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San Francisco Pride Executive Director Amy Andre and board President Mikayla Connell defended the organization’s finances at last weekend’s annual membership meeting.

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Andre wrote that Pride had been overpaying beverage partners from 2006 through 2009. One of the partners provided a copy of the letter to the B.A.R. “During those years, we did not include certain categories of expenses in determining the

Castro adjusts to quieter Halloween

by Matthew S. Bajko our years after San Francisco officials shut down the annual street party that occurred Halloween night in the Castro, the city’s gayborhood has slowly adjusted to the change. The focus of the neighborhood’s holiday celebration has returned to being more residential in nature and LGBT-centric.

Many more Castro residents are hosting house parties, while visitors now come to go to the area’s many gay bars rather than mingle on the street.

“All of my friends are having parties or small gatherings; that just seems to be what is the trend now,” said Mission Station LGBT liaison Sergeant Chuck Limbert, who is working on the police department’s plans for this year’s holiday. “People should be able to go to their friend’s house and celebrate Halloween in a way that is safe.”

Predicated on curbing the violence and gaybashings that had increasingly become as signature a feature at the Halloween street bash as costumed revelers, the cancellation of the outdoor bacchanalia in 2007 was, nonetheless, controversial. While many Castro residents cheered the decision, others lambasted city leaders for killing the cherished tradition.

Following the first year of the shutdown, when the majority of Castro businesses and bars shut their doors at 10 p.m., the shock of seeing what some described as a police state soured many on what had been considered a high holy day for the gay community. Even those who agreed that the city needed to take control of the situation were pained to lose the party.

“I was depressed. No one was more sad to see Halloween go away than me,” said Castro resident David Perry, a gay public relations professional who oversees the city’s Home for Halloween campaign. “I went every year and was always dressed up. It is one day before my birthday. But about seven years or eight years ago it stopped being fun for me. I don’t want to be yelled at and I don’t want to see people abusing people.”

Ever since 2008, when the bars and restaurants were allowed to remain open for business, Halloween has remained relatively calm and peaceful

The sidewalks of the Castro District were full of revelers for Halloween last year. The atmosphere was peaceful and fun, and the police were easygoing, but kept people on the sidewalks.

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in the Castro. Perry said people have accepted the situation and are beginning to create their own new traditions for celebrating the holiday.

“I would say it is true that there is a new normal about Halloween in the Castro,” said Perry.

“My neighbor upstairs now has a party every year. He started due to our campaign.”

Castro residents Billy Clift and Carl Dickinson, partners who have lived in the Castro for seven years, used to invite friends over prior to hitting the street party each year. As the event became less safe, they would avoid the unruly crowds and head straight for the Edge bar on 18th Street.

Now, after handing out candy to trick-ortreaters, the couple hosts a Halloween party at their home.

“We used to not have a Halloween night party,” said Clift, an independent filmmaker.

“Two years ago we decided not to go anywhere at all, stay here and have a typical house party instead. Everyone was happy to do that because they didn’t want to go into the Castro as well.”

Event producer Marc Huestis also stopped attending the Castro Halloween parties because of the negative vibe among the crowds.

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creepy and crazy. I didn’t even go the last few years because I was scared to death and not in a good way,” recalled Huestis.

Longing to feel Halloween be fun again, Huestis this year is hosting a screening of the classic horror film Poltergeist at the Castro Theatre Saturday, October 30. On stage will be one of the movie’s stars, JoBeth Williams, who played the mom, as well as a Carol Ann look-alike contest.

“I am hoping to be able to create the spirit that once existed the night of Halloween in the Castro District the night before Halloween,” said Huestis. “We will see murder on the screen but not in real life.”

With Halloween falling on a Sunday this year, Castro leaders expect a lighter than normal turnout on October 31. There may be bigger crowds descending on the neighborhood the night before, though many bars and clubs across the city will be hosting Halloween-themed parties that night, such as Gus Bean’s annual Colossus Halloween Monster Ball.

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ransgender leaders say that Healthy San Francisco, the city’s health insurance program for uninsured residents, is discriminatory because it excludes sexual reassignment services, treatment, and surgery.

At least one person has filed a complaint with the city’s Human Rights Commission due to the exclusionary policy, the Bay Area Reporter has learned, and the city’s health deDr. Mitch Katz partment is in talks with the agency about how to remedy the situation.

“This is clearly discrimination against a protected class that we do not discriminate against in our own health policy,” said Theresa Sparks, a transgender woman who heads the Human Rights Commission, referring to the fact that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under the city’s health insurance for employees. “If we cover it for our own employees, why don’t we cover it for the residents at large?”

Neither Sparks nor Dr. Mitch Katz, director of the health department, would discuss the specifics of the complaint due to confidentiality policies. It was filed three months ago, said Sparks, and the agency has been meeting with health department officials to find a suitable resolution.

“Our authority is to enforce all nondiscrimination ordinances in the city and county of San Francisco. We believe it does apply to” the city’s health insurance program, said Sparks.

The commission’s public oversight body has yet to take an official stance on the policy. Its chair, transgender activist Cecilia Chung, said she is confident the policy will be changed.

“I think if we just look at the surface of it, it definitely sends mixed messages from the city and county of San Francisco and I don’t think it is intentional. We are not intentionally trying to tell the community that we are trying to discriminate against them,” said Chung. “Of course the actions seem to speak otherwise, that is why the community is working very closely with the HRC and we are reaching out to the public health.”

Katz said he is amenable to seeing the city offer sexual reassignment procedures to transgender people but is unsure, at this point, of the best way to do so.

“We want to work with the Human Rights Commission on making it possible for people to have sexual reassignment surgery. We don’t yet know what the right vehicle will be for that,” said Katz.

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he San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee will be closing its fiscal year with a deficit of about $99,000, as payments to community partners are delayed due to cash flow issues.

Despite the troubling budget figures, which Mikayla Connell, president of Pride’s board, discussed last weekend, Amy Andre, the Pride Committee’s executive director, expressed confidence things will turn around next year.

“The budget for the coming fiscal year has us poised to eliminate the deficit for this fiscal year and end with a surplus,” Andre told the Bay Area Reporter.

She said Pride should end next year with a surplus of about $40,000 on its budget of $1.5 million. Both she and Connell were at Pride’s annual general membership meeting Sunday, September 12.

Andre didn’t provide a copy of the budget for next year, and at least one of the organization’s recent budget projections appeared wildly optimistic.

Regarding the checks to Pride’s beverage partners, several of them received less money than they had expected due to what Pride officials say was an accounting error.

In a September 2 letter to beverage partners, who staff Pride drink booths at the festival,

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Horizons provides marriage equality grants

by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation recently announced it’s awarding $350,000 in grants to help organizations build support for same-sex marriage in communities of color.

The funds are part of a new Horizons grant program, People of Color Creating Equality.

“These grants are extremely important because the issue of our equality is extremely important, and because we have, as a movement, a tremendous amount of learning and work to do in and with communities of color,” said Roger Doughty, Horizons’ executive director.

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Laurin Mayeno, left, holds a photo of her gay son, Daniel Moreno, as she describes the work of Somos Familia in building support for same-sex marriage in communities of color. Mayeno, along with Janette Alvarez and Susan Taylor, work with Somos Familia and have been awarded a People of Color Creating Equality grant from the Horizons Foundation.

in their life?” said Mayeno, who noted she’s not Latina herself but has a gay, 21-year-old son who’s Salvadoran, Japanese, and Jewish.

Somos Familia has previously received community issues grants from Horizons, as it is again this year. This year’s community issues grant is $8,000.

Another people of color grant recipient is the Reverend Roland Stringfellow of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Berkeley’s Pacific School of Religion.

Stringfellow, the coordinator of the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations, will receive $25,000. He said he hopes to create a curriculum aimed at African American clergy that he can use statewide to “create a dialogue around marriage equality and LGBT inclusion.”

The gay, African American minister said the curriculum would include theological and social aspects of homosexuality and marriage equality.

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munities of color during the unsuccessful battle against California’s same-sex marriage ban in 2008.

Prop 8 passed by 52 percent in November 2008. It has since been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, although that decision is on appeal.

But Horizons, which distributes grants in San Francisco and surrounding cities, has long worked with communities of color.

One of the groups receiving a grant is Somos Familia, an East Bay organization catering to Latino families with children who are LGBT, queer, or questioning. The nonprofit is getting a $25,000 grant to work with the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology to produce video storytelling with LGBT youth and their families in the Latino community.

Laurin Mayeno, a Somos Familia co-founder, said the videos would include moms and dads who are Latino and Spanish-speaking.

“The message is LGBT people are part of our families, part of our communities, and from parent to parent, wouldn’t you want your kid to have what everybody else can have

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SF supervisors pass alcohol fee

by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-3 Tuesday, September 14 to impose a fee on alcoholic beverage wholesalers and others, in order to reimburse the city for some of the health costs attributed to alcohol.

The proposed Alcohol Cost Recovery Fee ordinance is being criticized by bar owners and others who say that it would drive up the cost of buying drinks and potentially hurt business.

Eight votes are needed to override an expected veto from Mayor Gavin Newsom. Supervisor John Avalos, the proposal’s main sponsor, said in a phone interview before the vote that he’d consider putting a measure on the ballot in 2011 if he failed to get the votes he needed Tuesday.

“As an elected official, I am constantly asked how we can make sure that we are supporting our neighborhoods and keeping people who are in our public health system with the services they need ... and prevent those services from being cut year after year,” said Avalos.

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Street, said in an e-mail that he understands the magnitude of the city’s “chronic” inebriate problem, “but they shouldn’t turn to us to finance it.”

He said like other businesses, Harvey’s would have to raise its prices, which he predicted would lead to locals curtailing their spending.

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ENDA vote in doubt amid furious protests

by Matt Baume s time runs out for a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, activists blocked Market Street in the Castro September 9 to protest congressional inaction.

“When jobs are lost, the market will stop,” said GetEqual’s Michelle Wright, comparing the blocked traffic on Market to an economy stalled by discrimination.

ENDA would provide workplace protections for LGBT Americans.

Passing the bill, a version of which has been before Congress for more than a decade, is a top priority of national LGBT rights groups.

Passersby at last week’s protest mostly agreed with GetEqual’s latest direct action aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), although some questioned the tactics.

“I agree with the sentiment. I think it’s kind of silly to block traffic,” said onlooker Ray Courtney.

“I think it’s great,” said Andrew Reynolds, who said he would have valued federal employment protections at his previous job in the rural South.

About a dozen people were arrested during the protest, including District 8 supervisor candidate Rafael Mandelman. They were taken to Mission Station, cited, and released, he said.

With heavy Democratic losses predicted for November, Congress’ attitude toward the bill may soon turn from ambivalent to hostile. But some LGBT activists are backing away from a last-minute push.

“For the next nine weeks, the LGBT community should concentrate its efforts instead on keeping Democrats in power,” wrote Alice B. Toklas club Co-Chair Bentrish Satarzadeh in the club’s newsletter earlier this month.

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to uninsured adult residents, regardless of a person’s employment status, immigration status, or pre-existing medical condition. Residents with income at or below 500 percent of the federal poverty level – which for an individual would be $54,150; for a family of four it is $110,250 – are eligible to enroll into the program.

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it,’” wrote Porter. He added small business owners are already squeezed by the health care security ordinance and mandatory paid sick time.

Just before he voted for the proposal Tuesday, Supervisor David Campos acknowledged the impact the fee could have on some businesses, but he said the proposal was “actually a very measured approach to a very difficult problem.” He said the city needs to ensure services are available to deal with alcohol-related problems.

Among other costs the proposal is meant to address are ambulance rides, alcohol prevention and treatment programs administered by the city’s health department, and administrative costs such as enforcement. The fee could raise prices by at least a few cents a drink.

Police watch as protesters blocked Market Street in the Castro during GetEqual’s ENDA protest last week.

congressional sources are confident that ENDA will pass in the “lame duck” session, which falls between the November elections and the January swearing-in of new legislators.

But McGehee is skeptical.

“I find it difficult to believe that the Democratic leadership will suddenly find the moral courage they’ve been lacking for years in order to get this done,” she wrote.

The Human Rights Campaign disagreed.

“The chances of seeing action in lame duck are unfortunately better than right now before the elections, just because of the limited amount of time that is left,” said HRC spokesman Michael Cole.

Although HRC feels strongly that ENDA has majority support in the House, Cole said, “in the Senate, it’s close.” He encouraged supporters to visit www.passendanow.com to contact their legislators.

Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) is ENDA’s Senate sponsor. “He would of course love to see a vote as soon as possible,” said Merkley’s press secretary, Mike Westling, but he added that the House of Representatives must act before the Senate can vote.

Responding to a protest at the office of Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in June, press secretary Drew Hammill blamed the Senate for inaction.

“The Senate has no plans for taking up ENDA,” Hammill told the Bay Area Reporter in June. “That needs to be the focus ... it would be very hopeful for people to encourage the Senate to outline a plan for considering the bill.”

ENDA’s backers have been watching this back-and-forth for a year.

“It was supposed to be scheduled last fall, then last winter, then last spring, and then last June, and here we are, still waiting,” said Pride at Work’s Gabriel Haaland, who joined the protesters in the Castro.

At Netroots Nation, a progressive conference held in July, Pelosi wouldn’t say when a vote on ENDA would come, and told an audience that repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would have to come first.

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agnosis of gender identity disorder or “any other clinical diagnosis related to a recommended sexual reassignment” would still not be given authorization for any sexual reassignment therapy or surgery.

The memo lists a dozen specific procedures done to alter the genitalia of a transgender person as excluded services under Healthy San Francisco. The services include breast augmentation and construction; hysterectomy for removal of the uterus; mastectomy for breast removal; castration for penile removal; permanent hair removal; and vaginal closure.

The memo also specifies that the exclusions apply to both males seeking a female gender change and females seeking a male gender change.

It also states that sexual reassignment surgery “refers to any and all surgical and medical procedures taken to align intersex and transsexual individuals’ physical appearance and genital anatomy with their gender identity.”

Jackson Bowan, a transgender man who sits on the Health Council, a local group formed to advocate around transgender health care

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who voted against the proposal, said at Tuesday’s meeting that there are other ways to address “critical” services, but he added, “We have to come to grips with the skyrocketing expenses.”

Avalos said the fee was just one item related to looking at expenses, and he reminded the others about the e-mails they get from people urging them to make the city’s streets safer.

In an e-mail explaining why he voted against the fee Tuesday, Supervisor Bevan Dufty said, “I recognize the need for treatment, but I am concerned that in this economy this mitigation fee will lead to servers, bartenders, and other staff losing shifts or their jobs.”

He also said that the city’s spending $13.5 million a year on the top 225 chronic inebriates for police, paramedic, and emergency room services.

“I want to explore better use of our funds before imposing a new fee,” he said.

In a phone interview last week, Audrey Joseph, who sits on the city’s Entertainment Commission, said that costs of doing business and going out in San Francisco are already high.

With moves like the alcohol fee, she said, “All around it’s just the nanny syndrome.”

Alcoholic beverage wholesalers; people who sell alcohol to retailers for resale in the city; and alcoholic beverage manufacturers, such as brewpubs, would have to pay the fee, which would be effective January 1.

A second vote on the fee is likely to come next week. Besides Dufty and Elsbernd, Supervisor Carmen Chu also voted no Tuesday. Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier couldn’t vote on the item because she has a wholesaler license from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

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Pride’s Andre must step down my Andre, the executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, must resign. That’s the option that will best serve the Pride Committee and more importantly the LGBT community, both of which deserve a world-class Pride Parade and accurate information from its leaders on the state of the organization.

Sadly, Andre has made excuses or stonewalled for nearly a year in an effort to cover up, confuse, and flat-out mislead the public about the Pride Committee’s financial situation.

And the finances are not good. As we report this week, Andre has finally acknowledged the reality: Pride will have a budget deficit of $99,000.

We have been doggedly reporting on Pride for months, because at every turn we were met with either silence from Andre or deliberate misinformation. It is clear that she does not know how to conduct herself as an executive of a community organization that receives public funds.

And, we might add, we have always had open communication with Pride officials. We cannot recall a time in the last 14 years when the Pride Committee has been so out of touch with the gay media – the very media outlets it depends on to recruit volunteers, solicit partners for its beverage program, and build up excitement for the parade and festival.

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Stalling and stonewalling Up until last month, we had not spoken to Andre in person since she came to our office in February for an introductory meeting. At that first meeting, we realized there would be a learning curve because she could not provide even the most basic financial information about the organization.

In April, we started trying to contact her for information about Pride’s budget. We got nowhere. In May, we left nine messages for her to contact us. We received no reply. Earlier this summer, Andre was in the room when a reporter went to Pride’s offices to try to speak with her. The reporter was told by the former office manager that he could not set up a meeting until he talked to Andre. Andre was in the office at the time but refused to talk to the reporter, hence, a meeting could not be set up. This is how your SF Pride office operated this year.

Andre has instituted a policy that only she or board president Mikayla Connell can speak to the media. While we understand the need to have designated people in communications roles, Andre seems to be micromanaging all official communications. Other board members cannot talk to us, so when we had questions on the treasurer’s report, for example, treasurer Belinda Ryan did not respond to our requests for comment. Andre could not or would not answer the questions. When Pride hired a new sponsorship director last month, she would not allow him to talk to us. We wanted to ask him about his plans for increasing sponsorships and his experience in this area. We are still seeking answers to those questions.

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on the event, which included fees for the venue.

These are tough economic times for everyone. An executive director should be intimateFundraising ly familiar with the organization’s finances.

Andre has spoken about the Pride CommitThe director is charged with the day-to-day tee doing fundraising throughout the year. operation of the organization and knowledge Given Pride’s dismal experience with the May about its revenue and expenditures is key to party we don’t see this as a dependable strategy. that effort. For someone with a master’s degree Year-round fundraising puts Pride in direct in business administration from UC Berkeley’s competition with other community nonprofits Haas School of Business focusing on for ever scarcer dollars. nonprofit management, Andre has Pride brings in a lot of money in June. not demonstrated to us that she has It has the corporate sponsors, who prea competent understanding or abilsumably pay a substantial sum to have ity to manage a large organization their brands associated with one of San like Pride and its $1.5 million budFrancisco’s largest events. Pride collects get. donations at the festival gates, a portion In our article last week on Pride fiof which are returned to the communances, Andre said she was unfamiliar with nity through the above-mentioned board treasurer Ryan’s August ficommunity partners program. nance report that showed a net negative income figure. Granted, E DITORIAL Pride has run for many years without separate fundraising. It would Andre was not at that August 3 seem to us that Pride’s best oppormeeting, but at the very least she tunity to raise funds is at the event itself. could have reviewed that report some time beThese other nonprofits, which don’t have tween the meeting and when a reporter met the huge Pride weekend as a natural fundraiswith her on August 27. In any case she was not ing vehicle, are able to reap some of the windable to give an accurate assessment and in fact fall through their participation with Pride and claimed, “We’re on the right track.”

Pride’s plan for year-round fundraising likely In that same story, Andre said she thought will come at their expense. that the amount of money distributed to Yes, the economy is a factor but Pride’s own Pride’s community partners was the same this stumbles are also at fault. Connell recently acyear as in 2009. That claim is just not true. She knowledged to us that the gates were “looser” should have known that there was a shortfall this year, resulting in less money being collectbecause Pride held its check distribution cereed. There’s also a dispute with beverage partmony a week earlier. In fact, in the August 19 ners over what Andre claims is an “accounting issue of the Bay Area Reporter we had a photo error” that resulted in less money for those of the check distribution with a caption that groups. stated this year’s total, nearly $132,000 along with, “The funds represent a portion of beverImportance of Pride age and gate receipts. Last year Pride gave out We cannot overstate the importance of a $180,265.31 so this year’s payments represent successful Pride weekend for the LGBT coma decrease of about $48,000.” munity and the city of San Francisco. It is one Two days after that August 27 meeting, of the largest parades in the state, and brings in Andre acknowledged that this year’s grant total millions of dollars to the local economy. Hotels was less than last year. are busy, restaurants are hopping, and more But the capper, at least for the dozens of people are in the Castro. Bars and nightclubs nonprofits that participated in the communialso have one of their busiest weekends of the ty partner program, is that this year many of year. All of that adds up to big bucks both for them are not getting all of the money they business owners and the city’s hotel and sales were promised – at least not right away – betax revenue. It is critically important to keep cause of Pride’s mismanagement and its loomthe event running smoothly. And as we mening deficit. Pride seems to be following a trend tioned, a successful Pride has direct financial of delaying payments to its beneficiaries. That’s benefits to our nonprofits. unacceptable because it is a breach of underPride is promoted to a worldwide audience. standing that puts the financial burden on the And it’s the revenue these visitors generate that nonprofits. The nonprofits are so dependent contributes to the health of San Francisco’s on these revenue streams that many are hesitourism industry. tant to criticize the funding organizations.

Pride’s obligation in this regard grew out of Timing is key community demand that a portion of Pride’s Andre started her tenure as executive direcprofits go back into organizations that serve tor last October. If she steps aside now, the our community. board likely will be able to find a successor who A fundraising party Pride held in May was can start in a month or so, which is enough lead a total bust that ended up losing $6,000. Once time for next year’s event. Now is the time for again, Andre said she was unfamiliar with the the board to examine this situation and rectify figures relating to the party, information that it immediately. If Andre won’t resign, the board the board president, Connell, was familiar with should step in and replace her.M and shared with us. Pride spent $30,000 to put

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Prop L could provide respite

by Naphtali Offen he debate around Proposition L, the civil sidewalks ballot measure, gives us a chance to talk about what it means to be a progressive in San Francisco in 2010. Of course, the cause of most homelessness is social inequity and bad public policy that must be addressed with long-term solutions. In the short term, I grow weary of a lock-step response from those claiming to put forth the progressive position.

Why don’t they respect the experiences of neighborhood residents who are frustrated with bully behavior in the Haight and are trying to eliminate it?

The proponents of Prop L are part of a long tradition of grassroots organizing in San Francisco. It’s a cheap shot to call them antiG UEST homeless, when they’re fighting thugs – often homophobic, misogynistic, and violent, especially to the homeless. I never would have voted for giving the police more power in the old days, when they were beating us up and arresting us for being gay. But these are different times and the San Francisco police force is more inclusive of LGBTs, women, and minorities than ever before. Prop L merely

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gives the police the authority to tell sidewalk blockers to move along without a complaint from a citizen, which rarely happens for fear of reprisals. Even this is limited to the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., and first time offenders get a warning and not a citation.

It’s disrespectful to the homeless – and paradoxical – to give bad behavior a pass, under the guise of protecting the homeless. When residents of the Haight brought this problem to their supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi was like a deer in headlights, afraid to do anything that might be perceived to challenge his progressive cred. So Proposition M was born, mandating street patrols, but avoiding giving cops the authority to deal with sidewalk blockers. And thanks to “progressive” board President David Chiu, if Prop M gets more votes than O PINION Prop L, then Prop L doesn’t go into effect – even though one measure doesn’t conflict with the other.

The progressive label, which I proudly wear, should be a description of one’s values, not a doctrine to adhere to. I want to be free to weigh each issue for myself and not feel I have to tow a particular line. I’m offended when the opponents of Prop L say, “Harvey Milk was against sit/lie.”

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What crap. Aside from the fact that I don’t agree Harvey would have opposed Prop L, I recoil at the underlying message: “Do the progressive thing. Follow our hero and do as we say he would have done (and don’t think for yourself”).

I learned a lesson years ago about following the crowd. A splinter group of the wonderful Bay Area Gay Liberation called a quick demonstration against gay gentrification in the lower Haight to show our solidarity with African Americans who were being pushed out. When we showed up at the home of the gay guys, we were met by shocked anger from the neighbors, mostly African American grandmothers who were thrilled their new neighbors had displaced a drug house that was ruining the neighborhood.

Boy was I embarrassed. Therein lies the danger of mindlessly following the “approved” position and not thinking for oneself.

Prop L isn’t a panacea, but it could give the residents in the Haight, and elsewhere, respite from the bullies. The passage of Prop L, which now requires the defeat of Prop M, could also send a message to our supervisors to have the guts to think for themselves.M Naphtali Offen is a UCSF tobacco documents researcher and a longtime gay activist.

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Wiener stands with immigrants

And, when the Castro saw a series of rapes of gay men, Wiener stepped up and co-founded Castro Community on In last week’s Bay Area Reporter, Alan Collins accused Patrol.

District 8 Supervisor candidate Scott Wiener of being antiElections create great pressure to win at all costs and say immigrant and not supportive of immigration rights for things that have no basis. Past elections in District 8 have LGBT people [Mailstrom, September 9]. However, Scott shown this. I encourage all candidates and their supporters Wiener is very supportive of immigrants’ rights, and I know to avoid mean-spirited and baseless attacks. this from personal experience. I am the president of SEIU Local 87, which represents over 3,500 private-sector janitors Dean Goodwin in San Francisco. Our union is considered the Ellis Island of San Francisco the West Coast and overwhelmingly comprised of immigrants. Our members contend with xenophobia, raids by A broken record Immigration and Custom Enforcement, and I-9 audits that I’d like to commend Joey Cain for his highly informative cause them to live in fear and to potentially lose their jobs. and articulate column in last week’s edition regarding PropoScott Wiener has consistently supported Local 87’s memsition L [“Prop L will make sidewalks less civil,” Guest Opinbers. When we have rallied for immigrants’ rights and job ion, September 9]. Any assertion that we need to suddenly protections, Wiener has stood with us, and whenever we criminalize all forms of “sidewalk sitting” to effectively have called on him for assistance he has been enforce existing laws that address truly uncivil there for us. And, he has a long track record of sidewalk behavior is ludicrous. supporting immigrants. Specifically: Conversely, frequent letter writer Arthur – Wiener supports San Francisco’s status as Evans, in his most recent letter of August 19, a sanctuary city. He opposed recent proposed attempted to link community opposition to amendments to the sanctuary ordinance, based Prop L to an alleged crime spike in the Castro. on his good-faith belief that it would underHe provided no evidence to support his theomine public safety, but he has consistently ry. Such tactics were once employed by the late, supported the sanctuary ordinance itself and M AILSTROM but not great, Joe McCarthy. is on record against Secure Communities – the I enjoy reading letters and articles that profederal initiative to report undocumented imvide useful and accurate information, that are intellectually migrants to ICE for any arrest. He firmly supports the Local stimulating, and when appropriate, contain a degree of wit 87’s position on the five points of unity to obtain immigraand humor. tion reform for everyone.

Unfortunately, to me, Evans’s letters rarely meet any of – Wiener supports voting rights for non-citizen parents those criteria. Instead, they seem to me to be negative, diviof public school children, based on his belief that greater parsive, rife with hyperbole and half-truths, and frequently conent participation in the schools will improve education tain nothing more than thinly veiled fear and hate mongerin San Francisco. ing. I’ve now been reading his letters for 15 years, perhaps – As an attorney in private practice, Wiener volunteered longer. Almost all of them have touched upon the same topic hundreds of hours representing asylum seekers from Latin – essentially how dreadful he finds the homeless, especially American and China, even taking the asylum case of a gay those youths that he pejoratively labels “nomads.” If prizes man from Guatemala to the U.S. Supreme Court. were awarded for literary redundancy, Evans would surely – Wiener spent a decade on the national board of win first place. He seems to me to have an irrational, almost the Human Rights Campaign, including strong advocacy for pathological fear and loathing of these young “nomads.” immigration equality for LGBT people.

I would remind Evans that being nomadic isn’t a crime, For these reasons, as well as his long track record of leadnor is it synonymous with criminality. Over the last 30 years ership in the community, SEIU Local 87 has endorsed Scott I’ve invited a great many of these “nomads” over to my place Wiener’s candidacy for supervisor along with many other to sleep, shower, and eat – and with no sexual favors expectunions in San Francisco, which have many members who ed in return, I might add. With only a few notable excepare immigrants. tions, they were mainly good natured and respectful.

We firmly stand with Scott Wiener.

As a former high school teacher, I still have an affinity for young folks. Evans obviously doesn’t. I view each of these “noOlga Miranda, President mads” as individual humans with widely varying personaliSEIU Local 87 ty and behavioral traits. Evans seems unable or unwilling to Avoid the mean-spirited attacks do likewise, possibly because it might undermine his tireless (and tiresome) efforts to vilify and dehumanize all of them.

Alan Collins’s attack on Scott Wiener in last week’s B.A.R. When someone writes letters covering a span of 15 years, – accusing him of not being supportive enough of LGBT on the same topic, over time one develops impressions of people in binational relationships – should have been part of the personality of that writer. Thus, my personal impression a Saturday Night Live episode. Anyone who has followed of Mr. Evans is that, sadly, he seems to be rather mean-spirScott Wiener’s work in the community knows that the LGBT ited, somewhat anal-retentive, arrogant, and pious, and community has a tenacious advocate in Wiener, earning him whose letters rarely contain any hint of personal warmth, a broad range of endorsements, including state Senator wit or “joie de vivre,” but instead display the traits of a clasMark Leno, former Ambassador James Hormel, the Revsic control freak with authoritarian tendencies. erend Cecil Williams, former Supervisor Leslie Katz, and the Harvey Milk worked diligently to have the 1968 versions Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. of Prop L overturned. I deplore Arthur Evans’s efforts to resWiener has spent his adult life working tirelessly for the urrect it. In doing so, I believe that he is trashing and defilcivil rights of the LGBT community. He co-chaired the ing Harvey’s legacy and spirit.

LGBT Community Center and played a key role getting the center built. He co-chaired the Alice Club. He co-chaired Bay Michael Brogan Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. He served on the naSan Francisco tional board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign.

Fabled ASP retrospective opens at SF library compiled by Cynthia Laird or the past 40 years, Bay Area lesbians with disabilities have been at the forefront of political, artistic, and cultural change. Despite these significant accomplishments, most of this history has not been documented in an archive and is in danger of being lost.

Now, Fabled ASP, or Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A Storytelling Project, is putting on a retrospective with the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library to celebrate the contributions of disabled lesbians from the 1970s to the present.

The exhibition, “Celebrating Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A 40-Year Retrospective,” opens Saturday, September 18 and runs through November 23 in the Skylight Gallery on the sixth floor and the Hormel Center on the third floor of the library, located at 100 Larkin Street.

An opening gala featuring the Axis Dance Company and Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theater will be held Wednesday, September 22 at 6 p.m. in the Latino/Hispanic community

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people to traverse the parade without obstruction. These and other contributions were lauded by then-Mayor Frank Jordan for creating innovative access for large-scale events, according to a statement from organizers.

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Featured in the exhibition are photographs, a memorial quilt, and archival materials that demonstrate the innovative contributions by disabled lesbians in the areas of art, dance, politics, civil rights, and access.

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poll that combines questions about two hotel tax measures on San Francisco’s ballot with the District 8 supervisor race appears to favor the candidacy of Deputy City Attorney Scott Wiener over his three opponents.

After surveying voters’ intentions about the hotel taxes – one would raise the room occupancy tax to 16 percent, while the other closes a loophole that has allowed airline employees and online hotel booking sites to avoid paying the tax – the poll dives into the closely contested race to succeed Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is termed out of office and running to be mayor.

While the poll at first describes each of the four candidates in a positive light and then asks which would be a person’s first, second, and third choice under the city’s ranked choice

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I felt about gay marriage and in the Castro I can’t tell you how many gay men have asked me how I feel about gay rights,” said Prozan, whose wedding anniversary was Tuesday. “I am glad everyone can know I am different from my competition by the fact I am married. I wear it as a badge of honor that I was one of 18,000 couples fortunate enough to get married while it was legal.”

The poll also states that Prozan opposes the sit/lie law on the ballot, wants to ease restrictions on condo conversions, and voted 12 times to raise fees when she was a recreation and parks commissioner. It also District 8 candidate Scott Wiener claims she will hurt local businesses due to her support of the hotel tax, which would reduce tourism in the voting system, it then lists numerous city. arguments made by opponents of Prozan said she supported the both Assistant District Attorney Reproposal to have people on the condo becca Prozan and local attorney conversion wait list pay a fee to conRafael Mandelman followed by revert their units as a way to raise revasking participants to rank their top enues for the city. three choices.

At the same time she said, “I will In addition to listing arguments fight tooth and nail to make sure made against Wiener’s candidacy, the renters are protected according to the poll also lists points made in support law.” of his campaign. The poll mostly igOverall, she said the polling tells nores business executive Bill her she is considered a formidable Hemenger, the least well known of opponent in the race. the quartet.

“Someone has been doing a lot of When asked by the Bay Area Rehomework on me, which means we porter if they knew who was behind must be doing something right,” said the polling, none of the candidates Prozan, who defended her votes on said they did. Wiener said he had the parks commission and said most heard rumors about polling being people she has spoken to support the done on the race but was not paying hotel tax measures. for it himself and could not say what Hemenger said several people group or groups were. have told him about the poll, which “When independent groups do states that he is not a politician and these polls, it is independent of the focused on bringing jobs to the city. It campaign,” said Wiener. “Our camalso states that he lives with his partpaign has not done any polling. Bener in the Castro, although they actucause of the spending cap, it is too exally live in Diamond Heights. pensive.”

“I think that is great. I love that All four District 8 candidates description,” said Hemenger, adding have qualified for public fihe doesn’t feel slighted by the poll nancing of their camnot testing negative claims against paigns and thus are rehim. stricted to spending As for Wiener, the poll touts $143,000 on their race. his endorsements by House The polling does proSpeaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San vide an indication of what Francisco) and Mayor attacks independent groups Gavin Newsom. may use against It says supportthe various candiers of his argue P OLITICAL N OTEBOOK dates and what he will work for messages will resfamilies and onate with the district’s voters. make the city parks and streets safe It noted that Mandelman has been for children; made the city more inan advocate for affordable housing clusive by helping to open the LGBT and is endorsed by the tenants union, Community Center; and wants to Sierra Club, the nurses association, bring businesses to San Francisco and the local Democratic Party and state help them thrive.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (DAs for his opponent’s arguments San Francisco). against him, the poll lists complaints As for his negatives, the poll tells he will turn over illegal youths arrestparticipants that Mandelman voted ed for crimes to federal immigration against building a bigger public liauthorities; and evaded campaign fibrary in the Outer Sunset; opposes nance laws by raising money from his Muni reform; and that his largest donors in the supervisor race for his contributors are a Wall Street trader race in June to retain a seat on the and a real estate builder. It also claims local Democratic County Central he would hinder people’s ability to Committee. own a home in San Francisco by The poll also stated that in deusing taxpayer money to buy apartfending a police officer accused of ment buildings in order to maintain using excessive force in an incident the units as rental stock. where the suspect claimed the officer Mandelman said he wasn’t surused his baton to break his tooth, prised to hear about the poll, since he Wiener told reporters that the officer said, “there are a lot of groups out didn’t do anything wrong. there with a financial interest in the Wiener said he is on record suprace.” porting the city’s sanctuary ordinance As a member of the city’s Board of for illegal immigrants but did not Appeals, he said he voted to review back amending the policy so that the Ortega Library project because of only those convicted of crimes are concerns the building was a historic turned over to federal officials beresource. And he said a key concern cause it would “undermine public of his is protecting the city’s rent-consafety.” trolled units.

He said few of the people who “I don’t want to see the removal of have contributed to his supervisor additional rental units from this disrace gave money toward his DCCC trict. That doesn’t mean I want to campaign. As for the police officer prevent home-buying options for case, he said it is part of his job as a folks,” said Mandelman. deputy city attorney to defend police Prozan laughed when told that she officers in court. is identified in the poll as living with In this particular case, Wiener said her wife in the Castro. She said resithe officer as well as other officers dents she meets in the district often present denied the baton accusation. ask her about her stance toward mar“When I said the officer did not riage equality. do anything wrong, that was what I “One straight woman in Noe Valley Saturday morning asked me how page 16

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Witt’s affair subject of DADT trial

by Lisa Keen he story of Air Force Reserve Major Margaret Witt has some drama to it and that may be trotted out this week as a U.S. District Court judge hears the lawsuit challenging her discharge under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Judge Ronald Leighton, a George W. Bush appointee, has rejected a request by Witt’s attorneys to exclude from evidence any testimony or documents pertaining to the details of her early relationship with her partner of six years, Laurie McChesney.

They say it is irrelevant to the reason why she was discharged from the military – for being gay.

But attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice say the evidence regarding Witt’s “admitted commission of adulterous acts” is “the very conduct that triggered her discharge.”

What’s going on here? It is well known that Witt, 46, was discharged in 2006 for having acknowledged she had a relationship with a woman.

Her case has received widespread attention. There was considerable discussion of it on the Senate floor this year by Republicans angry that Solicitor General Elena Kagan – now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kagan – had not fought Witt’s lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court. What do “adulterous acts” have to do with it?

Hardball. Witt won the right to a trial on the merits of the military’s application of the DADT law against her. Now, she’s getting that trial, and the DOJ says there’s a price to pay.

“Having insisted at every turn that she is entitled to an as-applied analysis of the application of [DADT] to her specific circumstances,” said Assistant Attorney General Tony West in a brief opposing Witt’s attorneys’ request to exclude evidence regarding Witt’s early relationship with McChesney, “plaintiff cannot now plausibly argue that the court should ignore evidence of the very conduct that triggered her discharge. Evidence of plaintiff ’s conduct is directly relevant to what the [9th Circuit U.S.] Court of Appeals identified as the material questions at issue in this matter: ‘whether the application of [DADT] specifically to Major Witt significantly furthers the government’s interest and whether less intrusive means would achieve substantially the government’s interest.’”

In other words, if Witt has won – for herself and others in the 9th Circuit states – the right to a trial in federal court when the military seeks to discharge them for being gay, then gay service members need to be prepared for whatever the government can put forward to justify that discharge.

In Witt’s case, what the government put forward is that the military first became aware of Witt’s homosexuality when McChesney’s thenhusband e-mailed Witt’s superior officers and reported the affair. Prior to this revelation in court documents leading up to this week’s trial, most news reports had conveyed Witt’s story that she was discharged for having been in a long-term relationship with a civilian woman after that relationship had broken up.

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married at the time plaintiff began a relationship with her. The woman’s husband brought the relationship to the Air Force’s attention.”

According to West’s brief, Witt’s unit commander recommended Witt be separated from the service.

“Among the reasons for this recommendation: plaintiff engaged in homosexual acts with ... a married woman, on [diverse] occasions from on or about November 2003 to on or about January 2004. ...”

Because Leighton has rejected Witt’s attorneys’ request to exclude the information that Witt’s relationship with McChesney was, for a time, taking place while McChesney was still married to her husband, the DOJ will apparently attempt to justify Witt’s discharge based on other conduct, in addition to her being gay. “[A]n officer who engages in adultery risks compromising her stature as an officer,” wrote West in his August 23 brief. “The risks of such behavior were enunciated long ago by Congress in Articles 133 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which subjects officers regardless of sexual orientation to punishment for adultery in certain circumstances. By reducing those risks, plaintiff’s discharge furthers unit cohesion, morale, and good order and discipline.“ Witt’s supporters say the trial will be difficult.

“It will be tough on Major Witt because of the intrusive nature of the discussion,” said former Army Colonel Grethe Cammermeyer, who was in the U.S. District Court for Western Washington on Monday for the first day of the seven-day trial.

Cammermeyer, whose story was the subject of a movie starring Glenn Close, was discharged from her position as chief nurse of the Washington state National Guard in 1989, for simply stating, “I am a lesbian.”

Also, in the court, said Cammermeyer, was Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Victor Fehrenbach, a highly decorated combat pilot who had a DADT investigation initiated against him based on information provided to the military by a civilian. His lawsuit fighting discharge is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for Idaho.

The beginning of Witt’s trial follows by less than a week a decision from the U.S. District Court in Riverside, California, declaring DADT to be a violation of the First and Fifth Amendment rights of the federal constitution. The opinion in that case, Log Cabin Republicans v. U.S., will likely be appealed to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.M

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by Chuck Colbert t’s complicated. That’s one overarching take-away message from the results of a new national survey of cohabitating same-sex couples designed to understand if and how they

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“It’s really difficult for same-sex couples in the current legal climate to know how to fill out these forms,” said Gary J. Gates, Ph.D., a leading expert in demographic and economic characteristics of the lesbian and gay community. Based at UCLA’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Public Policy, Gates is the author of the survey report analyzing census 2010.

The patchy legal status of same-sex relationships – everything from legal marriage to civil unions to registered domestic partnerships – accounts in part for the complexity.

For example, “If you live in a state that recognizes either marriage or civil unions or domestic partnerships that are marriage-like, then you are more likely to use the terms ‘husband’ or ‘wife,’ regardless of the legal status,” Gates said, “than if you live in a state that does not recognize any thing.”

Apparently, use of the term increases with legal status.

“If you are married and live in a state that recognizes your marriage, nine out of 10 use ‘husband’ or ‘wife,’” Gates explained. “But if you live someplace that does not recognize your marriage, then only six out of 10 do.”

Nearly 99 percent of the 602 individuals surveyed by Harris Interactive for the Williams Institute said they had or planned to participate in the census. The more than 1-in-10 response rate is higher than the general population’s mail-back rate of seven in 10 households.

“Broadly speaking, it’s a pretty compliant group,” said Gates, referring to LGBT respondents. “But a lot of them struggled with what’s the best way to fill out the form.”

This year’s census is the first U.S. population count that allowed samesex couples to use the terms “husband” and “wife” to describe themselves. Previous counts provided only the category of “unmarried partner.”

Still, census 2010 has not accounted for all same-sex relationships.

“When [the LGBT community] hears X number of same-sex couples, keep in mind that one in seven [or 14.4 percent] are missing from the data,” Gates explained. “The real number is likely to be higher.”

Approximately 10 percent of samesex couples described their relationship as roommates or non-relatives rather than spouses or unmarried partners, according to the survey.

What accounts for the shortfall? Explanations for choosing those options included confidentiality concerns about disclosing the relationship, protests over the census not asking explicitly about “sexual orientation” or “gender identity,” and personal offense taken by the options presented.

About 3 percent of the Williams Institute respondents indicated they were transgender or had a transgender partner.

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He added that Horizons has been “incredibly supportive of our work in communities of color,” particularly concerning work with Asians and Pacific Islanders and social justice issues.

Doughty said the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies received a community issues grant of $5,000 this year, and has received Horizons funding in the past.

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status, just how people are related to each other. There is also no provision for use of the term “spouse.”

For some same-sex couples to be counted, it all depends on who is Person 1, the household individual filling out the form. For instance, if a gay individual lives with his parents and his mother completes the census, she designated him as her son. Accordingly, the census design may not fully account for some same-sex relationships because it measures “how the partner is related to Person 1, not to him,” Gates said.

This year’s census has another catch. “When we see the numbers of couples who use ‘husband’ and ‘wife,’ Gates explained, “we cannot assume those husbands and wives are legally married.”

Why? “Because only about 70 percent are legally married,” he said. “Another 15 percent are in domestic partnerships or civil unions,” he added. Yet another “15 percent are not in any formal legal relationship but just feel that the word ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ is the best way to describe themselves.”

Gates found another oddity in the survey.

“Ten percent of legally married same-sex couples did not use the term ‘husband’ or ‘wife,’” Gates said. “Some don’t like the term. Others are not sure if it’s proper to use ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ if they are not legally recognized where they live.”

Several years ago, the Williams Institute estimated there were nearly 770,000 same-sex couples living in the U.S. The 2005 data showed California leading with 92,138 same-sex couples, the most in the country.

“There’s huge power in visibility,” said Gates. Census 2010 is a step in the right direction, enabling researchers to get a better handle on “how many same-sex couples are really taking of legal relationships and what does having equal treatment mean,” he said.

Meanwhile, the “equality problem” remains. Gates said that same-sex and opposite-sex couples are “just not on the same playing field in filling out something as simple as a federal form.”M

Each year, Horizons, which gathers funds from various sources and funnels it primarily – but not exclusively – to LGBT organizations, also awards grants through its community issues grants program.

This year, Horizons is awarding $211,000 in grants to 30 organizations in the Bay Area, a 5 percent increase in funding from 2009.

Doughty said the people of color grant money came from an anonymous donor. Funding sources for the community issues grants include donations to Horizons and earnings on endowed funds.

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Gays to march in Serbia

by Rex Wockner ays will march in Belgrade, Serbia, on October 10 for the first time since 2001, when marchers in the first Pride Parade were beaten by nationalists, skinheads, and soccer fans. Dozens of marchers and police officers were injured.

A planned Pride march last year was canceled under pressure from police and the government, who said they couldn’t protect the marchers from thousands of anti-gays who planned to attack the event.

Opponents of last year’s aborted march had covered walls in the city center with graffiti that said, “We will get you,” “Death to faggots,” and “Blood will flow,” and had spoken openly to reporters about the planned assault.

Following the parade’s cancellation, the Swedish ambassador organized a “mini-Pride” at his suburban residence. It was attended by about 50 people.

ILGA-Europe, shown here participating in this year’s gay Pride Parade in Vilnius, Lithuania, wants the European Commission to require that European Union member nations “mutually recognize each other’s marriages and partnerships between the persons of the same sex.”

legalized adoption by married samesex couples. The court further ruled that Mexico’s 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages from Mexico City.

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medalist punished There have been 398 for ‘faggots’ tweet same-sex marriages in Mexico City since the Luxury car maker groundbreaking law leJaguar has dumped Ausgalizing gay nuptials W OCKNER’ S tralian Olympic swimtook effect March 11, mer Stephanie Rice after W ORLD city officials said Sepshe used the word “fagtember 6. gots” in a tweet. Rice won Fifty-three percent of the marthree gold medals at the 2008 Beijing riages have been between men, and Olympics and holds the world record 41 foreigners have married a Mexiin the 400-meter women’s individual can citizen of the same sex. medley.

The nation’s Supreme Court reThe car company ended its sponcently upheld Mexico City’s samesorship deal with Rice, 22, after she sex marriage law and, in a second tweeted “Suck on that faggots” in reruling, also upheld the part of it that sponse to Australia’s defeating South

Africa in a September 4 rugby match. Rice later deleted the tweet and apologized for causing “offense.”

The company also reportedly took away the car it was letting Rice drive, which was valued at over $100,000.

Openly gay Australian rugby icon Ian Roberts reportedly called Rice an “idiot” and a “fool” for transmitting the tweet.

Openly gay Australian Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham, also a gold medalist, said he is friends with Rice and that she is “not homophobic” but did use “an extremely poor choice of words.”

Mitcham, 22, also said that gays of his generation “don’t find that term very offensive.”

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Splash for cash

by Roger Brigham or years it seems that when the queer community has sought equality we have been told to go jump into the ocean. Later this month, 50 or so swimmers in southern California will do just that at Swim for Equality, a new fundraising event for Equality California.

Splashing among them will be one all-time Olympic great better known for his spins in the air than his strokes through the water.

“There was a kick-off event for the Swim for Equality and I was just supposed to be an honorary host along with [fellow Olympic gold medalists] Lenny Krayzelburg and Gary Hall Jr.,” Greg Louganis told the Bay Area Reporter. “Some of the guests were asking for donations and someone offered to sponsor five swimmers at $2,000 apiece. I just threw my hand in the air.”

What Louganis, 50, who made Olympic diving history with gold medals in both the springboard and platform in 1984 and 1988 after a silver in the springboard in 1976, said he did not realize when he volunteered to take the plunge was the distance of the swim: 1.7 miles along the coast of Malibu.

“I’m a diver, not a swimmer!” Louganis said.

To prepare for the event, Louganis began to build up his swimming endurance.

“I’ve been more or less kind of going by my J OCK time in the water,” he said. “When I first started out, I did a 10- or 15minute swim, then built up to a 45minute swim. I’ve been going more on time than on distance. A couple of weeks ago, I did an ocean swim where the swim is going to be held.

Did it in a wet suit. You kind of float in the water. I thought, ‘This is different.’ We swam a large portion of it and it felt good. Then the lifeguards called us in. It was a crowded beach and they couldn’t keep an eye on everyone.”

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mers have signed up (registration closes Friday, September 17) and each is asked to raise at least $2,000, with a total fundraising goal of $100,000. The swim will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, September 25, at Point Dume Beach and finish at Zuma Beach. Afterwards, swimmers, sponsors, and volunteers will celebrate with a barbecue in Topanga at the home of True Blood composer Nathan Barr.

Since coming out with a video message at the opening ceremonies of Gay Games IV in New York City in 1994 and publishing his autobiogBreaking the SurTALK raphy face in 1996, Louganis, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 before his final Olympic event, has been an active spokesman for HIV awareness and LGBT rights.

“The work EQCA is doing is very important,” Louganis said. “It really affects our lives, whether it’s shooting down Prop 8 or rescinding ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”

Louganis and I spent a few minutes on the phone, sharing memories of the 1980s when he was a dominant but closeted athlete and I was a quietly out member of the journalistic mob documenting his excellence. At the time I had noticed the effort it was taking him to con-

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EU-wide recognition of same-sex partnerships urged Members of the European Parliament, including the four presidents of the Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights, told the European Union’s commissioner for justice, fundamental rights, and citizenship on September 7 that much more must be done to uphold same-sex couples’ rights as they move around the EU. “Currently, same-sex couples in a marriage or civil partnership often lose custody, fiscal, and consular rights when moving from one EU member state to another – despite EU law guaranteeing freedom of movement,” the Intergroup said.

A 2004 EU directive supports freedom of movement for citizens in same-sex unions, but it has seen “patchy application,” the MEPs said.

They urged Commissioner Vivian Reding, who is also vice president of the European Commission, to rectify the problems promptly.

In response to the MEPs’ actions, the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association said that while the directive “encourages” equal treatment for same-sex partners, it does not obligate EU member states to recognize the civil status of same-sex partners from other EU nations.

As a result, “many same-sex couples effectively have their marriages and registered partnerships de facto voided when they exercise their rights to freedom of movement to countries that do not have an equivalent institution to their civil status,” ILGA-Europe said.

That leads to problems with social security, survivor pensions, medical decision-making, parental ties, and other matters, the group said.

In responding to the MEPs’ complaints, however, Reding claimed that current EU law does mandate EU-wide recognition of other nation’s official gay partnerships.

“If you live in a legally recognized same-sex partnership or marriage in country A, you have the right – and that is a fundamental right – to take this status, and the one of your partner, to country B. If not, it is a violation of EU law,” she said.

“When is this going to happen?

Now!” Reding added. “Not in five or 10 years. ... If there is no understanding [from national governments], then more harsh measures have to be applied.”

She said she is working on the issues through bilateral meetings.

ILGA-Europe, however, disputed Reding’s interpretation of the law, saying: “The response of the commission was that the legislation is already ... providing for just recognition, and that matters of legislation around the recognition of same-sex partners is a domestic issue for the

trol his entries on his platform dives in the months and weeks leading up to the dramatic final in South Korea – he trailed the entire event until the very last dive, when he pulled out the dive of a lifetime to win it all – and the uncharacteristically emotional breakdown he had immediately afterward, crying in the arms of his coach, Ron O’Brien as the scores went up. It was only years later that I, like most of the public, learned of the dark issues with which he was dealing, from an abusive relationship to fears for his health.

Brighter times now. He and his partner Daniel McSwiney met online three years ago and are living happily in Malibu with their show dogs. My significant other and I met 19 years ago in a bar and are living in Oakland with our show dogs.

There were detours getting to where we wanted to be, but if you get lucky, you find a way.

Louganis and I talked a moment or two about how our lives might have been different had we grown up in a world in which we knew a happy marriage was a possibility for us.

“I would probably be a lot poorer now because I wasn’t a very good judge of character,” Louganis said with a laugh. “But certainly my selfimage could have been better. There were those images we had of people growing up that we were taught, of people being predatory.”

Which, of course, is what marriage equality is all about: no guarantee of happiness, but more open and informed access to the possibility of it.

For more information on the Swim for Equality or how to donate, visit www.eqca.org/swim.

Little Black Dress Run San Francisco FrontRunners will hold its 10th annual Little Black Dress Run Saturday, October 2, at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park.

The run, approximately 5-kilometers, will start at 9 a.m. There is no entry fee. Breakfast refreshments will be provided after the run. Awards will be made in numerous categories, including best female little black dress and best male little black dress.

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member states to resolve. [W]e cannot agree with the Commission that the Freedom of Movement Directive is already tackling the gaps that the MEPs highlighted. Many same-sex partners are in fact opting not to travel and reside in a number of EU countries due to the implications that non-recognition of their marriages/registered partnerships has on their lives.”

Reding herself must “take political leadership on this issue,” ILGA said, and “initiate actions requiring EU member states to mutually recognize each other’s marriages and partnerships between the persons of the same sex.”

“Only legally binding mutual recognition of such marriages and partnerships will ensure that the fundamental EU principle of freedom of movement will be fully applied to married or in-civil-partnership same-sex couples,” the group said.

Five of the EU’s 27 nations let same-sex couples marry and 14 offer them civil partnerships.

Anti-gays march in Budapest Budapest saw a “heterosexual pride” parade September 4. About 100 people marched the same route as this year’s gay Pride parade. The anti-gay marchers said they want the city to ban gay Pride parades.M Bill Kelley contributed to this report.

M Stephen Lee Eschenbach On August 16, 2010 Stephen Lee Eschenbach, a longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, peacefully completed this journey and began a new venture.

Stephen is survived by his father, Albert Eschenbach and step-mother of Milton, Pennsylvania, as well as his sister Cathy Davis of Evergreen, Colorado. Stephen is also survived by his caregiver Amy Tavio, as well as a host of friends all around the world.

Stephen enjoyed singing, even teaching his bird to sing “I Left my Heart in San Francisco” among other tunes. Stephen was an alumnus of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus where he sang as a member of the Second Tenor section of SFGMC from 1996 until 2002.

Steve’s spiritual quest took him to Glide United Methodist Church which he attended while living in the Bay Area. Stephen loved to travel, enjoyed the finest foods, and loved his

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three disabled lesbians: Laura Rifkin, also one of the original founders of Fabled ASP; Judith Smith, who went on to be the artistic director of Axis Dance Company; and Patty Overland.

Meeting on safe spaces for African American LGBTs A meeting will be held at noon today (Thursday, September 16) to discuss creating safe spaces for LGBT African Americans. The meeting takes place at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco.

According to organizers, African Americans in the LGBT community have few places where it feels safe to be welcomed, accepted, or appreciated.

The meeting was conceived to bring together interested parties to figure out what “safe space” looks like, how it can be created, and how it can be sustained.

Interim ministers for MCC-SF announced The board of directors of the Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco has announced that an interim team of ministers will fill the void created by the resignation of the Reverend Dr. Lea Brown, whose last service as senior pastor will be Sunday, September 19.

The interim team will be made up of three ministers, including the Reverend Dr. Penny Nixon and the Reverend Jim Mitulski, both of whom had separate tenures as senior pastor at the church. Nixon and Mitulski have agreed to preach at one 11 a.m. service immediately following Brown’s departure; Nixon will preach September 26 and Mitulski will preach October 3.

Both will lead the 7 p.m. services on those dates.

Following that, Nixon and Mitulski will share leading worship and serving as guest preachers on alternating Sundays for MCC-SF’s 7 p.m. service through the end of the year.

The interim minister for the 11 a.m. service, beginning October 10, will be the Reverend Dr. Jay Johnson, an Episcopal priest and queer theolo-

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Stephen’s pool parties are legendary among his friends. Stephen provided emotional support to those around him dealing with life threatening illnesses. He helped to teach his friends to accept who they are and enjoy each day of life.

A celebration of Stephen’s life will be held on Saturday, October 16, 10 a.m. at the open outdoor amphitheater at Crissy Field.

Should you desire to make memorial contributions, please send to Glide Church-Ray of Hope Team, 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Keith Gregory Miller 1949 – 2010

Keith (Kitty) Miller, 61, a longtime Castro resident, passed away August 29, 2010 surrounded by friends.

Kitty will long be remembered for the incredible talent of taking ordinary household items and transform-

ing them into fabulous outfits to the delight of all.

The many friends left behind will miss his sharp wit, generosity with baked goods, and love of a life well lived. His strength and determination are inspirational.

Keith grew up in a small rural community in New South Wales, Australia, where he was teased as a boy for his theatrical antics and love of dance. After escaping to Sydney for a few years, he moved to New York in the early 1970s, where he worked for the Australian consulate and enjoyed the Big Apple’s theatre life. He moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s and made the Castro neighborhood his home.

Keith worked at many of San Francisco’s gay establishments, including Sutter’s Mill, Lupann’s, Ginger’s Trois, and Truck. He treasured his appearance onstage with compatriot Dame Edna in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in 2007.

He is survived by sister Jill, and cousin Carol, both living in Australia.

A celebration of Keith’s life will be held in San Francisco on September 25.

gian. Johnson is the senior director for academic research and resources for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and the Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.

In a letter to the board, Nixon and Mitulski both offered to help.

“We want to offer our support and help. ... Between the two of us we have served MCC-SF for two decades and while we have no desire to ‘return’ or to ‘go back’ or to relive the past, we do have a deep desire to see that MCC-SF has a bright future,” they wrote.

Nixon is currently the senior minister of Community Congregational Church of San Mateo; Mitulski is senior pastor at New Spirit CommuniN EWS ty Church in Berkeley.

For more information about the church, visit www.mccsf.org.

love and support their LGBT family members despite sometimes strong social criticism and disapproval.

The event comes shortly after Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision declaring California’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.

This year’s honorees include the Esmaeili Family, honored by Pardis Esmaeili, API Family Pride’s volunteer coordinator and first-ever employee; the Reverend Deborah Lee, honored by the Network on Religion and Justice for APILGBT; Nathaniel and Emi Sakamoto Chung, honored by aunts Meibeck and Maya Scott-Chung, and cousin Luna; and the Magallanes Family, B RIEFS honored by son and brother Jarron Magallanes.

Tickets for the event are $40 for adults and $20 for children ages 5-10.

Free workshop on taxes Children under 5 are free. For more information or to purchase tickets, Stonefield Josephson Inc. and the visit www.apifamilypride.org.

Smart Women Business Network will hold a free workshop about the recent Castro fair dedicated IRS private ruling letter affecting how to Jane Warner domestic partner community property is reported. The seminar takes place Somewhere, Officer Jane Warner is Wednesday, September 22 from 5:30 smiling. The 37th annual Castro Street to 7 p.m. at the offices of Stonefield Fair, coming up on October 3, will be Josephson, 101 Montgomery Street, dedicated to the late Patrol Special PoSuite 1900 in San Francisco. lice officer, who died in May after a At the workshop, attendees will battle with cancer. For years Warner learn about the future federal reporting patrolled the Castro District and also requirements under the new tax law served on the fair’s board. The fair was and find out how the new law could founded in 1974 by the late Harvey potentially save federal tax dollars.

Milk, who went on to become San There will be complimentary hors Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor d’oeuvres, cocktails, and beverages. To before he was murdered in 1978.

RSVP, e-mail smartwomenThis year’s street fair, with the events@aol.com or nmiller @sjactheme “Get Your Freak On,” is being counting.com or call (415) 503-1375 billed as the biggest daytime costume or (415) 981-9400. party ever, will be filled with entertainment, art, food, and, of course, API families honored costumes. Headliners include Pepperspray, The Last Ambassadors, SmashAsian and Pacific Islander Family Up Derby, and Pop Rocks.

Pride will hold its seventh annual Returning for the third year will be Family Presentation Banquet on SatBarnaby’s World of Wonderment with urday, September 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 contortionists, sword swallowers, and p.m. at the Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 burlesque dancers.

Market Street (at 8th) in San FrancisThe suggested gate donation is $5. co. Themed “Public Recognition of For more information, visit www. casPrivate Courage,” the event honors trostreetfair.org.M API families and organizations who

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Memorial for ‘Sweet Lips’ mpress I Jose, the Widow Norton, right, remembers Richard Walters, a.k.a. Sweet Lips, the longtime columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, during a memorial for him Sunday, September 12. Mr. Walters died August 28 at the age of 87. Hosted by Marlena, left, in her eponymous bar, the event included comments by Mr. Walters’s longtime aide Coy Ellison, a wall of Sweet Lips’ commendations and remembrances, and a certificate of honor from the California state Senate presented by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).

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Politics was referring to. That was a distortion,” said Wiener.

A poll on the District 8 race reportedly was conducted back in June, and Wiener said he had been told it showed him in first place, but he never was able to track down who paid for the poll or see the actual results.

“I heard a rumor but it was not reliable info or direct from the poll but what I heard is I was in first place. But that is the extent of it,” said Wiener.

Prozan said she wouldn’t place much trust in the polling results, if they are released. She said the best way to gauge the race is by talking to voters.

“The best poll someone can do is go precinct walk for a few hours. You are going to find a ton of people who are undecided,” said Prozan.

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needs, said it is important for the city to remedy the situation since many transgender people have difficulty finding not only employment but access to health care.

“To deny services to a group of people, I think, is an injustice,” said Bowan, a health researcher at the UCSF Department of Pediatrics. “I would like to see the vehicle be Healthy San Francisco, but ultimately, the goal is for people to get the care they need that is accessible, affordable and uncomplicated.”

It is unclear how many people who are signed up for Healthy San Francisco are transgender because the city does not collect that data.

Katz sees patients at San Francisco General Hospital and said several are enrolled in the program.

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the expenses mistakenly left out of the calculations,” wrote Andre. “We have now corrected our practices for 2010, and the amounts paid to our beverage partners reflect this.”

While speaking to the B.A.R. at the meeting Sunday, Connell attributed the accounting error to Brendan Behan, the Pride Committee’s former deputy executive director.

She said the error came to light after some beverage partners wondered why their payments were less this year, and the Pride Committee’s bookkeeper reviewed records.

In a phone interview Tuesday, September 14, Behan, who left Pride earlier this year, said he was “kind of surprised” about Connell pointing to him.

He said that the last time he was involved with the process, based on data he had received from the beverages and donations managers and contracts with partners, he had proposed breakouts for grants.

The board and the executive director reviewed the numbers and decided what the grants would be, said Behan.

“It was actually always fully within the board’s purview to look at and approve the numbers, and they did that each year I was there,” said Behan. “I couldn’t proceed with having the checks requested or cut with-

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and everybody else feels,” said Steve Adams, president of the Castro’s merchant group. “Last year was pretty tame and it was on a Saturday night.

A lot of people were out but it wasn’t wild and crazy.”

This week the independent television station KRON 4 taped several public service announcements hammering home the message there is no Castro Halloween party. One features the city’s police chief, George Gascón, while another stars a resident of both the Castro and South of Market neighborhoods. They will begin airing Bay Area-wide next week.

The campaign website, www. homeforhalloween.com, will once again feature listings for Halloween events throughout San Francisco and

in other cities. It should be updated over the next two weeks.

“I said all along this should be at least a five-year-long campaign until we change people’s ideas about what the new normal is. I do think people get the message there is no planned street party in the Castro,” said Perry.

“If you are going to come to the Castro and treat the LGBT neighborhood as a shooting gallery, we want you to stay home for Halloween.”

Perry was alluding to the shootings that marred the 2006 Halloween event that ultimately led city officials to shut down the annual party. While no one died that year, a similar incident that occurred during this year’s Pink Saturday party in the Castro in late June led to the death of 19-yearold Stephen Powell.

Limbert said the police have no reason to believe that Halloween in the Castro will return to its more

dangerous permutation, despite what occurred during Pride weekend. Similar to last year the streets will again be open to traffic and the police will have a larger presence in the neighborhood throughout the weekend.

“There are going to be no street closures. We will have a police presence there to facilitate traffic and help people going to the bars,” said Limbert, adding that there is no plan as of now to have portable toilets set up in the area. “We are not even towing cars this year. We are not putting anything up that would slightly state we are going to have some venue there.”

Compared to years past, Limbert said the neighborhood’s concerns around Halloween have significantly diminished.

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mal, said Katz and transgender leaders. They pointed to the fact that few city employees have undergone sexual reassignment surgeries or treatments since such services were offered.

Katz said he would expect a similar outcome should Healthy San Francisco cover the procedures.

“It is the minority of people who are of transgender status who wish to have surgery. The many larger number of people who are transgender take hormone therapy,” he said.

“We are talking here only about surgery. Someone who may be transgender may well have good reason to be in Healthy San Francisco for whom this is a non-issue because they don’t intend to have sexual reassignment surgery.”

The Transgender Law Center and Lyon-Martin Health Services, which both provide support to the Health Council, have also been involved in the discussions about changing Healthy San Francisco’s exclusionary policy toward its transgender partic-

ipants. Kristina M. Wertz, the law center’s legal director, said the agencies were unaware of the policy until April when they received Brigham’s memo.

“We were surprised because we’ve always worked closely with the city to educate them about the medically necessary nature of transition related care. In fact, the city’s own nondiscrimination codes were meant to protect transgender people from discrimination in, among other things, the provision of city services,” Wertz told the B.A.R. in an e-mailed response. “While exclusions for transition related care are commonplace in private plans, the medical community has already created consensus that transition related care is medically necessary as part of an individualized treatment plan developed between a patient and their physician.”

Wertz described the policy denying sexual reassignment surgery as “a very serious oversight” and expressed optimism that it would be rectified.

“Nobody should have to live in

fear that they’ll walk into their doctor’s office and be denied treatment simply for who they are. The current exclusion denies transgender San Franciscans the same services that are available to everyone else – simply because of who they are. That’s counter to our values,” wrote Wertz.

Katz said that when the city established the Healthy San Francisco program it was meant to provide residents without health insurance access to existing medical services. It was not designed to offer additional services that were not already available through the health department and its nonprofit partners, he said.

“Reassignment surgery has never been part of the safety net services in San Francisco. We have never done surgery as a safety net service,” said Katz. “So when Healthy San Francisco reorganized access for people to receive the services we were providing, we didn’t add new services.”

The program excludes a number of “critical services,” noted Katz, from organ transplants and long-

term care to dental and eye care services.

“It was never created as full insurance like people might get from a commercial provider. It was all designed to improve access and it has done that,” said Katz. “Separately, it is entirely appropriate for San Francisco to look and see if there are other ways for enabling transgender individuals to have surgery. Right now all options are open.”

Katz said he is working with Brigham and other health department officials to come up with a solution, which he hopes to present to the transgender advocates and the Human Rights Commission within months.

“What I have heard clearly is that the advocates are concerned about having access to sexual reassignment surgery not specifically if that access is provided from Healthy San Francisco or some other way,” said Katz.

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out the board’s approval.”

Andy Copper, who at least until recently has been Pride’s beverage manager, did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Brian Probst, Pride’s donations manager, declined to answer questions from the B.A.R. on Sunday.

Teddy Witherington, who left as Pride’s executive director in 2005, said that while he was with Pride, “We had a formula. ... I’m sure that Lindsey [Jones] had a formula and Amy had a formula.”

Jones left her post after the 2009 Pride celebration and became Pride’s director of sponsorship for 2010. She recently left that job.

In an e-mail, Jones wrote that during her years running Pride, “My staff, contractors and volunteers worked valiantly, smartly and with great heart and commitment over those years and I stand by everything we did. ...”

HIV/AIDS, other disabling illnesses, and seniors, and to ensure that people most in need are able to keep the love and companionship of their companion animals,” Lipp wrote.

In another e-mail, he added that Pride hasn’t provided any details explaining what’s included in this year’s charges, or what should have been included in previous years.

“The backups provided in the past were extremely detailed and were signed off by both the Pride treasurer and the beverage booth manager; making the assertion that mistakes were made in those years highly unlikely,” he wrote.

He also said that as of Tuesday, Pride had paid his agency the entire $4,043.20 Pride claims to owe based on the new calculation. That’s down from almost $8,000 last year.

Lipp stopped short of saying either Andre or Connell should quit, but wrote, “Rather than resign, I would hope they would admit that mistakes were made this year, do the right thing to correct those mistakes, then reach out to the community to address future challenges and identify new opportunities for SF Pride.”

Some other community partners only received partial payments at Pride’s check distribution in August.

“We didn’t have enough cash flow to pay everyone all at once,” said Connell.

pected to receive just over $2,000, but they only got $1,200 at the August distribution.

“I think we’re all well aware of what’s going on with the economy, and on behalf of the agency, I was very understanding” that adjustments to the payment schedule were needed, said Scherer. He also said Andre’s call “was a really great thing to do.”

Scherer told Andre he’d be comfortable receiving the rest of the money by December 31. Project Open Hand got just over $4,500 last year, he said.

Andre did not provide data on how many groups haven’t yet received their full payments.

Connell said that this was the first time in the four years that she’s been involved that partners haven’t received their complete payments at once.

year’s celebration and cutting the director of external relations position.

That job had been at least partially vacant for several months. Andre’s annual salary is $105,000.

Connell also said $65,000 was being set aside for police and traffic costs, which she said should be twice as much as needed. The extra cushion would hopefully help bring a surplus next year, she said.

However, the Pride Committee appears to have been overly optimistic in at least one recent projection. In data it submitted with its application to the city’s Grants for the Arts office in February, officials projected that fundraising from special events this year would amount to $358,000, up from just $2,405 last year. (The B.A.R. obtained a copy of the application through a public records request.)

Pride’s “Forty and Fabulous” benefit party in May actually lost money, as Connell has acknowledged. Andre didn’t respond to an emailed question this week about the fundraising projection.

Most of Pride’s own members didn’t seem too interested in the budget problems at the annual meeting. Connell said the membership stands at about 790. About 50 people showed up Sunday.

There were some questions at the meeting about finances, but the mood among members generally seemed supportive.

Asked what she thought of Pride’s current financial state, and how it’s being run, Marion Abdullah, a longtime voting member, said, “I think it’s indicative of our economy. We’re all hurting.” She said she’s satisfied with the leadership, although she would like to see more diversity on the board.

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Voters have several chances to hear from the D8 candidates at forums being held by various groups.

Tonight (Thursday, September 16) the Upper Noe Neighbors is hosting a forum at 7:30 p.m. at the Upper Noe Recreation Center, located at 295 Day Street at Sanchez.

Next Wednesday, September 22 the San Francisco Young Democrats will co-host a debate with the candidates in conjunction with the Alice B. Toklas and Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic clubs and the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association.

The debate will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center at 1800 Market Street at Octavia. It will also be broadcast live online by VidSF.M

Disappointment One person upset with the change is John Lipp, president and CEO of Pets Are Wonderful Support, a Pride beverage partner.

In an e-mail, Lipp wrote that his agency “has had a long and mutually beneficial relationship” with Pride, and he had expected their fundraising would remain consistent this year.

He said they were “shocked” to find that the fixed expense charged to PAWS went from $893.14 in 2009 to $11,642.50 this year – an increase of 1,204 percent. He also criticized Pride officials for apparently now calculating fixed expenses to include general event administration costs, and making the change “with no advance notice.” Lipp also blasted Pride for effectively blaming previous management for the situation.

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Support One person whose organization didn’t receive full payment expressed support for Pride officials.

Jared Scherer, associate director of development for beverage partner Project Open Hand, also received the letter from Andre about the accounting error. In addition, Andre called him a few days before the August check distribution to say Project Open Hand wouldn’t immediately be receiving full payment.

Scherer said his group had ex-

Deficit As of August 31, the Pride Committee had an approximate net income of negative $172,000. Connell explained the deficit would come down to about $99,000 by saying that more revenue is expected, including money from sponsors who are behind on their payments. One of those sponsors is Kaiser Permanente.

Marc Brown, a Kaiser media relations manager, said the company’s total commitment this year is $25,000.

“We’re committed to fully satisfying that obligation this year,” said Brown. He said some of the amount has been paid, but he didn’t know how much. He also said Kaiser’s looking forward to supporting Pride financially and with volunteers “for years to come,” as it has in the past.

Connell said as a result of the $99,000 deficit Pride has had to make “painful” cuts. Those include not having a Jumbotron at next

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To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ROSE MUI KWAI CHEUNG. 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:1345 Noriega Street,San Francisco, CA 94122. Type of license applied for:

41-ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE SEPT. 16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032978700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Chrystee’s Janitorial Service, 471 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Christie Mohamed. 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 08/19/10.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032981100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Barnyard Butcher, 866 Jamestown Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed James Barnes. 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.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-032984500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as My ERPA, 2236 Cayuga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Karl E. Breice. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/23/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/23/10.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032986800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Grand Finishes, 336 Claremont Blvd. #5, San Francisco, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Matthew Nikitas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/92.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/24/10.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032959200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Downtown Parking, 1125 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Victor Van Tien. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/10/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/10/10.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032977600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Bay Equity Assets Management, 229 N. Lake Merced Hill, San Francisco, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Sam Raiter. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/18/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/18/10.

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San Francisco Department of Emergency Management September is National Preparedness Month and the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management encourages you to take this month to do what you can to be better prepared in the event of an emergency or disaster. The good news is you may be more prepared than you think. Visit www.72.hours.org to learn about simple steps that can help you be even more prepared (and knowing what to do before an emergency is a good feeling!).

We also hope you will join us on September 19th at the Western Addition Sunday Streets where you are welcome ask us your preparedness questions, share some of your own preparedness tips and simply have a fun!

Join the conversation with us! Facebook: www.facebook.com/sfdem And Twitter: www.twitter.com/sf_emergency Stop Child Trafficking Now Golden Gate Bridge Walk Saturday. Oct. 2nd 10 a.m.

Join this SFPD - sponsored event and Senator Leland Yee in an effort to end the problem of children being trafficked into the sex trade. This unique organization of covert investigators seeks to increase prosecution and penalties against predators. Sex trafficking endangers 200,000 American victims each year and is the 3rd biggest income source in the U.S. It affects YOUR neighborhood! Walk, volunteer or donate and be part of the solution with your SOLE! Sign up at SCTNOW.org or call 212-333-SCTN. Walk as much or as little of the 5 miles as you wish, and join us afterward for a (low cost) lunch at the beach with a DJ spinning tunes. Strollers and dogs welcome.

2010 Commission on the Environment Meeting Schedule All Meetings are Open to the Public The Commission on the Environment meets on the 4th Tuesday in odd numbered months at City Hall, #1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 416 at 5:00 P.M. The next two scheduled meetings in 2010 are on September 28 and November 23.

The Commission on the Environment Policy Committee meets on the 2nd Monday January-September and November-December, and on the 4th Monday in October at City Hall, Room 421 at 5:00 P.M. The remaining scheduled meetings in 2010 are October 25, November 8, and December 13.

The Commission on the Environment Operations Committee meets on the 3rd Wednesday quarterly at the Department of Environment Eco Center located at 11 Grove Street, San Francisco, 94102 at 5:00 P.M. The final scheduled meeting for 2010 is October 20.

2010 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS REGULARLY SCHEDULED BOARD MEETINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Come see your San Francisco government in action.

Tuesdays, 2:00pm, City Hall Chamber, Room 250 September 14, 21, 28 October 5, 19, 26 November 2, 9, 16, 23 December 7, 14 The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated into several languages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort to translate the articles of general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and County of San Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions.

STATEMENT FILE A-032985400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Saidyan Martial Arts System, 150 Greenwich Street, San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sydney Saidyan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/23/10.

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE # CNC - 10 - 547103 In the matter of the application of Sarah Elizabeth Berrin for change of name and gender. The application of Sarah Elizabeth Berrin for change of name and gender having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that Sarah Elizabeth Berrin filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to Sebastian Everett Berrin and his/her gender be changed from female to male. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 28th day of October, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name and gender should not be granted

AUG. 26,SEPT. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032993400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Architecture & Light, 60 Brady Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Darrell Hawthorne. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/96.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/26/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032999200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as The Blue Chair Studio, 215 Noe Street,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jesus Marez. 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 08/30/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032999400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Noble Management, 600 Polk Street,San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Derek Bonner. 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 08/30/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-032997800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Tataki South, 1740 Church Street,San Francisco, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Kenneth Zhu. 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 08/30/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010

LEGAL NOTICES STATEMENT FILE A-032989900

STATEMENT FILE A-033005000

STATEMENT FILE A-032980600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Elsewhere Fibers, 1159 Fell Street,San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Teresa A. McFarland. 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 08/25/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LA LENGUA, 2700 Sutter Street,San Francisco,CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sarah Alexander. 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 09/01/10.

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-032986200

STATEMENT FILE A-032982300

STATEMENT FILE A-033012000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Adrian Bonilla Hair Design, 300 Divisadero Street,San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Adrian Bonilla. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/23/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/23/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FUNKTECH TRUST CORPORATION, 816 B. Shotwell Street,San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Matthew Horrigan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/20/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/20/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032958600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Pack Works, 948 Folsom Street,San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Noah Goy. 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 08/10/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032989500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Poquito, 2368 Third Street,San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Richard Vila. 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 08/24/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032996600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Snicklefritz, 716 Hampshire Street,San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kristie Koehler. 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 08/30/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-032998500

STATEMENT FILE A-032999500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Supportive Spaces, 80 Austin Street,San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Patricia O’Neil. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/30/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Sweet Lime Restaurant, 2100 Sutter Street,San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Thasanee Ruthaiwat. 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 08/30/10.

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SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-032978400

STATEMENT FILE A-032989100

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-032998200

STATEMENT FILE A-033006600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ESCAPE TOURS TRAVEL,3071 Wrangler Road, San Ramon,CA 94582.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Viktoriya Yemelyanova. 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 08/30/10.

SEPT.9,16,23,30, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0327459-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as ESCAPE TOURS TRAVEL, 425 1st Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. This business was conducted by a general partnership, signed Viktoriya Yemelyanova.

The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/10.

SEPT.9,16,23,30, 2010 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GIZMOWERKS, 39 Alma Street,San Francisco,CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Andrew MacBride. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/01/10.

SEPT.9,16,23,30, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032980200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TONGUE PUNCH, 1836 Rivera Street,San Francisco,CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Matthew Cook. 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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The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHANG HONG MEAT MARKET, 1335 Powell Street,San Francisco,CA 94133. This business is conducted by a husband and wife, signed Chun Yan Lin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/07/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-032986500

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

STATEMENT FILE A-033006100

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032989400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Bay Cities Construction,791 29th Avenue,San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Michael Arwin. 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 08/24/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032988200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Waxing 4 Men, 660 Market Street,Suite 219,San Francisco, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Steven F. Crovo. 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 08/24/10.

SEPT. 2,9,16,23, 2010

41-ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE SEPT. 16,23,30, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033003100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GUMTREE STUDIO, 500 Clarence Street,Richmond,CA 94801. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Daniel Lunghi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/31/10.

SEPT.9,16,23,30, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033009500

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.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033020100

STATEMENT FILE A-033004200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.Emac Home Loans, 2.LockDesk, 3.www.Lock-desk.com, 88 Kearny Street,3rd Floor,San Francisco, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/24/10.

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: DIEGO FERNANDO ESCOBAR. 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:993 N. Point Street,San Francisco, CA 94109-1111.

Type of license applied for:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ROBERT MIZONO PHOTOGRAPHY, 150 Mississippi Street,Suite A, San Francisco,CA 94107-2524. 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.9,16,23,30, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Core Financial Group Investment and Insurance Services, 101 Montgomery Street,Suite 1300,San Francisco, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Brandon Au. 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 08/19/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as Kwok Shing Hong, 1150 Thomas Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94124.

This business is conducted by a corporation, signed David Cheung. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/04.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 08/23/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033011700

SEPT.9,16,23,30, 2010 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 05/01/10.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 J. GANZ STUDIOS,363 3rd Avenue,#3, San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jason Ganz. 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 09/03/10.

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.

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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.

SEPT.16,23,30,OCT. 7, 2010 SUMMONS:MARRON V. O’NEILL CASE #CGC09-495432 CROSS COMPLAINT SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 400 MCALLISTER, SF, CA 94102 NOTICE TO CROSS-DEFENDANT: CUTTING EDGE PAINTING AND PLP PAINTING & DECORATING AND ROES 1 THROUGH 25 INCLUSIVE

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY CROSS-COMPLAINANT O’NEILL CONSTRUCTION You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the cross-complainant. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit goups at the California Legal Services web site(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Note:The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid befor the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is :

SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT 400 MCALLISTER, SF, CA 94102 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.

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Springer awakening

Gay cultural guru

Remembering the long love affair of Luke and Noah on the soap, in ‘Lavender Tube.’

‘Jerry Springer The Opera’ begins its run at the Victoria.

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Cristian Mercado and Manolo Cardona in Undertow.

riter/director Javier Fuentes-Leon nestles the quixotic ghost story Undertow on Peru’s pristine Pacific beaches, where a married fisherman must choose between his male lover and his tiny seaside community’s immutable moral codes.

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ing Miguel (Cristian Mercado) and Mariela’s (Tatiana Astengo) world: a large pregnant belly gets a wet smooch from a happy, bearded macho cooing to his unborn son. Here, 21st-century culture – ultra-sound and TV soap operas – clashes with centuries of encrusted superstition, and the fear of the sea.

Miguel officiates at an ocean burial of a

friend’s cousin, and the funeral procession is photographed by an itinerant painter, Santiago (Manolo Cardona). Later, Miguel and Santiago embrace in the village cemetery, a clandestine affair whose revelation will send Mariela fleeing, and force men, women and children to choose sides.

Fuentes-Leon abandons his tale’s realistic moorings when Santiago dies at sea, and his ghost confronts his guilty lover at the most inconvenient moments. In these scenes, watch a master filmmaker reinvigorate hoary clichés about closets and the sins of unrepentant machos.

This past June, Fuentes-Leon greeted a sold-

out Castro Theatre crowd of more than 1,400 with the comment that the Castro experience was everything it had been cracked up to be. As soon as he was introduced to a standing ovation following the screening, by Frameline director K.C. Price, I got a crack at the first question in the Q&A from the theatre’s front row.

David Lamble: Could you describe the sources for your story, which appears to draw on poetic interpretations of myths mixed with religious symbolism?

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Transgressions & an activist stance ‘Suggestions of a Life Being Lived’ at SF Camerawork • by Sura Wood f there were any doubt, one look at SF Camerawork’s queer-themed show Suggestions of a Life Being Lived confirms that times have indeed changed, at least for some. The exhibition’s guest curators, both of whom are under 30 and part of a younger generation, pick up where In a Different Light, Larry Rinder and Nayland Blake’s groundbreaking 1995 show of works by radical, fearless artists at the Berkeley Art Museum, left off. The BAM exhibit arrived on the scene during a different era and in a combustible climate laced with a potent cocktail of homophobia and the terror of AIDS. It focused on coming-out narratives of gays and lesbians when assertions of

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by Roberto Friedman ast Friday night at the San Francisco Opera’s Gala 88th season opener Aida, Out There was delighted to be among the wellheeled crowd in the War Memorial Opera House experiencing terror, pity and awe as we followed the tragic story of the doomed Ethiopian princess.

Composer Giuseppe Verdi’s grand 1871 opera is surely one of the mostperformed works in the repertoire, but there’s a reason for that, and it’s the generous music it offers. British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes’ eyecatching production, directed by Jo Davies, brought colorful spark and sizzle to the oft-told tale. SFO Music Director Nicola Luisotti expertly conducted the SFO Orchestra and SFO Chorus (its forces led to excellence by Chorus Director Ian Robertson) in the lush score. Kudos to SFO General Director David Gockley for fielding a first-rate cast and creative personnel.

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case that the opera ought to have been titled Amneris. Leading tenor Marcelo Giordani as the lusty warrior Radames, Chinese bass Hao Jiang Tian as the High Priest Ramfis, and especially, humpy Italian baritone Marco Vratogna as the Ethiopian King Amonasro rounded out most principal roles, with Vratogna getting the most spirited ovations at curtain call.

His turn on the stage reminded OT of his dazzling SFO debut as Iago in the 2009 Otello. By the time Radames and Aida breathe their final commingled breaths in the tomb, the set closing in on them claustrophobically as an everdiminishing triangle, we first-nighters had experienced (vicariously) triumph, defeat, passion and tragedy. As Amneris prayed to Egyptian deity Isis, we felt for her, as she truly had the Memphis blues.

What do you say about a warhorse that has everything? Pageantry, melodic arias, knock-out choruses, pomp, dance (choreographed by Lawrence Pech) and circumstances, it was all ours. Lipstickhued sets, glitzy costumes, the Egyptian triumphal O UT march in Italian, the enormous blue elephant plus tusks, this Aida is perfectly grand spectacle, recommended for neophyte and indulgent opera queen alike.

The opening-night cast will perform six more performances through Oct. 6, then SFO will present five further performances of Aida in November and December with a second cast. Meantime, SFO’s popular Opera at the Ball-

Dolora Zajick as Amneris and Marcello Giordani as Radames in San Francisco Opera’s Aida.

park series at AT&T Park, home of the resurgent San Francisco Giants, offers a free, live simulcast of Aida on Fri., Sept.

24, at 8 p.m. Live from the stage of the Opera House, the spectacle is projected in high-def onto the ballpark’s 103-feetwide scoreboard: play ball! It’s free and open to the public; advance online registration assures early entrance into the ballpark for preferred seating and entry into a prize drawing. Visit www.sfopera.com/simulcast to register.

Another opening, another show Out There’s week of gala opening nights careened from the San Francisco Symphony kick-off last Tuesday through San Francisco Opera’s opulent season launch on Friday to Saturday’s opening night for Ray of Light Theatre’s Jerry Springer: The Opera. The SFS gala, reviewed elsewhere in these pages, offered Music Director Michael T HERE Tilson Thomas conducting Berlioz and Ravel, and legendary soprano Jessye Norman singing Duke Ellington and (with the SFS Chorus under director Ragnar Bohlin) Aaron Copland. We were in the party tent afterwards when the generator failed and the lights went out. First-nighters figured it was intentional mood-lighting, and danced closer. The band played on.

SFO’s opening-night festivities included the San Francisco Opera Guild’s Opera Ball and the Bravo!

Club‘s dinner and dancing. The City Hall rotunda was festooned with hieroglyphic banners, imported palms and what looked like floral arrangements of Egyptian bulrushes. We halfexpected to see old grampaw Moses himself coming through the papyrus.

If he had, we’d have offered him some of our sacramental wine.

Of course, the audience at both affairs was resplendent in their finery; we scoped many a ball gown we know cost more than our month’s rent. In the Nob Hill Gazette’s faboo article “Prepping for Opening Night,” we learned what constituted socialite Pamala Deikel’s list of preparations for the so-called “Hell Week” of opening nights. With a brief mention then prompt dismissal of her pesky little dog Peggy, “a sugar-rush personality who begs for your attention,” the NHG broke down the essential to-do list. OT thought it would be fun to compare Deikel’s preparations with our own.

1) Deikel: “This year, I ordered two gowns. Both of them are by Naeem Khan.”

(Out There: digs vintage tux out of closet, gets it dry-cleaned. Hopefully the trousers still fit. If not, gets out the extra-large shoehorn.)

2) Deikel: “After the dress come the shoes: they play a key role in fitting the gown.”

(OT: shines up his fancy black Ted Baker shoes, a gift from Pepi. Wingtips in front, they’re loafers in back!)

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Pharaohs. In the title role of the Ethiopian captivess, Italian soprano Micaela Carosi made a good SFO debut. As her rival the Pharaoh’s daughter, former Adler Fellow mezzosoprano Dolora Zajick made a strong

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by Richard Dodds s the fabu-blasphem-scatoporno-palooza known as Jerry Springer The Opera unfolded at the Victoria Theatre, I couldn’t help wonder what Jerry Springer himself thought of this extravagant exposé of his uber-trash talk show and his role in it. The answer was a Google click away.

“I only wish I’d thought of it first,” he told the UK’s Guardian newspaper.

“The whole show is tongue-in-cheek, so what is the problem?” No problem at all, Jerry boy, except that the tongue isn’t always in a cheek – at least not cheeks of the facial variety.

As Jerry Springer, the theatrical creation, is confronted in purgatory by his former TV guests, their alreadyin-the-crapper lives worsened by their moments in his spotlight, he tries to shrug it all off. “A lesser broadcaster,” he says, “might feel responsible.”

Jerry Springer The Opera opened in London in 2003 to the sound of many trumpets and a few farts following a high-profile gestation in regional theater. The venue was the prestigious National Theatre, which gave the show a cache that wasn’t enough to save a US tour that was supposed to bring JSTO to San Francisco in 2005.

It unraveled under vague creative and financial issues.

There is a note in the program for the Ray of Light Theatre’s production warning that there are no refunds for the offended who wish to depart prematurely. It’s unlikely to be a problem.

At least that was the case on opening night, when the audience vocally embraced the in-your-face vulgarities.

But even this hearty group could be riled or moved to gasps, much like a Jerry Springer studio audience, by a script that keeps taking one more step

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beyond even liberal expectations.

The abundant use of profanities is the least of it. In the first act, which mirrors the format of the actual talk show, Richard Thomas’ score works to defuse the language of his lyrics written with Stewart Lee. “What the fuck?

What the fuck? What the fuck?“ becomes part of an operatic crescendo sung by a woman whose fiancé confesses to liaisons with another woman and a transvestite. And then there is the overweight housewife who confesses to her abusive husband that she longs to be a pole dancer. “I don’t give a fuck no more if people think I’m a whore,” sings the wannabe erotic dancer with the plaintive agony of Fantine in Les Miserables.

The quasi-reality of the first act begins to unravel as the abusive husband’s secret KKK identity is revealed, leading to a white-hooded chorus line (choreography is by Chris Black).

Then comes Jerry’s murder by a guy with a gun and a diaper fetish. A short second act takes place in purgatory, where Jerry’s former warm-up man turns into the devil with an offer that can’t be refused: Come to hell and preside over just one more show in which Satan and Jesus are to be the sparring guests. “Talk to the hand” becomes “Talk to the stigmata” as Jesus rejects the devil’s demand for an apology, before Adam and Eve, the Virgin Mary, and God himself are brought on as surprise guests.

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elry, a clutch, and a wrap.” What comes along in the clutch? “There’s usually a magnifying glass in there, and I carry lipstick. I don’t worry about my keys; my husband has a pocket.”

(OT: carries keys, mints, T-Ghetto cell phone. Don’t worry, we turn it off when we leave the domicile.)

4) “Then it’s off to the hairdresser for styling, and then make-up.”

(OT: takes a shower.)

5) “I MAY CHANGE MY EARRINGS [emphasis hers] at the last minute before I am out the door!”

(OT: may twist up a doobie before we’re out the door, time and company permitting.)

Fabulous lesbians And now for something completely different, we bring you this release from the San Francisco Public Library: “For the past 40 years, San Francisco Bay Area lesbians with disabilities have been at the forefront of political, artistic and cultural change. Despite these significant accomplishments, most of this history has not been documented in any archive and is in danger of being lost. Celebrating Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with

creasingly phantasmagorical plot.

And there are the efforts of answering life’s Big Questions, which the show’s creators aren’t quite up to. But this has nothing to do with director M. Graham Smith’s masterful direction of a huge cast, challenging material, and imaginative evocations (helped by Maya Link’s scenery) of an epic scale.

The production is loaded with show-stopping performances, only some of which can be mentioned here. Jonathan Reisfeld all but steals the show as the smarmy warm-up act who becomes a leering Satan. The uninhibitedly ample Jessica Coker scores mightily with her belted anthem of pole-dance envy. Chris Yorro twitters about bravely in a diaper as the poopcentric talk-show guest before reappearing as a light-in-his-sandals Jesus.

The ensemble delivers unexpectedly beautiful choral work, under musical director Ben Price, who precisely leads a seven-piece band.

The role of Jerry Springer himself may be the least flashy, and Patrick Michael Dukeman resists temptations to add inappropriate flourishes. But Dukeman provides a stabilizing center of gravity in a wildly spinning show, and the cool remove from the consequences of his actions are part of the character’s defense mechanisms that only slightly fray under the threat of eternal damnation. By the way, The Jerry Springer Show began its 20th season this week.M Jerry Springer The Opera will run at the Victoria Theatre through Oct. 16. Tickets are $25-$36. Tickets and info at www.jerrysf.com.

Disabilities: A 40 Year Retrospective, on view Sept. 18-Nov. 23 in the Skylight Gallery and the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the Main Library, celebrates the contributions of disabled lesbians from the 1970s to the present.”

The exhibit’s Opening Gala, featuring guests including AXIS Dance Company and Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre, takes place on Sept.

22, 6 p.m., in the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room of the Main Library.

In Women of the Quilt and our Lineages, artist Karen Hampton discusses the Memorial Quilt she created in memory of the lives of lesbians with disabilities. Artist E.G. Crichton discusses her Lineage Project, which she created in conjunction with the GLBT Historical Society. Both take place on Oct. 7, 6 p.m., in the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room, Main Library.

The program Writing Our Word, Speaking Our Minds, Telling Our Stories: Readings By and About Lesbians with Disabilities features Elana Dykewomon, Barbara Ruth, Teya Schaffer, Dominika Bednarska, and the Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective, on Oct. 14, 6 p.m., L/H Community Mtg. Rm., Main Library.

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by Philip Campbell ard on the heels of Labor Day and with business-like efficiency, the San Francisco Symphony opened their 99th season last week. The Gala was notable for its swift precision, low-keyed elegance and the return of legendary soprano Jessye Norman to the stage of Davies Hall.

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas is certainly no party-pooper, but his 15-year tenure has trended away from excessively flashy opening nights from the very beginning. During leaner economic times, it seems more appropriate than ever that the SFS Gala has become better known for celebrating great music than haute couture. Besides, the centennial season festivities will pose a special challenge to the 2011-12 budget, and the conspicuous consumption approach has always been more aptly suited to flamboyant Opera openings.

This year’s concert allowed orchestra members just enough time to play, mingle and chug a few glasses of champagne before collecting themselves to pack for Switzerland and the Lucerne Festival on Sept. 11. Talk about your working musicians. Still, it was a fete with all the expected luxuries (pre-concert dinners, free-flowing bubbly and post-concert dancing in the glamorous tent pavilion), all accomplished with an understated tone, clearly slanted towards satisfying the serious music-lovers in the crowd. There may have been more than the usual number of first-time first-nighters in attendance as well, for this was the only time this fall Jessye Norman would be making an American concert appearance.

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mediately standing for the customary rendition of the national anthem.

With scarcely a breath, he launched into a scintillating Roman Carnival Overture by Berlioz. Things were certainly moving along. Then, with little fanfare but a noticeable charge of electricity, the great diva, so much a part of our musical lives in previous decades, made her appearance. Smiling that dazzling smile, still wearing her hair spectacularly long and looking much slimmer in a conservative black lace gown, La Norman was right back where she belongs.

Expectations were running high among fans and listeners who know her only from the famous recordings.

Those of us lucky enough to have experienced her live performances were, understandably, a little more nervous. Norman has been out of the limelight for years, but she has been making a limited return to public appearances since her release of a new album, and there have been some notable European engagements. The reviews of late (mostly garnered from the Internet and international critics) have been decidedly mixed, and there was some natural concern that her fabulous instrument must surely be diminished. The short answer about the state of the pipes is qualified by the simple fact that the singer is no longer young. No one could sustain such a huge voice forever, but the reports of a shockingly frayed and thin tone seemed exaggerated after listening for only a few minutes.

The choice of Aaron Copland’s charming and concise In the Beginning was a wise way to ease La Norman through the start of her performance. Composed for one soloist with an unaccompanied chorus, the simple English-language setting of stories from Genesis allowed her

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voice to warm and expand with a heartening richness and suitable strength. The sound remains impressive and pleasing. Perhaps it is not as grand, but it is still recognizably beautiful. Professional members of Ragnar Bohlin’s SFS Chorus matched her clear enunciation and provided a lovely backdrop. We look forward to more of their appearances later in the new season.

The relative brevity of the first half was really just a chance to get ready for the big-deal presentation of the night: six songs by the immortal Duke Ellington, arranged by Patrick Russ. The star returned, wearing a gorgeous red dress and an even more radiant smile.

Opera singers will keep trying their hand at jazz , but I have never known one to achieve perfect success. There was some mannered phrasing at first, then Jessye sang “Come Sunday,” and I knew she was in a perfect groove. Members of the SFS who essayed some of the instrumental solos (hey, trumpeter Mark Inouye has some real chops) helped make the set one for the memory book. After the encore, “In My Solitude,” this grateful follower of a fabulous singer’s career could breathe a deeply satisfied amen.

The concert ended with an overwhelming and luminous Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe by Ravel. The orchestra’s encore was the exciting “Entrance of Bacchus” from the ballet Sylvia by Delibes. Mission accomplished for MTT, Jessye Norman, the SFS and Chorus, and the really special start of a new season.M

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Quintessentially Altman ilmmaker Robert Altman distrusted the attention span of kids, and therefore always insisted that his films get as hard an R rating as possible. And boy, he knew how to stick a burr under the saddles of both critics and censors. The six films playing at the Roxie Cinema’s Altman festival (Sept. 20-22) are all adult enter-

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tainment from a master who hailed from the birthplace (Kansas City, MO) of both Disney and Hemingway, and managed brilliant swipes at the mythology of both.

Brewster McCloud The least-seen of Altman’s better work, this ditzy treasure celebrates my queer hometown and America’s libertarian capitol, Houston, Texas. Starring two Altman discoveries, Bud Cort and Shelley Duvall, Brewster honors hu-

mankind’s primal desire to fly, and delivers perverse tributes to The Wizard of Oz, Bullitt, Top 40 radio and 1970’s “8th Wonder of the World,” Houston’s Astrodome.

Brewster can still shock as well as titillate: Margaret Hamilton’s racist spewing the “N-word,” a national anthemworshipping diva, Sally Kellerman’s parody of her “Hot Lips” nude scene from MASH, a serial killer who leaves a trail of bird droppings on the victims, two of my hippie newspaper pals smoking real joints at a swank hotel, a five-minute masturbation scene featuring the surprisingly buff 22-yearold Cort – whose sublime work was a rehearsal for his grandma-dating imp in Harold and Maude – and a glorious, Fellini-like ending where the star is introduced as a dead bird-boy.

Brewster followed on the heels of MASH as an Altman sound banquet: here, the director employs Houston’s then-top-rated KILT radio as a narrative device, and has irrepressible fun with Rene Auberjonois as a silly, pompous bird lecturer.

Not on DVD and hard to find on cable or VHS, Brewster McCloud is a grand introduction to what went down when the 1960s met the 70s.

(Plays with O.C. & Stiggs, 9/20) 3 Women Altman’s most European art-film-like work, this dream-inspired, haunting feminist fable features awesome turns from Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule.

Bud Cort does pull-ups in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud.

(Plays with California Split, 9/21) The Long Goodbye In 1973, Altman got a whole lot of grief for this noir-spoofing masterwork from analretentive, middle-brow, Raymond Chandler-, Humphrey Bogart-worshipping critics. They were idiots.

It opens with a wonderfully wacky vignette of our hero Philip Marlowe trying to fool his pussy with an offbrand tin of cat food and being taken in by his friend Terry Lenox (Jim Bouton). The Long Goodbye sustains the illusion that Chandler’s tough-guy private dick has woken up from a long sleep and is marooned in 1973 LA, full of false friends, adulterers, alcoholic, blocked writers, vicious mobsters and insanely corrupt cops on both sides of the border. It plays in an odd way like a minor-key version of Chinatown (both films feature scary villains

played by movie directors). On Golden Pond’s Mark Rydell is perhaps the most insidiously charming Jewish mobster ever. I still wince at the scene where his character smashes a Coke bottle in the face of his model-pretty girlfriend, just to prove to Marlowe what he’s capable of.

Next to The Player, Long Goodbye has probably Altman’s richest tapestry of celebrity cameos: Nina Van Pallandt, snatched off the Johnny Carson show as the personification of the Raymond Chandler blonde; ex-pitcher Bouton, mining qualities that made him baseball’s tell-all bad-boy memoirist (Ball Four); and Sterling Hayden, hilarious as a Hemingway-like macho drunk, a role second in his canon only to his purity-obsessed general in Dr. Strangelove. (Plays with Thieves Like Us, 9/22)M

Web content This week, Victoria Brownworth’s Lavender Tube column charts the course of the same-sex love affair between Luke and Noah on CBS Television’s As the World Turns. Find it on www.ebar.com.

Time in a bottle

by Jim Piechota Gay Bar by Will Fellows and Helen Branson; University of Wisconsin Press, $26.95

f you’ve ever imagined what gay life was like in the 1950s, in Gay Bar, Will Fellows (Farm Boys, A Passion to Preserve), a Milwaukeebased writer who has produced two Lambda Literary Award finalist pieces, shines a nostalgic spotlight on that period in history, and presents an extraordinary woman named Helen Branson, who became the ultimate ally for the targeted homosexual community in Southern California.

Born Helen Pyle in 1896, she was reared in Nebraska, married WWI army veteran Zebulon Branson in 1918, gave birth to daughter Caroline on her husband’s Idaho family ranch, and would have been wonderfully content if the insistent call to California (where her brother resided) wasn’t so strong, so she packed up and headed West. Her husband soon followed, but ultimately they divorced, leaving Branson with meager funds to support herself and Caroline. Parlaying a lifelong interest in the occult into a career of sorts, Branson became a professional palm-reader in Hollywood in the late 1930s. Fellows drolly elaborates: “In gypsy costume she drifted among tables at Lindy’s on Wilshire Boulevard, taking the hands of late-night diners and explicating their features in the glow of her small flashlight. So began her gradual convergence with gay men.”

In our modern times, though the present fight for equality perseveres, it is daunting to imagine a scenario as the one in 1951 when the California Supreme Court (graciously?) de-

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clared it “legal” for homosexuals to assemble in barrooms. As silly as this seems now, it was a landmark ruling that paved the way for Branson, a year later, to begin working in gay establishments and eventually (in her 60s) take over a gay bar located in a crime-ridden stretch of Los Angeles. at 5124 Melrose Avenue.

Startlingly ahead of her time, she began writing Gay Bar in 1955, spurred on by a need to respond to

the vicious onslaught of anti-gay initiatives and violence swirling all around her bar, her customers, and the homosexual community at large.

The result of her efforts is an intelligent, outspoken, and often humorous opinion piece that is a joy to behold, thanks to Fellows, who discovered it in a St. Paul library after searching for 1950s gay reference material for a play in development.

Branford’s wisdom and sets of rules and regulations for her patrons (“my boys”) are strict but respectable, since the establishment grew problematic over time (“I have problems because of the type of bar I own.”) She exhibited a discrimi-

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The talented Mr. Steward

by Dr. Jack Fritscher Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32.50

n transparency, rather than review Secret Historian, I can best, as a SoMa historian, give heads-up about the authenticity of my friend Justin Spring’s important biography of my longtime friend Samuel Steward. Born in 1909, Steward defied the stress of the anti-gay century when owning one gay photograph meant jail. He defiantly documented gay culture in his books, sex diaries (1924-73), tattoo journals, and activist input to his beloved mentor Dr. Kinsey at the Institute for Sex (1949-56). His anxiety-driven life was an existential pile-on of family dysfunction, literary ambition, alcohol, celebrities, speed, hustlers, censorship, interracial S&M, rage against aging, and a soul shared with an unborn twin in his left testicle. As Gertrude Stein warned her “dear Sammy,” his every gorgeous vice sliced away at his self-esteem until he died on December 31, 1993.

New York author Spring was researching his book Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude when in 2001 he discovered the “cold case” of Steward stored in a San Francisco attic. Since 1969, I have been eyewitness to Steward’s story, and can testify to the pitch-perfect authenticity of Spring’s character study, which downloads the analog diaries and letters without overpowering Steward’s risque voice. At Stonewall, gay character changed. Reading Secret Historian, you see why it had to, and, why, if it hadn’t, you’d still be in the closet.

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nating palate when it came to the type of gay man that was allowed inside her bar. Issues such as interpersonal drama, patrons’ competitive caste system, and avoiding neighborhood violence consumed her, so she boldly refused to welcome the “obvious homosexual” (versus the “basic homosexual, whose sexual orientation is as immutable as eye color”) into her establishment, commenting, “I do not know why these blonde, limp-wristed boys are so anxious to attract attention.” This may seem offensive to some by today’s standards, but biased acceptance has always

Steward was a bon vivant chum whose life, like Christopher Isherwood’s, was a cabaret. Sunbathing in France in 1938 with Stein and Alice B. Toklas, fleeing Nazis by ship, he was an ambitious boy from Ohio who knew how to sing for his supper at the tables of Stein-Toklas, Thornton Wilder, Oscar Wilde’s lover Bosie, George Platt Lynes, Tennessee Williams, Kenneth Anger, the Hells Angels, and my lover Robert Mapplethorpe and me when Steward joined what he playfully dubbed my “Drummer Salon,” which included SF poets Ronald Johnson and Thom Gunn.

Steward, always pursuing publishers, loved Drummer, SF’s longestrunning gay magazine. As a founding editor-in-chief, I printed his copfetish story in my “authenticity issue,” Drummer 21 (March 1978). In February 1978, from my Drummer desk, I arranged an iconic dinner party “mixer” at the home of leatherpriest Jim Kane and chef Ike Barnes.

The guests were legendary Drummer contributors who had never before met: Steward; Tom of Finland and his lover Veli, on Tom’s first visit to America; Drummer art director A. Jay; Oscar streaker Robert Opel, founder of SoMa’s first gallery, FeyWay; and Mapplethorpe, with whom Steward shared a taste for kinky Polaroids and black men. I watched Steward, a graduate of Stein’s “Charmed Circle,” glow in the convergence of the kind of shining company he had adored since youth.

The day after Steward turned 16 in 1925, he recalled to me on audiotape, he blew silent-screen star Rudolph Valentino, sneaking snips of pubic hair and enshrining Valentino’s down-low DNA in a gold reliquary he kept forever. That’s when his liter-

been a reckless luxury, especially when you own the hottest bar in Hollywood, and it’s 1957.

Fellows sheds contemporary light on the nostalgia of Branson’s efforts by inserting insightful commentary throughout this reprinting of her original manuscript, which was typed by hand on a Polish model typewriter. Fascinating and vicariously lucid, this book is a precious time capsule jetting readers back over a half-century ago to a time when the gay community was threatened, defiled, beaten, and stigmatized without restraint, thankful to have folks like Helen Branson on their side, but fully aware that the fight for equality was only just beginning. M

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ary, art, and erotic hoarding started. Gay treasures piled up in his Berkeley cottage, then in the attic of his executor, expert librarian Michael Williams.

Steward, immensely generous to friends, romanced straight women; adored lesbians; fetishized black, Latino, and straight men; and spouted oldschool queer theories knocking the wannabe masculinity of gay men.

He chased Gide and Genet, ran from James Purdy, balled Rock Hudson, tattooed James Dean, and wrote screenplays for SF filmmaker J. Brian. His sex-tourist diaries of SF (1953-54) give eyewitness to bars, baths, and “sailor sex” so wild at the Embarcadero YMCA he was banned from Y’s everywhere.

As a popular university professor and zealous masochist (1930s80s), he worshiped students and rough-trade Navy seafood. To get his hands on young recruits, he learned tattooing, and while still teaching, opened Phil’s Tattoo Joynt (1956-63) in a sleazy Chicago arcade. Wrongly accused of child murders, he fled west to Oakland, opening his Anchor Tattoo Shop (1964-70), where the Hells Angels adopted him.

Inking 150,000 men, Steward pioneered today’s tattooing style, mentoring young San Franciscan Ed Hardy and Chicago leatherman Cliff Raven, who, like Steward, was intimate inside Chuck Renslow’s Fami-

ly. Spring reveals that Steward documented how Renslow, the great unrequited love of his life, and the artist Etienne organized 1950s homomasculine leather culture around Kris Studio, Tomorrow’s Man, the Gold Coast bar, and 1960s physique contests that evolved into the International Mr. Leather contest (IML).

Steward and I met in 1969 when he was 60 and I was 30. With Kinsey long dead, we both feared he might die without a post-Stonewall update.

So I became the first gay scholar to interview him. Our session was recorded in his Berkeley cottage

(1972) before the B.A.R., the Advocate and Drummer existed, and a dozen years before younger writers such as Joseph Bean, John Preston, and Gayle Rubin courted him. Sam’s self-esteem bucked up; he felt validated by my arts grant to record him for the Journal of Popular Culture.

But he stipulated I never use his narrative while he was alive, “because I have to live off my story.” He meant dinner parties, autobiographical essays, and university lectures.

On my audiotape, Sam’s voice rings as clear as in Spring’s book. He spoke frankly about his literary life, affairs, beatings, arrests, and divine lunches in Paris, Rome, and SF. He smoked his cigarettes, tilted his glass, and told true oral history of sex, intrigue, revenge, and literary gossip in phrases so measured I realized he had long ago decided precisely how his story should be told.

I believed every word, and gave my 30-year-old transcripts to Spring, who, empowered by Michael Williams’ attic archive, fit 84 years of Steward’s drama into his book, which finds a universal gay story in Sam’s specific life. Steward would have loved Spring. Once again, Sam sings for his supper. Secret Historian succeeds as amazing cautionary tale and awesome remembrance of things past. M Justin Spring reads on Tues., Sept.

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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. Previews thru Sept. 24.

Opening night Sept 25. Thru Oct. 24. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Armstrong’s Kid @ SMAAC Youth Center, Oakland

I’m lovin it !

by Jim Provenzano love appropriating the slogans of evil fast food conglomerates.

I also love diminutive openly gay actors who tell it like it is. Leslie Jordan, the Emmy-winning star of Sordid Lives, Will & Grace, Boston Legal and other hit shows, shares his big sense of humor in his cabaret comedy show at The Rrazz Room. $40-$45. Sept 14-16, 8pm; Sept. 17 & 18, 9:15pm. Also Sept. 19, 5pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 4683399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com Jordan will also perform at a benefit for the Castro Country Club, the area’s only LGBT sober social space. $15-$20. VIP reception $75, advance only. Sunday, Sept.

19, 5pm. Everett Middle School Auditorium, 450 Church St. www.castrocountryclub.org I love dance showcases, samplers of sweaty terpsichorean smarts. West Wave Dance at the Cowell Theatre, the 19th annual showcase of contemporary choreography, includes works by Amy Seiwert, Stacey Printz, Kat Worthington, Takehiro Ueyama, and Katie Faulkner, whose Little Seismic Dance Company includes among its ranks Brandon “Private” Freeman (see photo, left), one of my favorite local Little Seismic dancers. Monday, Sept. 20. 8pm. $22-$64 (difDance Company at ferent programs Oct 11, Nov. 8, and Dec. 13.).

West Wave Dance Fort Mason Center, Marina St. at Buchanan.

345-7575. www.westwavedancefestival.org I love simple spectacle, and dancing that defies gravity. Flyaway Productions achieves both on the walls of The Women’s Building. Jo Kreiter’s acrobatic rope-suspension dance company performs Singing Praises, an outdoor work honoring the 100th anniversary of the historic edifice. Sept. 17, 8pm & 9:30pm. 3543 18th St. at Valencia. 333-8302. www.flyawayproductions.com Sheryl Lee Ralph Benefits, galas and fundraisers; love ‘em! One Night Only, Monday, Sept. 20 at the Marines Memorial Theatre, includes performances by the cast of Dreamgirls, original Dream Girl Sheryl Lee Ralph, plus Tim Hockenberry, Jason Brock and others in yet another fabulous benefit for the Richmond Ermet AIDS Foundation, and a dessert reception with the cast (extra $25). $25-$75.

7:30pm. 609 Sutter St. 273-1620. www.helpisontheway.org Gay historical books! Totally love ‘em.

Justin Spring, author of the new biography Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade reads from and discusses his fascinating book about the treasure trove erotica estate and previously unpublished diaries of the pioneering gay writer (See page 27). Free. Books will be for sale. Tuesday, Sept. 21. 6pm.

Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.fsgbooks.com www.sfpl.org If you love gay literature, get up to the Castro after Spring’s reading as Lambda Literary Fellows Meg Day, Chuck Forester, Liz Green, Billie Mandel and Oscar Raymundo, participants in the Bay Area-based 2010 Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat, join in a special reading and discussion of/about LGBT lit. Free. Sept. 21, 7:30pm. A Different Light Bookstore, 489 Castro St. 431-0891. www.adl-books.blogspot.com I love a good gladiator movie; heck, even the bad ones. But when it comes to books, they have to be good, and the best novels about ancient Rome are written by local author Steven Saylor. He’ll read from and discuss his latest tome, Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome, his follow-up to the fascinating Roma. Thursday, Sept. 23, 7:30pm at Books Inc., 2275 Market St. at Noe. www.stevensaylor.com www.booksinc.net Want more books? See you at the Big Book Sale at Fort Mason, the 46th annual massive sale of all kinds of books, all $5 or less ($1 or less on Sunday). Proceeds benefit the SF Public Library’s children literacy programs. Sept. 22-25, 10am-8pm. Sept. 26 until 6pm. Marina Blvd at Buchanan.

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Stanley Bennett Clay and Thandiwe Thomas Deshazor perform Tarrell McCraney’s play about an African American teacher allegedly involved in an affair with a student. $10$20. 8pm. Also Sept. 18, 8pm and Sept.

19, 3pm. 1608 Webster St. (510) 3063419. www.brownpapertickets.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

La Cage aux Folles @ San Mateo Performing Arts Center Broadway by the Bay’s production of the award-winning musical based on the French play about two gay club owners who closet their relationship to appease their rightwing in-laws-to-be. $20-$48. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 3. 600 North Delaware Ave. (650) 579-5565. www.broadwaybythebay.org

Chanticleer @ SF Conservatory of Music Grammy-winning men’s a cappella ensemble performs a diverse repertoire, from Renaissance songs to gospel and jazz. $20-$44.

8pm. Also Sept. 19, 5pm. 50 Oak St. 3924400. www.chanticleer.org

Come As You Are @ Brava Theatre Brava, in collaboration with Theatre Offensive in Boston, presents a series of 13 short plays about sexuality with live art, music and dance, commemorating the Stonewall Riots and celebrating queer sexuality.

Adults only. $10. 8pm. 2789 24th St. 6417657. www.brava.org

Dieci Giorni: 10 Days @ Thick House Theater Collaborative opera inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron, with tales both naughty and moralistic, about love and survival. $25.

8pm. Fri-Sun thru Sept 19. 1695 18th St. (800) 838-3006. www.diecigioni.org

Don’t Ask @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Ben Randle’s sexually-charged psychological drama about a reckless private and his superior officer in Iraq. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 19. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Dreamgirls @ Curran Theatre New touring production of the classic Broadway musical about a Motown girl group’s struggles to the top of pop fame. $30-$99. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 26. 445 Geary St. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

Harvesting the Lost @ Phoenix Theatre Triple Shot Productions present the premiere of a new play by Dan Wilson (Sweetie’ Tanya: the Demon Barista of Valencia Street) about a lesbian couple, one of whom claims to have been abducted by aliens. $25.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 25.

414 Mason St. (877) 556-7396. www.tripleshotproductions.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.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 16. 2961 16th St. at Mission. (800) 838-3006. www.roltheatre.com www.jerrysf.com

In the Red and Brown Water @ Marin Theatre Company Tarell Alvin McCraney’s first play in his Brother/Sister trilogy. $32-$53. Tue, ThuSat 8pm. Wed 7:30pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm.

Thru Oct. 3. 397 Miller Ave. Mill Valley. www.marintheatre.org

Midnites for Maniacs @ Castro Theatre

Triple feature of ‘80s prom-themed flicks; Peggy Sue Got Married (7:30), Back to the Future (9:45) and Zapped! (12am). $12. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Roommates From Hell @ The Dark Room Four nights of hilarious and astonishing monologues about awful roommates, told by Charlie Ballard, Melinda Bailey, Lynn Breedlove, Dana M. Chernack, Justin Gomes, Emily Heller, Michael Layne-Heath, Beth Lisick, Thomas Roche, Desiree Rogers, Bucky Sinister and others. $10. Fri & Sat, 8pm thru Sept. 25. 2263 Mission St. at 18th. 401-7987. www.darkroomsf.com

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. 17.

415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Trunk Show @ De La Sole Footwear Fall shoe collection preview and fundraising raffle for the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. 6pm-8pm. 549 Castro St. 2553140. www.delasole.com

Various Artists @ The Rrazz Room A diverse week of musicians at the intimate classy nightclub includes Freddy Clarke and his Wobbly World band of musicans (Sept.

17, 7pm, $25); Deines Perrier and the Swing Fever Band (Sept. 18, 7pm, $30); Tim Hockenberry Band (Sept. 19, 7:30pm, $25); Linda Kosut and Jizel Music’s New Stars variety show (Sept. 20, 8pm, $25.) Argentine tango guitarist Maria Volonte (Sept. 21, 8pm, $28) and former Supreme Mary Wilson (Sept 2225, 8pm Sept 26 7pm, $40-$55). 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Zhukov Dance Theatre @ Cowell Theater Third season for the local contemporary ballet company headed by Yuri Zhukov. $25.

8pm. Thru Sept. 18. Marina Blvd. at Buchanan. 345-7575. www.fortmason.org

Sat 18 >> Antony and Cleopatra, The Taming of the Shrew @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare’s outdoor theatre production Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy (set in Egypt) and comedy (re-set with a pirate theme). $20-$35. Fri-Sun 4pm & 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 26. 1475 Grand Ave. Dominican University campus. 499-4488. www.marinshakespeare.org

API Family Pride @ Hotel Whitcomb Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (API Family Pride)’s 7th annual Family Presentation Banquet, honoring those who support LGBT marriage equality. Includes an Asian lunch buffet, a silent auction, and entertainment by cast members of local theatre companies will perform selection’s from the musical Rent. $20-$40; kids under 5 free. 11am-2pm. 1231 Market St. www.apifamilypride.org

Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd.

421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beyond Darkness and Light @ Femina Potens Exhibit of works by Sonya Genel, Sallie Smith and Silvi Alcivar, each of whom examine the “stained parts of the human condition.” 7pm-10pm. Exhibit thru Sept. 26.

Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

Charlie Chaplin Films @ Castro Theatre Retrospective screenings of the iconic silent (and sound) comic film actor and director.

Today, The Circus, Idle Class and A Day’s Pleasure. Sept. 19, City Lights, Sunnyside and A Dog’s Life. Sept. 20, Modern Times and Pay Day. Sept. 21, The Great Dictator and The Kid. Sept. 22, Limelight and Shoulder Arms. $7.50-$10. 429 Castro St. 6216120. www.castrotheatre.com

Compulsion @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tony Award winner Mandy Patankin 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

Conservatory Orchestra @ SF Music Conservatory Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in Fsharp Minor, Op. 14; Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 are performed. $15-$20. 8pm. Also Sept 20. Also, cello masterworks performed Sept 21, 8pm, free. 50 Oak St. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

Eat Our Shorts @ Exit Theatre Guy Writers presents several short gay plays

by Andrew Black, Rodney “Rhoda” Clay, Bob Hayden, Tom W. Kelly and Edgar Poma; part of the SF Fringe Festival. $10.

8:30pm. 277 Taylor St. (800) 838-3006. www.guywritersonline.org

Galileo’s Daughters @ Berkeley City Club Giulio Cesare Perrone’s three-person play about religion, science, and historical controversy. $10-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm.

Thru Sept. 19. 1802 Fairview St. (510) 698-4030. www.InfernoTheatre.org

Hot Rods & Lube Jobs @ Marty’s Motors, El Cerrito Wild automotive kink benefit for the Center for Sex and Culture in, yes, an auto parts shop, with refreshments, prizes, sexy demos, and a hot rod play party for all genders and orientations. $40-$50. 8pm. 10929 San Pablo Ave. www.sexandculture.org

In the Wound @ John Hinkel Park, Berkeley Shotgun Players, the creative ensemble behind last year’s hit park play The Farm (a hiphop Animal Farm) brings a new version of The Iliad. $10. 3pm. Sat & Sun thru Oct. 3. Southampton Avenue entrance. www.shotgunplayers.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

IXFF 10 Kick-off Party @ El Rio

Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm.

Celebrate Good Vibrations’ Fifth Annual Indie Erotic Film Festival with a smokin’ hot clip show of queer hipster porn from Reel Queer Productions. Join the filmmakers

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Kathy Griffin @ Davies Symphony Hall Popular comedian performs her uncensored show. $70-$96. 8pm. Also Sept. 19, 7pm.

201 Van Ness Ave. (800) 745-3000. www.livenation.com

J-Pop Summit Festival @ New People World Day-long extravaganza of Japanese pop culture films, fashion shows, live art performance and mini-concerts, with a Japanese food court, too. 10am-10pm. (other events earlier this week). 1746 Post St. www.NewPeopleWorld.com

Light in the Piazza @ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s acclaimed musical about visitors to Tuscany overwhelmed by the power of love. $19-$67.

Tue-Wed 7:30pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat also 2pm. Sun 2pm, 7pm. Thru Sept. 19. 500 Castro St. at Mercy, Mountain View. (650) 463-1960. www.theatreworks.org

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. Thru Sept. 26. 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

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Archive Talk @ Center for Sex & Culture

Celebrating Fabled Asp @ SF Public Library

Discussion with new archives director Marlene Hoeber and artist Dorian Katz, about the Center’s libidinous treasures. 7:30pm.

1519 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org

Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: a 40 Year Retrospective, an exhibit of photographs, ephemera, and related events. Opening gala tonight includes performances by AXIS Dance Company, Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theatre. 6pm, Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level.

Exhibit thru Nov. 23, 6th floor Skylight Gallery. 100 Larkin St. www.fabledasp.com www.sfpl.org

Dancing in the Streets @ Castro Plaza Bryan Keith Country Band plays for an afternoon of free two-stepping dance lessons.

1pm-4pm. Castro St. at Market. www.queerballroom.com www.castrocbd.org

SF Hiking Club @ Mount Tamalpais Join GLBT hikers for a 7-mile hike along the Matt Davis Trail and Steep Ravine Loop. Enjoy beautiful redwoods, stunning coastal views, Stinson Beach. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen, hat, layers, sturdy boots.

Carpool meets 9am at the Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. 652-4676. www.sfhiking.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room 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

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

Come As You Are, Fri.

RAW Dance @ the Garage

Alice Childress’ 1955 play within a play about racism in the early Civil Rights movement. $10-$55. Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Oct 3. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Wicked @ Orpheum Theatre Mega-hit musical based on the book about the two famous Oz witches as young college roommates. $30-$99. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Sept.

1192 Market St. at 8th. $30. 512- 7770. www.shnsf.com

Wicoza-NI-zhoni @ JanRae Art Gallery, Oakland Opening reception for a group exhibit of visual art and videos by Native American artists. 7pm, with refreshments, drumming and music by Mamea. Thru Dec. 10.

Women’s Cancer Resource Center, 5741 Telegraph Ave. (510) 601-4040. wwwcrc.org

Informational meeting for those interested in participating in production of the feminist queer trans collective zine. Free, with refreshments. 7pm. 2501 Bryant St. www.aortamagazine.com

The Bowls Project @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Interactive sound sculpture/immersive performance installation by by Bay Area composer Jewlia Eisenberg, with her ensemble, Charming Hostess; an ecstatic investigation of sex, magic and secret desires. Thursday night live performances. Free-$12. Tue-Sat 12pm-8pm. Sun 12pm-6pm. Extended thru Oct. 3. 701 Mission St., Forum and Sculpture Court. 9782787. www.ybca.org

Feminist Theory Series on Women of Color with a discussion of This Bridge Called My Back, featuring Cheryl Clarke, Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, the Combahee River Collective and Pat Parker. $7.50 veggie-optional buffet 6:15pm. Discussion 7pm. 625 Larkin st.

864-1278.

The Secretaries @ Boxcar Playhouse

Trouble in Mind @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Aorta Meeting @ Million Fishes Gallery

Radical Women @ New Valencia Hall

Resident Artists Workshop presents The Book, a multimedia structured improvisation

by Erika Tsimbrovsky and Vadim Puyandaev (Sept 18, 8pm). PunkkiCo and Alyce Finwall Dance Theater (Sept.

22 & 23, 8pm). $10-$20.

975 Howard St. 518-1517. www.975howard.com

Hearts on Fire is the current show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with new guest chanteuse Liliane Montevecchi, 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

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Come see what’s hot in 7 minutes or less at a screening of short sex films. Turn up the heat and kick of the party in the mezzanine at the Castro theatre, where margaritas, mariachis, and hot dancers welcome you. Vote for the audience choice award, with cash prizes; hosted by Peaches Christ and Dr. Carol Queen. $10-$20. for 7pm pre-party; 8pm screenings. 429 Castro St. 345-0400. www.gv-ixff.org www.castrotheatre.com

Film, TV and stage actor Manuel Simons plays eight roles in his solo show about a teenager who wants to sing like Bruce Springsteen but sounds more like Barbra Streisand; part of the SF Fringe Festival. $10-$13. 1pm & 8:30pm.

Also Sept. 19 at 6pm & 7:30pm. 156 Eddy st. www.queerintheusa.com www.sffringe.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29

Dyke Porn Through the Ages, an entertaining romp, hosted by Shar and Jackie of SIR Productions, about the history of lesbian porn; Q&A and reception after panel with pizza and beer. $10. 8pm. 3543 18th St.

Good Vibrations’ Indie Erotic Film Festival @ Castro Theatre

Queer in the USA @ Exit Theatre

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. 505 Natoma St. 255-7846. www.crowdedfire.org

Lesbo Retro @ The Women’s Bldg.

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived @ SF CameraWork

Mon 20 >> Meet the Authors @ Wicked Grounds Several local BDSM, leather and kink writers sign copies of their books at the SoMa kink-themed cafe. 7pm (Also, Wicked Grounds’ anniversary party with gifts, Tue, Sept. 21, 7pm). 289 8th St. www.wickedgrounds.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. New times: Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

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 12pm5pm thru Oct. 23. 657 Mission St. 2nd floor. 512-2020. www.sfcamerawork.org

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for a special screening, and get hot and bothered by ridiculously raunchy live burlesque. $7. 9pm-1am. 3158 Mission St. Cesar Chavez. www.gv-ixff.org www.elriosf.com

“These men are phenomenal: as fresh as a blade of grass, tightly focused and keenly expressive.”

– The New York Times

Wondrous works inspired through the ages by the seductive power of the sun,the moon, the stars, the planets, and the universe beyond!

New works by Mason Bates and Little Grey Girlfriend’s Erica Lloyd.

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Mission San Luis Obispo 8PM Carmel Mission 8PM San Francisco Conservatory 8PM San Francisco Conservatory 5PM Lesher Center for the Arts, Hoffman Theatre, Walnut Creek 8PM 23 Mission Santa Clara 8PM 25 Napa Valley Opera House 8PM world’s reigning male chorus.”

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Tue 21 >> Jok Church @ Magnet Exhibit of the local longtime gay activist’s dizzying montage “mendalas” of gay subjects, from columnist/socialite Donna Sachet to some amusing erotica. All art sales proceeds go to Magnet and the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. Exhibit thru Sept.

4122 18th St. 581-1600. www.magnetsf.org

Yoga Classes @ The Sun Room Heated, healing weekly yoga classes in a new location. Suggested donation $10-20.

12pm-1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St, 3rd floor. 794-4619. www.billmohleryoga.com

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Bathing beauties at a previous Utopia pool party.

A night at the opera with touches of Egypt, including tufts of marsh grass, bright fabric, and a stylized bazaar. Here is where we got iuseppe Verdi’s Aida proved to chat with many regulars, including the perfect choice for a grand Rita Moreno in a sequined pantsuit, opening night of the San Leah Garchik in simple black, Lisa Francisco Opera last Friday, providBreakey in bold Gianfranco Ferre, ing a clear decorative theme, inspiraCharlotte Shultz in dramatic pink, tion for dramatic fashions, and hours David Laudon & Randy of operatic showmanship.

Larouch, Frank Stein & On the arm of dapper Paul S. May, Joe D’ARichard Sablatura, we lessandro, and Jon Finck, started the evening at the Director of Communicasteps of City Hall, where tions and Public Affairs for Egyptian-costumed ushers the SF Opera, who had invited guided guests inside while a us to the gala. crowd of onlookers The patrons’ snapped phodinner was served tographs and deO N T HE T OWN in the rotunda, lighted in the padecorated with surrade of sumptuous prising restraint and to questionable fashions. Once inside City Hall, cockeffect. Co-chairs Charlot Malin and tails were served in the North Light Mary Poland did what has been disCourt, which was sparsely decorated cussed for years when they decided to

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serve the patrons’ dinner before, not after the performance, creating a very tight schedule, but pleasing most attendees. Finally, over at the Opera House, the champagne flowed and the tongues wagged as old friends caught up and new friendships were forged.

We had a delightful conversation there with Zandra Rhodes, the British designer of the production. She confided that she had created clothes for Divine! Between acts we spoke with Jan Wahl, Christopher Caen, legendary usher Bill Repp, and the BAR’s own Tom Horn, Roberto Friedman, and Michael Yamashita. All in all, it was a magical night!

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thurs., Sept. 16: Locker Room at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Featuring DJ Hotwire. Pumping music at 9 p.m.

Comp clothes check provided by the SoMa Guardians. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thurs., Sept. 16: It Hurts so Good: A Hands-On Class on Sensual Caning Presented by M. Christian at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8-10 p.m. $20 admission. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sun, Sept. 19: The Leather Walk. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at 440 Castro. Leather flag raising at 1 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza on Market & Castro, followed by the two-mile walk down Market, stopping at the Powerhouse, Hole in the Wall, Chaps and ending at the Eagle just in time for the beer bust. Go to: www.mamasfamily.org.

Sun., Sept. 19: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Thurs., Sept. 16: Underwear Night at the Powerhouse (Dore & Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sun., Sept. 19: Sunday Social Play Party at The Edges in Santa Clara. 1-4 p.m. Go to: www.thebrotherhoodsj .com.

Fri., Sept. 17: Pec Night at the Powerhouse, 10 p.m.

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

Sun., Sept. 19: PoHo Sundays at the Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to www.powerhousesf.com.

Fri., Sept. 17: Backpack! Hot Buns contest/entertainment at the Powerhouse, seeking the “best buns in San Francisco.” Emceed by Mark Paladini. Winner takes $100, and their backside becomes the model for the next month’s poster. All door sales ($5 suggested) and money raised go to the AIDS Emergency Fund and Under One Roof. Raffles, special entertainers, and surprise guest judges. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Sept. 20: The Powerhouse Anniversary party.

Come by and help celebrate with specials and entertainment. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Sept. 17: 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. Lots of drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Sept. 17: The SF Citadel & Maestro Stefanos present the original celebration of female submission & male dominance in The Master’s Den: Revelry, first in a triptych leading to Auction. Socialize, learn, play & explore in an environment of decadence, service & respect. At the SF Citadel. 7:15 p.m.-1 a.m. Single Dominants (without invite): $30, Accompanied Dominants: $20, Submissives: $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Sept. 18: Back Bar Action at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back patio and bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., Sept. 18: Uniforms at Chaps Bar. Lots of drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sat., Sept. 18: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 per person. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Sept. 18: Boot Lickin’ at the Powerhouse. 10 p.m.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Sept. 20: SF D/s (Dominant/sub) Discussion Group at the SF Citadel. Doors open at 7 p.m., discussion from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Sept. 21: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Sept. 21: Fire Play with Jeff Tucker at the SF Citadel. 8-10 p.m. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. $20 admission. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Sept. 22: Busted! at Chaps Bar. This week’s edition: Nips (show off your nips or enjoy the nips of others).

Starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Sept. 22: Leathermen’s Discussion Group Fetish Fair and Sampler at the SF Citadel. This is the annual demo party and fundraiser featuring educational demos of just about everything in BDSM play, from spanking to OMG, performed by the best male Tops and bottoms in the SF Bay Area. Open to all genders as guests. Must be 18 or older. 7:30-10:30 p.m. $25 suggested. Go to: www.sfldg.org or www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Sept. 22: SoMa Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, Eagle) have specials for those who have the Men’s Club dogtags. See your favorite SoMa bar for details.

Wed., Sept. 22: Leather Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison), doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m., play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

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Reliably raw nent info on Hurles (read the artist’s own blog, at www. hen Speedy - The Old ReliOldReliableFund able Photos of David Hurles .blogspot.com), I’m was published in 2005, my not going to go into it reaction was qualified. Many guys all here. I’d prefer to groove in a big way on this street celebrate the book as a trade – classless, cigar-chomping, just tribute to Hurles. bird-flipping, only infrequently atThe book’s text may tractive and nearly uniformly be only a couple straight. Not so me; I think my love pages, but it’s a lively of Pretty is well-known. I found telling of the story by Hurles’ work more sociological than Hurles himself, who sexual, and thought the photos didn’t is appreciably candid so much show technique as lack it. and perceptive. This But the collection of black & white is as close to an autophotos was accompanied by a fascibiography as we’re nating text. Famed artist Rex offered going to get, since an appreciation, an intellectually based Hurles is now pretty analysis, and a lengthy biography of much incapacitated Hurles that drew me in. Even if I by the massive stroke couldn’t JO to Hurles’ work, I could he suffered in 2008, while now appreciate how he downplayed working on the book. “Somehow,” technical polish so the guys could Hurles writes, “I vividly recall the open up and show their truth, letting stroke itself; it was like falling backhim capture their erotic menace. And wards into rose petals, everything the models I once disdained I now engoing pink and soft behind my eyejoyed as his colorful (to say the least) lids.” The guy’s not only a masterful cast of characters. photographer, but can write, too.

Colorful is the word for a new colThe book ends with a swell lection, Outcast - David Hurles’ Codex of model thumbOld Reliable in Living Color nails, where Hurles offers (Green Candy Press; papersnappy descriptions that bound, $35), which preilluminate the hetero sents, as the title proworld behind his phoclaims, 160 pages of 200 tos: the hustlers and photos selected by the grifters, their girlfriends, artist, most filling a full thuggery, weaponry (is there page, and all, yes all, in another gay photographfull color. er who lists a gun among My late friend RonK ARRNAL his equipment?), their tatnetttte used to pick up the rattiest guys on K NOWLEDGE toos (where else do lowlife tattoos enhance a Market Street, or in the model’s brutal beauty?), back of the Strand their sex life (David bedded a lot of Theatre. He’d take them home, loosen em) and the long-standing friendships them with a joint and a beer, and take he enjoyed with many. photos of them, hard-on in hand. He “Rick G went to prison for stealing called them his “Flowers of Asphalt.” my car. I didn’t want to turn him in, The publicity for Hurles’ book offers but the car was new and I wanted it descriptions in a similar vein. The men back. He got a lot of tattoos in prison of this “mosaic portrait of backstreet and was even more beautiful when he America” are called “hard-knock beaugot out, whereupon he forgave me and ties” who have “a gutter intensity.” we had great sex.

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“Lanny was a husky man who stole my gun and put it in his girlfriend’s purse. I next saw him at a gas station in the desert as I drove across country. I never retrieved the gun.

“Barry was the real Midnight Cowboy, who inspired the book and the movie – a rebel from South Carolina who I first shot at age 30 and last shot at 50.

“Allen F; a bad boy trying to be good. And he was oh so good; the best fuck there ever was.

“Cobra Jim’s wife was in labor giving birth to his child when these photos were taken.”

I really enjoy the quality and nature of the tattoos on these guys. They’re not at all the pretty, gaily butch style sported by queer boys these days, but badly designed, poorly placed and executed prison tats of white power, naked girls, swastikas, helmeted skeletons, and so on that say: low-class, rough trade, danger, True Str8 Dude Butch. I also enjoy the mighty fine dick some of them are proud to show off. Just like gay boys, straight dudes know when they got the goods. Like the thing of great beauty on otherwise scrawny, gnarly-faced Mike Adams.

Says David, “He was humble about his qualities, but he knew.”M

On the Town into homes all over the country, challenging preconceptions and surprising many. After her smashing premiere in Hollywood two days before, it was only proper to have a local party for Cassandra here. Joining us were Dean D’Onofrio, Steven Brewster, Sunday’s a Drag producer Michael Pagan and stars Holotta Tymes and Mahlae.

Seven more episodes follow, scheduled for Midnight each Thursday.

The Imperial Star Empire of Alameda held their annual Coronation last Saturday in Hayward, and Regent Emperors Christian DiorEssence and Jason Parkos attracted quite a crowd. The barnyard/jungle theme gave some license to underdress atrociously, but others incorporated the theme into their formal attire.

Courts as far away as Hawaii and Connecticut were represented. From SF were the Reigning Emperor Steven Dorsey and Empress Renita Valdez, Emperor Brian Benamati and his husband Tony Onorati, Empress Angelina Josephina Manicotti and Mike Manicotti, Emperor John Weber, Frankie Fernandez, Saybeline, Emma Peel, and more. Two highlights of the evening were the production number staged by the Imperial Court of Reno and choreographed by their Reigning Emperor Christopher, and the dramatic entrance of the Court of Sacramento with Emperor Terry Sidie in theatrical face paint and surrounded by four handsome boys body-painted to look like black-and-white panthers.

After the Coronation, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to pop into the fabulous Turf Club. This spacious, beautifully appointed bar with a sprawling outdoor deck makes San

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Miguel Vargas at a previous Utopia pool party.

Francisco bars jealous!

We finally made it to Utopia last Sunday, a periodic pool party hosted

by Greg Bronstein and Lord Martine at the Hyatt Regency near the airport.

Initially, this idea seemed far-fetched, but after hearing of large numbers at the previous two parties, we had to see it for ourselves. A Cadillac Escalade whisked us from Trigger to the hotel, where the large pool was filled and surrounded by smiling, dancing, barely dressed celebrants. Tented cabanas on one side invited more relaxing behavior, and grilled food was available on the lawn above. Great music pounded, colorful decorations wafted in the breeze, and we found our reservations completely unfounded. With the best of our summer weather still to come, surely there will be another Utopia soon, so watch for press announcements, and don’t miss it.

If you remember talented musicians Houston Allred & Norman Andersen, previously of SF but now living in Hawaii, you won’t want to miss their two-day appearance here at Martuni’s this weekend, 7-9 p.m. on Sat., and 1-3 p.m. on Sun. Be prepared for skillful musicianship, biting political commentary, and warm conviviality.

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation does it again, bringing you members of the cast of Dreamgirls, currently playing at the Curran Theatre, in an evening of music, dance, and comedy at the Marines Memorial Theatre this Mon., Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Additional guests include Sheryl Lee Ralph, Syesha Mercado, and Tim Hockenberry. And the hilarious Leslie Jordan plays the Rrazz Room all weekend. His brazen humor will keep you in stitches, and his unapologetic selfconfidence gives us new courage.M

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Organ histrionics Cameron LIVE! the CD, the DVD Cameron Carpenter (Telarc)

rganist Cameron Carpenter is a trip. Intentionally setting himself apart from other organists, the bisexual, under-30 artist has built an international reputation for daring interpretations and audacious behavior. To supplement the well-recorded CD, Carpenter’s DVD intersperses serious performances of Bach and others with spoken com-

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class. I wrote a scene where the Santiago character showed up as a ghost. I love the idea of death becoming a new beginning. Miguel and Santiago can finally see their love out in the open. Traditionally in Latin American literature, death can be seen as a new beginning. The ghost represents the external conflict of Miguel’s character. The ghost is a metaphor for the character’s dilemmas.

How long did Undertow take to develop and complete?

The funny thing is we shot it in six weeks, while it took eight years to

bined, and injected into the cadaver of the defenseless Franz Schubert. It’s perfect as accompaniment for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or some similar silent horror flick. I wish he had let Schubert rest in peace.

Bottom line: If you care even an iota about the organ, you must experience the Cameron Carpenter phenomenon. This CD conveys it all.

You may fall in love with at least some of what he’s doing.M

mentary. His trademark white spangled pumps dance on the organ’s pedals faster than Fred Astaire could whip Ginger Rogers around the stage. With fingers equally liquid, he is definitely a phenomenon who cannot be ignored. But there are big questions about his showmanship, taste, and judgment.

To these ears and heart, things come to a head when Carpenter follows his fabulous rendition of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture with a theater-organ rendition of Schubert’s great song Der Erlkönig (The

Erl King). To convey the full impact of this gruesome setting of Goethe’s poetry, he pulls out all the Wurlitzer’s stops. The lowest notes growl, wind sounds whisper, and some bars sound like a merry-go-round gone berserk. It’s as though the DNA of Virgil Fox and Franz Liszt (one of Carpenter’s big influences) had been com-

raise the money. This allowed me to work continually on the script, and therefore be tough on myself. There were two screenwriting workshops, at Sundance and in Spain. Some tough-minded writers asked me questions like, Why a ghost? An Argentine writer asked me why the gay lover has to die.

ghost, and I’m not cheating on my boyfriend, yet. I do believe that homophobia comes from within – it describes the way I felt when I first came out – I was my own worst enemy. The town is not as bad as Miguel himself. I wanted to shoot in a rural area partly because in urban areas, we tend to label everything.

How has it been received in Peru?

It hasn’t been screened in Peru yet – that’s slated to happen August 26. My dream is to take the film to the town where we shot it. They don’t have a movie theatre there, so I don’t know how we’ll do it or how they’ll react.

Is Undertow at all autobiographical?

No. I’m not a fisherman or a

Manolo Cardona, who plays Santiago, is a huge star in Latin America.

How did you get him?

How did you find the fishing village?

I wrote it without a town in mind, and I just traveled in the north of the country, and when I got there I felt that this was the right place: a town crushed between the

The townfolks were eager to revamp their image. Back in the 1940s, the town was known for the world’s largest marlin catch – Hemingway was involved, and it was a rich myth.

There were a few people who feared that the world would think that everyone in the town was gay, but most of the folks were not worried.

I do believe that homophobia comes from within – it describes the way I felt when I first came out – I was my own worst enemy.”

Cardona is the Brad Pitt of Latin America.

He’s straight, but it was not hard to convince to – take the role, he doesn’t see himself as just a pretty face. When I asked him which actor he’d like to pattern himself after, he said Sean Penn, and not just because of Milk. He said, “I’ll do the sex and whatever is needed, but I want to make sure that the love between the men comes across.”

Where did you find Cristian Mercado?

He’s from Bolivia. I got a casting agent who had worked for Steven Soderbergh on Che. He said, if you don’t find Director Javier Fuentes-Leon your guy in Peru, he knew somebody who would be perfect. Mercado is attractive without cliffs and the mountains, reflecting being a pretty boy, he brings a conMiguel’s claustrophobia. At first we trasting masculinity to the role. I was didn’t tell the townfolks what the looking for chemistry, and the two film was about. We said it was about guys bonded immediately: they a guy with a friend who nobody started playing soccer, then prolikes. But they caught on pretty fast. gressed into sex later.M

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queerness constituted acts of defiance and bravery. Fast-forward to 2010 and a less repressive, closeted context: Suggestions takes queer identity as a given, and with “outness” no longer a pressing issue, moves into the realm of political activism, beyond dominant gay and lesbian culture, and implicitly asks: What’s next?

A departure from the gallery’s usual fare, the show includes photography, film, video and installations (as well as flyers and artifacts, like the ephemera assembled from Gay Shame’s theatrical direct actions) which are expressions of activism, independent adventures in community, loosely formed alliances and experiments in alternative living.

Works by 16 artists and artist collectives are divided into three broad thematic sections: the public arena as a site for protest, education and affection; self-organized communities, intentional and imagined; Utopian worlds and the performance of selfdetermination.

Designing an exhibit to advance a socio-political thesis, however wellfounded or free from dogmatism, is a tricky proposition and has its pitfalls, as demonstrated by a show whose theoretical/philosophical underpinnings are its least persuasive feature.

Art has power on its own terms to engage and move the viewer; but for the most part here, artistic considerations take a back seat to political ones. One can only imagine the impact if those priorities were on equal footing.

In the best instances, artists wed their talent to salient points. The first gallery displays excerpts from Steven Miller’s Reclamations, a group of staged color photographs capturing “forbidden” affection between men in public places such as one in which a young father, walking on the street with his child, eyes two men stealing a furtive kiss in an alleyway. In another, lovers clutch each other next to the supply racks in a warehouse. But

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Work by Kirstyn Russell, part of Suggestions of a Life Being Lived.

the couple making out in the backseat of a bus, undeterred by their fellow passengers, speaks to bravado beyond politics or sexual orientation.

Has anyone tried this on Muni?

While taboos may be oppressive, Miller seems to suggest, it can be thrilling to break them. The “transgressive actions” of his subjects, he writes, “made mundane locales into sexually charged spaces.”

Humor and parody triumph in the show’s most enjoyable and effective works. Canadian provocateur Allyson Mitchell, a self-described maximalist artist, fat activist and member of Pretty Porky and Pissed Off, blends feminism, the tyranny of pop culture, autobiography, sexuality, food and body image into an amusing, thought-provoking brew that nonetheless has an edge. A homey, makeshift tent made of patchwork afghan blankets with a sign on top that reads “Pride is a Pyramid Scheme” doubles as a lowtech screening room for a loop of the artist’s short films: Free! Bake! Sale!, My Life in 5 Minutes, Chow Down, Unca Trans and Candy Love.

Mitchell, a video artist and sculptor, also uses found textiles and abandoned craft. “Lady Sasquatch,” whose image leaps out from a fiberrug square, is Mitchell’s well-fortified, hairy answer to the toned,

smooth-skinned centerfolds favored

by Playboy.

Across the way, you can sit on a sofa and watch Falling in Love with Chris and Greg, a satiric, gay soapopera/reality show produced by and starring Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans. In episodic format, it chronicles the ups and downs of this reallife, overeducated, odd couple – one is a liberal, one is a radical; one is transgendered, the other is not. (Youmans has a Ph.D. from UCSC’s History of Consciousness program, while Vargas, who appears to be the more easygoing of the two, is a filmmaker. Eric Stanley and Vargas’ Criminal Queers screens Oct. 5-23.) A drawing of the pair by Jason Fritz hangs on the wall of an ersatz living room where video episodes play in rotation.

Though they don’t seem to have much in common, Chris and Greg somehow soldier on, tackling thorny issues which, in their very mundanity, represent a sign of progress: open relationships, Canadianism, lactose intolerance, the horror of receding hairlines, gay marriage and pregnant men, though not necessarily in that order.M Suggestions of a Life Being Lived, at SF Camerawork through Oct. 23.

Info: www.sfcamerawork.org or (415) 512-2020

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