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Vol. 48 • No. 40 • October 4-10, 2018

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Brian Asman cruised last year’s Castro Street Fair on his self-made balloon motorcycle.

GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick, left, talked with archivist Bill Levay in December.

New food, local vendors focus of Castro fair

B.A.R. digital archive project wraps up

by Matthew S. Bajko

ew food offerings and local artisans will be featured this Sunday, October 7, at the 45th annual Castro Street Fair. The neighborhood event, which has struggled in recent years with declining attendance and participation by LGBT civic groups, has taken several steps to reverse both trends this year. It reduced the cost for members of the Castro Merchants business association to rent booths at the fair. And it has brought in different food vendors See page 12 >>

In rare move, Brown vetoes LGBT bills

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Dancer wows Folsom crowd

steban DeLeon wowed the crowd with his dancing at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, September 30. Thousands of

people attended the leather and kink event, which was produced by Folsom Street Events.

digitization project to make archival issues of the Bay Area Reporter accessible online has wrapped up. Soon every issue of the LGBT newspaper based in San Francisco published between April 1, 1971 and August 5, 2005 will be available via two internet databases. The project was overseen by the GLBT Historical Society and funded by $68,000 in grants from the Bob Ross Foundation, named after the B.A.R.’s founding publisher who died in 2003. See page 12 >>

Archive documents late SF mayor Moscone’s close LGBT ties

by Matthew S. Bajko

overnor Jerry Brown, for the first time in five years, vetoed LGBT rights bills this legislative session. To the consternation of LGBT advocates and Education groups, Rick Gerharter Brown struck down Assembly Bill 2153, Governor Jerry authored by Assembly- Brown man Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), which would have funded annual training sessions for educators in the state on how to support LGBTQ students in grades seven through 12 and address issues they face in school like bullying and harassment. In a veto message issued Sunday, September 30, Brown noted that he had signed into law in 2015 AB 827, which required the state Department of Education to assess whether local schools are providing their certificated staff working in middle and high schools information about the resources available for LGBTQ students. “Current law also requires the department to monitor local schools to ensure the adoptions of See page 12 >>

n June 1977 an irate San Francisco resident mailed off a letter to then-mayor George Moscone. The focus of his ire was the planned Pride celebration at the end of the month. He complained that his relatives were likely to cancel their visit to the city after hearing on their local news about the “faggot (they say ‘gay’) festival AKA orgy” to be held in the city. In permitting the event, the letter writer asked Moscone, “Why do you buckle to the fag desires, other than VOTES?” Moscone sent a 210-word reply in late July thanking the person for their letter and defending the right of the city’s gay “tax-paying” residents, which he estimated numbered more than 100,000 men and women, to hold the annual event. “I am sorry that you object so violently to this parade, and that you feared for the safety of your relatives because such an event could take place in San Francisco,” wrote Moscone. “I would inform you, first of all, that our City passed an ordinance in 1972 which prohibits discrimination against citizens on the basis of race, religion, or sexual preference. As the mayor of San Francisco I am sworn to uphold the laws of this City to the best of my ability, and that is exactly what I intend to do.” The correspondence is just one illustration of how close Moscone was, both politically and socially, to the local LGBT community during his time in office. It is among the roughly 160,000

Courtesy of Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

A photographer from the Associated Press in 1977 captured this iconic image of Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone inside San Francisco City Hall.

documents that make up the George Moscone Collection housed at the University of the Pacific Library’s Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Moscone graduated with a B.A. in sociology in 1953 from the university in Stockton, California, when it was known as the College of the Pacific. A star basketball player and leader of the student government during his time there,

Moscone received an honorary law degree from the private university in 1976. His family agreed to donate Moscone’s papers to his alma mater in 2014. After receiving a $47,232 grant last year from the National Archives’ National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the university was able to See page 8 >>

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Phillips trial focuses on forensic evidence by Alex Madison

documents, theft of an access (ATM) card, and orensic and other scifelony possession of stolen entific evidence was the property, according to the main topic for witnesses in San Francisco District Atthe Michael Phillips murtorney’s office. der trial in San Francisco Authorities allege PhilSuperior Court October lips brutally killed Sheahan 1-2. Prosecutors are nearwith a sharp object, made ing an end to calling witit look like a suicide, and nesses and the defense is Michael Phillips then stole thousands of expected to start presentdollars from him, including ing its case soon. paintings, forged checks, Phillips, a gay man, remains in cusand attempted cash withdrawals with tody on $3 million bail. He pleaded Sheahan’s ATM card. Sheahan was sufnot guilty in April to murder, robbery, fering from Stage 4 lung cancer in the and other charges related to the death months leading up to his death. of James Sheahan, a 75-year-old gay Assistant District Attorney man. Phillips, 65, was arrested in NoO’Bryan Kenney has argued there was vember 2017 in connection with the no one else involved in the murder, death of Sheahan, whose body was while Phillips’ attorney, Deputy Pubfound August 14, 2017 in his Nob Hill lic Defender Kwixuan Maloof, told the apartment. jury during his opening statements in Phillips is also charged with August that someone else was there. elder abuse and fraud, two counts A lighter and pack of cigarettes of first-degree residential burglary, were found in Sheahan’s Bush Street possession of fraudulent financial apartment after his death, and

Maloof said that neither Sheahan nor Phillips smoked, indicating a third person was present. Luke Rodda, Ph.D., chief forensic toxicologist at the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office, took the stand October 1. Rodda testified that blood and urine samples were taken from Sheahan after his death. In the blood sample morphine, a Valium-type drug, an antidepressant, and caffeine were found. The same was found in the urine, along with an antihistamine. No nicotine was found in either sample, and Kenney asked if this meant that Sheahan did not smoke. “This suggests the subject did not smoke recently, or did not consume large amounts of smoke,” Rodda testified. “You cannot say for certain that a person didn’t consume something completely.” A criminalist with the San Francisco Police Department, Amy Lee, also testified about samples of bodily fluids taken as evidence from Sheahan’s

apartment. Lee’s job is to screen evidence and analyze it for DNA. On Tuesday, she testified that a pair of yellow gloves tested positively for Sheahan’s blood and the DNA of another, unknown male contributor. The DNA sample from the second contributor was so small that a conclusion could not be made as to exclude or include Phillips as the contributor, according to Lee. One of the two lighters that were found in Sheahan’s apartment did not test positively for blood, but did test positively for Sheahan’s DNA. The second lighter, tested positively for the DNA of two males, the major contributor being Sheahan, the minor contributor being inconclusive. Kenney asked if the secondary, minor source of DNA on the lighter could have been passed from Sheahan’s hand by previously touching the hand of someone else or from the lighter sitting on a couch that had come in contact with a person. Lee answered yes this was possible.

Two samples from a black shoe tested positively for Sheahan’s blood and one sample showed DNA of another male, though the results were inconclusive. Kenney again asked if this DNA could have gotten on the shoe by walking on the street. Lee answered yes. A floor mat tested positively for Phillips’ blood and the blood of another male, though the contributor was inconclusive. A pair of brown gloves also tested positively for Phillips’ blood. Lastly, a Trader Joe’s grocery bag that belonged to Phillips and was mentioned in opening statements was also tested. The interior of a red and black bag tested positively for Sheahan’s blood. A member of the defense team declined to tell the Bay Area Reporter whether Phillips plans to testify. t A longer version of this article is online at ebar.com.

Safe injection site backers vow to press on by Liz Highleyman

ocal elected officials, public health experts, and advocates expressed disappointment over Governor Jerry Brown’s veto of the safe injection site pilot program bill, with some vowing to continue their efforts to open a supervised injection facility in the city. On Sunday, hours before the October 1 deadline, Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 186, legislation that would have allowed San Francisco to open a pilot safe injection site. “Fundamentally, I do not believe that enabling illegal drug use in government-sponsored injection centers – with no corresponding requirement that the user undergo treatment – will reduce drug addiction,” Brown wrote in his veto message. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who supported the bill, said the city will continue to work toward the pilot project. “If we are going to prevent overdoses and connect people to services and treatment that they badly need to stop using drugs in the first place, we need safe injection sites. If we are going to stop the drug use we see in public every day and get needles off our streets, we need proven public health solutions,” Breed said in a statement. “Despite this veto, we will still continue to work with our community partners on trying to come up with a

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The Safer Inside demonstration project in August featured injection stations like this one to show the public what a supervised injection facility might look like.

solution to move this effort forward.” Breed, who lost her younger sister to a drug overdose, has been a proponent of supervised facilities, including working with Glide Memorial Methodist Church to open a realistic safe injection demonstration site in late August. (Drug consumption was not permitted during the demonstration period.) “As San Francisco, like thousands of communities across our nation, struggles to respond to the opioid crisis, Glide supports the evidencedbased, life-saving care offered through safe injection sites,” said Glide Foundation President and CEO Karen Hanrahan. “Glide will continue to support overdose prevention programs and will continue to work with Mayor Breed, community advocates,

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and public health organizations to make them possible.” Breed has not stated in detail how she intends to proceed and appears to still be deliberating. The recent resignation of the city’s health director, Barbara Garcia, and the ongoing search for a replacement complicates the situation. “I think it’s premature at this time to say that I would go ahead with opening a site,” Breed told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview this week. “I think it’s more appropriate to say I’m not giving up on the possibility.”

Science versus politics

Supervised injection facilities allow people to use drugs under the watch of medical staff, reducing the risk of overdose deaths. They provide sterile

needles, which prevents transmission of HIV and hepatitis B and C, and offer clients an entry point for seeking medical care and addiction treatment. Indoor sites also reduce street-based drug use and improper syringe disposal, seen as a growing problem in the city. There are currently around 100 safe injection sites worldwide. San Francisco – home to an estimated 22,500 people who inject drugs – is among several cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle, vying to open the first supervised injection facility in the United States. A growing body of evidence shows that supervised injection sites can reduce drug-related harms, including overdose deaths and infectious disease transmission, without worsening crime or other negative outcomes. One recent study found that a single supervised injection site in San Francisco could avert at least three new HIV infections and 19 cases of hepatitis C per year, while saving the city $3.5 million annually. AB 186, sponsored by lesbian Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) and co-authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would have amended state controlled substances laws to allow San Francisco to implement a three-year supervised injection pilot program. The bill originally

applied to several counties, but Eggman limited its scope after it narrowly failed to pass the Senate last year. The legislature passed the finalized bill on August 27. The same day, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an opinion piece in the New York Times, stating, “Because federal law clearly prohibits injection sites, cities and counties should expect the Department of Justice to meet the opening of any injection site with swift and aggressive action.” In response to the veto, Wiener said opposition at the federal level should not put a halt to efforts to open safe injection sites. “We should not allow threats from a backward federal government to stop us from helping people who are dying on our streets,” he said. “We are definitely not giving up on this important public health strategy.” On Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s leading in the polls for the gubernatorial race, told reporters he disagreed with Brown’s veto on AB 186. Brown’s statement rejecting the legislation addressed the federal warning, as well as his belief that people who use drugs should be required to undergo addiction treatment. See page 13 >>

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his November’s Board of Supervisors elections will usher in at least three new members, as veteran Supervisors Jane Kim in District 6 and Malia Cohen in District 10 are termed out of office and District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang decided not to seek re-election. In District 8, gay Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will easily win re-election as he has token opposition. Appointed District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani is facing a strong challenge from BART director Nick Josefowitz.

District 2: Catherine Stefani

In District 2, we give the edge to Catherine Stefani, who has been a hard-working supervisor since then-mayor Mark Farrell appointed her to his old seat in January. A straight ally, she understands LGBT issues, and issues that affect the LGBT community, like addiction. She supports supervised injection sites with supportive services, and stated in her questionnaire “drug use on our streets is out of control.” Unfortunately, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 186, which would have allowed San Francisco to establish a safe injection site pilot program. State lawmakers are expected to try again next year. Stefani supports a drop-in center or Navigation Center in District 2 and said she would advocate expanding the city’s homeless outreach team’s presence in the area. That likely will be challenging in the city’s wealthiest district, but every neighborhood in the city should do its part to drastically decrease homelessness. “To truly solve homelessness, we need more supportive housing to shelter people longterm and provide needed services,” she wrote. Stefani thinks that each supervisor should look for opportunities in their neighborhoods that are underutilized and could be rezoned with a higher density. In District 2, a special use district was created for the Lucky Penny site along Geary Boulevard, which upzoned a housing development from 21 to 95 units, creating 19 additional subsidized affordable units. Regarding her personal ties to the LGBT community, Stefani told us in an editorial board meeting that her sister came out in the 1990s, and it was a difficult process, something Stefani hopes others don’t have to experience. She is committed to LGBT issues such as backfilling federal HIV/AIDS cuts, and supported the renaming of Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport in honor of slain gay supervisor Harvey Milk. She served as the San Francisco leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Prior to becoming a supervisor, Stefani was the county clerk. Before that, she was a legislative aide to both Farrell and his predecessor, Michela Alioto-Pier. In other words, she knows how City Hall work, and knows District 2 issues and constituents. We endorse Stefani for a full four-year term.

District 4: Gordon Mar

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Gordon Mar, the fraternal twin brother of former District 1 supervisor Eric Mar, is running to represent the Sunset district in this open race. Cannabis is a controversial issue in the district; last year a medical dispensary was rejected by the Board of Supervisors after lobbying by conservative Chinese residents and the anti-gay Pacific Justice Institute. Mar said that he is committed to hearing every voice and, if elected, one of his first priorities will be to convene a Sunset District Cannabis Working Group to bring together neighborhood residents and build consensus. He told us that he believes that some areas of the district would welcome dispensaries, particularly west of Sunset Boulevard. On homelessness, Mar said that District 4 has the lowest number of homeless people and, therefore, doesn’t justify the expense of a Navigation Center. But he acknowledged the presence of more homeless people, likely due to sweeps in other parts of the city. On the other hand, allowing more accessory dwelling units, such as in-law units, in the Sunset would be “very appropriate,” he said. And he’s for higher density along transit corridors. On balance, we liked Mar’s positions. He’s a straight ally who has broad support within the LGBT community.

District 6: Matt Haney

Matt Haney is a straight ally who would hit the ground running in District 6. He lives in the Tenderloin and understands the needs of the district, which also includes South of Market and Treasure Island. “Things are really serious on the streets, and District 6 is ground zero on a lot of that,” he said in his editorial board meeting. The district is home to a sizable trans population, as well as the highest percentage of people living with HIV, Haney said. He is a strong advocate for PrEP, the daily prevention pill, and fully funding Getting to Zero, which aims to reduce HIV transmission to near-zero by 2020. He’d like to see universal access to PrEP with no barriers for those who want it. The nascent cannabis industry has a footprint in District 6, and Haney told us that was good for activating the area. He does not support further bans on dispensaries, like what the board voted on earlier this year for Chinatown. Homelessness is a constant issue in the district. “I want to reduce barriers at shelters, so people can bring their stuff,” he said, adding that an LGBT Navigation Center is needed. “Shelters also are an entry point for mental health services,” he said. Most importantly, Haney pledged to be a “neighborhood” supervisor. His office will be responsive to constituents. He said the LGBT community is a high priority for him and he’s committed to hiring LGBT staff. Currently a school board member, Haney said that, after he was elected, he visited every single school in the district. He talked about that kind of outreach as a supervisor. “I live in the Tenderloin. I don’t use a car,” he told us. “Being out there is very important.” This week, an anonymous person unleashed a vile online transphobic attack on Haney, under the guise of supporting his two opponents, Sonja Trauss and Christine Johnson. While each of them disavowed the post, which has since been removed from Medium.com, we’re quite confident that it was not, as Trauss speculated, a “false flag” planted by a Haney supporter. We’ve seen enough transphobia this election cycle to know that there is an underlying current in San Francisco. Haney respects all people and acknowledged that improvement is needed in District 6. “Economic justice and social justice, the systems have not served District 6,” he said, adding that he wants to fix the problems. “I think I have a track record,” he added. We do, too. Haney is our choice for District 6.

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District 8: Rafael Mandelman

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman must run again in November for a full four-year term on the board. He won a special election in June to complete the remaining few months of Scott Wiener’s term after he left for the state Senate. In the short time he has been in office, Mandelman has demonstrated that he is listening and responding to constituents. During an editorial board meeting, Mandelman told us he is working with city departments on the Harvey Milk Plaza project so that the work can be coordinated. And, while he expects the bulk of the funding to come from the city, to increase accessibility, among other issues, the community will need to raise at least $10 million to complete the project. Mandelman has already created a positive change in District 8. He told us that future projects include legislation to work on various problems, including Upper Market and Church Street corridor revitalization, tackling meth use in the gay community, and supporting efforts to reduce the homeless population. The Castro needs strong, positive leadership, and Mandelman is the right person to represent it on the Board of Supervisors. We are proud to endorse Mandelman.

District 10: Shamann Walton

Shamann Walton is a native of District 10 who grew up in public housing in the Bayview and Potrero Hill. The seat is open this year since the current supervisor, board President Malia Cohen, is termed out and running for the state Board of Equalization. Theo Ellington is another strong candidate for this seat, but on balance, we think Walton, currently on the school board, has the deep connections with residents and merchants that will help him be an effective supervisor.

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The district has seen an influx of LGBT and Asian residents in recent years, as it is one of the more affordable areas of the city. He wants to see more equity in the city’s cannabis regulations, so that people who have been harmed by the failed war on drugs can participate in all aspects of this burgeoning industry. As Walton told us in an editorial board meeting, the cannabis business is more than just selling pot. It’s cultivation, distribution, and science; minorities should have a stake in each of those areas, he said. He has developed affordable housing in the district and wants more units for all income levels. He wants to create more Navigation Centers with pathways to permanent housing and utilize abandoned buildings to house people and provide supportive services. As a renter, he said he understands the plight of the city’s tenants. Walton, a straight ally, has pledged to protect vulnerable communities, including LGBTs and working-class communities of color. We think he will be a strong voice for District 10 on the board. t

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October 4-10, 2018 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 5

Recent hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee were an embarrassing exercise in bad behavior and lack of due process for all to see. Guilty or not, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s histrionic performance – by turns emotional, self-pitying, belligerent, rude, and less than honest – clearly makes him unfit for a seat on the U.S. Supreme (or any other) Court. I believed Anita Hill then; I believe Professor Christine Blasey Ford now. And why the GOP’s rush to confirm without a thorough background check into the serious allegations against Kavanaugh? It’s full-steam ahead to seat their guy, facts and the truth be damned. Kudos to Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) for his integrity and willingness to compromise, something his colleagues would do well to emulate, as in the past. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would likely be on the court

for 30-plus years, with much at stake: Roe v. Wade, civil rights, same-sex marriage, Citizens United, environmental/animal protections, et al. Is this the future we wish for America? Not I. For the good of the country, Kavanaugh should withdraw his name. Surely there are more qualified and less controversial candidates. (Judge Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s choice, comes to mind.) The politicizing of the courts at every level really needs to stop – it demeans us all. Citizens are urged to call their senators ASAP, demanding that Kavanaugh not be confirmed. (Google “U.S. senators” for contact info.) Make America Great Again. Eric Mills Oakland, California

Gov Brown signs a dozen LGBT bills into law by Matthew S. Bajko

espite issuing rare vetoes of LGBT bills this session, Governor Jerry Brown cemented his legacy as the most pro-LGBT governor in the country’s history by signing into law 12 pieces of legislation that directly benefit LGBT Californians. The marquee bills this year included LGBT training for police officers, funding for homeless LGBT youth, protections for transgender foster youth, and ensuring June will always be designated Pride Month in the Golden State. Assembly Bill 2119, authored by gay Assemblyman Todd Gloria (DSan Diego), is first-of-its-kind legislation in the country guaranteeing transgender foster youth can access health care services consistent with their gender identity. It includes interventions to align a patient’s physical appearance with the patient’s gender identity and interventions to alleviate symptoms of gender dysphoria. “With the signing of this bill, we tell our foster youth that no matter who you are or how you identify, there is a place for you in California,” stated Gloria. “We want our future generations to know they have a safe place to grow up and live. At its core, that’s what this bill does – we empower transgender and gender non-conforming foster youth to live authentically despite their circumstances.” The bill also instructs the California Department of Social Services, in consultation with the California Department of Healthcare Services, to develop guidelines by January 1, 2020 on how to identify, coordinate, and support foster youth who wish to access gender-affirming health care. Senate Bill 918, the Homeless Youth Act of 2018 co-authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio (DBaldwin Park), provides resources for housing, services and supports for youth experiencing homelessness and tasks the state’s Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council with overseeing the program. It follows state lawmakers this year budgeting $25 million toward assisting the more than 15,000 homeless youth under the age of 25 living in California, many of which identify as LGBTQ. “It’s unacceptable that so many youth are living on our streets,” stated Wiener. “We have a moral responsibility to help these kids get into housing, get stable, and get onto a positive path in life. Yet, two-thirds of our counties don’t even have youth-specific homeless programs, and the state itself isn’t doing enough. SB 918 is a first step toward ensuring California doesn’t let these kids fall through the cracks.” Another bill seen as helping

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LGBTQ homeless youth is AB 2490, authored by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco). It eliminates the fees charged to people experiencing homelessness seeking to obtain certified birth certificates directly from the state rather than having to return to the county of their birth. Despite nixing a bill that would have funded training for teachers on how to assist LGBTQ students, Brown did sign Chiu’s AB 2291 requiring the California Department of Education to establish guidelines to prevent bullying and disseminate online training modules to local educators. “California teachers are on the front lines of protecting our students from bullying and cyberbullying, but we need to equip them with the training and tools to do so,” stated Rick Zbur, executive director of the statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California, which co-sponsored the dozen LGBT-related bills signed by Brown. AB 2639, co-authored by Assemblymen Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto) and Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), requires the state’s schools to review their suicide prevention policies at least every five years and to update them if necessary. “Having outdated suicide prevention policies will do little to protect our students,” stated Berman. “This proactive bill will ensure that schools’ suicide prevention policies stay relevant and continue to support students’ mental health needs.” Brown signed several LGBT bills related to public safety issues this year. AB 2504, authored by gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), requires the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop a course of training for California peace officers and dispatchers on issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity differences in order to create a more inclusive workplace and improve law enforcement’s effectiveness in serving the LGBTQ+ community. According to the group Out to

Protect, it is the first state law to provide LGBTQ awareness training for law enforcement officers and 9-1-1 dispatchers. It takes effect January 1, like most of the legislation. “Although I had an amazing law enforcement career, I stayed closeted until 2004. Although things are better today, homophobia is still pervasive in the profession,” said Greg Miraglia, a gay former police officer at three different Bay Area departments who helped draft the bill and has trained others in the profession for 32 years. Also signed by Brown in June was Assemblyman Phil Ting’s (D-San Francisco) AB 1985 requiring local law enforcement agencies to update and strengthen their policies on hate crimes, including those committed against LGBT individuals. He had first introduced it last year but pulled it due to concerns about its cost; a review this year found it would have minimal fiscal impacts. In August Brown signed AB 2719, authored by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), which adds sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to the definition of elderly communities to be given priority consideration for programs and services administered through the California Department of Aging. “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Californians will now have certainty that the state will continue to take into account their unique circumstances as they age,” stated Irwin, “and our current elderly LGBTQ population will continue to benefit from having priority in the planning and implementation of programs they need to age with dignity.” AB 2663, by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), provides retroactive relief to individuals who were registered as domestic partners in municipal jurisdictions and may have had their property taxes increased due to the death of a partner. The bill ensures that locally registered domestic partners who may not have registered with the state during a certain time period can continue to afford their homes. Brown also signed AB 2684, the LGBTQ Family Law Modernization Act of 2018 authored by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica). It ensures that the parentage provisions of the state Family Code treat same-sex parents equally. Lastly, Brown signed Low’s AB 2969 establishing June as Pride Month in state statute and Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia’s (D-Coachella) AB 2439 designating Desert Memorial Parks’ LGBTQ Veterans Memorial located in Cathedral City as the state’s official LGBTQ Veteran Memorial. Brown’s signing of the dozen bills this year adds to his legacy as the most LGBT-friendly governor in the state’s, and country’s, See page 13 >>

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t Supreme Court may get LGBT cases this session 6 • BAY AREA REPORTER • October 4-10, 2018

by Lisa Keen

ases before the U.S. Supreme Court seem almost like an afterthought after last week’s political slugfest over the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s second nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. But there are several cases that are of great importance to the LGBT community as the high court began its 2018-2019 session this week. In fact, this session could be one of the busiest in history for LGBT-related concerns. At least three cases appealed to the Supreme Court ask whether existing federal law protects LGBT people from employment discrimination and a fourth one is on the way; at least four cases could revisit the question

of whether a business person can cite their religious beliefs to violate state law prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people; and three lawsuits challenging Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military could wind their way up to the high court this session.

Employment cases

The Supreme Court had three LGBT-related employment cases on its list of potential appeals so far this session. Two were on the agenda for the justices’ September 24 conference but were rescheduled for an as yet unidentified date. The third has been given more time for briefs to be submitted, until October 24. Altitude Express v. Zarda (from

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The sister of David Zarda, above, who died before his case was resolved, is fighting her late brother’s firing from a recreational parachuting company.

Public accommodations cases return

During the last session, the justices essentially balked at ruling on a case about whether a business can refuse to serve customers because of their sexual orientation. The case was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado. By dispensing with the case on procedural grounds, it put the issue off to another day. That day may come this session, and there are several cases that might provide the opportunity. Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Cervelli (Hawaii Supreme Court): This case, which has until mid-October to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asks whether the operator of a bed and breakfast can refuse to rent rooms to guests based on their sexual orientation. A state appeals court said no; the Hawaii Supreme Court refused further appeal. The Aloha B&B offers guest rooms for rent in a residential section of Oahu that includes a bay popular for snorkeling. A lesbian couple from California sought to rent a room there because they were visiting friends nearby. When Diane Cervelli called the B&B to make the reservation and mentioned her partner’s name, the operator of the B&B asked whether the two women were lesbians. Cervelli answered yes. The B&B operator said, “We’re strong Christians. I’m very uncomfortable in accepting the reservation from you,” and hung up. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund helped the couple file suit, and the state courts found the operator violated the state law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations. The B&B argued that, because it operates out of the owner’s personal residence, it should not be subject to the public accommodations law. And it argued that the non-discrimination law violated the owner’s right to free exercise of religion. But the state courts said that, if the B&B is open to the public, it must abide by the state law governing public accommodations. And the courts said the state non-discrimination law was neutral on the matter of religion and does not interfere in a substantial way with the owner’s religious exercise. At least three other cases testing the strength of non-discrimination laws against the claims of religious exercise are making their ways through state courts at the moment – in Washington state, Oregon, and Colorado. Each involves a bakery refusing to sell a cake to a person because of the person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The Colorado case involves the Masterpiece Cakeshop that won a temporary reprieve from a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that found the state human rights commission had demonstrated hostility for baker Jack Phillips’ claim that religious beliefs prompted him to refuse to sell a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding reception. The current

lawsuit against him is for refusing to sell an attorney, Autumn Scardina, a cake to celebrate her birthday and anniversary of coming out as transgender. Importantly, Scardina did not ask for the cake to include any message – just that it be pink on the inside and blue on the outside. Phillips refused, saying his religious beliefs prevented him from doing so. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has ruled Phillips to be in violation of state discrimination laws. The Alliance Defending Freedom, the antiLGBT group that represented Phillips in his first case, has once again filed a federal lawsuit (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Elenis on August 14), claiming the commission is exhibiting hostility to Phillips’ religious beliefs. Parties are due before a magistrate October 24.

Transgender people in the military

At least four lawsuits are challenging whether Trump’s 2017 directive against allowing transgender people to serve in the military can stand. Three federal district courts have blocked the administration from implementing the ban, and the Trump administration has re-worded its ban in an effort to make it more palatable to the courts. But opponents say it’s still a ban on transgender people serving in the military. All the cases are in federal district court and, thus, may not make it through the appellate courts in time to reach the Supreme Court this session. However, the Trump administration made an appeal to the Supreme Court on one case already: Karnowski v. Trump, brought by Lambda Legal. In mid-September the administration asked the Supreme Court to stay an order of the U.S. District Court in Washington state that the Trump administration produce documents related to “presidential communication” related to development of the ban. One day later, it withdrew the request, noting the 9th Circuit had granted the stay. In U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a judge has ruled that a challenge brought by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders may go forward (Jane Doe v. Trump). Equality California is involved with a third case, Stockman v. Trump, that is in a district court in California. And in U.S. District Court for Maryland, the American Civil Liberties Union has a challenge to the ban in the Stone v. Trump case. The lawsuits argue that the proposed ban would violate the rights to equal protection and due process for existing and prospective transgender members of the military.

Discrimination in education

A former student at the University of North Carolina has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, asking whether the school may have violated Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act, which prohibits discrimination based on gender. Kenda Kirby, now living in Oklahoma, wrote the petition herself and says her former school took adverse action against her after she attended a “gay rights rally” and supported Democrat Hillary Clinton for president. t

Correction

The September 27 article, “Country, urban mix found in Sonoma”, contained the incorrect spelling for Chris Morano. The ownership of Big Bottom Market should have been listed as Michael Volpatt, who bought out former co-owner Crista Luedtke’s stake in early 2017. The online version has been corrected.

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t LGBTQ affairs office expands staff by Samuel Johnson

Francisco supervisor. Maribel Martinez, a he Santa Clara County queer woman of color who Board of Supervisors is the director of the Office has authorized funding for of LGBTQ Affairs, said she several additional staff pois not worried about a disitions at the county’s Ofminishing focus or becomfice of LGBTQ Affairs, and ing ensnared in a larger web approved a reorganization of resource competition. that will see it become part “The Office of LGBTQ Jo-Lynn Otto of the new Division of EqAffairs will continue to Supervisor Ken uity and Social Justice. devote our efforts and Yeager The changes, pushed by outreach to the LGBTQ gay Supervisor Ken Yeager, community members as we come at the end of his time on the board have been doing,” she said. “In doing as he is termed out this year. At a brunch so, we will be able to assist the OfSunday where the Bay Area Municipal fices of Immigrant Relations, Women’s Elections Committee, which Yeager coPolicy and Cultural Competency with founded, presented him with a lifetime LGBTQ-related issues.” achievement award, Yeager noted that Martinez believes that the reorgathe LGBTQ affairs office is the first of its nization of offices under one division kind in the country. will “ensure we are not working in “I know it will have ripple effects. silos but working collectively to creThe office has gone from two to 11 ate a welcoming environment that is employees in the span of three years culturally responsive....” because there is so much work for The LGBTQ affairs and immigrant them to do,” said Yeager. relations offices already share an adOther divisions slated to join the ministrative assistant. Bearing that in Office of LGBTQ Affairs under the mind, Yeager acknowledged concern new Division of Equality and Social that the LGBTQ affairs office might be Justice are Cultural Competency, encroached upon by one of the other Immigrant Relations, and Women’s offices within the new division. Policy. These will all fall under the “Since there are so many opportuauspices of gay Deputy County Exnities for intersectional work between ecutive David Campos, a former San See page 13

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or violent deaths, as well as in living people he San Francisco Board charged with crimes such of Supervisors unanias sexual assault and drivmously approved a $100,000 ing under the influence,” settlement for a lawsuit filed Lemos’ complaint states. by the city’s gay former chief The city hired Rodda toxicologist at its meeting in May 2016. The lawsuit Tuesday, October 2. claims that after reviewNikolas Lemos, Ph.D., ing materials that Rodda filed a wrongful terminaprovided that year, Lemos Nikolas Lemos, tion lawsuit against the Ph.D. concluded that he “likely city in 2017. did not have the neces“We are very pleased it sary academic and prowas approved,” said Robert Nelson, fessional credentials to be certified Lemos’ attorney, in an interview with under Title 17,” the complaint says. the Bay Area Reporter. “It’s a satisfacIn the court document, Title 17 is tory resolution for everyone involved.” explained as requiring “technicians Nelson also said his client was conducting DUI tests to have various “pleased to have this behind him,” and certifications from governing boards that he is actively interviewing for jobs and state departments in the areas as a medical examiner. of forensic toxicology and alcohol As previously reported by the analysis,” and that, “Only appropriB.A.R., in February 2017, Lemos ately educated and certified scientists filed a wrongful termination lawsuit can conduct forensic alcohol testing against the city in San Francisco on DUI suspects in California.” Superior Court, claiming he “beLemos said in the filing that he grudgingly resigned” in July 2016 notified Christopher Wirowek, the after he was “instructed ... to engage medical examiner’s deputy director, in unlawful activity” by assisting “an who told him “not to do the job” unlicensed forensic toxicologist to ilof the state certification authorilegally perform DUI alcohol testing.” ties and ordered him to nominate That alleged unlicensed toxicoloRodda for certification anyway. gist, Luke Rodda, Ph.D., replaced When the lawsuit first came to Lemos in July 2016 after Lemos relight, San Francisco Public Defender signed. Rodda is still serving as chief Jeff Adachi expressed concern about toxicologist, according to court test results from the toxicology lab documents and Rodda’s LinkedIn at the medical examiner’s office, profile. The suit claims the medical telling District Attorney George examiner’s office kept Rodda on Gascón last year that he was “very staff even after it was learned that concerned” that the lab wasn’t comRodda didn’t meet the requirements plying with state regulations. to be certified under Title 17 of CaliIn a follow-up email sent to the fornia’s Code of Regulations, which B.A.R. last year Adachi said that Chief addresses DUI analysis. Assistant District Attorney Sharon The medical examiner’s office Woo called him and said that because did not respond to the B.A.R. for a “the chief toxicologist did not do any request for comment or to confirm of the testing himself there is no reathat Rodda is a licensed forensic son to question what may have haptoxicologist. pened or the integrity of the testing.” Lemos had worked as the city’s Alex Bastian, a spokesman for chief toxicologist since October Gascón, previously told the B.A.R. 2003 where he conducted and that “Dr. Rodda has not tested nor supervised “testing to determine attested to any Title 17 DUI cases, whether there were drugs or alcohol and it appears as though the lab is in in victims of sudden, unexpected, compliance with Title 17.”t

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8 • BAY AREA REPORTER • October 4-10, 2018

Moscone archive

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process the archival material and digitize a portion of the documents so they are accessible online to researchers, students, and anyone interested in learning more about Moscone. “Our whole purpose is to share. We really want to get these into people’s hands and allow them to see history first hand,” said Mike Wurtz, the head of special collections at the university. In July, the library uploaded roughly 200 items online from the Moscone collection. The documents include Moscone’s letters and speeches, photos, and other ephemera from his life. There are also 60 oral histories that filmmakers hired by the university are incorporating into a documentary about Moscone. Narrated by the actor Peter Coyote, the film will debut October 23 at the university’s Stockton campus and be shown at its San Francisco campus October 25. KVIE, the PBS station in the Central Valley, will air it November 5 and is pitching it to other PBS affiliates across the country to broadcast it next month. “He was a real progressive and made no apologies about it,” said Joseph Olson, the project archivist hired to process the collection. “He was just a man of the people; a San Franciscan born and raised. I think the values he had were really shaped by San Francisco itself.”

Early life

Born November 24, 1929, Moscone grew up in the city’s Marina district. His father was a prison guard at San Quentin and his mother a homemaker. After earning his undergraduate degree, Moscone graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law. He served in the Navy for two years and then went to work as a lawyer. He married Gina Bondanza, and the couple had four children, including Jonathan Moscone, who is gay and a well-known theater director.

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George Moscone’s political career was launched in 1963 when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Three years later he was elected to the state Senate and quickly rose to the powerful majority leader position. While in the Legislature, Moscone cemented his reputation as a progressive politician, helping to pass legislation that legalized abortion in California and repealed the state’s anti-gay sodomy laws. He was sworn in as San Francisco’s 37th mayor in January 1976. One of his first moves as mayor was to appoint gay rights activist Harvey Milk to the city’s Permit Appeals Board. It marked the first time an LGBT person had been given a mayoral appointment to a major oversight body. The following year Moscone appointed the late Del Martin, a wellknown lesbian leader, to the city’s Commission on the Status of Women. The mayor also helped push through district elections for the city’s supervisor seats that year, paving the way for Milk to again make history. In November 1977, Milk won a supervisor seat, marking the first time an out LGBT candidate had won elective office in both San Francisco

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and the state of California. The following April Moscone and Milk, in conjunction with then-supervisors Carol Ruth Silver and Bob Gonzales, enacted the most sweeping gay rights protections of any city in the country. Known as the Human Rights Ordinance, it banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, and public accommodations in the private sector. In response to the parents of a gay son living in the city who had written him in thanks of signing the law, and included a $20 donation to the mayor, Moscone responded with a note of his own. Dated July 1, 1977, Moscone noted that, “In San Francisco we have tried to set a dignified example for the rest of the nation. We have tried to show the rest of the world that people can live together in peace, free from hostility and prejudice. That will continue to be our highest priority in this city, and I hope our nation as well. “With the support of generous people like you, we will surely triumph in the end,” he added. Moscone also received praise for how he handled the tragic killing of Robert Hillsborough, a gay man and city gardener, that June outside his home in the Mission district mere days ahead of the annual Pride weekend. One letter from a city resident thanked Moscone for his “forthright and decisive manner.” It prompted a solemn reply from the mayor, with Moscone writing in a letter dated June 30, 1977 that he learned with “great sadness and anger” of Hillsborough’s death. “Such an outrageous attack has no place in our city and I am grateful for the excellent work done by the San Francisco Police Department in apprehending those suspected of being responsible for this senseless crime,” he wrote.

Joyous moments

The archive also documents more joyous moments of Moscone’s mayoralty. Several press clippings from the spring of 1978 recount his throwing out the first pitch at the season opener for the city’s gay softball league. Another from the January 30, 1978 issue of the San Francisco Examiner reported on the mayor being “warmly received” at the annual contest to elect the next empress of the Imperial Court, a charitable organization formed by local drag queens. Moscone’s administration was the first to designate city funds toward the annual Pride celebration. The archive includes a March 2, 1978 news release from the city’s then chief administrative officer Roger Boas announcing that $10,000 from the hotel tax fund had been allocated to the event, then known as the Gay Freedom Day Parade. That year Moscone also took a very public role in helping Milk and other LGBT leaders defeat the antigay Briggs initiative on the fall ballot. The measure known as Proposition 6 would have banned LGBT people and their straight allies from working in the state’s public schools. Several documents in the archive illustrate Moscone’s opposition to the ballot measure. One is the statement he issued May 9, 1978 asking the public not to sign the petitions in support of seeing it be placed on the ballot. Saying he was “staunchly opposed” to the Briggs initiative, Moscone lambasted it as a “dangerous measure” that strikes “at the heart of our democracy.” He noted he was “proud” to have recently signed the city’s groundbreaking gay rights law and was equally “disturbed that the Briggs initiative would reverse the positive effects of such legislation.” An item in the September 29, 1978 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle noted Moscone’s attendance at a $100 a plate fundraising dinner for antiProp 6 group the No on Six Committee. It quoted the mayor as saying the initiative was “the most outrageous distortion of what this country stands for I’ve ever seen.”

When John Briggs, the Republican state senator behind the measure, attempted to hold a news conference in San Francisco on Halloween night near the public celebration then held along Polk Street, Moscone showed up with Silver, Milk, and other city leaders. As the Chronicle reported the following day, Briggs spoke to reporters “and then got in his car, surrounded by 4 aides, and sped off.” Coverage of the defeat of the measure is also included in the archive. A clipping from the November 8, 1978 Chronicle reported how Moscone had shown up at the Market Street headquarters for the anti-Prop 6 campaign and declared, “It puts to rest the people who would run for office on the basis of fear issues.” The mayor added, “This is not a victory over a lightweight like John Briggs. It is a victory over the despair that has fallen on gay people. It’s a victory of intellect over emotion.”

Fraught relationship at times

While Moscone and Milk’s political alliance is well known, a review of the documents in the mayor’s archival collection reveals how their collaboration was at times strained. For instance, to the chagrin of Moscone, within weeks of Milk being sworn in to his seat on the permit appeals board he announced he would run for a state Assembly seat, a race that he lost. According to various press clippings in the archive, Moscone had been under the impression that Milk would use the oversight body seat to gain name recognition ahead of running for supervisor in 1977. “Harvey knew how I felt about it, before all of this,” Moscone told the Bay Area Reporter in an article published March 18, 1976. The mayor explained that he had told Milk, “I am going to give you the shorter of the staggered terms so your term will end in 1977. Then there will be no conflict. When you quit you will be declaring for the Board of Supervisors. He knew very well that I was trying to help him and that I did not want his service on the permit board to be used for campaigning.” Yet Milk didn’t view his appointment in the same politically advantageous light as Moscone. Nor was he willing to wait to seek public office. In a story that April published by the Advocate, Milk said, “I’m not controllable. I wouldn’t be anybody’s puppet.” Moscone replaced Milk on the appeals board with another gay appointee, lawyer Rick Stokes, which the Advocate article noted had “no immediate political ambitions.” Stokes, however, would unsuccessfully challenge Milk for the newly created District 5 supervisor seat that included the gay Castro district in the fall of 1977. The issue of mayoral appointments was a particular flashpoint between Moscone and LGBT leaders. Early in his tenure the mayor faced criticism from Milk and Phyllis Lyon, a lesbian activist and

longtime partner of Martin’s, for not appointing either to the police commission, which had yet to have LGBT representation. (Lyon and Martin made history in 2008 when they were the first same-sex couple to marry in San Francisco.) As quoted in one undated press clipping contained in the archive from the Sentinel, a gay newspaper, Lyon asked, “When is anybody ever going to be ready?” in response to a suggestion that Moscone felt the timing wasn’t right to name an out police commissioner. Milk was quoted as asking the same question. Yet in a letter Milk sent to Moscone, he informed the mayor he had written the paper to refute the tenor of the article and claimed that his quote in the story was “a fabrication.” Milk suggested the story was meant to make both him and Moscone “look poor” and apologized for the paper’s “yellow journalism.” However, Milk would again that year publicly criticize Moscone for not appointing more LGBT people to city boards and commissions. A May 17 newspaper clipping from a local newspaper reported that Milk felt the mayor, who had named three out appointees, had slighted gay people because he had appointed more women and minorities. “We certainly haven’t had our share considering we voted for him,” Milk told the reporter from the San Mateo-based paper. In an interview published in the November 23, 1977 issue of the B.A.R., which is also included in the archive, Moscone pledged that he would name a gay person to the police commission before he left office. Attorney Matthew Coles, a gay man who worked to elect Moscone as mayor and helped write the gay rights bill that he signed into law, said in a recent interview that he found Moscone’s support for the LGBT community to be genuine and from the heart. “He was one of those straight men you run across from time to time who wasn’t in the least bit uncomfortable around gay men,” recalled Coles, who is now on the UC Hastings faculty. “Particularly back then, among straight men, that was pretty unusual. I thought he was very honest and a sincere supporter.” Tragically, Moscone’s term as mayor was cut short on the morning of November 27, 1978. Disgruntled former supervisor Dan White had snuck into City Hall with a gun and fatally shot both the mayor and Milk. One of the more chilling documents in the collection is the news release Moscone intended to issue that day announcing he was appointing Don Horazny to White’s vacant supervisor seat. Written in red ink on the first page is the note that it was “NEVER ISSUED.”t To learn more about the George Moscone Collection, which is open to the public by appointment, or to access documents in the archive online, visit https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/moscone/.

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The November 23, 1977 issue of the Bay Area Reporter featured a transcript of then-mayor George Moscone’s remarks at a forum held by a number of local LGBT groups.

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LDS ancestry database to add same-sex families by Cynthia Laird

uring Pride Month in June, LGBTs interested in family history received interesting news: beginning next year, the world’s largest genealogy organization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will release a redesigned website that will include same-sex families. FamilySearch.org, sponsored by the Mormons, first said in 2015 that it would add a feature for same-sex relationships, the Deseret News reported. Now, the major overhaul to the website’s system should be ready by 2019. There are several other family history sites – Ancestry.com is probably the best known – that already allow same-sex recognition. In addition to Ancestry, other major sites are Israel-based MyHeritage and Englandbased Findmypast. FamilySearch is

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Cox to appear at TLC benefit mmy-nominated trans actress Laverne Cox will be the honoree at Spark, the Transgender Law Center’s annual benefit that takes place Thursday, October 18, at 6 p.m. at the Bently Reserve, 310 Battery Street in San Francisco. TLC is celebrating 16 years of igniting change and doing what it takes to keep transgender and gender-nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation, organizers said. Cox, who is best known for her work on the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” will receive the organization’s Vanguard Award. Tickets start at $150. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://transgenderlawcenter. org/spark.

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Draft rules may allow for cannabis consumption by Sari Staver

s the nation’s first marijuana kitchen opens in Tempe, Arizona, San Francisco still bans the use of cannabis-infused foods and beverages in restaurants and bars, frustrating industry leaders who say the city’s restrictive policies are behind the times. While passage of state Proposition 64 liberalized the sale of cannabis to adults over age 21 from its previous policy allowing it to only be sold to medical patients, the new law, which became effective earlier this year, strictly prohibits the use of cannabis in restaurant foods and beverages. SaraMitra Payan, the vice chair of the San Francisco Cannabis State Legalization Task Force and the public education officer at the Apothecarium dispensaries, said in a telephone interview that, although the state’s current regulations are “not ideal,” they are also “not written in stone forever.” “We have a lot to do to create safe rules for consumption,” said Payan. “Those of us who work in the industry understand that, used properly, cannabis can provide a really wonderful experience. But we need more places where people can consume and learn how to use the products safely and appropriately. “San Francisco can do better,” she added. Last month, the city issued proposed regulations that will enable cannabis to be sold and used onsite at additional locations that meet the city’s licensure policy. Those guidelines, published in a 20-page document available online (https:// www.sfdph.org/dph/files/EHSdocs/ ehsPublsdocs/SFDPH_Draft_Rules_ Call Now to Make an Appointment For_Public_Comment_Cannawith a Wallbed Expert! bis_Consumption.pdf), describe three types of licenses available in the city for people who want to open 2 Convenient Locations “lounges” where adults typically can 550 15th Street vaporize flowers or concentrates or Suite #2 eat prepackaged approved foods. San Francisco Comments can be submitted online 415-854-7748 via Survey Monkey, by email, or in writing via snail mail. The deadline for 2515 S. El Camino Real receipt of comments is October 21. San Mateo Under the draft proposal, the San 650-264-9541 Francisco Department of Public Newly Designed Location Health establishes rules, regulations, and/or guidelines to establish the Accessories and More From minimum health and safety standards that businesses must maintain to be eligible to receive and maintain a canLargest Selection of Murphy Wallbeds In Town! SFMurphyBeds.com nabis consumption permit. Terrance Alan, chair of the legalization task force and owner of the CasWallbeds_053118.indd 1 5/30/18 10:46 AM tro cafe, Flore, commended the city for beginning the process to liberalize consumption but said he was disappointed that it isn’t moving faster. The draft guidelines “just don’t address the practical ways that people

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want to use cannabis,” said Alan. Both tourists and local residents want to be able to go out and enjoy cannabis the way they enjoy a glass of wine or cocktail. Restricting use to a small room attached to a dispensary just doesn’t make sense, he said in a telephone interview. Alan acknowledged the city’s limitation in loosening consumption regulations, which are governed by the state and that strictly forbid restaurants and bars to sell or use pot. The Bay Area Reporter reached out for a comment to the San Francisco Office of Cannabis several times but did not hear back by press time. In the meantime, San Francisco cannabis users who want a public spot to enjoy some flowers in a vaporizer can choose from seven dispensaries that were grandfathered into the regulatory system under Proposition 64 (https://www.ebar.com/news/ news//256592). At one of those locations, SPARC’s South of Market dispensary at 1251 Mission Street, the 40-seat lounge area has gotten “a lot busier” since adult use went into effect, officials there said. Robbie Rainin, the director of retail for SPARC, said in a telephone interview that staffers have been spending an increasing amount of time helping first time cannabis users to learn how to best use the products sold at the dispensary and offer hands-on instruction using the vaporizers. “A lot of our clients who live in government-assisted housing may be unable to use cannabis at home and are glad to have a place like our lounge where they have a safe space to consume,” Rainin said. And if you’re willing to cross the Bay Bridge for a cannabis social experience, Magnolia Dispensary, at

161 Adeline Street in Oakland, is in the process of building a cafe where people can vaporize while dining, although cooking with cannabis will still be prohibited. Debby Goldsberry, executive director at Magnolia, said she is hoping to be able to sell prepackaged infused ice cream toppings that customers can use with the non-medicated ice cream that will be sold there. “That would really be fun, don’t you think?” said Goldsberry. Goldsberry expressed optimism that regulations will eventually loosen up, pointing out that California Governor Jerry Brown just signed legislation, Assembly Bill 2020, which gives cities the authority to grant licenses so that people can use pot at temporary cannabis events. And in other local news, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman recently introduced an ordinance that would enable medical cannabis operators who are waiting for their retail permits to continue to operate on previous permits through the end of next year, while the office of cannabis continues to process the some 240 permit applications submitted in recent months. In addition, according to a news release issued by Mandelman’s office last month, the ordinance will strengthen so-called equity ownership to help those impacted by the war on drugs to be able to own and operate a successful cannabis business. It will also give more flexibility to existing operators who are getting priced out of their leases or dealing with predatory landlords. Mandelman said the legislation will sit for 30 days so that the co-sponsors of the legislation can work with the city’s cannabis office to solicit comments and feedback and make any additional amendments necessary prior to acting on the bill later this fall. “This industry is in its infancy, and in the years to come will be a significant creator of new, good jobs and local economic activity,” said Mandelman. “The way our city regulates the retail cannabis industry needs to be as innovative as the industry itself, and what I’m introducing today is a step in that direction – a series of proactive policy solutions that will allow the retail cannabis industry to continue to grow in a way that is sustainable for operators as well as the city.” t Bay Area Cannasseur runs the first Thursday of the month. To send column ideas or tips, email Sari Staver at sari@bayareacannasseur.com.

Governor vetoes Wiener’s low-income cannabis bill by Sari Staver

The bill, authored by gay state Senator Scott overnor Jerry Brown Wiener (D-San Francisvetoed proposed co) would have enabled legislation that would’ve not-for-profit programs to made it easier for lowand dispensaries to proincome people to access vide free cannabis to a free medical cannabis. medical patient if certain On September 30, the requirements were met, governor vetoed Senate including the donated Rick Gerharter Bill 829, which would product being approved State Senator have exempted compas- Scott Wiener for sale in the state. sionate care programs SB 829, co-authored from paying state canby Assemblyman Jim nabis taxes when they are Wood (D-Santa Rosa) and supproviding free medical marijuana ported by many activist groups and to financially disadvantaged people industry representatives, pointed with serious health conditions. out that following the passage of

Proposition 215 in 1996 – legalizing medical use of cannabis in the state – many compassionate care programs were launched to provide free pot to low-income people with illnesses such as HIV, cancer, glaucoma, and other life threatening conditions. Cultivators and retailers donated the cannabis to these programs, which in turn provided marijuana to patients. With the enactment of Proposition 64, legalizing adult use of cannabis, taxes were put in place for both recreational and medical use of marijuana. In introducing the bill, Wiener said that the bill was necessary See page 13 >>

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t Coalition fighting back against homeless sweeps

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by Christina A. DiEdoardo

o many, the city of San Francisco has long gotten more credit for being a “progressive” municipal government than the actual deeds of its employees and elected officials would merit. To the Coalition on Homelessness, there are few clearer examples of this phenomena of the gap between declared city policy and reported street realities than in how San Francisco Public Works and the San Francisco Police Department handle sweeps of homeless encampments and protection of seized property. Of course, calling what takes place when city employees show up at these locations a sweep is to indulge in euphemism. For those on the receiving end, it can often feel more akin to a search and destroy mission. “Right now, we’re seeing a lot of people who are right there [when public works arrives] and saying, ‘Please don’t take my stuff,’” Kelly Cutler, a staff organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness, said at a September 27 training for community activists. “And they’re taking it anyway.” In all cases, the results are tragic. In some, they can be fatal. “The city has an obsession with tents and peoples’ belongings right now,” Cutler said. “We’re getting reports of peoples’ HIV medication being thrown away and their Narcan. After a sweep, someone overdosed.” When administered properly, Narcan, or naloxone, can be an effective means of countering an overdose of opiates like heroin. Many local organizations, including the St. James Infirmary, offer training in its use and will resupply registered providers. Chris Herring, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology who also serves as an organizer for the coalition, agreed with Cutler. According to Herring, public works and the SFPD frequently tell encampment residents “Take what you can, and we’ll bag and tag the rest. We give someone 25 minutes to move.”

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Kelly Cutler, left, and Chris Herring, organizers with the Coalition on Homelessness, last month gave a training on helping the homeless protect their property during sweeps. The coalition is looking for outreach volunteers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

It’s not supposed to be this way. “Three years ago, we worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, because there was a situation with the destruction of peoples’ property,” said Herring. “If someone wasn’t around [when public works arrived], they treated it as abandoned property.” Thanks to work by the coalition and other advocacy organizations, in May both SFPD and public works changed their policies. According to the coalition, personal property of an encampment resident that is stored in a way that looks like the owner intends to return for it – or which the owner or someone else says is theirs – is classified under the new rules as “temporarily unattended property” and is supposed to be “bagged and tagged” and taken to the public works yard so the owner can have a shot at retrieving their items. There are exceptions for things that pose a health risk, like sharps (needles) and chemicals, or which have been contaminated by mold, urine or fecal matter, are infested with vermin, are perishable, bulky

(like furniture) or are simply illegal to possess, like narcotics. Outside of those exceptions, however, the majority of encampment residents’ property is supposed to be seized, rather than destroyed. But Herring and Cutler say that isn’t happening. “Our definition of a good bag and tag is if the property gets to the [public works] yard and is filed,” Herring said. “What we’re finding is that items are not getting to the DPW yard. Like, none.” The problem has become more acute in the last few months for two reasons. First, according to Cutler, the city has dramatically increased the number of sweeps, so some homeless find their dwellings hit once a day or several times a day. “There’s this thing called HSOC, or Healthy Streets Operations Center, which coordinates the SFPD and DPW,” Cutler said. “A coordinated effort sounds like a really good thing, but we have a lack of resources, with over 1,000 people on the waitlist for shelters now.” As a result, the claimed rationale for the sweeps by former mayor Mark

Farrell and current Mayor London Breed – to force people off the streets and into housing and social services – rings hollow to many. Indeed, to Cutler, Herring, and other activists, all the city is accomplishing is moving the encampments around. While this may accomplish the city’s short-term goal of appeasing angry neighbors who dislike the encampments, it contributes little or nothing toward addressing the overall problem of homelessness. Second, SFPD has begun to aggressively write citations for violations of Penal Code 647(e), which criminalizes “illegal lodging” defined as living “in any building, structure, vehicle, or place, whether public or private, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to possession or control of it.” While the statute is punishable as a misdemeanor and – theoretically – by jail time, its real value (besides encouraging the homeless to move on) is that it gives the police a way to evade their own policies regarding bag and tag, since they can seize effectively whatever they like as “evidence” of the illegal lodging. Since the district attorney’s office has up to a year to file the case after it’s referred to them following citation or an arrest, those charged could lose all they own for 12 months before they even see a judge.

The coalition pushes back

That’s why Cutler, Herring, and the coalition are training volunteers, both within and without the homeless community, to document what public works and SFPD are doing during the sweeps via sworn declarations and video evidence taken on cellphones. “What we want to do is show there’s a clear trend and pattern here,” Herring said. “We’re looking for people who have witnessed the destruction or confiscation of their property or someone else’s and to answer questions on how that occurred.” If, as they expect, the coalition is able to document widespread noncompliance by city employees with official policies with regard to the property of the homeless, litigation against the city may follow. For more information or to

volunteer, contact the Coalition on Homelessness at (415) 346-7685 or via its website at http://www.cohsf.org. Spokespeople for public works and the SFPD did not return messages seeking comment.

Brown vetoes gun show ban

In a decision that appeared to be motivated by equal parts of consistency and political cowardice, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 221 September 28. The bill, sponsored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco), would have banned the sale of guns and ammunition at the Cow Palace in Daly City and – by implication – banned gun and ammunition shows there. Both this column and the Bay Area Reporter, as well as activists ranging from the San Francisco chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to queer youth from area high schools, have demanded the state ban the gun and ammunition shows at the Cow Palace, which is owned by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. In his veto message, Brown noted that a similar measure had been vetoed twice before, once by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and once by him in the previous decade, before claiming that the local board of directors of the Cow Palace was in “the best position to make these decisions.” Of course, because board members of California’s district agricultural associations (the Cow Palace’s formal name is the 1-A District Agricultural Association) are appointed by the governor and are accountable only to him, Brown is really saying his appointed minions are more credible on the issue than the Bay Area’s elected representatives, to say nothing of a majority of the Legislature. In a statement, Wiener said he would reintroduce the measure in the next legislative session. “We don’t need gun shows in the heart of the Bay Area,” he stated. “Our local communities have made it crystal clear that we want these gun shows to end.” t Got a tip? Email me at christina@ diedoardolaw.com.

Fitness for all by Roger Brigham

ome health clubs and training facilities seem stuck in a primitive past – intimidating places with auras seemingly inhospitable for women, gays, transgender individuals, people of color, or the cast of “Modern Family.” Even when gay men embraced weight training a few years back to create buff bodies for showing off at bars and dances, the atmosphere of many gyms could feel catty and judgmental. Now, some local efforts are bucking that trend, notably UC Berkeley’s Recreational Sports Facility and a recently formed gym in Oakland’s Fruitvale district focused on fitness for all. At its training facility late last month, Berkeley opened a new locker room focused on serving the needs of transgender and gendernonconforming students and those with physical disabilities. The facility draws on fees from a 2015 “wellness referendum.” The facilities include five private toilets, seven private showers, 16 single-person changing rooms, and 400 lockers. Radically Fit (http://www.radicallyfitoakland.com) opened in July on Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland. Founder and trainer Lindsey Page, who identifies as a queer woman of color, said the gym is a “body-positive community gym for all queer, trans, POC, bigbodied and fat-identified folx and

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Lindsey Page founded Radically Fit in Oakland.

their allies, regardless of experience or ability.” (Yes, an encounter with the gym’s website greets visitors with alternative spellings and grammar, the personal pronouns various trainers prefer, the catchphrase “Fit is not a body type”, and every other linguistic clue the gym can provide to signal this is a place of support and inclusion, not isolation and judgment.) “Big-body people weren’t getting the same options as everyone else as far as creating safe spaces in gyms,” Page, 31, told the Bay Area Reporter. “Some people didn’t feel

welcome. I wanted to create a really genuine body-positive space. The community asked for it.” Trainers said they emphasize strength and fitness, not body sculpting or conforming to beauty stereotypes. The tools of the trade are largely the same – barbells, core strength training, yoga, Zumba – but the goals, attitude, and support are different. Individual sessions are offered and seven days a week there are group sessions that include sections just for queers of color and for transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals. “We’ve gotten so much positive feedback,” Page said. “We’re really starting to build community within this community. There are other queer spaces in Oakland, obviously, but a lot of them don’t focus on people of color. They are not always feeling validated in terms of representation.” Page said there are many factors that can make some people uncomfortable in fitness clubs. “There can be issues about which bathrooms people use,” she said. “People can be staring at them, especially people with fat or bigger bodies. People stare at them when they try to work out. Even cisgender heterosexual women can

feel uncomfortable with a lot of toxic masculinity.” Page said trainers are focused on keeping members positively focused on what they can do, rather than fearing what they cannot. “We want everyone to feel challenged mentally and physically, but we don’t want anyone to feel overwhelmed or defeated,” she said. “When they come, there might be hurdles, but they are so happy they found this space.” The gym offers economic subsidies to make the gym affordable. There are different fee rates for different membership levels, The costliest includes a $50 charge that is applied to scholarships for those who cannot otherwise afford membership. “Nobody is turned away for lack of funds,” Page said. These days, Page is doing what she wants, the way she wants, with the people she wants. “I fell in love with fitness about 10 or 11 years ago,” she said. “When I decided to be a personal trainer, it was solely because of the work I had done through fitness to change my mental and physical health. I’ve also had my fair share of dealing with body issues. You can feel a lot of pressure to look

a certain way. But the way your body looks doesn’t indicate what you can do with it.”

Ottawa to host Bingham Cup

The next Bingham Cup, a biennial global championship for LGBT rugby, will be played in 2020 in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by the Ottawa Wolves. The announcement was made this week by International Gay Rugby. The Wolves had bid for the cup, along with Huarpes Rugby Club of Argentina, but the Argentine club withdrew following issues confirming facilities. “The Ottawa Wolves are one of IGR’s most active and successful clubs, having competed in every Bingham Cup since their club’s creation including the first women’s competition at the Bingham Cup Amsterdam 2018,” said Ben Owen, IGR chairman. The Bingham Cup was started in San Francisco in 2002 and is named after gay former SF Fog club member Mark Bingham, one of the heroes who fought against terrorists on United Flight 93 on 9/11. For more information on IGR and the Bingham Cup, visit http:// www.igrugby.org. For information on the SF Fog, visit http://www. fogrugby.com. t

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kebabs, there will be chicken kebabs,” promised Fred Lopez, the fair’s executive director. On tap at the beer booths this year will be a selection of Pilsners and ales from Berkeley brewer Trumer Pils and Michigan-based Founders Brewing Co. A donation of $5 to $10 at the gates results in a sticker that is good for $1 off alcoholic drink purchases. As for local artisan vendors selling their wares at the fair, they run the gamut from collage digital prints designer Jennifer Clifford, whose studio is in the city’s North Beach district, and San Francisco artist Jamai Lowell’s clothing brand Animal Instincts to the Oakland-based

Litwick Candles and Bottle of Clouds, which makes laser-cut and hand-painted wooden jewelry. This year’s fair doesn’t have a theme, and instead, takes inspiration for its map, poster, and program design from the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who founded the event as a way to promote the then-burgeoning gayborhood. His caricature can be seen standing on a soapbox holding a megaphone on the fairgrounds map designed by Josh Koll, a gay San Francisco resident who is a designer, illustrator, and photographer. The program and poster for the fair both feature Milk’s famous quote, “Hope Will Never Be Silent,”

which is now emblazoned in neon lettering on the facade of 400 Castro Street adjacent to Harvey Milk Plaza above the Castro Muni station. “This year, we wanted the poster art to be about the Castro as a whole,” explained Lopez about the design. Like last year, the envelope of the fair has shrunk and Market Street will remain open to vehicular traffic. The main entrance gate into the fair will be located at Jane Warner Plaza at the corner of 17th, Castro, and Market streets. The main stage, with headlining act Big Dipper, the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based bear rapper who’s also known as Dan Stermer,

will be at Castro and 19th streets. The country western Sundance Saloon returns to 18th Street between Hartford and Noe, while a DJ dance area takes over the parking lot off 18th Street behind the Walgreens. Last year’s fair raised $55,000 for local charities, and organizers hope to exceed that amount for this year’s 15 nonprofit beneficiaries. The fair also pays for new rainbow flags to fly on the flagpole located at Harvey Milk Plaza. The fair will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information about this year’s event, and the full entertainment lineup, visit its website at https://castrostreetfair.org. t

individual pages total – and then make them searchable by keyword using optical character recognition technology. “Having the entire run of the newspaper available at one’s fingertips will open up new research opportunities for both casual readers and professional researchers,” noted Mark Sawchuk, a member of the nonprofit’s communications working group, in the society’s October newsletter. Until recently, researchers and others who wanted to read old issues of the B.A.R. either had to make an appointment to visit the GLBT Historical Society’s archives or visit the San Francisco Public Library’s microfilm collection at the main library. Now, entire issues of the B.A.R., the country’s oldest continually publishing LGBT newspaper, can be downloaded via the Internet

Archive, which is based in San Francisco, at https://archive.org/details/ bayareareporter&tab=collection. It is sortable by date and can also be searched using keywords. The other online repository is housed on the California Digital Newspaper Collection website, which is overseen by UC Riverside. On the main page of the site – https://cdnc. ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc – type in “Bay Area Reporter” in the search prompt to pull up the archived issues. The digital collection can then be sorted by date as well as searched using keywords. “It is very important because it provides anybody with an internet connection access to the majority of our archives,” said B.A.R. publisher Michael Yamashita, who is now the sole owner of the paper.

The B.A.R. is now working to make its issues from August 12, 2005 through the present day also available online via the two databases. Those issues had been archived on the paper’s former website, but that database was disabled this spring when the B.A.R. switched website hosting companies. “The plan is to archive them,” Yamashita said. Issues of the B.A.R. dating from June 3, 2010 to the present can be brought up through the website Issuu. To access that database, click on the tab “Download Current Issue” on the top of the main page at ebar.com. It will bring up a separate window with downloadable editions of the weekly paper going back eight years. Most articles that ran in the B.A.R. since August 2005 can be found by using Google search. Either a link to

the article will come up or a cached version of the story is available. As for the search function on the B.A.R.’s own website, it should bring up stories that have run since April of this year. The website host is working to improve the search capability so that older articles dating back to 2005 are also easily found and accessed via the search page on ebar.com. “The search engine is being fixed. It is what it is right now,” said Yamashita. The GLBT Historical Society will celebrate the completion of its involvement in making archival issues of the B.A.R. available online at its annual gala Friday, October 5, where it will also honor Horn. For more information about the B.A.R. archive project, visit http:// www.glbthistory.org/bar/. t

services to host their family trees, but use them for research. Programs where people keep their trees on their home computers, such as Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, and Legacy, try to sync to online databases like Ancestry and FamilySearch, Kolakowski explained. “It’s something that’s important to all genealogists, not just LGBTQ genealogists. It’s consistent with basic genealogical principles that we document history the way people lived it, not the way that some wished that they had,” Kolakowski said. “And we all know that everyone, LGBTQ and straight, have same-sex couples in their families.” She added. Kolakowski, who’s an Alameda County Superior Court judge, began

digging around her family history several years ago. She is not Mormon but has been to Salt Lake City several times to conduct research at the LDS library and attend conferences. Dr. Stewart Blandón Traiman a gay man who’s recording secretary for the California Genealogical Society, also applauded the FamilySearch news. “It’s huge,” Blandón Traiman, told the Bay Area Reporter during a recent interview. But he also pointed out the long history of homophobia in the Mormon Church. “The history of the LDS church is extremely homophobic. They excommunicated thousands of members due to sexual orientation and that continues today,” he said. Blandón Traiman is not Mormon, but he said the church’s decision to

acknowledge the existence of LGBTs and same-sex families is significant. “They’re trying to compete with these other sites,” he said. And, while he said it’s “definitely nice” to have the new policy for FamilySearch.org, it won’t help him because he doesn’t have a tree on the site. “Not in the least,” he added. Change has come quickly to family history sites in recent years. For example, Ancestry.com used to assume that the spouse of a man was a woman and vice versa. It no longer does that, Kolakowski said. “Undoubtedly, FamilySearch is a leader in the genealogy community. It employs many professional genealogists, and its website is used by many Mormon families around the world, in addition to the genealogical community.” Kolakowski said. “Family history is very important

to the Mormon faith,” she added. In a statement, FamilySearch.org said that significant work must be done to the site’s infrastructure to incorporate same-sex families. “Several systems that surround Family Tree [FamilySearch’s program], such as tree and record searching, must be significantly redesigned to support same-sex relationships before Family Tree can release this capability,” the company said. Blandón Traiman, who’s an internal medicine physician working in health information technology, recently launched his Six Generations website (www.sixgen.org) to provide guidance to others looking to do family research, and provide consultation services. He said that his approach to genealogy is to take it in six-generation segments. He also gives presentations focused on

LGBT history and genealogy. “Here’s the thing that’s important about this to non-genealogists,” Kolakowski said. “Young Mormons, when they’re looking into their family history, are going to see that they can document same-sex relationships. That was exactly that reason that some people resisted making this change – concerns that it would be seen as validating our relationships. I’m not sure that it does, because it’s taking a neutral stance. But a neutral stance is a lot better than a negative one, one that denies the reality of modern society.” t

for comments. There is no cost to attend. To register online, visit https://bit.ly/2NZk3QT. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a new five-year

lease for the New Conservatory Theatre Center, a nonprofit LGBT theater company that produces plays in the city-owned 25 Van Ness Avenue building. NCTC will see a slight rent increase, from $7,826 per month to

$7,983. The new lease started October 1 and runs through September 30, 2023. It contains one more fiveyear extension option, according to the resolution by the board. Two years ago, NCTC completed a $300,000 remodel project of the

basement space to improve its lobby, bar, and box office areas. The city’s real estate department negotiated the new lease, and it was previously heard in the board’s budget and finance sub-committee. t

training and support are needed in our schools. As Senate leader, I will continue to back any efforts to make public schools in California safe and supportive for all students,” stated Atkins. In a message emailed to Our Family Coalition members, Executive Director Renata Moreira said the advocacy group for LGBT families was “deeply disappointed” by Brown’s decision to veto the bill. She added that the legislation, which had wide support within the state’s education community, “will be submitted again in the next legislative season, and we’ll be once again advocating for its passage and full implementation.” But LGBT advocates are not waiting for the bill to be enacted as law. Our Family Coalition has been ramping up the trainings it provides to school educators and, this week, took part in a statewide convening about the issue hosted by the Sacramento County Office of Education. And next week the nonprofit is hosting a forum in San Francisco that will focus on “what a statewide, accredited LGBTQ-inclusive professional learning

program for teachers and administrators should look like,” wrote Moreira. Her agency, she added, has “been doing this work for years. And now we’re kicking it up a notch: we’re working with major forces in the state’s education and LGBTQ history fields to brainstorm how to scale up the teacher training.” According to Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group, there is evidence showing the need for state lawmakers to enact Thurmond’s bill. Based on the responses to EQCA’s Safe and Supportive Schools Survey from more than 130 school districts across the state, “far too few are providing adequate training to ensure teachers and school staff have the tools they need to provide LGBTQ students with safe and supportive learning environments,” reported the group, which is expected to issue a full report on the school survey results in January. In a statement EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur said, “While we respect and appreciate Governor Brown’s desire to give schools ‘flexibility,’ the status quo is failing California’s LGBTQ students and denying too

many a shot at success.” Zbur added that EQCA, which sponsored Thurmond’s legislation, “look(s) forward to passing it again next year.” Brown also vetoed this year AB 1247 by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (DNorth Hollywood), which would have required at least one hour of LGBT cultural competency training prior to the licensure of professional fiduciaries and an additional hour of LGBTQ continuing education every three years. In his veto message Brown wrote, “While I understand and support cultural competence, I do not believe the mandated continuing education requirements of this bill are warranted.” The bills bring to five LGBT pieces of legislation tracked by EQCA that Brown has vetoed since returning to the governorship in 2011. Twice he axed a bill, mostly recently in 2013, requiring various state agencies to collect LGBT demographic data before signing it into law in 2015. Brown, who is termed out of office this year, also refused to sign a 2011 law that would have required LGBT

cultural competency training for health care workers. A budget hawk, Brown’s opposition to the bills was rooted in their estimated costs to the state. Two other bills that EQCA supported this year failed to make it out of the Legislature and should be reintroduced. One was the Dignity and Opportunity Act authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which would have required that transgender inmates in California jails be referred to by their preferred pronouns, gender, and name. As the B.A.R.’s online Political Notes column reported last month, Wiener’s bill was killed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee due to its estimated cost in the millions of dollars. In late August gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) spiked his bill that would have banned “conversion therapy” for adults due to concerns voiced by religious leaders that they would be targeted under it for counseling their parishioners struggling with their sexual orientation. Low promised to work with faith leaders and LGBT advocates on redrafting the bill.t

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to appeal to current tastes. Among the offerings will be vegan snacks, toffee, and cookies made in San Francisco by Mojo Bakes and the popular gay- and black-owned Cee’s Fried Chicken, started two years ago by Cee Freedman. Classic street fair foods like burgers, hot dogs, and french fries will be returning, with the Berkeleybased Noonie’s Catering promising to be dishing up its crowd-pleasing loaded fries. The food court will be located on 18th Street between Collingwood and Diamond. “If you are a fan of chicken

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“This project is extremely important as it will preserve the history of our movement,” stated former B.A.R. publisher Thomas E. Horn, who is president of the Bob Ross Foundation. “Journalists rightly say that newspapers are the first draft of history. And this project will preserve the first draft of the gay movement in San Francisco from 1971 for students, academics, historians or some young boy or girl in some rural area just trying to tap into our history.” Project archivist Bill Levay, hired by the nonprofit LGBT historic preservation group, worked with volunteers over the last two years to manually digitize the more than 1,500 issues of the B.A.R. – more than 77,000

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with the SCAN Foundation; and gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). Organizers said there will be time

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policies prohibiting discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or gender expression,” wrote Brown. “If local schools find that more training or resources on this topic is needed, they have the flexibility to use their resources as they see best.” Earlier that day lesbian state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) had touted the Legislature’s passage of the bill in her keynote address before the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, the South Bay’s main LGBT political group that held its brunch fundraiser that morning in San Jose. In a statement to the Bay Area Reporter, Atkins said she remains committed to ensuring the needs of LGBTQ students in California are addressed. “Bullying, harassment, and suicide among our LGBTQ youth remains a major problem, which tells me more

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“[T]he United States Attorney General has already threatened prosecution and it would be irresponsible to expose local officials and health care professionals to potential federal criminal charges,” Brown wrote. “Our paramount goal must be to reduce the use of illegal drugs and opioids that daily enslaves human beings and wreaks havoc in our communities. ... The community must have the authority

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because “due to an oversight” in how Prop 64 was written, these nonprofit donation programs that have been serving medical cannabis patients for decades are now being forced to pay taxes meant for businesses, which are forcing these charity programs to shut down. At press time, Wiener’s office did not return emails from the Bay Area Reporter seeking comment. In a tweet on Monday, Wiener vowed to try again. Brown’s veto message stated that SB 829 contained provisions that conflict with Prop 64, which prohibits giving away products free of charge. In response to a query from the B.A.R., Ali Bay, Brown’s deputy press chief, wrote in an email, “We’ll let the governor’s veto message for SB 829 speak for itself.” Brown’s veto was met with

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the offices, they collectively decided to form the division to formalize that relationship,” he said. “The formal relationship allows them to better pool resources and create efficiencies where they overlap.” One major outcome of the change is a more robust staffing in the county executive branch, some of which will be for the LGBTQ affairs office. According to Martinez, the new staffing will include an immigrant services coordinator, three senior management analyst

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history. During his current two terms in office, Brown has signed into law at least 72 bills that specifically protected the rights of, or improved the health of, the LGBT community in the Golden State. And over the last

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and the laws to require compassionate but effective and mandatory treatment. AB 186 is all carrot and no stick.” Some advocates suggested Brown’s decision aims to avoid another showdown with the Trump administration. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already sued the state to stop a measure that Brown did sign on Sunday that would restore net neutrality provisions repealed by the Federal Communications Commission late last year. Others said Brown’s signing statement reflects ignorance of scientific evidence

and fails to recognize that drug addiction treatment is not universally available and does not work for everyone. “As a person who works with drug users on a daily basis, I am shocked by the ignorance of Governor Brown regarding the success of overdose prevention programs all over the world,” Glide harm reduction program manager Paul Harkin told the Bay Area Reporter. “I found the image of taking a stick to people with substance use disorders to be inhumane and ill-informed. The evidence shows that

coercive treatment does not work.” Laura Thomas of the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocated for AB 186, also expressed dismay. “How many people will die of an accidental overdose before we get these services open here? Governor Brown has blood on his hands,” Thomas told the B.A.R. “I’m confident that Mayor Breed will work with community organizations to figure out how to move forward with these desperately needed services here in San Francisco.” San Francisco AIDS Foundation

CEO Joe Hollendoner called attention to the fact that this is Brown’s final year in office. “The suggestion that this policy is too much carrot and not enough stick implies that substance use treatment should be punitive rather than compassionate and based in best practice,” Hollendoner said in a statement. “California’s next governor must support the creation of overdose prevention centers and other public health interventions that will effectively address the HIV and opioid epidemics in California.” t

disappointment from activists and industry representatives. Joe Airone, the founder of Sweetleaf Collective, which donated over 100 pounds of cannabis to medical patients in California last year, said he was told that if they give away the same amount in 2018 then they would have a tax liability of $200,000, making their participation in the compassion cannabis field incredibly cost prohibitive. In a prepared statement, Airone said, “These new laws make no distinction between commercial (for sale) and non-commercial (free to those in need) cannabis. Free cannabis that is given away is being taxed like it is being sold. Some people have chosen to work outside of the law to continue providing cannabis to patients without a permit. People are calling this black market philanthropy. Some groups like Sweetleaf have created a supply

chain within the regulated market using permit holders who support compassionate cannabis for legally licensed patients.” Industry executives expressed similar concerns. Ryan Hudson, co-founder and executive director of the Apothecarium, wrote in an email to the B.A.R., “We would like to have a clear, legal way to provide medical cannabis to very low-income patients. We used to have a program for patients with serious medical conditions who didn’t have money to pay for their medication – but unfortunately, the current regulations don’t allow for that. Hopefully, that will change in the future.” Erich Pearson, a gay man who’s chief executive officer and chairman of SPARC dispensaries, wrote in an email to the B.A.R., “Today’s news of Brown’s veto of compassionate cannabis as well as safe injection sites

shows how out of touch he is with advancing science-based approaches to drug use instead of his old school ways of police and prisons.” He was referring to Brown’s veto of Assembly Bill 186, which would have allowed San Francisco to operate a supervised injection site pilot program. [See story, page 2.] In a prepared statement, California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) Executive Director Dale Gieringer called Brown’s veto message “off-point and outrageous.” “Nowhere does Prop 64 say that it is intended to impede free donations of medicine to needy patients. The purposes and intents section of the initiative is clear that it pertains only to adult-use marijuana, and does not override Prop 215,” he said. “This state could use a new governor. Fortunately, we’re in luck on that score,” Gieringer added,

referring to Brown being termed out of office and the wide lead Democratic Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has in the polls for the November election. SaraMitra Payan, vice chair of the cannabis state legalization task force in San Francisco and public education officer at the Apothecarium, said, “I’m terribly disappointed in Governor Brown. He is forgetting his most critically ill constituents. We will continue to fight for our patients, and when the new governor is in place, we will work to introduce a new bill. We will never forget the people who made medical cannabis programs possible and will continue to educate our lawmakers.” Requests for comment from Nicole Elliott, head of the San Francisco Office of Cannabis, and gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman were not returned at press time. t

or management analyst positions, a senior research and evaluation specialist II, a research and evaluation specialist, a training and staff development specialist, a management analyst/associate management analyst position, and two community outreach specialists. Yeager pointed out that four new staff positions where created expressly for the Office of LGBTQ Affairs. “The need for these positions comes from the work current staff has been asked to do but unable to fully tackle,” he said. The Board of Supervisors has allocated $4.3 million in order to continue

funding Santa Clara County’s commitment to fairness, as represented by the new Division of Equality and Social Justice. The LGBTQ affairs office is already working on developing an LGBTQ homeless shelter, expected to open this winter, and a transgender health clinic. In addition the office would like to orchestrate sensitivity and cultural competency trainings for those who serve the LGBTQ community, Martinez said. Martinez praised Yeager’s leadership. “He has done an amazing job during his 12-year tenure,” Martinez said.“Even before becoming a county supervisor he

was at the forefront of being an advocate for LGBTQ issues. Because of him the rainbow and transgender flag fly every weekday at the County Government Center at 70 West Hedding.” Before being elected a supervisor, Yeager served on the San Jose City Council and the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District. The sentiment of a lasting exemplar of his LGBTQ work isn’t lost on Yeager. “The office has, and will continue to, ensure that the needs of the LGBTQ community are understood and met long after I’m gone,” he said. “I believe our administration has

gone above and beyond to embrace our diverse county.” Yeager envisages a sense of vigilance as something that is always needed within the LGBTQ community, especially concerning youth and people of color. However, he said, “I am confident that the work of these individuals and programs will continue to lead the way, addressing the many disparities that the LGBTQ and other marginalized communities continue to face.” More prosaically, he emphasized, “The work doesn’t end when I leave office. It’ll be around for a long time.”t

seven years, Brown has vetoed just eight LGBT-related bills. The tally is based on the B.A.R.’s coverage since 2011, the start of Brown’s third gubernatorial term, and the legislative scorecards annually compiled by Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy organization. In addition to five bills

sponsored by EQCA that Brown has vetoed [see story, page 1], he also declined to sign in 2013 two bills that were aimed at tracking LGBT health disparities via medical forms. And in 2014 Brown nixed a bill mandating equal access to baby changing stations in public restrooms, which would have benefited both gay

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In the matter of the application of: DIANA SISCA IE-SIEN HARYA, 282 MONTEREY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner DIANA SISCA IE-SIEN HARYA, is requesting that the name DIANA SISCA IE-SIEN HARYA, be changed to SISCA HARYA HULAND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 8th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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In the matter of the application of: IURII NAKONECHNYI, 1068 HOWARD ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner IURII NAKONECHNYI, is requesting that the name IURII NAKONECHNYI, be changed to NED NYE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 25th of October 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554224

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO NEON, 1935 FRANKLIN ST #401, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RANDALL ANN HOMAN & ALLAN BARNA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/04/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TROPISUENO, 75 YERBA BUENA LANE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed YBL RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/22/08. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/18.

In the matter of the application of: CHELSEA JANET CARRERA, 4132 26TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHELSEA JANET CARRERA, is requesting that the name CHELSEA JANET CARRERA, be changed to CAT LYNN WHITE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 25th of October 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038278100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PING & YANG, 955 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIRINA PORNPHANNUKUN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038299300

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038301300

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAI, 3463 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HOT GAI LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JACKIE’S HOUSE CLEANING, 326 ALEMANY BLVD #2B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MIRNA JACQUELINE MENCHAA ROQUE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/18/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038311200

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038311400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MKMOSAICS, 2230 LEAVENWORTH ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL JOHN KRUZICH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARRY’S BOOTCAMP, 2280 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BBC 2280 MARKET ST LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEOPATRA TRADING COMPANY, 41 EXETER ST #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed 09/17/18. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/17/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038305400

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038310200

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038291800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 415PRINTING, 63 OAKRIDGE DR., DALY CITY, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELISANDRO CAMPOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUNTINGTON HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO; NOB HILL SPA; THE BIG 4, 1075 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WRC HUNTINGTON, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038310000

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554250

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: METRO SURFACE WASH, 350 BAY ST #100-341, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWARD G. LAU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/14/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038304800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SYTLEDASH BEAUTY LOUNGE, 2167 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MIKAGLAM INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/11/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038304300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRIPLE NET PROPERTIES; TRIPLE NET REAL ESTATE; ROCKWELL PROPERTIES INC; ROCKWELL PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT, 2489 MISSION ST #30, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ROCKWELL PROPERTIES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/18/07. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038297000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GE VEHICLE REGISTRATION SERVICES, 5550 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed JUAN G. ESCOBAR & ROSARIO ESCOBAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/05/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/05/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038310700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUCHO’S, 2675 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LUCHO’S LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/17/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038304400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOGO, 435 23RD ST #D90, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SAMADHI TRADING COMPANY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/20/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/18.

SEPT 20, 27, OCT 04, 11, 2018

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LATTICE, 22 BATTERY ST, FLOOR 11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DEGREE INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11,18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038308600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SPACE SF, 1426 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ALISON ESCOBAR & HEBERTO ESCOBAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/18.

In the matter of the application of: MEGAN ELIZABETH PANZER, 111 CARL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MEGAN ELIZABETH PANZER, is requesting that the name MEGAN ELIZABETH PANZER, be changed to MEGAN PANZER KAGELEIRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 6th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038311600

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038323700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TEA 4 YOU, 646 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed KJY BROTHERS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLUEBABE, 545 O’FARRELL ST #108, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVA MADRILLEJOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/25/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038312700

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038322200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 101 CALIFORNIA, 101 CALIFORNIA ST, #1050, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ELM PROPERTY VENTURE LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/10/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IRIS ADVISORS, 57 IRIS AVE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW SALZMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/24/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038299800

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038018500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MORENO’S JANITORIAL, 363 SILVER AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALBINO MORENO DIRCIO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/06/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/18.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: RISK SALON, 548 MARKET ST, STE. 72588, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by NATHAN KUGLAND, SUPRANAMAYA RANJAN & HOI LAM CHERYL KWAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/22/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038319800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WINSEN DRIVING SCHOOL, 2409 19TH AVE #A4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WAI WAH LAW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/21/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038333400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUICE E JUICE, 741 ANDERSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIZABETH PATRICIA ARIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/18.

SEPT 27, OCT 04, 11, 18, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038306600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PAW PATCH PASTRIES & PET BOUTIQUE, 701 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLA OCFEMIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/12/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/18.

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In the matter of the application of: MARK MATTHEW WOJCIK, 1710 38TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MARK MATTHEW WOJCIK, is requesting that the name MARK MATTHEW WOJCIK, be changed to ALEXANDER MATTHEW WOJCIK. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 15th of November 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038330400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE ROCK LAW FIRM, 101 MONTGOMERY ST #1800, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAN A. KOPCZYNSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038325100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUGUBOKA RESTAURANT, 401 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KYE SOON LEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038329000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DASMAR CO., 508 SAWYER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed DINA MACHA & ALESANDRO CASEREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 07/08/03. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038320200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHRADER CLEANER, 701 SHRADER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed S&Y CLEANERS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/19/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038321200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPACT, 870 MARKET ST #315, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed IMPACT COMMERCIAL INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038326900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GROUPGREETING, 1963 30TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed STERGERON LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 02/25/13. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038329800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIGHT STREET TOBACCO, 1827 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HAIGHT & ASHBURY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038304900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLUB PILATES SOMA, 635 8TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed RIVA PILATES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/11/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/18.

OCT 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038335200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLOWER MARKET, 714 ARGUELLO BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FLOWER MARKET SHOP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/18/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOICE INSIGHTS, 2007 FULTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTINE NOWICKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/18.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ROSA ISABEL VALLE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by DIANA BONILLA & CESAR BONILLA III in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that DIANA BONILLA 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: Nov 13, 2018, 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: Philip E. Carey; SBN 155185, 555 University Ave, Suite 116, Sacramento, CA 95825; Ph. (916) 564-0706.

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ere’s a tip from those of us who have access to review copies and other advance media: Sometimes there’s no better source for ear candy than the San Francisco Public Library, which has a wealth of audio-visual material for lending. As well as books! “What’s a book, Grandpa?” We just returned lots of CDs (though we could have renewed, by phone or online), so go get them! “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” – Frederic Rszewski (Ursula Oppens, Jerome Lowenthal, duo-pianists), with “Four Hands” (Cedille). 36 variations on “El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido” by Sergio Ortega, composed in 1975 as part of the Chilean New Song Movement. Oppens: “The variations explore all of piano history; that’s why so many pianists like to play them. History changes, but people need to remain united in recognition of the great varieties among us.”

“Beckett Material” – Morton Feldman (Wergo). “Chet Baker plays the best of Lerner & Loewe” (Riverride/Concord). “The Miraculous Mandarin” – Orchestre National de Lyon, David Robertson (Harmonia Mundi). “Now/Strung Out” – Philip Glass (Orange Mountain). “Brad Mehldau – 10 Years Solo Live” (Nonesuch, 4 CDs). We have hours of happy Mehldau listening behind us, both live and on discs,

most of which was in combos, as on his multi-volume “Art of the Trio” series with longtime collaborators Larry Grenadier, bass, and Jorge Rossy, drums. But this four-disc set is composed entirely of live solo sets around the world. Brad has more than enough imagination and technique to sustain it. “Martha Argerich: The Collection 1, the solo recordings” – (DG, 8 LPs, 1960-83). “Max Richter – From Sleep” (DG). “Dear Evan Hansen” (OCR). “A Rainbow in Curved Air” – Terry Riley (CBS, with Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band). “Prokofiev for Two” – Martha Argerich & Sergei Babayan (“Romeo & Juliet,” “Eugene Onegin,” “Hamlet,” “The Queen of Spades,” “War and Peace”) (DG). “Sondheim on Sondheim” – Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, directed by James Lapine (PS).

“It’s Hard” – The Bad Plus (Okeh). “Last Dance” – Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden (ECM).

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Lyric break: “Used to be a sweet boy,/ but I’m not to blame./ Something went wrong,/ something went wrong,/ and I’m not to blame.” – Morrissey, “Used To Be a Sweet Boy.” “Yes, well,” retorts Pepi, “the same could be said of everybody!” News break: Yes, Bert & Ernie of “Sesame Street” are gay. Out There has slept with both of them, and we have the felt burns to prove it. Science break: From The New York Times’ “Ask Well” column, “Which is better: Viagra or Cialis?”: “All four of the currently approved drugs seem to be equally good at producing erections. But it is difficult to be more definitive in comparing their efficacy, because few head-to-head studies have been conducted.” We know of a few.t

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et ready for a barnburner. “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?,” now singeing audience eyebrows at the Custom Made Theatre, is the late Edward Albee’s most uproarious, in-your-face play by a long shot. Sylvia is the non-metaphoric goat. Martin (Matt Weimer) is the architect who’s entangled with her, emotionally and sexually. Stevie (Hilary Hesse) is Martin’s wife. What Mrs. O’Leary’s cow did for Chicago, Sylvia does for domestic bliss. Though Albee’s best-known works, including “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “A Delicate Balance” and “The Zoo Story,” offer some immediate rewards to audiences, they tend to grow richer in retrospect. They’re seeded with cryptic subtexts about the mysteries of sexuality, the limits of language and the tricks of memory. Mulling over these plays helps them take root in the mind; they’re acrid-black onions that yield layer upon layer of poetry. Instead of rewarding cool contemplation, “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” pays off with explosive flamethrower heat, almost from the get-go. Hesse delivers a figuratively and literally smashing performance as Stevie, raging at her mild-mannered spouse’s incomprehensible transgression. After initially assuming that allegations of a farmstand romance are a bizarre prank by the couple’s sanctimonious old friend Ross (Ryan Hayes), she begrudgingly recognizes that milquetoast Martin really does enjoy a spread of goat cheese. At which point her emotional and cognitive dams burst in a prolonged rush of accusations, lamentations and shattered ceramics. It’s a scenario verging on absurdism, but Hesse plays Stevie with stunning believability. Her pained howls and vicious verbal reprisals against Martin induce winces throughout Custom Made’s intimate 99-seat auditorium. It feels dangerous to be in the room with her. Albee has given Stevie not only the best, bitterest wisecracks – What’s wrong with me, she wonders, “I have only two breasts? I use the toilet?” – but also the play’s one truly profound insight: Almost as an aside, Stevie acknowledges that all

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Hilary Hesse and Matt Weimer in Edward Albee’s “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” at Custom Made Theatre.

members of longterm couples must willingly carry the consciousness of potential tragedy, from emotional disengagement to cognitive failure brought on by stroke, to a partner’s early death. But even the playwright seems to believe that extramarital “goatfucking” (it’s in the script) goes beyond that particular pale. Albee never suggests that Stevie has a reasonable burden to bear here. There’s little question that her actions – or at least her emotions – are justified. It’s much tougher for audience members to empathize with a man in love with an ungulate than with his cuckolded spouse, but Matt Weimar plays Martin with a touching air of disorientation. Floating into fugues of ruminant romance, he shrinks helplessly away from social convention, aswim in an oversized suit (smart work by costume designer Lindsey Eifert). And he wrings the right mix of laughs and gasps from Martin’s centerpiece monologue, the schtickiest bit in all of Albee, an account of a bestiality support-group meeting. As Billy, Martin and Stevie’s gay teenage son, Max Seijas does decent goggle-eyed disbelief, but the part’s underwritten, primarily here for Albee to provoke passing thoughts about the relative taboos of homosexuality and bestiality. The couple’s old friend Ross is similarly marginal scriptwise, but Ryan Hayes aces the character’s comic sanctimony. In assuring that his entire cast maintains a clear-eyed, unwinking

tone even when their characters turn to dark humor as a coping mechanism, director Paul Stout puts the audience in a state of deliciously unrelenting anxiety. Wincing alternates with nervous laughter as otherwise mundane lives cross paths with the unimaginable. Make that almost unimaginable. Albee’s real triumph with “The Goat” is to have imagined and seen through on its wild conceit. Yes, the play has some doctorate-level wordplay and a fancypants sub-subtitle – technically, it’s named “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes toward a definition of tragedy).” But those notes, occasional references to classics in the text, aren’t deeply worked through. Albee seems to have made a conscious decision to go big and bold here. The real shocking F-word here is the Fun that this sometimes dour playwright appears to be having. Where many of Albee’s other plays furrow brows, this one feels written to drop jaws. Instead of sharp-toothed, pseudo-civilized drawing-room comedy, “The Goat,” with its living room set and dramatis personae of Mom, Dad, son and wacky neighbor, plays like a sitcom invaded by a horror movie. As literature, it’s far less subtle and haunting than most of Albee’s work. But as a night out, “The Goat” is a hoot.t “The Goat,” through Oct. 20. Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter St., SF. Tickets ($25-$50): (415) 798-2682, www.custommade.org

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<< Music

18 • Bay Area Reporter • October 4-10, 2018

Taking Stravinsky on the road by Philip Campbell

ractice, practice, practice is how you get to Carnegie Hall, and the last program in the San Francisco Symphony’s recent twoweek Stravinsky Festival proved it once more. Music director Michael Tilson Thomas quickly took the well-drilled show on the road for a repeat performance in Manhattan’s most famous venue and a side-trip to Nassau County. MTT and the Orchestra opened Carnegie Hall’s season on Wednesday with a light-hearted gala featuring gal pals Renee Fleming and Audra McDonald. The second night in the Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage reprises Stravinsky’s “Petrushka” and “Le Sacre du Printemps,” composed for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, with the witty Violin Concerto in D featuring soloist Leonidas Kavakos included. On Oct. 5 everyone moves to Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, NY, Long Island’s premier concert hall, for the last of the Stravinsky concerts. The recent “final dress” performances at Davies Symphony Hall won standing ovations for the SFS and Kavakos, but the Festival rightfully belonged to MTT. His youthful association with Stravinsky has informed his mature understanding of the scores, and after performing many of them many times for many years, he has earned expert status.

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Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in a Stravinsky Festival concert.

The first half of the second concert in the “Rebellious Beauty” Festival emphasized the genius of the composer’s orchestrations with the vivid colors of “Petrushka” and the diamond brilliance of the Violin Concerto. The riotcausing side of the rebel composer appeared after intermission with the ferociously intense “The Rite of Spring.” Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballets for Diaghilev were intended as the Festival’s thematic link. It was curious hearing MTT pace them more as tone poems than actual works for dancing. As pure aural entertainment it was magnificent.

“Petrushka” was a tour de force for the orchestra, even if no one could imagine choreography slow-paced enough for MTT’s grind-to-a-halt in the Third Tableau, “The Moor’s Room.” It was only a moment of slackness in an otherwise spirited account. The public scenes were wonderfully detailed and exciting. Greek violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos has the right sound and technique for the Violin Concerto in D, which has influences from the Baroque era and an elegant neoclassical structure. The composer didn’t like descriptive terms, but they fit. Kavakos has said, “We see the Stravinsky who is looking

ahead of his time, but he’s distilling all the energy and the power from the past.” The performance was dazzling, and Kavakos and MTT managed to give the lovely Aria II a lyrical flow. Notoriously dry-eyed Stravinsky would have given grudging approval. The biggest draw was obviously “The Rite of Spring,” and the capacity crowd returned from intermission to attentively absorb the stunning sonorities of the eternally revolutionary work. It never ceases to amaze that a score written over a century ago can still sound innovative and raw. The musicians covered themselves in glory, and they should wow them on the other coast, too. MTT looked radiant, joining his crew in the glow of the applause while pointing out many exceptional soloists. The excited audience was still raving all the way out to Grove and Van Ness, onto Market Street and beyond. Igor can still stimulate some lively discussion in the 21st century. The SFS returns for October concerts in Davies Hall with guest conductors Manfred Honeck, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Cristian Macelaru on the podium. One might think MTT would be taking a rest during hiatus, but he maintains a busy schedule, concertizing with other orchestras throughout the month. Oct. 11-13: Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, music director of

the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, leads performances of Dvorak’s warmly melodious Symphony No. 8 and Prokofiev’s Sinfonia concertante in E minor, with virtuoso Norwegian cellist Truls Mork in his SFS debut. Oct. 18-20: Young Spanish maestro Pablo Heras-Casado makes a welcome return to DSH with a fanciful bill of Spanish-themed music written by French composers, which includes Ravel’s famous “Bolero” and sensuous “Alborada del gracioso,” and Debussy’s “Iberia” from “Images pour orchestra.” Spanish pianist Javier Perianes performs Bartok’s final completed work, the folk-inflected Piano Concerto No. 3. Oct. 25-27: Cristian Macelaru makes his SFS debut in concerts highlighted by Anna Clyne’s “Masquerade,” inspired by mid18th-century promenade concerts held in London’s pleasure gardens, and the world premiere of SFS cocommissioned “Silent Night Elegy” by Kevin Puts, an arrangement for orchestra of music from his Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “Silent Night.” Fast-rising star violinist Ray Chen (with a big local fan base and dynamic presence on YouTube) performs Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole.” Richard Strauss’ Viennese whipped cream (schlagobers) Suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” rounds off the richly varied program.t sfsymphony.org

Solos & sides by Gregg Shapiro

t’s no exaggeration to say that each new Neko Case album is cause for celebration. Known for

her work as resident diva with The New Pornographers, Case teamed up with legendary out singer-songwriter k.d. lang and Laura Veirs for the exceptional 2016 “case/lang/

veirs” album. If you haven’t heard “Atomic Numbers” and Veirs’ tribute to Judee Sill “Song for Judee,” you don’t know what you’re missing. The fact is that Case also has

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one of the most acclaimed solo careers of any contemp or ar y female singersongwriter. Her latest album, the smoldering “Hell-On” (Anti), reunites her with lang and Veirs, as well as with a mind-blowing assortment of others, including regulars Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor. Case is also joined on the record by out artists Beth Ditto and Barbara Gruska, as well as Björn Yttiling and Peter Morén (of Peter, Björn and John fame), Robert Forster (of The Go-Betweens), Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos), Mark Lanegan (of Queens of the Stone Age), Matt Chamberlain and Kathryn Calder. But what about the songs? From start to finish, the dozen tunes, including “Bad Luck,” “Last Lion of Albion,” “Gumball Blue,” the Eric Bachmann duet “Sleep All Summer” and “My Uncle’s Navy” are nothing less than amazing. Laura Veirs is solo once again on her new album “The Lookout” (Raven Marching Band), produced by her husband Tucker Martine. Veirs is not completely alone. Martine plays throughout, Sufjan Stevens joins her on the song “Watch Fire,” and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James can be heard with Veirs on the cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Mountains of the Moon.” But this is definitely a solo record, and she wrote 11 of the 12 songs. You also have to admire a songwriter who finds inspiration for a song (“Margaret Sands”) in a T.S. Eliot poem (“Death by Water”). With one of the most distin-

guished careers in contemporary music, Richard Thompson, who was a member of British folk group Fairport Convention and performed as a duo with his exwife Linda Thompson, is also wellknown as a solo artist for almost 50 years. Thompson’s renowned guitar work is on display throughout his new album “13 Rivers” (New West), from the blistering “Her Love Was Meant For Me” and “Bones of Gilead” to emotionally powerful tunes “Shaking the Gates” and “My Rock, My Rope.” Neil Finn has a long history of making music with family members. He teamed up with brother Tim in the New Zealand band Split Enz, on his band Crowded House’s Woodface album, then again as The Finn Brothers. On “Lightsleeper” (PIAS-LesterInertia), Finn is paired with his son Liam Finn for a set of synthy songs, some of which feature Mick Fleetwood (!) on drums. The experimental nature of the songs, including “Where’s My Room,” “Any Other Way,” “Listen,” “Back to Life” (featuring a bouzouki) and “Ghosts,” may take a couple of spins to find their audience, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Something new is revealed with each repeated listen.t

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Cinema Mill Valley by David Lamble

he 41st edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival is loaded with award-season delights. They include the directing debut of acclaimed indie actor Paul Dano (“Wildlife”), an emotional memoir from Mexican master Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”) and a Bay Area-set life-and-death drama as a father battles to save his drug-addicted son (“Beautiful Boy”). “Wildlife” is drawn from a 1990 Richard Ford coming-of-age novel whose narrator is a teenage boy who witnesses the collapse of his parents’ marriage after the family moves to Montana. The book begins, “In the fall of 1960, when I was 16 and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.” Freshman director Paul Dano is known to savvy LGBTQ filmlovers as Howie, the suburban boy in sex predator trouble (“L.I.E.”); as Dwayne, the teen who chooses to remain mute in the 2006 indie family drama “Little Miss Sunshine”; as a conniving boy preacher in the shattering oil-industry drama “There Will Be Blood”; co-starring with Robert DeNiro as a young man who meets his ex-con father while working in an East Coast homeless shelter in “Being Flynn”; and as Beach Boys lead man Brian Wilson in the 60s rock drama “Love & Mercy.” Festival spotlight, with actress Carey Mulligan and director/cowriter Dano appearing for a reception and post-film Q&A Friday (Sequoia, 10/5) and an additional screening (Rafael, 10/9). “Roma” Fans of the Mexican gaythemed teen road comedy-romance “Y Tu Mama Tambien” should be thrilled that its creator, Alfonso Cuaron, is back with a melancholy film memoir. Cuaron puts us inside

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Scene from director Paul Dano’s “Wildlife.”

a Mexico City clan unsettled by a cheating dad while nurtured by an angelic servant, set against the backdrop of a bloody political uprising. A genius at weaving tales where hopes for love and freedom are forever thwarted by a bleak and chaotic political landscape, Cuaron here provides a love letter to the country of his youth, the inspiration for more than a quarter-century of comedy, romance and struggle. In one highlight, a desperate mother wades into the ocean to save a child about to be swallowed up by heavy surf at high tide. B&W, Spanish with English subtitles. (Rafael, 10/8, with onstage director chat) “Cold War” Best-known Stateside for the 2004 Yorkshire teen girls romance “My Summer of Love,” Cannes award-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski salutes the European Communist-era relationship of his composer dad and singer mom with this drama in Polish, French and German, with English subtitles. (Rafael, 10/5; Sequoia, 10/8) “Beautiful Boy” Filmed in San Francisco and Marin, and based on dueling father/son memoirs, “Beautiful Boy” depicts the painful journey taken by a son, Nicolas Sheff (a gut-wrenching performance from Timothee Chalamet) and a dad

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Scene from director Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.”

(Steve Carell) worried to death as they struggle over Nick’s dangerous drug habit. With a North American debut at the Toronto International, there’s real Oscar buzz here. (Rafael, 10/6; Sequoia, 10/8) “Boy Erased” Rising star Lucas Hedges appears as a gay youth outed to his family (Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe) by a malicious fellow student. Joel Edgerton’s gripping drama is set in an American Baptist community. (Sequoia, 10/7, 9) “Daughter of Mine” A Sardinian mom watches as her 10-year-old daughter bonds with her small village’s femme fatale. Intense family drama, in Italian with English subtitles. (Rafael,10/7; Sequoia, 10/9) “The Front Runner” Veteran helmer Jason Reitman (“Juno”) returns with a timely political drama based on the spectacular debacle that was the 1988 presidential nomination campaign of Senator Gary Hart, played by Aussie charmer Hugh Jackman. With powerful supporting turns from Vera Farmiga and J.K. Simmons, this one should generate some powerful buzz leading up to the 2018 congressional midterm elections. (Sequoia, 10/9, 10) “Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives” In the 70s, it’s doubtful that there were many politically con-

scious LGBT people who didn’t either attend a Holy Near concert or own one of her albums. Director Jim Brown captures highlights from a 40-year career that had wildly improbable origins. (Sequoia, 10/7, followed by a live music event at Sweetwater; Rafael, 10/8) “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People” There’s a pretty important prize given out in his name, but who was Pulitzer the man? Narrated by gifted indie actor Adam Driver, this film provides a valuable lesson in the value of journalism that afflicts the powerful. Preceded by the short “The Center of a Book” by UK directors Joshua Moore and Liz Payne. (Rafael, 10/5; Larkspur, 10/6; Sequoia, 10/9) “Obey” This UK debut feature from Jamie Jones depicts a strifetorn London where protesters are up in arms about the police shooting of an unarmed black man. A London teen is drawn into a conflict where he’s pitted against family and friends. (Larkspur, 10/5; Rafael, 10/8) “What They Had” Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank heads a top-flight cast (Michael Shannon, Robert Forster) in dealing with her family’s mentally failing matriarch (Blythe Danner). A debut film that mixes taut drama and offbeat comedy from first-time helmer Elizabeth

Chomko. (Sequoia, 10/7) “Widows” UK director Steve McQueen returns with Viola Davis starring in a Chicago-based drama about a group of women who struggle to repay a large debt left behind by their late hubbies. (Sequoia, 10/6; Rafael, 10/8) “Yomeddine” In this Egypt-set drama, a resident from a leper colony embarks on a desert journey to locate the family that left him behind. By his side is a 10-year-old urchin nicknamed “Obama.” (Rafael, 10/9, 10) “I Am My Own Mother” This LGBTQ short from American director Andrew Zox is a highlight of Mill Valley’s annual “5@5” shorts programs. Part of “5@5 Coyote.” (Rafael, 10/9; Larkspur, 10/10) “Bias” Director Robin Hauser examines unconscious human feelings that lead to actions against others. (Sequoia, 10/7; Lark, 10/13) “Free Solo” The terrifying feat of climbing a mountain without ropes is depicted in this high-in-the-sky doc from Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Their cameras follow Alex Honnold as he risks life and limb to be the first person to scale the awesome, 3,200-ft.-high El Capitan wall in California’s Yosemite National Park without ropes or safety equipment. Aside from breathtaking shots of one of our state’s most impressive natural wonders, this 100-minute doc, rated PG-13 for some adult relationship content, rests on the youthful charisma of the 20something Alex, who got the climbing bug as a kid. Along the way, Alex’s best friend and his spunky girlfriend confess their fears that this time they may lose their beloved boy-man. At one point doctors subject Alex to an MRI scan proving that there is something very different going on in his brain. (Rafael, 10/6; Sequoia, 10/8)t Info: mvff.com.

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • October 4-10, 2018

Double the pleasure, double the fun by Sura Wood

pair of small-scale shows at SFMOMA provides a double dip of Wayne Thiebaud, a painter affectionately known as the king of cakes and pies for his depictions of delectable confectionary treats. For untold years, especially in the 1960s, he has tempted us with high calorie indulgences, from platters of bakery cakes to yummy parfaits

and sundaes lined up on a counter. Bless you, Mr. Thiebaud: there are always seconds, thirds and more in your wonderful world of desserts. Though they are not his only subject – his canon includes vertigoinducing cityscapes, rural vistas and nudes – they align temperamentally with his sweet, avuncular demeanor (bow-tie and all) and a voice that Disney would have loved to cast for an animated character. At 98, Thie-

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baud is still painting and playing tennis, using the lids of discarded tennis-ball cans to mix his paints. Both exhibitions, impeccably installed by curator Janet Bishop in adjacent suites of galleries on the second floor, draw from the museum’s collections and SFMOMA’s long relationship with the Sacramento-area artist, which dates back to 1942. Covering a half-century of productivity, and consisting of some 35 works, “Paintings and Drawings” is just that: paintings shown alongside dozens of preparatory studies, watercolors and deft pen and pencil sketches (Thiebaud started off as a cartoonist) that shed light on the thinking and visual problemsolving that resulted in full-blown canvases. In “Canyon Mountains” (2011-12), a large oil evoking the real and imagined Southwestern mountain ranges of his childhood, flat-topped, loamy shafts of earth, slathered with the thick impasto he favors, crane toward the sky, nudging each other and competing for space and light. Nearby, studies for the painting, experimenting with shapes and perspective, also contain handwritten notes to self like, “Add colors to all lines,” a prompt to flesh out volumes. “Sunset Streets” (1985) is an alternate-reality, cinematic vision of San Francisco’s vertiginous hills, with a candy-orange-and-white-striped building resembling a creamsicle wedged into a densely packed network of city structures lining a steep black thoroughfare that ascends to a 90-degree angle like the incline of a death-defying roller coaster. A lovely summer idyll, “Girl with a Pink Hat” (1973) features a slender young blond woman facing sideways in a broad-brimmed sun hat, the white heat of the afternoon bleaching the background. Next to it are multiple ink-and-graphite drawings of the same subject with and without a bikini, in a variety of poses. Dreamy pastels of (you guessed it) an intact lemon meringue pie and half-eaten Neapolitan are a warning not to go to the show on an empty stomach. For “Artist’s Choice,” a companion exhibition that’s the more intellectually interesting of the two, Bishop invited Thiebaud into the museum’s galleries and storage vaults to sort through hundreds of works. He appears to have had a grand old time selecting pieces for which he feels an

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affinity and that reflect his eclectic tastes. Among those that made the cut: Picasso, Max Beckmann, Andre Derain, whom he considers the best of the fauve painters; European and American modernists like Arthur B. Carles, whose image of a voluptuous, alabaster-skinned woman in a saucy yellow hat (“Torso,” 1914) rises like a phoenix or a genie out of a bottle from an ebony divan; and fellow Californians such as David Park and Elmer Bischoff, as well as Richard Diebenkorn and French master Matisse, who’ve figured prominently in his artistic psyche. Even better, most of the works are accompanied by pithy quotes from Thiebaud, who expounds in his impish way on the virtues of each painting and why he chose it. One of his heroes, Willem de Kooning, whom he describes as “the best trained artist in all of New York,” and who, he says, taught him about rigor, is represented by “The Springs” (1955), flooded by a golden pink light he compares to that used by Rembrandt. The glowing brilliant light of a glistening icy river in winter is what won George C. Ault’s “The Hudson from Riverside Drive” (1920-21) a spot in the Thiebaud pantheon. “This painting just really stunned me,” he recalls. He laments that the “smashingly good” Derain has been denied his rightful place in the art world, choosing two of his works, “Paysage du Midi” (1906) and “Nature morte aux Fruits” (ca. 1937-39), as a corrective. Given the generous application of impasto, Joan Brown’s “Green Bowl” (1964) seems like an obvious choice. The chartreuserimmed vessel of the title rests on a mottled, cement-hued surface, its textures so visceral you feel compelled to touch them. “You got this

enormous amount of felt pressure,” explains Thiebaud. “There’s a lot of flattening or planometric pushing, and that’s really satisfying to me.” He talks up the transparency and delicacy of David Park’s “Bathers” (1954), in which the lean, tawny bodies of teenage boys, freshly emerged from an ocean swim, meld with the sandy beach. “Diebenkorn’s pictures are dirty sometimes, and that’s a positive thing,” he opines in response to the artist’s “Still Life with Orange Peel” (1955). “He was very interested in anomalies, things which were not quite clean, to give contrast between a kind of French elegance and filth.” “Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad” (1965), a Diebenkorn masterpiece last seen in Bishop’s excellent “Matisse/Diebenkorn” show in 2017, takes another bow here, and what a spectacular beauty it is. In an overt homage to Matisse, the SoCal dreamscape has a skewed perspective that’s somehow exactly right, and an “aura of color like a musical chord” that Thiebaud so aptly describes. A kaleidoscopic merging of indoors and outdoors, with sea and sky in azure and cerulean, a patch of kelly green lawn on the right leading to a wave cresting on a teal blue sea in the distance, and a prominent panel of brightly-colored flowered patterning that’s a shout-out to the French master’s love of wallpaper and fabrics, it seduces the eye and electrifies the soul. Its presence alone is reason enough to visit the show. Take advantage of the long cushy bench in front of it and gaze to your heart’s content.t “Paintings and Drawings” runs through April 28. “Artist’s Choice” is up until March 10. www.sfmoma.org.

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Pinko patchwork on Sunset Blvd. by Jim Gladstone

n the wake of last week’s unintentionally laughable Kavanaugh Confirmation follies, one might attend “Red Scare on Sunset,” Charles Busch’s high-camp take on the pinko paranoia of mid-20th century Hollywood, thirsty for a comic tonic. Indeed, the belated San Francisco debut of this 1991 play at the New Conservatory Theatre Center offers an anti-authoritarian shot of fun. It’s served, however, in a highball glass, diluted with repetition. While director Allen Sawyer’s two-act evening starts off with plenty of fizz, it goes flat well before the end of its running time. But oh, those fruity garnishes! The costumes, by Mr. David and Ruby Vixen, include a flotilla of juicy couture, from a melon-plaid fascinator to a gossamer cherryblossom Bo-Peep dress, to a maraschino-trimmed tux, to a tangerine dream of gown (with matching hat). Flynn De Marco’s wave-intensive wigs will flip yours. And Kuo-Hao Lo’s central set, the pastel Deco living room of movie star Mary Dale (J. Conrad Frank), makes a lovely runway for this fashion show. Alas, the design elements are much more in sync than the cast. Their acting, both in skill and style, is sufficiently inconsistent that the players distract from each other, creating a choppy overall tone instead of sweeping the audience up in a spell of cheerful ridiculousness. In the leading role of Mary, who, on-screen and off, brings a swanning exaggeration to every

melodramatic move and dimwitted declaration, Frank, in a role Busch wrote for himself to perform in drag, deploys the same skill set he brings to his own celebrated drag alter ego, Katya Smirnoff-Skyy. But Kyle Goldman, as Frank Taggart, Mary’s studly young husband, feels extremely awkward executing the script’s camp demands. More than just struggling with the playwright’s ultra-arch aesthetic, he seems unfamiliar with the baseline Golden Age of Hollywood style that Busch aims to further heighten. Among the eight-player ensemble, the closest tonal matches for Frank include the invaluable David Bicha in a handful of small, piquant roles, male and female. His turn as Mary’s late grandmother, speaking from the afterlife, provides five minutes of giddy grace during a final half-hour when the whole show, like Granny, feels long-expired. Baily Hopkins, too, as Marta Towers, a screen ingénue secretly helping to sow the seeds of Communism, is able to deliver the tightly compressed layers of sincerity, satire and ironic self-awareness that the material demands. For my money, the best of the bunch is Nancy French, as Mary’s best friend Pat Pilford, a comedienne and gossip-hound at the center of anti-Communist sentiment. French elegantly navigates the fine line between pancake-armored camp and a flesh-and-blood character. Yes, “Red Scare on Sunset” is a broad comedy, but French’s performance suggests that she fully understands she’s in a play, not an

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Best friends Mary Dale (J. Conrad Frank) and Pat Pilford (Nancy French) are aghast at the political dealings of Hollywood in “Red Scare on Sunset.”

overextended skit and, in a large part with lots of stage time, has to offer a scintilla of human relatability and roundedness. J. Conrad Frank is a great asset, and NCTC has taken smart advantage of his skills in shows including “Die Mommy Die,” one of Busch’s better, tighter plays. But one very specific performance – even two or three –

can’t carry an eight-person show. Working with cast members whose skill levels vary is a frequent necessity when drawing strictly from the local Bay Area talent pool. It’s a director’s job to even things out on the surface, giving audiences a show that feels like it’s made from whole cloth rather than a patchwork of individual performances. At that

job, Allen Sawyer has fallen short. So, audience members, be prepared. Grab a drink and strap in; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.t “Red Scare on Sunset,” through Oct. 21. New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave., SF. Tickets ($25-$55): www.nctcsf.org.

‘Terror Vault’ will make SF scream

Courtesy Terror Vault

The “Terror Vault” doll is designed to creep you out.

by Sari Staver

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error Vault,” an immersive haunted journey though the underground vaults at the historic old San Francisco Mint, opens on Oct. 10 for a four-week run. The new attraction is San Francisco’s first haunted house experience, according to Joshua Grannell, the writer-director who will make an appearance as Peaches Christ during the tour through the newly constructed maze inside the ornate granite building at Fifth and Mission, a historic site now used for events and conferences. “It’s part immersive theatre, part

haunted maze, and part escape room,” said Grannell in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “We hope to make you laugh and scream.” Grannell created the new show with business partner David Flower, who has produced haunted house events in Provincetown for many years. The two formed a new production company, Into the Dark, which hopes to produce immersive theatrical events “for the Bay Area and beyond,” said Grannell. During the 45-minute show, groups of 12 will be guided through the “haunted house.” Participants can choose whether to “opt in” for

an interactive experience, or “opt out” to be a passive participant and watch the action happening around them. Tickets are sold for a specific time, scheduled every half-hour between 8:30 and 10 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. Those who opt in for interactivity “should be prepared to be shocked, thrilled and amazed,” said Grannell. “You could be touched, become part of the show, pulled away from your group and isolated, written on, asked to eat something, climb or crawl,” he said. Opting in, he added, is for people who like to “choose their own adventure,” and probably not the best choice for those who are easily terrified. Grannell, whose stage name is Peaches Christ, is a drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, writer, director and actor. He said Halloween has been his favorite holiday “since I was a kid. I was always interested in spooky, creepy stuff.” Growing up near Baltimore, Grannell said, “Going to haunted house attractions was always my passion. I was terrified but also fascinated by the staging and special effects.” During summers at Ocean City, MD, Grannell would often visit the gigantic house “Morbid Manor.” He recalled “staring at the long line of people entering, and then being chased out with a chain saw at the end. My parents thought my fascination with it was quite strange.” He noted that he was producing horror plays in the family basement by age 11. At age 14, Grannell said his ambitions “grew” when he got permission from a local landlord to use a big plot of empty land near his parents’ home to create a “scary tour through the woods.” The teenager wrote the scripts, built the props, and held auditions with neighborhood kids. “It was my first taste of showmanship where I was interfacing with the public, not just putting

on a play for friends and family,” he recalled. “My mother was the ticket lady, and my father starred in the chainsaw finale, where we chased people out in the final scene.” Grannell said he “really enjoyed the marketing,” creating and distributing posters to promote his event. “People knew it was put on by kids, but I think we really impressed them with the detail and thought we put into the production.” When Grannell settled in San Francisco in the mid-1990s, he was surprised there wasn’t a successful haunted experience anywhere in the city. “Most major cities and suburbs have one.” When Grannell met business partner David Flower in Provincetown, “It was kind of obvious that we should be working together” to do something in San Francisco. The two decided to partner with NonPlus Ultra, which operates the Mint and other venues for the city. Grannell said he has been the writer and director, and Flower the production designer of the new show. Their newly formed company Into the Dark hopes to continue

Jose A. Guzman

Peaches Christ is in a scene in every “Terror Vault” show.

creating immersive theatrical productions when “Terror Vault” closes on Nov. 3. “David agreed with me that it was absolutely crazy that San Francisco didn’t have something” haunted. To create the new show, Grannell said he and Flower each had to “cancel” all their previously scheduled commitments for September and October. “We both took a risk” to create the new show, he said, “but I really believe in this, and wanted to see it happen. This may sound obnoxious, but I have always created things that I would want to see, whether it’s a show, a movie, or a play. I’ve always followed my passion. “I really wanted San Francisco to have an experience that was scary and campy, where people can scream and laugh. Now more than ever, given the state of the world, people are attracted to an experience that is a safe and fun way to experience fear. That release component is definitely part of ‘Terror Vault.’” Master showman that he is, Grannell urges San Franciscans to order their tickets early. “Tickets are selling briskly, and there are only a finite number available,” he said. The show cannot be extended because the venue has other events locked in. “Everyone is asking whether Peaches will be in the show, and the answer is yes. She’s in a scene in the middle of every show. You cannot miss her. “The show is dark and creepy,” said Grannell, “but it’s still a Peaches Christ show in terms of laughs and fun.”t Tickets for “Terror Vault,” 88 5th St., SF ($67.92): www. eventbrite.com/e/into-thedark-terror-vault-ages-21tickets-46585228673. Cocktail bar with specialty drinks available.

<< Books

22 • Bay Area Reporter • October 4-10, 2018

Further reading, fall 2018 (part 2) by Gregg Shapiro

unny that way: Based on the live show and podcast created in 2009 by gay comedian Kevin Allison, “Risk! True Stories People Never Thought They’d Dare to Share” (Hachette), edited and with an introduction by Allison, features pieces by gay contributors Dan Savage, David Crabb and Walter Zimmerman, as well as Aisha Tyler, Lili Taylor, Michael Ian Black and Mark Maron. Taking “funny that way” in a completely different direction, prolific poet and writer Jim Elledge’s “The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers and Sex Morons in Chicago’s First Century” (Chicago Review Press) picks up where St Sukie de la Croix’s “Chicago Whispers” left off in closely examining the Windy City’s queer history. Gay writer-performer David Sedaris, who has the uncanny

ability to make readers laugh and cry, sometimes within the same piece, is back with “Calypso” (Little, Brown), a new collection of essays, many set at Sedaris’ North Carolina beach house the Sea Section (kid you not!), including the hilarious same-sex marriage essay “A Modest Proposal.” Poets’ corner: The author of more than 20 books, Eileen Myles, in the midst of an especially productive period, brings us “Evolution” (Grove), more than 70 poems as well as a couple of essays. Gay poet-playwrighteditor-publisher Raymond Luczak delivers his most experimental collection of poetry in “A Babble of Objects” (Fomite), featuring several visually stimulating poems. Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, “living queer black poet from Chicago” Julian Randall’s electrifying debut

collection “Refuse” (Univ. of Pittsburgh), “set against the backdrop

of the Obama presidency,” touches on the biracial poet’s journey through “family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape.” Trans voices: Rutgers University sociology professor Arlene Stein, author of “Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity” (Pantheon), presents a sociological examination of how the new generation of transgender men view themselves, the world, and the impact they have on society. One-half of the music duo Too Attached, awardwinning, Canada-based trans artist Vivek Shraya’s “I’m Afraid of Men” (Penguin) delves into the ways “masculinity was imposed on her as a boy,” and how it “continues to haunt her as a girl.” “Sketchtasy” (Arsenal Pulp Press), the ninth book by gender-

queer writer and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, is a novel that vividly revives 90s gay culture, as experienced by Alexa and her pals, warts and all. Fictional forays: First published six years ago, Michael Lowenthal’s “The Paternity Test” (Univ. of Wisconsin Press) is now available in paperback. We’ve come a long way since then, but the subject matter of LGBTQ parenting is still as timely as ever. Also newly available in a paperback edition, “Hide” (Bloomsbury), the debut novel by Matthew Griffin, deftly handles the issue of aging in the gay community via the story of Wendell and Frank, together since WWII. In Y/A novel “Never Rest” (Lethe) by award-winning writer Marshall Thornton, 19-year-old Jake is undergoing experimental treatments for leukemia, discovers he’s attracted to another patient, and realizes he is experiencing a frightening transformation.t

mainder drawn from other books of his works. His distinguished career as a writer and aptly named “poetphysician” spans more than two decades and is wonderfully represented here in this streamlined new volume that focuses on the writer’s gay life and clinical career. “Illness may be a muse, but it is a particularly vexing one,” Campo writes in the book’s illuminative introduction about how he channels subject matter closest to his heart and mind, when so much sickness, misery, pain, distress, and disease can prove depressing to both the reader and the author. Despite this, he describes his grandmother’s last days and the love he had for her in eloquent paragraphs. The antiseptic, steely gray tones of hospital emergency rooms are the setting for a lot of this work, but

the compassionate heart and soul with which these poems are written cuts through the melancholy and sorrow. There is a spectral light hidden within each of Campo’s poems, but not every reader will recognize it. In the title poem, Campo reflects on the process of dying, and how, for some, the eventuality of death is delayed, prolonging the sadness. The title refers to universal hospice direction whereby patients, with death lingering at the threshold, are given no invasive or painful medical procedures, only palliative compassionate care, with caregivers awaiting the dying to “give in to the invidious assault.” Other pieces concern the pain, desolation, and confusion of AIDS, piercingly described as adorned with “the slippers made of Kaposi’s/ The gown of night

and soaking sweats,” the “silvery and cold” specter of the speculum during a pelvic exam, the “timeless, dizzy, unscrupulous/ dimly lit” aspects of the human mind, the “smart perfume” of antiseptics, and the many nuances of a shift at an HIV clinic. A section of new poetry closes out the book, artfully representing Campo’s maturing narrative voice and increasing poetic dexterity through gorgeous stanzas and emotive wordplay. The final poem gives voice to a doctor’s stethoscope as it describes the experience of being pressed to a chest or a back to hear the “scratching of the tiny crab/ too many years of smoking left behind.” Fans of Campo’s work will find much to savor in this treasury from a physician with his heart in all the right places.t

sees as a betrayal, is infected with HIV. Yale’s fate, how it will impact Fiona, becomes the novel’s central concern. Makkai did an enormous amount of investigation on the disease’s impact on Chicago, reading every issue of Windy City Times (Chicago’s biggest gay weekly) from 1985-92, as well as interviewing doctors, nurses, activists, survivors, people with HIV, and people who had been young and gay during the mid-80s. Her research served her well. The Chicago chapters feel authentic, capturing all the complex emotions that accompanied the sense of terror and confusion as friends decide whether or not to take the HIV test, sweat out their results, and if infected, await their first symptoms at a time when there was no treatment, with the often awful choices that had to be made. Makkai is especially effective in showing how random it was who was struck, spared, or survived over a long period, with the accompanying guilt, including that of caregivers. Makkai’s compassionate recapitulation of friendship and loss is so riveting that the 2015 chapters suffer by comparison. They are not nearly as engrossing, especially because Claire’s relationship to Fiona is sketchily developed. The whole cult scenario fizzles out, and it is only when Claire attends Richard’s art show that we see why Claire is so

bitter. She seems to be a case of PTSD whose capacity for love, even to her own daughter, has been depleted by the epidemic. Yet that conclusion emerges clearly only in the final chapters. Previous chapters on her search for Claire seem superfluous in the overlong novel. The excessive Nora episodes lessen the emotional impact of the well-written AIDS chapters. They were the genesis of the book, which at first was not going to focus on AIDS. But Makkai saw a parallel between the Lost Generation after WWI and the losses of gay men during the height of the AIDS holocaust. Nora doesn’t want her lover or his art forgotten. Struggling with his own mortality, Yale is determined to make sure Ranko gets his long overdue art show. “When someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory,” Nora confides to Yale, “letting go would be a kind of murder.” This role of memorykeeper is an essential theme. Fiona, gazing at Richard’s photographs, observes, “They had frozen them [her dead friends] forever, boys with

hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin.” “The Great Believers” is a powerful, empathic, heartbreaking meditation on resilience, the tenacity of love and forgiveness, as well as courage under dire circumstances. Because you feel as though you are reliving those years of pain, catastrophe, and waste, similar memories will be dredged up in older readers. Makkai compels us to revisit this harrowing trauma, emboldening us to say, “Never again.”t

Body of work

by Jim Piechota

Comfort Measures Only by Rafael Campo; Duke University Press, $22.95

s an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, decorated Cuban author and poet Rafael Campo beautifully channels his experiences as a physician and medical instructor into prose that has become well-known and duly awarded. His new collection “Comfort Measures Only” gathers 88 poems, many of which are new and unpublished, with the re-

Plague years by Brian Bromberger

The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai; Viking, $27

here is a chilling scene in the first chapter of Rebecca Makkai’s new novel “The Great Believers” where the main character, Yale Tishman, is attending a memorial party in 1985 for a close friend, Nico, who has died of AIDS. He goes upstairs and falls asleep. He awakens in the middle of the night. He goes back down to the living room, and no one is inside or outside the house, only a collective silence. “The foggy ridiculous idea came to him that the world had ended, that some apocalypse had swept through and forgotten only him.” This vision serves as a kind of dark prophecy for the terrors to come. Yale’s world is about to be swallowed up by the carnage of the AIDS epidemic, engulfing all his friends, as one by one they die. Makkai, a heterosexual woman and previous author of “The Hundred-Year House” and “Music for Wartime,” has done a remarkable job of re-enacting the sense of hysteria, dread, and uncertainty of those early years of the epidemic, an astounding feat considering she is only 40 years old, too young to have experienced those gloomy times. The novel alternates chapters: those on a community of cultured

gay men in the gay Boystown area of Chicago in the mid-1980s affected by the epidemic, with those set in 2015 as Fiona, Nico’s 21-year-old sister and prime caregiver for him and his gay friends, now in her 50s, is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter Claire, who disappeared into a cult. While staying with Richard Campo, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis and is preparing a major retrospective show on that period, she grapples with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with Claire. Yale, who becomes close with Fiona, is the principal 1980s character. He is development director for Northwestern University to help establish a permanent collection for their campus art gallery. His lover is the unpredictable Charlie Keene, the publisher of a gay newspaper. Through Nora, Fiona’s 90-year-old great-aunt, he discovers a potential treasure trove of 1920s paintings, including Modigliani and Soutine, for whom she once modeled. Nora is willing to donate the paintings as long as the gallery exhibits paintings by Ranko Novak, her lover and unknown artist, disabled during WWII, who later committed suicide. It would be the biggest coup of his career, as long as the paintings are deemed authentic. Then the unthinkable happens as Charlie, through an affair that Yale

<< Music

24 • Bay Area Reporter • October 4-10, 2018

Justin Vivian Bond

From page 15

Mx. Bond, a Tony nominee and Obie-winning trans-genre performer, will be singing a handful of San Francisco-themed songs at the Green Room of the War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Ave. Tickets are $150. To hear more about their upcoming appearance here, the B.A.R. caught up with Bond in a recent telephone interview from their [Bond’s preferred pronoun] East Village apartment in New York City. Bond, who first achieved prominence in the stage duo known as Kiki and Herb, says their successful career was inspired by their years in San Francisco. In 1988, three years after graduating as a theatre major from Adelphi U. in Long Island, NY, Bond moved to San Francisco, where they worked at A Different Light Bookstore, joined ACT UP and Queer Nation, and “became an activist and performer.” “My political and creative growth” began in San Francisco, Bond said. “I was only there for six years, but the years between 25 and 31 were very big ones for me, as far as who I was and who I was to become.” Getting involved in the punk scene in San Francisco, “It was the first time I saw a place for myself with the activists and artists who created a world that hadn’t existed before. And it was the time when I became a true artist – not an artist as I was taught in school, but one with my own voice.” A “turning point” came when [gender-non-conforming activist] Kate Bornstein cast Bond in a play, “Hidden: A Gender,” the first time they performed a female role. Soon afterward, Bond created the lounge act “Dixie McCall’s Patterns for

Pepperland

Living” around the persona of actress Julie London. Bond says their “breakthrough” role came under the pseudonym “Kiki Durane” in the stage duo known as Kiki and Herb, with co-star Kenny Melman. At age 31, Bond moved to New York City. “I felt I had a choice. I could continue my life in San Francisco, which I was happy with at the moment, but I realized I wouldn’t be content unless I could see how far I could take my work into the mainstream. “It was the right decision,” Bond said, pointing out that they were the headliner at Carnegie Hall twice, and they brought a “queer voice off and on Broadway.” Bond “toured the world” with the show “JVB is Close to You,” an homage to Karen Carpenter. Countless roles on TV and film followed. Bond has been honored with an Obie, a Bessie, and a Tony nomination. Recently, Bond has focused on their cabaret act in New York City, as well as in clubs around the country. Unfortunately, said Bond, “cabaret may not be the most appreciated art” in the U.S. But “I may be one of the most appreciated cabaret artists,” pointing to New Yorker theatre critic Hilton Als’ recent profile praising them as “the best cabaret artist of his generation.” While Bond’s cabaret shows don’t include any political material, politics continues to affect their performance. “Many of us are so engaged in the 24-hour news coverage that I feel it’s more important than ever to make my shows more personal, genuine, and authentic. It’s my responsibility to be entertaining, which is something I believe we all need, now more than ever. It’s not necessary to give people a political message. I’m quite sure that almost everyone at my shows already has an

affinity with my worldview. I don’t have to preach to the choir. My job is to entertain the choir.” As to their goals for the future, Bond said, “I’d love to do one really good memorable part in a movie, and I’m looking forward to releasing a new record next year. But other than that, I love what I’m doing, so I hope to continue my cabaret performances.” While it’s sometimes difficult to find venues, especially in Los Angeles, Bond says he loves coming to San Francisco, “where Heklina and D’Arcy [Drollinger] have created the Oasis, a haven where I can perform at a place owned by friends and family. It’s so much better than playing at a club owned by some creepy corporation that exists just to make money.” The October gig at the GLBT gala “is a tremendous honor,” said Bond. “When I lived in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic, it was apparent that so much of our history was lost” as the epidemic took its toll. Now, looking back, “I really appreciate all the important work the Historical Society does to document our movement. I am thrilled to be a part of an event benefitting this impressive organization.” t

David Kimelman

Justin Vivian Bond will play the GLBT Historical Society Gala.

ily down South, many years ago now. Iverson uses a large jazz combo – trombone, Iit was an event, markSax, piano, percussion, ing the opening of the organ, plus harpsichord dance season at Cal Perand theremin (the “weird” formances with a festive, sound in many horrorsparkling event that, given movie soundtracks) to the importance of “Sgt. evoke the many different Pepper’s Lonely Hearts sounds the Beatles used, Club Band” to the opening from the blatty oompahof the Doors of Perception band of “When I’m 64” as an event in our intelto tremendous effect, to lectual history, could well the psychedelic theremin’s be taken as part of Califor“nothing is real, I’m nia’s contribution to world floating free of my body” culture. feeling. Even more imporIt was also the local tant, he distorts the basic presentation of a piece rhythms of songs you commissioned by the City think you know well. By of Liverpool, home of the the time we get to the end Beatles, as part of their celof “When I’m 64,” what is ebration of the 50th annibasically a drinking song versary of the grand splash where a whole pub sings the album made, when along has become quite millions around the world drunken as the time gets got out their headphones stretched out with extra (and maybe their weed beats, and the kick-line or acid) and sat down to is now reeling. Morris’ “read” “Sgt. Pepper” over choreography for this, and and over, as has happened the dancers’ wonderful occasionally in history, handling of the swooping usually with an intoxicatphrases, made the crowd ing novel like “Werther.” laugh out loud. With “Sgt. Pepper,” rock Some songs you’d exand roll became listening pect weren’t there – not music. just “Mr. Kite” and “Good “Pepperland” deserves Morning,” but also “She’s an extended review-essay Leaving Home,” which was in The New York Review my first inkling that I was of Books. This one can Mat Hayward going to have to defy my only give some highlights family, that I could do it, and try to outline what an Mark Morris Dance Group performed “Pepperland” in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. and that we would all of us odd piece it is – almost as hate it. “How could he do strange as Richard Strauss’ this to me?” when it had “Ariadne auf Naxos,” and Mark Morris is so not stupid. He a wonderful score to work with that been my life’s work so far to make like “Ariadne,” a masterpiece. Most of understands that to return dance to does its own psychedelic things, and my mother proud. And “Penny its pleasures are incidental, as in the music as symphonic as this can’t be never nags you with “Remember Lane” is in “Pepperland.” But then light, floating wrists of Laurel and done directly. First of all, it’s overexthis?” little tugs on your memory. there is a Penny Lane in Liverpool. Hardy from “Way Out West” in the posed, and second, Liverpool wants He’s recreated the sense of possibiliIt’s not only a street with a barberdancing every now and then. Laurel something fun. ties opening up, and of new worlds shop, etc., but also a bus. They loved and Hardy are on the record jacket, Morris commissioned his former of feeling and value that “we all could it in Liverpool. and many people from that crowd music director, Ethan Iverson, direcshare, with our love” that the album “Within You and Without You” get at least subliminal recognition tor of The Bad Plus, to make new gave to me when I was a 20-year-old is the heart of the piece, as I think across the course of the evening. music out of the material, and got closeted sissy from a traditional fam

From page 15

Tickets to see Justin Vivian Bond at the GLBT Historical Society Gala on Oct. 5 are $150 and up, available at glbthistory.org/gala.

it should be. The lyrics set out the philosophy that unites all the songs, and the dance explores all the possible allusions, including an extended quote from Morris’ first masterpiece, an essay in the classical Indian style, “O Rangasayee,” from the 80s, danced exquisitely in the background by Dallas McMurray while Noah Vinson sits in the lotus position downstage and the other dancers move about him as if they were thoughts in his head. At “Try to realize it’s all within yourself, no one else can make you change, and you’ll see that we’re all really one, and life flows on within you and without you,” Vinson rises and begins to dance note-for-note with the same uncanny evenness of phrasing that the song has. Even as he turns, it never speeds up or slows down, the effect Yvonne Rainer was after in “Trio A.” There’s a Zombie-walk version of a Balkan folk-dance, with lines of four, in which the last one always drops off and does some freaky thing before, at the last minute, clasping the hand in front of him and following his group offstage. The music sounds like a New Orleans funeral march, an effect unattempted by the Beatles, but to my mind the perfect embodiment of “He blew his mind out in a car.” At the reprise, all the dancers mass in strict band-formation and sing, “Sergeant Pepper’s lonely, Sergeant Pepper’s lonely, Sergeant Pepper’s lonely, Sergeant Pepper’s lonely – “ With every key change, they change their facing. Their ability to do close harmony was surprising, like that of the Beatles themselves. It’s a thrilling sound, and it made a satisfying ending to a piece that, after all, in the original, had the most astounding ending any of us had ever heard coming from popular music. All the dancers were wonderful, especially Lauren Grant, Laurel Lynch, Durell Comedy, Billy Smith, Sam Black, Nicole Sabella, and Domingo Estrada.t

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Thu 4

Make History! @ Green Room

Thu 4

The GLBT Historical Society’s annual gala features a performance by Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond, MC Michelle Meow, a hosted bar, tasty hors d’eouvres, historic silent auction items and a fabulous City Hall balcony view; honorees includes curator Lisbet Tellefson, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Bob Ross Foundation’s Tom Horn. $150 and up. VIP 5:30pm, Gen. tix, 6:30-9:30pm. War Memorial Opera House, 401 Van Ness Ave. www.glbthistory.org

Dance Film Festival @ Brava Theatre Center, Other Venues

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas @ Gateway Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s new production of the rollicking football-prostitution-scandal musical comedy. $30-$75. Wed/ Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 21. 215 Jackson St. www.42ndstmoon.org

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh, Berkeley

Black Odyssey @ Bruns Ampitheatre, Orinda California Shakespeare Theater’s acclaimed production of Marcus Gardley’s contemporary post-Gulf War adaptation of Homer’s epic tale returns for a limited run thru Oct. 7. $33-$74. Tue-Sat various times. 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda. www.calshakes.org

The Briggs Initiative @ GLBT History Museum The Briggs Initiative : A Scary Proposition ; the exhibit focuses on the 1978 ballot measure aimed at banning lesbian and gay teachers, and how activism bridged communities to fight it. $5. Thru Jan 2019. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre Oct 4: Bad Reputation: A Joan Jett Documentary (7pm) and Nico (5:10, 8:45). Oct 6: Young Frankenstein (3:30, 7:15) and The Producers (5:30, 9:15). Oct 6-8: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast sing-along (1pm, 2pm, 7pm). Oct 8: Wanda (7pm) and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (4:55, 8:55). Oct 9: Rosemary’s Baby (7pm) and Unsane (9:30). Oct 10: Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit (7pm) and Hooper (8:45). Oct 11: An American Werewolf in London (7pm) and The Curse of the Werewolf (8:50). $11$16. 429 Castro St. http://www.castrotheatre.com/

Dance Film Festival @ Brava Theatre Center, Other Venues Ninth annual multi-theatre screenings of dance films made by local and international artists, with live performances, virtual reality

Return engagement of the comic’s hit show, Latin Standards. $25$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Nov. 17. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.margagomez.com

demos, exhibits, and discussions. Free, $25-$225 (full pass). Thru Oct. 14. 2781 24th St. and other venues. www.sfdancefilmfest.org/

A Doll’s House: Part 2 @ Berkeley Repertory Lucas Hnath’s innovative funny ‘sequel’ to the Henrik Ibsen theatre classic about a 19th-century housewife who returns to the husband she abandoned. $23-$75. Thru Oct. 21. 2025 Addison St. www.berkeleyrep.org

Fact/SF @ Counterpulse New dance work, Death, performed by Charles Slender-White’s company, takes place throughout the venue, with audience moving through the space. $25-$35. ThuSat 8pm. Thru Oct. 13. 80 Turk St. www.counterpulse.org

Hope Mohr Dance @ ODC Theater The local choreographer’s new unsuual multimedia in-the-round work, extreme lyric 1, inspired by Sappho’s iconic poems. $20-$45. 7pm & 9pm thru Oct. 6. 3153 17th St. www.hopemohr.org

Mill Valley Film Festival @ Film Center, San Rafael Diverse array of films includes half a dozen LGBT-themed features and documentaries. Thru Oct. 14. www.cafilm.org

Oslo @ Marin Theatre Company J.T. Rogers’ Tony-winning political thriller details the story of how Norwegian diplomat Mona Juul, and her husband, social scientist Terje Rød-Larsen, brokered topsecret negotiations between Israel and Palestine. $22-$60. Tue-Sun 7:30pm. Additional matinees. Thru Oct. 21. 397 Miller St., Mill Valley. www.marintheatre.org

Smuin Ballet @ Palace of Fine Arts The vibrant dance company celebrates its 25th anniversary with Trey McIntyre’s Blue Until June, new works by Nicole Haskins, Ben Needham-Wood, Rex Wheeler, and repertory works Schubert Scherzo and Eternal Idol by the late founder Michale Smuin. $25-$200 (opening night gala). Oct 4-6 at 7:30pm. Sept 29 & 30 at 2pm. 3301 Lyon St. www.smuinballet.org

Sweat @ Geary Theater American Conservatory Theater’s production of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set in Reading, PA’s dying steel industry. $15-$110. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 21. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Fri 5 Acid Test @ The Marsh Acid Test: the Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, Lynne Kaufman’s spiritual exploration solo show, returns. $20$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Nov. 4 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Concerts @ Old First Church Oct. 5: Club Glee: spetugenarians from Japan sing popular music arranged for choir, 8pm. Oct. 7: Dyad with violinist Niv Ashkenazi and bassoonist Leah Kohn, 4pm. $5-$25. 1751 Sacramento St. www.oldfirstconcerts.org

Detroit ‘67 @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Dominique Morisseau’s Motowninfused drama about an African American family’s connections while enduring the historic riots of 1967. $35-$70. Thru Oct. 7. 2018 Addison St., Berkeley. www.auroratheatre.org

Dreamgirls @ Berkeley Playhouse Local production of the hit musical about a Motown music trio. $20$40. Thru Oct. 21. Julia Morgan Theatre, 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

The Kinsey Sicks @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre 25th anniversary show with the wacky comic drag-apella quartet. $35-$80. 8pm. Oct. 6 at 3pm & 8pm. 609 Sutter St. https://kinseysicks.com

Olympians Festival @ Exit Stage Left Annual festival of short plays (27 plays, 28 writers) exploring themes of Roman gods and goddesses. $10-$12. Thru Oct. 20. 156 Eddy St. www.sfolympians.com

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution @ Roxie Cinema Fascinating documentary about the ‘80s queercore music scene, with Justin Vivian Bond, John Waters and many more; filmmaker Yony Leyser, Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8) and Jon Ginoli (Pansy Division) in person (Oct. 5 & 6). $5-$10. Different times thru Oct. 11. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com

Washed Up on the Potomac @ Custom Made Theatre World premiere of José Zayas’ play about D.C. proofreaders caught up in a possibly murderous scandal. $30. Thu 7pm, Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. 533 Sutter St. 2nd floor. www.sfplayhouse.org

You Mean To Do Me Harm @ SF Playhouse Award-winning playwright Christopher Chen’s drama about two interracial couples, and an insult that starts an escalation of anger and paranoia. $35-$100. Thru Nov. 3. 420 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Sat 6 Contact Warhol: Photography Without End @ Cantor Arts Center Exhibit of contact sheets and previously unseen images by Andy Warhol. Thru Jan 6, 2019. Stanford University campus, Palm Drive at Museum Way, Palo Alto. https://museum.stanford.edu

Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco @ Cowell Theater 25th anniversary season concert includes dances by Artistic Director Zenon Barron, with live music by Vinic-Kay led by Jose Roberto Hernandez. $25-$35. 2pm & 8pm. Oct. 7, 2pm. Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd. http://www.ensambles-sf.com

Fri 5 Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution @ Roxie Cinema

Films @ BAM/PFA Artistic and award-winning films, including international features, and documentaries about artists; ongoing. Mark Morris Presents: In the Age of Pepperland, iconic 1960s films; thru Nov. 25. 2155 Center St., Berkeley. www.bampfa.org

Fun Home @ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Lisa Kron and Jeanine Resori’s Tony-winning adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s acclaimed graphic novel about her family tragedies is performed by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. $40-$100. Tue/Wed 7:30pm,. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Oct. 28. 500 Castro St., Mountain View. www.theatreworks.org

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre’s new production of the hit rock musical about a German transgender singer and alter-ego. $15-$40. Thru Oct. 6. 2961 16th St. http:// rayoflighttheatre.com

Mamma Mia! @ Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek The ABBA jukebox musical gets a local production, with LeAnne Borghesi and other talented singeractors. $39-$83. Thru Oct. 7. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. www.lesherartscenter.org

Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally @ Curran Theater The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, the comic actor married couple’s fun autobiographical show, with moderators Stephanie Allynne and Tog Noataro. $50-$110 (includes a signed copy of their new book). 8pm. 445 Geary St. https://sfcurran.com

Other Cinema @ ATA Gallery Weekly screenings of wacky, unusual, short, documentary and animated films; free books, vinyl, VHS and wne. $7. 8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. www.othercinema.com

Through-LINES: The Art of Ballet @ 836M Exhibit of stunning dance photos by prolific photographer RJ Muna, with design and sound installations by Christopher Haas, Bernie Krause and Jim Campbell; presented by Alonzo King LINES Ballet as part of its 35th anniversary season. Thru Jan 7, 2019. 836 Montgomery St. www.linesballet.org

Sun 7 Castro Street Fair @ Castro St. at 18th 45th annual fair with live acts (Big Dipper) and DJed music (Trevor Sigler), drinks, food, crafts, and many exhibitors. $5-$10 gate donation goes to multiple local nonprofits. 11am-6pm. Castro Street between Market & 18th, Market St. closed to Noe St. https://castrostreetfair.org

Arts Events>>

Second Look, Twice @ MOAD Exhibition of the work of 15 critically-acclaimed contemporary artists of African descent, including Glenn Ligon, Martin Puryear, and Kara Walker. Thru Dec. 16. Free/$15. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

Mon 8 Connecting Threads @ JCCSF Quilts From the Social Justice Sewing Academy, an exhibit of textile art by local youth, with political themes. Mon-Fri 8am10pm, Sun 8am-8pm, thru Nov. SF Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. www.jccsf.org

Sting & Shaggy @ Masonic Hall The former Police frontman and the reggae musican perform music from their new collaborative album. $84-$144. 8pm. 1111 California St. http://sfmasonic.com

Veiled Meanings @ Contemp. Jewish Museum Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem thru Jan 6, 2019. 2019. 736 Mission St. https://thecjm.org/

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Tue 9

Thu 11

Eric Idle @ Curran Theater

Bravo 25 @ The Marsh

The Monty Python’s Flying Circus cofounding member discusses his “sorta autobiography,” Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. $65-$95 (includes signed book). 7pm. 445 Geary St. https://sfcurran.com

Peter Hujar: Speed of Life @ BAM/PFA, Berkeley Exhibit of photos by the New York 1970s-’80s art/celebrity scene gay photographer who died of AIDS in 1987; thru Nov. 18. Cecelia Vicuna: About to Happen, thru Nov. 18. 2155 Center St. Berkeley. www.bampfa.org

Verasphere @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Exhibit of David Faulk (“Mrs. Vera”) and Michael Johnstone’s photos of their fabulous colorful art costumes. Thru Oct. 15. Tue & Thu 3pm-9pm. Wed 5pm-9pm. Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. 50 Scott St. http:// harveymilkphotocenter.org

Sat 6

Deirdre Weinberg: Living Memory in the TL @ Tenderloin Museum

Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco @ Cowell Theater

Writing Hope @ Dog Eared Books Queer Authors in Times of Opression, excerpts from works by various LGBT authors, read by members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, with cohosts Perfectly Queer’s Wayne Goodman and Richard May. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Will Durst @ The Marsh The erudite political comic returns with yet another updated version of his show, Durst Case Scenario: Midterm Madness. $20-$100. Tuesdays, 8pm Thru Oct. 30. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Bravo 25: You’re A.I. Therapist Will See You Now, Eliza Gibson’s solo show about her work as a social worker and therapist. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm, thru Oct. 27. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Wed 10 Expedition Reef @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with

various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth; Deep Reefs, Giants of Land and Sea, Gems and Minerals, and more. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Monica Lundy @ Nancy Toomey Fine Art Deviance - Women in the Asylum During the Fascist Regime, an exhibit of the artist’s touching posthumous portraits in coffee, charcoal and burnt paper. Thru Oct. 13. 1275 Minnesota St. http://nancytoomeyfineart.com

Opening reception for the artist’s exhibit of miniportraits showing “beauty where it might be overlooked.” 6pm-8pm. 398 Eddy St. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Litquake @ Multiple Venues Opening night of the annual multivenue celebration of literature, with 100s of local and visiting authors reading from and discussing books. Opening party at the University Club, 800 Powell St. $20-$25. Thru Oct. 20, where the annual Lit crawl converges on venues along Valencia Street and nearby. Most events free. www.litquake.org

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Across town, a pack of glittery whippersnappers –including Aquaria, Kameron Michaels, Eureka and Kim Chi– will descend upon the Curran Theater as part of the heavily promoted Werq the World tour tomorrow night. Since the late 1990s, 6’2” Louisianan Jeffrey Roberson has portrayed his Merman character in a series of witty one-woman shows. While Merman’s get-ups are great, it’s the first-rate comedy writing and annual infusions of all new material that makes her a star in a galaxy of time-tested drag icons, including Miss Coco Peru, Lady Bunny, Dina Martina and Lypsinka. Yet to the generation of queens and fans who have grown up on RuPaul’s Drag Race and the dozen or so new faces it shoots to international fame each year, Merman is old school; what’s referred to in rock music as a legacy artist. How Varla must hate all the green pretenders lipsyncing in her limelight! After a single TV season, some of them are more widely recognized than Varla, after decades on the boards. Wouldn’t she love to string ’em up by their newbie pubes? The lady demurs. Even when she’s

battling a bevy of nu-drag beauties for ticket sales, Varla Jean won’t get mean. “All the Drag Race girls that I’ve met have been really talented and nice,” Roberson says. “They seem to respect their elders. “Look,” he explains, addressing his level-headed perspective, “there are a lot of girls who have become famous because of the television show. I’ve made a career at this. Fame isn’t a career, and it doesn’t last if you don’t have depth.” Many veterans of Drag Race are able to generate a quick year or two’s income boost by touring with group shows and glorified synced-totracks bar acts. But Roberson suggests that over the longterm, with or without a TV jumpstart, the same fallout that happened among his generation of queens will take place. “When I started, there were drag performers in bars, but what I and Coco and others realized was that we needed to create whole evenings of entertainment in order to stand out and stay interesting. “Bianca del Rio, Jinx Monsoon, Trixie Mattel, Ben de la Crème,” says Roberson, ticking off a handful of new breed queens who he feels have demonstrated staying power with their commitment to developing and refining original material. “If you keep working hard and build-

ing something, you have chance of sticking around. “I grew up watching Carol Burnett,” says Roberson, drawing a contrast between himself and queens weaned on Drag Race. “I was so into comedy. I loved to laugh and loved to make jokes. The comedy came first, not the drag. When I first did Varla, I was an awkward 300-pound man with a lisp. She was an escape from myself, not an extension of myself.” Rather than thinking of up-andcoming drag stars as competition, Roberson, 49, finds himself reflecting on how gender and identity are seen as fluid to younger performers and their fans. “Back when I started, you were expected be either a man or a woman. The artistry of drag was in creating two completely different people. I have transgender friends from then who did drag before transitioning and never would have thought about doing it afterwards. I find it so evolved how things aren’t so black and white today.” That said, in Roberson’s own case, “Varla is a job. She lives in a rented storage unit.”t Varla Jean Merman’s ‘Under A Big Top,’ Oct. 4-7, 7pm at Oasis, 298 11th St. www.varlaonline.com www.sfoasis.com

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Shot in the City

Juanita MORE! Enjoying a cocktail with a friend at MORE/Jones.

The Life of the Party by Juanita MORE!

hen I first moved to San Francisco, one of my roommates sold a little coke and meth to help him make some extra cash while working his way through college. By that time, I had already made it through school as a devoted pot smoker who was well on their way to being an amazing vodka drinker. My family loved to party. My parents were doing it before they met each other, and it played a part of their relationship as a married couple. Specifically, they were drinkers. After my mom passed, I asked one of my aunts what mom was like in high school. She said that she was everything: popular, class president, even head cheerleader. Also, then laughing, she told me a story about the time they drove down to San Jose to see a James Brown concert. She said, in the middle of the show my underage mom pulled a bottle of whiskey from her purse and passed it around. Yeah, that was my mom. I guess you could say that is also me. I remember one particular party at our house when I was growing up. When my parents, aunts, and uncles sent my cousins and myself to bed, everyone fell asleep but me. The music was playing loud and at one point Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” came on the record player. I cracked open the bedroom door to see what was going on. The living room was filled with weed smoke, and everyone was laughing and dancing like there was no tomorrow. (They even had a strobe light. Get it, mom and dad.) My parents partied hard, and they always made it look like a lot of fun. Growing up as a young queer kid, pre-internet, the only place queers got together was at the bars. That was the safe place. I wasn’t old enough to get into them then, but guess where I was hanging out? In the parking lot of those bars. Bless. My first apartment in San Francisco was on Taylor Street at Pacific, where my roommates and I lived in the basement of the three-story walk-up. All I had was a mattress on the floor and cardboard box as a nightstand. I bought expensive

shoes from Wilkes Bashford and tipped out a friend to give me a cute haircut. So, the meth and coke I “borrowed” from my roommate helped me get through that first year in the city. He thought he had a good hiding place for it, but when you are young and broke, and it’s the weekend—you can always find the drugs. We went to all of the underground parties in abandoned warehouses, nightclubs like Studio West, Trocadero Transfer, and The EndUp. I had one of my first realizations that drugs weren’t ‘everything’ for me when, after a long weekend of meth use, I took a hit of acid at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and realized it was indeed time for me to go. I look back now and consider my substance use at the time as being more about fitting in with my peers, rather than my love of getting high. It didn’t take me long to see that the people around me were more invested in the drugs and the scene than they were invested in me, and I was smart enough to walk away without any judgment. The same party favors that were part of my life then are still around now: meth, coke, G, molly, ketamine, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I still like to get high, and I drink more than my fair share on occasion too. I also understand that some of these things help people cope and exist (In this crazy world an outlet is a necessary thing). And, sometimes all those things can be fun—until they’re not. These days I’m witnessing a big rush of GHB and ketamine use in our community. If I could insert the emoji of the girl with her hands in the air, I would. Because I don’t get it. However, I do get it when someone falls out. “Falling out” is the casual reference to someone who has lost consciousness because of the amount or combination of drugs in their system. I’ve lost many people I love to drugs in this lifetime, and I’m not

talking about them leaving this earth. I’ve tried to help on many occasions; but in the end, realized that my love was never as strong as the high of some drugs. For quite a few years now, GHB use has run rampant through our community. To the point, that big events are having to make up to a dozen medic calls in one night for those that have fallen out. Most times, your friends stay on the dance floor while you make the trip in the back of an ambulance to the hospital. In San Francisco, specific support programs for GHB—both medically and socially—are very few and far between. Since GHB dependence and abuse are a somewhat new phenomenon here, most everyone is playing catch up. Most places won’t accept you unless you are also an alcoholic or meth user. Almost always, GHB abuse leads to addiction, which is never a fun place to be. There are quite a few places in San Francisco where you can get help for drug and alcohol abuse or addiction. Most have a long waiting list, and I am seeing more and more people go to other cities for help. The SF LGBT Center has put together a list of local therapists and support groups. The programs listed in this area are community listings and are not endorsed by or connected to the Center. They encourage the community to conduct their own research and review, before contacting any therapist listed there. We are living in a time when our rights to be queer are being quickly chipped away. And our community is already at a higher risk of substance abuse compared to the general population. I don’t have the magic solution here, and am a user so I’m not pointing a finger. I am merely saying that I care about you and I have big enough tits to call you out when I think you are overdoing it. We need to have each other’s backs to ensure that as a community we are healthy, happy and successful.t

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Nightlife Events

Steven Underhill

Nightlife Events>> October 4-11

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

Interpol @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley

Banda Los Shakas performs live at the LGBT Latinx night. $10. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. club21oakland.com

NY electropop quartet performs; The Kills and Sunflower Bean open. $49.50. 7pm. 2001 Gayley Road, UC Berkeley campus. www.apeconcerts.com

Daddy’s Boy @ Atlas DJ Trever Pearson and Tom Seago spin grooves at the super-cruisy night. $10-$20. 415 10th St. at Harrison. daddysboy.eventbrite.com

Frolic, Woof! @ SF Eagle The monthly fursuit animal fun night (8pm-2am) is preceded by the canine human pup mosh (3pm-6pm). $8-$12. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Fri 5

Make History! @ Green Room

GAMeBoi SF @ Rickshaw Stop

Autumnal nightlife brings out the pumpkin spice in all of us.

Thu 4 Desperate Living @ The Stud LA’s Club Scum brings DJ Xina Xurner, Rudy Bleu Garcia, Ray Sanchez, with Per Sia, Panda Dulce, Vanity. $5-$10. 10pm4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest, with sexy prizes. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Karaoke Dokey @ Flore Monty Quilla hosts the new weekly amateur singing night. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Lenny Kravitz @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Royal Variety Show @ Moby Dick Queen Dilly Dally’s weekly fun variety show of drag, music and even puppets. 9pm-11pm. 4049 18th St. www.queendillydally.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance event celebrates 20 years. Free thru April 29; $5 after. 5pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Throwin’ Hoes @ Elbo Room

The rockin’ musician performs with his band; Curtis Harding opens. $65-$95. 8pm. 99 Grove St. apeconcerts.com

Live music and drag acts Siri, Ah Mer Ah Su, Astu, Nicki Jizz, Fiera and God’s Little Princess. $5-$10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. www.elbo.com

Long Island Thursdays @ White Horse Bar, Oakland

Villains and Vixens @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Get snockered with cheap drinks at the historic gay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Martini Thursdays @ Trax The Haight gay bar offers cheap gin & vodka cocktails. 1437 Haight St. http://www.traxbarsf.com/

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Picante @ The Cafe Lulu and DJ Marco’s Latin night with sexy gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Rice Rockettes @ Lookout Local and visiting Asian drag queens’ weekly show with DJ Philip Grasso. $5. 10:30pm show. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Clay David’s witty cabaret show blends songs made famous by women singers (Earth Kitt, Cher, Helen reddy) and Broadway Disney villain characters. $25-$45 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Fri 5 Bear Trap @ Lone Star Saloon DJ Jimmy Swear spins grooves. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Friday Night Live @ El Rio

Gaymer Night @ SF Eagle

Enjoy a Trocadero Transfer disco tribute, with DJs Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, Prince Wolf, and guest-DJs Andrew DeLoza and John “JC” Carollo. $5-$10. 9pm-3am. 399 9th st. www.studsf.com

Harder @ Oasis Dance night for all queer people, with DJs Eric Bloom, Michael Romano and Kelly Naughton. $15-$20. 10pm-2am 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The Kinsey Sicks @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre 25th anniversary show with the wacky comic drag-apella quartet. $35-$80. 8pm. Oct. 6 at 3pm & 8pm. 609 Sutter St. https://kinseysicks.com

The British pop singer performs; S-X opens. $35. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.apeconcerts.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes. DJ MC2 plays grooves. Oct 6 is an Ariana Grande tribute; Hella Tight’s in the Fez Room. $15-$20. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE!, Glamamore and crew’s monthly drag transformation night unveils a new drag character each time. $5. 9:30pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Saturgay @ Qbar Stanley Frank spins house dance remixes at the intimate Castro dance bar. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. QbarSF.com

Sat 6

Go Bang! @ The Stud

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club with gogo guys galore and Latin music. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Make History! @ Green Room The GLBT Historical Society’s annual gala features a performance by Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond, MC Michelle Meow, a hosted bar, tasty hors d’eouvres, historic silent auction items and a fabulous City Hall balcony view; honorees includes curator Lisbet Tellefson, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, and Tom Horn. $150 and up. VIP 5:30pm, Gen. tix, 6:30-9:30pm. War Memorial Opera House, 401 Van Ness Ave. www.glbthistory.org

Melissa Manchester @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Horizons Foundation Gala @ Fairmont Hotel

Prism @ Qube Bar & Grill, San Mateo New weekly LGBT night at the Peninsula restaurant and bar. 8pm11:30pm. 4000 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. https://qubelyfe.com/

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show will titillate and tantalize. $10-$20. 7pm-9pm. 399 9th St. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Gary Numan @ Bimbo’s

Ror:Shok @ SF Eagle

Green Eggs and Bam! @ Flore Drag shows and brunch at the central restaurant-café, with hostess Camille Tow. Shows at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

The multi-award-winning folk-pop singer-composer returns to the stylish cabaret venue. $45-$85 ($20 food/ drink min.). 8pm. Also Oct. 6. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Enjoy the weekly queer and LGBTfriendly live acoustic concerts. $5pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com The metal rocker performs classic songs and new music. $35-$55. 9pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. www.bimbos365club.com

Go Bang! @ The Stud

Video, and board games galore. $5. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. sf-eagle.com

Gooch

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

The monthly Gay Asian & pals dance night, with Cash Monet. $8-$15. 9:30pm-3am. 155 Fell St. https:// www.rickshawstop.com/

Lily Allen @ Fox Theatre, Oakland

Author Jewelle Gomaz and transgender activist Gavin Grimm are honored at the LGBTQ nonprofit’s annual fundraiser gala, with cocktails, dinner and dancing at the Tonga Room after-party. $300 and up. 6pm11pm. 950 Mason St. https://www. horizonsfoundation.org/s/connect/

Shake It Up @ Port Bar, Oakland DJ Lady Char spins dance grooves; gogo studs, and drink specials, too. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

Sugar @ The Cafe Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club, with DJs Gay Marvine, Taco Tuesday and Matthew XO. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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Johnny Rockitt and crew’s “Shocky Horror” Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute night, with a full cast of characters. $10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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Stank @ Powerhouse Odorific night with Leon Fox and mrPam’s armpit contest. $5. 9pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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Vibe Fridays @ Club BnB, Oakland House music and cocktails, with DJs Shareef Raheim-Jihad and Ellis Lindsey. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

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Sat 6 Bounce @ Lookout Dance music with a view at the Castro bar. 9pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

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Wed 10

Pan Dulce @ Beaux

Gigante @ Port Bar, Oakland

Comedy Night @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley

Juanita MORE! and DJ Frisco Robbie’s weekly event, with Latin, Hip Hop and House music, gogo gals and guys, and a drag show. $5. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portoakland.com

One-year anniversary show, with Diane Amos, Marga Gomez, Karen Ripley, Ngaio Bealum, Carla Clayy and host Lisa Geduldig. $15-$25. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. ashkenaz.com

Karaoke Night @ Club 1220, Walnut Creek Sing along at the East Bar gay bar; dance nights on weekends, and drag shows, too. 9pm-1am. 1220 Pine St., Walnut Creek. www.club1220.com/

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

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Sun 7 Aftermath @ SF Eagle Post-beer bust tea dance with DJ Omar Perez. $5-$10. 7pm-12am.. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The popular daytime party, where $10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes. 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Beer, bears, food and beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities. $15. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Big Top @ Beaux Enjoy an extra weekend night at the fun Castro nightclub, plus hot local DJs and sexy gogo guys and gals. $8. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.Beauxsf.com

Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada’s fun drag night with Carnie’s Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Castro Street Fair @ Castro St. at 18th 45th annual fair with live acts (Big Dipper) and DJed music (Trevor Sigler), drinks, food, crafts, and many exhibitors. $5-$10 gate donation goes to multiple local nonprofits. 11am6pm. Castro Street between Market & 18th, Market St. closed to Noe St. https://castrostreetfair.org

Dirty Musical Sundays @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night, with a bawdy edge; also Mondays and Wednesdays (but not dirty). 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Drag Brunch @ Hamburger Mary’s Food, bottomless mimosas and drag shows with Kylie Minono, Patty McGroin and other talents., Seating 11am, show 12pm Also Saturdays. 531 Castro St. www.hamburgermarys.com

Fur for All @ Powerhouse Mutha Chucka, Sister Mary Ralpha and DJ BearZbub’s night of furry dude fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Juanita’s Drag Brunch @ MORE/Jones Juanita MORE’s new daytime drag show on the restaurant’s scenic courtyard terrace, with a tasty revamped menu by chef Cory Armenta and food stylist Cole Church. Entrees $14-$21. 11am-3pm. Wednesday Fried Chicken nights, too. 620 Jones St. www.juanitasmore.com

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

Mon 8 Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 6523820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm. 2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

Wed 10 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.bench-and-bar.com

Club 88 @ Flore New weekly piano bar sing-along night with alternating hosts Maria Konner, Kitten on the Keys and Alan Choy. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Comedy @ SF Eagle

Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge

Kollin Holtz hosts the open mic comedy night. 5:30pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

The weekly women’s (and a few men) burlesque show. $7-$12. 9pm11:30pm. 375 11th St. dnalounge.com

Dick at Nite @ Moby Dick

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge Sing along to shows tunes on video, lip-synched, and live, at the Castro bar. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht. 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Grace Towers’ weekly drag show at the fun local bar. 9pm12am. 4049 18th St. www.mobydicksf.com

The weeknight party gets sexy, with DJ Chad Bays spins sexy grooves. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun Weekly fun night of games (video, board and other) and cocktails. 8pm12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Karaoke Cocktails @ Ginger’s The new basement tribute to the old Ginger’s Trois hosts a weekly singing fun. 8pm-12am. 86 Hardie Place. https://www.gingers.bar/

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

Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio Enjoy Dulce de Leche, Rahni NothingMore and other talents, and karaoke for queens. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. http://www.elriosf.com/

Terror Vault @ The Old Mint Peaches Christ’s new haunted house event’s set in the classic old building, with multiple rooms and floors of creepy interactive fun; 45-minute tours of groups of 12. $60. 6:30pm-10pm. Cash bar. Thru Nov. 3. 88 5th St. www.intothedarksf.com/terror-vault/

Thu 11 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Live! @ Oasis Opening night of the popular drag parody of the vampire-hunting TV show, starring Michael Phillis and a cast of comic locals, including Kim Burly, Melanie Marshall, Flynn DeMarco and others. $27-$50. 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Thru Nov 3. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a weekly ‘90s-themed video, dancin’, drinkin’ night, with VJs Jorge Terez. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90cent drinks. ‘90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Nap’s Karaoke @ Virgil’s Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 8292233. www.virgilssf.com

Puff, Love @ The Stud The monthly queer cannabis party (no smoking in/near the bar, though), with a Halloween-themed drag show, DJs Sergio Fedasz and Dank, $5-$10. 7pm-10pm. Love follows (1pm-2am) with The Pristine Condition and Mama Dora. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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