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Gay suicides shine light on old problem

Buttons and rainbows

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s he enters the last couple months of his tenure as a governor who was going to “blow up boxes” in Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed a bill by state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) that would have clarified members of the clergy do not have to perform same-sex marriages.

The veto comes several weeks after the governor publicly backed a decision by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker that declared Proposition 8 – California’s same-sex marriage ban – unconstitutional. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger has also refused to defend Prop 8 as the case heads to the appeals court.

Senate Bill 906 would have ensured religious leaders wouldn’t be punished for refusing to marry same-sex couples. The legislation had been designed to protect churches from losing their tax-exempt status for refusing to perform any civil marriage.

The bill was designed to protect clergy from performing any civil marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith, but the legislation did not, in fact, create a new category of marriage, as all marriages under state law are civil marriages, and the bill did not mention religious marriage or marriage for same-sex couples.

Backers of Prop 8 had purported that if the measure didn’t pass, clergy would be forced to perform same-sex marriages.

Schwarzenegger said in his September 30 veto message that he “strongly” supports marriage equality but the bill would create a “distinct type of marriage” within the state’s family code by changing the term “marriage” to “civil marriage.” In the years leading up to the 2008 Prop 8 battle, the governor had twice vetoed bills from then-Assemblyman Leno to legalize same-sex marriage.

“I am disappointed that the governor did not fully understand this bill, according to his veto message,” Leno said in a statement issued by Equality California, one of the bill’s sponsors. “Among other

he string of recent suicides by teens bullied for being gay or perceived to be gay captured nationwide media attention last week and prompted calls for action from LGBT organizations, celebrities, and the U.S. DepartRutgers University ment of Education, student Tyler Clementi among others. committed suicide But what seemed after his roommate like an emerging new broadcast him online problem for the public kissing a man. at large is not new at all for most in the LGBT community. It’s a long, lingering issue, and last month’s headlines about the brutal consequences of anti-gay bullying were a painful reminder that

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teve Collins and Ken Prag show off their nearly 40 years of buttons at the 37th annual Castro Street Fair held Sunday, October 3. The day included lots of music and entertainment, as well as local candidates campaigning.

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GENERAL ELECTION Local races San Francisco Supervisors Dist. 2: Janet Reilly Dist. 4: Carmen Chu Dist. 6: Theresa Sparks Dist. 8: Scott Wiener, first choice Rebecca Prozan, second choice Dist. 10: Lynette Sweet Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting

CA Supreme Court Retain Chief Justice Tani CantilSakauye and Justices Ming Chin and Carlos Moreno

Other races

Public Defender Jeff Adachi San Francisco Board of Education Kim-Shree Maufas, Hydra Mendoza, Bill Barnes San Francisco Community College Board Anita Greer, John Rizzo, Lawrence Wong BART Board, Dist. 8 James Fang

Judges SF Superior Court Seat 15: Michael Nava

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Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tom Torlakson

Alameda County Superior Court Seat 9: Victoria S. Kolakowski

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Oakland Mayor: Rebecca Kaplan Berkeley City Council, Dist. 7: Kriss Worthington Campbell City Council: Evan Low, Rich Waterman

State races Governor: Jerry Brown Lt. Governor: Gavin Newsom Attorney General: Kamala Harris Secretary of State: Debra Bowen Treasurer: Bill Lockyer Controller: John Chiang Insurance Commissioner: Dave Jones

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Board of Equalization (District 1): Betty Yee U.S. Senate: Barbara Boxer State Senate (San Francisco) Dist. 8: Leland Yee State Assembly (San Francisco) Dist. 12: Fiona Ma Dist. 13: Tom Ammiano State Senate (East Bay) Dist. 10: Ellen Corbett State Assembly (Regional) Dist. 6: Jared Huffman Dist. 7: Michael Allen Dist. 14: Nancy Skinner Dist. 16: Sandre Swanson Dist. 21: Rich Gordon State Assembly (Southern California) Dist. 44: Anthony Portantino Dist. 46: John A. Perez Dist. 50: Ricardo Lara Dist. 53: Betsy Butler

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Dist. 76: Toni Atkins

Congress (Bay Area) Dist. 1: Mike Thompson Dist. 6: Lynn Woolsey Dist. 7: George Miller Dist. 8: Nancy Pelosi Dist. 9: Barbara Lee Dist. 10: John Garamendi Dist. 12: Jackie Speier Dist. 13: Pete Stark Dist. 14: Anna Eshoo Dist. 15: Mike Honda Dist. 16: Zoe Lofgren Congress (Southern California) Dist. 45: Steve Pougnet

Ballot measures San Francisco Propositions Vote YES on AA, A, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, N Vote NO on B, C, J, M California Propositions Vote YES on 19, 25 Vote NO on 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27

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HRC dings Target, Pottery Barn

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Despite repeated requests, Pottery Barn, which has a store in the Castro, has not participated in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index survey.

“As I’ve said to Target executives, yes I love my $14.99 bathing suit, but I’m not going to wear it and I’m sure as heck not going to buy another one until you make things right in Minnesota,” Dufty said.

For the first time, the HRC has specifically named companies that did not participate in the survey. Among them are Pottery Barn and its parent, Williams-Sonoma, despite the company’s retail outlet in the Castro.

“We have reached out to WilliamsSonoma and Pottery Barn for the past several years, and we have not received any response to repeated requests,” said Daryl Herrschaft, director of the HRC’s Workplace Project.

“We know Williams-Sonoma includes sexual orientation in their nondiscrimination policy,” he said. “They have never reported to us what types of domestic partnership benefits they offer, or whether they have protection

for transgender employees.”

Williams-Sonoma does offer the benefits, a company spokeswoman said.

“I am happy to confirm that Williams-Sonoma Inc. offers samegender partner benefits in all states,” wrote Patricia Sellman, the company’s vice president of marketing communications in an e-mail to the Bay Area Reporter.

She added that the company’s equal employment policy extends to all employees and vendors, and listed attributes specifically mentioned in that policy. Those include gender and sexual orientation, but not transgender status. In addition, Sellman said, the company has proudly sponsored the AIDS Walk for several years.

She did not respond to repeated requests to explain why the company did not participate in HRC’s survey.

According to Herrschaft, it’s in a company’s best interests to participate in the CEI. “Prospective LGBTs who may be looking for a job will want to know if they’re going to get fair treatment from Williams-Sonoma and equal benefits,” he said. “So they could be missing out on people who simply aren’t applying.”

Regarding Target, Herrschaft said, “HRC still has a channel of communication open with them. We certainly plan to continue to push the company to take some corrective actions, and we’re hopeful that they will do that in the coming weeks. ... With the holiday shopping season coming, it would behoove them to make it right with this community sooner rather than later.”▼ To view the Corporate Equality Index, visit www.hrc.org/cei2011 /index.html.

Supes move to rename plaza after Warner

by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week adopted a resolution to name the pedestrian plaza in the heart of the Castro neighborhood after the late San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officer Jane Warner.

Warner, an out lesbian who patrolled the neighborhood for years and was known affectionately as “Officer Jane,” died of ovarian cancer in May. She was 53.

In addition to her public safety duties, Warner for many years compiled the Bay Area Reporter’s crime column.

The resolution to rename 17th Street Plaza, at the intersection of 17th, Market, and Castro streets, had been introduced by out Supervisor Bevan Dufty, whose district includes the Castro.

The resolution, adopted unanimously Tuesday, October 5, said Warner would be missed “by the countless residents and businesses she protected ... as well as thousands of other people she touched through the years.”

At Tuesday’s board meeting, Dufty called Warner “incredibly dedicated.”

Out Supervisor David Campos echoed that sentiment, and recalled working with Warner when he served on the city’s Police Commission.

Warner, who had been president of the San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officers’ Association, had sought to bolster patrol special officers’ part in ensuring people’s safety.

“I have yet to meet someone who was more dedicated to having meaningful community policing,” not only in the Castro and Mission neighborhoods “but throughout San Francisco,” said Campos.

He said city supervisors need to revisit the issue of what the role of patrol specials should be and the way community policing happens in San Fran-

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here are a few familiar names on the Human Rights Campaign’s new Corporate Equality Index – and a few surprising omissions.

A record 844 American companies and law firms were rated in the 2011 CEI this year. The annual survey, now in its ninth year, assesses American workplaces on LGBT equality. For the first time this year, all Fortune 500 companies, including those that did not voluntary participate, are scored on their workplace practices.

This year also saw a drop in rankings for Target, Best Buy, and 3M. All three companies donated money to an independent expenditure committee backing Tom Emmer (R) for Minnesota governor. Emmer has said that he would veto marriage equality legislation and anti-bullying legislation.

In response, HRC deducted 15 points from the otherwise perfect scores of the three businesses.

Target expressed disappointment in the change.

“While Target is disappointed with our score of 85 on the 2011 Corporate Equality Index, we remain firmly committed to fostering an inclusive culture for all our guests and team members,” wrote Target spokeswoman Erika Svingen in an e-mail.

Target has expressed interest in opening two stores in San Francisco, but its contributions on behalf of the anti-gay politician have attracted the ire of residents and city leaders.

District 8 supervisor and mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty said that he is strongly pressuring the company to issue some form of redress.

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Jane Warner relaxes with her beloved dog at her home in Guerneville.

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“I see this as a first step in honoring her memory,” said Campos of Tuesday’s resolution. “I think there’s more work to be done.”

The city doesn’t consider patrol special officers – who are approved by the police department but hired by private businesses and individuals to provide security – to be police officers.

According to a California Court of Appeal decision issued in 1996, patrol special officers aren’t police officers.

The city’s public works department will seek input from individuals and community groups to provide “appropriate signage” for the renamed plaza, according to the resolution.

In another matter involving Warner, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office continues to seek witnesses to a December 25, 2009 incident in which Warner sustained a broken arm.

On early Christmas Day morning in 2009, Warner responded to an incident outside Trigger bar, 2344 Market Street, and a man broke her arm.

James Crayton McCullough, 61, was arrested in connection with the incident. He has pleaded not guilty and is out on $250,000 bail. His preliminary hearing has been set for November 10.

Witnesses are asked to call Assistant District Attorney Brian Buckelew at (415) 553-1383.▼

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Wiener for District 8 supervisor f the San Francisco supervisor elections this year, the most difficult decision for us was District 8, which includes the Castro, Noe Valley, and Glen Park.

All four candidates running are openly gay. All of them are smart. Three of them have long known and worked with each other. Yet, a choice must be made, and we recommend Scott Wiener.

Wiener, a deputy city attorney, impresses us with his track record of getting things done at the local level. He also has an edge because of his current position working as a deputy city attorney, which Wiener told us has given him a deep understanding of San Francisco government because he has to deal with virtually every city department. “I know in city government what works and what doesn’t work,” he told us. He’ll need that knowledge as supervisor, because quite frankly the city has to balance its budget in tough economic times and everyone in the city family must be prepared Scott Wiener talks with a supporter at last to sacrifice. If you doubt that, take a look at the weekend’s Castro Street Fair. local ballot measures. (See below for our recommendations.) them, both said they would not want to create Improvements are required at Muni, the any new ones. city’s pension system must be changed, and the That’s a step in the right direction. police department is long overdue for modernization. On each of these issues, Wiener is Theresa Sparks in District 6 ready to hit the ground running.

District 6, which includes South of Market Wiener’s experience includes two years as and the Tenderloin and Polk Street areas, will chairman of the San Francisco Democratic get a new supervisor this year because Chris Party. When he was elected the local Daly is termed out. After a decade of party chair, Wiener inherited an orgaDaly’s tantrums and boorish behavior nization that was in debt and had (though to his credit he did accomplish no voter registration program or many good things, including housing staff. He got the party back into the projects and restoration of AIDS fundblack and under his leadership the ing), many voters are ready for a change. party registered 15,000 voters. He also Among the more than dozen candiserved a two-year tenure as co-chair of the dates running for the seat, we think Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club.

Theresa Sparks is a good fit for the As a member of the national district. While some of her oppoboard of the Human Rights CamE DITORIAL nents have tried to paint her as the paign, Wiener spoke out early – and “conservative” in the race, nothing publicly – in support of a transgencould be further from the truth. Sparks, curder-inclusive Employment Non-Discriminarently the executive director of the San Frantion Act in 2007 after HRC reneged on its cisco Human Rights Commission, is an out pledge to support an inclusive ENDA. transgender woman who has a wide variety of Other community work includes co-foundexperience – in business and government – ing Castro Community on Patrol in 2006 after that will enable her to quickly assume her new a rash of rapes reported by gay men. Those role on the board. A former CEO of Good Vivolunteers continue to walk Castro streets on brations, Sparks knows what it takes to run a weekends and help police by alerting them to business and balance a budget. She also served potential problems. as co-chair of the Alice Club.

In short, Wiener has a track record that Equally important is her public service speaks to his commitment to the local comwork, most important of which was serving on munity and his willingness to make tough dethe high-profile Police Commission and two cisions. One current example of that is his supterms as its president. In that capacity, she port of Proposition G, the “Fix Muni Now” oversaw the hiring of Police Chief George measure. While Wiener has the backing of sevGascón, which involved numerous public eral labor organizations, he told us he is “willhearings to solicit community comment about ing to take heat from labor” over his support of what residents wanted to see in a new chief.

Prop G, which would address salary and other Sparks has a solid working relationship with employment issues for Muni operators.

Gascón and agrees with his reform efforts that That’s a leadership position we want to see are currently under way. at City Hall.

In another example of how Sparks can apRebecca Prozan, second choice peal to both progressives and moderates, Mayor Gavin Newsom supports her superviUnder ranked choice voting, people can sesorial bid. When she was elected Police Comlect their top three candidates in the supervisor mission president, the mayor was not pleased races, and our second choice in District 8 is Rethat Sparks, who was appointed by the superbecca Prozan. visors to the panel, secured the needed votes Prozan would be a good supervisor and over his preferred candidate. knows the district and its constituents. She too “I’ve tried to get beyond ideology,” Sparks has years of experience at the local level. She told us. served under Mayor Willie Brown as his LGBT She’s also someone who can compromise, liaison and worked for Bevan Dufty both when and that is an art in politics. “I believe if you he ran the Office of Neighborhood Services get 80 percent of what you want, it’s a win,” she and as his legislative aide. She describes herself said. “I think that’s really required on the as a commonsense candidate who is “up the Board of Supervisors.” middle” in the district. She also served as a coSparks would be an asset on the board. chair of the Alice Club for two years.

From her experience as an assistant district Janet Reilly in District 2 attorney, Prozan has a keen sense of the city’s For voters in the Marina, Cow Hollow, and crime issues. She supports the city’s sanctuary Pacific Heights areas of the city, we recomcity policy, because, as she told us, undocumend Janet Reilly for supervisor. Reilly immented people are not just suspects in crimes, presses us with her public service history and they are also victims and witnesses. She sees a would bring her enthusiasm to the board and clear distinction between adults and juveniles. a commitment to health care. She is a solid ally “My issue is making sure everyone has access of the LGBT community who supports marto the criminal justice system,” she said. riage equality.

Prozan also supports Prop G and said that Currently, Reilly serves on the 19-member Muni must be made safer.

Golden Gate Bridge District, where she is in To gain control over the budget, Prozan line to become president. That board, which would look at mid-management as a potential includes members from as far north as Del source for savings, because that’s where Norte County on the California-Oregon borstaffing ballooned in good times, she said. Deder, manages to achieve consensus on many partments will have to “prove to me every dolmatters, Reilly said. lar is spent as it should,” she added.

Four years ago, Reilly ran unsuccessfully for One of our big issues is budget set-asides – an Assembly seat here, advocating for health ballot measures that set aside funding for a care reform. While she lost that election, she specific purpose. The practical problem is that has remained committed to health care issues the money can’t be used for anything else and co-founded Clinic By the Bay, a free health when there are budget shortfalls. While neither clinic for working families in the Excelsior DisProzan nor Wiener said they would eliminate

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Reilly sees her decision to run for the board as an extension of her work and interest in local government. She has some smart ideas for tackling the budget and rebuilding San Francisco’s economy.

Lynette Sweet in District 10 Another strong supporter of the LGBT community is Lynette Sweet, who has our endorsement in District 10. Sweet is currently a member of the BART board and worked hard in the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting to bring about changes in the BART Police Department. Real improvements were made, she told us, with regard to a new civilian review panel and a new police chief who was brought in from outside the department.

From her perspective as an African American, Sweet said she has always been in favor of equal rights for all people. “I don’t like seeing anyone mistreated,” she told us. But Sweet also chided the LGBT community for not reaching out enough to the black community during the 2008 Proposition 8 campaign. A lot of yes votes came out of the Bayview, she noted, and more outreach is needed.

Sweet sees jobs as the biggest issue in her district, where the unemployment rate is higher than average and “people have lost hope.”

“My job as supervisor is that local hiring is a must,” she said. “Not just local union members but also people who live in the district.”

Public safety is also a top concern, as well as working with neighborhood groups on programs such as midnight basketball.

Sweet’s experience on the BART board has taught her to build consensus and negotiate – two traits that are sorely needed on the Board of Supervisors.

Carmen Chu in District 4 Incumbent District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu is unopposed. She has proven to be a strong advocate of the LGBT community and our issues. We urge voters in that district to reelect her to another term.

Oakland mayor – Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan is our choice for Oakland mayor. In the last four years under Mayor Ron Dellums, the city has weathered one crisis after another and suffered from Dellums’s hands-off leadership style.

Kaplan, an out lesbian, brings knowledge and innovative ideas to a city that is in financial dire straits. Former state Senate leader Don Perata is the front-runner, but Oakland needs more than a famous political name this time around. City Councilwoman Jean Quan, another top candidate, recently flip-flopped on the parcel tax that she voted to put on the ballot. That’s not the type of leadership Oakland needs.

Kaplan was elected citywide to the council two years ago. She will work with the city’s labor unions and police to reform the pension system that is at the heart of Oakland’s financial morass. We urge readers in the East Bay city to vote for Kaplan for mayor.

Judicial races – SF and Alameda counties In May we endorsed out candidates Michael Nava for San Francisco Superior Court (Seat 15) and Victoria Kolakowski for Alameda County Superior Court (Seat 9). We continue to strongly support both candidates in their respective races. Both finished first in their primaries and both need voters to remember to cast their ballots in these important runoff contests.

Nava, a staff attorney to California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, is qualified to serve as a judge and has the strong support of the LGBT community. Because he is challenging a sitting judge, San Francisco’s judicial community has come out against him. If elected, Nava would be the only openly gay Latino judge on the bench. San Francisco is fortunate to have many out judges, but it lacks out judges of color and Nava’s election would add to the court’s diversity.

In the East Bay, Kolakowski is qualified and currently serves as an administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission.

Alameda County, unlike San Francisco, has no publicly out judges that we know of, yet some cities in the county have large numbers of LGBT residents, especially Oakland and Berkeley. It is time for Alameda County’s bench to begin to reflect the community it serves, and Kolakowski, an out transgender woman, would enhance the court with her experience, perspective, and temperament. She has a solid civil law background and record of community public service.▼

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Ballot measure endorsements SF PROPOSITIONS Prop AA: Vehicle Registration Fee. YES. This amends the city’s Business and Tax Regulations Code to add $10 to the existing annual registration fee for vehicles registered in San Francisco to fund transportation projects such as street repairs and reconstruction (50 percent of fee revenue); pedestrian safety (25 percent); and transit reliability improvements (25 percent). This is a necessary fee to maintain needed infrastructure.

Prop A: Earthquake Retrofit Bond.

YES. This is a bond measure that would authorize the city to borrow up to $46,150,000 by issuing general obligation bonds to fund loans and grants to pay for seismic retrofitting of softstory affordable housing and singleroom occupancy buildings. It requires two-thirds majority vote to pass. It would be paid for by an increase in the property tax, 50 percent of which could be passed through from landlords to tenants. This would permit necessary seismic upgrades and repairs on some 2,800 soft-story buildings in San Francisco containing some 8,247 affordable housing units.

proach to get parents more involved in their children’s schooling. A number of other communities have adopted similar measures and have had good results. As nearly one third of the children in the school district have noncitizen parents or guardians, this is an important and necessary reform.

Prop E: Election Day Voter Registration. YES. This charter amendment would establish “Election Day Voter Registration” specifically for municipal elections. Municipal elections that are not combined with federal or state elections have notoriously low voter turnout. This is a common sense measure to increase voter participation in local elections.

Prop F: Health Service Board Elections. YES. This charter amendment would reduce the number of Health Service Board elections by shifting terms so that two members would be elected at the same time. Beginning in 2014, two elections would be held every five years, instead of four elections. This is a government efficiency measure intended to reduce the number of elections.

Prop G: Transit Operator Wages.

YES. Prop B: City Retirement and Collectively, city employee unions Health Plans Reform. NO. made some $250 million in concesThis charter amendment would insions to help solve the city’s financial crease city employee contributions to and budget crisis. The exception was the retirement system, decrease the the Muni operators union, which recity’s and other participating employfused to participate in the process. As a ers’ share of contribution to the Health consequence, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd Service System, and change rules for led the successful effort to place Prop G arbitration proceedings about city colon the ballot. Currently, the City Charlective bargaining agreements. We ter requires the Municipal Transfeel strongly that the city’s curportation Agency to pay Muni rent budget and financial sitoperators at least as much as uation is a mess that serithe average salary of transit ously needs reform. While operators at the two highest we admire Public Defender paying similar transit systems Jeff Adachi’s courage for tackin the country. Prop G would ling this sensitive issue at consideliminate the formula for seterable political cost to himself, we do ting minimum Muni opnot feel that this proposition erator wages and would is the solution. The health the MTA to set care provision mandates city E DITORIAL allow Muni operator wages employees to pay 50 percent and benefits through of the cost of dependent collective bargaining and binding arbicoverage, including domestic partners tration. It also establishes rules for arand foster children. While we read bitration proceedings regarding MTA’s about department heads making huntransit employees, and makes other dreds of thousands of dollars in salary, changes to terms of employment. All many city employees, such as custodimunicipal employees and their unions al and certain administrative workers, need to help solve the city’s budget crimake closer to $40,000. This provision sis. Muni operators should not be an has the same cost impact on a lower exception. salaried person as it does a higher salaried person, which could cost sevProp H: Local Elected Officials on eral thousand dollars a year, making it Political Party Committees. YES. essentially impossible to afford health This would prohibit elected city ofcoverage. In our editorial board interficials from serving on a political party views with the various candidates for county central committee. In San the Board of Supervisors, all are opFrancisco, the most influential central posed to this measure due to its inorcommittee by far is the Democratic dinate impact on lower waged emCounty Central Committee. Historiployees. Yet, all agree to the necessity cally, the principal role of DCCC was of pension and health care plan reto register voters and encourage voter forms and pledge to work for it. We are turnout for Democrats. While the going to hold them to that promise.

DCCC has always made endorsements, its principal role was in the Prop C: Mayoral Appearances at trenches with the grassroots voters.

Board Meetings. NO. Lately, it has become highly ideological This charter amendment would reand fractured. Its principal activity of quire the mayor to appear in person at late has been to try to influence elecone regularly scheduled meeting of the tions between competing factions of Board of Supervisors each month to enDemocrats. Having elected city offigage in formal policy discussions with cials on the DCCC has exacerbated the the board. This grandstanding maneuproblem. This is a reform measure inver placed on the ballot by a majority of tended to return the DCCC to the the board is a total waste of time. The grassroots where it belongs. mayor should be allowed to run the city, as we elected him to do. This will only Prop I: Saturday Voting. YES. feed the egos and insecurities of certain This is a pilot program to create a current members of the board without Saturday Voting Fund to pay for operaccomplishing anything substantive. ating polling places on the Saturday before the November 8, 2011 election.

Prop D: Non-Citizen Voting in It would be funded solely by individuSchool Board Elections. YES. als and organizations. Following the This is a charter amendment that election, the Department of Elections would allow any non-citizen resident would prepare a report about Saturof San Francisco who is the parent, day voting that includes the effect on legal guardian, or legally-recognized voter turnout, impact on working caregiver of a child living in the school families, and educational benefits. district to vote for members of the This is another reform measure aimed Board of Education. Championed by at increasing participation in elections.

Board of Supervisors President David We should see what the study shows.

Chiu, this is a common sense ap-

Prop J: Hotel Tax Clarification and Temporary Increase. NO. This proposal would increase the hotel tax 2 percent from 14 percent to 16 percent. Add this to the 1.5 percent Tourism Improvement District assessment and San Francisco’s hotel tax and fees will be the highest in the United States. While a leisure traveler may not care about an increase in the hotel tax, we are convinced that it would have a strong, negative effect on San Francisco’s important convention business. All companies are cutting costs and keeping expenses as bare-boned as possible.

For a medium or large convention, this increase will amount to tens of thousands of dollars. We have seen written threats by five large convention groups to cancel their conventions if this measure passes. So rather than resulting in more revenue for the city, it will amount to less. And it will cost jobs as well. The loopholes this proposition purports to close are all addressed by Prop K, which does not include a room tax increase.

Prop K: Hotel Tax Clarification and Definitions. YES. This proposition closes two loopholes that have permitted avoidance of the hotel tax. This would confirm that the hotel tax applies to the amount a guest pays to occupy a room and related charges, and that anyone collecting payment, including online booking services such as Travelocity and Expedia, must collect the tax on that amount and pay it to the city. Also, this proposition would prevent companies, such as airlines, who book rooms for long periods, from claiming the “permanent resident” exemption from the hotel tax.

It keeps the hotel tax rate at 14 percent.

Prop L: Sitting or Lying on Sidewalks. YES. Known as the Sit/Lie measure, this proposition came out of the neighborhoods, particularly the Haight.

Residents and businesses alike complained that aggressive and disruptive behavior was harming businesses and the quality of life for residents and visitors. This proposition gives the police an additional tool that they feel they need in order to keep the neighborhoods safe and pleasant. We would be reluctant to support such a measure if it were in another community than San Francisco. However, we have confidence in Police Chief George Gascón, who strongly supports this measure, as well as the officers on the street who have undergone intensive sensitivity training to respect the diversity of cultures and lifestyles that thrive in San Francisco.

Prop M: Community Policing and Foot Patrols. NO. Everyone is for community policing and more foot patrols, but that is not what this measure is about. It was put on the ballot by the Board of Supervisors to undermine the Sit/Lie measure, as it overrides Prop L even if Prop L passes. Currently, community policing and foot patrols are determined by the Police Department based on public safety needs. This is how it should be. Voters are not expected to have the expertise or knowledge to mandate where police resources should be deployed. That is why we have a professional police department to make and be responsible for these decisions.

Prop N: Real Property Transfer Tax. YES. This is a necessary revenue measure that would increase the city tax on the sale of real estate of $5 million or more in San Francisco. It will mainly affect large, commercial transactions and perhaps a few homes out on Broadway’s Gold Coast. It is a modest revenue measure that the city badly needs and imposed on those most able to pay. ▼ Coming next week: Editorials explaining our position on state ballot measures and some of the major statewide candidates.

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by Gwendolyn Ann Smith o often within our community we find ourselves acting like warring factions, each trying to get our voices heard, each scrambling for what little piece of equality we can gain for our people. We know of the long fight for transgender inclusion in legislation like the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, or debates over the amount of importance put on high-profile fights like same-gender marriage or repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Caught between Republican administrations that are often openly hostile, and Democratic administrations that pay us lip service, we find ourselves up against each other in our struggles. we are often our own worst enemies, We live in a country where our and the unwitting participants in the rights should not be left to the whim old strategy of “divide and conquer” of an increasingly narrow-minded that leave us all a little more powermajority, where our basic needs and less than we should be. desires end up bargained away by It does not have to be this way. gun-shy politicians who quite simply We are all too aware of the recent don’t care enough about the needs of suicides of Tyler Clementi, Seth their LGBT constituents to stand up Walsh, Raymond Chase, Justin to the shouts of a shrill right Aaberg, Asher Brown, and wing.

Billy Lucas. Those of us in We also don’t always underthe transgender commustand each other. Many gay nity, too, are aware of how and lesbian individuals don’t prevalent suicide and murunderstand what it is to be der is within our own numtransgender. Some don’t see bers. From data taken from it as their issue, Archives of Sexual while others misunBehavior, DecemT RANSMISSIONS ber 1988, over half derstand it as if all transgender identity of transsexuals atis akin to performance. Meanwhile, tempt suicide by their 20th birthday. transgender people have their own Regardless of whether one is lesbian, set of issues. We don’t always undergay, bisexual, or transgender, we all stand what it is to be gay, or lesbian, feel the losses, and it is highly probaor bisexual, and we sometimes have ble that we, too, have felt just as our own phobias to overcome. Our hopeless as the young men named lack of understanding and good faith above. is sometimes our undoing, causing I’ve chronicled hundreds of antiall of us to remain without. Indeed, transgender murders, at a rate of one every two weeks. Indeed, it may be much worse than this, up to one every couple days, given some data.

The larger LGBT community, of course, has had its own instances of horrific murders, perhaps most notably in the death of Matthew Shepard. That said, many anti-transgender murders have homophobic roots.

Indeed, when we are bullied for being different, when we are beaten, when we are killed, our tormentors don’t stop to ask where we might fit in the LGBT spectrum. This is irrelevant to them. Our divisions do not help us, nor do they make us any stronger. They only serve to weaken our ability to work as one when we need to – and we need to.

I’m not saying there aren’t times when our issues may not mesh, or that there aren’t issues within our communities that still need a lot of work. Transgender people are still barred from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and the Human Rights Campaign still seems to have troubles really holding firm on its

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clarifications, this legislation simply would have reinforced the fact that the state can only provide a civil marriage to couples who marry. ...

The governor’s belief that this bill would have created a separate classification of marriage is misguided.”

In an interview, the senator said he would discuss with EQCA whether to introduce the bill again.

EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors stated that the group would continue addressing the issues put forward in the bill.

“We’ll certainly know the political landscape a little better after November 2,” said Leno, referring to the upcoming general election.

Republican Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, and Democrat Jerry Brown, currently the state’s attorney general, are facing off in a heated race for governor. Whitman

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commitment to transgender people when the chips are down. There are still battles to be fought within our own backyards, and things that our communities need to work out between ourselves. In any family there will be fights, and we will always have a bump or two along the road.

Yet we have a strength in numbers that we really need to consider, and we all bring something to the table.

We need each other, and we need to stand as one to fight our fights. Now is quite simply not the time to fracture off into our own subsets. We need to truly consider that we each have value, and we can – and must – help each other in spite of whatever differences and misunderstandings have kept us apart. There are, quite literally, lives on the line.

For that matter, we may even wish to look beyond just the LGBT community, and seek out other alliances where we can. Ours is so often a fight for social justice and protecting our rights beyond just our borders – and the issue of suicide and murder is a human issue, not simply one of our communities.

We all can make a difference. It isn’t just about organizations and projects, big rallies and high-profile celebs making good videos. Just being yourself, being a good, visible role model makes a difference.

Telling people of your experiences, and educating when you can is vital.

Standing up for yourself and others is – as they say in the commercial – priceless. If we all did this for ourselves and others, we’d make that much more of a difference for all.

Now take that individual energy and apply it to this whole network of LGBT people – and our allies beyond the borders of our community.

Imagine what can be done with all that. That is strength that can move mountains – and that is where we need to be.

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is on record as supporting Prop 8; Brown, in his role as AG, has refused to defend it in court.

Bills signed The news wasn’t all bad for LGBT-related bills. Schwarzenegger signed several that were sponsored

by EQCA. Among the bills that the governor signed was Leno’s Senate Bill 543, the Mental Health Services for AtRisk Youth Act. Among other provisions, the act will allow youth ages 12-17 to obtain counseling without parental consent if the attending professional believes the youth is mature enough to participate.

“Especially in light of the tragic suicides in recent weeks, the counseling that will now be afforded young people without parental consent may save lives,” Leno said, referencing the news of several suicides by young gay men who were reportedly bullied by classmates.

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Same-sex marriage foe seeks San Jose council seat

by Matthew S. Bajko former San Jose councilman and police officer who founded an anti-gay group is trying to make a political comeback this fall.

Larry Pegram, who in 2003 launched the Values Advocacy Council to promote conservative social stances, came in second place in the June primary for the District 9 seat on the San Jose City Council.

Pegram, who served on the council in the 1970s, landed 18 percentage points behind the first place finisher, local school board member Donald Rocha, by focusing on economic concerns and declaring he would not tackle social issues as a council member.

But local LGBT leaders doubt Pegram’s sincerity and point to his work in passing Proposition 8, the state ban on same-sex marriage voters adopted in 2008, as what the city can expect should he be elected to the council.

They have been urging business leaders of the South Bay city not to support Pegram’s campaign and alerting the public to his homophobic views.

“A person like Larry Pegram is not who we are as a city,” said Leslie Bulbuk, president of the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee, an LGBT political group focused on San Jose and the surrounding area. “With the difficulties the city is facing, what is key is finding someone willing to represent all the people who live in San Jose and his constituents. Clearly, if he is elected, he would not represent members of the LGBT community.”

Pegram did not respond to the Bay Area Reporter’s request for comment.

He lashed out at his LGBT critics in a fundraising appeal he sent to supporters last Friday.

In it Pegram wrote that for 40 years “equality” and “justice for all” have been his core principles and that he will not allow “the stranglehold of the special interests” to divert his attention in the race.

“I will not succumb to, nor do I approve of the tactics of intimidation being employed by my political opponents, who have resorted to personal attacks, issued misinformed statements, harassed public officials, threatened to ‘publicly target’ businesses, and would limit freedom of speech and expression,” wrote Pegram in the letter. “San Jose cannot afford to tolerate this type of hostility toward the diversity of ideas!”

LGBT leaders said they became alarmed about Pegram’s campaign in August after San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, who refused to take a stand against Prop 8, endorsed him in the runoff race. Until that point, Pegram wasn’t considered a serious threat to Rocha.

While it did not endorse him in the June primary, BAYMEC has endorsed Rocha in the runoff. Rocha, who supports marriage equality, said he welcomes the group’s support, especially with Pegram using his connections

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In a statement, Kors noted that among the victims was Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old from Tehachapi, California, who died after he hanged himself.

EQCA’s statement included concern that current parental consent requirements may put LGBT youth at risk of abuse by coming out to their parents prematurely or without support.

One of the bill’s co-sponsors was the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.

“This bill is for me, for my friends, for every young person who called 911 at the last minute like I did,” Giuliana “G” PeBenito, 16, said in a statement from GSA Network.

Schwarzenegger signed SB 543 on September 29.

with conservative and religious groups to fundraise.

“He is using them to get the word out, raise money and let them know he is their candidate, for all the wrong reasons in my opinion,” said Rocha, who has been endorsed by openly gay Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, a former San Jose councilman.

“In my opinion this man does not have a reason to be elected in my community.”

San Jose resident Jo Kenny, an out lesbian who is the development director for Pride at Work, said she felt obligated to speak out about Pegram’s anti-gay stances.

“Discrimination is discrimination and that is in his heart. He believes we as people are wrong,” said Kenny. “It is not okay for us to be silent when people who see our destruction as part of their religious moral imperative want to be elected to a public office. What message are we giving young people when we stand by and let someone run for office who believes in our destruction and we don’t say anything? What are we teaching them?”

Two gay men vie for Campbell City Council While San Jose continues to lack openly gay representation on its council, next door in Campbell two gay men are among the nine candidates vying for three city council seats up for grabs this fall.

Running for re-election is the city’s current mayor, Evan Low, who became one of the youngest gay public officials in the country when he first won election to the council in 2006 at the age of 23. Council members are elected citywide and rotate who serves as mayor each year; should he win a second term, Low would step down as mayor next year.

“I am hopeful people will remember my record and what I have been working on the past four years. I hope people can look to that and want to see me continue my work on the council,” said Low. Looking to become the Silicon ValThe governor also signed Assembly Bill 2055, the Unemployment Benefits Act. Currently, couples who are engaged to be married are eligible for unemployment benefits if one of them has to leave their job so they can move closer to their future spouse.

The act extends the same rights to couples who plan on entering into a domestic partnership. It especially benefits same-sex couples, who are currently prohibited from legally marrying.

“AB 2055 will bring equity to imminent domestic partners and help keep families and couples together,” Assemblyman Hector De La Torre (D-South Gate), the bill’s author, said in EQCA’s statement.

Schwarzenegger signed the bill last Thursday.

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ley city’s second out councilman is certified public accountant Rich Waterman, 50, a snowboarder who was a past president of the SAGA North Ski and Snowboard Club for LGBT people. Waterman, who lives with his partner of 16 years, Bruce Scholes, currently serves as a parks and recreation commissioner for his hometown.

Low and Waterman have endorsed each other in the race, and they are the only candidates to be endorsed by BAYMEC. With nine people running in the race, both are fighting for name recognition and attention from voters.

Despite being the only incumbent on the ballot, a position usually seen as an edge for candidates, Low said he is not taking anything for granted.

One hurdle he faces is being listed second to last on the ballot. Another is some voters may hold him to blame for the city’s fiscal troubles since he is the mayor.

“You are going before residents and voters to get a report card and feedback for the past four years on the council. My entire tenure on the council we have been cutting; some of those issues do have an P OLITICAL impact on quality of life,” said Low. “At the same time there is also this anti-incumbent sentiment out there; I think it has filtered down into the race.”

Nonetheless, most expect to see Low win a second term on the council.

He hopes to see Waterman join him, as Low and several other city leaders asked him to seek a council seat this year. Having two openly gay men on the council may be an issue for some voters, said Waterman, but he doesn’t see it as being a major concern.

“Evan and I are different people issues wise. But it is one of the things you have to deal with,” said Waterman.

“I am also Jewish and part Russian.

Some people might have an issue with that. You take things as you go.”

Unlike Low, Waterman lucked out with his ballot designation. His name is listed third. He has been going doorto-door after work most days to meet voters and seek their support in the race.

“I am going out almost everyday so I can talk to folks,” said Waterman. “I am enjoying it. I am having a good time.”

Gay man runs for harbor post Talk about a down ticket ballot. A gay Port of Oakland official is seeking a seat on a little known harbor district in San Mateo County that is the last elected position listed on the fall ballot.

“This is what I say, please vote for the last name on your ballot,” said Robert Bernardo, who is a port manager at the East Bay shipping facility and the vice chairman of the South San Francisco Planning Commission. “My name is the last one listed, right before you get to the proposiN OTEBOOK tions.”

Bernardo, 42, is one of four people running for two seats on the San Mateo County Harbor District Commission. Should he win, he will be able to claim that he is the only openly gay countywide elected in the mid-Peninsula region.

Having worked for eight years at the nation’s fifth largest port and dealing with planning issues in his hometown, Bernardo said he feels he is uniquely suited for the post. The harbor district oversees two harbors in San Mateo County at Oyster Point in

South San Francisco and Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay. “One gives me a global perspective of the maritime industry and the other gives me a unique background in land-use, zoning, and planning,” said Bernardo.

One of the biggest issues facing the district is ferry service on the bay, with new routes set to connect Oyster Point with the East Bay. While it won’t have oversight of the ships, the harbor district retains control of the land the ferry system will use.

“By this time next year we will have ferry service linking the East Bay to South San Francisco. The harbor district will be in a unique position to usher in that new era, and a lot of good things will be coming from that,” said Bernardo, who plans to use the new ferry route to commute to work.

Correction In last week’s column, a quote from District 8 supervisor candidate Scott Wiener explaining his opposition to Proposition J, the hotel tax measure, should have read that he feels a “hotel tax increase is a bad idea in a bad economy.” The online version has been corrected.▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column looks at the LGBT candidates seeking office in the Central Valley this fall.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Lesbian promoted to asst. chief at SFPD n out lesbian has been promoted to the job of assistant chief of the office of administration for the San Francisco Police Department.

The assignment makes Denise Schmitt, 45, the highest-ranking out LGBT person in the department’s history, according to Lieutenant Lea Militello, an out lesbian who’s president of the department’s Pride Alliance for LGBT officers.

Schmitt, who’s been with the police department for 20 years and in her new post oversees forensics services, training, and other divisions, is aware of her promotion’s implications for LGBTs. “What the LGBT community wants is what everybody wants,” she said. People in the community want to know “that their police department is going to deal with them fairly and

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protect them from the things that endanger them, and treat them with respect and dignity ... pretty much what every community wants.” She said the department wants the community to feel sure that they’ll get that treatment.

“That’s my goal, and I think any leader has to start setting the tone from within,” said Schmitt.

The units now under Schmitt’s oversight include the department’s beleaguered crime lab. Among other problems, a lab worker was suspected of stealing cocaine from the unit.

Schmitt’s assignment follows the shake-up that resulted from the department’s troubles.

Asked about the crime lab, Schmitt said she wants to restore city residents’ confidence in the department’s ability to gather, analyze, and process evidence.

“We have some tremendous scientific staff at the lab that have been doing a wonderful job under intense scrutiny,” she said. The lab has had leadership changes and equipment is being updated, said Schmitt, who started in her new position August 28.

Long career In her career with the SFPD, Schmitt has covered posts throughout the city.

She’s been captain of the Taraval station and has also worked in the Mission, among numerous other assignments.

The latter station covers the Castro, as well as other neighborhoods.

Schmitt said as an officer there, “You will always be busy. You will never have the call that’s the same twice. The communities are proactive, [and] they’re changing over time.”

Schmitt was also a domestic violence inspector for two years. She said that, unfortunately, “As a community, [LGBTs] are no exception to the problem of domestic violence.”

In her new job, Schmitt oversees a staff that includes 127 civilian employees and 159 sworn members. Her salary is listed at about $270,000.

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e-mail that Chief George Gascón promoted Schmitt because he knew of her “proven ability and reputation for getting a job done very well,” among other qualities.

Schmitt has been out for 19 years.

She said when she joined the force, she had the expectation that she was entering “a tremendously diverse workforce,” and that’s been her experience.

“That’s not to say that things could have occurred that I wasn’t aware of,” she said, but she has always found support in the department.

“For me, my approach has been this is who I am, and I’m here to do the work at the level I’m capable of, and I expect the same from everyone around me,” said Schmitt.

Schmitt is the domestic partner of police Commander Sandra Tong, who oversees the airport division.

Their relationship, Schmitt said, is “not something I’ve ever felt the need to hide or work around, and that includes with my co-workers.” The two, who’ve been together for 17 years, are registered domestic partners and have a 12-year-old son.

Schmitt was born and raised in San Francisco’s Richmond District, but no longer lives in the city. She declined to say where she currently resides.

Militello, of the Pride Alliance, has known Schmitt for 20 years. She said one of the things she’s always loved about Schmitt “is her ability to communicate with people and embrace people’s different opinions and ideas and get the job done.”

“She’s going to do a phenomenal job,” said Militello, who works in Northern Station.

Officer Lenny Broberg, who works in the gang unit and is vice president of the Pride Alliance, said Schmitt brings awareness, “not just for LGBT officers, but for a lot of issues the officers are dealing with.”

Citing the practical experience from all the posts Schmitt has held, Broberg called Schmitt a “well-rounded cop” and said she “brings street awareness because she’s worked the streets and awareness in her approach as a supervisor.”

He added, “She’s really good in how the department needs to run,” and said, “She’s not making decisions from an ‘ivory tower’ in how things should happen.”

Broberg estimated the alliance is approaching a membership of 250.

“What’s interesting is we have a number of officers in the Pride Alliance that are not GLBT officers,” said Broberg.

There’s been a “really sizable increase” in out gay men in the department overall, especially younger officers, he said. The police department’s been doing outreach to the community since the administration of previous chief Heather Fong.

Broberg expects to see a number of LGBT officers move to higher positions during the next round of promotions.

Another policewoman with a new post is Officer Jennifer Thompson, 46, an out lesbian who’s been selected as the department’s LGBT liaison for the newly formed community relations unit. She plans to meet with representatives of Community Castro on Patrol and the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro, among other groups, to discuss the formation of a new chief’s advisory board and forum to be held quarterly with Gascon. ▼

Rally to focus on youth suicide compiled by Cynthia Laird

Queer women’s group marks 10 years

The Queer Women of Color n the heels of widespread Media Arts Project will celebrate its publicity of the suicides of 10th anniversary with an event Saturseveral teens who were reday, October 9 at the African Ameriportedly the victims of anti-gay bulcan Art and Culture Complex, 762 lying in school, the gay Mormon Fulton Street (near Webster) in San group Affirmation will hold a rally Francisco. and march Friday, October 8 to draw The evening starts with a reception attention to the issue. and silent auction at 7 p.m., followed The rally comes at the beby performances at 8. Performers ginning of Affirmainclude the Spirit Theatre Ention’s 33rd annual semble, Bethany Lockhart, Luconference this weekcrecia Bermudez, Jewelle end in San Francisco.

Gomez, and other filmmakThe “Stand Up to ers and community memYouth Suicide” rally will bers. feature several speakTickets are $25-$50, ers, including David N EWS B RIEFS sliding scale, and can be Melson, executive purchased at the door or director of Affirmaonline. For more information, visit tion; Bonnie Graves, a board memwww.qwocmap.org. ber of the Trevor Project; Cindi Love, executive director of Soulforce; Early voting has started in SF; the Reverend Mike Daggett of the ballots mailed statewide Human Rights Campaign; and AnThe San Francisco Department of drea Shorter, deputy marriage and Elections has announced that early coalitions director for Equality Calvoting started this week and that peoifornia. ple can cast ballots at City Hall beThe rally takes place at 6:30 p.m. tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Civic Center Plaza, between Monday through Friday. (The departMcAllister and Grove on Polk Street. ment will be closed Monday, October At 7:30 there will then be a candle11 in observance of Columbus Day.) light march from Civic Center up In other election news, vote-byMarket Street to Harvey Milk Plaza mail ballots began arriving this week at Castro and Market streets. throughout the state. Those can be “We want to let our youth know completed and mailed back to your we are here for them,” said Robert local registrar of voters between now Moore, director of advocacy and and Election Day, November 2. outreach for Affirmation.

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Hayward gay center turns 10 The Lighthouse LGBT Community Center in Hayward will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a party Saturday, October 9. Events will begin at the center, located at 1217 A Street, at 1 p.m. with a reception, followed by speeches and a celebration with music, a raffle, and refreshments.

At 4 p.m., the party moves to the World Famous Turf Club, 22519 Main Street in Hayward, where there will be a champagne toast at 5.

As previously reported, the Lighthouse center is in need of financial donations to keep its doors open. The economic downturn, coupled with a lack of grant opportunities, has left the center with reduced hours.

For more information, check out the center’s Facebook page under Lighthouse Community Center or call (510) 881-8167.

Salvadoran gay rights leader visits SF Members of the Bay Area legal community and the public are invited to honor longtime Salvadoran gay rights activist William Hernandez at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, October 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the LGBT

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by Matthew S. Bajko he District 10 supervisor race has attracted 21 candidates hoping to replace termed out Supervisor Sophie Maxwell at City Hall. Changing demographics and the difficulty for many of the top-tier candidates to break through the crowded field have made the seat anyone’s to win.

The district covers the city’s southeastern neighborhoods, including the Bayview, Hunter’s Point and Visitacion Valley. Long considered a stronghold of the African American community, the district has rapidly changed into being majority Asian.

Add in a growing number of middle class residents, including a sizeable number of LGBT people, seeking cheaper housing in the area, and it is no longer a given that an African American will represent District 10.

Unlike in the city’s other supervisor races this fall, progressives have not lined up squarely behind one candidate, making the election even more of a toss-up. Openly gay Supervisor David Campos endorsed four people in the race: theater founder Tony Kelly; college board member Chris Jackson; civil rights attorney DeWitt Lacy; and Eric Smith, who heads Green Depot, a nonprofit advocating for the use of biodiesel.

“I don’t feel strongly enough about either of them to choose one over the other. Each one of them brings something unique, which is why it is hard for me to choose just one,” said Campos. “I think District 10 is up for grabs. I think any number of the candidates can win. There is a real opportunity for a progressive candidate to win.”

Many LGBT leaders have diverged on whom to support in the race and are backing multiple candidates. Jackson also lined up the endorsement of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club; former AIDS czar Bill Barnes, who had looked at running for the seat; and openly gay BART board

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Lacy is backed by openly gay state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (DSan Francisco); out Planning Commission vice president Christina Olague; and former Health Commissioner Roma Guy. He also secured the coveted endorsement of the local Democratic Party.

Kelly also has the support of Radulovich, Olague, and Jewelle Gomez, an out lesbian who is president of the city’s Library Commission. In another sign of the tenuous hold the black community has in keeping the seat, Kelly won the first place endorsement of the Bay Guardian, which went with Lacy as its second choice and Jackson as its third choice under the city’s ranked-choice voting system.

Among the city’s moderates, they have mostly lined up behind BART board member Lynette Sweet. Endorsing her are openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty; the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club; and the Bay Area Reporter. Mayor Gavin Newsom has also backed Sweet in the race.

“I think she has been tested as an elected official in difficult situations and has a strong bond to the LGBT community,” said Dufty. “I think she will be very open and responsive to her constituents. This district needs some very focused constituent services and I believe she will do that.”

Sweet has found herself having to address a series of financial missteps in recent weeks, from not disclosing her recent earnings on her financial disclosure reports she is required to file with BART to owing the IRS back taxes that resulted in a lien on her property. There were also whispers that she was dropping out of the race.

In response, Sweet has lashed out at local progressive media outlets for what she sees as a “smear effort” against her candidacy. In a statement to reporters, Sweet’s campaign said it suspected the coverage was aimed at helping to elect environmental activist and community newspaper publisher Steve Moss, who it noted was “a

white candidate.” [In its endorsement this week, the Bay Guardian called both Sweet and Moss “bad news.”]

“Having been born and raised in District 10, I remember better times in our district, that’s what I want to bring back. I’m disappointed with what seems to be an effort by outsiders to take control of this district,” stated Sweet.

Concerns about seeing someone other than an African American be elected in District 10 have been a constant subtext in the race. It was brought up during a candidate forum in August that the San Francisco Young Democrats co-sponsored with several groups, including the Alice Club.

In asking a question to Moss at the debate, Sweet alluded to the race issue by questioning how he could best represent District 10, noting that there are “some disparities in what goes on” in the different neighborhoods the supervisor represents.

Moss responded that he has worked to improve the lives of residents throughout the district, particularly in leading the fight to shutter its two power plants. And he noted that as he collected 1,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot, he “walked all over the district.”

Smith was more direct about the racial undertones in the race when he point blank asked Kelly “in a district losing African Americans at a super fast clip, what makes you being Caucasian the most qualified candidate for District 10?”

Kelly at first joked that, yes, if he is elected, “I will be white next year and I will be white the year after that.” But he added that, “I have worked all my adult life for the voices and the rights of people who don’t necessarily look like me.”

While he agrees with the need to “keep African American representation on the board,” Kelly said he doesn’t believe the community has done a good job of developing new leaders and pledged he would.

“I will do that. I will fight for the whole district,” he said.

In terms of issues in the race, the key concerns have centered on ensuring that redevelopment of the Hunter’s Point shipyard and the Third Street commercial corridor provide jobs and include stores and housing that benefit current residents.

“This is our hope for tomorrow,” said Sweet of the shipyard redevelopment.

While Sweet supports the shipyard plans, most of her opponents don’t and said they would work to bring about changes to it if they are elected.

Jackson also wants to see the city reopen the port and provide jobs to the area.

“We can open up the ports and have folks working within the next two years,” said Jackson. “We can provide hundreds of union jobs.”

Lacy is an advocate of investing in technologies to turn the area’s wastewater treatment plant into a provider of clean energy.

“We can make District 10 the green tech capital of America,” he said.▼

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by Matthew S. Bajko he has the support of the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty. And this week she picked up the endorsement of the Bay Area Reporter.

At the same time she also has won the support of many of the city’s progressive leaders, including Democratic Party Chair Aaron Peskin, a former president of the Board of Supervisors, openly gay state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and openly gay Supervisor David Campos.

Now Janet Reilly, considered a frontrunner in the race for the District 2 supervisor seat this fall, finds herself defending those endorsements as her opponents in the race attempt to paint the Golden Gate Bridge district board member as too liberal to represent the Marina and Pacific Heights at City Hall.

During last week’s San Francisco Young Democrats sponsored debate, assistant United States attorney Abraham Simmons suggested that Reilly would be beholden to the “political machine endorsement process” and said that the LGBT political club’s and Peskin’s endorsements are “not important” to the district’s residents.

Attorney Kat Anderson questioned why voters of the city’s northwestern neighborhoods should vote for someone who was not endorsed by the current supervisor, Michaela Alioto-Pier, or Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, considered the board’s most conservative member. They have both endorsed venture capitalist Mark Farrell in the race.

Reilly, noting Mayor Gavin Newsom and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein have also endorsed her, dismissed the attacks on her supporters, saying her list of endorsements shows she can work with the city’s various political factions.

“I think I will represent District 2 very well,” said Reilly. “Yes, I have endorsements from Mark Leno and others not quite as moderate. Isn’t that what we need? To bring people together instead of being an island among ourselves.”

Another swipe at Reilly came in a suggestion from Simmons that a vote for her would really be a vote for her husband, political consultant Clint Reilly. In response, Reilly criticized what she saw as a “sexist” question for inferring somehow she is a puppet candidate.

“Clint Reilly is not on the ballot on November 2, I am,” said Reilly, who has been working to open a privately funded health clinic for the working poor in the city’s Excelsior District. “I am my own independent person. I am proud of the things I have been doing in this community the last 15 years.”

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debate. After she ducked a question about whom she would back as interim mayor next year should Newsom be elected the state’s lieutenant governor and have to resign, the audience booed her response.

It prompted several people to submit questions about the matter, with one person asking Reilly to publicly state she would not vote for Peskin or “another progressive” to be mayor. A clearly annoyed Reilly again refused to publicly proclaim her support for a possible replacement.

“I can tell it is that time in the campaign, time to start smearing candidates and be nasty. I will not publicly endorse or publicly humiliate anyone or say I am not going to support someone or publicly denounce one individual. That has never been my style and never will be,” said Reilly. “I think people admire me for that. I stick to the issues.”

Reilly added that San Francisco faces myriad problems because “we have this constant attitude of us versus them. I can tell you it gets us nowhere.”

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ness corridors on Union and Chestnut streets; a plan to open supportive housing for foster care youth on Lombard Street; and the development of both the Presidio and a mega hospital project on Cathedral Hill.

All four of the candidates who took part in last week’s debate pledged to trim the city’s budget by reducing the number of people em-

ployed by the city, cutting pension costs, and assisting small business owners.

Small businesses, said Farrell, “in District 2 and San Francisco are the bread and butter of our neighborhoods. They employ most of us as San Franciscans.”

Farrell suggested cutting the payroll tax, reducing red tape, and streamlining the permit process at

City Hall as ways to grow and support the local business community.

“We need to do everything on the board to help them,” said Farrell, who also supports seeing some supervisors being elected citywide with others from districts.

Anderson said she believes the city can no longer afford the roughly 30,000 people it employs. She specifically targeted the Department of Public Works as one agency where she would look to reduce staff.

“We grew our budget when times were flush and now times are lean.

We have to reduce the budget. To do that we have to cut our payroll,” said Anderson.

In addition to cuts in staffing, Reilly argued the city should reduce the number of departments and encourage nonprofits receiving city funds to merge or consolidate.

“We need to put some of those advocacy departments under one roof,” she said without singling out specific agencies.

Instead of looking for ways to increase revenues, the city first needs to cut its expenses, said Simmons.

“We have too many middle managers we are trying to keep busy. We need to reduce the number of people we are employing,” he said.▼

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The organization is in crisis. There is a major, major problem with internal operations.”

– Joey Cain though she cautioned that was not a specific amount.

While some have called for Andre’s resignation, the board did not publicly address her employment status at its meeting Tuesday, October 5. The board did go into executive session but had yet to announce any decision at press time.

At the meeting former President Joey Cain took the board to task for the problems, and offered his help in moving forward.

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oard members of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee got an earful Tuesday night from a former board president and the public over the recently disclosed snafu that resulted in tens of thousands of dollars in underpayments to beverage partners following this year’s event.

And on Wednesday, board President Mikayla Connell clarified that the responsibility for what she is calling the “beverage partner payment scandal” rests with Executive Director Amy Andre and the board.

“We are not holding our bookkeeper, Jim Gong, accountable for the beverage partners payment problem.

Responsibility for that problem lies with our executive director, Amy Andre, and the board itself,” Connell said.

Connell reiterated Tuesday that a mistake had been made and, as reported in last week’s Bay Area Reporter, said that beverage partners would be paid.

“We’re going to make it right,” she said.

Connell estimated that the amount owed to beverage partners is between $55,000 and $60,000, al-

San Francisco Pride board President Mikayla Connell, left, and members Belinda Ryan, Jamie Fountain, and Nikki Calma look over reports at Tuesday’s meeting.

“The organization is in crisis,” Cain said. “There is a major, major problem with internal operations.”

Cain said that one phone call to him or former Executive Director Teddy Witherington would have solved the beverage partner calculation questions that resulted in the underpayments.

“It’s a bunker mentality,” Cain said.

“That’s what we pulled out of 12 years ago.”

Cain also was critical of Pride offi-

cials placing blame in the media on employees.

“I gotta say it’s problematic to see the names of staff in the paper. It’s unprofessional to treat the staff that way,” he said.

Early on in the scandal, Connell placed blame on former deputy director Brendan Behan. Last week, however, she publicly apologized to Behan in an e-mail that was widely circulated and that she sent to the B.A.R. But in that same e-mail, Con-

nell attributed the error to the miscommunication between Andre and Gong. Now that, too, has been retracted.

Board members did not respond to Cain’s remarks. Afterwards, Connell reiterated what steps she took to determine what had gone wrong. She said the board is “not on a witch hunt for anyone.”

She also discussed Pride’s fiscal year 2011 budget, which has a deficit of about $90,000, not including the $55,000 to $60,000 that will be paid to the beverage partners. That brings the budget shortfall to about $150,000.

Community member Angelique Maham questioned the board as to what cuts would have to be made to balance the budget.

“What is the plan to erase the deficit?” Maham asked.

Connell responded with steps the board has already determined, namely not filling the external operations position and not renting a Jumbotron for next year’s festival, a savings of $21,000. She did not indicate the savings from not filling the staff position.

Connell also said that Pride is not paying to send board members and staff to conferences, a savings of several thousand dollars.

Andre was not in attendance at Tuesday’s meeting. Connell said that she was attending the Out and Equal conference in Los Angeles. “We don’t have to pay,” Connell said. “She was invited.”▼

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the problem of LGBT youth resorting to suicide persists.

Asher Brown, 13, of Houston, Texas, shot himself in the head September 23.

Seth Walsh, 13, of Tehachapi, California, hanged himself September 19 and died after nine days on life support.

Billy Lucas, 15, of Greensburg, Indiana, hanged himself September 9.

Justin Aaberg, 15, of Anoka, Minnesota, hanged himself July 9.

All were the subject of repeated anti-gay bullying, according to reports from friends and family.

In the most highly publicized case, Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey, jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge on September 22 after two other students videotaped him making out with another man and broadcast the videos online. The students have been charged with violating the state’s invasion-of-privacy laws. Officials are considering whether to charge them with a hate crime, according to an email from Garden State Equality.

And a week later, Raymond Chase, 19, an openly gay student at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, was found dead in his dorm room. An e-mail from LGBT advocacy group Campus Pride said he had hanged himself, but the reasons remain unknown.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released a statement October 1, saying it was “unacceptable” that these young people took their own lives after bullying and harassment based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation.

In a joint statement on September 30, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and the Trevor Project noted that, “Such cases are not new, but actually do reveal an important trend: the public is becoming more informed and in tune to the realities that adversely affect our youth.”

Sheila Kuehl, an out lesbian and former California state senator who authored several laws on school safety and civil rights, said in an interview

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by Matt Baume ver the last three decades, the philanthropic Horizons Foundation has quietly created and sustained countless community organizations.

On Saturday, October 2, Horizons marked its 30th year with an anniversary dinner and fundraiser, celebrating its role as grantmaker, donor educator, and cornerstone of the LGBT community.

Among Horizon’s beneficiaries over the years: Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services, Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Theater Rhinoceros.

The honored guest at Saturday’s gala was Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a city with over a million residents.

“I feel a little guilty about being honored for achieving something that I enjoy so much,” Parker admitted in a faint Texas drawl.

In her first year, Parker has focused on practical issues, wrestling with Houston’s tight budget, overhauling sewer rates, addressing the nearby BP oil spill, and resisting the closure of the Johnson Space Center.

“It was very much bread-andbutter issues,” she said of her campaign. That’s an approach that may be instructive for another openly gay official running for mayor in San Francisco: Supervisor Bevan Dufty.

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Houston Mayor Annise Parker, right, is greeted by attendees at Horizons Foundation’s 30th anniversary gala.

“Bevan has to show that he understands the issues of the entire community,” Parker observed. “I had to show that I wasn’t ‘the lesbian candidate for mayor.’ I was someone who could lead the entire city.”

That inclusive spirit is echoed in Horizons’ grant-giving, which is based on a meticulous tracking of LGBT issues and organizations.

“I think there’s a lot of folks who have resources to do good who don’t always know how,” said city Treasurer Jose Cisneros at the gala. “They really want someone to advise them ... and that’s what Horizons does.”

“We have the great gift of being able to work with nonprofits from

across the Bay Area, all different parts of the community, all kinds of issues,” said Horizons Executive Director Roger Doughty. “That’s able to put us in touch with a tremendous range of organizations, and that helps us to have a picture of what’s happening in the community.”

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) were on hand to recall the foundation’s first grants in 1980.

“The first grants that year were about $25,000,” Boxer said. “And 30 years later, Horizons has passed the $20 million mark.”

“Our community is on the short end of the giving stick,” Leno said.

“So if we weren’t going to take care of our own, no one else would be.”

Ever since those early days, Horizons has adapted its focus to keep pace with the LGBT community’s priorities, said board member George Duran. Currently, he sees youth outreach as a high priority, given the recent spate of young LGBT suicides, one of which took place in California.

“It really is a crisis,” Duran said.

Parker, currently grappling with a similar tragedy in a Houston suburb, agreed. “This rash of suicides is unacceptable,” she said.

“We have made so many gains and it’s undoubtedly easier to be an openly gay youth,” she said. “That doesn’t mean it’s safe.”▼

Openhouse temporarily takes over LGBT senior services an Francisco’s only agency dedicated solely to LGBT seniors is temporarily taking over services to that population that had been served by New Leaf: Services for Our Community.

Openhouse started taking over some of New Leaf’s Outreach to Elders programs last month, according to community leaders.

New Leaf is poised to close October 15 after the agency ran out of money.

Openhouse, which saw its LGBTfriendly housing development plans at 55 Laguna stalled due to the economic crisis, has found its footing within the past several years by focusing on programming, networking, and training.

Founded in 1998 to provide LGBTfriendly senior housing, services, and community programs, Openhouse operates on more than half a million annually, said Seth Kilbourn, executive director.

“Over the last several years, while Openhouse has been steadily moving forward to develop senior housing, Openhouse has also provided much needed community programs that support the health and well being of LGBT older adults,” Marcy Adelman, founder of Openhouse, wrote in an e-mail.

The San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services awarded Openhouse $7,000 to temporarily provide services to LGBT seniors through the end of the year, according to Kilbourn and Shireen McSpadden, deputy director of DAAS. Kilbourn said the organization will potentially exceed matching the city’s funding from donors, grants, and assistance from a coalition of organizations, including the San Francisco LGBT Community Center and the Castro Senior Center among others, which have stepped in to aid Openhouse

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during the transition.

The city is currently accepting proposals from qualified organizations interested in providing services for LGBT seniors. The deadline is October 18.

LGBT seniors won’t see a break in key services, such as the lunch programs and popular creative and social activities once run by New Leaf, Kilbourn and McSpadden said.

“We were really concerned about not having any continuity [in LGBT senior services],” said McSpadden.

“Openhouse, with the nature of training and having a presence throughout the city, is poised to take those over quickly.”

Kilbourn and McSpadden both cautioned that the programs might not look the same, but the services will be available.

“We are doing the best that we can to keep priority programs going during transition,” Kilbourn said. “We are very pleased and touched by other organizations, donors, and individuals who have come together to help continue these programs.”

“Once again the LGBT community has showed that in times of challenge and crisis that the community comes together,” he added, praising city officials and senior organizations, especially New Leaf’s leadership, for the rapid response during the transition period.

Winning the city’s trust to continue running LGBT senior programs might be the easier task for Openhouse. The organization’s bigger challenge will be wooing queer seniors to follow New Leaf’s former programs to the agency.

Many seniors’ memories of the events surrounding NLOE and how key leaders of the program were treated this past spring haven’t faded.

“I’m not going to hold my breath to see if it really works out,” said Polly Taylor, a disabled 81-year-old lesbian who was a regular participant at NLOE. “The ball has dropped and Humpty Dumpty has fallen. They may not be able to rescue things.”

Taylor and Jan S. Couvillon, former activities manager of NLOE, who is now a peer advocate for seniors at Central City Hospitality House, both expressed concern about Openhouse’s ability to provide accessible–economically and physically– quality services, qualified staff, stability of funding, and LGBT senior peer staff and volunteers, pointing out that Openhouse doesn’t have the experience New Leaf had.

Displaying a little bit of hope, Taylor advised Openhouse leadership to “get out into the community and talk to us.”

“Listen to the seniors and build programs around their changing needs,” Couvillon added.

That’s exactly Kilbourn’s plan. He believes that if Openhouse builds the programs as a community of LGBT seniors and advocates, queer seniors will come. Fueled by LGBT seniors and DAAS’ desires to retain queer senior services within the LGBT com-

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LETTERS Paper is a community watchdog No one could read your articles and editorial about the current problems facing the San Francisco Pride Committee and feel anything but pain and regret. Most, if not all, of the people involved are no doubt hard-working, sincere individuals who are just trying to produce a great event and in the process make this a better world. And while I am not directly involved in producing the Pride activities, the success of the annual celebration is very important to me and to most of our community. The event’s problems and potential failures could end up affecting all of us. But how would most people in the community even know about these issues if it weren’t for the Bay Area Reporter? Who else can or does bring these problems to light, even when it’s not popular?

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a watchdog as “one that guards against loss, waste, theft, or undesirable practices.” The Bay Area’s LGBT community is fortunate that the B.A.R. is a watchdog – our watchdog – and we are better off because of it. The mainstream press does not cover the LGBT community in any real depth, and some LGBT newspapers are struggling financially. We need the B.A.R. to continue as a healthy and vibrant resource, as the recent issue with the Pride Committee demonstrates. Thank you for being our watchdog.

ommend for supervisor in District 6, I immediately told them Theresa Sparks is by far the best candidate in D6 and would have my vote if I lived there. In my Castro District 8, where I have lived and voted since Harvey Milk first ran for supervisor way back in 1973, we have several talented candidates from the LGBT community, but Scott Wiener stands above them all and deserves our support for supervisor in District 8; I strongly urge a vote for him.

Wayne Friday San Francisco

Out judges support Ulmer

We, the undersigned, are lesbian and gay judges and commissioners of the San Francisco Superior Court. We wholeheartedly support Judge Richard Ulmer for re-election.

In the time he has been on our bench he has made a progressive and productive contribution. Within a few months of his appointment he was elected to our Court Executive Committee, which makes policy for the entire court. He is a strong supporter of collaborative courts, including Drug Court, Behavioral Health Court, and the Community Justice Center, and has taken the time to learn about each program in the hope of a future assignment to one of them. He has stated his commitment to innovation and constant reBill Ambrunn examination of our court processes to make sure that they San Francisco are as efficient and green as possible while effectively serving the public. He is willing to experiment with new methods of Amy Andre is a treasure doing things, keeping what works and not being afraid to I recently read your articles about SF Pride and Amy jettison what does not. In other words, he is a judge who apAndre’s achievements (or lack thereof, in your estimation) as preciates the importance of building a judicial instituthe executive director, as well as your call for her tion that serves the public in addition to doing resignation or ouster. The author or authors of justice in each individual case. the pieces – which were badly written besides Judge Ulmer brings an unusual depth and being poorly researched and one-sided in the breath of experience to our court. He was a extreme – left me with an impression that partner at a major Bay Area law firm where he B.A.R. has gone downhill in its level of journalhandled a wide variety of cases including inism. If I were your high school journalism tellectual property, antitrust and unfair comteacher, this reporting would have rated a D. petition, appeals and writs, automotive distriShame on you for calling for someone to M AILSTROM bution, contracts, employment law, fraud, libe removed when you haven’t done your censing, international arbitration, prison rehomework! Filling an article with minutiae is form, and professional malpractice. not the same as digging into a story to really understand the As an attorney, Judge Ulmer devoted considerable time nuances and full breadth. Amy is a strong, capable leader and effort to pro bono representation of persons who have with a grasp of the big picture and the willingness to dig in limited or no access to the legal system. For almost a decade and get her hands dirty. The fact that she figured out a major he led a team of almost 50 lawyers and legal assistants from accounting error from previous years, and had the guts to his firm in investigating and litigating issues about horrific make an unpopular decision with regards to fixing it, speaks abuses in the California Youth Authority. This litigation ulvolumes of her character. The fact that you castigate her for timately resulted in widespread policy and programmatic it leads me to believe your author(s) were somehow conreforms. As a result he received the California Lawyer of the nected to the disgruntled vendors who liked profiting at the Year Award in 2006. Even more importantly, he has stated expense of SF Pride. No one likes taking their medicine, but that that experience left him with the conviction that rehayou should at least be mature enough to do balanced rebilitation is not only possible and compassionate, but also porting and recognize that Amy’s decision and subsequent economically efficient. actions were critical for the survival of SF Pride as an instiUnder Judge Ulmer’s leadership as chair of his law firm’s tution.

Pro Bono Committee, his firm has had extensive involveI get so tired of LGBT people tearing our own commument with the Domestic Violence Clinic of the Pro Bono nity down. How ridiculous is that? From here, it looks like Project of Silicon Valley. Volunteer attorneys represented batmediocre people who can’t stand for one among them with tered women in domestic violence restraining order hearguts and strength to rise above the pack. Really, the rightings, in addition to addressing related issues concerning child wing folks can just leave us alone, because our community support, custody and visitation. At the time Judge Ulmer was tends to eat its leaders. appointed to the bench, he was supervising 50 such cases.

I would like to see you assign a different writer – preferWe are very grateful and proud that Judge Ulmer is our ably someone who can actually write – to do a profile of Amy colleague. as a new courageous leader, taking SF Pride into the next decade. She has vision, skill, and heart, the three things a Hon. Ronald E. Albers, Hon. Nancy L. Davis, leader needs to truly change the world. Get on the bandHon. Gail Dekreon, Hon. Charles F. Haines, Hon. Donna J. wagon, or get out of the way.

Hitchens, Hon. Catherine Lyons, Hon. Kevin M. McCarthy, I’m disappointed in you.

Heidi Bruins Green Union City, California

No wonder it’s not called ‘Freedom Day’ Reading about the million-dollar budgets, financial troubles, and general squabbling that surrounds San Francisco Pride, I’m reminded why they don’t call it “Freedom Day” anymore.

John Raines San Francisco

Wiener’s the one As a resident and business person in the Castro for 40 years, I enthusiastically endorse Scott Wiener for supervisor in District 8. I know he will continue the fine work of my friend, Bevan Dufty.

Robbie Robinson San Francisco

Hon. Mary C. Morgan, Hon. Marjorie A. Slabach, Hon. Ksenia Tsenin, Hon. Carol Yaggy

Come to the District 8 debate Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy is hosting a District 8 debate this Friday, October 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. All four candidates are confirmed, the forum will be held in our auditorium at the corner of 19th and Collingwood.

In 1996, Douglass Elementary was named for Milk and the community that comprises the school has adopted a unique mission to honor his life: to empower student learning by teaching tolerance and non-violence, celebrating our diversity, achieving academic excellence, and fostering strong family-school-community connections.

The theme of the debate – “Filling Harvey’s Shoes” – centers on the values inspired by Harvey Milk’s life that have now been enshrined in the mission of the school named after him.

We invite you to attend and ask questions of the candidates, some of our students are submitting questions also.

The election is just a few weeks away.

Two exceptional supe candidates When two longtime lesbian friends of mine who live on Turk Street asked me over the weekend who I would rec-

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munity, in recent weeks, Kilbourn has been reaching deeper into the community to begin cultivating and healing relationships.

Dan Ashbrook, the director of Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, believes that “Openhouse is perfectly positioned to taking over these programs, because it makes sense for them.”

Openhouse’s goal is to continue being a bridge to services from hous-

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ing to mental health to social services for LGBT seniors to maximize individuals’ abilities to “make sure they are taking advantage of every opportunity they can to get services they need,“ said Kilbourn.

To assist with providing services, Openhouse is contracting with two of New Leaf ’s former NLOE program employees as well as assuming some of the program’s volunteers, Kilbourn said.▼ For more information about Openhouse, visit openhouse-sf.org.

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OBITUARIES Stephen S. Givens

June 18, 1940 – September 13, 2010

September 15, 1951 – September 23, 2010

Rod Billings passed away in his San Francisco home on September 13, 2010. Born in upstate New York, Rod was a longtime resident of the Bay Area. He is survived by two sisters and a brother back east.

He will be remembered for his generous spirit and active involvement with the Freewheelers Car Club, Classic Car Club of America, Cadillac-LaSalle Club, and the San Francisco Front Runners.

Rod was a valued employee of Spectrum Label Makers and retired several years ago with a cherished gold Rolex on his wrist. Rod was a loyal and responsible friend to many, with a strong work ethic, sincere and honest, and never late for anything.

Rod was clean and sober for the last 30 years of his life. Everyone who knew Rod has a Rod Billings story. If you have a story to share, or want to hear one, please join us as we celebrate his life on Sunday October 24, 2010 at the Freewheelers Club at 2060 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco (between 101 and 280) from 11a.m. to 2p.m.

Steve entered into eternal rest on September 23, 2010 while at home with his partner Sam and his dog Bobby at his side.

A San Francisco resident since 1972, Steve was originally from South Charleston, West Virginia. Steve left West Virginia University during his junior year of college to drive across the United States and make San Francisco his new home.

Steve was an avid music lover (all types), part-time DJ, a loyal Oakland A’s fan, a complete Grateful Dead devotee, and a lover of all botanicals.

Hawaii was Steve’s beloved vacation locale, Maui being his most favorite island.

A long time employee of Heller Ehrman, Steve also worked at French Hospital Medical Center and the Frederic Burk Foundation For Education prior to HEWM. Steve is survived by his loving sister Leann and brother-in-law Wayne Given of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania); his nephew/wife doctors Marc

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ucation, a project of Radical Women, will meet Thursday, October 14 at 7 p.m. to strategize future actions against cuts to schools. A buffet with vegetarian option is available for $7.50 and will be served at 6:15. The meeting takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202 in San Francisco.

For more information or free childcare, contact (415) 864-1278 or baradicalwomen@earthlink.net.

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Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. Hernandez will be kicking off a three-week U.S. tour to seek support and cooperation in his efforts to open the first pro bono legal clinic to serve people living with HIV/AIDS in El Salvador.

Hernandez has been recognized

by Amnesty International for his efforts to end discrimination and persecution in El Salvador. He is the cofounder and executive director of Asociacion Entre Amigos, a nonprofit that works to improve respect for and defense of the human rights of LGBT people in that country.

Next week’s event is sponsored by the community center and AGUILAS.

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Retirement, long-term care seminars John Burke, a financial services professional with New York Life and a Golden Gate Business Association member, will be offering three educational seminars this month at his San Francisco office.

The first, on Thursday, October 14, will include a screening of the film Gen Silent, which depicts the struggle with long term care in gen-

and Amy Yester and their baby Lily of Philadelphia; his longtime partner Sam Rhodes of San Francisco; many friends throughout the country; and many loved family members in West Virginia and along the east coast.

At Steve’s request, there will be no services and his ashes will be returning to West Virginia for final placement in a family cemetery.

Barth Allan Lillie April 17, 1949 – September 27, 2010

Barth Allan Lillie, 61, a 32-year resident of San Francisco, formerly of Alburnett, died Monday, September 27, 2010. Funeral service was held October 4, 2010, at Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Marion, Iowa and was he buried at Lafayette Cemetery, Alburnett, Iowa.

Survivors include his life partner of 18 years, Steve Parnell of San Francisco; mother, Dorothea Lillie of Marion; brother, Arthur Lillie of Crete, Illinois; niece and nephew, Daniel Lillie of Princeton, New Jersey, and Tonya (Mark Cisek) Lillie of Chicago and

eral and the homophobic attitudes that exist even today which have caused members of the community to consider going back into the closet to protect themselves.

On October 21, the seminar “Retirement and Long-Term Care Planning” will be held. This session is designed to provide education around building and reviewing one’s retirement plan with specific attention to the cost and effect of long-term care.

Finally, on October 28 will be “Everything You Wanted to Know About Medicare” This session will feature a speaker from the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program and will explore truths and myths about Medicare.

All three events are from 6 to 7 p.m. at New York Life’s offices, 425 Market Street, Suite 1600. There is no cost to attend but RSVP is required and can be made by calling Burke at (415) 393-6082.▼

their children, Alex and James; many close friends, including Marcia Goodman and Kathleen McNamara. Bart was preceded in death by his father, Paull Lillie; and his beautiful and loving dog, Duchess.

Bart was born April 17, 1949 in Cedar Rapids, the son of Paull A. and Dorothea M. (Serveson) Lillie. He graduated from Kirkwood with an AA degree in Floriculture. Bart worked as florist for over 25 years in several major U.S. cities, including Cedar Rapids, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta,

and San Francisco. He and Steve traveled often to places such as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and made several crosscountry trips. Bart enjoyed community theater and music, especially Broadway musicals. He loved gardening and his patio was his pride and joy. Dining out was a favorite pleasure, where he and Steve met many friends.

A memorial fund has been established in Bart’s memory. Please sign our online guestbook for Bart at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.

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Optimism dominates AIDS vaccine conference IDS vaccine researchers meeting in Atlanta last week expressed renewed optimism that they might finally be on the path to creating a product that can prevent the deadly HIV infection.

“A few years ago I wasn’t even sure that it was possible,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But last year the RV144 trial in Thailand, a trial that many researchers thought was doomed to fail and they tried to stop, showed a surprising 31 percent protection.

Fauci called that an important “proof of concept” of the principle that such a vaccine is possible. “But we still don’t know what the correlates of protection are,” he said. Correlates are those specific components of the innate and adaptive immune systems that provide that protection.

Colonel Nelson Michael, the U.S. Army researcher who led the Thai study, said collaborators at 20 academic centers are submitting the remaining blood samples from the trial to different analyses, trying to tease out exactly what was going on among those who were protected from infection.

The Army, with the support of NIAID, is planning to begin two mid-sized follow on studies in 2013 in populations with high rates of infection. The study in Thailand will focus on men who have sex with men and female sex workers; the other, in southern Africa, will be among high-risk heterosexual couples.

They hope to use information they gleaned from the initial trial to tweak the components of the vaccine, and perhaps add a second

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2199, which calls for the repeal of a section of the California Welfare and Institutions code that instructs the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the “causes and cures of homosexuality.” That code was originally written in the 1950s.

“The witch hunt is now officially over,” Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), the bill’s author, said in an EQCA statement.

The governor approved AB 2199 on September 25.

Also that day, Schwarzenegger signed AB 2700, the Separation Equity Act. The bill, by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) eliminates legal barriers for samesex couples who want to dissolve their domestic partnership and civil

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that the impression of a surge in suicides “has a lot more to do with media attention.”

“There are a lot more suicides and attempted suicides among young people in our community, across all the states, really all the time,” said Kuehl.

And Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., director of the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University, said the recently publicized suicides, “put a spotlight on a situation that has always existed and has largely been ignored.”

The recently publicized deaths are only the tip of the iceberg. Aaberg was one of four students in the AnokaHennepin School District who committed suicide in the past year after anti-gay bullying. In April 2009, two 11-year-olds – Jaheem Herarra of Atlanta, Georgia, and Carl Joseph Walk-

booster shot, to try to generate an improved immune response and level of protection.

Michael is particularly excited about a new combination vaccine that has shown greater protection in a small group of monkeys than has ever been seen before in that animal model.

Neutralizing antibodies Earlier failures to develop a vaccine that could protect against initial infection led researchers to turn their attention to the T-cell component of the immune system. Several species of monkeys are able to live with the simian version of HIV infection and control the virus quite nicely and live a normal lifespan. The hope was to create a vaccine for humans that might do the same thing.

But the STEP trial of a vaccine made by Merck was stopped in late 2007 when it appeared that the vaccine made people more susceptible to becoming infected with HIV rather than less. It also did not slow disease progression in those who became infected. That put a damper on a T-cell focus on vaccine design.

Then last July, a team at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center announced the discovery of two potent neutralizing antibodies that worked against 91 percent of the different strains of HIV worldwide. Other researchers have since added to that list of antibodies.

It had been a dozen years since the last, weaker antibodies had been identified.

John Mascola, one of the team leaders at the Vaccine Research Center, said, “We need to understand not just the final product but how it got there.” His work has found that the two antibodies are structurally similar but their amino acid sequences

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Researcher Lawrence Corey speaks at the HIV vaccine conference in Atlanta.

are quite different. It suggests that there may be more than one pathway to the maturation of these neutralizing antibodies.

The developments were made possible by new technologies that allowed researchers to work backwards from potential binding sites on the virus and use reverse engineering to identify the structure of antibodies that could fit into those binding sites, and then isolate the antibodies themselves. These tools have sparked a renaissance of interest in antibody research.

new ways of preventing HIV infection will have to be incorporated into a trial beginning in about five years, and that will make vaccine studies more difficult and expensive to conduct.

Among those new tools are microbicides, which had its first trial success this summer, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), or the use of anti-HIV drugs such as tenofovir and Truvada, to prevent infections.

Either or both will mean that the incidence of new HIV infections will go down, and vaccine trials will have to enroll more participants and run longer in order obtain sufficient new infections to evaluate differences between those who did and did not receive the vaccine. Fauci said he anticipates that the size and cost of such trials will double.

As an example, the Thai trial initially proposed to enroll 2,000 participants in the study. But that country began a strong prevention program based primarily around condom use, and the incidence of new infections plummeted. The study eventually had to enroll 16,000 participants.

Lawrence Corey, the University of Washington researcher who heads up NIAID’s international HIV Vaccine Trials Network, said the field has conducted a major vaccine trial

about once every five years. That simply isn’t enough; “The pace of conduct is slow by any standard,” he said.

He pushed for a modification of the traditional approach that favors large phase 3 trials that lead to approval by regulators such as the Food and Drug Administration. Given that correlates of protection for an HIV vaccine are still unknown, Corey argued for the use of trials designed to learn things rather than immediately seek regulatory approval.

Corey favors wider use of adaptive trial designs that are smaller, allow for modifications along the way, and are quicker to carry out. He wants to see the research community initiate one to four trials a year for the next four years.

One of his fears is that evolving

Along with the victories, Schwarzenegger also provided some defeats.

The governor vetoed AB 633, authored by out gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco).

Known as the LGBT Prisoner Safety bill, it would have amended an existing act to include inmates’ safety concerns related to sexual orientation and gender identity on the list of factors for consideration when assessing whether they’re at a heightened risk for assault.

In his veto message, Schwarzenegger explained, in part, that the bill was “nearly identical” to a bill he re-

jected last year. EQCA disagreed.

“This bill was, in fact, different from the LGBT prisoner safety bill we sponsored last year in that it would have required the state to adopt national LGBT prisoner safety guidelines,” EQCA’s Kors stated.

Ammiano said in an interview that the bipartisan support his bill received “shows how significant the issue is,” and he’ll work with EQCA and other supporters on the best way to move forward.

Along with EQCA, the Transgender Law Center and the National Center for Lesbian Rights co-sponsored the bill, which the governor vetoed September 23.

Last Thursday, Schwarzenegger also vetoed AB 1680, the Hate Crimes Protection Act. The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Lori Saldana (D-San Diego), would have amended state law to exempt hate crimes from mandatory waivers,

which are often included in employment contracts.

AB 1680 would have also prohibited legal contracts from requiring a person to waive his legal rights and procedures guaranteed under protections for hate crime victims.

According to EQCA, the bill was prompted by the case of a private high school student who received such “numerous and severe” death threats due to his perceived sexual orientation that he had to withdraw from the school.

In his veto message, Schwarzenegger said he didn’t sign the bill because it limits the ability to use arbitration, which he called “a productive and useful method for resolving disputes” that’s faster and less expensive than going to court.

Saldana’s term is almost up, but she said in an interview that she would talk to other lawmakers about supporting the issue. Kors stated that ECQA would

work toward getting a similar bill signed by the next governor.

The assemblywoman said the recent suicides show that the matter is “urgent.”

Saldana noted that in his veto message, the “the governor didn’t mention this was a response to a very awful hate crime situation,” and instead he expressed concern for the impact on businesses.

er-Hoover of Springfield, Massachusetts – did so as well.

And, of course, there have been other bullying-related suicides in the recent past that were not connected with anti-LGBT hostilities, including those of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of Massachusetts, 12-year-old Kimberly Linczeski of Michigan, and 13-yearold Jon Carmichael of Texas. There were even three additional suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin School District of Minnesota in the past year.

Research has shown that LGBTQ students – or those perceived to be – are a particularly vulnerable population. “Safe at School,” a new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA and the National Education Policy Center, co-authored by Kuehl, cites studies showing that “K-12 students who are LGBT or thought to be LGBT are bullied more than twice as much as any other identifiable group,” and their suicide rate is three to four times higher.

The GLSEN 2009 National

School Climate Survey, released September 14, 2010, found that nearly nine out of 10 LGBT students experienced verbal or physical harassment at school in the previous year.

This was related to increased depression and anxiety and decreased selfesteem.

The solution, according to the statement from GLSEN, PFLAG, and the Trevor Project, is to create a “cultural shift” through a multi-pronged approach that includes anti-bullying legislation, data collection on bullying incidents, suicide helplines, training for teachers and other school personnel, and support for gay-straight alliances. Friends, family, and community members must also know they have the power to help.

The Safe at School report offers “a menu of strategies” that can work together. It provides recommended policy approaches related to school climate, curriculum, and sports programs, along with a model anti-bullying code for state legislatures.

And Ryan has documented a connection between a higher incidence of suicide attempts and family rejection of LGBTQ youth. In addition to policies and training for school personnel, she said, society needs to help parents of LGBTQ youth better understand how to support their children.

Many organizations and individuals have issued calls to action and offered encouragement to young people in the past two weeks.

Judy Shepard, president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Board of Directors, knows about the horrors of anti-gay violence against young people. Her son, Matthew Shepard, was killed in an anti-gay hate crime in 1998. Judy Shepard released a statement last week calling “for all Americans to stand up and speak out against taunting, invasion of privacy, violence and discrimination against these youth by their peers.”

Out talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres reached out to LGBT youth

on her program last week and recorded a special video for her website, calling the suicides “an epidemic” and “a crisis.”

“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change,” DeGeneres told her young viewers, “and you should be alive to see it.”

Gay columnist Dan Savage, in response to Lucas’s suicide, launched “It Gets Better,” a YouTube channel that enables people to submit videos giving messages of hope to LGBTQ youth. As of this writing, over 400 videos had been uploaded.

“This is a moment where every one of us – parents, teachers, students, elected officials, and all people of conscience – needs to stand up and speak out against intolerance in all its forms,” said Duncan. “... It is time we as a country said enough. No more.

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marriage simultaneously by creating a consolidated form and procedure.

“The elimination of legal separation barriers for same-sex couples brings us one step closer to marriage equality,” Ma stated.

More vetoes

More trials

Money More than a billion dollars a year is being put into HIV vaccine research worldwide, with NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributing about 80 percent of that. Fauci said getting other developed countries involved in this research is not as easy as getting their support for treatment.

Brazil, China, India, and South Africa are among those nations that recently have stepped up their vaccine research efforts. It is no coincidence that they also are countries with their own large epidemics.▼

Other legislation In addition to the EQCA-sponsored legislation, Schwarzenegger also signed SB 1449. The bill, authored by Leno, reclassifies the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana as an infraction, rather than a misdemeanor. The governor approved the bill last Thursday.

In November, California voters will get a chance to legalize marijuana altogether if Proposition 19 is passed.▼

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41-ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE SEPT. 23,30,OCT.7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033006100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ALL-POINT SOLUTIONS PLUMBING COMPANY, 1651 42nd Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed John Lee. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/02/10.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033012600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HONEYBEE ACUPUNCTURE 766 Valencia Street,Suite 2B,San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kien Chou. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/07/10.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033008600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAW OFFICE OF DEREK DEAVENPORT, 1850 Grove Street,#4,San Francisco,CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Derek Deavenport. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/03/10.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032980600

The name, address, and telephone number of the of cross complainant’s attorney, or cross-complainant without an attorney,is. AYHAN M. MENEKSHE, Esq.,MENEKSHE CARDWELL & RUIZ, 16275 LOS GATOS Blvd.,LOS GATOS, CA. 95032.

408-358-1200 DATE: MAY 10,2010. CLERK OF THE COURT: M.RAYRAY,DEPUTY.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ECO COPY,1323 Polk Street, San Francisco,CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Nicolay Postarnakevich. 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 08/20/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033012000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ROBERT MIZONO PHOTOGRAPHY, 150 Mississippi Street,Suite A, San Francisco,CA 941072524. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Robert Mizono. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/07/10.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033006600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEAST AND THE HARE, 1001 Guerrero Street,San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Ian Marks. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/02/10.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033017300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.SHERRY ZARABI CONSULTING 2.BE LIGHTNESS, 590 6th Street,Unit 204, San Francisco,CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sherry Zarabi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/10/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/10/10.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MAD WILLS FOOD COMPANY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 399 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-4418. Type of license applied for:

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STATEMENT FILE A-033025600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LOTUS NOTES, 3318 California Street,Apt. #3, San Francisco,CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Monaz Mehta. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033027800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLYERS #437, 2690 3RD Street,San Francisco,CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Thomas A. Dwelle. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033027700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JOZY’S FOXY FAZION,790 JERROD AVENUE,San Francisco,CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Maria Guadalupe Garcia. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/13/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLYERS #430, 200 Toland Road,San Francisco,CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Thomas A. Dwelle. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

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48-ON-SALE GENERAL PUBLIC PREMISES SEPT. 30,OCT. 7,14, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.SERVO MARKETING, 2.SERVO MARKETING & DESIGN, 3.SERVO MARKETING AND DESIGN, 97 Caselli Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed J.Mattison Clark. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/05.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/23/10.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

STATEMENT FILE A-033042600

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: CALUZ INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:524 Valencia Street San Francisco,CA 94110. Type of license applied for:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEAK, 1032 Irving Street, #924,San Francisco,CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed K.M.Ritchie. 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 09/24/10.

47-ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE SEPT. 30,OCT. 7,14, 2010

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033039300

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : LUISA A HANSON. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:2241 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94123-2607. Type of license applied for:

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: KRAMPOUZERIE INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:3108 16th Street San Francisco,CA 94103. Type of license applied for:

41-ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE SEPT. 30,OCT. 7,14, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033023600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NAKARALI, 670 S. Van Ness Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Carole Nericcio. 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 09/14/10.

SEPT.23,30,OCT. 7,14 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033030400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OTTOVAL,768 Delano Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Nancy Otto. 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 09/16/10.

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JUIJUA PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2595 Mission Street, #303, San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Eddy A. Martinez. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/22/10.

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033026400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE, 2.EPINTEL, 3.EPIDEMIQ, One Sutter Street, Suite 600,San Francisco,CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Jeremy Alberga. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033053800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CYNTHIA PERCY’S WAX GARAGE, 760 Market Street, Suite 942,San Francisco,CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Cynthia Kanios. 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 09/30/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033035200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TOTAL COMFORT SPA,450 Jones Street, San Francisco,CA 94102.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kathy Nguyen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/20/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DNA CUSTODIAL, 1160 Turk Street,San Francisco,CA 94115. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Anthony Crecy. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/29/10.

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Argentines abroad, from Patagonia .

ith tributes to a bevy of great filmmakers, all here with new work – including directors Julian Schnabel (Miral) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Biutiful), and actor Edward Norton (Stone) – and a judicious selection of award-season treasures, the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival (Oct. 7-17 at Mill Valley’s Sequoia Twin Cinemas and San Rafael’s

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Patagonia The expressive young Argentine actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart, whose loose-limbed dancing to music by the Violent Femmes helped

win Frameline’s Best First Feature Jury Award for the Patagonian horny-teens drama Glue, returns with a restrained but equally touching performance. In Patagonia, he’s a boy asked to escort an aging neighbor to a medical appointment in Buenos Aires. The widow surprises the kid with a plan to fly to her native Wales – she wants to see the farm where she was born once more before she dies. This story is coupled with a Welsh-born woman’s romantic misadventures in Patagonia’s achingly lovely landscape.

Director Marc Evans bases his dueling road stories on the legends attaching to Argentina’s Welsh minority, who fled from the hardscrabble

poverty of 19th-century Welsh coal mines. The awesome beauty of both lands provokes life-altering angst for the characters, in an eye-popping big-screen treat. (Rafael, 10/9, 14) The King’s Speech Imagine a Kindle with the smell of an expensive book. No? I don’t think any scrolling reader will hit me with the fantasy-inducing smells of my British father’s copy of a 1947 book devoted to Queen Elizabeth’s wedding photos. A close movie equivalent is Tom Hooper’s irreverent, behind-the-throne peek at an agonizingly shy Duke of York. It’s another peerless piece of observational, non-method acting from Colin

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Pure aesthetic pleasure ‘Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay’ • by Sura Wood n a case of fortuitous timing for San Francisco, the Orsay in Paris, the greatest repository of 19th and 20th-century French art and stewards of the most comprehensive collection of Impressionism on earth, has been undergoing renovations and needed a place to move their paintings. Enter the de Young, the only venue to take on both exhibitions and mount them consecutively, without blinking an eye. It turns out to have been an astute decision.

The opening last weekend of Round 2, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay, was met by sell-out crowds. It is head and shoulders above – and spans a later era, as its title implies, than – the previous installment, Birth of Im-

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San Jose sojourner

by Roberto Friedman o you know the way to San Jose?” Dionne Warwick famously asked, channeling Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Yes, Out There does, but truth be told, we don’t find ourselves driving SJbound all that often. We have that all-too-common San Franciscan trait of being SF-centric while other Bay Area cities (Berkeley, Oakland, Modesto!) offer real treasures.

Oh, and SJ also has the Watergarden! Anyway, last week found OT uncharacteristically barreling down the Southbound freeway, mostly in the passing lane, to pay a little visit to the largest, most rent-expensive city by the Bay. The Silicon ValO UT ley/San Jose Business Journal recently awarded the title “Project of the Decade” to Santana Row, the 42-acre urban development built in the heart of downtown SJ, and it’s easy to see why. Formerly a perhaps forlorn Town & Country shopping mall, it’s now a faux new neighborhood, complete with high-end retail

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(Burberry, Gucci, our alma mater Brooks Brothers), varied-cuisine restaurants and bars, and upscale housing on the upper floors. On a pleasant Thursday evening, the sidewalk cafes along the Row were positively throbbing with South Bay people schmoozing, walking their pooches, smoking (a few brave souls). True, they may have driven there and parked in mammoth garages, but they were enjoying an urban experience: strolling, peoplewatching, dining al fresco.

There’s a gym, a sixscreen moviehouse, and right in the thick of it all, the Hotel Valencia Santana Row, where we stayed overnight to soak up the vibe. Hunky valet parkers received our tiny, powder-blue rental car without smirk or conT HERE descension (hear that, LA?). We swam happily in the hotel’s sparkling outdoor pool under a hot Silicon Valley sky. At a civilized hour we dined in the intimate Citrus restaurant on sumptuous swordfish and steak, washed down with house prosecco. Across the hotel’s chic indoor courtyard, we finished off with a nightcap on the balcony of the stylish Vbar, high above the bustling scene. Out There is overcoming our fear of heights just for you, pumpkins.

For ever-art-thirsty aesthete OT, SJ offered plenty of stimulation. A show dedicated to contemporary artist Leo Villareal is the special exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art (through Jan. 9, 2011), the first major museum survey of his work.

Villareal is considered a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery in contemporary art, and it’s easy to become entranced by his use of hallucinatory, pulsing LED lights. We first encountered his art installed over the moving walkway in the connecting tunnel between the National Gallery of Art and its East Wing, and we can imagine this survey, so high-tech appropriate to Silicon Valley, appealing to even those who “dislike” contemporary art. Info at www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.

We also got to check a box off our South Bay bucket list by finally visiting the storied Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, which houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on the West Coast, in a charming residential SJ neighborhood.

We’re talking ancient amulets, reallive (real-dead?) mummies, and a tomb tour, cool and spooky underground. But for OT, the real revelation was found in the attractive grounds, with Egyptian-style temples, an obelisk, a peace garden, and

a planetarium. Worth a visit. Info at www.egyptianmuseum.org.

Barely blockbusters Last week we screened two largelyunheralded films that reward catching, should they still be playing Bay Area cinemas by the time this column sees print and pixel.

Last Train Home is a documentary

by Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan chronicling the voyage of a family of migrant Chinese factory workers to the rural village they left behind. The annual New Year’s visit of urban Chinese multitudes to their hometowns is the largest voluntary displacement of people on earth. (In Mandarin, with English subtitles.)

Jack Goes Boating is actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directing debut, an adaptation of the play by Bob Glaudini about love and courtship among two working-class New York City hetero couples. Hoffman and Amy Ryan are touching as vulnerable blind-daters, but John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega, reprising their roles from the stage, damn near steal the movie with their portrayal of a complicated married pair. If only they had sought couples counseling!

Finally, reading about movie star Tony Curtis’ recent passing and his famous career reminded us of an interview he gave to Esquire some years ago, a perfect example of “TMI!” He claimed a man once followed him into a men’s room, stood next to him at the urinals, and asked if he really had fucked Marilyn Monroe. Curtis said he had. The man then asked to kiss his not-insubstantial penis, so that he could say he had touched Monroe’s vagina by proxy. No word on Curtis’ response. He also bragged that he and Frank Sinatra were the “cunnilingus champions” of Hollywood. We now return to our regularly scheduled gay programming.▼

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Buckley workshops Mrs. Madrigal for ACT

by Richard Dodds merican Conservatory Theater wants you to know that it is conducting a three-week workshop in October of the highly anticipated musical based on Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. It also wants you to know the names of the high-tone cast of the workshop run, including Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley as Barbary Lane landlady Anna Madrigal. But it regrets to inform you that you’re not invited.

Even so, the closed-to-the-public workshop with its “star-studded cast” (ACT’s term) suggests who may populate the musical when it begins regular performances on May 17. Of course, performers’ availabilities and desires may change, and the creative team’s assessments of the performances during the workshop may dictate different casting. But it’s a pretty good bet that many names will remain the same, and with nothing to back up the following statement but gut instinct, I predict Betty Buckley will carry on as Mrs. Madrigal. She’ll be following in Olympia Dukakis’ footsteps, which themselves have trod many times across the ACT floorboards.

Betsy Wolfe, recently seen on Broadway in Everyday Rapture, will play SF newcomer Mary Ann Singleton, who learns a lot as one of Mrs. Madrigal’s tenants. Wolfe also played Mary Ann in a developmental production last year at the O’Neill Theatre Center. (A bit of trivia: At the O’Neill, Mrs. Madrigal was played by Candy Buckley, who was once married to Betty Buckley’s brother.)

Mary Birdsong, as bisexual flower child Mona Ramsey, is another holdover from the O’Neill.

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Emerging gay playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride has taken over the final spot in NCTC’s current season.

Broadway star Betty Buckley will play Mrs. Madrigal in the workshop production of the new musical based on Tales of the City, prior to its spring debut at the American Conservatory Theatre.

Tony nominee Stephen Borgardus, who played the AIDS-stricken Whizzer in Falsettos on Broadway, will play businessman Edgar Halcyon, who develops a special relationship with Mrs. Madrigal. Veteran New York actress Patti Allison has been cast as brothel madam Mother Mucca. Another Tony nominee, Manoel Felciano, has the role of sinister neighbor Norman Neal Williams.

Felciano is a member of ACT’s core acting company, and ACT has tapped two graduates of its MFA pro-

gram for important roles: Nick Gabriel as the happily gay Michael Tolliver, and Morgan Spector as the heterosexual lothario Brian Hawkes.

A mix of local and national talent fills out the cast.

They’ll be singing songs by Scissor Sisters members Jake Shears and John Garden, and speaking Jeff Whitty’s adaptation of Maupin’s novels Tales of the City and More Tales of the City.

Whitty won a Tony Award for his libretto for Avenue Q, as did director Jason Moore for his staging of the

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by Richard Dodds f you’re a Mad Men watcher, you know that human rights have begun trickling down into the secretarial pool. The tricky part of freedom is that, once tasted, no one wants to be a little bit free. In The Secretaries, created and originally performed by the Five Lesbian Brothers in 1994, the eponymous characters are willing automatons to their unseen boss at an Oregon lumber company. They survive on a diet of SlimFast shakes to maintain dictated dress sizes, and have harmonized their menstrual cycles. But obeisance does take its toll, and “that time of month” becomes a curse of a different color.

Belay that. The color remains the same – red – but the source is a monthly human sacrifice of a lumberjack. The deceased’s heavy-duty plaid jackets become trophies that the secretaries proudly sport as fashion statements. There’s a big office sign that proudly announces the numbers of days Cooney Lumber has gone without an accident, but it never quite makes it to 30.

Crowded Fire Theatre, now in residence at the Boxcar Playhouse tucked away on a South-of-Market alley, is reviving The Secretaries as part of its 13th season. It’s a swaggering production in the tiny space, awash in manically fun performances, even if it does begin to sag before a Grand Guignol climax.

Providing a dramatic structure for the march into mayhem is the methodical indoctrination of the newest secretary into the coven. Ellisa Beth Stebbins is comically adept at playing this ultra-naive newcomer, as are the actresses around her. Khamara Pettus throws off scary-mean vibes as the jealous secretary replaced by the newcomer as the supervisor’s pet. Leticia Duarte plays the gorgon supervisor

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Leticia Duarte sings the praises of Slim-Fast in Crowded Fire’s production The Secretaries.

with queen-bee authority. Eleanor Mason Reinholdt is the sweetly woebegone Peaches, whose job is always on the line because her secret snacking threatens to push her into a forbidden dress size. Best of all is Marilee Talkington, who plays the office lesbian with hilarious body language full of limbs doing their own butch things. Talkington also plays Buzz, a terribly shy lumberjack, and she can get a laugh just by understating a line like, “I have to get back to pulping.”

Director Marissa Wolf moves the production quickly, with Nick A. Olivero’s set using the office desks in various permutations to change the scenes. But the gradual stripping away of the office carpet to reveal Astroturf is not a joke I was able to decipher.

Maybe it just makes it easier to hose down the blood.▼ The Secretaries will run at the Boxcar Theatre through Oct. 9.

Tickets are $15-$25. More info at www.crowdedfire.org.

grown-up Muppet-y musical.

Right now, the only way to get tickets to the official run of Tales of the City is by purchasing a subscription to ACT’s 2010-11 season. If you want to stay abreast of developments, you can join the musical’s email fan club at www.act-sf.org/talechasers.

Change in plans New Conservatory Theatre Center seldom switches a play once it has been announced as part of a season, but Artistic Director Ed Decker is making an exception in the already up-and-running 2010-11 season.

NCTC had planned to end the season with Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Now the May 27-July slot will go to a new play titled The Pride that doesn’t have the name recognition value of the former play, but proved an “irresistible” opportu-

nity to Decker, who will direct the play.

Decker was courted by the William Morris Agency to see The Pride during its New York run earlier this year, following its acclaimed London debut in 2008. It was the first produced play for Alexi Kaye Campbell, earning the Londoner a clutch of awards, and his second play, Apologia, also received a warm reception in London last year.

The Pride shuttles between 1958 and 2008, with the same actors playing characters from both eras. It juxtaposes the dishonesty and denial that many gay men faced in the 1950s with the relative sexual freedom of recent years.

In an interview before the New York opening, the gay actor-turnedplaywright explained his intentions behind writing The Pride: “I was interested in exploring the whole notion of what one generation inherits from a previous one – how personal lives are connected to a bigger social narrative, and how there is no such thing as a life that is apolitical, because every choice we make is in some way connected to bigger social movements that we either make happen or simply respond to.”

Department of omissions In the previous Backstage column, as I excitedly wrote about the Bay Area Cabaret organization’s move into the Venetian Room, the Fairmont Hotel’s once-super supper club, I listed one of the headliner’s credits but neglected to identify her by name. It is the Tony Award-winning Anika Noni Rose, who will be making her SF concert debut on May 1 in the Nob Hill landmark. The full schedule is available at www.bayareacabaret.org. ▼ Richard Dodds can be reached at BARstage@comcast.net.

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The other Figaro hat could have been a oneoff, Carol Burnett moment – a fleeting footnote in the performance history of one of the best-known operas in the repertoire – yielded not just an Internet sensation but one of the finest, funniest, musically most immaculate documents of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville in the

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catalog. On opening night of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia in July 2009, Joyce DiDonato – the world’s reigning Rossini mezzo, who owns the role of Rosina – broke her fibula in an accidental stage fall, finished the performance on crutches, and went on to sing the remainder of the run in a wheelchair, with Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s long-rehearsed, extraordinarily detailed staging adapted to those new circum-

stances after they had left town.

The Virgin Classics DVD of that revised staging captures an ideal cast for one of the greatest and most familiar opera comedies, working at the white-heat of invention, with everyone off- and onstage benefiting from the process. DiDonato’s confinement to the wheelchair is as canny a realization of her captivity at the hands of Dr. Bartolo as could be imagined, and the gutsy mezzo fully remade herself as a dynamo on solo wheels – declining a pusher-handler from the moment she discovered she could maneuver the thing without compromising her immaculate, spitfire coloratura.

Let me just say this: I’d secretly hoped to get out of this incarnation without having to see the opera, masterpiece that it is, again, but was glued to this brilliant production start to spectacular finish. Juan Diego Florez knocked off the finale’s “Cessa di piu resistere,” an aria often omitted because of its near unsingability, with the gusto that characterized the performance as a whole. A better cast, from Pietro Spagnioli’s Figaro to Ferrucio Furlanetto’s Don Basilio, is hard to imagine. It further strains credibility that this marked Covent Garden music director Antonio Pappano’s first time out with the score, so complete is his mastery of its intricacies and, more important, idiom. It’s all perfect, and unmissable.

Even its proponents did not call Christoph Loy’s production of Berg’s Lulu at Covent Garden the previous month perfect. But the DVD assembled from two performances in midJune (Opus Arte) delves deeper into the troubled heart of this masterpiece

than any other recording to date, its lacerating beauties all but unbearable in a reading this nakedly dramatic and musically penetrating.

Particularly for Lulu purists (an oxymoron of rare pertinence), Loy’s production errs as much in what it omits from Berg’s detailed stage directions – the Lulu portrait, the film, and for that matter, sets – as in what it adds to them, mostly characters onstage when not in a scene, sometimes acting counter to Berg’s express wishes. But far from fostering confusion, Loy limns the protean, torturously complex relationships among the characters with startling clarity. Lulu is a drama as stark as anything since the Greeks, and the sense of being in almost constant shock at what its characters say and do testifies to a production that takes Berg’s meaning on its own unflinching terms.

In soprano Agneta Eichenholz, Loy gives us as exemplary and astonishing a singing actress as we have seen this

century. The closest thing he gives us to the painting of Lulu – a followspotlight trained on nothing at all – speaks to his (and, I deeply believe, Berg’s) understanding of Lulu as a nearly blank slate on which the other characters project their sexual and other primal energies, such that “vamp” is, while part of the Lulu mosaic, one of its smallest and least interesting pieces. In Eichenholz he has found a supreme exponent of that view.

Classically beautiful, statuesque and amply sexy, Eichenholz embodies Lulu’s myriad facets from mute blankness to raw, unchecked, serpentine danger with a physical and psychic elasticity that leaves you transfixed and breathless for minutes at a time. One scene into the opera, standing bolt upright and otherwise motionless, head erect, she allows her facial expression to move such that her mouth, wide and expressive as Julia Roberts’, moves to the left side of her face to make a long, steady vertical line cutting across her cheek just below her left eye – all with the concentration and glacial slowness of butoh. It’s both devastating and premonitory. Having internalized the punishing music at the cellular level, she sings Lulu as if it were Isolde as written by Mozart.

Surrounding her is a dream cast, with Michael Volle as a supreme Dr. Schoen and Jack the Ripper, savior and plunderer of her life; Jennifer Larmore as the most radiant, credible and shattering lesbian Countess Geschwitz of my experience; and the late Philip Langridge, in his final stage appearances, as the Prince, Manservant, and, most chillingly, Marquis. Pappano and the Royal Opera House Orchestra perform continuous, revelatory miracles in the pit.▼

Pop-music gaydar

by Gregg Shapiro lthough he didn’t officially come out publicly until 2001, anyone with functioning gaydar probably picked up on the fact that Michael Stipe of R.E.M. was one of us. Although there was nothing overtly gay in R.E.M.’s lyrics (if you could decipher what Stipe was saying on those first few discs), there was nevertheless an otherworldly quality, sort of a galactic gothic, if you will. This is particularly true of the attractively packaged expanded double-disc reissue of 1985’s Fables of the Reconstruction (Capitol/IRS).

The set, which includes the CD booklet, a large poster and photo cards of the band, twanged a bit

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more than its predecessors, but also kept its eyes on the college rock prize. The second disc features 14 “Athens Demos.”

What Stipe, the Indigo Girls, and some members of the B52’s did for queer Southern musical identity, The Shondes are doing for Klezmer punk, with a queer Park Slope accent. My Dear One (Fanatic), the quartet’s second full-length disc, finds the foursome fiddling around (courtesy of Elija Oberman) with a minor-key mood on most tunes, without forsaking the value of dancing. A hora for your aura, perhaps?

Close associates of the Lady Gaga herself (she played drums for them at Lollapalooza 2010), Semi Precious Weapons work the glam/genderfuck end of the spectrum. Lead vocalist Justin Tranter transformed himself from singer/songwriter suburban kid-in-the-city to in-your-face rock god(dess) with the formation of SPW. On their sophomore album You Love You (Geffen/ Streamline/Cherry Tree), Tranter and company revisit a few songs from their overlooked 2008 Razor and Tie debut We Love You, including the worthy “Magnetic Baby.” Lovable new numbers include “Leave Your Pretty to Me.” Rock en Español band Ozomatli expands its horizons on their latest disc Fire Away (Mercer Street). On the song “Gay Vatos in Love,” Ozomatli addresses their gay hermanos with respect and affection.

Add to that the irresistible dance

jams “Elysian Persuasion” and “Nadas por Free,” and Ozomatli might find themselves tapping into a new fan-base.

With the exception of the overly indulgent jazz-influenced opening track, Swanlight (Secretly Canadian)

by Antony and the Johnsons is one of the acclaimed band’s most accessible efforts. From the sweet acoustic folk of “The Great White Ocean” and the haunting piano-driven pop of “Ghost” to the deconstructed soul of “I’m in Love” and the gratitude anthem “Thank You for Your Love” (did you hear that brass?), Swanlight is a radiant album. Even more experimental fare such as the Bjork duet “Flétta” is less distracting than it could have been. Antony and the Johnsons fans are also encouraged to check out Baby Dee’s A Book of Songs for Anne Marie (Drag City).

If you didn’t think it was possible for Portland, Oregon’s Lovers to maintain the momentum on their acclaimed 2008 I Am the West disc, you were wrong. Dark Light (Badman) amps up the electro elements without sacrificing the band’s

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DANCE

In memory of Merce & John Cage

Gene Schiavone

Mark Morris Dance Company delights in its Berkeley performances

Mark Morris Dance Company members in Socrates.

by Paul Parish t is very tempting to write with reverence about the Opening Night of Cal Performances’ new season, since the death of Socrates, a dance-ritual-enactment on which the evening ended, looms so large in Western Civilization. But earnestness would be the wrong key. The music is by Eric Satie, the Marcel Duchamp of music, and though the music is sublime, it is in no way earnest nor heavy. Indeed, the ease and lightness of Socrates’ own handling of the situation, in which he thanked his jailer and asked politely what he should do after drinking the hemlock, was a model for Satie’s setting, which abounds in sparkling notes and tender phrases that have the mysterious property of begging to be repeated – you can’t hear them enough, there is no too much. Mark Morris’ choreography for them, which featured many exquisite repetitions of simple phrases, had the same mysterious property of being over too soon, before we’d seen enough of it.

The whole evening was sublime.

From the moment the curtain went up, in darkness and silence, spangles of light flashed like stars in a velvet night all over the stage and all round the theater, reflected off hidden spotlights from little mirrors sewn on the dancers’ costumes, over their hearts. From the first moves they made, which come from Merce Cunningham’s daily classroom exercises, and a little Louis XIV-style bow – what in ballet is called a reverence – it was intuitively obvious that the evening formed a ritual homage to the love of Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Morris is writing their names in the stars. If a poet can do it, so can a choreographer. That opening piece, called (who knows why?)

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uniquely personal perspective. Dark Light is instantly enjoyable.

There are plenty more discs by queer bands to make your observance complete, including Let Loose the Horses (Universal Republic) by The Rescues (featuring out vocalist

danced in complete silence, except for the stamping noises the dancers sometimes make, and is unmistakably a piece in the manner of Merce Cunningham, with many learned allusions to the oeuvre.

If you’ve read this far, you probably know that Merce lived to nearly 90 and lived to see his last work, Nearly 90, performed in New York – though by the time we saw it here in Berkeley last year, he had died and had been publicly preparing for his death for at least a year, publicizing his plans to disband the company after one last year, amidst testimonials and tributes to “the greatest living choreographer.” “Heut oder morgen kommt der Tag,” as the Marschallin says to Octavian in Rosenkavalier: the day is coming, today or tomorrow.

And the whole point, as she says, is to handle the whole thing with light hands. The highest tribute I could pay to Morris’ tact and admiration for Cunningham is that he did it in this spirit: neither he nor his people have made any hay at all out of this tribute to Merce. There is no mention of it in the publicity, nor in the program notes, they make no claims to the mantle, they just dance it, with wonderful spirit, lightness of touch, acuteness of observation for the virtues Merce admired; it is almost impossible not to see Socrates as a stand-in for Merce.

Second-hand rose Morris has set Satie’s “Death of Socrates” before, nearly 30 years ago; and indeed, Cunningham himself choreographed to it way back when, but was denied the rights to use the music in performance, whereupon Cage wrote a new score for him called “Cheap Imitation.” Merce called it “Second Hand.” Well, it happened something like that, the company performed it here last year in their retrospective. Most of Merce’s first ballets were danced to Satie.

Adrianne), the self-titled disc by the country-oriented Evangenitals (evangenitals.com), the four-song EP Salt by The Locals (localsrock.com), the five-song EP Rock Face by Derek and the Darling (derekandthedarling.com), Hunter Valentine’s Lessons from the Late Night (Tommy Boy), and Indians and Clowns (Buckin Savior) by Miriams Well, also from Portland.▼

Cage’s debt to Satie is colossal: Satie invented the found object, the musical hoax, the droll name for the haunting piece.

The evening had three parts. “Behemoth” is a big-ass modern dance, “Looky” is a hilarious suite of cocktail-party tableaux and dances set to music for a player-piano (Kyle Gann’s “Studies for Disklavier”) and echoes Cage’s many adorable scores for toy piano and “prepared Piano.”

The posturing mimics museumopening behavior, and the dancers wear costumes one recognizes from the Mark Morris rep. There’s a dance to a waltz that keeps speeding up and suddenly slowing down; the group divides in half, some dancing twice as fast as the others by the end. The finale has a vaudeville-ish kick to it.

“Socrates” was commissioned from Satie in 1916 by the lesbian Princess de Polignac, who specified “female voices.” But Satie made another version later for piano and tenor, which Morris uses, setting

three scenes by Plato: Alcibiades’ paean to the music of Socrates’ speech, which intoxicates him more than the flute; the scene where our hero and Phaedrus are walking on a hot day by the river Ilyssus and stick their feet in the cold water; and the death scene, where Socrates strokes Phaedo’s hair and notes that “tomorrow they’ll cut your curls off.” It was exquisitely sung by tenor Michael Kelly, with Colin Fowler making the most beautiful bell-like sounds on the piano. Martin Pakledinaz designed Grecian tunics for the dancers, who adopted many antique poses: lying on the side, as the Greeks did to eat and drink; moving in small groups that echo the imagery of the friezes of the Parthenon

and urn decoration, and with the shoulders squared off Egyptianstyle. In the first dance, pairs of dancers linked up, holding little ropes, folk-dance style.

The most arresting moment for me came when, Socrates having drunk the cup, the dancers suddenly turned around and faced the back wall. It was consummated.

Shakespeare stole from Plato for the death of Falstaff, which Mistress Quickly tells the same way: “I felt his feet, and they were cold as any stone.” All the way up the body, cold as any stone. The dancers mimed this quite literally, and all ended up lying on the floor, as the music splashed its heavenly tones over them all.▼

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Friended in a friendless world

by David Lamble t a moment when a virtual queer community is mourning the suicide of a promising young violinist whose final Facebook page message reportedly read, “jumping off the George Washington Bridge sorry,” an astonishingly perceptive American movie opens with clues as to why the volatile cocktail of youth and the Internet is so capable of reinforcing Jean-Paul Sartre’s belief that “Hell is other people.”

David Fincher’s The Social Network opens on a brutal breakup as a perceptive Boston University co-ed tells off her irritating, self-absorbed boyfriend in a Harvard dining hall.

The character of the boyfriend is given a bravura spin, at times diabolically cruel with just the hint of selfloathing, by the newest A-list movie star, Jesse Eisenberg. He’s ominously described in the stage directions of Aaron Sorkin’s incendiary and darkly funny script.

“Mark Zuckerberg is a sweet-looking 19-year-old whose lack of any physically intimidating qualities masks a very complicated and dangerous anger. He has trouble making eye contact, and sometimes it’s hard to tell if he’s talking to you or to himself.”

Humiliated by his ex (Rooney Mara), Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg, attired in his patented dress-down uniform of T-shirt, hoody and flipflops, beats a zany retreat through the snow to his dorm-room bear cave, where he finds his comfort zone, a powered-up laptop. With Erica’s use of the A-word still reverberating in his head, this suburban Westchester County boy has started to feel awfully small in the huge pond that is Harvard. He launches an all-night, vodkafueled bout of cyberbullying, hacking into the school’s computers and posting hateful comments about his ex.

The blowback – over 22,000 hits from Harvard boys using Mark’s Photoshop mischief and algorithms to rate and

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Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network: his comfort zone is a powered-up laptop.

berate Harvard girls – will overnight inspire an insidious new social paradigm. As Mark succinctly puts it, “People want to go on the Internet and check out pictures of their friends, so why not offer a website that offers pictures and profiles? I’m talking about the entire social experience of college, and putting it online.”

Screenwriter Sorkin, whose West Wing scripts so incisively plumbed the dark side of power, astutely cuts between Mark’s eureka moment and the collateral damage of dueling lawsuits filed by his soon-disgruntled former collaborators.

The film’s genius-level collaboration becomes a volatile mix of Fincher’s curdled satire, bordering on nihilistic cynicism (Fight Club) and Sorkin’s fascination with how a partydown generation can rock the world (Charlie Wilson’s War). It also pro-

vides a quartet of boyish studs the chance to refine their game: Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale), Andrew Garfield (Red Riding Trilogy), Max Minghella (Art School Confidential) and Justin Timberlake (Alpha Dog).

A casting trick that allows us to endure the corrosive boorishness of Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is the device of surrounding him with a gaggle of physically more imposing and emotionally nimble young male co-stars.

Andrew Garfield is particularly able, as the punching-bag ex-best friend, to give us an empathetic surrogate for other victims of computer hedge-fund capitalism.

While dueling depositions permit multiple viewpoints to every disputed part of the story, Fincher pulls off a parallel casting coup: expanding his digital paint-box to allow Armie Hammer to play both of Mark’s chief op-

ponents: the rich-boy twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who feel Facebook was stolen from them by Mark in the ultimate act of class-war revenge. A neat scene has the Winklevoss twins taking their grievance to a obnoxiously indifferent Harvard president Larry Summers, a nimble mix of haughty attitude and astute social parody from Douglas Urabanski.

After Mark has alienated his Harvard band of brothers, he sets himself up in a Palo Alto house-rental, where code-boy disciples work in physical chaos to give Mark his ever-expanding Facebook universe. Soon he strikes up a Faustian bond with another dotcom bad boy, Napster founder Sean Parker (Timberlake). The Web prodigies have their man-crush moment over colored cocktails at a Silicon Valley club that is a Web version of the Playboy mansion, complete with bizarrely attired wait-

resses. In a hellish Fincher-style environment, these young faces age before our eyes, giving off an unhealthy, bloated pallor. The cocky Parker for once renders the caustic Zuckerberg speechless. Timberlake mesmerizes as a strutting Darth Vader apostle of the new Web capitalism.

“It’s our time! We run the universe!

Do you live and breathe Facebook every day?”

“Yes.” “I know you do. I know the guys back at the house do. That guy’s eyes didn’t even blink when a beer bottle smashed 10 feet away from his work station.”

Sources close to the real Mark Zuckerberg, who lives amongst us in the Bay Area as the world’s youngest billionaire, have called The Social Network “complete fiction.” But that, of course, is the movie’s strength. Just as Orson Welles and co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz intended their Charles Foster Kane to be far more than a movie clone of press baron William Randolph Hearst, the cruel Fincher/Sorkin account of how an insecure genius computer nerd overturned rules of human intercourse, perhaps for the basest of motives, is truly more compelling than any realistic account. The real Mark Zuckerberg created a network to allow ordinary, petty folks to form virtual posses. They commit acts that may not even be crimes, but that can have devastating consequences in tiny corners of the world like a Rutgers University dorm, last home of promising musician Tyler Clementi.

Just as Zuckerberg may forever be linked with the infinite possibilities for revenge available at the touch of a keyboard, Sartre is perhaps unfairly tied to his “Hell is other people” quip. But perhaps another Sartre quote is more pertinent to assessing whether virtual acts are crimes or mere pranks. “Man is condemned to be free because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”▼

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by Tavo Amador ife upon the wicked stage ain’t ever what a girl supposes,” warned Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern in 1936’s Show Boat.

Although it’s not a song associated with her, its melody runs through Patti LuPone’s spirited A Memoir (written with Digby Diehl; Crown Archetype, $25.99.) From her first Tony for Evita (1979) to the humiliation of being replaced by Glenn Close in the original Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard (1994), to her triumphant revivals of Sweeney Todd (1991) and Gypsy (2008), LuPone intensely and wittily describes the sheer hard work, tenacity, and good fortune that made her a star.

Born (1949) in Northrop, Long Island, she and older twin brothers Robert and William performed as the LuPone Trio. William became a librarian, but Robert graduated from Juilliard, worked extensively on television, and earned a Tony nomination as Zack in the original production of A Chorus Line (76), the same year Patti got her first nomination, for The Robber Bridegroom. Patti followed Bobby to Juilliard, and received superb training from distinguished teachers, notably the often-harsh John Houseman. There she met Kevin Kline, with whom she would have a longterm, troubled affair.

Before Evita, she toured with Houseman’s The Acting Company, playing everything from Restoration Comedy to Shakespeare to Chekhov.

Pre-stardom, LuPone spent nine months opposite the egomaniacal Topol in the dreadful musical The Baker’s Wife, which, however, gave

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her a signature song, “Meadowlark.”

Her battles with Andrew Lloyd Webber, first over the casting and rehearsals for Evita during which he undermined her confidence by suggesting other, bigger names might play the part, to the tense London production of Sunset Boulevard, make riveting reading. The technical aspects of staging Boulevard were daunting. The score was mediocre. LuPone’s contract guaranteed her both London and Broadway productions, but Webber allowed Barbra Streisand to record the songs, then announced Close would play Norma Desmond in Los Angeles before the Broadway engagement.

Against all advice, he invited New York critics to the London opening. The reviews were bad, and Frank Rich in the Times called LuPone “miscast and unmoving.” Webber kept insisting that LuPone would open on Broadway until Liz Smith broke the news that Close would star in the show on the Great White Way, ultimately winning a Tony.

LuPone got a large financial settlement, but has harsh words for Webber’s cowardly deceit. She cattily notes that he had to transpose many of the songs down a few keys because Close couldn’t sing them as originally written. She also chastises Close for not having called to say she had

nothing do with the decision, assuming that was true. Yet LuPone didn’t console Elaine Page, the first Evita, when she lost that coveted part.

Her experiences with openly gay Broadway legends Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents were happier. She earned acclaim for her role in a revival of Sondheim’s Todd – and expresses gratitude to the original Mrs. Lovett, Angela Lansbury, for cheering the opening-night perfor-

mance. Sondheim wrote the lyrics for Gypsy, and Laurents the libretto. The latter controlled performing rights, including casting. Years earlier, LuPone had withdrawn from his Jolson Sings Again, which resulted in its never being produced.

Famously touchy, Laurents made his displeasure clear.

With trepidation, LuPone approached him about Rose in a New York revival of Gypsy, and to her delight, he was amenable. She would be filling the formidable pumps of Ethel Merman, Lansbury, Tyne Daly, and Bernadette Peters. A limited Encores! production at City Center found audiences wildly enthusiastic, but critics cool. Benjamin Brantley in the Times wrote, “Miss LuPone is less a Rose of billboard-size flair and ego than the sort of pushy but likeable woman you might compete with at the supermarket for that last perfect sole filet.”

Hurt but determined, LuPone and others convinced backers to take it to Broadway. She worked tirelessly to balance Rose’s humanity with her ferocious ambition. Audiences and critics raved. Wrote Brantley, “Watch out, New York. Patti LuPone has found her focus. She’s a laser, she incinerates. Especially when she’s playing someone as dangerously ob-

sessed as Mama Rose in this walloppacking revival of Gypsy. And yes, that quiet crunching sound you hear is me eating my hat.” She won a second Tony.

LuPone has worked extensively on television, including Life Goes On (1989-93), in films with small roles in Witness (85) and Driving Miss Daisy (89), and has had a successful cabaret act, but it’s as a Broadway Baby for which she is famous. In 1987, she played Merman’s part in a lauded revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, and their careers make for interesting comparisons.

Merman became a star at 22 in Girl Crazy (1930). She never appeared in a flop, and on stage insisted audiences focus on her. Her feuds with Bob Hope, Fernando Lamas, and Sandra Church (the original Gypsy) resulted from her belief that they were trying to upstage her. Every show was a Merman vehicle. LuPone has had to work more collaboratively, consequently often sacrificing control and suffering disappointments. But life often balances things out. Unlike Merman, whose personal life was unhappy, LuPone has been joyfully married for 21 years, and is the proud mother of a son, Joshua.

Unusual for show-biz sagas, LuPone leaves the reader wanting more. What is her relationship with brother Robert – how did her greater success affect them? Why (like Merman) hasn’t her movie career matched her stage acclaim? With luck, the rest of her professional life will be filled with enough triumphs to warrant a second volume of entertaining, illuminating recollections that will answer these questions.▼

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Let the Right One In, Fri.

OUT&ABOUT Fri 8 >>

Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Brian Christopher Williams’ play about a young gay teen in the late 1970s dealing with tumultuous events around and within him. $24-$40. Thru Oct. 24. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Becoming Walt Whitman @ Sixth St. Playhouse, Santa Rosa

Marga Gomez, Sandra Bernhard, Heklina and Lady Bunny in the Out Loud Comedy Fest

Comedy tonight!

by Jim Provenzano ctober is National Coming Out Month. The string of gay teen suicides have led to some very serious discussions about at-risk youth and homophobia.

What’s another way to combat homophobia? Laugh. Yep, laughter.

Laugh at ignorance. Laugh at the bully who beat you up in high school and now lives in a double-wide trailer in the sticks while you enjoy hanging out with world-class drag queens, comics and celebrities in a fabulous city by the sea.

That’s what you’ll get at the Out Loud Comedy and Arts Festival this weekend. The three-day laugh riot includes The State of the Gay Union (Thu. Oct. 7, 8pm, GLBT Community Center, 1800 Market St.), Rooftop Comedy with Marga Gomez (8pm), Ronn Vigh (10pm), Frank DeCaro (3pm) and many more (Swedish American Hall, 2170 Market St.) and Saturday, Sandra Bernhard (8pm, Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St.) followed by The Drag Queens of Comedy starring Lady Bunny, Heklina, Miss Coco Peru, Jackie Beat and other queens (10pm), plus a wrap party Felice Picano at Bar Pick-ups Gone Sun, Oct. 10 at the feisty Thee Parkside (1600 17th St. $6-$45). www.outloudcomedy.com Terribly Wrong Comic duo Fifi & Fanny invade The Garage with a full cast of lesbo sluts and queer hunks who perform their Live at the Texas Whorehouse show. $15-$20. 8pm. Oct. 8 & 9. 975 Howard St. at 6th. www.fifiandfanny.com www.975howard.com “Everybody ought to have a maid …” except Meg Whitman.

Enjoy more timeless lyrics and classic melodies in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Eureka Theatre. TV and film actress Megan Cavanagh (A League of Their Own, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) stars in 42nd Street Moon’s production of the hilarious Stephen Sondheim/Larry Gelbart musical farce set in ancient Rome. $24-$44. Wed 7pm, Thu & Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm.

Thru Oct. 24. 215 Jackson st. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org Got laid? Got laid horribly? Come sit by me and laugh at Bar Pick-ups Gone Terribly Wrong, stories by Meliza Banales, Cindy Emch, Felice Picano, Jim Piechota Sri Susilowati in and Rob Rosen. I’ll be hosting this saucy event Performing Diaspora at Martuni’s, 4 Valencia St., Saturday, October 9, 6pm-7pm. It’s just one of many events at the closing night of Litquake. Subsequent queer readings take place at 7pm and 8pm. Check out the amazing schedule: www.litquake.org Next Thursday, Oct. 14, Performing Diaspora starts off with a different style of wit. The four-day mini-festival of performers blends traditional forms in Taiko, Flamenco, Indian, Thai and African dance-theatre with a modern perspective. Opening night includes Sri Susilowati’s witty take on Javanese tradition, and Prumsodun Ok’s gender-blending tale of lost love. $14-$24. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 17. CounterPulse , 1310 Mission St. at 9th. www.counterpulse.org/performing-diaspora▼

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Gabriel Grilli stars as the gay writer in this drama about the Leaves of Grass author. $10$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 24. 52 West 6th St. Santa Rosa. (707) 5234185. www.6thstreetplayhouse.com

The Brothers Size @ Magic Theatre Tarell Alvin McCraney’s drama about two New Orleans brothers who try to reconnect. $30-$60. Thru Oct. 17. Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, Marina Blvd. at Buchanan. www.magictheatre.org Special free matinee, Oct. 9, 2:30pm at Laney College, 900 Fallon St., Oakland.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Actors Theatre Actors Theatre SF’s intimate staging of the classic Tennessee Williams play. $26-$38.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Extended thru Oct. 22. 855 Bush st. 345-1287. www.actorstheatresf.org

Davy Jones @ The Rrazz Room Former Monkees lead singer has still got his singing chops, and performs 60s classics and other songs. $47.50. 8pm. Also Oct. 9, at 7pm & 9:30pm. Oct. 10, 7pm. 2-drink min.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Fauxnique @ TJT Monique Jenkinson returns (fresh from a London gig) with her acclaimed balletic serio-comic solo show, Faux Real, a meditation on drag and realness. 470 Florida St. $15-$20. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 8 (extra closing night show at 10pm). www.fauxnique.net

Hamlet @ Alcatraz Island We Players’ innovative site-specific staging of the classic Shakespeare play on the former prison-turned state park. $40-$80. Sat & Sun 11:30am & 5pm. Thru Nov. 21. www.weplayers.org

Jerry Springer, the Opera @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre’s production of the West Coast premiere of the award-winning farcical musical about the trashy daytime TV show (for mature audiences). $20-$36. WedSat 8pm. Thru Oct. 16. 2961 16th St. at Mission. (800) 838-3006. www.roltheatre.com www.jerrysf.com

Kiss of Blood @ Hypnodrome Theatre

The Real Americans @ The Marsh

Dan Hoyle’s (Tings Dey Happen) multiplecharacter solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru Nov. 6. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st.

(800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Richard McCann @ LGBT Center Award-winning author of Across Bodies discusses his memoir about his spiritual experience from liver failure and rehabilitation with stem cell researcher Neil Theise, MD. Sponsored by Litquake and the SF Zen Center. $10-$20. 7:30pm. 1800 Market St., Ceremonial Room. www.sfcenter.org www.litquake.org

Scapin @ American Conservatory Theater Comic clown extraordinaire Bill Irwin directs and stars in a baggy-pants update on the Moliere farce, about a rascal who capriciously helps two young lovers. $10-$90. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 23. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Smuin Ballet @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Local company performs the world premiere of Trey McIntyre’s new dance set to the music of The Shins, Smuin’s Bluegrass/Slyde and Brahms-Haydn Variations. $20-$62.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 9.

3301 Lyon St. at Bay. 556-5000. www.smuinballet.org

Sat 9 >> Bar Pick-ups Gone Terribly Wrong @ Martuni’s BARtab Editor Jim Provenzano hosts the gayest night of Lit Crawl, the annual neighborhood literary invasion along Valencia Street, with Meliza Banales, Cindy Emch, Felice Picano, Jim Piechota and Rob Rosen; part of Litquake, the annual literary festival (Oct. 1-9). Free. 6pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.litquake.org

BustED II @ Femina Potens Second annual group exhibit celebrating the bosom, while raising awareness for breast cancer prevention efforts. Opening reception 7pm-10pm. Exhibit Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm thru Oct. 31. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

Compulsion @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin stars in the world premiere of Rinne Groff’s fascinating play about a man’s discovery and struggles to adapt The Diary of Anne Frank into a theatrical production. $14.50-$73. Tue, Fri, Sat 8pm. Wed, Sun 7pm. Thu Sat Sun 2pm (no show on some nights; check schedule online). Thru Oct. 31. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Iph @ Brava Theater

Olive Kitteridge @ Z Space Word for Word’s stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout short stories, set in a coastal Maine town about a stern math teacher. $20-$40. Wed-Thu 7pm, Fri-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Extended thru Oct. 10. 450 Florida St. (800) 838-3006. www.zspace.org

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only!

Extended, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19.

575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Queer Jitterbugs @ Magnet Jive dancing with a pre-Halloween retro costume theme, costume contest, too. 7:30pm.

4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project @ African American Arts & Culture Complex 10th anniversary benefit for the lesbian media group, with performances, films, a silent auction $25-$50. 7pm. reception, 8pm show. 762 Fulton St. www.qwocmap.org

The Secretaries @ Boxcar Playhouse Crowded Fire theatre ensemble performs The Five Lesbian Brothers’ 1995 dark and bloody satire about a chainsaw-wielding secretarial pool. $15-$25. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 9. 505 Natoma St. 255-7846. www.crowdedfire.org

The Sensitive ‘70s @ Oddball Film Groovy therapeutic short films about drugs, alcoholism, suicide and other totally heavy topics. $10. 8:30pm. 275 Capp St. 5588117. www.oddballfilm.com

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 Hail Caesar! is the current show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with comic Frank Ferrante, twin acrobats Ming and Rui, Vertical Tango rope dance, plus magic, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm).

Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

African-American Shakespeare Company’s production of Colin Teevans’ adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan War epic Iphigeneia at Aulis, about heroism, war, and celebrity. $15-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 16. 2781 24th St. 647-2822. www.AfricanAmericanShakes.org www.brava.org

Let the Right One In, Antichrist @ Castro Theatre

Kayak Party @ Elkhorn Slough, Monterey

Kyle Gass (Tenacious D) and his fun-lovin’ comic country-rock band perform. $10.

9pm. 579 18th St. at San Pablo. www.thenewparish.com

Thomas Alfredson’s acclaimed, haunting and subtle 2008 preteen vampire film (7:15).

See it before the English J.J. Abrams ripoff, er, adaptation Let Me In, which opens elsewhere. Also, Willem Dafoe in the disturbing horror flick (9:15) $7-$10.

429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Betty’s List women’s kayaking and sea otterwatching trip, with a Cougar Rock Show after-party. $120. 503-1375. www.bettyslist.com

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond @ de Young Museum

Trainwreck @ New Parish, Oakland

Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, the second of two exhibitions from the Paris museum’s permanent collection. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru Jan. 18, 2011.

50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, www.famsf.org

Open Studios @ Art Explosion Opening reception for a group ehxibit of art in various media. 7pm-11pm.

Thru Oct 10, 11am-6pm.

2425 17th St.

Sun 10 >> Bijou @ Martuni’s

New York choreographer’s new work, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? is a fourpart, multimedia project incorporating live performance, film, and visual art, about human connection and loss. $25$30. 8pm. Thu-Sat thru Oct. 9. Installation Oct. 10, 12pm-6pm (free with performance ticket or gallery admission). 701 Mission St. 978-ARTS. www.ybca.org

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Shotgun Players presents an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s play about the royal intrugue between Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I, with strikingly modern perspectives on terrorism and politics. Opening night (Oct. 8) includes post-show drinks and nibbly things ($30). $15-$28. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Sun 5pm. Thyru Nov. 7. 1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Thrillpeddlers presents three “Shocktoberfest” one-act plays with macabre comic themes; Aragny/Neilson’s 1929 Kiss of Blood, and Lips of the Damned and The Empress of Colma, new plays by Rob Keefe. $25-$35. Thu & Fri Thru Nov. 19. 575 10th St. at Bryant. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Ralph Lemon @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Mary Stuart @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Enjoy comedic drinking songs to celebrate autumn and October with McPuzo & Trotsky, and Darlene Popvic. Joe Wicht accompanies. $5. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Crescendo @ War Memorial Green Room Macy Gray at Bimbo’s, Wed.

Annual gala fundraiser brunch for the SF Gay Men’s Chorus, with guest host Bruce Vilanch, silent and live auctions, delicious food, pink champagne and per-

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Where the Boys Are @ Castro Theatre Classic Spring Break beach comedy starring Connie Francis, who introduces the 7pm screening. $7-$10. 2:30, 4:45, 7pm, 9:15pm.

429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Thu 14 >> Arab Film Festival @ Castro Theatre

The Arab Film Festival, Thu. formances by Vocal Minority. $100 and up.

12:30pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfgmc.org

Remember the Party @ Glas Kat

Parr, and Kara Davis. $22-$27. 8pm. Fort Mason Cetner, Marina St. at Buchanan.

345-7575. www.westwavedancefestival.org

Will Durst @ The Rrazz Room

DJ Jerry Bonham spins retro classics at the White Party-themed night that revives the Trocadero Transfer ambiance, with a special Donna Summer mix. Plus, browse from special items in a silent auction (proceeds benefit Under One Roof), with autographed CDs, photos and posters from Donna Summer herself! White dress code. $25. 6pm-3am. 520 4th St. www.remembertheparty.com

Smart comic takes on political controveries with deft humor. $25. 8pm. Also Oct. 18, 25 & Nov. 1. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Scary Cow Film Fest @ Castro Theatre

Alexis Lekat @ Magnet

Tue 12 >>

Short unusual films, where the audience decides on future funding for projects. 3pm.

429 Castro St. www.scarycow.com www.castrotheatre.com

Exhibit of paintings and video by the sexy Israeli painter whose homoerotic art has an iconic rough edge. Exhibit thru Oct. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.alexislekat.net www.magnetsf.org

SF Hiking Club @ Chabot Park

Canned Heat @ SF Public Library

Join LGBT outdoorsy types on an 11-mile hike with great views and cool redwood forests. Carpool meets 9am at the Safeway sign, Market St. at Dolores. (925) 8331069. www.sfhiking.com

Live wordsmithing with poets Stephen Kopel, Dan Bellm, Brent Calderwood and Christian Gullatte. 6pm. 3rd floor, Jame C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center; 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

The Line @ Center for Sex & Culture

Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Documentary film about sexual boundaries, sponsored by Good Vibrations. $10-$12.

7:30pm. 1519 Mission St. www.events.goodvibes.com

Swing-out Sundays @ Rock-it Room Slim Jenkins and other bands play weekly for your same- and opposite-sex swing dancing pleasure. $5 includes a lesson. 8pm11pm. 406 Clement St. www.SwingChampionships.com

Vessel Watch Project @ Pacific Bay Take a boat cruise to the Farallones Marine Sanctuary on a boat that observes and listens to whales; a day-long educational trip with the Pacific Environment. $95. 8am-3pm. Also Oct. 24. Pier 39, Beach St. at Embarcadero. 3998850. www.pacificenvironment.org/vesselwatch

Mon 11 >> Comedy Night @ El Rio Reannie Roads, Evert Villasenor, Lisa Geduldig, Brendan Lynch and Toby Muresianu offer up their laugh-inducing stand-up at the monthly night (each 2nd Mon.). $7$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.koshercomedy.com www.elriosf.com

James @ Regency Ballroom Popular UK band returns, with Ed Harcourt, and new music. $26-$28. 8pm. 1290 Sutter St. www.wearejames.com

Steven Saylor @ A Different Light

Positively Touching @ The Rrazz Room Sean Ray and his talented singing pals present another benefit of Broadway classics.

Proceeds benefit Positive Being, with special hostess Anita Cocktail. $40. 8pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Wed 13 >> Book Group @ Books Inc. Monthly reading group this month discusses gay novel, Ethan Mordden’s I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore. 7pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

WestWave Dance @ Cowell Theater Second of four monthly dance showcase nights; works by Viktor Kabaniaev, Tammy Cheney, Rachel Barnett, Annie Rosenthal

Celebrating Fabled Asp @ SF Public Library Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: a 40 Year Retrospective, an exhibit of photographs, ephemera, and related events. Exhibit thru Nov. 23, 6th floor Skylight Gallery. 100 Larkin St. www.fabledasp.com www.sfpl.org

Gay Mystery Writers @ A Different Light Acclaimed authors Anthony Bidulka (Date with a Sheesha), Ellen Hart (Wicked Games), Greg Herren (Vieux Carre Voodoo: A Scotty Bradley Mystery) share a panel on mystery writing. 7:30pm. 489 Castro St. www.adlbooks.com

Paul Oakenfold @ The Fillmore Musical DJ icon of electronic music stops by along his 50-city tour. Also, Chuckie and Kenneth Thomas. $47. 8pm. 1805 Geary St. www.pauloakenfold.com www.livenation.com

DJs Venus in Furs, Prdct, Primo and others spin tunes, Boylesque performs a bit, and Queerporn.tv offers peeps of its alternative erotica. $5. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Sesame Street: A Celebration @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Classic, rare, and never-seen footage f the amazing longest-running children’s show in TV history, and its adorable Jim Henson Muppets. Inside the Sesame Street Vault (Oct. 14, 7:30, Oct 16, 2pm); Music of Sesame Street (Oct 21, 7:30pm, Oct 23, 2pm); Muppets History 201 (Oct. 28, 7:30pm, Oct. 30 2pm). $6-$8. 701 Mission st. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Square Dancing @ Harvey Milk Rec. Center Lessons and fun dancing for LGBTs and friends. 7pm. 50 Scott St. at Duboce. www.westernstardancers.org

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived @ SF CameraWork

Broadway singer (Phantom of the Opera) showcases his abstract expssionist paintings.

Tue-Fri 11am-6pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Dec. 23. 411 Brannan St. www.arthaus-sf.com

Galeria 4.0 @ Galeria de la Raza

Sundance Stompede @ Various Venues

40th anniversary exhibit, with Latino/Chicano works spanning four decades.

Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm (Tue 1pm-7pm) thru Jan. 29, 2011. 2857 24th St. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Annual four-day Country-Western dance event, with social dancing, competitions by LGBT devotees from around the U.S. Kickoff Dance Oct. 14 at Space 550 (6:30pm-11pm, 550 Barneveld Ave.); Welcome Dance Oct. 15 at Holiday Inn (7:30pm-1am, 1500 Van Ness ave); Hoedown Oct. 16 at the Regency Ballroom (7:30pm-1am, 1300 Van Ness Ave). Stompede Ball Oct. 17 at Space 550 (5pm-11pm, 550 Barneveld Ave). Dance workshops throughout the weekend. Prices vary. Weekend packages available. Thru Oct. 17. www.stompede.com

Uniquely soulful singer performs live. $25.

8pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. www.bimbos365club.com

Matthew Weiner @ Jewish Community Center Emmy-winning creator of the hit TV show Mad Men discusses his work with Tom Goodman. $10-$35. 7pm. 3200 California St. at Presidio. 292-1233. www.jccsf.org

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Queer Porn Party @ El Rio

Group exhibit of contemporary photos visualizing queer activism, gay communities, and homos in public spaces, including works by Steven Miller, Killer Banshee Studios, Gay Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms and others. Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm thru Oct. 23.

657 Mission St. 2nd floor. 512-2020. www.sfcamerawork.org

Frank D’Ambrosio @ ArtHaus

Macy Gray @ Bimbo’s

Author of acclaimed Roman novels discusses his latest, Empire, the sequel to Roma, and the gay intrigue behind the story. 7:30pm.

489 Castro St. www.stevensaylor.com www.adlbooks.com

Opening night of the 14th annual festival of Arab films, screened at several Bay Area cinemas, including the gay-themed Tunisian film The String, starring Claudia Cardinale, with hottie Salim Kechiouche (Oct. 15 at Embaradero Cinema, and Oct. 23 at Shattuck Cinema, Berkely). Thru Oct. 24. 429 Castro St. www.arabfilmfestival.org www.castrotheatre.com

Writing Our Word, Speaking Our Minds, Telling Our Stories @ SF Public Library Readings by and About Lesbians with Disabilities; featured guests include Elana Dykewomon, Barbara Ruth, Teya Schaffer, Dominika Bednarska, and the Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective. 6pm. Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room; part of Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: a 40 Year Retrospective, an exhibit of photographs, ephemera, and related events. Exhibit thru Nov. 23, 6th floor Skylight Gallery. 100 Larkin St. 557-4277 100 Larkin St. www.fabledasp.com www.sfpl.org

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Remember the Party, Sunday at the Glas Kat. For more nightclub listings go to www.bartabsf.com

For more arts events, go to www.ebar.com.

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by Scott Brogan his past Saturday, a packed ballroom of leather folk cheered on the contestants for Ms. San Francisco Leather at the Hotel Whitcomb. Queen Cougar sang the National Anthem, with the emcee duties provided by Miranda, who was nothing short of incredible.

She was the best, most natural, funny emcee I’ve seen in a long time.

I hope she comes out more. The three contestants were Angel, Leo Peralta, and Ms. Cat. The judges were Skeeter (head judge), Cowboi Jen, Mr. SF Leather Lance Holman, Ms. Rhonda, and the “Mystery Judge” Gauge Strongarm. Each contestant did a commendable job and gave excellent speeches, but for me the real highlights were the on-stage fantasies. I tell you, the women have it all over the men in the fantasy department. They’re creative, hot, sexy, and they know how to convey that on stage. Whew!

Outgoing Ms. SF Leather 2009 Tracy Wolf gave a touching stepdown speech thanking those who helped pave the way for her to take over the title. Originally, Mollena Williams won the 2009 title. She First runner-up Ms. Cat and new Ms. SF Leather 2010 Leo Peralta pose for went on to dazzle everyone and win photos last Saturday night at San Francisco’s Whitcomb Hotel. the International Ms. Leather contest last spring. Per the rules, the first runner-up (Wolf) stepped in and cess for the Ms. SF Leather organizawill advance to compete at the Intertook over the duties of Ms. SF tion. I’m glad they reinstated this national Mr. Leather 2011 contest Leather for the remainder of the title last year, as it adds immensely to next May. year. Both women have done our our community.

In the “Oops I Did It Again” decity proud, to say the least. ConWhile Ms. SF Leather was partment, I apologize to the folks of gratulations and thank you! happening here, “way back East” both the AIDS Emergency Fun In the end, Ms. Cat won in Sacramento, Jeremy Willis (AEF) and the Breast Cancer Emerfirst runner-up, and Leo gency Fund (BCEF). In my last colwon the Mr. Bolt 2011 Peralta won the title of umn, I mistakenly noted the absence title. If you haven’t been to Ms. SF Leather 2010. Perof their presence at the Leather Sacramento or The Bolt, alta now advances to the Walk. That was incorrect. Thankfulyou’re missing out. SacraInternational Ms. Leather ly, both organizations were gracious mento has a thriving and contest next year, which about my error. welcoming leather comwill also take place here in A big box of eternal applause munity. The Mr. Bolt San Francisco. If she wins should be given to the gang at Foltitle has become well-reL EATHER that title, Ms. Cat will step som Street Events (FSE) for producspected across the naup and continue the title ing an amazing Folsom Street Fair. tion, and the guys are through the year. The usually sexy and slutty, my favorite weekend’s events were another sucpage 35 combination in a titleholder! Willis

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thurs., Oct. 7: Red Hanky Night at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). 9 p.m.-closing. Sponsored by Hell Hole. Go to: www.HellHoleSF.com or www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thurs., Oct. 7: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Oct. 8: Pec Night at The Powerhouse,10 p.m.

Show off your pecs for drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Oct. 9-Sun., Oct. 10: The Academy of SM Arts presents Cleo Dubois’ The Couples Intensive weekend.

Limited to 6 couples. Meet & Greet Fri., Oct. 8 at a private SoMa residence, continue Sat. and Sun. at the SF Citadel. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org or www.sm-arts.com.

Sun., Oct. 10: SF Men’s Spanking Party at 385A 8th St., above Mr. S Leather. 1-6 p.m. This is a safe place for beginners to explore their Spanking Fantasies, or just a good place to meet and talk to other guys into this fetish. Info: (415) 864-2766, SanFranParty@yahoo.com or check the Bulletin Board www.voy.com/201188.

Fri., Oct. 8: Rope at Chaps Bar. Hosted by Jorge Vieto of the Leather-Kink Network from Stop AIDS. Go-go studs at 10:30, free coat check. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Oct. 10: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Fri., Oct. 8: Fuzz at Chaps Bar. For fuzzy men and men who love fuzzy men. Lots of drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Oct. 10: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhousesf.com.

Fri., Oct. 8: Urge, Young Men’s Play Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). Come play with the city’s kinkiest young guys. Party starts at 9 p.m., goes until 1:30 a.m. $25 admission or volunteer for one hour and get in free! Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Oct. 12: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Oct. 9: Hell Hole Fisting Party, 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Door closes at Midnight. $25 admission. Free clothes check. For an invitation, visit www.HellHoleSF.com.

Sat., Oct. 9: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back-patio and bar open to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., Oct. 9: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Oct. 9: Military at Chaps Bar: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines get serviced! Go-go studs at 10:30. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sat., Oct. 9: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 per person. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Oct. 12: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse. Celebrate your tats and piercings, then have some nasty fun! Starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Oct. 13: The Anatomy of Sexual Pleasure presented by Juicy Justine at the SF Citadel. 8-10 p.m. $20 at the door. This isn’t your standard anatomy lesson! Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Oct. 13: Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Oct. 13: Busted! at Chaps Bar. This week’s edition: Spanking hosted by Daddy Tony. Starts at 9 p.m.

Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Oct. 13: SoMa Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, The Eagle) have specials for those who have the Men’s Club dogtags. See your favorite SoMa bar for details.

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by John F. Karr he picture of Jack Utberg alongside this article? It’s currently my favorite photo of all time.

Sheesh, whatta bulge! And when the suit comes off, and you see that the bulge ain’t no triumph of packaging but is all real, well, your little hearts are gonna go pitti-pat. The pic is from Ron Lloyd’s new book Legend Men (Bruno Gmunder, hardbound, $43.99), in which Mr. Utberg is accompanied by photos of a couple dozen fellas who are fully his equal in quality, despite differences in age, body type and personality. Lloyd chooses his subjects unerringly, and coaxes confident and provocative posing sessions from them – especially from the frequently straight, mostly non-porn-star guys.

Then he sets the pics down in rich, warm color that makes Legend Men pretty stimulating, indeed.

I found the images so stimulating, in fact, that they spurred me to check out Lloyd’s new website, www.LegendMen.com. I found a treasure trove. Dozens of Lloyd’s iconic men, in both film and photo – including Mr. Utberg, who does hair-raising things with a dildo, bringing forth a volcanic and copious orgasm.

I also found my way to Lloyd’s Body Solo website, where 10 volumes of DVDs collect the majority of his movies. I wonder why the Body Solo DVDs aren’t better known. Is it because they’re “merely” solos? That’s Lloyd’s formula: just a guy and his dick. His neat trick is that the guys are Jack Utberg, from Ron Lloyd’s Legend Men. knockouts, and his filming is highclass. Nearly art. I didn’t say artsy, and I swear they’re neither high-brow nor Volume 11. Gives me reason to live. raphy, the clarity of image, and the seemotionally cool. They’re just done cure point of view. No crazy, lop-sided Lots of guys won’t watch a solo. with a craft and care that make them angles here. I like the music: unobtruToo incidental.

They want “the real pretty much unique in the world of sive yet strong accompaniment that’s deal,” which means insertion. I don’t sex films. gently rhythmic, and sometimes pretknow why watching a guy This is how I like my eyety memorable electronica. loving his dick and calling candy: excellent videography But most of all, I love his men. up its bounty aren’t a real capturing built, beautiful They range from shiny freshmen to deal. But there you are. and confident studs who grizzled daddy, smooth-bodied to Yet even I don’t like have piles of muscle, a hairy-chested. Lloyd likes big, so solos if the videography high quotient of handthere’s muscle all over the place, with doesn’t caress and love someness, and dick for nude and especially hard-on posing and trumpet a cock, if the days (I’ll repeat that: they routines a specialty. And he likes long, performer is run-of-thehave dick for days) as I mean looong dick. He’s found some mill, or his orgasm tiny. they actively collude doozies. There’s lots of shaved groin, Barring these consideraK ARRNAL with us, engage us as well as some kink here: Reese Ridewhen a jack-off is with eye contact, freK NOWLEDGE tions, out and Michael Crowe ride dildos good, it can be most satisquent smiles and the with gusto; muscular and inked Vince fying, insertion be confident knowledge Susik sports tight cock-ring and balldamned.

I like em as hors d’oeuvres bethat they’ve got something special to stretcher. I flipped for irrepressibly fore the main course of a suck-n-fuck show us. cute youngster Jack Jeardon, tough that ideally ends in an OCS – the one I’d seen one or two of Lloyd’s dude Tag Rando, granite-bodied thing a solo dude can’t deliver (and movies, and really liked them. So blonde Chad Christoffersen. But there self-suckers are a whole other categowhen his book led me to them, and I are 54 guys on the 10 discs. I can’t dery). And when they aren’t ordinary, as found them on sale for surprisingly litscribe them all. I can assert, however, Lloyd’s aren’t, they can stand alone as tle, I bit for all 10. And it’s been all that Lloyd has so handsomely elicited the full meal. So many of Lloyd’s guys hands on dick ever since they arrived. and displayed their considerable gifts are so special, perform so well, and I’m just wearing out my wang here, that repeat viewings are happily incum so spectacularly, that they can and urge you to join the fun. Too bad dulged.▼ bring on your sudden conclusion.

Utberg’s sizzler scene is too new to be I like the warmth of Lloyd’s videogincluded. Guess I’ll have to wait for www.bodyimageproductions.com

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Leather + The fair was the grand finale to Leather Week here in SF, which included too many events to list here.

From all reports, all of these events were successful. The weather on the day of the fair was hot, drawing out what seemed to be every person this side of the Mississippi who owns leather. The blazing sun created billions of beads of sweat that dripped from the scantily clad bodies, carrying the strong aroma of pheromones and sex to the nostrils and loins of everyone in attendance. I’m throbbing just typing this as I recall floating from block to block on a scentinfused high. Amusingly, after a day of apparent recovery, Facebook was flooded with endless photos that no doubt kept that social network’s photo police on their toes. Congratulations to FSE for another successful year. And in case you didn’t

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IML 2009 Jeffrey Payne welcomes the new Mr. Bolt 2010 Jeremy Willis into the titleholder family in Sacramento last Saturday.

know, Folsom Street Events is a nonprofit organization. Proceeds from the fair and official satellite events went to 11 major and five supporting beneficiaries: check out

www.folsomstreetevents.org for details. What could be better than having a hot, horny, hedonistic time while raising money for very deserving charitable organizations?

This year’s fair was dedicated to the memory of the late Officer Jane Warner, who gave so much of her time and energy to San Francisco’s LGBT community, and my predecessor, B.A.R. leather columnist Marcus Hernandez. Hernandez passed a year ago tomorrow, Oct. 8.

He was a friend and supporter not just to me, but to thousands of leather and non-leather men and women all over the world during his incredible service to our community, beginning over 30 years ago. We’ll never see his kind again, and I, like so many others, owe him an eternal debt. A line in the Folsom Street Events Certificate of Dedication sums it up nicely: “His memory is an inspiration to us all.” The only thing I would add is that his memory is a continuous inspiration to us all. We miss you, Marcus.▼

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Character study

by Jim Piechota The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass; Pantheon Press, $25.95

ulia Glass is a master in character development. Her first novel Three Junes won a National Book Award and featured a narrative sweep that encompassed three summers in the lives of members of the McLeod family, including a Scottish widower, a reserved gay bookstore owner, and a young female artist.

The author performed an exquisite balancing act, juggling numerous plot lines, a bevy of fascinating, wise characters both central and peripheral, and prose that captured readers’ attention and wouldn’t let go.

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That’s quite a feat for a debut.

Two novels later, and Glass presents her fourth story, The Widower’s Tale, and it once again is a consummate winner. At the helm is retired Harvard librarian Percy Darling, a 70year-old, widowed, cantankerous codger who skinny-dips in the pond near his historic suburban Boston home, reads, watches classic movies, and has unsurprising “senior moments.” His peaceful descent into happy retirement is disturbed by his own hand when Percy agrees to let a local preschool set up shop in his barn, where his daughter Clover can teach, since she’d abandoned her family back in New York over a custody battle and a closeted husband. Percy feels a lot for his family, which is re-

also a Guatemalan gardener named Celestino who has high hopes that “by the time the last leaves fell, things would be very different.” All of these folks have a thing or two to teach Percy, who, thankfully, has his heart open and his mind available for others’ opinions and dilemmas.

With all of these personalities slowly orbiting Glass’ carefully constructed narrative, it would be easy to let a few of them fall to the wayside or allow several an easy exit. But everything, the good with the bad, is handled with the ease of a literary marksman, and not a dangling plot strand is left blowing in the breeze.

This novel is a heartwarming and completely engrossing work of contemporary fiction.▼

freshing; his grandson Robert is a pre-med senior at Harvard about to add class and intelligence to the Darling lineage, and his other daughter Trudy is a workaholic cancer specialist in Boston who has little time for anything else.

The novel gains momentum with quiet, deceptive changes in the characters’ situations. Robert becomes darkly involved in environmental activism, and Percy finds love with Sarah, a single mother at the pre-school, when he never expected to, after his wife’s tragic death 30 years ago. A gay day-care worker, Ira, finds trouble brewing after allegations of an “inappropriate closeness” with a young child at a former school resurface. There’s

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pressionism, which examined the forces that shaped and catalyzed the rebels of early Impressionism. (Before it closed on Labor Day, Birth drew throngs in its final weeks, proving that virtual experience is not the only kind craved by the masses.) If the first Orsay exhibition, which seemed heavy on work sanctioned by the conservative Paris Salon, was academic and a bit on the pedagogic side, this one is about pure aesthetic pleasure.

Though the roster of painters here represents a who’s who of revered masters – Seurat, Signac, Serusier, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Cezanne, Gauguin, Vuillard, Denis, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Rousseau, et al., and some less familiar names that deserve attention – the exhibition is as much about the connective tissue between artists, their singular visions and susceptibility to cross-pollination, as it is about late Impressionism. The show sits on the precipice of Modernism, and the artists, whether they knew it or not, were paving the way for abstraction.

Their anticipation of something big coming just down the road, a sensation they perhaps couldn’t yet articulate of a revolution in the making, is a subtext that contributes to a palpable excitement as you cruise through the galleries.

Most, though not all, of the near-

Colin Firth is a young monarch in The King’s Speech.

Scene from Quebec auteur Xavier Dolan’s Heartbeats.

citable ex-diplomat hubby, Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), who has a penchant for turning the battle over Saddam’s nonexistent WMDs into a personal pissing contest with Bush bloggers. Watts and Penn nimbly get to that excruciating moment when a private marriage goes toxic in the full glare of our 24/7 news cycle. (Rafael, 10/15; Sequoia, 10/17) The Housemaid This revenge-fueled Upstairs/Downstairs melodrama climaxes with a very troubled family getting a flaming floor show at their exclusive country hideaway. Laced with very hot master/servant sex between the title character and her very

tacky boss, Housemaid puts your faith in the New Korean Cinema to the ultimate test. (Sequoia, 10/15) Heartbeats If you missed Quebec queer-boy auteur Xavier Dolan’s first feature I Killed My Mother, don’t pass on his Cannes-heralded follow-up, where the 21-year-old sensation, deliciously bratty in his debut feature’s bitch-slap to the coming-out story, reportedly produces a combustible ménage that may finally get him a US distribution deal. (Sequoia, 10/14, 17) The Crocodiles Christian Ditter pushes beyond Disney Channel hyper-cutesy tweener codes with a well-shot juvenile caper spotlighting

ly 120 works on view are from the fertile 15-year period that followed the Impressionists’ final group exhibition in 1886, when artists began looking inward for inspiration rather than toward the public sphere – glittering gatherings, fashionable people dancing in the park – without forsaking their love of beauty. That pivot point between interior and external worlds is beautifully crystallized by Edouard Vuillard, who was only 23 when he painted “The Bed” (1891), a subdued but astounding work, derided at the time as a woman cut into pieces rather than a real painting. Done in solid shapes of chalky grey and cream, and informed

by Japanese woodblock prints, it’s a modern reaction to the lushness, buoyancy and extroversion of Classical Impressionism. The following year, in “Sleep” (1892), he molded deep charcoals and olive browns into shapes that fit together like puzzle pieces. Vuillard’s portrait of his close friend, artist Felix Vallotton, slouched in a chair in pale hues relieved only by bright red shoes, focuses on his friend’s quiet, reserved nature. Vallotton’s innate gentleness is reflected in his painting “The Ball” (1899), a melancholy summer idyll in which a child’s straw hat catches the fading light at a lakeside beach.

The shadows creeping over the sand signal the waning of the season and a loss of innocence.

Some of the galleries are loosely organized into overlapping movements like Neo-Impressionism

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Van Gogh et al.

Clara Palardy, courtesy Mill Valley Film Festival

Firth, seen in last year’s peerless A Single Man. The future king overcomes a paralyzing speech impediment in an age when even a hereditary ruler had to slip into his subjects’ living rooms via the “wireless.”

Although not your usual “twohander,” The King’s Speech gets a huge boost from the odd-couple chemistry between the future monarch and his unorthodox therapist, Oscar-winning Best Actor Geoffrey Rush. Upending centuries of royal prerogatives, Rush’s Lionel Logue insists on seeing the future king in his very modest lodgings, and on addressing the uptight prince as “Bertie,” a privilege only other royals could claim. This Oscar-bait tour de force should leave you laughing, and perhaps shedding a tear for a very human monarch. (Opening Night, Rafael, 10/7) Fair Game This political spythriller will have many reaching for their Bush-bashing software. But for those who remember post-Watergate efforts to reform the CIA, it’s a little annoying to find ourselves rooting for a CIA operative. He’s the hero of a tangled story about the hotly contested Iraq invasion. That said, English-born, Aussie-raised Naomi Watts hits all the right American-accented notes as veteran spy Valerie Plame, who finds herself caught between the Cheney/Bush disinformation agenda and her ex-

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diversity in modern Germany. It’s based on a popular novel about a gang of boys on the cusp of puberty that finds room for a plucky tomboy, a stuttering boy, a weight-challenged angry kid, an undersized kid helping a single mom, an unruly immigrant kid and a lonely, wheelchair-bound rich boy whose expensive telescope prompts their most perilous adventure. (Throckmorton, 10/10; Rafael, 10/16) Stone Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich bring their A games to this prison thriller. A young convict, sentenced for a crime resulting in the immolation of his grandparents, alternately provokes and tempts his parole officer with an ethical dilemma that only begins with sexual favors from his amorally flirtatious wife. John Curran’s taut direction underscores the moral sucker-punches hidden in Angus MacLachlan’s (Junebug) suspenseful script. It’s a religious parable that ranks with James Marsh’s The King. (Rafael, 10/9) Child of Giants: My Journey with Maynard Dixon & Dorothea Lang Tom Ropelewski’s multi-layered doc on the lives of two giants of the American art-world, as seen by their troubled first-born son, provides fresh evidence of how a close brush with genius can be unsettling to those not so blessed. It gives insights both inspiring and harrowing into the passions and work habits of two artists who, as much as anyone, taught us how to view America’s Great Depression. (Se-

Viewing part of the show Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond: PostImpressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay at the de Young Museum.

(Pointillism), Symbolism, Cloisonnism, the iconoclastic Nabis and the Pont Aven School informally led by Paul Gauguin, while others are devoted to single artists. The gallery or portion thereof dedicated to Van Gogh is difficult to match for drama, intensity and sheer artistic frenzy. In his vivid paintings, set off against walls painted Midnight blue, Van Gogh seems to be feverishly attempting to outpace his encroaching insanity, a race we know, in retrospect, he lost. He only painted for a decade, but what he produced in a mere 10 years is startling and a graphic illustration of the fine line between genius and madness. Take the exhilarating “Starry Night” (1888), a truly dazzling picture of undulating shafts

of nighttime lights dancing on the water; narrow your eyes for a moment and drink in a magical, romantic scene and a black sky punctuated by a riot of stars. His extraordinary eye for color is evident in “Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles” (1889), while an enigma surrounds “Eugene Boch (The Poet)” (1888). Of the latter gaunt-faced portrait, the artist said he painted “the infinity” of an azure sky behind the man’s head instead of a mundane backdrop, and populated that infinity with stars.

One can see the evolution of the beloved Renoir, who, by this point, was afflicted by deteriorating eyesight and arthritis, which resulted in his becoming looser and more expressive. (In his senior years, Renoir’s

quoia, 10/9; Rafael, 10/11) William Vincent & 127 Hours For those desiring a post-Howl double dip of Palo Alto native James Franco, the festival mixes the hip postmodern thriller William Vincent (Sequoia, 10/16; Rafael, 10/17) with the Danny Boyle-helmed, true-life story of a mountain climber faced with a horrific choice in 127 Hours, based on the memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place. (Rafael, 10/16) 5@5 (the following four shorts): Gayby Jonathan Lisecki’s droll short has a queer man and his “fag hag” friend deciding to procreate without kitchen utensils. The dialogue sparkles with the wit and insight of good fiction. A rooftop smoke-break, prior to consulting a home pregnancy kit, turns into a funny/sad meditation on the passing of youth. The onset of lifechanges transcends the needs of bringing up baby.

Quality Time Marin’s plucky Miller twins make a silly costume cameo in James Redford’s comedy about a seriously overscheduled modern clan.

Git Along, Lil Dogies Montana resident Kate Lain brings rebellious wit to a tomboy’s refusal to bow to puberty’s unwanted gifts.

Capture the Flag A teen girl’s enthusiasm for a peculiar family ritual, despite a friendly warning by her cute male cousin, results in an unsettling end to a summer in the woods in Lisanne Skyler’s astutely emotive short.▼

assistants had to strap brushes on his hands so he could paint.) Shortly before his death and after a trip to Italy, Renoir, having absorbed Classical and Renaissance art, created “The Bathers” (1918-19), an orgy of naked, voluptuous female flesh cavorting outdoors that echoes preRaphaelite beauties.

Toulouse-Lautrec, on the other hand, had a taste for the rough trade of the demimonde, like the nearly naked prostitute of “Woman Pulling Up Her Stockings” (1894), or “Woman with a Black Boa” (1892), whose white face make-up, tattered elegance and stern expression speak to a tough life on the streets. A strange, physically deformed character descended from a noble family, Lautrec haunted the brothels of Montmartre, painting women in various states of undress, and lived out the Bohemian fantasy.

Although fine reproductions of many of these paintings are available in coffee-table books and the exhibition catalogue, the glorious brushstrokes on the canvases have to be seen up-close and in person to be fully appreciated. Leave yourself plenty of time to wander, and the luxury of a return visit.▼ Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay, at the de Young Museum through January 18, 2011. www.deyoungmuseum.org or (415) 750-3600.

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6'2"/165#/Hung 7"/Hot White Boy

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Bar Pick-ups Gone Terribly Wrong* *(or Right )

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What's your pleasure?27y.o Latin guy next door type, Handsome. Tattooed, exotic.Mild encounters to fetish/Domintaion. Nick 408-6876358

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host: Meliza Banales, Cindy Emch, Felice Picano, Jim Piechota, Rob Rosen JimYour Provenzano

Saturday, October 9. 6pm.

at Martuni’s 4 Valencia St. at Market

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