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Castro awaits spooktacular Halloween

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s it once again provides in-person services, San Francisco’s main LGBTQ youth agency has welcomed onboard its new executive director. While Laura Lala-Chávez doesn’t expect to roll out new programming until next year, addressing the housing needs of the city’s homeless queer youth is expected to remain among the agency’s top priorities.

Lala-Chávez, a nonbinary, first generation Mexican-American, officially took over leadership of the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center Monday, October 25.

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alloween is a day that has held a special significance for San Francisco’s LGBTQ community going back decades; but this year’s is likely to be more noteworthy. Not only does the holiday fall during a weekend, it is expected to draw the most Halloween revelers since the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the Bay Area Reporter reported last October, community leaders asked people to stay home for Halloween. In a joint statement, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Masood Samereie, a straight ally who is the president of the Castro Merchants Association, wrote that while “celebrating Halloween in the Castro is a tradition that dates to the 1940s … this year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we must put the health of our communities first.”

What a difference a year makes. Nik Blanchet, the community liaison for the Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R. that “we absolutely want people to visit the Castro on Halloween weekend to celebrate the holiday and patronize our local small businesses in a safe and responsible manner.”

“While there are no planned street closures, celebrants will find plenty of ways to enjoy Halloween all weekend long, including dining, shopping, and nightlife,” Blanchet stated. “To put it mildly, Halloween participants in the Castro do not hold back when it comes to costume creativity and serving those lewks, so it makes for some

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Costumed revelers partied in the Castro on Halloween in 2019.

amazing people-watching for everyone to enjoy.”

Mandelman wrote to the B.A.R. that he hopes people will have safe fun.

“Celebrating Halloween in the Castro is a San Francisco tradition,” Mandelman stated. “We know that people are excited to dress up and have a good time in the Castro’s bars and restaurants this weekend, and I hope that everyone will enjoy themselves in ways that are COVID-safe and respectful of the neighborhood.”

Terry Asten Bennett, a straight ally who is the co-owner and general manager of Cliff’s Variety on Castro Street, told the B.A.R. that while Halloween-related sales were “not as much as [in] 2019,” it was “double last year.”

“Things are definitely picking up” as the holiday gets closer, Bennett said. “Except for Sunday [October 24], which was obviously its own anomaly.”

October 24’s “atmospheric river” caused the fourth-wettest day in the recorded history of San Francisco (and the wettest since 1994). The city saw 4.02 inches of rain, and as of the afternoon of October 26 there are still some 12,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the Bay Area without power.

Fortunately for revelers, this weekend, including All Hallow’s Eve, is expected to be dry. October 31 will be partly cloudy with a high of 59 degrees and a low of 51 degrees, according to the weather forecast.

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More intimate Harvey Milk portrait awaits SFO international travelers

by Matthew S. Bajko

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Supervisor Matt Haney spoke at Tuesday’s board meeting.

Supes OK resolution urging drug overdose emergency

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istrict 6 Supervisor Matt Haney’s resolution calling upon San Francisco Mayor London Breed to declare a state of emergency around the city’s drug overdose crisis passed the Board of Supervisors unanimously October 26.

Haney represents District 6, which includes the overdose hotspots of the Tenderloin and South of Market. (He is also running for the state Assembly seat that will soon be vacated when See page 9 >>

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n Election Night, November 7, 1978, Associated Press photographer Slava “Sal” Veder captured the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk huddled with local LGBTQ advocates Gwenn Craig and the late Bill Kraus as they waited to see if California voters had defeated a homophobic ballot measure.

Craig and Kraus co-led the local committee that worked with Milk to defeat what was known as Proposition 6, which would have banned gays and lesbians and their straight allies from working as public school teachers in the Golden State.

A “No on 6” poster featuring the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the background of the blackand-white snapshot, taken just weeks prior to Milk being assassinated inside San Francisco City Hall a mere 11 months into his historic term as the first openly gay elected politician in the city and in the state of California. The image was one of the 100 photos, correspondence, and campaign materials related to Milk’s life chosen for a massive retrospective about the LGBTQ icon that for two years had adorned the Harvey Milk Terminal 1 concourse at San Francisco International Airport.

The installation was removed in the spring when more of the under-renovation aviation facility was unveiled for use by travelers, airlines, and concessioners inside the terminal. Initially

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The corridor leading to the customs area at San Francisco International Airport’s Harvey Milk Terminal 1 is lined with photos and enlarged campaign posters about his life.

affixed to a 400-foot construction wall meant to be ephemeral, the Milk exhibition has now been reworked into a more intimate portrait of the beloved gay leader by SFO Museum staff.

Roughly 70 of the images used in the terminal exhibition have been repurposed for a new exhibit about Milk’s life located on walls totaling 1,070 linear feet along what is known as the Federal Inspection Services Corridor.

Built atop the Milk terminal concourse, the corridor ferries passengers disembarking from international flights assigned to one of

seven gates at what is known as the A side of SFO’s International Terminal.

The photo of Milk, Craig, and Kraus has been mounted toward the end of the corridor near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s passport control area. Technically speaking, the corridor isn’t U.S. territory, as the federal government doesn’t consider passengers to have officially arrived in the United States until after they have cleared customs.

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Staten Island museum throws open Austen’s closet door

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t’s been a long time coming, but officials at the Alice Austen House on New York’s Staten Island have thrown open the closet door, now fully embracing the lesbian pioneer and photographer who lived in the house with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate.

Since the Bay Area Reporter’s initial story on the small museum in 2016, the Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, has been designated a National LGBT Historic Site and was awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Both of those occurred in 2017 and began the process to more fully depict Austen’s life as a lesbian.

Historians used the NEH grant to reinterpret Austen’s story to more fully include Tate.

The house sits along New York Harbor near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The museum grounds also include a rainbow flag joining the U.S., New York City, and other flags on the front lawn flagpole, and it hosted several LGBTQ events for Pride Month in June.

Open during the COVID-19 pandemic by appointment, the museum’s interior has been completely redone, noted Victoria Munro, who became executive director in December 2017.

“The big challenge when I started [was] we were at the beginning of the journey,” Munro, 45, told the Bay Area Reporter during a recent Zoom call. “We were fully accepting of the new interpretation but no work had been done, so I had to spearhead that project.”

That meant immediately raising $150,000 in matching funds, she explained.

“It wasn’t enough to get the [historic] designation and be applauded for it,” Munro said. “The purpose of a museum is to provide access. There were only 20 photos on display before the renovation. Now, there are 150 photos and the text is an accessible size.”

Munro, a lesbian originally from New Zealand, has a history in curation as an artist and trained educator.

She wrote all of the text for the new permanent installation. The rooms in the house that are open to the public have been painted white, which brightens up the interior considerably.

And many items have been removed.

“The dining room was full of furniture – none of which was Alice’s,” Munro said.

Austen, who was born March 17, 1866, was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. And while she lived a life of privilege until her later years, she took

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Gertrude Tate, second from left wearing white shirt and bow tie, and Alice Austen, third from left, seated, wearing white shirt and bow tie, enjoyed a trip to the Catskills in 1899. Austen made the photo album for Tate.

many photographs of working-class people as well as women. She likely did not call herself a lesbian, Munro and other historians have said, but the LGBTQ community has long celebrated her.

“The big question, as it relates to LGBTQ History Month, is why don’t more people know about Alice Austen?” Munro asked. “Daily, it’s part of my work – Alice coming out of the closet.”

Munro said that there was some fear about “calling Alice a lesbian and there was some resentment at the board level.”

“I said that it adds a lot of understanding to her work,” Munro recalled. “A lot of her photographs were taken through a queer lens. She didn’t mean them for public consumption but we’re lucky to have them.”

Some of the photos are of Victorian women’s social lives outside of formal studio portraits, Munro explained.

“Alice was making portraits of strong women with bold gazes. She has a specific style that runs through her work,” said Munro.

Munro said that there are myths that surround Austen.

“Talking about her, Alice Austen had clear ambitions to be a professional photographer, and many people claim that because she made no money, she wasn’t professional,” Munro said. “Not true. She did make money.”

Board changes

Deborah Hernandez, an ally who is vice president of the museum’s executive board, lives on Staten Island and has long known of the Alice Austen House.

“I was always curious about the house,” she told the B.A.R. in a recent phone interview. “I knew a little about

Alice, a photographer documenting immigrants and their stories.”

Hernandez, 57, teaches at the Fashion Institute in New York City and specializes in textiles. She became a museum board member in 2018 at the urging of another board member who took a class of hers. She praised Munro’s tenure and what she’s accomplished.

“I’ve seen it evolve with better storytelling and to see her relationship with Gertrude,” Hernandez said of the museum, adding that Austen “liked regular people.”

“She photographed regular people,” Hernandez said. “And she was brave and strong, carrying 50 pounds of equipment, getting in a boat, and going around. I’m sure people were cruel but she just kept on and, I think, started to pave the path for inclusion and equality.”

Hernandez said the board is committed to that equitable storytelling.

“It’s a big deal,” she said. “I feel the board is maturing in that way. We have some younger people on the board now.”

Hernandez added that the board make-up – there are 13 members – has changed as it is now more diverse.

Hernandez herself is of Puerto Rican, Italian and German descent, she said. It’s coming up with fundraising strategies and how to engage people in a safe way during the COVID-19 pandemic. Right now, Alice Austen House is open for visitors by appointment only. And, like other museums in New York City, people need to be vaccinated, except children under 12.

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Munro and Hernandez both said that future plans involve more people getting to know about Austen. That’s

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The Alice Austen House is located on Staten Island and boasts a lovely front lawn area.

not always easy on Staten Island, the most conservative of New York City’s five boroughs. Already, Munro said, school students have visited the museum (pre-pandemic) and Austen is referred to as a lesbian.

“The kids have no issue,” she said.

“It’s the teachers that give you a look sometimes.”

The Alice Austen House’s budget is $500,000, Munro said. It employs three full-time staff and seven parttime workers.

“The ceiling’s pretty low for our pay and it’s hard to get money for operations,” she noted. Her salary is $77,000.

But the museum recently got a $49,000 planning grant (over two years) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Munro said that education is the key to changing people’s minds, no matter why people come to the museum.

“If you come to Alice Austen House and to a water ecology project, it’s queer because we’re a nationally designated site – the house and the park.

“We’re involved in ways to interpret the outdoors now,” she added. “Queer ecologies and how landscape and plantings better reflect who Alice was.”

Munro also said a plan of hers is to create an LGBTQ youth advisory board.

“Students could potentially work at Alice Austen house or intern,” she said.

Sad end to Austen’s life

Austen’s life ended sadly, as the B.A.R. recounted in the 2016 article. Austen mostly lived off her inheritance and money from some photographs she sold.

She and Tate opened a tea room on the lawn of the house, but it never generated enough income. From there, Austen mortgaged and remortgaged Clear Comfort.

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One of Alice Austen’s cameras is now on display at the Alice Austen House.

“Austen’s wealth was lost in the stock market crash of 1929 and she and Tate were finally evicted from their beloved home in 1945,” the museum’s website (https://aliceausten. org/) states. “Tate and Austen were separated by family rejection of their relationship and poverty. Austen was moved to the Staten Island Farm Colony where Tate would visit her weekly. In 1951, Austen’s photographs were rediscovered by historian Oliver Jensen and money was raised by the publication of her photographs to place Austen in private nursing home care. On June 9, 1952 Austen passed away. The final wishes of Austen and Tate to be buried together were denied by their families.”

Austen was 86 when she died.

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Biden’s FCC pick deserves quick confirmation O n Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that he intends to nominate Gigi Sohn to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Communications Commission. If Sohn is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would be the first openly LGBTQ FCC commissioner. She is well qualified for the post, and is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable, and democratic communications networks, according to a White House news release. For over 30 years, the release noted, Sohn has worked to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open, and protective of user privacy. In addition to Sohn, Biden nominated Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the FCC. If confirmed, she would be the first woman to chair the panel. (She has been serving as acting chair and has been on the FCC since 2012.) These are both historic nominations and bode well for consumers and privacy advocates.

Sohn is no stranger to the FCC and that should be a benefit in her confirmation hearings. From 2013-2016, she served as counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, and from 20012013 was co-founder and CEO of Public Knowledge, a leading communications and technology policy advocacy organization serving the interests of consumers. She was previously a project specialist in the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts and Culture unit and executive director of the Media Access Project, a communications public interest law firm. Sohn holds a B.S. in broadcasting and film, summa cum laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Currently, Sohn is a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton senior fellow and public advocate.

The FCC impacts all of us. It regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. terri-

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Gigi Sohn has been nominated to the Federal Communications Commission.

tories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.

According to NPR, Rosenworcel and Sohn are expected to push for returning to Obama-era net neutrality rules, which would prohibit internet providers from slowing internet speeds or blocking content. The agency also has the responsibility to set rules for everything from 5G technology to how much prisoners can be charged for phone calls. Rosenworcel has also worked to combat illegal robocalls, NPR noted in its article, though that is an ongoing issue, as anyone who has received unwanted calls to renew an expiring car warranty knows.

The LGBTQ Victory Institute, an arm of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, advocated for Sohn’s nomination through its presidential appointments initiative. According to a news release, it organized more than 30 LGBTQ organizations

to call for her nomination in a letter sent to the White House’s presidential personnel office.

Sohn is the latest high-level LGBTQ nominee in the Biden administration, which reports that 15% of its appointees identify as LGBTQ. Biden is adhering to his commitment to forming an administration that looks like America.

“Gigi is poised to make history as the first out LGBTQ commissioner at the FCC, but more important is that nobody is more qualified than her to tackle the breadth of issues the FCC faces in the near future,” stated Ruben Gonzales, executive director of the institute. “Not too long ago, appointing an LGBTQ person to such a key position would be considered a political liability. Yet the Biden administration is building the most LGBTQ-inclusive administration ever and is proving they can do it while appointing the best possible people for each position.”

Now it’s up to the Senate to swiftly confirm Sohn and Rosenworcel. The five-member FCC is currently deadlocked with two Republican and two Democratic commissioners. Additionally, Rosenworcel’s present term expires when the current session of Congress ends, as NPR reported. If the nominations are not acted upon, there may be a GOP majority. Democrats expressed frustration a month ago that Biden hadn’t nominated anyone to the vacant seat. Now, there are only a few more weeks before Congress adjourns at the end of the year.

The Senate should quickly hold confirmation hearings for Sohn and Rosenworcel and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) should set a vote. These nominations are too important to let slide. This is one more example of Biden working to undo policies put in place by his predecessor, and in this case, consumers will benefit from a Democratic-controlled FCC. Even those opposed to Biden should realize the importance of a fast internet and consumer protection policies.t

Beauty, complexity shape Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ experiences

by Rachel K. Cheng

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he joy of LGBTQ History Month is the opportunity to share the unique and diverse hxstories and experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ individuals and communities.

It is an increasingly globally-recognized celebration, and each year the calls for acceptance and respect of all LGBTQ folx gain further acceptance and respect. Central to LGBTQ History Month is the need for inclusiveness for all of the community, and I intend to feature a few among many moments this month when Asian and Pacific Islander stories have been part of the local and national conversation.

Asian and Pacific Islander experiences as part of the LGBTQ community are beautiful and complex. The abbreviation API is supposed to be inclusive of all races and ethnicities of the Asian and Pacific Islander category and is also potentially reductive of the very different challenges faced by individual groups. Our experiences do often share common threads, such as the importance of family in our coming outs and how our hxstories are often entwined with struggles for equal visibility, justice, and representation. We are not a monolith, and we have the right to have our unique voices, nuanced stories, and multifaceted hxstories told in our own words.

True diversity and inclusion may only be achieved when the heterogeneity of all API folx is acknowledged. This is not easy, as inclusivity requires commitment to the constantly changing political and social landscape as well as accommodating evolution in relevant language and terminology. Inclusivity requires active listening, specifically meeting folx on their own terms, critically engaging with their input, and making accommodations for their needs. A goal for all discussions of API LGBTQ hxstories should be to gain greater cultural competency, which will not only enable better understanding of our stories but also greater appreciation and acceptance.

This year, the opportunity to feature and bring together the multiplicity of voices and experiences from the API LGBTQ community has been taken up by community organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. There are many active organizations with the mission to uplift and empower our voices and increase our vis-

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ibility, including the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, or GAPA; Parivar Bay Area; Trikone; API Equality – Northern California, or APIENC; and Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Coalition, or APIQWTC. The role of these organizations, all of which have active in-person and online presence, is important because they are dedicated and safe spaces for API LGBTQ folx to find, connect, and build relationships with each other. We must feel that we are not alone and finding a place where our voices are heard and our words taken to heart build confidence to come out and to live proudly. This has special importance now as social justice campaigns to stop API hate are in the spotlight of national debate for human rights.

October is also Filipino American History Month, which celebrates the history of Filipino people in the United States from their first recorded presence in October 1587. Among other inspiring celebrations was the recent Echo Location: The Cultural Geopolitics in South of Market by the San Francisco Urban Film Fest in partnership with Filipino International Cine Festival and Bindlestiff Studio, which was at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. This exhibition centered “the experience of two historically margin-

alized groups essential to the heritage of SOMA: Filipinx and LGBTQIA+ communities,” and featured works of visual arts, film, and theatre.

Important in viewing the many works involved was the exhibition’s call to consider geographic and cultural changes and intersections as SOMA has evolved over the past decades.

Community events this month have had an additional function: spreading awareness and resources for combating COVID-19 as well as continued awareness and education for preventing and managing HIV/AIDS. As we continue to work together to prevent the spread of the COVID virus, many events have moved partially online via Zoom and other platforms to help keep everyone safe and accommodate individual needs. Isolation and misinformation have been the bane of our times, which makes our need for shared community and places of safety and trust ever greater. What we share in challenges, we may conquer by working together in a space of love and acceptance.

Our plethora of unique, joyous, complicated, tender, and hard experiences are meant to be shared in our voices and on our terms. For myself, this was my first LGBTQ History Month as a publically and proudly out nonbinary person. My hxstory is informed by my experiences, education, opportunities, failures, and triumphs. By meeting people like me in safe API spaces where I found myself represented both visually and intrinsically, I now feel like I belong as part of the multiplicity of LGBTQ identities. In this year and those that follow, the diverse hxstories of API LGBTQ folx will continue to be shared, and preconceived notions of who we are will be challenged:: for we are beautiful and complex, and all of our hxstories deserve to be acknowledged, understood, and accepted.t Rachel K. Cheng, Ph.D. (they/them), is a historian, writer, and social activist who believes deeply in the power of nuanced language to communicate effectively in print and online. They are currently the social media director for the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, or GAPA.

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gay affordable housing advocate has joined the San Francisco Rent Board as a tenant representative in one of the oversight body’s alternate seats. The board oversees how much property owners can annually raise rents on rent-controlled units and resolves tenant complaints against their landlords.

Mayor London Breed named Kion Sawney, a project developer at the affordable housing builder Mercy Housing, to the seat in September, and he was sworn in October 20. He is serving as an alternate for Kent Qian, a tenant and deputy city attorney for the Oakland City Attorney’s office.

The five-person rent board is composed of two tenant representatives, two landlords, and a neutral person all appointed by the mayor. Each person also has an alternate who can step in if they are unable to participate in a meeting and vote on matters brought before the board.

Alternate members are active in all other aspects of the rent board.

Sawney has been meeting with the rent board staff this week and expects to take part in his first official meeting November 9.

“Me being a representative and giving voice for communities I represent and identities I embody, it is extremely important those voices are being heard. I will bring that perspective every time I am at a commission meeting,” said Sawney, 31, who is Black, HIV-positive, and originally from Long Island, New York.

After moving to San Francisco five years ago, Sawney lived with various roommates in the Mission and on Upper Market Street. Over Labor Day weekend he moved into his own studio apartment he is renting in the Western Addition, able to take advantage of the drop in rental prices brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter October 25, Sawney said he intends to take advantage of the advocacy role from serving on the rent board to push it “to look at issues that do address racial equity, and to take a stand and position on where things are and not give it lip service.”

He replaces Reese Aaron Isbell in the alternate tenant representative seat on the rent board. After serving on the oversight body for two years, Reese resigned in late July after he and his husband bought a condo.

Breed initially appointed Isbell to serve as a tenant representative on the city’s rent board in late March 2019. It was believed to mark the first time an out gay man had been named to the commission, as several gay men had earlier been appointed to the body but their being members of the LGBTQ community was not reported on at the time.

Breed’s decision to replace longtime rent board commissioner Polly

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Bennett said that she hopes Halloween helps in the Castro’s recovery from the lack of business for much of the past two years; though she doesn’t want things to get too out of hand.

“Obviously as a business owner, I want to see all of our businesses in the Castro thrive and succeed,” Bennett said. “I don’t want to see Halloween be what it had been at this point. Obviously, given COVID, I don’t want to see too many people gather in one place, but I do want to

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New rent board alternate Kion Sawney

Marshall with Isbell, however, drew strong objections from Marshall and tenant advocates. Members of the Board of Supervisors also raised concerns about seating Isbell, with even gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman telling the B.A.R. at the time he did not support Isbell serving on the rent board and would vote to unseat him.

With the supervisors expected to bounce Isbell from his rent board seat, Breed preempted them by making Isbell an alternate member of the oversight body. In his place she elevated Qian, who had served as Marshall’s alternate for seven years.

After being approached by the mayor’s office this summer to replace Isbell on the rent board, Sawney allowed he had some reservations about doing so based on the controversy over Isbell’s initial appointment.

He acknowledged he is a relative unknown at City Hall, plus his job at times can require him to take a confrontational stance if objections are raised about the affordable housing projects he is managing for Mercy.

In thinking over the appointment, Sawney asked himself, “What do you want the world to look like?” Realizing he could address various issues of importance to himself, both professionally and personally, via the rent board seat and after consulting with Isbell, Sawney concluded it was an opportunity he didn’t want to pass up.

“I want to be respectful to the role and want to honor its position because you recognize its importance to the community,” said Sawney, who reached out to members of the supervisors’ rules committee who could have moved to block his appointment.

Sawney told the B.A.R. he isn’t aware of any objections being raised about his taking on the role. Isbell said he is pleased with whom Breed chose to fill the position, especially since it is someone from the LGBTQ community.

“He seems wonderful, and I am really excited about his appointment,” said Isbell, a senior account executive at Gravitate PR where he works on public relations for tech startups. “I want to thank the mayor for making

see us all have a successful weekend.”

Blanchet directed potential visitors who want to dance to attend Comfort and Joy’s Glow in the Streets fundraising event, which is October 30 from 4 to 9:30 p.m. on Noe Street between Market and Beaver streets.

Tickets are free, though Comfort and Joy is asking for a $10 donation at entry. When reached by the B.A.R., Comfort and Joy’s Joshua Smith stated the event will open with DJs Eddie House and Shay, followed by performances and DJ Prince Wolf, before a costume contest before 8:30 p.m.

such an appointment, especially from the community. Continuing to have a voice from the community is important, so I am pleased with that.”

In 2014, Sawney graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in urban planning. He landed a job with a Nashville-area housing developer and then relocated to the Bay Area in 2016 after being hired by Beacon Development Group.

He joined Mercy Housing last summer and is currently working on two of its projects aimed at providing housing for families and people formerly homeless. One is a 221-unit development South of Market, while the other is a 73-unit project slated to be built near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

While not assigned to the new 100plus units of LGBTQ-affirming senior housing that Mercy is developing on Upper Market Street, Sawney first learned about the affordable housing developer when he was walking his former partner’s dog. He happened upon the groundbreaking ceremony for the LGBTQ-welcoming senior housing at 95 Laguna that Mercy built with partner Openhouse, the nonprofit provider of LGBTQ senior services.

The two organizations have partnered again on the senior housing slated for 1939 Market Street. It is practically around the corner from their Laguna senior housing campus.

“It seems a simple thing to walk across that groundbreaking, and to think years later I would work for Mercy. It is a great honor of mine,” said Sawney, noting that at the core of the projects the developer is working on in San Francisco “is putting people in housing, and creating equity and opportunity.”

Sawney came to a career in project management via his founding while an undergraduate in Tennessee the Kefi Project, an organization focused on interdisciplinary public art. He launched it as a way to come to terms with his being diagnosed as HIV-positive at the age of 21.

“I was extremely, extremely depressed and I was sad. I started the art project as a way to find value in myself and find value in the community around me,” he recalled. “I ended up loving project managing and working with communities on projects. That part is now bigger as the projects are bigger and the budgets are bigger, but the core of it is the same.”

As a member of the rent board, Sawney aims to represent the various communities he is a part of in San Francisco.

“I hope people see me as a resource.

Being queer, being Black, I want to put myself out as a resource,” he said. “I have a lot of identities and all those identities are important to me. I understand what it is to be an other in any community and the responsibility I have to the communities I am a part of.”

Sawney has yet to be given a city email as a rent board member. For now, he can be contacted via his Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/noik/ t “Visitors and residents alike will find many options for enjoying the Castro on Halloween,” Blanchet stated. “Restaurants and bars are already highly decorated and promoting entertainment and other special surprises. Store windows are awash with creepy displays. And, when it comes to actually finding a costume (because your creative juices may be missing of late), no neighborhood is better for scaring up a great lastminute outfit. … We encourage everyone to get out and support small businesses in the Castro for Halloween!”

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6 • Bay Area Reporter • October 28-November 3, 2021

Gay SF filmmaker competes on ‘Jeopardy!’

by Sari Staver

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fter some 40 years behind the lens, independent filmmaker Peter Stein stepped out in front of the camera recently to be a contestant on the popular TV quiz show “Jeopardy!”

When Stein, a 62-year-old gay man, mentioned his upcoming appearance on the show on his Facebook page, hundreds of friends and colleagues sent notes of congratulations, most wanting to know the same thing: how he fared.

“That’s the one thing I’m not allowed to talk about,” Stein, a San Francisco resident, told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent phone interview. He will appear on the program Thursday, October 28.

“Jeopardy!” of course, is the long-running TV game show. It was in the news earlier this year over the kerfuffle (https://www. nytimes.com/2021/10/11/arts/ television/mayim-bialik-jeopardy. html) regarding its selection of a permanent host to replace the beloved Alex Trebek, who died last November after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Turns out the experience in front of the camera was not the first time on stage for Stein. For a few years after college, Stein lived in Boston, hoping to launch a career as an actor.

“It didn’t pay the bills,” Stein said. So in 1983, he moved back home to San Francisco and began his media career, first in the tech world and then gigs with KPIX and KQED writing, directing, and producing a number of awardwinning films, including “The Hidden Cities of San Francisco – The Castro” documentary, which won a Peabody Award. In 2003, Stein became the executive director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Courtesy “Jeopardy!”

“Jeopardy!” contestant Peter Stein

and, eight years ago, was named senior programmer for Frameline, the San Francisco LGBTQ+ international film festival.

While it’s still not known how much money Stein won on the show, “every contestant goes home with at least $1,000,” no matter what their score, he said. (For many years, said Stein, each contestant got a set of Compton’s encyclopedias.) “That just about covered the expenses of the trip,” said Stein, who drove to Los Angeles with his longtime partner, Brian Freeman, and spent a few days after the taping visiting friends and relatives in Southern California.

“But I do have a few fun inside stories,” Stein said about his day in Hollywood.

The taping

At 7 a.m. September 23, Freeman dropped him off at Sony Studios, on the historic campus of MGM Studios. “No friends or family” were allowed on the set, he said, and, due to COVID-19, there was no studio audience.

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Twelve contestants who were the pool for that day’s five show tapings were assembled for several hours on the soundstage of “Wheel of Fortune,” where they were briefed on legal and technical matters of the show, given makeup and costume review (contestants bring their own clothes plus several changes in case they win and play multiple games).

Then they moved to the “Jeopardy!” set for practice sessions where the actual tapings began. Stein and two opponents weren’t called until late afternoon, he said.

“It was a very, very long day and I’m sure it was adrenaline that kept me going,” he said.

His minutes of fame on screen “flew by,” he said.

Those familiar with the show probably know that every contestant who makes it through the grueling screen tests appears to have a steel-trap mind. So when a reporter asked Stein when his family first noticed how bright he was, Stein said, “I’m blushing.” After some prodding about intellectual honors, Stein conceded that he had

graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College.

“But that doesn’t necessarily help you succeed on ‘Jeopardy!’,” he said.

His parents, both trained as pharmacists, were fans of the show, “particularly my mom,” said Stein.

When he was in grade school, Stein remembers “watching game shows” as the “best part of having to stay home sick.”

As a child, “I liked ‘Jeopardy!’ and was always very excited when I knew the answer,” he said.

But Stein never became a dyedin-the-wool game show fan. Over the past 10 years, before the pandemic, Stein said he rarely watched.

But when the city shut down last year, “I got kind of hooked, taping all the shows and binge watching when I had a chance.”

Stein said being a “Jeopardy!” contestant “wasn’t any sort of life goal.”

In August 2020, Stein noticed the show announced that during the pandemic, contestants would be allowed to audition online from home. “I thought, ‘why not,’” he said. “I wouldn’t have gone all the way to Los Angeles to audition.”

The online screening process was time consuming, he said. A preliminary test was required, “just to see if you were a sentient person,” he said. Then came a lengthier timed test online with 50 questions similar to those that would be on the show. While they didn’t reveal his score, Stein was told he was in a pool of contestants that would be invited onto the show. Stein turned down the first invitation to appear in January – “it wasn’t a good time for me,” he explained – but when the second invite came, for a summer appearance, he said “sure.”

Stein’s taping was scheduled in the middle of the on-air winning

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streak of contestant Matt Amodio, who eventually racked up $1,518,601 in prize money during his 38 back-to-back wins. Because the show is taped six weeks in advance, “I didn’t know if he’d still be on his streak and I’d have to compete against him,” said Stein.

When he arrived on set he looked around and didn’t see Amodio, and he and the contestants knew for the first time that he’d been knocked out. The next 11 hours were exhausting, said Stein. “But also fascinating,” he said. “Everyone was very professional.”

With extensive COVID precautions in place, Stein said his goal was to try to stay “mentally prepared” for his turn on stage. “I had called a friend who’d been a contestant who had advised me to relax and have a good time,” which he tried to do, he said.

“My main motivation, to be honest,” he said, “was just not to humiliate myself on national TV!” Most of the contestants that day were in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, he said. Only one – age 70 – was older than Stein. “Brain synapses do deteriorate with age,” he said.

But the rest of the details of the day on the set will have to wait until the show is aired.

“The producers are very strict,” he said, noting that he had to get permission to speak to a reporter.

What’s next for Stein? In November, KQED will air a new documentary, “Moving San Francisco,” a look at the city’s transit past and its future. Stein co-wrote and coproduced the film with colleague Jim Yager.

And how about another game show audition?

“Absolutely not,” Stein said. “It was a once in a lifetime experience.” t

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8 • Bay Area Reporter • October 28-November 3, 2021

Former SF Fog coach and rugby champion player Kathy Flores dies

by Roger Brigham

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ormer San Francisco Fog rugby coach Kathy Flores died Thursday, October 21, after a long battle with colon cancer. She was 66.

Ms. Flores, a lesbian, was a member of the USA women’s rugby team, the Eagles, which won the 1991 Women’s Rugby World Cup Championship.

Tara Flanagan, an Alameda County Superior Court judge, was also a member of that championship women’s rugby team, and told the Bay Area Reporter that Ms. Flores was passionate about the sport.

“She was a great player and a great teammate – she was often that indescribable ingredient to a team that provides the spark, the glue, the mojo,” Flanagan, who is a lesbian, wrote in an email. “When she was on your team, it elevated your belief that you would/could win.”

Flanagan stated that in addition to that 1991 championship year, she played with Ms. Flores on the U.S. women’s team in the Women’s World Cup in 1994, when they came in second.

“She was a great world champion,” Flanagan stated.

Ms. Flores lived in the Bay Area from 1994 to 2013. In that time she played or coached with the Berkeley All Blues (1994-2007), the U.S. national women’s team, the UC Berkeley women’s team, the Pacific Coast Regional All-Star team, and the SF Fog men’s team (2011-13).

“I had always wanted to coach the Fog,” Ms. Flores told the B.A.R. in a 2013 interview while with the team. “I love the sport and I want to expose as many people to it as I can, particularly young women. It’s important for their

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San Francisco Fog coach Kathy Flores was hoisted by team members after a match.

confidence and self-esteem. With college girls, after playing rugby, they start thinking better of themselves and realize what they can do better.

You see them walk into interviews differently. Working with gay men, I see the same things. After playing a little bit of sports, there’s a whole change in how they see themselves, kind of like a flower blooming.”

Dany Samreth, the current coach of SF Fog, wrote that Ms. Flores was a great coach, mentor, and friend.

“I didn’t get to be as close to Kathy until we pitched her the idea of coaching the SF Fog in 2010. It was akin to asking Phil Jackson to coach a university side, but to my surprise she agreed to take on the challenge, especially as working on a team with queer issues in playing a sport that wasn’t as welcoming to us when the SF Fog started,” Samreth wrote in an email. “The F-word has been used many times on the pitch when we began and even currently by a local SF team in our last local regular season match against them.”

Until Ms. Flores began coaching the team, SF Fog had been a force in International Gay Rugby, but not as strong in its current union, Northern California Rugby Football Union, Samreth explained.

“We had only one winning season and one playoff appearance in the union (which still is the toughest union/region in the country as whoever wins NorCal in any division usually wins the national championship or gets close),” Samreth wrote.

That changed when Ms. Flores came aboard.

“Every season under her we had winning seasons (2011-2013) and made playoffs every single time with an undefeated regular season under her belt,” Samreth wrote. “Besides a winning culture, she had everyone from rookie to veteran better themselves not only individually but how to help their teammates out.”

Samreth has coached SF Fog since 2014.

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LYRIC’s interim executive director, Toni Newman, is staying on board to advise Lala-Chávez until November 15, when she will depart to lead the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles on an interim basis.

“Laura knows what she is doing and has been working with youth for years. I am just here to support her and pass on information,” said Newman, a Black transgender woman who has been splitting her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles, where her husband lives, for the last year.

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coach a Northern California Select (All-Star) Women’s Rugby Team (CA Grizzlies) following in one of her legendary footsteps in one of the many teams she has coached,” Samreth wrote. “That CA Grizzlies women’s side also have All-Blues Women’s team members, which is a club that she led to numerous national championships. Both SF Fog and All-Blues have many in the LGBTQIA+ community that owe their love of rugby to her as well as becoming better people.

“Her legacy lives on as we try to do better in the sport that she loved through all the people she has touched in the players that are still playing, those who are coaching, and those who are supporting the rugby clubs around the country and the world,” Samreth continued.

Ms. Flores left the Bay Area in 2013 to coach the women’s rugby team at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Flores was named Coach of the Year for 2001 by the Women’s Sports Foundation, USA Rugby Coach of the Year in 2014, and was inducted into the USA Rugby Hall of Fame in 2016.

Ms. Flores spent the last eight seasons at the helm of the Brown program following an illustrious playing and coaching career across the country. She was the third female inducted into the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame, according to an obituary on Brown’s website.

Ms. Flores was born February 7, 1955 in Philadelphia. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physical education at East Stroudsburg University of Penn-

sylvania, where she was a guard on the basketball team and threw javelin for track and field. She switched to rugby while studying for her master’s degree at Florida State University and won national titles playing for the Seminoles.

She began playing for the first unofficial national women’s team in 1986.

In the 1991 Women’s Rugby World Cup, the first tournament with that name, Ms. Flores and the United States defied odds to defeat England in the championship game, the Brown obituary noted. From 198698, Ms. Flores and the United States National Team compiled a 24-5 record in international play.

The U.S. Women’s Rugby Foundation has set up a Kathy Flores Memorial Fund to “provide development of women’s rugby coaches and help other coaches like Kathy have an opportunity to influence and impact not only their rugby careers but also the trajectory of the lives of hundreds of girls and women,” the website stated. Information about the memorial fund is available at the USWRF’s website, https://www. uswrf.org/. The B.A.R.’s interview with her from 2013 is available at https://www.ebar. com/news///243451. For more on her life, read the obituary at https://bit.ly/2ZtQjm8.

In accordance with Ms. Flores’ wishes, donations in her memory can be made to the USWRF’s memorial fund, local dog shelters, or Southeastern Guide Dogs. A private service and a virtual celebration are being planned. t

what has been going great and what have been some of the challenges,” said Lala-Chávez, who has two young children with their spouse, Cheryl. “We are still obviously in a pandemic.”

Like all other nonprofits in the city, LYRIC was ordered to shutter its doors in March 2020 at the start of the health crisis and pivoted to offering what services it could via online platforms. Last month it reopened its doors and is now open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, noted Newman.

“We are seeing our numbers go back up and the youth reengaging,” she said.

But the prolonged closure of its building and inability to see its young clientele face-to-face took a toll, Newman acknowledged.

As with other vulnerable groups, such as LGBTQ seniors, LYRIC clients struggled with the isolation and loneliness brought on by the need to shelter-in-place and restrict social interactions because of the health crisis.

“We have seen that a number of youth have been depressed, lonely, and that type of thing. That comes from frontline staff who directly work with the youth,” said New-

man. “It is why we opened back up so the youth have a place to come to, get something to eat, and reengage with staff and other youth.”

All of LYRIC’s employees have been vaccinated, said Newman, and are required to wear masks while indoors at the office. Youth entering LYRIC’s building also must wear masks, and the agency is hoping to soon offer COVID testing to its clients.

“We have PPE on the first floor and all that stuff, so they can put on a mask and be safe as well. We hope to be testing the youth in the short future as they come in, and we are trying to work that out now,” said Newman. “I just think it is important we take care of our youth and everyone is tested. It is beneficial to staff and youth.”

With vaccines expected to soon be rolled out for children under the age of 12, LYRIC is working with the city’s health department on being able to refer its clients not yet vaccinated to providers that will inoculate them against the coronavirus, said Newman.

Added Lala-Chávez, “LYRIC wants to make it as easy as possible to bring all resources to youth.”

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High (awarded best lead actor as El Gallo in “The Fantasticks.”) A recovering English major, he earned a B.A. from Hiram College plus two M.A.s from the University of Oregon. Terry was a lifelong singer, dancer, actor, musician, composer, writer, photographer, gardener, raconteur, a consummate baker, formidable Scrabble player and the most loyal of friends.

He loved The Beatles, was formerly cruise director of The Lion Pub and established and curated The Lodge at Camp Fuel and The West End Bar & Grill.

Predeceased by parents and Dash the cat, Terry is survived by partner Michael Markwell and Oscar Wildcat; sister Lynne (Stephen) Heidel of Ketchum, Idaho; son Alexander (Amy) Lesyk and three grandchildren, Isaac, Reiley and Jackson Lesyk, of Sherwood, Oregon; former wife Susan Lesyk (David Hubin) of Eugene, Oregon; niece Sarah Heidel (Fred Rowley) of South Pasadena, California; and nephew Will Heidel (Kim Havens) of Ketchum, Idaho.

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Milk

Sneak peek

Tim O’Brien, assistant director and curator of exhibitions for the SFO Museum, who worked on both of the Milk exhibits, provided the B.A.R. a sneak peek of the customs corridor installation Friday, October 22, ahead of its becoming operational. Incoming international flights are expected

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Halloween

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SFPD provides extra staffing

Mission Station Police Captain Rachel Moran, a straight ally, told the B.A.R. that the department will have extra staffing for the Castro on the nights of October 30 and 31, but would not get more specific. The San Francisco Police Department is bracing for a potentially busy weekend, Moran said, with the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park (which usually takes place in the summer), overlapping with Halloween weekend.

Halloween – with its outrageous and creative costumes, the symbolism of living behind a mask or a costume, and the fear of some conservative Christians – has long been a big day for LGBTQ people. Halloween festivities in the Castro, which descended from celebrations among queer people in the Tenderloin, North Beach, and Polk Gulch in the mid-20th century, became one of the premiere events of the year for the neighbor-

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punctuation points and visually you have more immersive imagery,” explained O’Brien.

All the images are displayed in chronological order, starting off with a few photos depicting Milk’s childhood and early adulthood in New York. But the vast majority of photos and documents reproduced relate to Milk’s trailblazing political path in San Francisco during the 1970s.

“We did want to lead it with some family photographs,” said O’Brien.

“We start with Harvey in New York just before his departure for San Francisco followed by where our city’s interaction with Harvey Milk begins.”

Another change made to the exhibit is the identification panels for the images are now much shorter in length since the customs corridor is not an environment where people “are encouraged to stop for any great length of time,” explained O’Brien.

Elsewhere in the Milk terminal is a smaller photographic presentation about Milk’s life mounted in an inglenook area near where travelers check-in for their flights. The exhibit, titled “Harvey Milk: Messenger of Hope,” utilizes 43 images submitted by the public and from the archives of the GLBT Historical Society and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library.

Both archival groups worked with SFO Museum staff on the larger exhibitions, allowing the photos and

material from their archives to be repurposed for the customs corridor installation. It will adorn the passageway indefinitely for now, as there is currently no plan to remove it.

O’Brien credited the two archives with being “fantastic partners to the airport throughout this process” of creating the historical installations and exhibits featured throughout the Milk terminal.

Two new artworks inspired by Milk are to be installed in the terminal in late 2023. A small temporary Milk exhibit featuring 10 images now greets airline passengers inside the Milk terminal just after they exit the security gates. It is expected to remain up for two years in an area dubbed the retail alley, as construction on new eateries and stores is completed in that section of the concourse.

San Francisco officials opted to name the airport’s first of three domestic terminals in honor of Milk after rejecting a proposal to rename the entire airport after him. It is the first airport facility in the world dedicated to an LGBTQ leader.

“For anyone from overseas flying to San Francisco through Harvey Milk Terminal 1 for the first time there is no mistaking where you are or who that terminal is named after,” said O’Brien.

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Over the hill from the Castro, in Noe Valley, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) will be hosting a “festive and safe Halloween

celebration” at the Noe Valley Courts (at 24th and Douglass streets) from noon to 3:30 p.m. October 30. The celebration will feature drag queens Juanita MORE!, D’Arcy Drollinger, and Mercedez Munro judging pumpkin carving.

Pre-scooped pumpkins will be provided, and awards will be given.

“I’m thrilled we’re back to an inperson pumpkin carving contest,” Wiener stated. “It’s a great opportunity to come together, celebrate our community’s successes, decorate beautiful pumpkins, and get some side eye judging from three amazing drag queens.”

Sunday two pet stores owned by out women in Noe Valley on Church Street - Noe Valley Pet Company and Maxwell’s Pet Bar - are co-hosting the fifth annual “Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade and Costume Contest.” The event kicks off at 2 p.m. October 31 from 1451 Church Street, and only those pet owners and their costumed canine companions who walk in it will be judged.

Sister Roma, of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, will be hosting

Nob Hill’s HalloQueen drag brunch October 31 at noon at the Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason Street. Tickets start at $125. MORE! will be DJ. (This is not an official SPI event.)

“Halloween is San Francisco’s favorite holiday and I’m so excited to bring some of the city’s most talented and adored drag performers to the iconic Fairmont,” Roma stated to the B.A.R. “The hotel is going all out with fabulous decorations, a five star menu and bottomless mimosas and bloodies - it doesn’t get any better than this.”

At the Glen Park Recreation Center October 30 from 3 to 9 p.m. there will be a haunted house, crafts, music, and food vendors. Dubbed “Nightmare on Elk Street,” the event is free. Proof of vaccination is required to enter the haunted house.

In the South Bay, the Qmunity District is hosting a Halloween event in downtown San Jose October 31 at 7 p.m. on Post Street between Market and First streets. People can win up to $500 at the Qmunity Night Circus costume contest and Aiden Zhane from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will be performing. t

The AIDS foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“This is an emergency in our city if there ever was one,” Haney said at the meeting. “I think it’s important that we as a Board of Supervisors stand united in calling for more sweeping action.”

Haney also thanked Breed’s office.

Breed is publicly supportive of safe consumption sites, but only if state law is changed first. She has been publicly noncommittal on Haney’s nonbinding resolution.

Breed spokesman Jeff Cretan returned a B.A.R. request for comment October 27.

“The mayor’s position is the same as it has been: We are continuing to act with urgency to implement programs and policies to respond to the overdose crisis in San Francisco, like deploying our Street Overdose Response Team or opening SOMA Rise, our new Sobering Center,” Cretan stated. “We know the members of the Board of Supervisors share that sense of urgency, however it is unclear how this proposed policy could practically allow us to do anything we cannot already do today.”

An effort to change state law – gay state Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 57 – has been stalled in the state Legislature until next year.

When reached for comment October 26, Wiener (D-San Francisco), directed the B.A.R. to his previous statement of October 14.

“I’m committed to authorizing safe consumption sites under state law, and I’ll work to advance SB 57 next year,” Wiener stated. “I have no problem with San Francisco confronting this public health crisis by moving forward ahead of the state. Moving forward without state authorization raises various complicated legal issues. I’m confident Mayor Breed – who is a champion for this and other harm reduction strategies – will make a thoughtful decision on how to proceed.”

After the vote, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman took to Facebook to praise McCoy’s advocacy, referencing his hunger strike.

“Today the Board urged Mayor Breed to declare the overdose crisis an emergency and open overdose prevention sites, which have saved countless lives in Europe and Canada,” Mandelman wrote. “Thanks to Gary McCoy for putting your health on the line to remind us that this is a matter of life and death.”

David Campos, a gay man who is currently chief of staff to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin; Thea Selby, a straight ally who is a City College of San Francisco trustee; and

Bilal Mahmood, a straight ally who is a former Obama administration official; are all running against Haney for Assembly. In a statement after the vote, Campos was praiseworthy of people pushing government action but wrote that Haney’s resolution was a “gesture.”

“I have tremendous respect for the activists who have been pushing for this resolution,” Campos stated to the B.A.R. “However, with so many of our friends and neighbors dying on the streets, our elected officials need to move beyond symbolic gestures. The activists fighting day and night around these issues, and those in the community suffering, deserve concrete action, not just nonbinding resolutions.”

When asked what the supervisors should do instead, Campos said that policymakers need to address income inequality by passing a universal basic income and a “true living wage.” He also said that mental health care disparities should be addressed.

“We need to do more on the ground in terms of mental health services,” Campos said. “District 6 has been dealing with this for quite some time, and we should be flooding the Tenderloin with mental health outreach teams. Once we open a safe injection site and provide mental services to District 6 residents, there are other issues more to the root causes.”t

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Told of her photo gracing the corridor by the Bay Area Reporter, Craig said she has no immediate plans to travel internationally and wondered if she would ever seen it in person since it is in a secured area of SFO that isn’t accessible to the general public. Nonetheless, Craig said she feels honored to be featured in the new exhibit.

“To see a moment captured in that photo that represents my role and participation in building a movement with Harvey is an honor beyond compare. So many LGBTQ people, young and old, flocked to San Francisco because Harvey gave them hope,” said Craig, a Black lesbian who served on the city’s police commission and led the LGBTQ Democratic club named after Milk. “Through his legacy, he continues to send this message, so it’s appropriate that his face and his story is seen by all our visitors from throughout the world as representative of San Francisco’s pride.”

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Overdose emergency

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Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu becomes San Francisco city attorney.) He introduced a resolution in September urging the mayoral action, as the Bay Area Reporter reported at the time, in order to pave the way for the city to authorize, fund, and implement safe consumption sites.

Safe consumption sites (also called supervised injection facilities) are places where drug users can consume pre-obtained drugs under the eye of trained staff. Advocates argue it is necessary to implement in San Francisco, where the number of accidental drug overdoses dramatically rose from 259 in 2018 to 712 in 2020 – and is on track for a similar death toll this year.

Breed declared a state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic on February 25, 2020, before a single case had been confirmed in San Francisco; but in 2020, the city lost more than twice as many people to accidental drug overdoses than to COVID-19.

Haney introduced the resolution at the urging of longtime gay activist Gary McCoy, who once battled addiction himself. McCoy, who is director of policy and public affairs for HealthRIGHT 360 and co-chair of the Alice

Matthew S. Bajko

Slava “Sal” Veder’s photo of the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk huddled with local LGBTQ advocates Gwenn Craig and the late Bill Kraus on Election Night, 1978 is part of the SFO exhibit.

to begin using the gates accessed by the corridor as soon as November 16.

“It is much more emotional because you are immersed in the imagery,” said O’Brien, a straight ally, of the new display.

O’Brien pointed to a diptych of black-and-white photos of Milk meeting with constituents in someone’s living room as one example of how personal a look the new installation provides of the glass-ceiling shattering Milk.

“He was able to reach individuals with a level of intimacy few politicians are able to achieve,” said O’Brien.

O’Brien’s SFO Museum colleagues, curator Kai Caemmerer and graphic

designer Jon Chester, devised the layout for the more intimate-feeling portrait of Milk’s life. Whereas the previous exhibit felt massive with large photos and images hovering overhead — some 20 feet — of passengers as they traversed the Milk terminal concourse, the 73 images in the customs corridor are presented at eye level.

Found on both sides of the passageway, several correlating photos are grouped together in each section of walkway. A dozen images have been enlarged and attached to the wall using a vinyl application, providing several moments meant to grab travelers’ attentions.

“We did want some pauses or

hood by the turn of this century.

But with tens of thousands of people descending upon the Castro – including gay bashers – it became hard for the city to ensure public safety at the event. In 2002, four people were stabbed on Halloween night in the Castro; but the death knell for the old-time Halloween festivities was in 2006, when nine people suffered gun-related injuries in a mass shooting while a 10th victim was trampled in the melee that marred the annual street party.

A heavy police presence stopped the event from occurring again, and by 2011 stakeholders agreed that the Castro shouldn’t be the focal point of a region-wide celebration. Government policy became to direct people, as much as they’d listen, to diverse events in other neighborhoods, as well as to strictly enforce alcohol consumption and sale laws.

Accordingly, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control announced October 25 that it’ll be on the lookout for law-breakers this weekend.

“ABC agents will check on compli-

ance with alcoholic beverage laws to reduce alcohol service to obviously intoxicated patrons and underage youth. Licensees need to make sure their employees are checking identifications carefully to prevent youth access to alcohol,” a news release states.

“ABC also advises anyone of legal drinking age to help reduce DUIs by designating a non-drinking driver before traveling to a location where alcohol is sold.”

Eric Hirata, the director of the ABC, stated that the bureau “encourages everyone to discuss how to make Halloween celebrations as safe as possible.”

To help revelers avoid drinking and driving the regional transit service BART is running its trains later than usual on Halloween. BART will extend its service hours from 9 p.m. to midnight with a limited late-night service.

B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, held a hunger strike in front of City Hall in August urging action, as the B.A.R. previously reported.

McCoy told the B.A.R. October 27 that he is proud of everyone involved in the process for exemplifying “San Francisco values.”

“I’m incredibly grateful to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for acknowledging the importance of countless lives lost in San Francisco to overdoses,” McCoy stated. “I’m proud of their commitment to support Mayor Breed in implementing supervised consumption sites, an evidence-based tool for saving lives and connecting the hardest to reach folks to services and treatment, that she’s been a champion of for many years. Compassion and action are San Francisco values, and that has been evident from our Board of Supervisors through this process.”

Speaking before the board, Haney thanked his colleagues at the board’s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, which held a hearing on the subject October 14, as the B.A.R. previously reported, as well as advocates from the Safer Inside Coalition – a coalition of health agencies including the San Francisco AIDS Foundation – that advocates for harm reduction approaches.

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LYRIC

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As they evaluate what programs LYRIC is currently offering and what gaps there are in its services, Lala-Chávez said top of mind for them is ensuring the agency is equitably meeting youth where they are at and that an expansion of its services is done in a sustainable manner. LYRIC’s current fiscal year budget is set at roughly $3 million, and Lala-Chávez will be earning $160,000.

“I want to be intentional and not adding too much to everyone’s plate,” said Lala-Chávez, adding that their aim with adding any new programs is to see it is “quality programming instead of stretching us too thin. I want to learn what went well during the pandemic and shelter-in-place to really assess what type of programming we have going into the future.”

Housing is a need

One issue impacting LYRIC’s

Courtesy Toni Newman

Former interim LYRIC ED Toni Newman

clients that became even more of a concern during the pandemic is housing, noted Newman. The agency is a designated Coordinated Entry site for homeless or marginally housed transitional-age youth (18-24 years old) and helps connect them to various resources and housing opportunities.

“If they go to a shelter, often they are misgendered and they are mistreated. It is a lot,” said Newman.

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youth from the street to housing, LYRIC will book a short-term rental through such sites like Airbnb or a local hotel room, Newman noted. It is in the process of finalizing a $100,000 contract with the city’s homelessness department to continue offering such a resource, she noted.

The paperwork required of the city’s coordinated entry program “can take a while and that is leaving youth on the street; that is unacceptable,” said Newman. “Being able to say we can put you up, get this thing figured out, and get you off the street is a beautiful thing.”

Lala-Chávez added that addressing LGBTQ youth homelessness will remain a priority for the agency under her tenure. It is estimated that upward of 40% of the city’s homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. “It has been one of the biggest challenges for youth here at LYRIC and definitely a challenge citywide,” they said. “Definitely, it is top of my mind for sure.”

Lala-Chávez is joining LYRIC a month after the agency’s board

and staff finalized a contract so its employees are now unionized, and several months before it undertakes a major renovation of its building in early 2022. Former executive director, Jodi Schwartz, a queer woman who led LYRIC for 15 years, is now overseeing the $2.5 million capital campaign for the long-planned project that will bring interior and exterior upgrades to the agency’s building.

“I think the focus for us is really to prioritize LGBTQ youth, in particular youth of color, in the city not just here at the Purple House but across the city, and finding partnerships across the entire city that really uplift LGBTQ youth and youth of color,” said Lala-Chávez, 42, who had been executive director of Challenge Day, a national organization focused on building empathy, compassion, and equity in school communities across the country. “I will be working on establishing and reestablishing those relationships, so all the youth we serve across the city are uplifted and supported not only

through the pandemic but going into the future post the pandemic.”

As for Newman, she said she is looking forward to working with the staff of the Black AIDS Institute to move beyond its controversies this year stemming from the firing of its previous CEO Raniyah Copeland in late August. She had complained months earlier that the nonprofit’s board president had fostered a toxic work environment.

“This is the first time in eight years I will actually be working in L.A. and not commuting” via airplane, said Newman, who a decade ago had worked closely with the AIDS agency. “I am very familiar with the Black AIDS Institute and their fight to end the AIDS epidemic in the Black and Brown community.

I only take jobs with missions close to my heart ... and I am happy to step in and reassure the staff as we move forward.” t

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BROWN THERAPY CENTER, 110 GOUGH ST #403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BROWN FAMILY THERAPY, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

that JAY G. COWAN & ERIC DURR 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: NOVEMBER 01, 2021, 9:00 am, Dept. 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: PAUL H. MELBOSTAD (SBN#99951), GOLDSTEIN GELLMAN MELBOSTAD HARRIS & MCSPARRAN LLP, 1388 SUTTER ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109; Ph. (415) 673-5600.

said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

103N, Rm. 103N on the 23rd of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

To learn more about LYRIC and its programs, visit https://lyric. org/

Legals>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039506100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LATIN AMERICAN WORKOUT, 1242 S. VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAIME MARTINEZ-CASTRO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039525100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CRATOS, 1489 WEBSTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CRATOS PORTABLE CHARGERS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/21/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556655

In the matter of the application of SAN WANG, 1640 STEINER ST #4A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SAN WANG is requesting that the name SAN WANG be changed to THE TSEING WANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N on the 16th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039499100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAMALPAIS VALLEY SHUTTLE SERVICE, 2492 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE CONTRERAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039489500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANDROCUTS, 4147 19TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIZABETH ANDRONACO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/24/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039501300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LG HOUSE CLEANER SERVICE, 412 MADRID ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVELIN LOPEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039505000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HELLO BANH MI, 681 TOWNSEND AT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QUANG DU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039506000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DRIPPIN PAINT, 1311 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RENAE WILBORN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as RICHMOND ACCOUNTING & TAX SERVICES, 414 CLEMENT ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LI MING CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039486600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAZ AUTO MOBILE DETAILING, 355 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAMONTE JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/15/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039505900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LESLIE’S NAILS, 1548 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAN QUANG LE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039509600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LILY NAILS SPA, 1198 HYDE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICKY PHUONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039510300

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LONE STAR SALOON, 1354 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BEAR TRAP LSSF INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/19/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039484600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VEO OPTICS, 1799 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RESTUA VISION, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039488000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NOTARY GURU ON WHEELZ, 1321 STEINER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YOLANDA R. JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOGFORK LAMP ARTS LLC, 1000 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DOGFORK LAMP ARTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039511200

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039501000

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARQUEE MEDICINE, 18 10TH ST #2233, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANTHONY CHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039488100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAMP SHADES SF, 1000 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RICHARD M. DONNELLY & ROBERT L. MILLS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039496800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ORIZURU; RIGHTSART; 236 WEST PORTAL AVE #133, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RAY FOK, NGA WING ARIANA CHAN & CHUN CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/21/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039475700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MUMU HOT POT, 2 VARELA AVE #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed H&H INVESTMENT ENTERPRISE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NORTH HARBOR ESCROW A NON-INDEPENDENT BROKER ESCROW, 2282 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EXCLUSIVE LIFESTYLES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039503200

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WICKED 6 BAR AND BITES, 4092 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed EYLUL LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039500900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DHARMA MERCHANT SERVICES, 801 38TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DHARMA PAYMENTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039498200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIZ BOER SKINCARE, 3356 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LIZ BOER SKINCARE AND WAXING STUDIO, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039504700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as OCTAVIA, 1701 OCTAVIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed KORE RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF OTIS R. DAMSLET IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304840

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of OTIS R. DAMSLET, C/O PAUL H. MELBOSTAD (SBN#99951), GOLDSTEIN GELLMAN MELBOSTAD HARRIS & MCSPARRAN LLP, 1388 SUTTER ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JAY G. COWAN & ERIC DURR, CO-EXECUTORS, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests

OCT 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556644

In the matter of the application of NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE, 345 6TH ST #901, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE is requesting that the name NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE be changed to DON EIGHT. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 9th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556663

In the matter of the application of SUI MAN CHAN, 1346A 20TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SUI MAN CHAN is requesting that the name SUI MAN CHAN be changed to VICTORIA CHAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21st of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556659

In the matter of the application of BINGYI YU, 640 FRANCISCO ST #1508, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BINGYI YU is requesting that the name CARLAM JIALIN LI be changed to ANNIE JIALIN YU. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21st of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556667

In the matter of the application of ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN, 325 OCTAVIA ST #218, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN is requesting that the name ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN be changed to ELIANNA BADB O’SHEA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556652

In the matter of the application of KAREN LYNN HOWARD, 547 27TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KAREN LYNN HOWARD is requesting that the name KAREN LYNN HOWARD be changed to MIA ANN HOWARD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 16th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039512100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as B & G AUTO REPAIR, 1 INDUSTRIAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LESTER L. CHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/06/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as EC BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT, 31 LAUSANNE AVE, DALY CITY, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWIN CANIZALES FLORES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LARKIN ST. LAUNDROMAT, 1868 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ARTHUR C. CHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/27/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039512200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PACIFIC MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION, 3450 GEARY BLVD #212, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMY KELLY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/06/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE TALK SHOW COUNSELING SERVICES, 855 BRANNAN ST #451, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE V. FERIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/07/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BRIGHTSOURCES, 5758 GEARY BLVD #106, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EUN JIN JEON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/28/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARIETTA’S A MOTHERS TOUCH CLEANING SERVICE, 2127 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HARVEY SALAZAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/16/14.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039515200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VISION POWERED VENTURES, 268A DOLORES

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ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KRISTIN HAYDEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039511800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF ORTHODONTICS; SAN FRANCISCO ORTHODONTICS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS; 3501 CALIFORNIA ST #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118.

This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RODNEY STERLING LEE, SAMANTHA NICOLE LEE & ELIZABETH UBALDO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/06/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/06/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS - GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, 2150 Webster Street, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for ON CALL GLASS REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT SERVICES (RFP) No. 6M3506, on or about October 21, 2021, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at the District Secretary’s Office, 10th Floor, 2150 Webster Street, Oakland, California, 94612. Proposers are responsible to ensure their proposals are received at the time and location as specified in the RFP. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is soliciting the services for OnCall Glass Repair and Replacement Systemwide. The work will consist of on-call services to furnish all labor, equipment, materials, and services required to replace broken or damaged glass of various sizes in cabinets, windows, doors, ceiling, and wall panels at all locations throughout the District as listed in Exhibit 1. The work will be accomplished through the issuance of discrete Task Orders during the term of the Contract.

PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING AND NETWORKING SESSION A Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session will be held on Thursday, November 4, 2021. The Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session will convene at 10:00 a.m. local time via Zoom Presentation. All interested parties must RSVP via email: Claudia Horton, chorton@bart.gov by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 in order to participate in this Pre-Proposal Meeting. The email subject must include “RFP 6M3506, On Call Glass Repair and Replacement Services.

Instructions on attending the Zoom Presentation or the Microsoft Teams Meeting will be emailed upon receipt of RSVP. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session, Prospective Proposers are requested to make every effort to participate in this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session. The District may only respond to questions at the submitted Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session by prospective Proposers that have RSVPed to the Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session. In order for the District to consider responding to those questions at the scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session, those questions shall be submitted until the day prior to the Pre-Proposal Meeting and Networking Session by 11:00 a.m. local time, via email to chorton@bart. gov, and the email subject must include RFP 6M3506, On Call Glass Repair and Replacement Services.

REQUIRED REGISTRATION ON BART PROCUREMENT PORTAL In order for prospective Proposers to be eligible for award of an Agreement being solicited on the BART Procurement Portal, such Proposers are required to be currently registered to do business with BART on the BART Procurement Portal online at https:// suppliers.bart.gov and have obtained Solicitation Documents, updates, and any Addenda issued on line so as to be added to the On-Line Planholders List for this solicitation.

If a prospective Proposer is a joint venture or partnership, such entity may register on the BART Procurement Portal with the entity’s tax identification number (TIN) and download the Solicitation Documents so as to be listed as an on-line Planholder under the entity’s name prior to submitting its Proposal. If such entity has not registered on BART Procurement Portal in the name of the joint venture or partnership prior to submitting its Proposal, provided that at least one of the joint venturers or partners registered on line on the BART Procurement Portal and downloaded the Solicitation Documents so as to be added to the On-Line Planholders List for this solicitation, such entity will be required to register with the entity’s TIN as an on-line Planholder following the submittal of Proposals, in order for the entity to be eligible for award of this Agreement.

PROPOSERS WHO HAVE NOT REGISTERED ON THE BART PROCUREMENT PORTAL PRIOR TO SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL, (OR FOR JOINT VENTURE OR PARTNERSIP AS DESCRIBED ABOVE PRIOR TO AWARD) AND DID NOT DOWNLOAD THE SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS FOR THIS SOLICITATION ONLINE SO AS TO BE LISTED AS AN ON-LINE PLANHOLDER FOR THIS SOLICITATION, WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR AWARD OF THIS AGREEMENT. Proposals must be received by 2:00 P.M., local time, Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at the address listed in the RFP. Submission of a proposal shall constitute a firm offer to the District for one hundred eighty (180) calendar days from the date of proposal submission.

Dated at Oakland, California this 20th day of October 2021. /s/ John Mazza, Director of Procurement San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 10/28/21 CNS-3523099# BAY AREA REPORTER

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039506600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ARCADIA HOME CARE & STAFFING, 1388 SUTTER ST #904, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109-5438. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PRAC HOLDINGS, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039504500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DISPUTE, 650 CALIFORNIA ST, FLOOR 7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PINEAPPLE TEAM INCORPORATED (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039514500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY AREA REPORTER, 44 GOUGH ST #302, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAR MEDIA INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/2013. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039499000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MAREA MEDIA; ART OF MAC; IN MOTION MEDIA; IMAGE AND MOTION; IMAGE AND MOTION MEDIA; RUTH GUMNIT MEDIA; 2020 15TH ST #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed RUTH GUMNIT & MARGUERITE SALMON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/30/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MAX’S JANITORIAL & POWERWASH, 39 SANTA YNEZ AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed MAXIMO MENDOZA & NINETTE MORRIS-MENDOZA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039509300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as OTEX USA, 364 CHESTER AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed TANYA CHIU & TONY CHIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/28/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039497600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CORNERSTONE REALTY, 101 MILTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed NANCY GERALDINE RAZNICK & ALAN MICHAEL RAZNICK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT PRODUCTIONS, 715 SHRADER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/07/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039510400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SERIOUSLY ADDICTIVE MATHEMATICS S.A.M. SINGAPORE MATH, 1489 WEBSTER ST #200, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CPP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039514400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOVEMINT; MOVEMINT RELOCATION CONCIERGE; 1365 10TH AVE #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MOVEMINT RELOCATION CONCIERGE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039514900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE MADRIGAL, 100 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 100 VAN NESS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556677

In the matter of the application of CHUI YUK CHAN, 473 30TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHUI YUK CHAN is requesting that the name CHUI YUK CHAN AKA ALICIA CHUI YUK CHAN AKA ALICIA CHUI YUK LUI AKA ALICIA C. LUI AKA ALICIA LUI be changed to ALICIA LUI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 30th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513300 The following person(s) is/are doing business

as PORTOLA CLEANER, 725 PORTOLA DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SUN-JU KIM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039519100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLYLUXGLOBAL, 1971 45TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SLAVA KAPLAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/14/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039520200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SPORT TOLLIVER, 308 EDDY ST #101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RACHEL TOLLIVER – SOLE PROPRIETOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039521400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ONE WITH PEACE MARTIAL ARTS, 1725 NEWCOMB AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NAYO ESTEBAN MOUTON-FUESTES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/13/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039499400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as UNION SQUARE ENDODONTICS, 490 POST ST #1516, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DARREN MACHULE D.M.D. PHD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/06. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039521900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TIAR LEI, 2685 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TIAR LEI DUKE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TACO SAN BUENA, SANSOME & BUSH ST RTE #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SANTANA ESG INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/02/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TACO SAN BUENA, SHOTWELL & 16TH ST RTE #62, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SANTANA ESG INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/02/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TACO SAN BUENA, 768 SANSOME ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SANTANA ESG INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TACO SAN BUENA, 2598 HARRISON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SANTANA ESG INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039517300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CP PARTNERS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, 2 EMBARCADERO CENTER #1440, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FLORIDA PETE INCORPORATED (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/13/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039520300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as KANVAS; THE CANLAS BROTHERS; 188 KING ST PH7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KANVAS REAL ESTATE, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CODI, 1846 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HIVEN INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039517200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LE PHENIX LIFESTYLE, 1538 PACIFIC AVE #116, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CMO HAIR STUDIOS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) com-

menced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/13/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039522200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAZE VALLEY, 500 LAGUNA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MR.C’S LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/18/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039522100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HIGH ROAD BIKE CO., 597 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CALILION LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/25/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/21.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038399700

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as PACIFIC MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION, 3450 GEARY BLVD #212, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by DOLORES PEREZ HEILBRON. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/15/18.

OCT 21, 28, NOV 04, 11, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556693

In the matter of the application of SHANKAR DHAKAL & GITA PANERU, 225 HYDE ST #407, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioners SHANKAR DHAKAL & GITA PANERU is requesting that the name AROGYA DHAKAL be changed to PRANAV DHAKAL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 7th of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556689

In the matter of the application of ALEXANDER WILLIAM MOSIAK, 163 FAIRMOUNT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ALEXANDER WILLIAM MOSIAK is requesting that the name ALEXANDER WILLIAM MOSIAK be changed to ALEXEI OSTAPOVICH MOSIAK. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 4th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039523100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CAPRICHO, 829 MOULTRIE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JULIAN BILLOTTE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/94. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039523000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOOD REAL ESTATE TEAM, 891 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GRANT IBANA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/19/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039524200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ERIN ELIZABETH HAIR STUDIO, 2668 GREAT HIGHWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIN ARIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039522900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRES CHIC HAIR STYLE, 234 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AICHA ELHATTAB. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039524300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SUM IT BOOKKEEPERS, 25 SIERRA ST #W301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VASANTHA NAGANATHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/21.

OCT 28, NOV 04, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039526300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as APMEDIATIONSF, 576 2ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRUNO AUGUSTUS PEGUESE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/21.

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The vampire’s closet

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new documentary recalls the life and career of Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas Collins, a 175-yearold guilt-ridden vampire on Dark Shadows, the horror-themed daytime soap opera that became enormously popular during the late 1960s.

Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story examines not only the actor’s work on the series, but also his many appearances on stage as a classically trained actor. And for the first time, Dark Shadows and Beyond acknowledges that Frid was a gay man, something gay fans of the series have known for a long time.

The film opens with a clip from Dark Shadows’ 211th episode, in which Barnabas makes his first appearance at the great house of Collinwood, his ancestral mansion. Barnabas, who had finally escaped from the coffin he had been chained in for almost 200 years, passes himself off as his own great-great grandson, and the descendants of his own family accept him.

From that first scene, Frid’s magnetic screen presence is apparent. Dark Shadows, which had struggled in the ratings during its first year on the air, suddenly saw its viewership skyrocket. The show was saved from cancellation and Frid, then 43, found himself cast as unlikely teen idol.

Viewers are then whisked back to 1924, when Frid was born in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. The film offers a little bit of background information on his family and recounts how he first got involved in the theater.

From the Bard to Barnabas

From the beginning, Frid was enamored of the classics, and though he played other roles,

'Dark Shadows' star Jonathan Frid in new documentary he was particularly drawn to Shakespeare.

While studying in England he received some career advice from Laurence Olivier, his acting idol, and a career was born.

As the film follows the development of his career, many archival photographs of Frid on stage are shown. The actor is fondly remembered by a number of people who worked with him, including talk show host Dick Cavett and noted character actor Anthony Zerbe. Several of Frid’s family members also sit down and chat about him.

Dark Shadows fans will not be disappointed, as there’s a lengthy segment about his involvement with the series. Frid passed in 2012, but vintage interview clips are included in which he talked about his approach to the character of Barnabas.

Co-stars David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker, Nancy Barrett, Marie Wallace and James Storm recall how much they enjoyed working with him. There are also interview clips of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis and cast members John Karlen and Louis

Leontyne Price in Aida

Monster’s mash

Kevin Simmonds’ poetic look at opera diva

Jonathan Frid on the set of Dark Shadows

Edmonds, who are now deceased.

The film goes into a great deal of detail regarding Frid’s post-Dark Shadows life. Among the topics covered are his 1980s Broadway run in the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. Co-star Marion Ross, best known for her role as Mrs. Cunningham on the classic sitcom Happy Days, fondly recalls her time working with Frid.

During this time, Frid developed a series of one-man shows. For years he toured the country doing dramatic readings from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and whatever else struck his fancy. Clips of him in performance underscore his mesmerizing stage presence and his powerful voice.

The subject of Frid’s homosexuality is touched upon briefly towards the end of the film.

“In those days it was illegal to be gay,” says actor Barry Fuller, who worked with Frid on stage. “And this played on his mind. And so he was never overtly gay. I talked to my friends who are now in their 80s, and they did the same thing. We were embarrassed about it. We never really talked about it.”

While this attitude may shock some Bay Area Reporter readers, it’s important to keep in mind that during Frid’s era it was indeed illegal to be a homosexual. Gay bars were regularly raided, the police would harass and arrest gay men and drag queens, and coming out could lead to the loss of one’s employment. It was a different time, and it’s sad to realize that Frid was forced to live like this.

The fact that this topic was brought up at all will no doubt shock a sizable contingent of Dark Shadows fandom, some who remain homophobic to this day. Many of them resort to threats, bullying, slander and gaslighting in order to keep the gay issue from being discussed.

At least two people involved in this kind of behavior were interviewed for the film. One can only wonder what they’ll think of the final product. Hopefully producer/director Mary O’Leary won’t receive any backlash, as so many others have.

The film also acknowledges that several Dark Shadows cast members, such as Joel Crothers and Christopher Bernau, had died of AIDS. “At a time when people were afraid to be near an AIDS patient, Jonathan would sit by a dying friend’s bedside to talk, to listen, or

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tion, enhancement and extension of what it means to be Black, female and gifted, willing to put in the hard work and discipline, too, sang at what most consider the epitome of the highest technical level.

Price’s visual presence can only be described as regal; her flawless chocolate skin, her wide-set, commanding eyes, the sensual cheekbones, and her lush, symmetrical lips that framed the projection of drama and mood that made cameras and stages sizzle with ferocity and rose petals.

Price’s standing ovations from sold-old performances obliterated racist deflection and inspection. She upgraded the very culture of opera music as one of the genre’s most modern ambassadors as well one of history’s greatest interpreters of Verdi.

Mr. Simmonds, a New Orleans native, writes a romantic and sad story of a young gay Black male, isolated from family and southern sensibility. Very early, however, he found faith and solace in his adoration of Price, embracing his cultural “otherness” from heterosexual perceptions, to find his own social group and vocal skills sets, appreciated within the better part of the New Orleans parish public school sysSee page 15 >>

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n the LGBTQ community, within most of us is that initial discovery, focus, fascination with and lifelong appreciation of a person who simultaneously captures and embodies everything inside of you. That person also does what, deep inside, you wish that you could do or become.

This first meditation is very important. It’s also key that this person proves themselves to be a positive, enduring guide to emulate and enjoy throughout both of your lives. This is the essential ingredient in the culture known as “diva worship.”

Transcendence is another essential ingredient, over circumstance, disasters and setbacks.

With this person as inspiration and, sometimes, moral compass, you can appreciate and achieve a well-lived life, with varying degrees of satisfaction and/or success.

Kevin Simmonds, in his short but wonderful book, The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and A Life In Verse, provides the reader with a poetic insight that is lyrical, loving and romantic.

In Miss Leontyne Price, Simmonds has chosen extremely well, because everything about the legendary soprano is the explora-

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Out at Outside Lands

Left to Right: Brittany Howard, Claud, Kehlani, Tyler the Creator

by Jim Gladstone

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utside Lands is back. And it’s outer than ever. Of the 100plus acts playing this weekend’s festival in Golden Gate Park October 29-31, more than ten percent can boast of queer bonafides. And that’s not counting any of the featured names in the dance music tents, and staunch ally Lizzo.

Given that a 2021 nationwide Gallup poll finds that just 5.6% of the U.S. population identifies as LGBT, that’s a remarkable number. It attests not only to the huge creative contribution of queers to contemporary music, but to the growing emboldenment of artists to openly acknowledge non-heterosexuality without fear of collateral career damage.

Although the music fest is sold out, here’s just a partial home playlist of this year’s queer Outside Lands highlights across a full gamut of musical genres, from R&B to rock to electronica.

070 Shake (Friday, 2:10 pm)

“I really don’t describe myself as gay or anything. I just like girls,”

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says the Gen Z Dominican-American electro-pop singer/producer born Danielle Balbuena, whose moody, booming guest vocals enlivened Kanye West’s Ye and take the forefront in her own singles including the sweeping “Guilty Conscience,” memorably remixed by this year’s closing night headliner Tame Impala.

Remi Wolf (Friday, 2:40pm)

The bi Palo Alto-born pastiche master just received a major New York Times profile this past week, which described her kaleidoscopic compositions as “hypercolored explosions.” With an oversized personality and grand scale charisma, she’s among this year’s likely breakout acts: a Cyndi Lauper for a new century and the act my 23-year-old niece is most excited about.

Moses Sumney (Friday, 4pm)

Big Mo, who prefers to avoid labels, is the act that I’m most excited about. While born in SoCal, Sumney spent much of his childhood in his parents’ native Ghana, and his singular genre-defying 2020 double-album Grae lushly blends Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, in which Frid had a prominent supporting role, and an in-depth 1980s interview he gave to New Jersey Network, a PBS outlet which reran Dark Shadows. There’s also audio of Frid reading the classic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

In addition to Blu-ray, Dark Shadows and Beyond is available on DVD. The film is streaming at Amazon Prime, Apple TV (formerly iTunes) and Vimeo on Demand. The original Dark Shadows is available on DVD and streams at Tubi TV.t

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just hold his hand,” O’Leary says in a voiceover.

The film does an excellent job of preserving the history of a gifted actor who deserves to be remembered. Little is left out of the film’s 101 minutes. Viewers will come away feeling as if they knew the man personally.

The film’s Blu-ray includes a generous extras menu. Featured are clips of a 1960 TV production of

Above: A crowd of fans greets Jonathan Frid in a 1960s promotional event. Below: The main cast of Dark Shadows

soul, jazz and contemporary classical elements in a way that blurs cultural and sonic borders. He is profoundly cool.

Khruangbin (Friday, 5:10pm)

cateurs. Once castigated in the music press for anti-gay lyrics, he has since publicly wrestled with his own identity in lines like “How can I be homophobic when my boyfriend’s a fag?” He’s an absurdist gadfly who relishes the confusion he sows.

self-released bedroom pop songs including the wistful reputationmaking “I Wish You Were Gay.” It will be interesting to see how their intimate, melancholy sound translates to a big open-air setting.

Melanie Martinez (Saturday, 3:40pm)

Oakland’s own bi 21-year-old ukulele-strumming Youtube star (also known as Maia) is a prime example of grassroots success, generating millions of online streams for songs that document, among other subjects, her close but challenging relationship with her Chinese grandmother.

Baby-voiced, potty-mouthed Martinez first came into public consciousness back in 2012 as a contestant on The Voice. Since then, the singer with a penchant for Sia-meets-Cruella hairstyles has weathered sexual assault accusations from a former girlfriend while releasing albums with the pointedly immature titles Crybaby, K-12, and Afterschool. Her icky Lolita schtick feels like a time capsule worthy of burial.

Global Mélange Rock is a good tag for the psychedelic swirl of this Texas trio, featuring queer bassist Laura Lee, draws on their own cultural backgrounds and a penchant for world music in whipping up instrumental jams that draw on Afghan, Thai and Persian traditions as well as good old American garage band sounds.

Katie Red (Saturday, 4pm)

Kaytranada (Friday, 8pm)

Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Olsen specializes in booming atmospheric tunes which unfurl at a dreamy snail’s pace. Her latest EP Aisles is a terrific gateway to fandom, braiding her unique sonic approach to a set of classic 80s covers, including Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” and Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without A Face.”

Winner of the best dance/electronic album Grammy for his 2019 release, Bubba, the gay Haitian-Canadian DJ and producer has an encyclopedic mastery of late 20th-century R&B and disco which infuses his sprawling mixes with a cheerful old-school groove. A fine choice for easing into your evening sets.

Tyler the Creator (Friday, 8:25pm) The former Odd Future frontman is among hip-hop’s canniest provo-

One of the founding mothers of Sissy Bounce, along with Big Freedia, New Orleans’ transgender rapper Red returns to Outside Lands’ GastroMagic Stage for a now-traditional bounce-and-beignets jam, featuring baked goods from Brenda’s Soul Food.

Angel Olsen (Saturday, 5:50pm)

Claud (Sunday, 12:40pm)

The non-binary 22-year-old became the first act signed to Phoebe Bridgers’ Dead Oceans label after first capturing public attention with

mxmtoon (Sunday, 4:25pm)

Brittany Howard (Sunday, 4:30pm)

In both solo shows and gigs as the frontwoman of Alabama Shakes, Howard, a proud lesbian with blue collar roots, is one of the most compelling singers and guitar players touring today. Bluesy, blustery and utterly in control, she’s one of this year’s few can’t-miss acts.

Kehlani (Sunday, 8:20pm)

The Oakland homegirl who was once involved with NBA star Kyrie Irving has since come out as a polyamorous lesbian. Her featured vocals have elevated Eminem’s “Nowhere Fast” and Gen Z queer icon Haley Kiyoko’s “What I Need” and in her solo hit, “Honey,” she notably sang “I like my girls just like I like my honey, sweet a little selfish/ I like my women like I like my money, green, a little jealous.”

Also appearing on Sunday at 3:10pm is Nelly, who is not.t www.sfoutsidelands.com

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Cured: documentary on anti-gay psych wars

by Gregg Shapiro

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o-directors Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer open their documentary Cured (Story Center Films) with the viewer discretion warning that it “contains graphic images of past treatments used by doctors to ‘cure’ homosexuality.”

Regardless of the emphasis on the “past,” many of us are well aware that other insidious techniques, such as so-called faith-based “conversion therapy” are still in practice in 31 states.

The focus of Cured, however, is the historic (and revolutionary) 1973 decision by the American

Psychiatric Association (APA) to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in the organization’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

Sammon and Singer set the tone for the doc with black and white film footage of a speaker at a 1966 Dade County Florida school assembly warning the students about homosexuals.

This is followed by footage from “The Homosexuals” episode from the 1967 series CBS Reports hosted by Mike Wallace which makes it clear that at the time (a year after the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco and a mere two years before the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York) that gay people were viewed with “disgust, discomfort or fear.”

One interview subject in “The Homosexuals” talks about a gay friend being beaten by his father, “savagely…with bricks.”

There also existed a “poisoned climate of thinking about homosexuality” in the psychiatric community.

Psychiatrists including Edmund Bergler, Irving Bieber, Judd Marmor (who later reversed his position), and worst of all, Charles Socarides were unrelenting in their professional opinion about homosexuality being an illness and reversible.

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In 1952, the first edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Mental Disorders unequivocally categorized homosexuality as a mental illness. This diagnosis was used against gay people, leading thousands to seek out psychiatrists to cure them via treatments ranging from talk therapy to far more aggressive methods including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and lobotomization.

This was occurring right before a time of cultural upheaval involv-

ing various movements (civil rights, women’s, anti-war). As American society began to evolve, a group of young, outspoken queer activists, including Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen (who were partners for 46 years), Frank Kameny, Charles Silverstein, Reverend Magora Kennedy, Ron Gold and Don Kalhefner, to name few, were making their voices heard via public protests and other arenas.

Due to the impact that the APA’s policy had on the personal and professional lives of these activists, as well as on the lives of those around them, they set their sights on influencing the organization.

What occurred over the course of a number of tumultuous years was momentous and groundbreaking, resulting in the 1973 landmark decision, “a great gay victory,” to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness or disorder. This is where the doc is at its most compelling.

While it occasionally gets bogged down in the rehashing of historic facts and events (who do they think is going to be watching this doc, anyway?), Cured is nevertheless informative viewing. Rating: B-

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Gay vampires in love

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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en Handeland’s debut novel The Darkest Gift is the perfect book to read on a dark and stormy night.

This tale of Fabien and Laurent, two gay vampires who meet and fall in love in 18th-century Paris, is romantic and, at times, downright scary.

Handeland’s story covers a lot of ground. After Fabien is destroyed by the jealous vampire Stefan, a brokenhearted Laurent moves to New Orleans, where he mourns his lost love for 200 years. In the 1980s he meets Jack, a self-loathing gay man who bears an uncanny resemblance to Fabien. But then Fabien’s spirit overtakes Jack’s body. Will the lovers be reunited, or will Stefan return to tear them away from each other again?

The author lets his readers know who these characters are. Entire chapters are devoted to characters’ backstories. We learn a great deal about Jack and his life in the closet as well as his disastrous marriage to a woman. We follow him into the gay bars of New Orleans, where he picks up a variety of men and has a series of meaningless one-night stands.

We also learn quite a bit about Laurent’s life as he mourns his lost love. Laurent is a vampire with a conscience and does not kill human beings when he needs to feed. Instead, he feasts upon the blood of animals.

When Raphaella, a spirit medium whom Jack befriends, enters the story, the reader is told all about her life in Haiti, before she moved to New Orleans. These backstories lets readers know exactly who these characters are and what their motivations are, which gives them a lot

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Handeland also takes his readers on a journey to 18th-century Paris and 20th-century New Orleans.

His descriptions of these times and places are vividly described and bring the cities to life. The book is an obvious homage to the stories which inspired Handeland in his youth: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Barnabas Collins on the Dark Shadows TV series, and mostly, the writings of Anne Rice.

“Anne Rice was one of the few authors that wrote about these strange and mysterious creatures as if they truly existed,” Handeland said in an interview. “Her books blurred the lines between fantasy and reality. The fact that she featured a same-sex couple in her book Interview With the Vampire with Lestat and Louis as well as in her other vampire books, to me that was groundbreaking. She as a straight woman writing about a same-sex couple to me was simply nothing short of revolutionary.”

Handeland said that it was important for him to not be overtly sexual in his writing. He prefers to focus on the sensual rather than the sexual, and on the romantic.

“Also noteworthy was addressing stereotypes regarding vampires and some of the gay men in my book,” he said. “That all vampires are evil and unfeeling creatures, that all gay men are effeminate couldn’t be further from the truth. I utilized the classic tale of good versus evil, in

this case, vampire against vampire, and how one of the human characters, Jack, despite his struggles with his sexual orientation, finally learns to accept and embrace who he truly is. People who know me would say that I have a pretty vivid imagination, but saying that other authors haven’t inspired me is not truthful.”

New Orleans was chosen as the primary setting for The Darkest Gift in part because he spent a considerable amount of time there, and in part because of the city’s rich history and diversity.

“New Orleans can also be described as exotic,” Handeland said.

“There are many paranormal occurrences that have been reported.

To me the city is steeped in mysticism, whether that’s associated with ghosts, the practice of voodoos and vampires. I also wanted to have the three locations in my book, Paris, Haiti, and New Orleans, share a cultural connection. They all have a French connection.”

Handeland believes that The Darkest Gift will appear to gays and straights alike.

“I believe it will be appreciated by anyone who values, loves and understands the need for a soulmate,” he said. “I was cautious not to get too sexually graphic, but instead focusing on the sensual aspect of two men together, whether that’s between two vampires of the same gender or a vampire with a human.”t www.lenhandelandauthor.com

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by Jim Provenzano

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From Left to Right: Gwenn Craig, Ken Yeager, David Campos, Robert Bernardo, Honey Mahogany, Matthew S. Bajko

activist and two-term president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club; Honey Mahogany, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and legislative aide to San Francisco District 6 Supervisor

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tem. His brave obsession became authenticity against homophobia, status, elitism and sheer boredom, with his encounters in classical music, as he found and cultivated his own voice, approach to life and identity.

In reading Simmonds’ book, I was transported back to a time of humid weather, homophobia … and excellent food. It was interesting to see Price and Simmonds’ lives duet as they endured their long struggle as Black artists bearing Black burdens while simultaneously projecting to the back of the house and not allowing them to overpower their contributions to their art.

All of the great elements of opera are in the book; comedy, tragedy,

Matt Haney; and Ken Yeager, the first LGBTQ person elected to the San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors who cofounded the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee.

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romance, resolve, determination and strength. I laughed out loud at his humor and wit, particularly the part that details his hiding his gay porn collection in his piano.

The expression of the Black ef-

feminate ability to use music as a form of soft power is extremely relevant today, given what’s happening with and to other openly black LGBTQ artists in various music genres. It’s a reemergence of the Black aesthetic, with the razor’s edge of impact, politically, artistically and socioeconomically.

In Mr. Simmonds’ book, he is aspirational, inspirational, unstoppable, delicate and indefatigable, with great focus, drive and rigor, elitism crumbling under his laser-like eye of excellence. Mr. Simmonds is a man to watch in the 21st century, as one of the most important gay black writers. Get the book. Read the book. Enjoy the book.t

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e’ll leave the coverage of the contentious 2000 presidential election to our news editor, and mull over some shining moments in arts, such as Sony Pictures Classics support of independent LGBT media with a full-page ad in our November 9 issue for the gay softball team/romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Club.

Remember when big corporations bought ads? Remember when we thought it was so brave of an all-straight cast to play gay men, including Dean Cain, who would later whine about the comic book version of Superman’s son being bisexual?

I could also give myself a pat on the back for one of my snarkiest Sports Complex columns (January 13), which explored the conundrum of race car driver Jeff Gordon’s ‘rainbow warrior’ car and, despite being an alleged heterosexual, his provocatively bulging silver uniform.

But instead, let’s focus on one delicious scoop; Richard Dodd’s March 9 interview with Liza Minnelli, as she prepared to perform her touring show, Minnelli on Minnelli at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre.

“It couldn’t be more personal,” she said of her song and storytelling concert. “I really fought hard to get back to where I am. I’ve done more rehab on my body than anybody I know. I really worked my butt off.”

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