, of Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski great Isaac Stern. Hadelich’s encore with sympathy. was Paganini Caprice No. 21, by way Anderszewski is a bold and pasof thanks for the audience response. sionate poet, and if I hadn’t already Icing on the cake, perhaps, but no heard him play Mozart, I might have one was complaining. thought he would go for a more inIn another mood swing, Urbantense display piece than the Piano ski tackled the mighty Shostakovich Concerto No. 17. But one shouldn’t 10th Symphony after intermission.
One of the composer’s characteristically long and emotionally conflicted scores, composed after the death of his nemesis Joseph Stalin, it is still no real victory lap. A feeling of pure relief in the final pages of the work is lacking, but Shostakovich was always rather covert in his musical statements, and his relationship with Stalin was tortuously complicated. Making a coherent statement of the 10th amidst the welter of orchestral sound-and-fury is no sim-
ple task. Krzysztof Urbanski, with his clear self-confidence and balletic physical approach, remained unfazed. I confess a guilty pleasure in Shostakovich when he goes overthe-top. His grim pages of stark contemplation and sardonic wit focus my responses. His theatrical instinct and heart never ring false or insincere. Urbanski, for all his lunges and thrusts, kept things moving along
without too many self-centered distractions. He is an intriguing talent, quite willing to jump up and down to get the desired effect. His results are always impressive. He returns to DSH this week with Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski’s wonderful Concerto for Orchestra. The week following, Osmo Vanski brings music of Finland’s Jean Sibelius.t sfsymphony.org.
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tional Jewish stories and characters in “Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.” A respite from the seriousness of the fall exhibition season, the show, on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, is an unmitigated delight. Relying on a combination of old-world cautionary tales and Howard Schwartz’s 2009 anthology “Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales,” the artists chose source material they gravitated toward, producing primarily non-linear interpretive works. The loopier those interpre-
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atching a movie in order to review it is a curious occupation. Half the brain watches, and the other half monitors the brain’s response to what it sees. As in winetasting, the mental palate tastes and simultaneously categorizes the flavors encountered as they arise. A series of sensations leaves its traces to be noted and communicated while they’re still fresh. Subjective sensory experience is measured against objective categories, enabling a reviewer to judge a film in good faith, allowing for irrational storms of emotion and petulance. My usual apparatus was stymied by “Human Flow,” opening Friday at San Francisco’s and Berkeley’s Landmark Theatres. Sitting in a venerable old screening-room downtown, a soundproof haven where reality cannot impinge on the perfect conditions for the careful tasting of yet another exercise in cinematic opium, I was annoyed to find myself confronted with 145 minutes of raw footage of the refugee experience. Of course it’s not raw-raw, having been whittled down from 60,000 minutes by editors under the direction of Ai Weiwei, China’s best-known artistic son, currently based in Berlin. His chosen home has meaning, Europe being the Promised Land for refugees from USA’s catastrophic incursions in the Middle East. As a rule, I don’t leave a screening, or arrest a DVD or streaming video midstream, when I’m reviewing.
It’s my job to see it through, in the off-chance things might improve, or I might be seduced to a filmmaker’s point of view, or visually bludgeoned into submission. Yet sometimes I do fast-forward because whatever it is they think I need to watch is to my mind redundant, snail-paced, or annoying. I did close my eyes from time to time during “Human Flow,” to spare them the unwieldy long takes, the unsteady-cam jostle, and the leading-nowhere tricks. When I’d open my eyes again, I’d see I’d missed a bit of verbiage: a quote, a statistic, a headline. I took my failure to read 100% of these bits philosophically, since the ones I did read appeared in white against a pale background and were thus illegible, or added little to my understanding
of the “flow.” Words, for an artist like Ai Weiwei, are merely found objects, one as good as another. His moviemaking could use precision and concision. Subjected to 145 minutes of Ai’s randomness, I felt bad about wanting it to be over, since the poor people being recorded by his cameras were enduring more than 145 minutes of homeless, stateless, often pointless migration. Their situation is extreme, the risks dire, and they’re real people. Was it obscene to parade them for my consumption, or was my irritation at his constantly inserting himself into the frame like Hitchcock beside the point? Maybe Ai Weiwei is the problem, his failure to be didactic, his preferring to pose with the refugees as if he were one of them in a selfie that blurs specificity of history, culture, and place, merging the identities of individuals into a vast soup slopping across borders or failing to slop. Maybe analyzing and teaching would be a better use of 23 countries, 200 crewmembers, and endless supplies of refugees, but maybe Amazon wouldn’t fund a filmmaker of conscience able to sublimate the self and articulate a demand to stem this flood. Maybe Ai Weiwei’s international cachet will benefit his subjects. “You tell these people that you’re the same as them,” he told The Guardian. “But you are lying because you are not the same. Your situation is different; you must leave them. And that’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life.”t
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Leonardo, the great gay genius by Tim Pfaff
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alter Isaacson writes biographies of people who are inherently interesting. This is less common than you’d think. Happily, his new “Leonardo da Vinci” (Simon and Schuster) is worthy of its subject. His prose is scoured of hyperbole because none is needed. His subject is among the handful of history’s indisputable geniuses, and merely to describe Leonardo accurately – as Isaacson does as much as is possible with a figure from the 15th century – yields a colorful man, as engaging as engaged. Leonardo’s longest-term intimate relationship was with a Milanese boy he nicknamed Salai, who from the start stole from the artist, studied with him only halfheartedly and offended far more of Leonardo’s friends than he ingratiated himself to. Although Leonardo may have enjoyed sexual intimacies with others – wholly unsurprisingly, he took to the pretty young ones with curly hair like his own – he kept Salai’s company and looked after him until the end. If the 15th century had had Prozac, Lithium and Adderall, we might not have had “The Last Supper” or “Mona Lisa,” though Leonardo’s generously recombinant family (he was born illegitimate, not always a disadvantage then, and not in Leonardo’s case) seemed vastly more charmed than vexed by his insatiable curiosity, strangely alloyed with a steak of laziness, or something that look like it. He left unfinished far more projects than he sketched or painted; you could write that off as perfectionism or admire its tireless
quest for greater clarity. I wonder if, in our techie times, his drawing of the “Vitruvian man” – the handsome nude with two arms and two legs, overlaid and touching the edges of the circle and the equal-volume square that contain him, or on which he rides like a circus performer – is not the avatar that “says” Leonardo more than the “Mona Lisa.” If the face and physiognomy are not a self-portrait, they reflect what was said to be his strikingly handsome face, curly hair and beautifully proportioned, naturally muscled body. He moved with grace, movement itself his among his greatest obsessions. Isaacson’s biography is linear enough to follow easily, yet it returns, as did the artist, time and again, to the highly concrete, enticingly yet rigorously investigable mysteries of the human and natural world. Isaac’s view of Leonardo’s
void of self-censorship. Early on, homosexuality is itself a model. Isaacson notes, “In a section of his Many of us have fought through notebooks called ‘On the penis,’ weighty studies of more outrageous [Leonardo] described quite humorgeniuses, to find only a paragraph ously how the penis had a mind of or maybe a subsection on the hoits own and acted at times without mosexuality. the will of the man.” “Leonardo was sexually and roThe “notebooks” provide the mantically attracted to men and, substance of this biography. Some unlike Michelangelo, seemed to be 7,200 pages of them, thought to just fine with that,” Isaacson chirps, represent a quarter of the total, surdirectly and easily. “He made no efvive. They have, Isaacson says, “been fort either to hide or proclaim it, but rightly called ‘the most astonishing it probably contributed to his sense testament of the powers of human of being unconventional.” observation and imagination ever Had he not been as enticing an set down on paper.’” eccentric, who knows what would “His curiosity, like that of Einhave been made of his comparastein [the subject of another Isaatively outlandish dress? Long garcson biography], often was about ments were the fashion of the day, phenomena that most people over but Leonardo’s typically stopped at the age of 10 no longer puzzle mid-calf and were, when not lavenabout: Why is the sky blue? How are der, pinkish. clouds formed?” Isaacson shares his subject’s distaste for the rougher aspects of Michelangelo (which is to say, most of them), an intermittent rival. Speaking only for myself, “Art” hasn’t been the same since I saw – unexpectedly, in an instant; an Italian friend was playing a trick – Michelangelo’s “David” in Florence. So I found it more than a little starling to read that Leonardo was one of the loudest proponents of moving the statue indoors – and adding the “fig leaf,” which effectively nicked David’s dick for decades. Courtesy Simon & Schuster It’s difficult to see anything but rivalry of the most “Leonardo da Vinci” author Walter virulent sort from Leonardo, Isaacson with the “Vitruvian man.” a painter and sketcher who drew many a male nude de-
“Leonardo had set for himself the most magnificent of all tasks for the mind of mankind: nothing less than knowing fully the measure of man and how he fits into the cosmos,” Isaacson writes. Some of the designer-painter’s personal favorite art came by way of his complete plans for elaborate palace pageants, on which he lavished infinite, loving care. None was expected to last past dawn. The surviving art is considered in-depth, culmination with what Isaacson deems the masterpiece, the “Mona Lisa.” Leonardo carried it with him for years, across Italy and eventually to Paris, always refining it, and never selling it. “At the time when he was perfecting Lisa’s smile, Leonardo was spending his nights in the depths of the morgue under the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, peeling the flesh off cadavers and exposing the muscles and nerves underneath,” Isaac adds. “He became fascinated about how a smile begins to form and instructed himself to analyze every possible movement of each part of the face.” This beautiful book, on coated stock, showing text and illustrations to the best advantage, is a pleasure to hold. Leonardo, whose interest in politics was slight, would have approved of it.t Walter Isaacson will be appearing Oct. 24, 7 p.m. at the San Francisco JCC (3200 California St.): jccsf.org/arts-ideas/walterisaacson/, and Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park: brownpapertickets.com/ event/3016070.
It’s Jennifer Hudson’s movie by David-Elijah Nahmod
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ooking back on Jennifer Hudson’s rise to stardom, it still boggles the mind to realize that she didn’t win the third season of “American Idol.” Her incomparable voice is one of the entertainment industry’s most soulful and powerful instruments. But Hudson bounced back. She won the role of Effie White in Bill Condon’s film of the Broadway hit “Dreamgirls,” taking home an Oscar for the role. Watching “Dreamgirls” today in its newly released DVD/ Blu-ray, viewers might wonder why Hudson was honored in the Supporting Actress category. She was obviously the film’s star. Effie has the film’s most powerful storyline. Her role remains front-and-center from the opening moments until the final fadeout. If there were justice in the world, Hudson would have been honored as Best Actress. She had to take a back seat to Beyonce, a much bigger star. Beyonce was cast as Deena Jones, a character loosely based on Diana Ross. The play and film were inspired by the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes during the 1960s, and the fall of original Supreme Florence Ballard in the 70s. Hudson’s Effie White is the Ballard character. While Beyonce is astonishing to behold and sings beautifully, it’s difficult to believe that Deena could be as naive as she. She appears oblivious to the manipulations of her manager-turned-husband Curtis (Jamie Foxx), who’ll stab anyone in the back in order to cut a deal. “It’s just business,” Curtis says. Diana Ross is known as a powerful diva
who protects her image with an iron fist. Are we expected to believe that Ross stand-in Deena had no idea what Curtis was doing? Hudson, on the other hand, has a magnificent storyline, and she plays every note of it to the hilt. The audience feels her hurt when she’s removed as the girls’ lead singer and relegated to backup because she’s not pretty enough. She rebels and is eventually fired from the group. Hudson responds with a stunning performance of the soul ballad “And I’m Not Telling You I’m Not Going.” Hudson’s control of her voice is comparable to that of musical greats like Streisand and Garland. There’s no one else who can hit an emotional note quite like these three. Soon afterward, Effie is seen as a welfare mother. The injustice of this is infuriating, and Hudson plays it for all it’s worth. There are other fine performances in the film. Eddie Murphy, also an Oscar nominee, is quite good as Jimmy “Thunder” Early, a selfdestructive blues singer who eventually does himself in. Foxx makes for the perfect handsome slimeball who keeps smiling even after he gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The film’s art direction and costuming are bright and colorful, taking viewers back to the glamour that was Motown in the 1960s and 70s. The musical numbers are snappy. It all adds up to delectable entertainment. Paramount’s handsomely packaged disc includes the original theatrical release along with Condon’s extended director’s cut. Hudson’s screen test and audition tapes of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” are also included.t
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26 • Bay Area Reporter • October 19-25, 2017
More men behaving badly by Victoria A. Brownworth
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e do love CNN anchor Erin Burnett. With the exception of the days she was reporting from Las Vegas in the aftermath of the massacre we’ve already pushed out of the news cycle, when she looked truly shaken, she never fails to call out Trump. Oct. 12 was no exception. Burnett labeled Trump the “hypocrite-inchief ” on her show “Out Front” after Trump signed his 50th executive order in office. That 50th EO rescinded the subsidies one in five Americans receives for their healthcare. Burnett said, “Hypocrite-inchief Pres. Trump did something today he harshly criticized Pres. Obama for doing. Trump signed his 50th executive order.” She then detailed in old Trump tweets how he’d referred to Obama’s executive orders as “authoritarian” and “power grabs.” Huh. Speaking of women who call out Trump, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was interviewed by David Axelrod on “The Axe Files” on CNN Sat., Oct. 14. Some days it seems Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris are among the only people in Congress fighting for the rest of us. Pelosi was the only one to acknowledge the anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder 19 years ago, on Oct. 12, 1998. At least someone is tracking our LGBTQ history. If you love Sarah Silverman and need a regular dose of how-doI-survive-Trumplandia, her new Hulu show “I Love You, America” is for you. The talk show from the irascible NSFW comedian debuted Oct. 12. Silverman does a hilarious opener in which she sings her complicated feelings about where we stand now with Trump, “the racist South,” and “whatever this state is” as she stands over Iowa on a huge map. It’s funnily hyperrealistic when she goes up to a black woman on the street and asks “how to be a better ally” and is told to go read up, because the woman does not have time to educate her. It’s cringeworthy for all white liberals when she comes to the realization that black men and women were being killed by police all along, but she just got woke about it recently. Can Silverman get us to embrace more than just groups and relate to individuals, or are we hopelessly riven as a nation? The jury will likely be out for the next three years and three months, but “I Love You, America” is definitely worth watching. In the opening episode Silverman interviewed a family of Trump supporters from Louisiana as well as Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church who left the church after
meeting her husband on Twitter. Lots can happen on a streaming show. Hulu isn’t restricted by any norms, like network. Cable is far less restrictive than network – we still revel in Burnett’s insistence on repeating Trump’s “sons of bitches” comment repeatedly to make her GOP guests squirm: “But do you think they are, as the president said, sons of bitches?” – but there are still things that can’t be said. So the freestyle of Hulu explains the flash of full-frontal male nudity early on – just because Silverman wants to know you’re paying attention. Then there was this from the former Westboro Baptist family member: “One thing that’s really important for people to understand is that I think extremists generally are not psychopaths,” Phelps-Roper told Silverman. “They’re psychologically normal people who have been persuaded by bad ideas. We can’t expect to isolate these people and hope those ideas will just fade into oblivion. We have to actually engage those ideas and find ways of, one, understanding the mindsets of the people that we’re dealing with, and then constructing arguments. It’s not just for the sake of these extremists. because they impact the rest of society.” That’s a lot. But worth delving into.
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Speaking of delving, with Halloween almost upon us, “Lore” seems the perfect scare-fest. Aaron Mahnke’s award-winning podcast about the bizarre, unexplained and could-be-supernatural was just made into a scripted TV series for Amazon. The focus is mysterious moments in history, and the podcast is like sitting in the woods around the campfire telling scary stories. “X-Files” producer Glen Morgan is the showrunner, and “Walking Dead” producer Gale Anne Hurd produces. Mahnke is still on board. The first two episodes of the Amazon series star some heavyweights, Campbell Scott and Colm Feore. If you like the podcast, you will also like the series, though you may need to close your eyes to get yourself into the space of eerie, preternatural, what-comes-next scarification. LGBTQ History Month hasn’t resonated on the tube, which is unsurprising. But we were pleased to see some hot, realistic gay male sex on “American Horror Story: Cult,” hot, realistic lesbian sex on “Grey’s Anatomy,” hot joking about gay male sex in a bar with male strippers on “How to Get Away with Murder,” which also revealed in the final 30 seconds on Oct. 12 that Connor has
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two dads. Whoa. it’s serious, it’s serious.” On “Star,” which now Yikes. follows “Empire,” which In her Time interalso gives us gay every view in September, Noweek, Carlotta’s transtaro said, “I think that if gender daughter Cotton somebody is assaulting (trans actress Amiyah people, they need to Scott) is being primed get professional help. for some dramatic love They also need to acinterest. Paris Jackson knowledge this to their will return for more epivictims. That’s a good sodes, too. Yay. place to start. It seems Our fave new gay like when things are streaming series, on unchecked, it doesn’t Amazon Prime, is “Zach stop.” Louis CK has & Dennis: How It All declined to address the Began.” A sweet, funny, allegations. sexy, complicated tale Actor Terry Crews of an older and younger (“Brooklyn Nineman, the series begins Nine”) also spoke out when Dennis wakes up last week about being to discover Zach, an sexually harassed by a attractive and much high-level Hollywood younger guy, in his bed. executive. In a series of He gingerly removes 16 tweets on Oct. 10, Zach’s arm from around Crews detailed how the CNN him and goes off to man grabbed the Emmake tea, picking up CNN anchor Erin Burnett called out Trump as the my-nominated actor by their discarded clothes “hypocrite-in-chief.” his genitals at an indusas he goes. He looks at try party. He said fear the tag in Zach’s briefs, of reprisal and racial Runway.” The long-running hit sebias had kept him from speaking snorting, “Small.” Is Zach just a oneries not only (spoiler alert!) finally out: “I decided not 2 take it further night-stand, or is it more than that? dumped those twins in what can becuz I didn’t want 2b ostracized – This is a must-watch. If you don’t only be called #TapeMeasureGate, par 4 the course when the predator have Amazon prime, the but also snipped Weinstein’s name has power n influence. I let it go. I episodes make their way from the credits on Oct. 12. understand why many women who to YouTube. Tamron Hall, former anchor at this happens to let it go. I empathize We take what we are MSNBC and co-host on the Today with those who have remained given and gladly, but show (was she really replaced by silent. But Harvey Weinstein is not we would like to have Megyn Kelly?) and current host the only perpetrator. Hollywood is more. A lot more. PBS of “Deadline: Crime with Tamron not the only business [where] this and the History ChanHall” on Investigation Discovery happens, and to the casualties of nel are primed to do channel, was scheduled to have this behavior: you are not alone.” LGBTQ history. It’s her own daytime talk show via the Crews, who was previously host always in October. Do Weinstein Company next season. of “Millionaire,” ended his tweetbetter, straight people That, like many other deals orstorm saying he hoped that telling who have plenty of time to sexuchestrated by the now-disgraced his story would “deter a predator ally harass women, but no time to Weinstein, is up in the air. Hall told and encourage someone who feels put together a half-dozen shows on HuffPo, “It’s a woman’s worst nighthopeless.” His revelation is imporLGBTQ history once a year. mare to be in a situation where you tant for many reasons: he’s black, believe someone more powerful has Harvey Dick a former football player, six-footcontrol over your life. I immediately The ongoing revelations about three, weighs 240, and is ripped. The thought about the women who have Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinjuxtaposition of Crews’ body vs. his suffered in silence and were parastein continue, impacting film, TV ability to fight back in such a situlyzed by fear, fear that I’ve seen with and books. For the first week CNN, ation exemplifies the powerlessness domestic violence survivors, fear MSNBC and Fox News all seemed victims feel. that I’ve seen when I interviewed perversely fixated on why Hillary “Dawson’s Creek” alum James women who were raped on their Clinton hadn’t spoken out about Van Der Beek, now 40, was a gay college campuses.” the revelations, since Weinstein heartthrob in his youth. He spoke Meanwhile, revelations about had donated money to her camout about his experience with sexual other serial abusers are coming to paigns (along with dozens of other harassment in a series of tweets in light, among them Ben Affleck, who Democrats and progressive causes, which he was supportive of the has been accused of groping women like Human Rights Campaign and women speaking out. “What Weinhe’s worked with on big and small Emily’s List). Apparently everyone stein is being accused of is criminal. screens. His brother Casey Affleck forgot that Hillary never worked What he’s admitted to is unacceptpreviously settled out of court with in Hollywood. Oddly, comments able in any industry. I applaud evtwo women who alleged he had were not demanded of men, inerybody speaking out.” sexually assaulted them. cluding any of the dozens of true On Oct. 12, Van Der Beek wrote, In August, lesbian comedian Tig Hollywood elites like CNN’s Jeff “I’ve had my ass grabbed by older, Notaro (“One Mississippi”) alluded Zucker, who was a longtime friend powerful men, I’ve had them corner in an interview with The Daily Beast of Weinstein. Or Stephen Spielberg, me in inappropriate sexual converthat comedian Louis CK, a producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, sations when I was much younger. on her show, was a serial abuser, and George Lucas, Martin Scorcese, Ron I understand the unwarranted that she had experienced an “inciHoward, James Cameron, Quentin shame, powerlessness & inability dent” with him. Notaro has stopped Tarantino, Tim Burton, Michael to blow the whistle. There’s a power speaking to the comedian, and Moore and many others. dynamic that feels impossible to when her Amazon series debuted Samantha Bee had no such comovercome.” its second season last month was punctions. On her Oct. 11 episode Neither Crews nor Van Der Beek quick to note that he was no longer of “Full Frontal” in a segment titled, named names, but Van Der Beek involved in her show. “Listen Up, Creeps, Weinstein ediadded, “Apologies to any menThe allegations have swirled for tion,” Bee went on an eight-minute tors & champions and wonderful over a year, first noted by comedian rant about Weinstein, Trump and friends I’ve made in this industry Roseanne Barr in a 2016 interview other serial sexual assaulters of who may have been pulled into with Daily Beast. Barr, a longtime women. It’s a sharp and arch indictwrongful speculation. I realize I left advocate for sexual abuse survivors, ment. a door open by not initially naming, said, “It’s not just Bill Cosby. Some Another indictment came from but please don’t impugn innocent of the biggest comics, males, are actress and screenwriter Rose Mcpeople w/out cause. That’s not fair. doing some terrible things. And Gowan, who stated on Twitter Oct. Or right.” they’re about to get busted.” Barr, 12 that Weinstein raped her, and The complexities of the Weinwhose re-boot of “Roseanne” prethat Jeff Bezos had cancelled her stein case and others will continue mieres on ABC next season, said, contract for her series with Amato play out for weeks to come, and “I’ve been speaking up. It’s Louis zon Studios when she complained one thing remains crystal-clear: the CK, locking the door and masturabout it. McGowan was named in victims of these unwanted advances, bating in front of women. I’ve heard both The New York Times and New the many women and the smaller so many stories. Not just him, but Yorker investigations into alleganumber of men, deserve support. a lot of them. It’s just par for the tions against Weinstein. And the men with power who could course. It’s just shit women have to The Weinstein scandal will imhave said or done something to stop put up with.” pact TV, not just movies, as myriad the ongoing abuse, but didn’t? They Notaro’s comments were pershows are produced by the Weinare culpable and complicit. sonal. Telling Daily Beast that Louis stein Company, and he had his name So for the good, the bad, and CK needed to “handle” the allegaon many. The first show to scrub his the really ugly, you know must stay tions against him, Notaro said, “It’s name from the credits is “Project tuned.t serious to be harassed. It’s serious,
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28 • Bay Area Reporter • October 19-25, 2017
Scapegoating queers by Brian Bromberger
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fter viewing the new documentary “The Lavender Scare,” there’s no doubt that the 1950s were the worst time to be LGBTQ in this country. “Lavender” played this year’s Frameline festival to huge applause, and in a return engagement will be screened free to the public tonight, Thurs., Oct. 19, at the Roxie Theater, 7 p.m. It’s for anyone who wants a tutorial on the birth of the gay rights movement in the US. It’s the first film to tell about the decades-long witch-hunt that began with Pres. Eisenhower’s Apr. 27, 1953 executive order demanding that all gay and lesbian government employees be fired immediately. This edict was carried out in the mistaken belief that during the Cold War hysteria against Communism, LGBT workers would be easy prey to blackmail. In a 1991 Dept. of Defense study of 117 cases of spying for foreign governments since WWII, homosexuality wasn’t a factor in any of them. No gay or lesbian person ever betrayed our government, yet thousands of lives were destroyed
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Tom of Finland
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After the war Touko signed his drawings of humpy men with enlarged body parts, especially pecs and genitalia, “Tom of Finland.” He would forever remember the sight of the dead Russian soldier. The memory was not tinged with grief or trauma. Instead it produced a terrifying but also terribly exciting erotic charge. It inspired fantasies that would launch the quite incredible story of this visual artist who emerged from a small, climatically challenged country during a time in its history when it was being
Scene from writer-director Josh Howard’s “The Lavender Scare.”
for no reason. “The Lavender Scare” makes clear this panic was a perfect storm of two fears gripping the country during the 50s: Communism and queers, the latter due primarily to Kinsey’s 1948 finding that 37% of American men had homosexual experiences to the point of orgasm. Even when the Communist frenzy abated, the
purge of gay people continued. Every person interrogated wasn’t allowed to have a lawyer present, see the evidence against them, or confront their accuser(s). Many co-workers thought it was their patriotic duty to inform on their associates. (“My feminine intuition tells me Mr. Hand is a homosexual. He has a jellylike
squeezed to death by totalitarian war machines, Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union. Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski presents the story of a legend. Touko Laaksonen (1920-91) was a one-time obscure artist whose work ultimately became not only well-known but iconic among gay men into leather. This narrative biopic, a hit at the Frameline 41 film festival, concentrates on a handful of pivotal moments and relationships that inspired Tom’s patented hypermasculine drawings. His art would excite gay men worldwide, especially in pre-Stonewall America, where gay freedom would march
hand-in-hand with a dissolution of our society’s anti-sexual Puritan codes. There’s a terrific sequence halfway through the film that demonstrates what Tom faced trying to get his artwork into the hands of queer men. Arrested on a train by East German authorities, Tom is faced both with defending his unique artistic vision and maintaining his freedom at the hands of vicious homophobes like the German officer who exclaims, “We used to put scum like you in concentration camps and gas them to death!” Tom’s arrest is complicated by his relationship with a closeted Finnish official who’s at first reluctant to bail him out of trouble. “I know him. May I speak with him?” “What about?” “Pheasant-hunting.” “Do you know this man?” “No.” “I’m Lieutenant Laaksonen. We fought together. We had a number of close calls.” “There were no battles in Tahililominmaki Hill Park.” “I meant the air battles over Helsinki. We served together. I served under you.” “Is this some trap? Are you trying to trap me?” “It is I who’s trapped.” “You’re asking for trouble with pictures like these.” “It’s just a piece of paper. A
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Kathleen Turner
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Turner’s most notable smallscreen role is that of Chandler’s transgender father on the classic sitcom “Friends.” She also became somewhat of a cult figure when she starred in John Waters’ “Serial Mom” (1994). Cabaret theatre is a new addition to Turner’s impressive resume. She spoke to the B.A.R. about why she’s calling her show “Finding My Voice.” “It’s a new way of expressing myself,” she said. “I’m not just a baritone! I love it, it’s a chance to learn something and to test myself. There’s very little work I’ve done that is repeated.” Turner recalls the unexpected origins of her singing career. “I was in Washington, DC, driving around in a VW with Molly Smith of Arena Exchange Theater,” she said. “Molly asked if I could sing, and I did ‘Since I Fell for You.’”
handshake.”) Two stories highlighted are poignant. One involved Joan Cassidy, a captain in the Navy Reserve. Approached to consider becoming the first woman Admiral, she said no because she feared her secret, being lesbian, would be exposed. The second involved Drew Ference, who had a job in the Foreign Services and a lover. Investigated for homosexuality, rather than having to tell his closeknit family why he had to leave, he committed suicide. One man fought against his dismissal, igniting the gay rights movement. Frank Kameny wanted to join the space program, but was denied a security clearance. Believing the Mattachine Society was ineffective, he formed his own, more confrontational group in Washington, DC, writing letters to legislators correcting myths about gay people. He took his case to the Supreme Court, but lost. But he helped Jamie Shoemaker, a linguist in the NSA, become the first openly gay man to retain his security clearance. Kameny also led the first-ever public gay protest in 1965 by picketing the
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White House. He lived long enough to witness Pres. Clinton rescind the employment ban in 1995, and be praised by Pres. Obama for his courage in 2009. Kameny was the godfather of gay rights. Without him, there never would have been a Harvey Milk. Writer/director Josh Howard, adapting David Johnson’s book of the same name, uses archival footage and interviews with FBI agents who spearheaded investigations, and with victims of the purge. One agent remarks chillingly about one case, “I don’t give a hoot about him. Get rid of the son-of-a-bitch. Put him on the bread line.” Others call LGBT people “perverts” and “undesirables.” Fortunately some of the survivors went on to lead full lives despite these traumatic events. The final frame announces that in 2017, Sec. of State John Kerry officially apologized for the government’s actions. Yet two days after he became President, Trump ordered any mention of the apology removed from the State Dept. website. Without vigilance, hard-fought rights can easily be rescinded.t
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Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, a.k.a. Tom of Finland.
naughty picture someone drew for fun.” “It’s not just a piece of paper. It’s an atomic bomb. You could go to prison for that. The police will search your house and interrogate family and colleagues.” There’s a subplot that fuels the film’s rush to capture your heart: Tom’s relationship with a beautiful young man at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. In an especially poignant moment, Tom confesses to the fear that his erotic drawings may have fueled reckless behavior on the part of some men. Finnish actor Pekka Strang, as Tom, gives a quietly moving per-
formance, somewhat reminiscent of Liam Neeson as the concentration camp-rescuing Oskar Schindler in “Schindler’s List.” Like Schindler, Tom was an unlikely peacetime hero, an artist willing to depict illegal gay sex acts that were severely frowned upon in 1950s Finland, where queer men were pressured to pass for straight, to marry women and have kids. “Tom of Finland” is rated R for shots of both male rear and frontal nudity, has a beautifully muted color scheme, is in English, Finnish and German with English subtitles, and is Finland’s entry for the 2018 Foreign Language Oscar.t
Work by the great composer Michel Legrand will be part of her show at Feinstein’s. “I fell in love with his music,” she said. “’You Must Believe in Spring’ is a most beautiful song.” The star doesn’t think that people are going to be surprised by this latest venture. “People don’t comment on the body of my work because my roles aren’t the same,” she said, noting the sharp contrasts between her various film roles. She expressed a great deal of fondness for John Waters. In Waters’ “Serial Mom,” Turner plays a gleefully psychotic serial killer who becomes a cult celebrity. “Sam Waterston, who played my husband, was afraid we were glorifying serial killers,” she said with a laugh. “But John Waters and I are great friends – we had fun! I had a great time on the film. It was a delight to play a character who, when you see her eyes change, you say, ‘Oh, shit!’” She accepted her three-episode
guest stint on “Friends” because it was in keeping with her history of not repeating herself onscreen. “A woman playing a man playing a woman!” she said. “I couldn’t stand the hairspray!” Turner recalled that her dresser on “Friends” was a gay man who took her to drag clubs. “”It just seemed to me that the humor was hard-edged,” she recalls. “The first time we rehearsed I was biting off those lines!” And now, as Turner prepares for her new role as a cabaret singer, she’s faced with the dilemma of what to wear onstage. “I’m not a diva,” she said. “I don’t like sparkly things. It’s got to be comfortable. I’m not out there to advertise a designer. I told my designers that I want designer PJs!”t Kathleen Turner plays Feinstein’s on Fri. & Sat., Oct. 20 & 21, at 8 p.m. The Friday show is sold out, but tickets remain available for Saturday ($42-$80). Info: feinsteinsatthenikko.ticketfly.com
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Gay Country singer Ty Herndon to guest at Sundance Stompede by David-Elijah Nahmod
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Since 1997, The Hoedown and Sundance Stompede has been the premiere event for LGBT country music fans in the Bay Area. The event was rooted in the desire for director Ingu Yun to create a large fundraiser with the fledgling country-western dance community. Serving on the Bare Chest Calendar that year, Ingu enlisted the help of his fellow calendar men to staff the Hoedown. The first Hoedown attracted about 300 attendees and raised $4000 for the AIDS Emergency Fund. Hoedown 2017 is the centerpiece event of the four-day Sundance Stompede, an LGBT+ countrywestern dance weekend with four consecutive nights of dance events and three days of dance workshops, October 19 through 22. As before, proceeds from these events will benefit AIDS Emergency Fund. For Herndon, appearing at fundraisers like these is all in a day’s work. “In music, we give back,” he said in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “We’re tithing back to the people who make it possible for us to have a career.”
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We constantly shifted off-topic to discuss our favorite Italian pastries (we both agreed on sfogliatella), the Jersey shore, comedic legends and much more. Scotti, who says she’s a
Donating his time to AIDS charities is but a small part of his advocacy. Herndon is a leading supporter of LGBTQ youth. “In churches and homes in the South, you can get thrown out into the street for being gay,” he notes. “I talk to parents and tell them they must let their kids come out. No one should have the right to throw their kids out. One of my goals is to take the message of Harvey Milk to parents.” Herndon is a strong believer in Milk’s message of coming out and of equality for all. “I came out in my own perfect time,” he said. Herndon’s coming out was a long, uphill battle. During the 1990s he charted 17 singles on the country charts, packing them in at concert venues across the USA. But then there were several lawsuits, weight gain, a divorce from his second wife and a stint in rehab. He was also arrested for indecent exposure in Fort Worth, Texas. The charges were eventually dropped. His sexuality became a “hot topic” following the Fort Worth incident. In a 2014 interview in People, Herndon publicly came out as a gay man in a long-term relationship. In addition to appearing at Hoewoman of transgendered experience, made it feel as if I was talking to an old friend rather than a comic promoting their upcoming show. Scotti will be at Cobb’s on October 22. Ronn Vigh: The Advocate magazine named you one of the
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down, Herndon is currently touring the South with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. The idea is to bring the message of tolerance and inclusion to towns which Trump won by wide margins, hoping to open hearts and minds. “Next we go to Birmingham and Knoxville,” he said. “It’s an honor to be a part of this.” At the Hoedown, Herndon promises to sing all of his hits, including his new song, “House on Fire,” in which he confronts sexuality and silence. “I’m not interested in Facebook or Twitter,” he said. “I’m interested in stories like ‘House on Fire.’ You can only write songs from your truth. I’m alive for a reason; to play my songs, tell my stories and hope they help.” Herndon noted that though he loves San Francisco (he’s been here a number of times), he intends to keep his home in the South where he can continue to reach gay kids who need to hear that they’re okay. “We’re all one heart,”he said.“I truly believe we can love each other.”t Ty Herndon hosted the recent Concert for Love and Acceptance at the 2017 CMA Awards.
Top 5 Transgendered Comedians in the country. Beyond comedian and trans, how would you describe yourself? Julia Scotti: As a cranky old person; I bitch and moan a lot. RV: Is that because you’re old or just because you’re from New Jersey? JS: Well, we’re never happy here in New Jersey. I’m 65, an old fart. One of the benefits of being old is that you can be cantankerous and speak your mind. I would be considered a cute old lady and I take advantage of it. RV: While people may just be learning your name, you’re not entirely new to stand up? JS: I had a long career in standup before as comedian Rick Scotti. I left for a while. Then I came back and nobody knew me anymore. Boy, did they not know me! People were kind of nervous about giving me stage time. I was a newbie again and much older than the first time. RV: While a lot had changed since you initially did stand up, was anything similar? JS: Yes. I was scared to death both the first time I did stand up and the second time, when I returned. The first time, I didn’t know any better. If I got a laugh, I was happy. The second time was monumental. Like many trans people, I didn’t go around broadcasting it. Now I had to go up in front of a room full of strangers and make a statement that I was trans. It was frightening but once it came out of my mouth, it got a lot easier.
JS: Yes, but the judges didn’t know. Just before I walked onstage, the producer asked me, ‘Are you going to do it?’ I really didn’t know until it came out of my mouth. First thing, I dropped the F bomb on TV. Then, Howie Mandel asked, ‘Why did you start so late in life?’ I still wasn’t sure I was going to say it. I was taking an executive board meeting in my head and had to finally make a decision. I was so flustered that I gave them the wrong age and then suddenly I heard myself saying it, that I used to be known as Rick. They looked genuinely shocked, but then I looked at the audience and they started cheering and standing for me. It was such a catharsis. RV: Did that change how you perform now? JS: Before AGT happened, I would go up and do stuff the audience could all relate to. Then, I would drop the bomb of being trans in the second chunk of my set. I get them to like me first, then I could pretty much take them wherever I want them to go. But I would have to wait; I knew it. Now, after AGT, everybody knows and I don’t have to announce it anymore. I address it right up front. The goal for me now is that I want them to understand that I may look different but I’m the same as you, with the same needs, wants and desires that go along with being human. RV: You’re an inspiration for many. Who were your inspirations? JS: I was a huge Abbott and
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Costello fan when I was a little kid. I came from a broken home and identified with that sort of sad character, and they were both from Jersey. I bonded with them and used that as a way to get attention and not feel the pain of what was going on in my home life. Since, I’ve taken some of the things that I learned from them and use them in my act, like how I use my body and face. I’m surprised how many comedians only use ten percent of their tools. I tell stories. I need to use my face, body and eyes, too. The audience won’t know you from a hole in a wall, but you have to find a way to paint that picture. RV: Do you discuss onstage any of the recent issues regarding transgender rights that have been questioned by the Trump administration? JS: I do talk about the bathroom bill on my comedy album, but I’m not all that political on stage. I’m too lazy to keep writing the material every week. However, I do feel a responsibility to get my point across in a way that’s not going to get anyone’s hackles up. RV: Tell me about your album! JS: It’s called Hello Boys, I’m Back and it is on the Uproar Comedy label. You can get it all over…. Amazon, iTunes, Laughly, Target and I’ll sell them at the show.t Julia Scotti performs Oct 22, 7:30pm at Cobb’s Comedy Club, 915 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. 928-4320. juliascotti.com cobbscomedyclub.com
RV: You appeared as a contestant on America’s Got Talent. Was that a big turning point in your career? JS: Absolutely. AGT reached out to us and my manager at the time said, “Are you going to do it?” I didn’t know. I thought that they got dancing bears on the show, people setting themselves on fire and juggling their kids... I didn’t know if I fit in being old and transgendered. My manager said, “If you don’t do it, I swear to God, I will f---ing kill you.” RV: Well, it seems like it worked out for you. JS: Yes, it was life-changing. AGT was nothing but supportive. They were really terrific. RV: Did anybody at America’s Got Talent know that you were transgendered before you made your appearance?
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Jaw-dropping queer fashion show and party, with designers Bryce Rider, Bruce Beaudette. Jacob Perkins and Salamander, with dance and drag and Larissa and Llano, and other talents. Donations support Comfort & Joy arts grants. 7pm10pm. 518 Castro St. playajoy.org
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Live music, food, beers, treats, pumpkins galore, with proceeds going to fire victims. 10am-4pm. Also Oct. 22. 235 Arnold Drive, Sonoma. cornerstonesonoma.com
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Thu 19 After-Hours Social @ Dog Eared Books Enjoy witchy treats, booze, Tarot readings, a scavenger hunt and fun! $10. 10pm-12am. 489 Castro St. dogearedbooks.com
Butch Lesbians of the 20s, 30s and 40s Coloring Book @ GLBT History Museum Book party for the new book from Stacked Deck Press. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org
Classic & New Films @ Castro Theatre Oct. 19: Under the Skin (7pm) and Enter the Void (9:05). Oct. 20 : The Old Dark House (7:30) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (8:55). Oct. 21: Margaret Cho (pm & 9:30pm). Oct. 22: author Rupi Kaur (2pm). Oct. 22: Suspiria (7pm) and Phantom of the Paradise (8:55). Oct. 23: House of Horrors (6:30), The Spiritualist (7:50) and The Soul of a Monster (9:20). Oct. 24: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! … Kill! (7pm) and Female Trouble (8:40). Oct. 25: Touch of Evil (2:30, 7pm) and The Trial (4:40, 9:05). Oct. 26: Aliens (7pm) and Near Dark (9:30). 429 Castro St. castrotheatre.com
The Commons Block Party @ Civic Center Large outdoor event with three stages, food trucks, beer gardens, roller-skating and all-ages activities. 5pm-9pm. civiccenter.commons.org
The Mineola Twins @ The Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theater’s production of Paula Vogel’s satire about the women’s movement and the rise of conservatism. $15-$45. Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Oct. 29. 277 Taylor St. cuttingball.com
Our Future Ends @ CounterPulse Clement Hill Goldberg’s bittersweet satire blends wildlife/extinction and queer/gentrification themes with lemur puppets, stop motion animation and choreography. $20-$35. Artists talks with Honey Mahogany Oct. 19, closing reception Oct. 21. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 21. 80 Turk St. www.counterpulse.org
SF Dance Film Festival @ Brava Theater 8th annual screening of local artists’ dance films; workshops and panels, too. $25- $125 (full pass). 7:30pm. Thru Oct. 22. 2781 24th St. sfdancefilmfest.org
Small Mouth Sounds @ Strand Theatre American Conservatory Theatre presents Bess Wohl’s acclaimed OffBroadway comedy about the wellness industry and spiritual gurus, set in a woodsy retreat center. $14-$90. Tue-Sat 7:30pm. Wed & Sat 2pm. Thru Dec. 10. 1127 Market St. act-sf.org
Fri 20 Ain’t Misbehavin’ @ Gateway Theatre The rollicking Fats Waller musical revue is performed by 42nd Street Moon’s ensemble. $15-$35. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 29. 215 Jackson St. www.42ndStMoon.org
Naka Dance Theater @ Joe Goode Annex José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama’s new work, Buscarete (Searching for You), with sound by Adria Otte, focuses on people afflicted by forced exodus or extermination by repressive governments. $20. 8pm. Also Oct. 21. 499 Alabama St. joegoode.org
Remembrance and Resistance: Dia De Los Muertos @ SOMArts Cultural Center 18th annual Day of the Dead exhibit, with 25+ installations and multimedia works by more than 60 participating artists. $12-$15. Reg hours Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 11am-5pm. Sun 11am3pm. Thru Nov. 9. www.somarts.org
This Bitter Earth @ NCTC World premiere of Harrison David Rivers’ commissioned drama about an interracial gay couple, and political and racial tensions in modern America. $25-$50. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 22. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. nctcsf.org
Sat 21 The Aulos Ensemble @ St. John’s, St. Marks The music quintet performs Handel and his World, a program of early music. $15-$30. 7:30pm, St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave., Berkeley. Oct, 22, 4pm, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell St. www.sfems.org
Economic Justice Month @ LGBT Center Workshops and panels addressing poverty and marginalization in the Bay Area and beyond. Oct. 21: LGBTQ Financial Planning Day, 10am-2pm, at 1800 Market St. Oct. 26: LGBTQ Career Fair, 1pm-4pm at Linked In 222 2nd St. sfcenter.org
The Kipling Hotel @ The Marsh, Berkeley Don Reed’s acclaimed solo show about being the son of a pimp struggling through his college days. $20-$100. Sat & Sun 5pm, thru Oct. 22. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org
Mission Murals @ JCCSF Art, Politics and Community Preservation, a new exhibition of the work of local mural artists. Thru Jan. 2018. 3200 California St. jccsf.org
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14th annual two-week horror, scifi and fantasy indie film festival. $15 (single ticket) $149 (festival pass). Thru Nov 8. 1746 Post St. ahith.com
Perfectly Queer @ Nomandic Press, Oakland Readings by LGBT authors Kwan Booth, Helen Klonaris and more. 7pm. 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. nomadicpress.org
Stitch Fetish SF @ Center for Sex & Culture Group exhibit of kink-themed works in crotchet, stitch, embroidered and fabric art. Thru Dec. 2. 1349 Mission St. sexandculture.org
Trans Jews Writing Workshop @ Qulture Collective Explore identity and story with individual and collaborative writing exercises. 7pm. 1714 Franklin St. keshetonline.org
The East Bay disabled-inclusive innovative dance company premieres new works by new Artistic Director Marc Brew, Mik Nawooj, and restagings of Amy Seiwert’s The Reflective Surface and Stephen Petronio’s 2001 Secret Ponies. $20$30. 7:30pm. Thru Oct. 29. 1428 Alice St., Oakland. axisdance.org
The Rocky Horror Show @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre Company revives their hit adaptation of the fun Richard O’Brien musical, starring D’Arcy Drollinger as Frank N. Furter. $30-$40. Tue-Sat 8pm (some 7pm & 11pm shows). Thru Nov. 4. 2961 16th St. rayoflighttheatre.com To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.
Sister Act @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley The rousing musical based on the popular film about singing nuns gets a local production by Berkeley Playhouse. $22-$40. Thru Oct. 22. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. berkeleyplayhouse.org
Sun 22 Aaron Shurin @ The Green Arcade The local gay poet reads from and discusses his new book, Flowers & Sky: Two Talks. 6pm. 1680 Market St. thegreenarcade.com
Name Project AIDS Memorial Quilt @ Grace Cathedral Exhibit commemorating the 30th anniversary of the massive quilt project, with 29 panels on display. Thru Dec. 1 (AIDS day rededication and interfatih ceremony, 7:30pm). 1100 California St. gracecathedral.org
Passport @ Middle Polk Ninth annual art-collecting experience where patrons visit different venues, get ‘stamps’ from various artists, this year in the middle Polk district. $25-$125. 12pm-4pm. sfartscommission.org
Tue 24 Christian Cagigal @ Tenderloin Museum The charming magician and storyteller presents The Spooky, Strange, and Magical History of San Francisco. $10. 7pm. 398 Eddy St. tenderloinmuseum.org
Derriere Le Mirior @ Jules Maeght Gallery Group exhibition of covers from the historic French art magazine, including prints by Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti and others. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm. Thru Jan 15. 149 Gough St. julesmaeghtgallery.com
Various Events @ Oakland LGBTQ Center Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops. Bruthas Rising, trans men of color meetings, 4th Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Film screenings, 4th Saturdays, 7:30pm. Game nights, Fridays 7:30pm-11pm. Vogue sessions, first Saturdays. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. oaklandlgbtqcenter.org
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ow does one keep up with the onslaught of annual galas in the month of October? By reading this column, of course! Positive Resource Center, having recently merged with AIDS Emergency Fund and Baker Place, stepped up to the plate with their first full-fledged annual gala, Mighty Real, at the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday, October 6. Guests started with cocktails and a silent auction in a spacious room with outdoor balcony and sweeping views of the City, where we chatted with State Assemblyman David Chiu and the Honorable Mark Leno. Once inside the ballroom, hundreds of attendees, including Susan Fahey, Jacques Michaels, Demetri Moshoyannis & Joshua Sparks, Beth Feingold, and Jonathan Foulk, found their seats for a gourmet meal and engaging program, emceed by LGBT pioneer Ken Jones and media star and past Pride President Michelle Meow. Board of Directors President Kent Roger gave opening remarks, followed by new Chief Development Officer Gayle Roberts, who accepted a generous check from Lazy Bear Fund presented by David Barker. Longtime community activist Tom Nolan received the Vanguard Leadership Award and Gilead Sciences received the Keystone Service Award. As dinner proceeded, Chief Executive Officer Brett Andrews, obviously beaming with pride at PRC’s 30 years of work and his 12 years at its helm, gave an inspiring over-view of the current organization, ending with a moving video featuring staff and clients. We then joined Gary Virginia, fellow Advisory Board member, for a spirited live auction of two incred-
ible travel packages and PRC’s firstever “fund-a-need” auction, yielding thousands of dollars for the ongoing work of the combined agencies. We stood in amazement at the generosity of this supportive crowd! The program ended with an exhilarating climax as Broadway star Sheryl Lee Ralph accepted the Sylvester Community Pillar Award with grace, drama, and style, once again demonstrating the qualities of a true diva! Dancing and celebrating continued into the night. As the jets of Fleet Week roared overhead, we joined Anne Kronenberg of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management on Saturday in Duboce Park for a demonstration by the skilled service dogs of the Sheriff’s Department, Police Department, Fire Department, and Marines. Around a fenced area, a crowd gathered to witness the amazing talents of these canines in searching, protecting, and apprehending. Representatives from Rocket Dog Rescue, Canine Companions, and others were on hand as well. Afterwards, we distributed free dog toys and treats to the delighted children. This is the second year for this special event associated with Fleet Week, one that we can easily support right in our own backyard. That night, Horizons Foundation returned to the Fairmont Hotel for their annual gala, always one of the most glamorous and genuinely inspirational of the season. Our regular date for this event, Chris Carnes, was out of town, but we joined handsome Chris Edwards for the cocktail hour as hundreds of Horizon supporters jockeyed for photos. We were soon swarmed by friends, including Deb Stallings,
1. Newly crowned Mr. Gay San Francisco Cesar Ayala and Miss Gay San Francisco Ruby Red Munro at the Imperial Council contest, held at The Arc. 2. SF Mayoral candidate Mark Leno (left) at the annual Celebrity Pool Toss, held at the Phoenix Hotel. 3. Cleve Jones (holding check) Juanita More! and other contributors to the #NoHateSF march and fundraiser, at the Horizons Foundation gala, held at the Fairmont Hotel. 4. Several Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Cleve Jones, Jeff Cotter, and Donna Sachet outside The Edge, along their bar-hopping fundraiser for the Rainbow World Fund. 5.GLBT Historical Society museum volunteer extraordinaire Elizabeth Cornu, awardee Darlene deManincor, co-MC Alex U. Inn, and awardee Emily Rosenberg at the Living Colors gala, held at the Green Room.
Daniel Sonnenfeld & Dave Hendrickson, Bob Dockendorff, Jeff Lewy & Ed Eishen, Jewelle Gomez & Diane Sabin, Ira Hirschfield & Tom Hansen, Ray McKenzie, Linda Scaparotti, and Juanita More! Joining us at dinner were Nguyen “Win” Pham and Jonas Olsson, as The Singing Bois provided musical accompaniment on stage. Board of Directors Chair Richard DavisLowell welcomed the crowd, the Transgender Law Center received the Leadership Award, and Cleve Jones received the Visionary Award with a rallying speech, joined on stage by a rainbow of supporters. Horizons President Roger Doughty outlined recent activities and shared his vision for the future, after which Adam Blum and Olga Talamante challenged the room to make donations. With such a sumptuous setting as the Fairmont Hotel and such a wide-ranging mission as that of Horizons, it was easy to get caught up in the excitement of the night with generous contributions. One of our favorite quirky San Francisco events is the annual Celebrity Pool Toss, benefiting the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation that provides affordable homes and services to thousands each year. The 25th annual event was chaired once again by Laura King Pfaff and Jim Losi with co-hosts Brian Copeland and Nikki Medoro. The concept is hilarious, as prominent individuals from various fields offer themselves up to be tossed into the pool at the Phoenix Hotel, but not before tremendous bids are gathered, usually totaling in the tens of thousands of dollars. As always, the bids are directly tied to the individuals and sometimes the
companies they represent. This year’s bidding was phenomenal, especially for Chip Conley, the co-chairs mentioned above, a group of women from Pixar, and the Honorable Mark Leno. We had the pleasure of emceeing with Lenny Broberg the portion that included Mark, who came prepared with costume, props, and backstory, memorably spoofing a certain national elected official fond of bombast and hyperbole. Other emcees included Tony Bravo of The San Francisco Chronicle and Cheryl Jennings of ABC7/ KGO-TV. Bud E. Love and his band provided lively music, buffed athletes from Fitness SF provided pool safety monitors, and a huge video screen made the proceedings visible to all. That same night, Cleve Jones celebrated his birthday by soliciting the support of five drag queens to help him raise money on National Coming Out Day for Rainbow World Fund to help the many victims of recent natural disasters. Juanita More!, Sister Roma, Mercedez Munro, BeBe Sweetbriar, and this humble columnist joined Cleve at The Mix to gather donations there and during a subsequent bar crawl through the Castro. Within a few hours, over $10,000 was raised and Jeff Cotter of Rainbow World Fund will put it to immediate use in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. There are many ways to commemorate a birthday; thank you to all involved in this spontaneous generosity! Saturday night, the GLBT Historical Society hosted Living Colors, chaired by Mark Bieschke and Alex U. Inn at The Green Room of the War Memorial Building. Guests first enjoyed cocktails on the scenic balcony facing City Hall and bid on rare historical silent auction items, as Keith Lawrence serenaded us on the viola.
Then, Honey Mahogany gracefully emceed the program, Breanna Sinclaire beautifully sang several operatic arias, and Amy Sueyoshi, Emily Rosenberg, and Darlene deManincor received awards. The peak of the evening was recognition by Mark Leno and Jerome Goldstein & Tommy Taylor of the late Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag, truly an international symbol and rallying point for our LGBTQ Community. Among those celebrating that night were Shaun Haines, Cammy Blackstone, Larry Lare Nelson, Gerard Koskovich, Loras Ojeda, and the Society’s new Development Director, Sean Greene. We encourage you to look into their plans for a full-fledged museum facility, much larger than the current 18th Street location, and to support their fundraising efforts generously. Afterwards, we adjourned to The Powerhouse for sexy Steven Satyricon’s birthday, an event too vivid to bear detailed description in this column. Suffice it to say, a good time was had by all. Believe it or not, we finally ended this barrage of activities at the Imperial Court’s Mr. and Miss Gay Pageant Sunday night at The Arc, ably emceed by Emperor John Paul Soto and Empress Chika. Mr. Gay Jethro Patalinghug and Miss Gay Piper McGroin hosted one of the most entertaining pageants in recent memory with solo performances, group numbers, music, politics, and humor, as three competed for the Mr. Gay title and two for the Miss Gay title. It seemed as if every Imperial within a fifty-mile radius gathered for this engaging evening, all regally welcomed by Reigning Emperor Nic Hunter and Reigning Empress Mercedez Munro. Contestants Khalil Riley, Andrew Hirst, Cesar Ayala, Ming Munro, and Ruby Red Munro each brought unique talents and viewpoints to the competition and judges Lady Herman, BeBe Sweetbriar, Patrice Samek, Emperor David of Reno, Empress Khmera Rouge, and this columnist had no easy task. After a thoroughly entertaining and nailbiting competition, the winners emerged… Mr. Gay San Francisco Cesar Ayala and Miss Gay San Francisco Ruby Red Munro! (See more photos in Shining Stars on page 35.) And so, a record-breaking parade of events comes to an end, once again reminding us of how lucky we are to live in this amazing San Francisco, where around every corner lies an eye-popping experience, many of which are covered in detail right here every two weeks in On the Town with Donna Sachet in the Bay Area Reporter.t
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Brogan Reed @ Nob Hill Theatre
Vibe Fridays @ Club BnB, Oakland
Steamy Speakeasy @ Center for Sex & Culture
Porn stud Brogan Reed performs solo shows (8pm) and duo sex shows withn David Emblem (10pm) at the historic strip club. $25. Also Sat 21. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.com
House music and cocktails, with DJs Shareef Raheim-Jihad and Ellis Lindsey. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. club-bnb.com
Leather Soles & DNO-SF host a pre-Halloween costume party with a steampunk scifi theme ($50 best costume prize), electro, swing, tango and other DJed music. Cash bar; deaf-friendly heavy beats. 7pm dance lessons, 8pm-12am ball. $10-$30. 1349 Mission St. steamyspeakeasy.eventbrite.com
Dancing Ghosts @ Cat Club Classic horror night with spooky goth grooves; monster movies on screens, classic horror costumes encouraged; DJs Xander, Tomas Diablo, Omega and Chat Noir. $5-$8. 9:30pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. sfcatclub.com
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Sun 22 Liam Ocean, one of the hunky Mr. Int’l Freedom contestants @ DNA Lounge
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utumnal offerings abound, and with Halloween just around the corner, orange is the new pumpkin spice. Attend some of the many benefits for Sonoma and Napa fire victims, don a face mask and dance through the smoke.
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Thu 19 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Live! @ Oasis D'Arcy Drollinger presents Michael Phillis starring in the return of the campy parody of the vampire-hunting high school student and her pals. $25-$35 ($200 VIP tables, too). Thu 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Oct. 31. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com
Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Porn stud Brogan Reed leads the very interactive sex play party (before his Oct 20 & 21 stage shows). $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com
Comedy Returns @ El Rio The monthly comedy night with a queer edge features Nate Blanchard, Dom Gelin, Jill Maragos, Chelsea Eiben and host Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. elriosf.com
The Dong Show @ Oasis New monthly show with drag kings, host Fudgie Frottage and DJ Tweaka Turner. 10pm. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com
Fred Armisen @ Great American Music Hall The wry comic actor/writer performs his new show for a Netflix taping. $35-$40. 8pm. Also Oct. 20. 859 O'Farrell st. www.slimspresents.com
Gala Under Glass @ Conservatory of Flowers The Dracula Ball celebrates Halloween and the new alluring Dracula orchids (6:30pm, $350-$500). Gaslamp Fantasy After-Party designed by Daybreaker’s Mustafa Khan and Carina Hisser of Entire Productions, featuring Justin Martin of Dirtybird, live music by Tumbledown House and Cello Joe (9:30pm-12am, $75). 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. conservatoryofflowers.org/dracula
Gay Vampire Sex Trivia @ The Stud Get a jump on queer bloodsucker knowledge at the game show party, with sex toy prizes from Good Vibrations. 7pm-10pm. 399 9th st. www.studsf.com
Hoe is Life @ The Stud Nikki Jizz and Fiera's hocus-pocus voodoo magic drag night, with DJs PopTart and Dakota Pendant. $5-$7. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com
The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood.edgesf.com
Nice Jewish Boys @ Evil Eye Keshet's monthly Happy Hour at different bars. 7pm. 2937 Mission St. https://www.keshetonline.org
Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol. 8pm. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com
Queer Latinx Social Club @ SF Eagle
Friday Nights at the Ho @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com
Brotherhood @ Powerhouse
Enjoy the weekly queer and LGBTfriendly live acoustic concerts. $5pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com
D.A.D. (Dudes and Disco) @ Driftwood
Glow @ Lone Star Saloon The glow-in-the-dark dance party takes on a Halloween theme, with tricks and treats. $5. 8pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com
Mark O'Brien, Kelly Naughton and Michael Romano spin grooves at the hot new monthly Dads & DILFsfriendly event. $5. 9pm-2am. 1225 Folsom St. driftwoodbarsf.com
Growlr @ SF Eagle
Gameboi @ Rickshaw Stop
Cruisy monthly bear & cub night. $5pm. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com
The popular monthly 'gaysian' and friends dance party. $8-$15. 9:30pm2am. 155 Fell St. rickshawstop.com
Hella Gay Comedy @ Club OMG
Lips and Lashes Brunch @ Lookout
Queer joke night, with host Nasty Ass Bitch. $15. 7pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com
Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. lookoutsf.com
Kathleen Turner @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The acclaimed stage and film actress performs her new cabaret show, Finding My Voice, at the elegant nightclub. $42-$80. ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Also Oct. 21. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko.com
Latin Explosion, Club Papi @ Club 21, Oakland
Rice Rockettes @ Lookout
Nightlight Disco @ The Stud Hard French and Studsters' benefit for Puerto Rico hurriance relief efforts, with DJs Brown Amy, John Fucking Cartwright, Steve Fabus and Siobhan Aluvalot; dragsters Spice Queers, Florida Man and others. $10 and up. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. studsf.com
The large-scale annual countrywestern two-stepping celebration features singer Ty Herndon and lots of dancing (see feature this issue); lessons, shows and open partner dancing. Thu-Sun at Space 550 (550 Barneveld Ave.), Golden Gateway Holiday Inn (1500 Van Ness Ave.), and the Regency Center (1300 Van Ness Ave.) $12-$60. stompede.com
Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud
Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge
The LA theatre gorup that brought you Pointbreak Live returns with their wacky stage adaptation of the bromantic air force film. $25 and up. 8pm & 10pm. 375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com
Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com
Juanita MORE! and crew's monthly eclectic queer, butch drag hunk night celebrates their 7th anniversary! $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com
Friday Night Live @ El Rio
Monthly event, with Latin music. 5pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com
Sundance Stompede @ Various Venues
Beatpig @ Powerhouse
Early evening gathering with Bare Chest Calendar men; proceeds benefit Positive Resource Center. 7pm-10pm. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com
Hip Hop and Latin grooves event, with 3 dance floors, gogos, drag acts, and special retro DJed grooves. $10-$20. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com
Local and visiting Asian drag queens' weekly show with DJ Philip Grasso. $5. 10:30pm show. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com
Sat 21
The saucy women's burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux will titillate and tantalize. $10-$20. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre.144 Taylor St. redhotsburlesque.com studsf.com
Tom Gun Live @ DNA Lounge
Make Out Party @ SF Eagle Monthly smoochfest at the famed leather bar; DJs Robin Simmons and Elaine Denham $5 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com
Mixed Forms @ The Stud New hybrid night, with diverse music and people; DJs Clark Price, Ariel Zetina, Lily Ackermans and Arnold. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. studsf.com
Mother @ Oasis Heklina hosts the fun drag show with weekly themes. $15-$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com
The Playground @ Club BNB, Oakland Revamped night at the popular hip hop and Latin dance club. Oct. 14: live show with Siir Brock. $5-$15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com
Queer Fam @ The Stud SFLAGN's 3rd anniverary brings communities together; proceeds benefit Trans Lifeline. 3pm-8pm. $10-$15. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com
Reddroxx @ Lone Star Saloon Devilish grooves at the bear bar. 9pm2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com
William Sauerland @ Feinstein's at the Nikko
Charlie Jane Anders hosts the monthly literary night, this time with devorah major, Celeste Chan, Shawna Kenney, Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhee. $20. 7:30pm. 3225 22nd St. makeoutroom.com
Sun 22 Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada's fun drag night with Carnie's Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com
Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Carlitos. (Comedy Open Mic 5:30pm). 7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com
GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar's weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com
Mr. International Freedom Contest @ DNA Lounge Contest and fundraiser where a dozen Speedo-clad hunks representing countries worldwide compete for a crown. $20. Proceeds benefit the LGBT Asylum Project. 7pm-11pm. 375 11th St. dnalounge.com
Night Sweats @ The Stud Jerry Lee and Jill Reiter's night of raunchy rock & roll music and drag. 7pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com
Pinot on the River @ Healdsburg Plaza Winetasting event (21+), with proceeds going to Boys/Girls Clubs of Sonoma, and Napa/Sonoma fire relief efforts. $75-$90. 12pm-4pm. Healdsburg Ave & Matheson St, Healdsburg. bgccsc.org/events/pinot
¿Puedo Ayudar? @ Midnight Sun Dulce De Leche and Mutha Chucka's fundraiser for Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Virgin Islands disaster relief efforts; drag show, beer bust, gogos, raffle prizes. 4pm-7pm. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com
Revel @ SF Eagle Fey fun monthly fundraiser for Groundswell Institute. $10. 7pm12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com
Solange @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley
Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland
Ain't Mama's Drag @ Balancoire
The singer-pianist's solo cabaret concert with his original songs, composed with the late lyricist Fran Landesman. $30-$50. 8pm. Also Oct. 21. 562 Sutter St. societycabaret.com
Writers With Drinks @ the Make Out Room
Mon 23
Fri 20
Barry Lloyd @ Hotel Rex
Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club, with DJs Gay Marvine, Taco Tuesday and Matthew XO. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com
The soulful pop singer performs at the scenic outdoor ampitheatre; Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt and Chassol open. $49.50. 6pm. Also Oct. 22, 5pm. 2001 Gayley Road, UC Berkeley campus. apeconcerts.com
The conductor of the Oakland/East Bay Gay Men's Chrous performs his unique tribute to Julie Andrews. $14$35 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko.com
Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted by Cruzin d'Loo. 8pm10pm. No cover. 2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com
Sugar @ The Cafe
Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. whitehorsebar.com
Sun 22 Dulce De Leche and Mutha Chucka’s ¿Puedo Ayudar? @ Midnight Sun
Happy Hour @ The Cinch Happy hour at the historic neighborhood bar. 5pm-8pm. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com
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Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with host Beth Bicoastal, prizes, local celeb judges, and $2 draft beer. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com
Komedy Kiki @ The Stud Jesus U. Bettawork and Justin Lucas' monthly queer comedy show, with Morgan. $5. 8:30pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com
Hysteria Comedy @ Martuni's
Po Hoe @ Powerhouse
Open mic for women and queer comics, with host Irene Tu. 6pm-8pm. 4 Valencia St.
Thu 26
Nikki Jizz offers cheap drinks and cheaper men. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com
Karaoke Night @ The Stud
Peaches Christ hosts Stranger Queens @ Cal. Academy of Sciences
Whitehorse @ Café Du Nord
Sing Till It Hurts with hostess Sister Flora; 2 for 1 happy hour, no cover. 8pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com
Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre
Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's
Strip down with the strippers at the clothing-optional night. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com
Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht. 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.
Una Noche @ Club BnB, Oakland
Spanglish @ Club OMG Spanish and English drag shows and dance music with DJ Carlitos. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com
Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men's night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com
Tue 24 Game Night, AHS @ SF Eagle Board games, card games and cheap beer. 4pm-2am, plus weekly viewings of American Horror Story: Cult (8-11pm). 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com
Hella Saucy @ Q Bar Queer dance party at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com
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Thu 26 Eek! Hush Hush, Thursday Addams @ The Stud Monthly experimental music/ performance show. $5. 7pm-10pm. Followed by Trangela Lansbury and friends' "Hollow Eve" spooky dragathon. $5. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com
Vicky Jimenez' drag show; Latin music all night. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com
Underwear Night @ Club OMG Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials. $4. 10pm-2am. Preceded by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com
Comedy Showcase @ SF Eagle
Wed 25
Divas Unleashed @ Club BnB, Oakland
Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games, win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. HiTopsSF.com
B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay's weekly queer women and men's R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club's new location. No cover. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. bench-and-bar.com
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Kollin Holtz hosts the open mic comedy night. 5:30pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com
Dame Viva Commotion and Princess Monet Sparkles cohost a night of preHalloween drag acts; costume contest for the Queen of the damned theme, with cash prizes; DJ Erika Kayne. $7. 9:30pm. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. club-bnb.com
Girl Scout @ Port Bar, Oakland The weekly women's happy hour and dance night with DJ Becky Knox. 6pm10pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com
Harvest Feast @ The Green Room
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The psychedelic-surf-pop husband and wife duo perform; Steven Denmark opens. $12. 8:30pm. 2174 Market St. swedishamericanhall.com
Castro Country Club, the sober LGBT space, celebrates autumn with their 8th annual delicious seated dinner and fundraiser "There's No Place Like Home," with an Oz, Wicked, The Wiz theme (costumes encouraged); hosts and performers include Miss Castro
Country Club MGM Grande, Sister Roma, Alotta Boutte, Lenny Broberg (live auction), and food and drinks by JJardine Catering. $150-$200. 6pm-9:30pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. castrocountryclub.org
Jason Brock @ Martuni's
Meg Mackay, Billy Philadelphia @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The charming cabaret duo perform classics songs. $17.50-$40. ($20 food/ drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko.com
A Night of Evil @ Lone Star Saloon
The stellar singer returns to the intimate martini bar for a Halloweenthemed concert, with Dee Spencer and the Coker Sisters. $20. 7pm. Also Oct. 28 & 29. 4 Valencia St. bit.ly/2xMf09F
Hard rock, goth and extreme metal grooves at the popular bear bar. 9pm2am. 1354 Harrison St. lonestarsf.com
Juicy @ Club OMG
Peaches Christ hosts the '80s-themed Halloween party with a massive drag show and costume contest; DJ Omar, exhibit tours, including on the roof. $17-$20. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. calacademy.org
Weekly women's event at the Midmarket nightclub, with DJ Micah Tron. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.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. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com
Pan Dulce @ Beaux The hot weekly Latin dance night with sexy gogo guys, drag divas and more, with Club Papi's Frisco Robbie and Fabian Torres. $7. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com
Stranger Queens @ Cal. Academy of Sciences
Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. whitehorsebar.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event.
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