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proposed development along San Francisco’s waterfront has prompted an expensive ballot fight this fall, but it remains to be seen if the controversial project is enough to drive voters to the polls in a local election year devoid of contested citywide races. Known as 8 Washington, the mixed-use project would replace an asphalt parking lot owned by the Port of San Francisco and a private tennis club on the Embarcadero run by the Bay Club with 134 luxury condos, new storefronts, new public park space, and a rebuilt members-only recreation club with new swimming pools replacing the tennis courts. Because it will not include any affordable units on site, the project is expected to pay an $11 million in-lieu fee toward building belowmarket-rate housing elsewhere in the city. “It is better for the city than protecting a private tennis club at all costs,” PJ Johnston, a spokesman for the project, told the Bay Area Reporter during a recent editorial board meeting. Opponents of the project, however, have decried it as a “wall on the waterfront” due to city leaders granting the local developer, Simon W.R. Snellgrove and his Pacific Waterfront Partners, LLC, a height increase from 84 feet to 136 feet for the site. Pointing to estimates that the units could average $5 million, they also contend the building will add to the city’s rising rents and housing prices. “The city is granting to the developer the space that is there to develop their high-rise condos,” said Board of Supervisors President See page 24 >>

s it celebrates its 30th anniversary, the Folsom Street Fair is making some changes while honoring decades of leather and kink tradition, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity, and welcoming newcomers. “Come, have fun, dress up, and get in gear. Don’t recycle your Burning Man outfit, but come in your fetish gear, and have a good time,” said Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, referring to the annual art festival that, like Folsom Street, is known for its creative outfits. Last year, Moshoyannis’s nonprofit, which produces the Folsom and Up Your Alley street fairs and the Magnitude, Deviants, and Bay of Pigs parties, distributed about $324,000 from the events to AIDS-related and other charities. He hopes that this year’s checks will put the total handed out through the years over the $5 million mark. This year’s fair takes place Sunday, September 29, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Folsom between 7th and 12th streets in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. There’s a $10 suggested donation. Donors will get $2 off each drink throughout the day. All gate donations go to the charities. Main stage headliners include Light Asylum,

Flag-bearers step off at Castro and Market streets for the 22nd annual LeatherWalk Sunday, September 22. This year’s walk, which kicks off Leather Week, raised $11,000 for the AIDS Emergency Fund. It concluded at the Eagle Tavern, where a giant leather flag was raised. Jane Philomen Cleland

Miami Horror, and Hercules and Love Affair. Organizers have added an extra half hour to the event, in commemoration of their 30th year. But that’s just one of the new elements for the festival, which each year draws hundreds of thousands of people dressed in everything from leather dog costumes to nothing at all.

The erotic artists’ area is moving to Eighth Street, north of Folsom, and will feature a new performance art stage. Constructs of Ritual Evolution will perform live, choreographed hook suspensions, where people will be suspended through See page 2 >>

Impromptu party spawned legendary dance fundraiser

Gina Gatta, co-curator of the exhibit “Be Bad ... Do Good,” introduced her colleagues, Matthew Johnson, Brandon Smith, and Suzan Revah, during the opening at the GLBT History Museum last month. Rick Gerharter

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t started with, unsurprisingly, a group of gay guys looking to have a bit more fun a quarter century ago and morphed into a generator of nearly $2 million raised for local LGBT groups and AIDS agencies. The genesis for the now legendary Real Bad dance party – a private, ticketed event held after the annual Folsom Street Fair – was an impromptu gathering of a circle of friends held

after the Castro Street Fair in 1989. That Sunday night Jim Guequierre and his lover, Jeff Swenton, invited a group of friends back to their place to continue the revelry and served margaritas, which would become a hallmark of the event. “It was a group of us at the Castro Street Fair looking for something else to do. So we went to a friend’s loft to party and dance,” recalled David Barbieri, 57, a gay man who lives in San Francisco. “That was how we started it. It just

grew year after year.” By 1991 the party had moved to a club space South of Market. That year the group Grass Roots Gay Rights West, modeled after a similar organization on the East Coast, was formed to oversee the dance party and determine how to allocate the proceeds. By 1995 the group opted to move up the dance party a week sooner to coincide with the Folsom Street Fair, the city’s infamous fetish event that attracts revelers from around the globe to San Francisco the last Sunday of September. “They wanted it to be a men’s party. The Castro Street Fair was a younger crowd, it wasn’t a leather crowd,” said Barbieri, who helped sell tickets to the early dances and recruited others, known as hosts, to also promote the event and recruit their friends to attend. “It became the hottest party of the weekend, with the best looking guys and the best music.” This Sunday night, September 29, will mark the 25th anniversary of the queer dance party. To mark the occasion, organizers created a 12-minute video documenting the event’s history and contributions to the local LGBT community as part of a small, corner exhibit that opened in August at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro. See page 25 >>

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s the organization that oversees San Francisco Pride prepares for a new board of directors, one of those who will be at the table is one of the youngest members in decades, according to longtime community activists. Jose Cital, 21, was one of six candidates of the San Francisco Pride Members for Democracy, Accountability, and Transparency elected at the San Francisco LGBT Pride Pride Celebration Committee’s September 15 annual general meeting. Over coffee in the Castro recently, Cital, wearing a maroon T-shirt designed with a bunk bed that read: “Top or Bottom. It’s Your Call,” talked about his life, growing up gay in Fresno, and his plans as a new Pride board member. Cital said he realized he was gay in middle school. His mom asked him on his 15th birthday if he was gay. He came out to his family. “It was not a good birthday,” he recalled. His parents and siblings were accepting, but family difficulties arose over his sexuality. Cital, who described himself as “a huge environmentalist,” graduated Central High School, where he excelled in English and journalism. When his gay-themed articles were rejected by editors of the school’s Grizzly Claw newspaper, he offered to distribute the paper on campus. He then slipped inserts of his articles into the newspaper. After moving to San Francisco in 2010, Cital initially found it difficult to afford housing and to make friends. That changed, he said, when he met community activist Bruce Beaudette at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro on Harvey Milk Day. “It was the final tour of the day,” Beaudette said in an email. Beaudette stirred Cital’s passion for history and interested him in joining San Francisco Pride during the height of the controversy surrounding Army Private Chelsea Manning, which stemmed from the Pride board’s announcement and quick rescission of Manning, who leaked confidential government documents to WikiLeaks, as a community grand marshal in the 2013 parade. Cital cited Beaudette as his motivation for seeking a position on the San Francisco Pride board of directors. “Later, I invited Jose to the SF Pride public forum at MCC to hear community comments on the Manning controversy and he stood and spoke about Manning and the community and impressed people,” Beaudette said. When he submitted his board application, Cital said Pride secretary Lou Fischer asked him if he would

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hooks in their backs and other parts of their bodies. Folsom Street is hoping to give more people the experience of thinking, “Am I really seeing what I think I’m seeing?” said Moshoyannis. Also this year, elevated steel cage dancers will be returning to the fair. The festival will include demonstration stations where people can find basic information about whipping and other types of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism). “We’ve never done that before,” said Moshoyannis. “We feel like we want to step up our education efforts a little bit more.” This will be the first Folsom Street Fair since the city outlawed public nudity, but urban nudists should

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Jose Cital listened to speakers during a Pride board candidate forum earlier this month.

have time to serve as he had job and school commitments. Due to his flexible work and school hours, he said he told her he might be the member with the most time to spend on Pride’s work. Cital’s only concern about his commitment to San Francisco Pride is that he is dependent on public access computers as he does not own one. “I am trying to save money to buy one,” he said. He said he was “genuine and true” in his run for the Pride board and he feels that came across at the candidate forum in the Castro and when he addressed the membership at the annual general meeting. He said he spoke with an innocence and trust and members rewarded him with their votes. Other newly elected board members said that they look forward to serving with Cital as part of the team. “Jose is a breath of fresh air as a young, new resident to the city and the SF Pride board,” Gary Virginia, a longtime city resident and newly elected Pride board member, said in an email. “Too often youth are not cultivated for leadership positions in the queer community, whether it be neighborhood associations, nonprofit organizations, or political clubs. I find Jose well-spoken, frank, and wise beyond his 21 years.” Joey Cain, another veteran gay activist, said that Cital is one of the younger people to be elected to the Pride board. Cain served on the board for several years, including stints as president, and will be returning to the board as he was also elected on the accountability slate earlier this month. “He spoke very movingly at the community meeting Pride held on the Private Manning grand marshal issue and I look forward to working with him on the board,” Cain said in not worry as permitted events such as the fair are exempt. “With fewer opportunities” to be naked in public, Moshoyannis expects more people will be nude at this year’s festival. Fair organizers are expanding the clothes check option, making two locations available. One will be at the bicycle parking area outside Mr. S Leather, 385 8th Street. The other will be near the main stage on 10th Street, just off Folsom. Expenses for Folsom Street Fair alone are expected to be over $400,000. That includes some of the money that will be distributed to beneficiaries. The nonprofit hopes to have about $624,000 in income from the fair. One of the agencies that will benefit from this year’s festival is Shanti, which provides emotional and practical support to people who are

an email. As a new board member, Cital said his first action will be to fulfill his responsibilities and his campaign promises of accountability and transparency in all San Francisco Pride decisions. Another new face to the Pride board will be Jesse Oliver Sanford, who said he was also impressed with Cital’s remarks at the Manning forum. “He was remarkably articulate, and he has a wonderful silly sense of humor, but it was his grasp of the emotional dimensions of the situation, for board members as well as the community, that made him stand out,” Sanford said in an email. “He really spoke to the heart of the matter.” Cital said he sees a decline in participation in the Pride parade and festival by LGBT community elders and he wants to “bridge the generation gap” by bringing them back. “People should be proud of their age,” he said. He feels younger LGBT community members could learn history from elders. On AIDS, Cital’s easy smile disappeared. He paused and said, “I had an uncle who died of AIDS.” As a tear rolled down his right cheek, he said he did not learn of his uncle’s condition until his death. He said he was honored to serve on the SF Pride board with Virginia, an AIDS survivor. While he works retail in the Castro, Cital said, “Politics is the most honest work” for him. He said he thrives on the excitement of politics and he enjoys working with people, solving problems, and discussing issues. He cited the late Empress I Jose Sarria as an inspiration. Sarria, who died last month, was the first openly gay person to run for elective office in America when he sought a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1961. Cital is a student at City College of San Francisco, where he plans to double major in film and dance. He has been active on campus, and participated in a teach in at City Hall to call attention to CCSF’s dire financial situation and “to fight for education.” While watching the film The Times of Harvey Milk, Cital realized that earlier he had stood near the City Hall offices where Milk and Mayor George Moscone had been assassinated in 1978. It was then he realized that Milk fought for LGBT equality at City Hall in the 1970s and Cital was also there fighting for something else. It gave him a sense of history, he said. “I feel a part of the LGBT community now,” Cital said. He said he had a sense of history about his role as an SF Pride board member. “I bring a sense and appreciation of history with me to Pride,” he said.t living with diseases including HIV and cancer. “Folsom Street has probably been one of the most longtime supporters of AIDS organizations in San Francisco. We love and are honored to be a part of it,” said Kaushik Roy, Shanti’s executive director. Roy added that over the years, “They’ve given us probably over six figures in donations.” See page 25 >>

Correction In the September 19 article, “Freedom band hires new artistic director,” the annual budget for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band was incorrectly reported. The figure is $110,000. The online version has been corrected.

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Health care enrollment to start by Seth Hemmelgarn

eginning Tuesday, October 1, people across the country who don’t have insurance will be able to enroll in health care coverage. As part of the Affordable Care Act, the national health care reform, which becomes effective January 1, almost everyone will be required to have insurance. Income-based assistance will be available to help people pay premiums. For months, officials have been urging people to enroll in Covered California and get access to care. The state-run program was brought about by the ACA and is designed to expand access to health care to millions of people. The open enrollment period that begins in less than a week ends March 31. In a White House forum September 12 to launch the Out2Enroll education campaign, Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said that as of Tuesday, “for the first time,” millions of people who don’t have coverage “will be able to sign up for affordable, quality health care.” “Being LGBT is no longer a preexisting condition,” said Jarrett. People can get care when they need it “as opposed to waiting until your symptoms are so acute you go to the emergency room.” Under the ACA, people who are living with HIV or AIDS and other pre-existing conditions can’t be denied coverage. But the enrollment process may be intimidating for some.

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The San Francisco LGBT Community Center is part of a statewide collaboration that’s reaching out to LGBTs to educate them and encourage them to enroll in health care. “A lot of people are very confused about what does this mean? What’s going to be available to me? ... We see ourselves as an important link to people getting the information they need to make good decisions,” said Rebecca Rolfe, the community center’s executive director. Most of the people the center works with are very low- or lowincome, said Rolfe. The LGBT center’s role includes educating people about their options, answering basic questions, and collecting people’s contact information. The center will make information available at its front desk. Additionally, when people enroll in programs at the center, staff will be screening for whether they have health care “and what their eligibility for subsidized care is,” said Rolfe, who said that the center hasn’t been tasked with actually enrolling people. In an email, Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, executive director of Lyon-Martin Health Services, said that her agency is hoping to work with the center to get people enrolled. The work involving the community center and several other organizations is being funded by a $1 million outreach and education grant from Covered California. Kate Burch, who’s managing the grant, is the director of the LGBT Health and Human Services Network for the nonprofit Health Access. What people without insurance should most know is “they are most likely going to be able to get insurance starting in 2014,” said Burch, either through Medi-Cal, which is for low-income people, or through Covered California, “where they’ll be able to get subsidies to help them afford paying for insurance.” For LGBTs who already have insurance, especially those who have individual insurance not provided by an employer, “they should know they have the option to find new insurance. They have the option to shop around now,” she said.

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LGBT Community Center Executive Director Rebecca Rolfe said the center is part of a statewide collaborative on distributing information about the Affordable Care Act.

Burch said her main concern is that “not enough people know” about the available opportunities. “There are still so many people who haven’t heard about the health care reforms and aren’t really aware they can get insurance or shop for new insurance that will be cheaper” starting in October, she said. The Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley is also part of the collaboration to do outreach and education work. As part of its efforts, people from the center have visited events like Oakland’s LGBT Pride festival earlier this month. Leo Brown, the center’s program coordinator, said, “A lot of people have misconceptions about health care in general, getting insured. A lot of people don’t know what the new laws are, essentially, so it’s pretty much just a big vacuum of information.” People’s questions have included, “How much is it going to cost?” and “What’s going to be covered?” said Brown. He said that he and others don’t give people price quotes, but “I personally feel the change will cover most Californians. I do think that they have set things up in a fashion where essentially everyone can be covered. You have to go really out of your way to not be covered once the new year starts.” Brown acknowledged that some people, such as immigrants who entered the country illegally, will still not be eligible for coverage. He believes that state officials “will be offering some assistance to people who aren’t documented,” but it’s unclear what that coverage would look like. Overall, Brown said, “I would say that people don’t really have anything to lose from this. It’s a winwin. It’s better to be insured than not.”

National leaders encourage enrollment by LGBTs

Separately from the Covered California grant, the Center for American Progress, the Sellers Dorsey Foundation, and the Federal Agencies Project recently launched Out2Enroll, a campaign meant to inform LGBTs about the new coverage options and encourage them to enroll. At the campaign’s launch earlier this month, Jarrett, the Obama adviser, spoke of the importance of educating people about health care reform’s benefits. “This comes down to talking to people who you know and trust you, and talking to them about why it’s

Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett is helping the administration roll out the Affordable Care Act.

so important they sign up for health insurance,” she said. One of the goals of those ramping up Covered California is to see younger people purchase health insurance. Under the ACA, young adults can stay on their parents’ health insurance until they are 26. After that, they will need to purchase insurance if, for example, it’s not offered through their employer. The new health care law relies on large numbers of young, healthy people purchasing insurance to offset the expenses associated with health care for those who are ill. Jarrett made special reference to young people, who may think they’re invincible. “People do get sick,” she said. “They do get into accidents.” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius also spoke at the event. “One in three lower income LGBT adults in America don’t have health insurance,” said Sebelius. “One in three. We are talking about a community that can be hugely and beneficially impacted by what’s about to happen.” She also highlighted disparities in care, saying that her agency is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect data on sexual orientation and gender identity. “We have to be able to measure what’s happening in order to understand what’s happening” and “target interventions,” said Sebelius. For more information, visit http://www.coveredca.com or call (888) 975-1142.t For more on how the ACA will affect people living with HIV/AIDS, see the Guest Opinion on page 6.

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Existing drugs control HIV in lab cells, but no cure yet

Ciclopirox, an ingredient in various products used to treat fungal infections, has been shown to inhibit HIV replication in lab tests, but more work is needed, researchers said.

by Liz Highleyman

wo drugs approved for other uses can inhibit HIV replication and trigger the death of HIVinfected cells in laboratory tests, researchers reported this week. These findings suggest a potential new approach for eradicating the virus, but it will likely be years – if ever – before it can be used as part of a practical cure strategy. Hartmut Hanauske-Abel and Michael Mathews from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and colleagues tested two related drugs, ciclopirox and deferiprone, in human embryonic stem cell cultures and in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) infected with HIV obtained from two patients. Ciclopirox is an ingredient in various products used to treat fungal infections such as athlete’s foot and vaginal yeast infection. Deferiprone (brand name Ferriprox) is an oral chelating agent used to manage iron overload in people with beta thalassemia, a genetic condition that causes reduced hemoglobin production. For more than a decade Hanauske-Abel’s team has been studying a novel strategy for blocking HIV replication and its detrimental effects. Their latest findings, published September 23 in the online journal PLoS ONE, explain how this multi-pronged approach works and how it might one day contribute to viral eradication in people with HIV. The researchers found that both ciclopirox and deferiprone interfere with HIV in multiple ways. First, the drugs blocked HIV gene expression by DNA fragmentation, preventing production of new virus. In the stem cell cultures, ciclopirox and deferiprone decreased HIV expression by 40 to 50 percent. In acutely infected PBMCs, ciclopirox completely suppressed establishment of productive infection. In PBMCs with already established infection, adding the drug reduced viral levels to undetectable. Viral breakthrough did not occur during 30 days of treatment. Even 12 weeks after stopping the drug, viral replication did not restart, suggesting that the reservoir of latent HIV was eliminated, according to the researchers. Second, the drugs disrupted HIV’s control over apoptosis, or cell suicide. Normally cells infected with viruses undergo programmed cell death, but HIV neutralizes this natural defense mechanism. This allows activated T-cells to continue producing infectious virus and enables establishment of a reservoir of HIV genetic material in long-lived inactive cells. Existing antiretroviral drugs can block HIV replication but cannot reach this hidden latent vi-

rus, which is why HIV is so hard to eradicate and why people must stay on antiretroviral treatment for life. Ciclopirox and deferiprone restored the normal cell suicide response in HIV-infected cells by altering the function of mitochondria, or energy-producing structures within cells – a mechanism the researchers dubbed “therapeutic reclamation of apoptotic proficiency,” or TRAP. In the stem cell cultures, cell survival decreased by about two-fold at 24 hours and by about five-fold at 48 hours after drug treatment. In PBMCs, 72 percent of HIV-exposed cells treated with ciclopirox underwent apoptosis. Healthy uninfected cells, however, were minimally affected. The researchers tested 1 percent ciclopirox cream in vaginal tissue in mice, and saw no damage at concentrations high enough to suppress HIV. “These drugs can block virus production and seem to cause the infected cells to self-destruct,” HIV cure expert Sharon Lewin from Monash University in Melbourne told the Bay Area Reporter. “Drugs that don’t just ‘shock’ but also ‘kill’ latently infected cells are what the field is currently searching for, so these drugs could be promising, but there’s plenty more work to do.” Because ciclopirox and deferiprone are already approved for human use, the researchers suggested they might be able to move through the drug evaluation process more quickly. Co-author Deepti Saxena and colleagues have already performed a proof-of-concept Phase 1 clinical trial of deferiprone in a small number of people with HIV in South Africa. Findings have not yet been published, but according to the PLoS ONE article, a one-week course of deferiprone reduced HIV viral load as much as AZT, and the effect persisted for seven weeks of post-treatment follow-up. The next step, the researchers proposed, could be testing the drugs’ antiretroviral activity in HIV-positive people who are taking them for their approved indications. Up to one-quarter of people with beta thalassemia in resource-limited countries are infected with HIV, they noted. Three of the co-authors work for ApoPharma, which is developing deferiprone as an HIV therapy. Rutgers, Cornell University, and the National Institutes of Health have one patent for this approach and four more are pending. “The team has uncovered a novel therapeutic approach which has promise,” Dr. Steven Deeks from UCSF told the B.A.R. “The approach will unlikely work alone, however, and it will likely take years to determine if this work might one day contribute to a cure.”t

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Tone changes, habits don’t

e wonder if Pope Francis’s new tone on gays and lesbians would extend to San Francisco’s unique Folsom Street Fair, where cage dancers and others will be prancing around South of Market wearing little to nothing. Whether he might bat an eye or not, the gigantic fetish street fair will be revealed in all of its glory Sunday, when hundreds of thousands of people descend on South of Market streets to take it all in. The pope’s surprising comments last week in an interview with America, a Jesuit magazine, indeed could usher in a new era for the Vatican. Francis was absolutely correct in his pronouncement that the Catholic Church is “obsessed” with same-sex marriage, abortion, and birth control and his advice that church leaders should shift their focus to the person, and emphasize compassion rather than damnation. The pope’s comments will surely encourage Catholic families who are struggling with their LGBT children. Parents can look to the pope and realize, as National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell told us, that they “now have permission to love LGBT people in their families ...” In short, Francis, who answered “Who am I to judge” when he was asked for his opinion on

homosexuality, is a pope focused on opening hearts and minds in a way that was sorely lacking from his predecessors. Unfortunately, old habits are hard to break. We’ve already heard reports via the Huffington Post of an Australian priest who was excommunicated due to his support for same-sex marriage. This week the New York Times reported that a Catholic college in Rhode Island disinvited a gay philosophy professor who had been asked to speak about marriage equality. The school’s provost made the announcement one day after Francis’s interview was published and he called for the church to “find a new balance.” In our reporting on the pope’s interview this week, we were surprised that the spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco hinted that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone might finally be ready to talk with LGBTs. “I think he is really going to engage more active-

ly” in dialogue with the gay community, Christine A. Mugridge, director of media relations, told us. Cordileone, who previously served as the bishop of Oakland, has had two assignments in Bay Area cities with large and active LGBT populations, including many active and former Catholics. We invite the archbishop to sit down with us for an interview as part of that dialogue. It would be a tremendous first step as local Catholics – gay and straight alike – try to find relevance in a church that has left many of them behind.t

Countdown to health care reform in CA by Anne Donnelly and Courtney Mulhern-Pearson

alifornia is among the states moving forward with full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which means that millions of uninsured and underinsured Californians, including many with HIV, will have access to insurance coverage for the first time. Beginning in January, California will expand its Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) to serve all legally present Californians who make less than 138 percent of the federal poverty limit (about $15,000 annually for one person). The state will also establish an insurance marketplace, Covered California, where people will be able to purchase insurance from qualified health plans. Changes brought about by the ACA will mean that plans can no longer turn you down or charge you more because you have a pre-existing condition. As a result, many uninsured people with HIV will now have a historic opportunity to secure health coverage that was previously unattainable. At the same time, the ACA presents a significant challenge for some people with HIV who currently depend on Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act funding for their medical services. The Ryan White program is a “payer of last resort,” which means that if someone is eligible for health care services under another coverage program, Ryan White funding can’t be used to cover those same services. As a result, HIV-positive people who are newly eligible for insurance under health care reform will need to understand how their coverage may change. The new coverage begins January 1, but open enrollment for the expanded MediCal program and Covered California plans begins October 1.

Understanding where you fit in health care reform

Most people with HIV will not see significant changes in their insurance. If you already have comprehensive insurance, Medi-Cal or Medicare, or some combination of those programs, you may have some new benefits and new protections (including a cap on the amount of money you spend out of your pocket on health care each year) but mostly your insurance will remain the same. People who depend on Ryan White or who are enrolled in Healthy San Francisco, which is not insurance coverage, could see some significant changes in their health care. People who are enrolled in the San Francisco PATH Program will be transitioned in to Medi-Cal. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for the expanded coverage options under the ACA and will continue to rely on their current health care programs. Your coverage eligibility is determined by income using your 2012 Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) found on your tax

returns, and your best projection of your income in 2014. The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors has resources available to help explain MAGI, including a mock MAGI calculation for those who haven’t filed taxes. You may also be eligible to receive federal help with costs in Covered California based on your income. People who are newly married – including some LGBT people who are now able to get married for the first time – should probably talk with a tax specialist about how to calculate joint income. This is especially important if you qualify for the federal premium tax credits or subsidy assistance where projecting income accurately is important. It may be tempting to underestimate your income in order to qualify for a higher assistance level in the marketplace, but be aware that you may get hit with a bill at the end of the year if you do so. In order to avoid paying a penalty later on, you really want to make sure you’re making the best estimate possible for your projected income.

Enrollment

Open enrollment starts next week, on October 1. Medi-Cal enrollment will happen continuously throughout the year but Covered California’s enrollment period ends on March 31, 2014. If you don’t enroll by that date, you will have to wait until the next open enrollment period in October 2014 before you can purchase coverage (unless you experience a significant “life event,” for example a marriage, job loss, etc). In order for your Covered California plan to start by January 1, you need to enroll by December 15. It is very important that everyone, especially people with HIV, take the time to carefully research plan options. You should also check with your provider and an HIV experienced benefits counselor or Covered California certified enrollment counselor prior to making any final plan decisions whether you will be moving to Covered California or to Medi-Cal. There are three primary considerations for people with HIV when choosing a plan: • Access to an HIV experienced provider and any other providers who are important to your care, including pharmacy, behavioral health, etc.; • Access to necessary medications and; • A complete understanding of the costs associated with coverage. If you are entering Medi-Cal managed care, your plan choices are fairly limited – there are only two Medi-Cal managed care plans available in San Francisco (the San Francisco Health Plan and Anthem Blue Cross). Access to an HIV experienced provider and any other providers who are important to your care will be your primary consideration.

In Covered California the choices are much more complex. Full plan information should be available at http://www.coveredca.com on October 1. It will be essential that people enrolling in Covered California get quality HIV specific benefits counseling in order to make the best plan choice. You and your benefits counselor or navigator may want to use the Marketplace Health Plans Assessment Worksheet to compare your options and identify the plan that is the best for you. Additionally, CoveredCA.com has a calculator that will help you determine how much the different plans will cost you. The California State Office of AIDS has a premium payment assistance program for people with HIV called OA Health Insurance Premium Payment Program. If you enroll in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program – available to those making $50,000 annually or less, OA HIPP will pay your insurance premium and ADAP will pay the co-pay for any drug that is also on the ADAP formulary. Piecing together OA HIPP and other federal help gets really complicated, which is why it is a good idea to seek out a benefits counselor to help you figure out the right plan. If staying with your current provider is important you should call your provider's office now and ask which plans she or he is contracted with. That will narrow your plan choice. If you want or need to switch providers, do some research into the providers contracted with the various plan networks; you'll want to know what their experience is with treating HIV, and whether they are accepting new patients. As you are considering providers, make sure that you think about all the providers you use, including your pharmacy. Another extremely important thing to consider when you're picking a plan is the formulary – that is, what medications the plan covers. Most plans should cover HIV medications, but you also need to make sure all your meds are on the formulary. Next year represents a great opportunity to gain secure, affordable health coverage for many more people with HIV. However, we also have a lot of work to do to ensure that people with HIV who are newly eligible for insurance make safe transitions to new coverage and that everyone continues to receive the quality HIV care that is necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce new infections.t This Guest Opinion is not intended as health care or legal advice for your specific situation. Anne Donnelly is director of health care policy at Project Inform; Courtney Mulhern-Pearson is director of state and local affairs at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. For more information, visit projectinform.org or sfaf.org.

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t SOMA LGBT cultural district awaits implementation by Matthew S. Bajko

September 26-October 2, 2013 • Bay Area Reporter • 7

ican Development Foundation to seek city funding for artistic enhancements of SOMA alleys Ringold, Minna, and Natoma. While the proposal was not accepted, the two groups remain committed to the project, said Moshoyannis. “I think there are tremendous educational opportunities here,” he said, such as creating audio or podcast walking tours of the area to showcase its LGBT past. “Some of the artistic enhancements we discussed were very informational in nature, talking about the evolution of the leather community South of Market.”

plan to create an LGBTQ cultural heritage district in part of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is still awaiting implementation by the city’s planning department. Six months ago the Board of Supervisors called for the creation of such a special use district in western SOMA, as well as a separate Filipino cultural heritage district centered around the Sixth Street Corridor, when it adopted on a 10-1 vote the Western SOMA Community Plan. Yet advocates pushing for the two districts were informed that the planning department’s historic Berkeley to honor preservation staff would be Prop 8 plaintiffs unable to devote time to The city of Berkeley will the SOMA plans until after dedicate Tuesday, October work was completed on the 1, in honor of residents Japantown Cultural HeriKristin Perry and Sandra tage and Economic SustainStier, one of the two plainRick Gerharter ability Strategy. The Board tiff couples in the federal of Supervisors is expected Gene Dodak, left, and Art Strong from Palm litigation that struck down Springs were a mirror vision in classic leather/Levi California’s ban on sameto adopt that plan this fall. As soon as the Japan- drag at the 2008 Folsom Street Fair; local leather sex marriage known as town document is finalized, leaders are working to implement a plan that Proposition 8. SOMA advocates are eager would create an LGBT cultural heritage district in The case was named after to see work begin on creat- the South of Market neighborhood. Perry and resulted in the ing the LGBTQ and Filipino resumption of gay nuptials cultural districts. in the Golden State during “We were assured, once the weekend of San Franan LGBTQ Social Heritage Special Japantown was out of the way, we cisco’s Pride celebrations at the end Use District, with Folsom Street would be next in line,” said Jim of June. The evening of Friday, June from 12th to 3rd streets serving as Meko, a gay SOMA resident who 28 at San Francisco’s City Hall Perry the central thoroughfare. chaired the Western SOMA plan’s and Stier became the first couple “By the end of the 1960s, San task force. to wed following the U.S. Supreme Francisco leather bars had become The planning department’s timeCourt’s decision two days prior heavily concentrated along Folsom line for when work will begin on the that upheld a federal district court Street, and leather bars and busiSOMA districts remains unclear, judge’s ruling that Prop 8 was unnesses sprouted in the surrounding though work on them is expected constitutional. blocks. By the late 1970s, South of to ramp up later this fall. Pres“I am very jazzed. Berkeley has a Market had become one ervation coordinator history with this subject,” said gay of the most extensive Tim Frye told the Bay Berkeley City Councilman Kriss gay leather neighborArea Reporter Tuesday Worthington. “We were the first hoods in the world,” the Japantown plan will city council in the U.S. to endorse stated the draft plan. serve as a model for the marriage equality back in 1997.” “As a result, gay South SOMA districts. After winning election in 1996 of Market acquired a “The preservation Worthington began pushing his number of nicknames, planners have been council colleagues to pass a resoluincluding the ‘Folsom’, in a holding pattern tion in support of same-sex marthe ‘Miracle Mile,’ and until Japantown is riage. It passed the following year the ‘Valley of the Kings.’ complete,” said Frye. on an 8-1 vote. While the Castro was “What we had preThe city wanted to honor Perry unquestionably the cenpared for Japantown will be a model and Stier, said Worthington, since it ter of local gay politics, the Folsom to apply to similar projects throughisn’t often residents of the famously had become the sexual center.” out the city.” liberal East Bay city are part of such The draft 28-page report listed a District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, historic litigation. number of steps the city could take who represents SOMA at City Hall, “When they were starting this to promote the LGBT district, from told the B.A.R. this week that it will case, it was somewhat controversial renaming streets in honor of LGBT be up to community leaders to see in the LGBT community. A lot of historical figures and creating walkthat the districts become a reality. mainstream LGBT leaders thought ing tours of the area to designating “In many ways it is up to the comit was dangerous to take the case certain sites and buildings as being munities themselves. We are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court,” noted of LGBT historical significance. to see and reach out to a number of Worthington. “They are mavericks “We still actively use that doculeaders in the LGBT community to in the Berkeley tradition, believing ment,” said Frye. “It is a great resee how much they want to get enthis was so important we need to source.” gaged and initiate this process,” said take this stand and do it now. It was The western SOMA zoning Kim. “At this point the policy is in pretty brave of them.” document adopted by city officials place, but we do still need to brainThe city is hosting a free, public earlier this year called for policies storm on the tools, particularly ecoevent to celebrate the couple, with that would “protect and support the nomic tools, to make them a reality. wedding cookies and cake and other social heritage resources of the FiliWe do need the community to step refreshments. It begins at 6 p.m. at pino and LBGT (sic) communities Announcing in and take leadership.” Old City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther within the plan area.” The Formation of: Kim also wants to loop in the King Jr. Way. t It listed such steps as surveying, Becker & Lee LLP Office of Economic and Workforce identifying and evaluating historic Christina H. Leemore and Camiel Beckerpolitiare Development to assist with the and cultural heritage resources in Web Extra: For queer proudbe to sure announce the formation process. Her office has advocated cal news, to check http:// of the designated zones, such as events their new law firm in San Francisco. www.ebar.com Monday mornings that the agency’s mayoral initiative and alleys with ties to the LGBT and at noon for&Political Notes,immigration the Becker Lee LLP provides Invest in Neighborhoods include Filipino communities, and called services online to clientscompanion. from California, notebook’s funding for western SOMA. for the creation of a timeline and other parts of the U.S. and abroad. This week’s column reported on a “We want to support small busiimplementation plan to achieve the plan Becker to erect highway signs bear& Lee LLP’s new office is located nesses because they will be the heart policy objectives. ing the name deceased antigay within blocks of of the San Francisco immigration of these cultural districts,” said Kim. “We would all very much love state courts, lawmaker Pete Knight. the local San Francisco USCIS office, Work on the rezoning of western to see that happen and continue to the San Francisco Asylum Office LGBT and the Keep abreast of the latest SOMA began eight years ago, and advocate for it,” said Demetri MoNinth news Circuit Court of Appeals. the political by following calls for protecting SOMA’s historical shoyannis, executive director of Political Notebook on Twitter @ PRACTICE AREAS: ties to the LGBT and Filipino comFolsom Street Events, which prohttp://twitter.com/politicalnotes. 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adies, we got ladies here,” barked a man outside of a strip club in Puerto Vallarta’s gay-friendly Zona Romantica neighborhood as I walked by two weeks ago. “But I like men,” I responded. “You like men?” he asked and I nodded. “Oh, sorry, senor, we only got ladies here,” he replied. “But gay good, no problem,” the man added as he smiled and gave me the thumbs up sign. That reaction is typical in Puerto Vallarta where gays and their money are very much welcome – even by a doorman at a straight men’s strip club. Over the past 20 years, Puerto Vallarta has evolved into Mexico’s most popular gay destination. And it is getting gayer all the time. Last year, the city hosted its first gay Pride parade and festival on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, which was the weekend before Guadalajara’s gay parade. Puerto Vallarta is gearing up for its high season. Not surprisingly, the busiest time in the city is between Thanksgiving and Easter when the snowbirds head south. The biggest gay circuit party is held over the Thanksgiving holiday. Will Gorges, the southern California promoter of the original Latin Fever, is organizing what is called PVR 2013 Music and Culture. It runs November 27-December 1. Bears will have their day with the Beef Dip 2014 circuit party from January 26-February 2. Puerto Vallarta has nearly a dozen gay hotels and more than a couple dozen gay bars and nightclubs. All but one gay hotel and one gay bar are located in the Zona Romantica, or the Romantic Zone, which is the area just south of downtown on the south side of the Cuale River. It is about a 20-minute cab ride from the airport. Gays were a big part of the revitalization of Zona Romantica in the early 1990s and thanks to recent capital improvements, that trend very much continues. The neighborhood now has its own brand-new landmark, the Los Muertos Pier, which opened in January. The pier is a dramatic design with a circular walkway and benches lined around a tower that is clad in metal mesh siding designed to look like a sail. The city is gradually replacing the neighborhood’s patchwork sidewalks with uniform sidewalks with small black stones embossed in wave design down the middle. You can stroll from Zona Romantica along the waterfront to the city’s famous oceanfront walkway known as the Male-

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Puerto Vallarta’s unofficial gay beach, Blue Chairs Beach, as seen from a Diana’s Tour boat.

con. It was redone a couple of years ago so the street that fronts the waterfront is now a pedestrian walkway.

Daylife

Puerto Vallarta’s unofficial gay beach is called the Blue Chairs Beach and is in front of the Blue Chairs Hotel, near the southern end of Los Muertos Beach. The gay beach includes the blue chairs directly in front of the Blue Chairs Hotel as well as the larger section of green chairs just south of the blue chairs. You can sit on one of the lounge seats under a palapa as long as you buy something from the Blue Chairs or Green Chairs restaurants. Or you can lay a towel anywhere along the beach. For more than a decade, Diana’s Tours has been a must-do attraction for LGBTs visiting Puerto Vallarta. The cruise runs every Thursday and sometimes on Fridays if demand is high. If you want to go, be sure and make your reservation early to be assured a space. The cruise is run by a French-Canadian lesbian, Diana DeCoste, and is mostly gay male but is very lesbianand straight-friendly. The all-day cruise first makes a snorkeling stop at the giant hollowed out rocks known as Los Arcos that are symbols of the city, then on to a private beach, and finally a beachfront restaurant before heading back. Snacks and unlimited drinks are provided along the way. The Wet and Wild cruise runs on Saturdays and Wednesdays in season. It bills itself as a “gays gone wild” cruise. It is unabashedly sexually charged and is targeted toward gay men. It takes a similar route as Diana’s. The cruise has a large staff of good-looking locals who work for tips and will make sure your glass is never empty and will chat you up if you feel like company. From November through April,

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La Noche employees, from left, Angel Torrez, Gustavo Valdivia, and Antonio Cervantes welcome visitors to the gay club, which now has a rooftop lounge.

the Boana Hot Springs Tour is a menonly tour that takes visitors to natural hot springs in the jungle outside the city. The $59 tour includes unlimited food and drink at the clothing-optional springs. It is a romantic setting to take a partner or meet a new friend. Gay oceanographer Oscar Frey runs the Ocean Friendly Whale Watching tours, which run December 8 through March 23. Transplanted gay Bay Area residents are very much a part of the fabric that helps keep tourists coming back every year. A San Francisco man, Bob Price, co-founded and runs the nonprofit Vallarta Botanical Gardens, another former San Franciscan, Gary Beck, publishes “Beck’s Best Restaurant Guide” to the city while a former East Bay resident, Mark Page, publishes the gay guide to Puerto Vallarta, “Gay Guide Vallarta.” One of the world’s most highly rated gay boutique hotels, Casa Cupula, is in Puerto Vallarta and is owned by San Franciscan Don Pickens. The Vallarta Botanical Gardens is a must-see stop for any visitor to the city. The 20-acre rainforest sanctuary includes a wonderful restaurant and beautiful gardens and walking paths. Price started it in 2004 and it is the area’s newest and treasured attraction. The gardens are 1,300 feet above sea level, so it is a refreshing escape from the heat and the humidity you may experience in the city. You can get there by a public bus for about $1.50 or a taxi will run about $20 from Zona Romantica. Vallarta Adventures offers a wonderful tour from Puerto Vallarta to the Botanical Gardens, Sierra Madre Mountains, the charming small town of El Tuito, a couple of distilleries, and a hidden rock with ancient pre-Hispanic petroglyphs. The company has a great reputation for quality tours by knowledgeable and entertaining guides. If you are staying in Zona Romantica, you can easily walk to downtown, the oldest part of the city. That is where you will find the city’s landmark, Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with the steeple in the design of a crown. On the hill behind the church, a famous pink “love bridge” connects the houses once belonging to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. By the way, that couple helped put Puerto Vallarta on the map when they carried on a scandalous affair during the filming of the Night of the Iguana in 1964. If you want to check it out the address is 445 Zaragoza Street. The Hacienda Dona Engracia tequila distillery and restaurant is a great stop to enjoy nature and get a glimpse into how tequila is made. You can take a guided horseback ride through the beautiful country surrounding the property. See page 10 >>

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Puerto Vallarta

From page 8

Puerto Vallarta is situated on Banderas Bay, which is teeming with dolphins. Wildlife Connection offers tours to help you responsibly observe the mammals. The tours take visitors in a small boat close to where the dolphin pods are and you can jump in and swim alongside them. Foodies new to Puerto Vallarta will appreciate the Vallarta Eats Food Tours that run every day except for Mondays and Tuesdays. The Go Gay Puerto Vallarta site (www.gogaypuertovallarta.com) is a good resource to book a number of gay-friendly tours and travel services. Puerto Vallarta’s LGBT center is called SETAC. It is in Zona Romantica and offers a number of bilingual services including AA meetings, HIV and STD testing, Spanish and English classes, and movie nights. Visit the center’s website for more information at http://en.setac.com.mx/.

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Five new gay bars and nightclubs have opened in Puerto Vallarta over the past year. The Karma nightclub is the only gay club in the city outside of Zona Romantica and is a late night space that is open only on weekends. You may notice its rainbow striped facade on the road from the airport. The other newcomers are the Stonewall, Margarita, Enter, and Cueva bars. Enter is a cavernous dance club that is an “after-after” hours bar that stays open on the weekends until 10 a.m. Margarita is an upscale lounge bar that took over part of the space once occupied by La Noche, which is still next door. Stonewall and Cueva attract a great mix of locals and tourists alike. Cueva is operated by the same people who ran No Borders downtown. The owners of No Borders sold the business to the employees, who moved it to Zona Romantica. They changed the name to Cueva and it attracts much of the same crowd who kept No Borders busy. La Noche expanded upwards and now boasts a beautiful rooftop lounge. For the uninitiated, in Puerto Vallarta, like most of Latin America, smaller bars usually are busiest in the early evening up until about midnight or 1 a.m. The bigger nightclubs don’t get busy until after 1 a.m. Paco’s Ranch, CC Slaughters, Karma, and Enter are the gay nightclubs. Drag shows are also a mainstay in nightclubs in the late night. There are no exclusive lesbian bars in Puerto Vallarta but the Apaches bar is lesbianowned and very women-friendly and the bigger nightclubs including Karma, CC Slaughters, and Paco’s Ranch are very women welcoming. All the city’s bars have their own devoted groups of regulars. Frida’s is one of the oldest gay bars in the city and serves up tasty and inexpensive comfort food daily. Its affable owner Tom Finley holds court nightly.

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Bob Price, a former San Francisco resident, founded the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, a must-see tour.

Reinas (Queens in Spanish) is where Frida’s used to be and as you might have guessed, proudly boasts a royal motif and a very friendly vibe. The Sama martini bar is the perfect place to sip Puerto Vallarta’s best martinis. Longtime manager Alex Ramirez keeps customers coming back every night. It is a great place to meet new people as you sit out on the sidewalk lounge. The gay men’s sauna, Spartacus, opened over the past year where the Picante bar used to be. It’s open until 11 p.m. weekdays and midnight weekends. Gay nightlife is an ever moving target. Be sure to check out Gay Guide Vallarta when you get into town. It’s available at gay places everywhere. The Gay Guide also produces a weekly guide to what’s happening. You can check the guide out online at http:// www.gayguidevallarta.com. The site also offers apps you can download to mobile devices. The gay bar hop tour is on vacation now but resumes October 18 with tours every Friday and Saturday night. The $75 cost includes dinner, drinks, tips, VIP access, and a wristband good for discounts around town. A day hop tour is offered on Tuesdays.

Accommodations

The gay hotel, Hotel Mercurio, is in the heart of Zona Romantica just a half block from Olas Altas, the neighborhood’s main drag. It is mostly gay male but is very lesbian- and straight-friendly. It has budget prices but a better than budget feel. Mercurio is very generous. A delicious free hot breakfast is included. The happy hour by the pool bar is a great way to mix it up with locals even if you aren’t staying there. The aforementioned gay hotel, Casa Cupula, sits on a hill above Zona Romantica. It routinely ranks near the top of all boutique hotels, gay or straight, in Puerto Vallarta. Its fabulous gourmet Taste restaurant is worth stopping by even if you are not staying there. If you would prefer to stay at a mainstream gay-friendly and very family-friendly mixed hotel, the San

Marino is a good option. The beachfront property is in front of the Los Muertos Pier. The San Marino makes it very easy with an all-inclusive plan. You pay one price and all meals in the hotel are included. The hotel proudly displays an LGBT section on the front page of its website and is a member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association and has TAG certification from the San Franciscobased Community Marketing Inc. for being gay-friendly. It is a great place for gay families with kids who wouldn’t appreciate being dragged around to restaurants anyway. The gay-male only and clothing optional Vallarta Cora hotel is known as party central. If you are not staying there, its early anything goes poolside evening happy hour draws regulars and visitors alike after the beach. The small cover charge includes a free drink. If you haven’t been to the Blue Chairs Hotel in a while, you haven’t been there. The rooftop bar and restaurant expanded to three levels and the hotel will soon add new rooms as a second building springs up next to the main one. It sits directly in front of the Blue Chairs Beach. The hotel’s concierge desk is open to guests and non-guests alike for information and bookings on gay tours. Now that the Abbey Hotel has closed, the only other large high-rise gay hotel is the Boana Torre-Malibu. It officially considers itself straightfriendly and you won’t find a built in gay bar on property but you will find inexpensive condo-sized rooms, many with ocean views. Like the Blue Chairs, it has a concierge desk where you can get info and book gay or gayfriendly tours. The Hot Springs Tour departs from there. The only gay accommodation in downtown Puerto Vallarta, Villa David Bed and Breakfast, is male only and clothing optional. It is on a hill overlooking the historic church and downtown. The property is impeccably maintained. The American owners have kept the character of the old building intact while adding the modern fixtures and conveniences that finicky travelers demand.t

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Roger Brigham and Eduardo “Eddie” Guardarramas were married Saturday, September 21, at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church in Oakland in a ceremony officiated by good friend Bene Gatzert, who was deputized as a marriage commissioner for the occasion. Mr. Brigham, 59, is the sports columnist for the Bay Area Reporter and a former deputy sports editor of the Oakland Tribune. He served the last decade as chairman of Wrestlers WithOut Borders, is a longtime volunteer with Team San Francisco, the Gay Games, and Golden Gate Wrestling, and coaches wrestling at Mission High School. In 2011 he founded Equality Coaching Alliance, a network for

LGBT coaches and their supporters. Mr. Guardarramas, 63, a native New Yorker, is a project manager at Insight Resource Group in Orinda. He has a bachelor’s degree in classical piano, and is a second-degree black belt at the Aikido Institute of Oakland. The couple met in New York City in March 1991 while Mr. Brigham was covering the Big East men’s basketball tournament and moved to the Bay Area within two years. This is their second marriage, their first in 2004 having been disallowed by the court system. The men were escorted down the aisle by their mothers and were each attended by two “best men,” Mr. Guardarramas’s younger brother Ernest and their lifelong friends Kim, Robert, and Gene. The couple lives in Oakland with their two Bernese Mountain dogs, five cats, and one parrot.t

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Officials that because Courtesy Brad Frazier Lee found (D-Oakland) andof Ileana RosGarciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sLehtinen sexual orientation, there was introduced (R-Miami) Pedro Garcia, left, and Brad Frazier were recently married. â&#x20AC;&#x153;credible fear that returning to Mexico the Repeal Existing Policies that Enwould endanger his life,â&#x20AC;? said Frazier courage and questions Allow Legal in response to emailed this (REPEAL) sex marriage. retary Janet Napolitanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announceweek. HIV Discrimination Act. It would Garcia doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be sponment last year that she planned to The couple August in federal sored and for his green card, which desdirect ICE to issue guidance to field requiremarried a review of2all Provincetown, Massachusetts. They ignates him as a permanent resident, offices codifying that LGBT family state laws, policies, and regulations returned to San Francisco last week said Frazier. ties would be recognized in immigrathat regard the criminal prosecuafter honeymooning in Provincetown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was released on his own merit, tion cases. She said after the Supreme tion of individuals for HIV-related Frazier and Garciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trouble started because they found credible fear that Court decision in June that officials June 2 asoffenses Garcia wasand returning from a returning create incentives andto Mexico would endanger would begin reviewing immigration visit to his mother in Mexicali, life,â&#x20AC;? said Frazier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that Anpetitions for same-sex couples the support for statesMexico. to reform his existing He was stopped as he crossed from tonio is married to a U.S. citizen, this same as for opposite-sex couples. HIV criminalization laws. Mexicali to Calexico, California, Fratrumps everything. He will be given a Asked about why the couple marare trying to modernize the because he is married to a zier said in â&#x20AC;&#x153;We a summary. green card, ried in Massachusetts, Frazier said, in laws. U.S. laws are not comparable According to Department of U.S. citizen. This now gives him two part, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since we were already near there Homeland Security records, Garciaof HIV different when I flew to meet him in [Pennto the science today andpathways to obtain a green presented a DSP-150 visa Suttle, to card sylvania], we thought it a special way AIDS,â&#x20AC;? saidvisitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert theand as-later citizenship.â&#x20AC;? a U.S. Customs and Border ProtecThe couple had been registered as to celebrate our newly won right to sistant director of the Washington, tion officer and admitted that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d domestic partners since 2011. Frazier marry. Provincetown is extremely gayD.C.-based Sero Project,hadwhich been living and working in the United pressed for Garcia to be extradited friendly and marriage oriented. We States without the proper launched in visa. 2012 to reform the facility so that the couto a California also didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to wait. We had waitEventually, he alsoHIV â&#x20AC;&#x153;admitted ple could be married and Garcia could ed for nearly 10 years to be legally wed countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws.living with his boyfriend be released and recognized. We were anxious to Many in of San theFranciscoâ&#x20AC;? statutes were ad- on bond. for the past decade, the documents say. On June 26, the U.S. Supreme join the ranks of real living, breathing, opted in the 1990s due to the federal His visa was canceled and he returned Court struck down a key provision of recognized relationships in this counpassage oftothe Ryan WhitetheCARE to Mexico, according the file. Defense of Marriage Act and Calitry. It does make a difference to be able On June Garcia, who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the forniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Act, 28, which incentivized states to Proposition 8 same-sex marto legally call someone your husband.â&#x20AC;? have a criminal record, tried to enter riage ban. Two days later â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the same Frazier attributed his husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reenact HIV criminalization laws. the U.S. through Arizona, and U.S. day that ICE took Garcia into custody lease to attorney Steve Shaiken and to Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network â&#x20AC;&#x153;The states did that but they Immigration and Customs Enforceafter he tried to enter the country Garcia. didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dohim a good job,â&#x20AC;? saidthrough Suttle, Whitbread, 33, global chair ofbut the International Community ment agents took into custody. 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Pope signals new era for LGBTs by Chuck Colbert

or the second time in less than two months, Pope Francis has spoken words of encouragement, indicating a new tone from the Vatican and giving gay Catholics hope for an LGBTfriendly church, even as some voice disappointment Francis has not ended anti-gay teachings. In a wide-ranging interview with a Jesuit publication, the pope said the Roman Catholic Church has been overly “obsessed” with condemning same-sex marriage, abortion, and contraception and should shift its focus, emphasizing compassion and mercy rather than “small-minded rules.” “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible,” Francis said in a 12,000-word interview published last week by America, a weekly magazine. “When we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context,” he explained. “The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.” The pope added, “We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.” Francis also said, “Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.” The pope was referring specifically “to a homosexual person ... of good will and ... in search of God,” saying, “I am no one to judge.” The pope’s interview made headlines as Catholics and non-Catholics alike took notice. It marked a departure from Pope Benedict XVI’s increasingly sharp tone during his papacy. Francis’s spiritual sensitivity resonated for Ernest Camisa, secretary of Dignity San Francisco. “I think he believes God wants all people to be saved, and that he has the authority to judge no one, but only to assist in everyone’s salvation,” Camisa said in an email. “And I do not think he is one who would interfere in anyone’s salvation, since he says that he is a sinner like Matthew, the tax collector.” Michael Poma, parish business manager at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro, could not be happier. “The pope has pretty much said it all. All I can add is amen,” said Poma in email correspondence. Attempts to reach MHR’s pastor, the Reverend Brian Costello, were unsuccessful. When asked for comment on the pope’s comments, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Archdiocese offered an insight from Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has not been shy about expressing his anti-gay beliefs. “We don’t want to lose sight of the larger context in which the Gospel message is presented,” Christine A. Mugridge, director of media relations, said in a telephone interview. “However, [Cordileone] also want[s] to be sensitive to the day-in and day-out realities of the local culture in which [he] is called to serve.” The archbishop, Mugridge said, would “enter into dialogue” with the media as they ask about “socio-political, hot button cultural topics,” like “the gay issue.” “I think he is really going to engage more actively” in dialogue with the gay community, she said. From coast to coast, the reaction from LGBT Catholic advocates, pastoral ministers, priests, and church observers, even secular gay rights activists, has been uniformly positive, even as some voiced displeasure that

Francis has not gone far enough in jettisoning Vatican doctrine, which says homosexuality is “objectively disordered,” and its sexual expression is an “intrinsic evil,” while requiring mandatory, lifelong celibacy as the only sexual ethics and morality in full accord with church teaching. Nevertheless, “Anybody who listens to what Pope Francis is saying” realizes that “fighting gay marriage is not the number one priority of the Catholic Church anymore,” said Jesuit priest, the Reverend Thomas J. Reese, a policy analyst for the National Catholic Reporter. Based at Santa Clara University in California until the end of this year, Reese is the author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church. The pontiff is also saying, Reese added, “The tone of the discussion has got to change, if we are going to be true to Pope Francis.” For far too long, Reese explained, “The first words out of the church’s mouth, in meeting a gay person, were ‘You can’t have sex. You can’t get married.’” Now, “The first words out of Pope Francis are, “I love you. I want to give you a hug. Jesus loves you,’” said Reese. “This is just a whole different ball game. The model is we are a family,

not a political interest group, slugging it out, using any tactic.” Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, could not agree more with Reese’s assessment of a changed landscape. “This is a big deal,” Kendell said during a telephone interview. “I know from comments on my Facebook page that some people are expressing skepticism that this is not a doctrinal change. “But I will tell you, people who are Catholics, or people who grew up in any conservative religious tradition, deeply understand that a change in tone is enormously important as a step forward even if there is no commensurate change in doctrine,” she said. “To have this pope, as opposed to Benedict, who was unrelentingly vicious, actually speak about gay people in terms of common humanity, compassion and love, including the brazen idea that we are available for God’s love, is a breathtaking shift; and what it will lead to is less a doctrinal change.” Added Kendell, “It’s more a change in the heart and minds of Catholics who now have permission to care about and love LGBT people in their families without worrying about damnation.” Marianne Duddy-Burke, execu-

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tive director of DignityUSA, an LGBT Catholic advocacy organization, voiced praise for what seems like a fresh start for LGBT Catholics in church relations. “We find much to be hopeful about particularly in the pope’s firm desire that the church be a ‘home for all people,’ and his belief that God looks at LGBT people with love rather than condemnation,” she said in a statement. Similarly, Francis DeBernardo, executive director of the Marylandbased New Ways Ministry, a gayfriendly Catholic ministry of justice

and reconciliation for LGBT Catholics and the church, said the pope’s remarks indicate “a new dawn of hope and promise for LGBT Catholics and their supporters.” An equally upbeat Arthur Fitzmaurice, resource director for the Berkeley, California-based Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry, said his organization “feels blessed by Pope Francis. We are enthusiastic to have a pope who thinks and feels the way we do. He said we must heal the broken and not begin any conversation by condemnation.” “We hope Pope Francis’s remarks will begin the healing process for many LGBT Catholics who have felt alienated by the church,” said Fitzmaurice in an email. Joe Murray of Chicago’s Rainbow Sash Movement, an advocacy organization, voiced praise for the Vatican’s new “welcoming tone,” and views the pope’s “recent interview as a step in the right direction.” Nonetheless, “Many people have been abused by the church, many were forced to leave the church because of integrity,” said Murray. “The pope’s words will not bear any fruit until he is willing to address the issues of sexism and homophobia in See page 24 >>

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Forum looks at HIV cure research compiled by Cynthia Laird

Catholic Worker will hold a Walk for Peace event in front of San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Tuesday, October 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. In an email announcement, Sims said the group would walk around the square in Civic Center Plaza three times and then vigil on the steps of the nearby state office building protesting the death penalty. Anyone who is interested is welcome to participate.

trio of research organizations will team up to look at the provocative issue of an HIV cure at a community town hall Tuesday, October 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the State Building, 455 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. Researchers from the UCSF AIDS Research Institute, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the Gladstone Institutes will discuss the latest news in cure research from HIV conferences, the Martin Delaney AIDS Cure Research Collaborative, the biotech industry, and CIRM, the stem cell research agency. Speakers scheduled to appear include Dr. Steven Deeks and Mike McCune from UCSF, Hans-Peter Kiem from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Warner Greene from Gladstone, Alan Trounson and Maria Millan from CIRM, and Louis Breton from Calimmune.

Church celebrates Michaelmas

St. Francis Lutheran Church will celebrate the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels, known in Britain as Michaelmas, with a fully sung candlelight liturgy Sunday, September 29 at 7 p.m. The mass will feature Lodovico Viadana’s 16th century masterpiece, “Missa L’Hora Passa.” The pure lines of polyphonic texture woven together with the chanting of the lessons and prayers form such a wonderful varied and contemplative experience that St. Francis has called this event a Music Meditation Mass. Elaine Whitney, president of the congregation, said that the church has celebrated two such masses in the past. “The community response was positive and the masses allow us to give back to our neighbors and friends,” she said in a statement. St. Francis Lutheran, a Reconciling in Christ Congregation where all are welcome, is located at 152 Church Street. For more information, visit http://www.sflcsf.org.

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Dr. Steven Deeks will be one of several panelists at a forum on HIV cure research.

LGBT center observes Economic Empowerment Week

The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, in partnership with the Golden Gate Business Association, will host a mixer to kick off Economic Empowerment Week Tuesday, October 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the center, 1800 Market Street. The event is free and open to people 21 years of age and older. Organizers said that the mixer will be a great opportunity for job seekers and professionals to meet, mingle, and network with one another while enjoying complimentary food and beverages. The center will also hold its 30th LGBT career fair Wednesday, October 2 from noon to 3 p.m., as well as a host of seminars throughout the week, including on debt management October 2 (6 to 8:30 p.m.), a crowdfunding panel Thursday, October 3 (6 to 7:30 p.m.), and financial wellness for seniors October 4 (noon to 1:30 p.m.) For more information about the week’s activities and to sign up, visit http://www.sfcenter.org.

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Gay retired federal judge Vaughn Walker, who presided over the trial in the federal case challenging Proposition 8 and ruled the California same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, will speak in San Jose next week as part of a Commonwealth Club program. “How Same-Sex Marriage Came to California” is the topic of the Wednesday, October 2 event, which will take place at 7 p.m. at San Jose State University, 1 Washington Square, in Tower Hall. Walker’s talk is part of the Don Edwards Lecture Series. The event is co-sponsored by the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee and the university. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www. commonwealthclub.org.

CUAV to host performance night

Community United Against Violence will host its annual event, Color of My Spirit, Wednesday, October 3 at 2868 Mission Street in San Francisco. Doors open at 7 p.m., the show starts at 7:30. The evening will include performances by queer and trans artists celebrating their survival and resilience. Seamlessly combining ferocity and tenderness, the artists will inspire and remind the audience of “why we fight for each other,” organizers said. Tickets are $10-$20, no one will be turned away. For more information, visit http://www.cuav.org.

Spark event benefits TLC

The Transgender Law Center will hold its annual benefit, Spark, Thursday, October 3 in the Empire Ballroom at the St. Francis Hotel, 450 Powell Street in San Francisco. A VIP reception begins at 6 p.m., followed by an awards ceremony at 7. This year TLC is recognizing several people for their service to the community. Shawna Virago will receive the Vanguard Award; Lisa Mottet will receive the Ally Award; and filmmaker Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Ph.D., will receive the Authentic Life Award. The Community Partner Award will go to Drs. Judith Lively, Jennifer Stovis, and Suzanne Watson, who are physicians at Kaiser Permanente. Tita Aida will serve as mistress of ceremonies and musical entertainment will be provided by Josh Klipp and the Klipptones. Special guest will be Monica Beverly Hillz, who came out as transgender on RuPaul’s Drag Race earlier this year when she was a contestant. VIP tickets are $150, general admission tickets are $95. For more information, visit http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/spark.

Estate planning for singles, same-sex couples

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Senate OKs gay federal circuit judge by Lisa Keen

he Senate voted this week to confirm openly gay nominee Todd Hughes to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit. The 98-0 vote makes Hughes the first openly gay nominee to be confirmed for a federal circuit position. The confirmation comes just one week after the Senate confirmed Elaine Kaplan to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Kaplan was approved by a vote of 64-35, the fourth closest margin out of 19 roll calls on judicial nominees this year. All 35 no votes were Republicans, including both Texas senators and reported presidential aspirant Marco Rubio of Florida. But 11 Republicans voted for Kaplan, including both senators from Tennessee and reported presidential aspirant Rob Portman of Ohio. In opening debate over Hughes’s nomination September 24, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (Vermont) noted that Hughes would become the first openly gay judge in history to serve on a federal appellate court and asked that his other remarks be inserted into the Congressional Record. Then, Leahy used his time to speak against efforts to cut food stamps to people with low incomes. No other senator spoke before the roll call. A native of Ohio, Hughes, 47, graduated from Harvard College and then Duke Law School and, since 1994, has served in the commercial litigation branch of the Department of Justice Civil Division. His questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee indicated he was a member for one year (2010-11) in the National LGBT Bar Association and the GLBT Attorneys of Washington. He also volunteered legal advice on a variety of issues at the LGBT-run Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C., for people with HIV-related legal issues. Kaplan, a 58-year-old native of Brooklyn, New York, graduated from the State University of New York-Binghamton and Georgetown University Law Center. She served as general counsel to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management since 2009, and as its acting director since April, when openly gay OPM Director John Berry resigned. Kaplan also served as head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel under President Bill Clinton. She also noted her membership (from 1995 to 1997) in the Gay and Lesbian Attorneys of Washington, D.C. group, and brief memberships in Gay and Lesbian Parents International, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. Kaplan’s questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee noted that

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day, October 3 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. According to organizers, the law provides a default estate plan for every person, but it may not reflect your wishes. The seminar will answer questions so that people can learn about preparing their own plan, tailored to their life and priorities. For same-sex couples, changing laws may also impact your estate plan. Attendees will receive a complimentary estate-planning organizer. Space is limited. To register, call (415) 526-5580 or visit http://tinyurl.com/lbc3u56.

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she participated in numerous LGBTrelated panel discussions, including last year’s White House LGBT Youth Conference and its LGBT Conference on Families. She also participated in a panel at an Out and Equal conference in Baltimore last October and at a forum of the American Bar Association concerning benefits to federal employees with same-sex domestic partners. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of both Kaplan and Hughes without asking them gay-specific questions – a practice of committee minority leader Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) with many gay nominees. The confirmations of Hughes and Kaplan bring to eight the number of openly gay candidates confirmed to the federal bench during the Obama administration. President Barack Obama initially nominated Washington, D.C. attorney Ed DuMont to the federal circuit appeals court, but Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked the nomination and DuMont withdrew his nomination. Hughes now becomes a member of one of the nation’s 13 federal appeals courts. While 12 of those have specific geographical jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has 12 judges, deals specifically with disputes involving international trade, government contracts, and federal personnel, among other things. Kaplan becomes one of 16 judges on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, each with a 15-year term of office. The court is one of several courts of special jurisdiction. The Federal Claims court addresses cases involving lawsuits against the federal government involving such matters as tax refunds, federal contracts, and federal takings of private property.

tice’s civil division. Only two nominations are still pending among Obama’s openly gay nominees for the federal bench. One is William Thomas for a seat to the U.S. District Court in Miami. The other is Judith Levy to a seat on the federal district court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit). Thomas, 46 and a native of Pennsylvania now working in Miami, was originally nominated in November 2012. A majority of an American Bar Association committee that vets nominees voted him to be well qualified. An openly gay African American, Thomas was recommended by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund’s Presidential Appointments Project. A September 24 article in the New York Times detailed Rubio’s decision to withdraw support for Thomas, effectively blocking the nomination. Obama nominated Levy, 55, in July. She served as an intern at Lambda Legal Defense and Education during the summer of 1994, is a member of the board of directors for DOJ Pride and the Human Rights Campaign. She received a scholarship from Parents and Friends of LGB Students and has spoken on a number of panels concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act and its application to people with HIV. She also spoke at a White House Conference on Homelessness in LGBT Communities and at a University of Michigan Women Lawyers Association forum, “Multiple Layers of Identity: Being a Minority, Gay or Transgender Woman in the Workplace.” A native of Indiana, she has a bachelor’s and a law degree from the University of Michigan. She currently works in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit as chief of its civil rights unit.t

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harleen Caabay has officially opened the doors to welcome friends new and old into her restaurant in East Oakland. Kainbigan Restaurant had a soft launch in August, but now, following a recent grand opening, the restaurant is in full swing serving up homemade Filipino comfort food inspired by Caabay’s mother and her late grandmother. The restaurant’s name is a play on two words in Tagalog, the Filipino language: kain, which means to eat, and bigan, which means friend, so loosely the name means, “come in to eat, friend,” which is the restaurant’s slogan. “Where there’s food, there’s always good company and friends,” said Caabay, a 34-year-old queer woman who is chef and owner of Kainbigan. Lines have been out the door of the small eatery and take-out orders have been brisk since its grand opening September 14. Caabay still can’t believe that she has a place where her friends can come and enjoy her homemade dishes. “Every day has been a tear-jerker,” said Caabay. “I walk in the door first thing in the morning and I’m like, my jaw still drops, ‘Oh, God. I can cook every day, all day for my friends and that’s it. I made it. I finally made it.” She never dreamed that she could be a chef and own her own restaurant.

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mother and grandmother watching them chop, stir, and serve the hearty Filipino food. “When people came over it was always a feast.” She lost that when her parents moved Caabay and her sister to Vallejo when she was 13 years old. That same year, her beloved grandmother died. “I was very, very close to her because she pretty much raised me when I was younger while my mom worked all day,” said Caabay. To make up for the loss of the family feasts, her parents made new friends and invited them over to dinner all of the time, said Caabay. She continued that tradition with her friends in high school, raiding pantries and cooking and grilling for everyone while the parents were at work. Discovering her love of making dishes, the second-generation Filipina also missed her grandmother’s cooking and started to become aware of the loss of cultural foods among American Filipinos, she said.

She lost many of her grandmother’s recipes, but she began creating her own and making healthier versions of the traditional Filipino dishes without losing the flavor.

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It’s been a long journey to opening the restaurant. The former IT expert started serving up her food at local women’s nightclubs several years ago. At the time it didn’t even occur to her that she could make a living doing what she loves doing: cooking. “I always cooked either as a hobby or just for parties,” said Caabay. “It didn’t trigger in my head that I can do this as a career.” As more people asked her if she catered, she started saying yes. It became a side gig for her until she was laid off from her IT job during the economic downturn. Suddenly, she found herself in a position deciding whether to See page 24 >>

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hile there are a few people who would like to see a boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in Russia in February because of that nation’s newly passed laws that are hostile to LGBT people, most see that idea as an example of the proverbial “throwing the baby out with the bath water.” They don’t want to throw away the precious opportunity for a peaceful gathering of the world’s nations to make clear their distaste for the maltreatment of LGBT people in the host country. From President Barack Obama to the Russian LGBT Network and the Federation of Gay Games, the belief is that more good can be done for LGBT people in Russia by going to the games than by staying home. And the Russian government agreed recently to sign onto the United Nations’ symbolic Olympic Truce that promised to “promote social inclusion without discrimination of any kind,” according to a New York Times report. Nonetheless, there is a distinct discomfort among many with the similarities of Russia’s harsh treatment of LGBT people today and Germany’s treatment of Jews, gays, and others when it hosted the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. “Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the United States and other Western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that – some observers at the time claimed – might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny,” states the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website. The museum notes that Nazi officials toned down their “Aryans only” policy during the Berlin games and even “ordered that foreign visitors should not be subjected to the criminal penalties of German anti-homosexuality laws” during the Olympics. Thus, it’s not likely that many people were comforted when the International Olympic Committee issued a press release last month, saying a letter from Russian deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak promised to comply with Item 6 of the IOC’s nondiscrimination policy. Although IOC says Item 6 includes sexual orientation discrimination, the text reads, “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic movement.” Nor was there any likely comfort gained when the IOC, on September 10, elected German Thomas Bach as its new president and he told reporters, “We have the assurances of the highest authorities in Russia” that there will be no discrimination at the Sochi games. Bach acknowledged there are many “political implications” for various decisions made by the IOC but said the IOC has to be “strictly politically neutral.” Obama is not supporting a boycott of the Olympics but is not taking a neutral position either. Attending a G-20 economic summit in Russia, he met with nine LGBT activists September 6, telling them he supports their efforts to oppose the anti-gay laws in Russia. “Nobody’s more offended than me about some of the anti-gay and lesbian legislation that you’ve been seeing in Russia,” said Obama. And a few days later, gay icon Cher revealed that she rebuffed a Russian invitation to perform at the Sochi Games. “I immediately said no. I want to know why all of this gay hate just exploded over there,” said Cher in an interview with the Canadian magazine MacLean’s, published September 8. The official who invited her, said Cher, “said the Russian people don’t

The Coca-Cola Company, one of the top sponsors of the Olympics, has seen its products protested by LGBTs opposed to the anti-gay Russian laws.

feel the way the government does.” But that contradicts recent public polling that shows as many as 80 percent of those surveyed support the anti-gay propaganda law, which includes stiff fines and jail time for Russian citizens and others in the country who “propagate” homosexuality to minors. Last week, Sir Elton John said he would keep a December concert date in Moscow. The Human Rights Campaign hasn’t called for a boycott of the Olympics but has found alternative ways to try and leverage some pressure on the IOC and the Russian government. When Russian President Vladimir Putin published an op-ed in the New York Times September 11 criticizing Obama’s claim that “American exceptionalism” compels the U.S. to respond to the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, HRC issued a statement pointing out an incongruity between Putin’s statement that “God created us equal” and his support for treating Russia’s LGBT people as lesser. “If we’re all equal, then it’s time to put a stop to the anti-LGBT propaganda law,” said the September 12 statement on HRC’s blog.

Sponsors weigh in

HRC also sent letters to all 10 of the major corporate partners of the Sochi Games, urging them to take a “public position” against the anti-gay law, “denounce” violence against LGBT people in Russia, and take other actions. HRC created a “sponsor watch” online to monitor how the corporate sponsors respond. A spokesperson for Dow Chemical, a top Olympic sponsor with a perfect score from the HRC Corporate Equality Index, said, “Dow is globally committed to equality AND diversity and inclusion. ... We believe that the IOC will continue to uphold its commitment to non-discrimination in all aspects of the games. We are engaged with the IOC on this important topic and support its recent statement that sport is a human right and the Games should be open to all. ...” General Electric also weighed in. “GE believes the Olympic movement and the global attention the games bring has many positive influences beyond the sports arena,” said company spokeswoman Megan Parker. “We expect the IOC to uphold human rights in every aspect of the Olympic Games.” GE earned a 75 rating from HRC’s index this year. Coca-Cola corporate spokeswoman Ann Moore said in an interview September 2, “We commit to continue demonstrating our values around diversity and inclusion through our actions and policies in communities throughout the world. We have great respect for the Human Rights Campaign, and we look forward to continuing our dialogue with them on this important issue.” There has been other pressure aimed at the corporate sponsors, too. See page 25 >>

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David Chiu, who represents the northern waterfront at City Hall and has been a vocal critic of the project for years. “I don’t think it is a good deal for the city.” Chiu is part of a coalition of current and former San Francisco elected officials, environmental groups, affordable housing advocates, and neighborhood leaders who are trying to block the development from being built as proposed. They are asking voters to reject two local ballot measures, Propositions B and C, in November and launched their campaign last Wednesday with a press conference at the site. Among those seeking to torpedo the development are former Mayor Art Agnos; former City Attorney Louise Renne; and gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, who is running against Chiu next year in the race for the city’s 17th Assembly District seat. The progressive Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club has also endorsed no votes on both B and C. “I think the biggest challenge we face as a city right now is affordability for many people. This is housing for the ultra wealthy,” Campos told the B.A.R. “I don’t think that is the kind of housing the city needs at this point. The Port should be using that land to create affordable housing for middleincome and low-income folks.” The 8 Washington opponents gathered enough signatures to place

Prop C on the ballot so as to allow voters a chance to reject the extra height allowance granted to the developer. A no vote on C would overturn the height limits granted by the Board of Supervisors, which in 2012 twice approved the project on 8-3 votes. Along with Chiu and Campos, District 11 Supervisor John Avalos voted against the project. “This is not an issue of size. But it is an unprecedented height limit revision,” said Chiu. “We put the height limits in place to prevent our city from looking like Manhattan or along the waterfront like Miami Beach.” The project sponsors, in turn, placed their own measure on the ballot, Prop B, that would create a special use district for the 3.2-acre site that would amend city codes to allow

for the project’s greater height and density and require the developer to build such public amenities as parks, new walkways, and bicycle lanes. Supporting the project are the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club; gay Small Business Commission President Steve Adams; gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener; and District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang, appointed this year to represent the Outer Sunset and running in November to retain the seat. “I would agree with the board’s decision. I don’t see it as a wall on the waterfront,” Tang told the B.A.R. during a recent editorial board meeting. “It creates more open space and activates an area that is now a parking lot.” Rejecting claims that the building would block views of the waterfront,

the project’s backers note that the building site is not on the bayside but across the street. It would consist of two separate buildings, with the one fronting the Embarcadero capped at 70 feet and its northern section stepping down to 54 feet. It would house 50 of the condo units built above ground floor retail space. The second building would be set back from the first behind a landscaped elliptical courtyard. It would rise 136 feet, with its northernmost section scaling down to 92 feet. Election materials show cafe spaces proposed for the building’s corners situated along Drumm Street. “Their mantra ‘No wall on the waterfront’ it is an absolute misnomer. It is manipulative, if not fear-mongering,” argued Johnston. “The ballot measures are worse than confusing. They are disheartening and it is a shame we are at this point.” North of the housing would be the rebuilt Bay Club facilities and a new restaurant space at grade level, while the new park space would be at the corner nearest the intersection of Broadway and the Embarcadero. Alicia N. Allbin, a principal with Pacific Waterfront, said the residential buildings were situated at the southern end of the site so as not to block the views of the nearby Golden Gateway Commons condo complex on Davis Street. “We wanted to protect the views of the lower condos,” said Allbin. As for the decision to not include affordable housing on site, Allbin argued

endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.” For his part, the Reverend Gary M. Meier, a priest in the St. Louis Archdiocese who recently came out

as gay, said he remains “cautiously optimistic” with the pope’s who-amI-to-judge approach. “What he hasn’t yet said is that we are basically wrong about our teaching when it comes to homosexuality as intrinsically disordered,” said Meier in a telephone interview. “The good news is that the pope won’t be leading the charge with that teaching,” although “unfortunately, bishops do.” Still, Meier remains optimistic the

pope’s kindness toward gays “will continue to open up the dialogue between gay Catholics and the hierarchy, which for years has been off the table.” “At least the door is open,” said Meier. Still, “The bottom line is that gay people cannot be full members in the church,” he said. But with “a radical shift in tone,” said Meier, the possibility exists for “conversations to lead to conversion.”

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the church under the mantle of clericalism.” Specifically addressing homosexuality, the pope said during the interview, “A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he

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The parking lot and green-walled tennis courts in the foreground are the site for the proposed 8 Washington condominium project along the Embarcadero.

Pressure builds on U.S. bishops

Meanwhile, the pontiff ’s comments have encouraged another gay rights leader. “Pope Francis has pressed the reset button on the Roman Catholic Church’s treatment of LGBT people, rolling back a years-long campaign at the highest levels of the church to oppose any measure of dignity or equality,” said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization. “Now it’s time for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to catch up and drop their opposition to even the most basic protections for LGBT people.” Griffin was referring to, as one example, the bishops’ continued opposition to the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, proposed federal legislation that would provide nationwide workplace protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Dignity’s Duddy-Burke agreed. “If this is not a call to the bishops to end their anti-gay campaign, I don’t know what is,” she said in a telephone interview, referring to the

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focus on cooking or continuing the cycle of contract IT jobs that never resulted in a permanent position. To test things out, Caabay tapped into local entrepreneur resources for low-income women learning how to run a business and opened a popup restaurant in Oakland for three months in 2012. During that time she kept driving by a space in East Oakland that a friend pointed out to her with a “For Rent” sign on it. The space, located on a corner next to a barbershop at 14th Avenue and East 21st Street, has been

that by paying the in-lieu fee the Mayor’s Office of Housing can leverage the funds to construct more units than would be set aside at 8 Washington. She added that the city would gain a new 4,500 square foot playground and outdoor cafe space, as well as a new 30,000 square foot green space being called the Jackson Commons and Pacific Park. “We are paying for the park and its upkeep in perpetuity,” said Allbin. The 8 Washington proponents acknowledge they face a harder time driving the yes vote to the polls come Tuesday, November 5. “It is a challenge for us given we didn’t want to be on the ballot,” said Johnston. “We don’t believe in ballot box planning.” Polling released in early September by the project’s opponents bolstered their hopes of defeating both B and C. The poll of 400 likely voters found Prop B losing with 42 percent voting yes and 44 percent voting no and Prop C losing with 36 percent voting yes and 51 percent voting no. After receiving more information about the measures, the poll found that voters would reject Prop B by 38 percent to 55 percent and reject Prop C by 32 percent to 60 percent. “Twin Propositions B and C begin the campaign season underwater and their position worsens as voters receive balanced information from the two campaigns,” stated the 8 Washington research summary memo from David Binder Research.t

pope’s interview remarks. It’s as if Francis is giving the bishops “a get-out-of-jail ticket,” said Jesuit priest, the Reverend Donal Godfrey, associate director for faculty and staff, spirituality, and ministry at the University of San Francisco. “He’s giving them room to get out with dignity and grace,” Godfrey said in a telephone interview. “I hope that our bishops are able to take this opportunity and run with it.” Godfrey is the gay author of Gays and Grays, a 2007 book based on his doctoral dissertation, about gay men and elderly parishioners finding common ground in the worshipping community at Most Holy Redeemer. Meanwhile, NCLR’s Kendell said the pope’s setting a new tone “makes our lives and [advocacy] work much easier because of not having to overcome religious objections to equality and civic acceptance of LGBT people. All we have to say is ‘what would Jesus do?’ and we can speak to the values Christ preached.” Asked what she would like Cordileone, an outspoken opponent of marriage equality, to take away from Francis’s interview comments, Kendell said, “The plain English of his words. There is nothing coded here. What the pope is saying is that love and compassion and understanding common humanity are more important values than scoring political points on the backs of those who are already in the line of fire. This is a very simple, easily digested message. If the archbishop fails to understand it, then his flock has no problem understanding it.”t various restaurants in the past. It took about nine months to open the restaurant. She invested an undisclosed amount from investors and small business loans into the eatery, which is supported by about five parttime staff. Kainbigan is now growing and is currently hiring for several positions. “Everyone that walks in ... they are super excited because now they have a place to get my food,” said Caabay.t Kainbigan Restaurant, located at 2101 14th Avenue in Oakland, is open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.kainbigan.com.

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Squeak and Bubble sparkled at the 2012 Folsom Street Fair with their matching outfits in the motif of the leather flag.

Folsom

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Evolution

When the Folsom Street Fair started in 1984, scores of San Franciscans were dying from AIDS, but then-President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t say the word in public. “It was a struggle in those early days to just put on a fair” because so many people, including volunteers, were dying, Moshoyannis said in

Dance fundraiser

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“There is so much history involved with Real Bad. A lot of people don’t realize how it started and the evolution of it,” said Matthew Johnson, 39, who worked on the short film. When Real Bad organizers initially approached the GLBT Historical Society about doing an oral history project, the gay archival group based in San Francisco responded with an offer to mount an exhibit detailing the history of the party at its museum space. Paul Boneberg, the society’s executive director, told the B.A.R. that the organization felt the idea of using social events to raise money for LGBT agencies was worth a closer look. “There is a larger story to tell of raising money to do good. It is a story that needs to be understood about how important this is,” said Boneberg. “Our culture includes our parties. Before there were gay organizations there were gay bars and gay parties.” The exhibit notes that the LGBT community has a long tradition of hosting parties that double as fundraisers, such as the dance-a-thon benefits used to raise money during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. “With a do-it-yourself ethos, LGBT fundraising fueled activism and built care networks into enduring organizations,” reads the exhibit introduction. Among the items on display is a letter from 1993 signed by pop star Madonna, urging the recipient, James Beales, to attend that year’s AIDS

Olympic conundrum

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On August 17, a small group of Chicago area activists held up signs outside the McDonald’s headquarters in Oakbrook, Illinois, according to a Windy City Times report. McDonald’s released a statement to local media saying, “Regarding the recent Russian legislation, we support the International Olympic Committee’s belief that sport is a human right and the Olympic Games should be open to all, free of discrimination, and that applies to spectators, officials, media and athletes.” On August 28, activists in New York City staged a “Dump Coca-Cola” action. In their press release, Queer Nation NY and RUSA LGBT (a group of Russian-speaking American LGBT activists) said the Coca-Cola Company is “sponsoring hate” by sponsoring the Sochi Games. The group demanded that Coca-Cola withdraw its sponsorship of the games and

an interview around the time of the fair’s 25th anniversary. That first year, 30,000 people came, and the fair raised about $20,000 for charity. Moshoyannis said the fair was actually started as “a call to action to highlight the diversity of South of Market and to address the issue of gentrification,” an issue that’s still evident today as the neighborhood faces concerns over development and affordability. Efforts are also under way

dance-a-thon to be held at Fort Mason. “Someday we’ll dance to celebrate the cure. I hope it’s in this life,” wrote Madonna. Titled “Be Bad ... Do Good: Activism with a Beat,” the exhibit notes that Real Bad, with the tagline “a party with a purpose,” has raised $1.7 million to date and has awarded donations to nearly 50 local nonprofits over the years, all overseen by a group of dedicated volunteers. “We are the longest running nonprofit organization raising money that is a dance party,” said Gina Gatta, who helped curate the exhibit and has been on the GRGR/West board of directors for four years. Gatta publishes the Damron gay travel guides, which has sponsored Real Bad the last dozen years, and has attended the dance parties since 1992. The museum exhibit spawned from the board’s desire to have a legacy project to celebrate its silver anniversary, she said. To help it reach the $2 million mark in donations, the board this year is trying to raise an additional $100,000 on top of the $200,000 it normally raises. It will not know if it has succeeded until the night of its beneficiary party November 7. “It looks very good. We are close to hitting our $100,000 goal,” Gatta said this week. Each year a large and small beneficiary agency is selected by the dance organizers for a two-year grant cycle, so four local nonprofits annually share the proceeds. implement in Russia the same nondiscrimination policies it has for its workers in the United States. The group has not yet gone after any of the other nine corporate partners but Queer Nation spokesman Alan Klein said protests against the others are “in the works.” “We started with Coca-Cola because they are a world partner and major sponsor of the games and have been associated with the Olympics since 1928,” said Klein. On the same day as the Queer Nation action, Coca-Cola posted a lengthy statement on its website, reiterating that it has “long been a strong supporter of the LGBT community” and that it does “not condone intolerance or discrimination of any kind anywhere in the world.” “We believe a more positive impact can be made through continued involvement, rather than by sitting on the sidelines,” said the statement. Coca-Cola and the other top corporate partners with the IOC provide

to create an LGBT cultural heritage district in part of the SOMA neighborhood. [See Political Notebook, page 7.] The fair has grown to be “much more involved and complicated” than it was years ago, Moshoyannis, who’s marking his eighth year as head of the organization, said in an interview last week. The complications arise from the community itself and from other parts of society, he said. “Fetishes change and evolve over time, but so do expectations from the city,” said Moshoyannis, who pointed to the festival’s “huge” recycling program as an example of civic expectations. “We also have a lot more events now than we did when I started,” such as the Bay of Pigs and Deviants parties, he added. Some have complained in recent years that the fair has become too mainstream, but Moshoyannis said, “It’s certainly not mainstream to have live hook suspensions at your event, and if that’s your perception, you probably need to step outside the San Francisco bubble more often.” “The demographics of Folsom have been changing, and I think that’s fine,” he said. “I think it’s great to welcome straight people into fe-

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Beefcake was on parade at the 2010 Folsom Street Fair.

tish and kink,” as well as seeing more transgender people and others. “I think we owe it to the community to provide a space for those newcomers,” he said, adding, “It’s important we remember that before we judge the person just standing there in their street clothes.” Those people “might be scared but interested. Folsom is a good place for people to learn some new things,” said Moshoyannis. The Magnitude party is set for 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. beginning Satur-

day, September 28 at 521 and 525 Harrison Street. Tickets are $90 in advance and can be purchased at various retail locations. A limited number of tickets will be available for $100 the night of the event. The official Folsom closing party, Deviants, will be from 4:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. beginning Sunday at Beatbox and Audio Discotech, 314 11th Street. Tickets are available online for $25 and at the door for $35. For more information, visit www. folsomstreetevents.org.t

Part of the party’s enduring appeal is its unique way of selling tickets to the dance. Each year 250 people are selected to be a Real Bad host, which requires them to pay $50 plus purchase a $125 VIP ticket to the event. They also commit to selling two VIP tickets and six general entrance tickets, which this year cost $90. Hosts are given the option to renew their participation each year, and if there are any spots open they are parceled off by lottery to those on a waiting list. “This year we had 10 new hosts. It was the first time in three years we had a vacancy,” said Gatta. In the video Jeff Stallings, who was a co-chair of Real Bad III, recalled the idea for the hosts came about as a way to help pay for moving the dance to a commercial venue. “We had zero money,” said Stallings in the film. Back then it was a struggle to find people to commit to be hosts, but nowadays, it can be a herculean task to find a Real Bad ticket to purchase. GRGR/ West lists on its website each year the names of the hosts, many of whom live outside the Bay Area, and this year, as far away as New Zealand and Canada. But it does not include their contact information, so finding a host can be a maddening experience for

newcomers or those not in the know. “It is always frustrating because the tickets are so hard to get,” said Scott Saraceno, a 20-year resident of San Francisco who attended his first Real Bad in 1999. “In the early years it took a lot of phone calls to find hosts.” Visiting the city seven years ago from Oklahoma, Johnson happened to be working out at a Castro gym when he was offered a Real Bad ticket. “On the airplane home I was crying because I was leaving. A year later I was living here,” said Johnson, who has worked on the visual effects for blockbuster movies like The Hunger Games and the Percy Jackson films. Saraceno also worked on the short documentary. Asked why the party has lasted through the years, he pointed to its high production values achieved on a very low budget since most of the money raised is donated away. “It has remained a quintessential San Francisco event that is run by people in the city with a great purpose,” said Saraceno, who two years ago volunteered on the set-up crew for the dance. “It really epitomizes the whole Folsom Street aesthetic. It’s the party I look the most forward to every year.” The event’s success has its drawbacks, said Barbieri, known for his elaborate fruit table displays he erects each year at the dance. “We never thought it would get as big as it is today. Personally, I don’t like how big it is,” said Barbieri, who marveled at the fact that a small house party has evolved into

“a worldwide-known party now.” Up to 2,000 tickets are sold each year in advance of the party, held for the last 15 years at dance club 1015 Folsom. Another 50 are set aside at the door and sold on a first-come basis and are gone within minutes of the doors opening. “Now people fight to get tickets,” noted Barbieri. Gatta offered one secret to those trying to score a ticket: check with the doorman if more tickets are available as throughout the course of the night hosts who did not sell all their tickets will turn them over. “We try to sell another 300 at the door,” she said.t

millions of dollars to fund the staging of the games, support Olympic teams, and provide technology and expertise. Texas-based Global Language Monitor, which specializes in auditing the value of various corporate brands, said that most Olympic sponsors sign contracts that provide the sponsorship relationship through summer, winter, and Paralympics games. It estimates that corporate sponsorship of the Olympics over the course of a four-year period costs each company about $1 billion in fees paid to the IOC and in costs associated with advertising and merchandising. “The Olympics have the ability to make, break, energize, or hasten the decline of global brands,” wrote GLM President Paul JJ Payack. “As they become an ever larger presence in an evermore wired world, their importance to the global marketing community will only increase in new (and possibly disruptive) ways. Successfully affiliating one’s brand with the Olympics can result in billions of dollars in

revenue differential.” Gay political commentator Richard Socarides said, in an August 20 essay for the New Yorker, that corporate sponsors are in a bind but so are activists. “Last year’s boycott of the chickensandwich chain Chick-fil-A for its financial support of anti-gay groups saw mixed results after conservatives rallied around the company and visited it in droves,” noted Socarides. There’s another complication when it comes to evaluating some of these sponsors: Many support LGBT events and make significant contributions to the LGBT community. For instance, Proctor and Gamble contributed to the effort to repeal Cincinnati’s anti-gay initiative, a move that prompted Focus on the Family to urge a boycott of its popular Crest toothpaste and Tide detergent. The Visa corporation offers a rainbow Visa card for consumers who want to show their pride and HRC offers an HRC Visa card that allows support-

ers to automatically contribute a percentage of each purchase to the lobby group. McDonald’s has a lesbian gay career development class that “teaches our employees how to move from awareness to action in the area of inclusion and intercultural management.” GE’s LGBT employee group hosts 50 LGBT community service projects each year and sponsored the World Pride event prior to the 2012 London Olympics. “But whatever the impact on the bottom line,” noted Socarides, “the [Chick-fil-A] controversy did generate a lot of media coverage, and certainly the Olympics offer a much bigger media platform for gay-rights supporters than a take-out chain. “If Russia continues to arrest, harass, and stigmatize gay people, then human rights activists will no doubt continue to protest.” The Olympics in Sochi, Socarides wrote, “could turn out to be one of the most politically explosive Games in history.”t

This year the board decided to also grant four, one-time $10,000 grants, two to local agencies and two to national groups.

Tickets hard to come by

To see the documentary short Real Bad: History and Legacy online, visit realbad.org/videos. Tickets are available for Real Bad’s companion dance party Recovery following this year’s Castro Street Fair, Sunday, October 6. It will be held from 6 to midnight at Public Works, 161 Erie Street off Mission Street. Tickets are $30 in advance, $40 at the door. The proceeds will be earmarked toward the 25th anniversary fundraising campaign. The GLBT History Museum is hosting a panel discussion about the Real Bad exhibit from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, October 17 at the museum at 4127 18th Street in San Francisco. General admission is $5; $3 for California students; and free for GLBT Historical Society members.

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549757 In the matter of the application of: GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, is requesting that the name GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, be changed to GREG ALLEN ROSSCUP. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 5th of November 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549761 In the matter of the application of: TOBI AMY-LYNN HARPER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TOBI AMY-LYNN HARPER, is requesting that the name TOBI AMY-LYNN HARPER, be changed to TOBI LYNN HARPER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 24th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: HUSEIN SHAKARA, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS KARA C. DAVIS CASE NO. FDI-13-780061 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE: The restraining orders following are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 400 MCALISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; the name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: KARA C. DAVIS, 2021 15TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, (415) 509-2124; SEPT 09, 2013 WARNING: California law provides that, for the purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasicommunity, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035342100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE 7 ELEVEN REALTY, 1188 MISSION ST. #422, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUNG CHI CHIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035322000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C. COLORADO JONES PRODUCTIONS, 139 CORBETT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER C. JONES. 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 08/22/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035333600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME FURNISHINGS ALUMNI, 2 HENRY ADAMS ST. #41A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH L. GIRIMONTE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035328500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISTIC NAILS & SPA, 1826 DIVISADERO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NATALIE TRAN. 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 08/26/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549788 In the matter of the application of: NANCY JEAN COOPER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NANCY JEAN COOPER, is requesting that the name NANCY JEAN COOPER, be changed to MCKEE TODD ADDAMS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 5th of November 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549764 In the matter of the application of: DAVID WEINAR, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner DAVID WEINAR, is requesting that the name DAVID WEINAR, be changed to D W. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 19th of November 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035337900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STAY CURRENT PRODUCTIONS, 4101 NORIEGA ST. #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LYNN MCGLOTHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035340300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUDDU DE KARAHI, 1501 NORIEGA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MOHAMMED ZULFIQAR HAIDER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035333100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOMBROWSKI CLEANING SERVICES, 227 JENAY COURT, MARTINEZ, CA 94553. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS DOMBROWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035336300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SECTOR; STIG; 3518 CAPOTERRA WAY, DUBLIN, CA 94568. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SECTOR TECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRIAL GLOBAL LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035317500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION CRITTER, 2959 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MISSION CRITTER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: ABDELHAKIM BENGHARBIA, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS CHANEL NICOLE SEPULVEDA CASE NO. 112FL-161263 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, 170 PARK AVE., SAN JOSE, CA 95113. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: CHANEL NICOLE SEPULVEDA, 3827 NASH CT., SAN JOSE, CA 95111; (408) 712-2280. Date: APR 02, 2012. Clerk of the Superior Court, by TRANG VU, Deputy. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/06/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: TRADESMAN VENTURES, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 753 ALABAMA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110-2022. 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Legal Notices>> NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/12/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: BAI SEN MA, SHAO YU MA. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 4012 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118-3106. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/04/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: BAY BREAD LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1266 9TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122-2307. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/04/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: BAY BREAD LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 16 W. PORTAL AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127-1304. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/10/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: JEFFREY ZHIGUAN LI. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 646 WASHINGTON ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111-2106. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035349600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREAM STATE TRANSPORTATION, 1147 OZBOURN CT. #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIARHEI KULBEDA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/06/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035335200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SKINLOGIC, 360A WEST PORTAL AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHIH YU CHANG. 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 08/29/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035353400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURKE’S GREEN LANDSCAPING, 970 GEARY ST. #44, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DENNIS BURKE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035327100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN SPA, 1608 OCEAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JING YI WAN. 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 08/23/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035340200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: R2 CATERING, 416 BEACH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RITA RABINOVICH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035353500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TONY D, 3150 18TH ST. #310, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANTHONY M. DICARO. 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 09/09/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035353300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOR REAL FOOD, 4672 18TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL S. WIESE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035342400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAPPIER HUMAN, 250 HEARST AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMIT P. AMIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035346300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRIVATE RENDEZVOUS, 427 METRO WALKWAY, RICHMOND, CA 94801. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LENORIS WALSH III. 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 09/05/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Dated 07/29/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MIKYBOOM, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1862 DIVISADERO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115-2517. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 26, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Dated 08/07/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SUMAC MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2257 CHESTNUT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123-2607. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 26, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/12/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: THE NOODLE SHOP CO COLORADO INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 135 4TH ST. #1050, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-3039. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 09/13/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: JALELEH SAMI NAZZAL, NIDAL SAMI NAZZAL, SAANDRA SELLERS NAZZAL, SAMI HANNAH NAZZAL. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at SAN FRANCISCO INT’L AIRPORT, DOMESTIC TERMINAL 3, BOARDING AREA E2.330A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94128. Type of license applied for 47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035351600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIVE PINS PROJECT, 491A GUERRERO ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELISABETH GOLDSCHMIDT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035342500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, 340 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, INC (OR). 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 09/03/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035356200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HENRY’S HUNAN NORTH RESTAURANT, 1398 GRANT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DUPONT THAI, INC CA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035351100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUDPUPPY’S, 2414 CHESTNUT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JOBETTY, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035345400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEADER HOUSE, 1409 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LEADER MANAGEMENT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/04/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/04/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035336100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCYCLE, PIER 54 #210, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed APPAREL SOURCING AND PRODUCTION LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/13. SEPT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035373400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HANDS, 110 PACIFIC AVE. #256, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed POLYANA FERNANDES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/17/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035369700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PUGNACIOUS PR, 555 FOURTH ST. #845, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SPENCER MOORE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035364800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CCSF MISSION CAMPUS BOOKSTORE #1327, 1125 VALENCIA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FOLLETT HIGHER EDUCATION GROUP INC (IL). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035365000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CCSF ANNEX OCEAN CAMPUS BOOKSTORE #1328, 11 PHELAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FOLLETT HIGHER EDUCATION GROUP INC (IL). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035363800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MILO LOUNGE, 1706 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HENRY H AND ANDY H INVESTMENT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035347500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FITNESS SF FILLMORE, 1455 FILLMORE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FILLMORE FITNESS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/05/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035363900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KT’S FILLMORE, 3231 FILLMORE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BOUSSINA P&J LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035375000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALPAC; CALPAC MORTGAGE; CAL PACIFIC MORTGAGE; 100 CALIFORNIA ST. #1100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BAY EQUITY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035369400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HURTUBISE WEBER LAW LLP, 201 SPEAR ST. #1100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, and is signed NICOLE ABRAMOWITZ WEBER & ISABELLE HURTUBISE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033160600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MILO LOUNGE, 1706 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by HENRY HU, ANDY HO & KEN CHEN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/2010. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033160600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MILO LOUNGE, 1706 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by YOUNG LIFE GROUP INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/2010. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035387700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY AREA GARAGE DOOR, 1238 VERMONT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN KELLY WILSON JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035386100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAIROINE SALON SF, 3150 18TH ST. # 201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINDA M. THOMAS-MAYFIELD. 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 09/23/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035383400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLACK & GOLD, 2200 15TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMUEL B. GENTHNER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035357200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALTERNATIVE MORTGAGE SOURCES, 2358 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BETH M. HOFFMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/86. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035390900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VALENCIA FARMERS MARKET, 1299 VALENCIA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed SAM HORT, MALINDA HING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/05/85. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035340300 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: GUDDU DE KARAHI, 1501 NORIEGA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MOHAMMAD ZULFIQAR HAIDER. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035364700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CCSF DOWNTOWN CAMPUS BOOKSTORE #1326, 84 FOURTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FOLLETT HIGHER EDUCATION GROUP INC (IL). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035364600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CCSF OCEAN CAMPUS BOOKSTORE #1325, 50 PHELAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FOLLETT HIGHER EDUCATION GROUP INC (IL). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/13. SEPT 19, 26, OCT 03, 10, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035376400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AHHH EROTIC ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, 1390 MISSION ST. #403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-2670. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALLEN E. HAYER. 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 09/18/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035379400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUNA ROSSA, 2221 CLEMENT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANGELO PICCININI. 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 09/19/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035378100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BORNEO INTERNATIONAL, 360 POST ST. #404, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YERIANTO PIAUWASDY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/10/89. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035367000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAR WINDOWS AND DOORS, 50 WABASH TERRACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FREDDY K. LEUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013

OFFICE OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE SUCCESSOR TO THE SAN FRANCISCO REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY Job Title: Assistant Project Manager Salary: $91,078.00 - $110,708.00 DOQ Final Filing Date: October 2, 2013 COB Seeking an experienced Assistant Project Manager who will be responsible for the work on Hunters Point Shipyard/ Candlestick Point redevelopment, with a secondary focus on the Mission Bay project area.Matters include urban design, park design, transportation issues, streetscape design, architectural review, and financial and administrative matters. Requires ability to work well with community and private stakeholders; excellent writing and public presentation skills; creativity and problemsolving, and the ability to self-direct, multi-task, and to complete assignments by requested due dates. Minimum qualifications include: two years of direct technical and professional work experience with redevelopment projects and two years of project management experience performing supervisory and managerial functions; Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in planning, public or business administration, real estate development, or a related field. A graduate degree in planning, urban redevelopment, land development, business administration or related field may substitute for up two years of experience. Application Process: Applicants must submit and complete an application packet consisting of a Successor to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Job Application, Resume, and Cover Letter. Materials can be found at http://www. sfredevelopment.org/ Job Opportunities. Packets must be mailed to: Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure Successor to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Human Resources Department – Attn: April Ward 1 South Van Ness Avenue- 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Failure to submit all requested materials by the deadline will result in rejection of the application. FAX or emailed copies are not accepted.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035378200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE PLUS TEA HOUSE, 853 CLAY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ZHIMING LEI & DELIANG LIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035387800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUDDU DE KARAHI, 1501 NORIEGA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ASMAAN INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035344700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEIFEI, 2418 CHESTNUT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MEIFEI ALTERATIONS & DESIGNS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/04/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035381800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOUNDATION HOUSE, 300 FUNSTON AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed KAHLE-AUSTIN FOUNDATION HOUSE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/13. SEPT 26, OCT 03, 10, 17, 2013

OFFICE OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE SUCCESSOR TO THE SAN FRANCISCO REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY Job Title: Associate Planner Biweekly Salary: $81,822 - $99,476 DOQ Final Filing Date: October 2, 2013-COB BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Successor Agency is seeking an experienced Associate Planner who will have a primary assignment to the Hunters Point Shipyard/Candlestick Point project area, along with supporting other duties as assigned. Under direction from the Project Management team, this person will be responsible for performing complex planning work in land use, design review for new building and park development, urban economics and finance, land use entitlements and environmental review processes (CEQA and NEPA) processes, historic preservation and real estate. The Successor Agency is searching for a self-motivated individual who has knowledge of the principles, goals, objectives, procedures, practices, law, and trends in the field of land use planning and the California Environmental Quality Act. In particular, the Successor Agency is looking for someone who possesses strong skills in the following areas: interagency coordination; transportation planning and design review; and environmental review. Must be skilled in dealing effectively with a broad range of clients, including developers, property owners, architects, engineers, and diverse communities. In addition, the successful candidate must possess excellent verbal and written communication abilities. This person will be responsible for: evaluating public and private development projects for conformance to land use, environmental, and other requirements; conducting environmental assessment of projects, including making recommendations regarding mitigation measures or negative declarations; reviewing studies related to Environmental Impact Reports and drafting related reports; preparing planning and urban design data and graphic images related to transportation, population, traffic, land use, and/or other elements of planning; and reviewing building and land use permit applications and variances. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum qualifications are as follows; must be able to prepare reports, proposals, and other written materials, collect and analyze Census data, and use software programs including GIS, PowerPoint, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Public speaking and working with members of the public are also important aspects of this position. Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university with emphasis in city planning or a closely related field. A Master’s Degree in city planning is desirable. Experience: Four years of professional level experience in city planning or a closely related field. Knowledge of GIS and graphics programs; work with diverse community groups; public sector design review experience; and experience preparing and applying design guidelines is desirable. Application Process: Applicants must submit and complete an application packet consisting of a Successor to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Job Application, Resume, and Cover Letter. Materials can be found at http://www.sfredevelopment. org/ Job Opportunities. Packets must be mailed to: Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure Successor to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Human Resources Department – Attn: April Ward 1 South Van Ness Avenue - 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Failure to submit all requested materials by the deadline will result in rejection of the application. FAX or emailed copies are not accepted.

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Desperate living

An emerald necklace, a gift from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor, is included in the exhibit The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950-1990 at the de Young Museum.

Patricia Racette (Dolores Claiborne) and Wayne Tigges (Joe St. George) in San Francisco Opera’s Dolores Claiborne.

Beautiful bling Rick Gerharter Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

by Philip Campbell

obias Picker’s new opera Dolores Claiborne, libretto by poet J.D. McClatchy based on the novel by Stephen King and latest in a series of commissions for the San Francisco Opera by General Director David Gockley, has finally received its world premiere. It has also beaten some pretty fierce odds just by getting the singers onstage and the curtain up. That constitutes a triumph of sorts, regardless of artistic success and word on the street, and early reviews echo the many sighs of relief and shouted kudos that started immedi-

ately after the exciting opening night. From the very get-go, there have been skeptics and detractors, starting with the choice of Stephen King for a source. After the string of lukewarm receptions given Gockley’s previous commissions (some downright duds), could this latest venture from a bestselling but decidedly sensational popular author possibly succeed with the, how shall we say, slightly more highbrow opera crowd? Putting on a new opera isn’t cheap, either. At least King (who reportedly has shown little or no interest in the project) gave the rights at auction for only one dollar. See page 38 >>

by Sura Wood

ll that glitters is Bulgari in a new show guaranteed to bring out your inner materialist. The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950-1990, now at the de Young Museum, showcases 145 pieces representing four decades of luxury creations from the family-owned business founded in Rome in 1884 by the Greek-born Sotirios Voulgaris. The flagship shop he opened on the Via dei Condotti in 1905 became a magnet for film stars from Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman and Virna Lisi to Gina Lollobrigida and, especially, Elizabeth Taylor, who was akin to a patron saint

of the jewelry house. “The only word Liz knows in Italian is Bulgari,” Richard Burton once said. And, pray tell, what other word did she need to know? Burton would fork over an amount equivalent to the budget of a small Latin American country to delight the breathtaking love of his life during their tempestuous relationship. Taylor looks nothing short of fabulous circa 1962 in a photo taken on the set of Cleopatra, a costly epic partially shot in Rome. She wears Bulgari’s signature serpentine watch coiled multiple times around her slender wrist. Several watches are on view, including a lust-worthy gold one that has a profusion of diamonds and See page 30 >>

Masters & Johnson & us

Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as Masters and Johnson in Masters of Sex.

by Victoria A. Brownworth

ex and TV have gone hand-in-latex for a very long time, but never quite like they will on Sept. 29, when Masters of Sex debuts on Showtime for what purports to be one of the best new series of the fall season. Created by Michelle Ashford (The Pacific, John Adams, Boomtown – yeah, she’s that good), the series is based on Thomas Maier’s biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson. The magnificent Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) turns Masters into one of the more complex but engaging characters on the small screen, by turns insufferably arrogant and surprisingly amenable. Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls), who is never given enough time on any screen, is a most perspicacious and compelling Johnson. This is such an intriguing yet unlikely

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premise for a TV series. Someone smoked something very strong, watched some Mad Men then some porn, and said, “Masters of Sex!” and this show was born. Yet it works. Smart, poignant, funny, tantalizing, it covers a lot of that uber-male territory mined by Mad Men, of a repressed era where sex just wasn’t discussed. But unlike the somewhat plodding Kinsey, which made sex a tedious afterthought, Masters of Sex reminds viewers of where we came from – our prudish, unspoken sexual history as a nation. In 1950s America, the very idea that these two people were doing this kind of study was incredible. This series proves for yet another season that Showtime is the new HBO. And no, we don’t know what happened to the old HBO. There are still a few really good shows that remind us of when HBO See page 36 >>

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30 • Bay Area Reporter • September 26-October 2, 2013

Passport to glamour by Roberto Friedman

t had been a few years since Out There had attended a Macy’s Passport event, so we had forgotten what a big production it always is. Last Thursday night’s 31st Macy’s Passport Presents Glamorama – Fashion in a New Light at the Orpheum Theatre was a big, splashy night out, from the fashion shows to the entertainment to the enthusiastic full house of audience, there for a good cause. We accompanied photographer Rick Gerharter to the “red carpet” point-and-shoot photo opportunities, in which stars of the show as well as local luminaries like Glide Memorial’s Rev. Cecil Williams and Janet Mirikitani hit their marks for the ravening crowd of shutterbugs. It was instructive for OT to see how patient and mellow the paparazzi were right up until the minute that the celebs were brought out – and

then it was like prey thrown to the lions. “Look this way!” “Over here!” Snap! Flash! The show itself was, as promised, glamorous and really quite highend in production values. Designer houses Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Rachel Rachel Roy, Tallia Orange, Maison Jules and others were given teams of gorgeous models, extravagant lighting and set designs, and pumping music to showcase their fall fashion lines. The Diesel segment brought out the famous men’s underwear show-all, to squeals of delight from the objectifying audience and not a small measure of titillation from the likes of us. Entertainment sets included feats of derring-do from stars of the Cirque du Soleil, pop-rock sounds from The Summer Set, and a rousing closer from headliner Sheryl Crow (Tuesday Night Music Club). Quite a show in all, hosted by Macy’s, and

benefiting the AIDS Emergency Fund, Project Open Hand and the Glide Foundation. Passport events, originally co-chaired by an HIV/ AIDS charity champ, the late Dame Elizabeth Taylor, have so far raised over $31 million for the cause. The afterparty at the Asian Art Museum was lavish and celebratory. The DJs at the booth on the dance floor were none other than Adrian and the Mysterious D, from Bootie Mashup fame. We can say “we knew them when” – well before they became international nightclub impresarios. Well done, Miss Things!

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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Artistic Director Dr. Timothy Seelig announced the lineup for their 36th season, Illuminate. The season includes three concerts with the 300 men of the chorus: Shine! Our Brightest Holiday Ever! at War Memorial Opera House (Dec. 6), Luster at Davies Symphony Hall (March 25, 26) and Dazzle! The Boys Do Broadway at Nourse Theatre (June 25, 26, 27). Beginning with the annual kick-off preview event Crescendo at the Four Seasons Hotel (Oct. 13), the season will

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Three men in Diesel underwear end the fashion-show portion of the 31st Macy’s Passport Presents Glamorama – Fashion in a New Light.

also bring the 24th annual Home for the Holidays at Castro Theatre (Dec. 24) and the spring ensembles concert Glitter! Bring on the Men! at Marines Memorial Theatre (May

3). Season tickets ($92-$156) are available now by going to www. SFGMC.com or by calling (415) 392-4400. Single show tickets go on sale Tues., Oct. 15.t

Bulgari

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a dazzling ruby on its head; emerald specks denote reptilian eyes. A gallery devoted to the actress’ collection shows off a platinum, emerald and diamond necklace with detachable brooch; it was the first piece Burton bought for her and the beginning of a mutually beneficial relationship with Bulgari that outlasted many of her eight marriages. She later auctioned it off, a portion of the proceeds benefiting her AIDS foundation. It and a stunning matching ring are flanked by two brooches from outgoing spouse Eddie Fisher. In this race, it’s clear he didn’t have a chance. Taylor lived large, collecting husbands and jewelry with equal relish; in retrospect, she may have gotten more bang for the buck from the latter than from the former. Another gift from Burton and one of the show’s most spectacular pieces is a platinum sautoir (long necklace). Fit for a tribal queen with its brilliant, deep blueblack, 57-carat Burmese sapphire

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“Playing Card” brooch (ca. 1975), gold with mother-of pearl, coral, onyx, and diamonds; Bulgari Heritage Collection.

pendant and a chain flecked with diamonds and bits of sapphires, it radiates mystery and power. Numerous photographs of Taylor here are a reminder that although she craved the jewels, her ravishing beauty was of such magnitude that she needed less adornment than mere mortals. With a design aesthetic influenced by Renaissance art and the 19th-century Roman school, Bulgari made its mark by departing from traditional settings, introducing informality to evening wear and moving from platinum to yellow gold. They’re also noted for their use of bright colors, which FAMSF board president Dede Wilsey calls “candy without the calories.” (Wilsey lent her white diamond flower brooch with a yellow diamond center.) Another trademark is the mixing of semi-precious and precious gemstones of varying quality. Some of these combos fare better than others, like a beautifully shaped, perfectly balanced gold bib necklace with diamonds and cabochon stones of amethyst, emerald and turquoise; the matching pendant earrings, echoing the graceful curves of the necklace, are sensational. The set, made in the 1960s, was owned by the late Lyn Revson, former wife of the Revlon cosmetics poobah. Other pieces, blending turquoise and diamonds, for instance, look like costume jewelry. The emeralds on view, most of them mined in Colombia, are awe-inspiring like the staggering 300-carat specimen screaming its name in a pendant hanging from a long gold chain. The appropriately named “7 Wonders” necklace has big chunks adding up to 118 carats worth of stones in diamond

encrusted settings. Owned by the wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist who once described her profession as “lady of leisure,” it has been worn by screen sirens such as Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti. While a major part of Bulgari’s success lies in the reflected glory and patronage of the rich and famous, the show relies too heavily on the celebrity connections, particularly in the video components where we see the objects and then, through the magic of digital, the beautiful women who wore them. Glamorously displayed in freestanding gleaming black cases as they might be in a boutique, the jewels are stars in their own solar systems; surrounded by filtered glass, they sparkle in a pool of light from above and reflected luminescence from shiny sand granules below. The installation is tight, and maneuvering around the cases is difficult if there’s a crush of visitors in the galleries. In contrast to the general atmosphere of refinement is a tacky section featuring large garish medallions with an ancient coin motif that Elvis Presley might have coveted. In one vitrine, digital coins rain down accompanied by the sound of money. Viva Las Vegas. Promoted as an exhibition focusing on the art, innovative design and craftsmanship of the Italian jewelry dynasty, the show is just as much or more about getting a glimpse of how the other half – now only 1% – lives. There’s no denying these shows are catnip for a segment of the museumgoing public, the “be well, prosper and get your bling fix on” crowd. After all, how can ogling expensive baubles that look so good be wrong? (Through Feb. 17.)t

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32 • Bay Area Reporter • September 26-October 2, 2013

History boys by Richard Dodds

librettist Peter Stone, specifically as the northern colonies fold over the issue of slavery, and in the overall unsightliness of laws and sausages being made. But in the passing years, the country birthed that summer has been involved in a series of dispiriting wars, seen one president resign and another impeached, has adopted the hideously titled Patriot Act, watched as the private guardians of our economy nearly destroyed it, and lately been witness to revelations that our government is monitoring everything from a tweet between neighbors to conversations in presidential offices around the globe. All of the above was brought to mind (this mind at least) as the

oes it matter that history has happened since the debut of 1776 on Broadway in 1969 – even if the events of the musical are deeply rooted in American lore? Of course it does, but a nation’s ongoing tribulations only deepen the arguments being held in a “foul, fetid, filthy, fuming Philadelphia” in the summer when the Declaration of Independence was being written, debated, and adopted. A sturdy, faithful rendering of the original Broadway vision for 1776 has opened ACT’s new season with tempered flag-waving. At least some of that temperance was intended by songwriter Sherman Edwards and

heated discussions among members of the Second Continental Congress promote and question the wisdom of breaking off the 13 American colonies from the erratic economic dictums of the British monarchy. This is not obviously the stuff of a rah-rah Broadway musical, but its creators often do a surprisingly effective job of combining boulevard comedy, song and dance, and deadly serious negotiations. Estimable director Frank Galati, a stalwart of Chicago’s vibrant theater scene and a Tony winner for his adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, has approached the curious concoction of 1776 with a reverent yet light-handed touch. An earlier incarnation of this production was presented at Sarasota’s Asolo Theatre last year, with sets, costumes, lighting design, and some of the actors continuing in their roles. It’s not possible to identify the newcomers from the veterans as each of the congressional delegates has a specific identity as the fierce conflicts of conscience and personality between key delegates is made palpable, and Benjamin Franklin is just as cantankerously lovable as we always thought he was. But 1776 belongs to John Adams, delegate from Massachusetts and future president, who, we are reminded repeatedly, is obnoxious and disliked, but remains the battering ram that ultimately corrals a unanimous vote for independence. John Hickok, new to the cast for the ACT production, fully inhabits the character, and his energies help drive the show forward even when it forgets it’s a musical and settles into filiblustery talk. As noted, Benjamin Franklin, or this Benjamin Franklin at least, has the right stuff for musical comedy that Andrew Boyer adroitly exploits. There are more straight-ahead mu-

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Andrew Boyer (left) as Benjamin Franklin and John Hickok as John Adams debate how to secure ratification of the Declaration of Independence in the musical 1776 at ACT.

sical comedy moments provided by the prancing Ryan Drummond as Virginia’s Richard Henry Lee and the libidinously trilling Andrea Prestinario as Martha Jefferson. And while Jarrod Zimmerman passionately, and almost sadistically, delivers South Carolina delegate Edward Rutledge’s dirge-like argument for slavery, the message seems a muddle. It is interesting to note that if the northern colonies had not agreed to delete mention of slavery in the

Declaration of Independence, the colonies would likely have remained part of Great Britain, making them subject to Parliament’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 – 30 years ahead of the Emancipation Proclamation. History doesn’t give us do-overs, but what-ifs can’t be thwarted, and 1776 is a great what-if enabler.t 1776 will run at ACT through Oct. 6. Tickets are $25-$150. Call 749-2228 or go to act-sf.org.

Bosom buddies by Richard Dodds

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Crescendo tickets online at www.sfgmc.org/crescendo 1

Benefiting the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and previewing Season 36: Illuminate

here are slice-of-life charms and amusing evocations of 1980s pop culture in Frank Anthony Polito’s play Band Fags! At least, there are at first. But as New Conservatory Theatre Center’s production presses on, it becomes discouragingly apparent that the slices of life being evoked have minimal dramatic arc, and that Polito seems determined to cram in as many period pop-culture references as possible for their easy laughs. The play takes its title from Polito’s novel about Jack and Brad, BFFs who first bonded in their junior high school band, and their forward march to high school graduation as they skirt around their sexual identities. In a recent interview, Polito said the play is 90% autobiographical, adding that, “Sadly, my life isn’t as interesting or dramatic as Jack’s.” Sadly indeed, for one is hardpressed to see Jack’s life as interesting or dramatic. He lolls about his bedroom covered in posters for Duran Duran, Ghostbusters, and PacMan while watching soap operas on his Betamax. He seems to be gay, but maybe he isn’t, but then again maybe he is, but not necessarily. With his buddy Brad, who knows he’s gay even though he thinks Judy Garland was assassinated, the social minutiae of their school life are examined in agonizing detail. In the end, the characters have only marginally moved from where they started. So how do you fill two hours when so little is happening? Recurring exchanges along the lines of “Shut up” followed by “No, you shut up” may help (or hinder). But credit

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James Arthur M. (left) and Blake Doris play teenage buddies coping with their sexual identities in Band Fags! at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

goes to Blake Doris as Jack and James Arthur M. as Brad for largely mastering dialogue that flows at a torrential rate in director Stephanie Temple’s production. That the actors are clearly grownups creates an awkward aura of developmental challenge in what looks like girlishly childish behavior. Maybe a spoiler alert is due here,

but the big reveal of the final scene is summed up in this bit of dialogue: “How could we be so dumb?” No further comment will be offered here.t Band Fags! will run through Oct. 13 at New Conservatory Theatre Center. Tickets are $25-$45. Call 861-8972 or go to nctcsf.org.

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September 26-October 2, 2013 • Bay Area Reporter • 33

Devil’s landscape by David Lamble

risoners is a gripping rust-belt thriller framed as a sneaky homage to David Fincher’s serial-killer classic Zodiac. It begins on a creepy note as father/son hunters track Bambi into a dismal, dank forest. The first voice we hear, a baritone growl, begins on the Lord’s Prayer, whereupon Sonny shoots Bambi, inaugurating a descent through layers of unrelenting acts of cruelty. A kidnapping suspect is beaten to a pulp, threatened with amputation, then subjected to a scalding hot shower; two families have young daughters abducted under circumstances that drive several members beyond madness into complicity with torture; a homicide detective is so sucked down into the raw barbarity at the core of this story that he starts to lose it with prisoners; and we the audience are kept from knowledge of the proceedings through a kind of sensory deprivation style of filmmaking (executed by prize-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins) that filters riveting plot twists through a low-lit palette that makes it difficult to distinguish victims from perpetrators, bystanders from depraved sadists. The conductor of this devil’s symphony is Quebec director Denis Villeneuve (2010’s Incendiaries), who takes the child abduction thriller genre to delirious depths. The story begins on a deceptively sweet, almost celebratory domestic note as two families – one white and one black, in a seemingly benign salute to Obama’s America – prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving using the white son’s freshly killed venison as the holiday roast. Australian Hugh Jackman breaks new ground for American audiences with a character who at first comes

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(L-R) Hugh Jackman as Keller Dover, and Paul Dano as Alex Jones in the dramatic thriller Prisoners.

off as a poster boy for intolerance, the religious survivalist Keller Dover. Beginning with a heartfelt relationship with his black neighbors, played with shades of moral complicity by Terrence Howard and Viola Davis, Keller appears to lose it emotionally when his young daughter goes missing with the neighbors’ little girl. Suspicions focus on a low-IQ drifter found sleeping in an RV near the Dovers’ house. Keller goes ballistic hectoring a local cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) to lock up the drifter, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), under any pretense possible. Jackman’s Everyman,

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who snaps under circumstances that some will find understandable, becomes a litmus test for every argument ever raised for vigilante justice, and for vengeance-seeking flawed protagonists in Hollywood going back as far as The Oxbow Incident. When a DNA sweep of his van yields no clues, the cops are forced to release Alex into the custody of his aunt (Melissa Leo). Keller abducts the mentally challenged young man and subjects him to a blood-spattered interrogation in an abandoned house, using methods only hinted at in Zero Dark Thirty. At first we’re

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lulled into thinking this is another by-the-numbers moral-abyss drama where Gyllenhaal’s sexy cop will eventually bring the monster to heel. Prisoners is, however, aimed at a far more ambiguous moral abacus. As Jake’s Detective Loki attempts to get a grip on the case, new suspects and bewildering new angles emerge, so that when Keller snarls, “Why are you following me?” the cop is no longer sure of his bearings, methods or even of the endgame, originally the safe return of the girls. This one takes us down a rabbit hole of angst, paranoia and torture, with actors

who won’t hesitate to sacrifice their bodies for the story. If you’ve caught the trailer for Prisoners in its saturation run across the cable dial you may think you know the ending, but you’re wrong. Aaron Guzikowski’s smart script is loaded with red herrings, and every character who appears to give himself away is actually leading you down another blind alley. In one case, Detective Loki spots a suspicious young man at a community vigil for the girls, only to be suckered into a gruesome wild goose chase. The core cast is so proficient at impersonating normal folks under extreme duress that it’s only halfway in that we start to apprehend contradictory traits that allow key clues to bleed through, clues to a more horrific nightmare than we had first suspected. In this respect Prisoners takes after Blue Velvet’s severed-ear portal into a small town’s murderous debauchery, or the British miniseries Red Riding Trilogy’s portrait of a serial crime that may be a projection of an entire society’s deepest fears and flaws. Apart from Jackman and Gyllenhaal’s weird bond, the key is Dano’s impeccable performance as a human whose misfortune it is to occupy a nether zone between innocence and a muddled complicity in terrible evil. The 29-year-old Dano’s career appears to have equipped him for a non-judgmental take on Alex’s perilous fate. As There Will Be Blood’s duplicitous boy preacher and a fundamentalist preacher’s son who falls victim to a prodigal brother in The King, Dano has developed an almost otherworldly ability to inhabit souls that the hip urban world fails to appreciate. The characters’ extreme behavior in Prisoners is a mirror held up to reveal the best and worst in us.t

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Thu 26

Classic Films @ Castro Theatre

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Cleverly-paired double features include: Sept 26, Soylent Green (7pm) and Idiocracy (5:10, 8:55). Sept. 27: The Changeling (7pm) and The Shining (9:10). Sept. 28: Thank God It’s Friday (2:15, 7pm) and Boogie Nights (4:05, 8:50). Sept. 29: 3D features The House of Wax (3:35, 7pm) and Creature From the Black Lagoon (5:20, 8:45), plus the whimsical documentary Watch Horror Films: Keep America Strong (2pm). Oct. 1: Out of Sight and 3:10 to Yuma. Oct. 2: Frances Ha. Oct. 3: Drive and Only God Forgives. $8.50-$12. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Geezer @ The Marsh Veteran comedian Geoff Hoyle returns with his solo show about aging (not-so) gracefully. $25-$100. Wed & Thu 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 26. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 826-5750. www.themarsh.org

J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere @ MOAD Creature From the Black Lagoon, one of several Classic Films at the Castro Theatre

Pleatherable by Jim Provenzano

o, what are you wearing this weekend? Straps? Chaps? Drag? A bag? It seems some kinky folks get more creative each year, from cosplay to animal fetish fun. You can check out all the kinky leathery events going on this week in our newly merged BARtab weekly section, which includes Leather columnist Scott Brogan’s expanded rundown of kinktastic events, as well as On the Town columnist Donna Sachet, and John F. Karr’s saucy porn review. For now, here at Out & About, we remain a tad vanilla, if not a bit skittish about the Folsomfest. The possibility of once again viewing a dom dressed like a

giraffe flogging a sub dressed like a Smurf is… Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just…different. For some, funny costumes can be a turn-on, if you know there’s a hunk or babe underneath. As a kid, Creature From the Black Lagoon fascinated me so much, it was one of my first handmade monster masks. Now, if I’d only known that the guy under the suit was hunky stunt man Ricou Browning, I would have had an even greater appreciation of his talent. Whether you enjoy your thrills in the cinema or the sin-ematic streets, have fun, and dress up, or down, however you like.

Thu 26

Buried Child @ Magic Theatre

1776 @ Geary Theatre

Revival production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a truly messed up family. $20-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. Thru Oct 6. Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, 3rd floor, 2 Marina Blvd. 441-8822. www.magictheatre.org

American Conservatory Theatre’s new production of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s multiple Tony Award-winning 1969 musical about America’s founding fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. $20-$87. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 6. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Band Fags @ New Conservatory Theatre Center West Coast premiere of Frank Anthony Polito’s stage adaptation of his witty novel about gay teenagers at a 1980s Detroit high school marching band. $25-$45. WedSat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct 13. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Bay One-Acts Festival @ Tides Theatre Annual festival presents world premieres of more than a dozen works by local and other U.S. playwrights. $20-$40. Various dates and times thru Oct. 5. 533 Sutter St. 2nd floor. 240-3431. www.BayOneActs.org

Beautiful, The Carole King Musical @ Curran Theatre

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez hosts the last of the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club, with guest Scott Capurro (the new weekly event will be Esta Noche Comedy Thursdays, hosted by other comics). No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 307916th St. www.comedybodega.com

Faculty Recital @ SF Conservatory of Music Ian Swensen (violin) with Paul Katz (cello) and Pei-shan Lee (piano) perform Chopin’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8; Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25 and Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 “Gassenhauer.” $15-$20. 8pm. 50 Oak St. at Van Ness Ave. 503-6275. sfcm.edu

J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday and Gordon Parks: Photographs at His Centennial; both thru Sept. 29. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 3587200. www.moadsf.org

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Z Space World premiere of Hush, a dance-theatre story of inter-related characters whose lives are alternately silenced and silencing; sound score by Sudhu Tewari, music by Ben Juodvalkis. $15-$70. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 5. 450 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.joegoode.org

Leather & Feathers @ The Armory AIDS Emergency Fund’s festive 31st anniversary gala, with drag and/or leather dress code at the expansive Kink.com studios. Enjoy cocktails, food, dress-up contests and a live music set by Brian Kent. MCs Donna Sachet and Sister Roma. $125 and up. 1800 Mission St. www.aef-sf.org

Michael Alago @ Hat Rac Gallery, Oakland Photographer and music industry veteran signs copies of his third coffee table book, Beautiful Imperfections, an eclectic combination of landscapes and tattooed male hunks. 10% of proceeds goes to The Wellness Project. 6pm-10pm. 1714 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 463-7761. www.hatracfineartgallery.com

Regina Carter @ SF Jazz Center The prolific violinist performs with guests Jenny Scheinman and Sara Caswell. $25-$55. 7:30pm. 201 Franklin St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org

Shocktoberfest 14: Jack the Ripper @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ new show takes on a creepy-fun Halloween theme, with Grand Guignol-styled tales of the famous London serial killer, plus the one-act Salome and more fun. $25-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 23. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Stephen Jimenez @ Books Inc. Author of the controversial The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard discusses his book. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Unusual vintage short films, Thursdays and Fridays. This week, Homoneurotica: Sublimating Sexuality, including several gay short films: Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger), and Swim and Live, a WWII Navy instructional film featuring hunky sailors. Sept. 27, Money Manners and Capital Games: Asset-Kicking Edutainment. Each $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

To Sleep and Dream @ Z Below Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of John Fisher’s new play about people struggling with family and romantic entanglements. $15-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm (Oct 6 3pm). Thru Sept. 22. 470 Florida St. at 17th. www.TheRhino.org

Tommy Tune @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The veteran award-winning choreographer performs his semi-autobiographical musical show, “Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales.” $30-$65. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Thru Sept. 28. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 3941111. www.hotelnikkosf.com

Fri 27 After the Revolution @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Amy Herzog’s drama about a woman who discovers her family’s history isn’t the proud radical tradition she thought it was. $32-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, & 7pm. Thru Oct. 6. 2801 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www. auroratheatre.org

All’s Well That Ends Well @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s romantic comedy of mixed and missed affections. $20-$37.50. 8pm. Fri-Sun 8pm. Thru Sept 28. 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Arousal, The Lover @ Phoenix Theatre Annex Two one-acts about straight romantic couples with an unusual edge; George Pfirrmann’s new play, and Harold Pinter’s darkly comic piece. $10-$25. Fri, Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 28. 414 Mason St. 6th floor. 289-2000. www.viragotheatre.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

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Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Song-filled show about the early life and career of the hit-making singer-songwriter. $50-$210. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm (a few variations). Thru Oct. 20. 445 Geary St. at Mason. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane @ YBCA

Bodytraffic @ ODC Theater Los Angeles repertory company performs hybrid dances (ballet meets hip hop!) by Barak Marshall, Richard Siegel, and a preview of a new work by Kyle Abraham. $20-$35. Thu-Sun 8pm. Sept. 29 7pm. Thru Sept. 29. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. www.odcdance.org

Exhibit and series of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the innovative dance company and its diverse collaborators. Included are several offsite performances and discussion panels. Free/$10. Thru Nov. 3. Also, Kota Ezawa’s Boardwalk, an installation tribute to the Seaside Heights boardwalk (which was just destroyed by fire after barely enduring Hurrican Sandy). Thru Nov. 30. Also, Migrating Identities, an eight-artist exhibition visualizing cultural diversity in the U.S. 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org

Bonnie & Clyde @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players performs Adam Peck’s dramatic adaptation of the story of the infamous Southern bank-robbing couple. $20-$35. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 29. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Strange Shorts @ Oddball Films

Shocktoberfest David Allen

Chanticleer @ Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church; St. Francis Church, Sacramento The Grammy-winning men’s a cappella ensemble performs She Said/He Said, a concert of music from their upcoming CD Someone New; music and texts explore the feminine ideal by Hildegard von Bingen and Tomás Luis de Victoria; the harmony and tension between the sexes by Maurice Ravel, Johannes Brahms, and Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn; and a new arrangement of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” $20$50. Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Drive. St. Francis of Assisi, 26th St, Sacramento. 252-8589. chanticleer.org

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

Macbeth @ Fort Point We Players, the innovative site-specific theatre company, performs an energetic version of Shakespeare’s haunting “Scottish play” at the former military outpost. Be forewarned: this three-hour production is mostly outdoors, at night, where it’s cold and damp (how appropriate!), with stairs and multiple locations (special needs/ wheelchair access; call in advance). $30$60. Discounted Thursdays $45. Thu-Sun at 6pm. Extended thru Oct. 13. 1 Marine Drive. 547-0189. www.WePlayers.org

MU @ Kanbar Hall This new work created by NEA Fellow playwright/artistic director Brenda Wong Aoki, Emmy-winning composer Mark Izu and Tony-nominated choreographer Kimi Okada is based on a Japanese legend of dragon kings and sea people. $25. 8pm. Also Sept. 28, 8pm and Sept. 29, 2pm. Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. at Presidio. 292-1233. aokizu.com www.jccsf.org/arts

Narratives of Desire @ Mark I. Chester Studio The SoMa photographer’s annual open studio, with kink and leather-themed artistic prints on display and for sale. Get your solo or group photo taken. Opening reception Sept. 27, 7pm-10pm. Also open Sept. 28 2pm-5pm, and during the Folsom street Fair Sun. Sept. 29 from 11am-6pm. Also by appointment thru 2013. 1229 Folsom St. 621-6294. markichester.com

Queer Open Mic @ Modern Times Bookstore Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Blythe Baldwin cohost the monthly (4th Fridays) eclectic LGBTQwhatever reading series. This month features local author Rob Rosen (Divas Las Vegas, Queerwolf, Vamp), 7:30pm. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. www.mtbs.com

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Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike @ Berkeley Repertory Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning comedy about a wacky family’s absurd country weekend includes a mom with a ditzy new boy toy. Previews thru Sept. 29. $29-$89. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 20. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Sat 28 Arise, Communards @ ATA Gallery Other Cinema presents a series of films, slides and live-film shows about utopian communities, including Sam Green’s “Tree Utopia” show. $6. 8pm. 992 Valencia St. 648-0654. www.othercinema.com

The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond @ de Young Museum New exhibit of 150 pieces of exquisite Italian jewelry made between 1950 and 1990, including gems from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal collection. Thru Feb 17. Also, Eye Level in Iraq: photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson. $10$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

AXIS Dance Auction and Preview @ Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland See a new work-in-progress by choreographer Alex Ketley, set on the physically integrated dance company, and bid on a variety of items, including luxurious vacation, adventure and restaurant packages, theatre, dance, sports and music tickets, wines, training coupons and more. $10 donation. 6:30pm9pm. 1428 Alice St., Oakland. www.axisdance.org

Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Berkeley Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show explores the 1960s: Beatles, Black Panthers, MLK, JFK and the KKK. $20-$50. Sat 8:30pm and Sun 7pm thru Oct. 27. 2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Enjoy the exhibit of vintage prints, taken by the gay Beat poet, of his friends Jack Kerouac and others. Also, Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, part of the SF MOMA’s off-site collaborative exhibits; thru Oct 27. 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dancetheatre team. $15-$30. 7pm. Saturdays thru Sept. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 6235300. www.capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org

Conservatory Orchestra @ SF Conservatory of Music The student orchestra performs Ravel Ma mère l’oye (5 pièces enfantines); Justin Ralls Tree Ride (Highsmith Award winner); Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73. $15-$20. 8pm. Also Sept. 29, 2pm. 50 Oak St. at Van Ness Ave. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

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Dolores Claiborne @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Tobian Picker and J.D. McClatchy’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel about the mysterious life of a reclusive woman in rural Maine. $23-$385. 8pm. Also Oct. 1 (8pm) and 4 (8pm). 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre The hit local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta features multiple actor-singers performing the lead. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended with open-ended run. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza New twice-weekly (Sat & Sun) live outdoor music concerts presented by the Castro/Upper Market Community Business District. Free. Castro St. at Market. 500-1181. castrocbd.org

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Les Misérables @ Saratoga Civic Theatre

Ben Venom, Lucien Shapiro @ Guerrero Gallery

South Bay production of the hit Broadway musical about the French Revolution, adapted from Victor Hugo’s novel. $26$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 2:30pm. Thru Oct. 19. 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga. (408) 266-4734. www.SouthBayMT.com

The two artists’ solo exhibits of modern takes on occult, ritual and primitive artforms. Reg. hours Tue-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 2700 19th St. 400-5168. Thru Oct. 1. www.GuerreroGallery.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new exhibit, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, which includes archival materials from the historic chorus, lead-curated by Tom Burtch, with a touchscreen display by multimedia producer John Raines. Also, Be Bad…Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have raised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits. Thru Oct. 27. Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Sun 29 Black Power TV @ SF Public Library Lesbian author Jewelle Gomez and Devorah Heitner, author of Black Power TV, discuss the history of groundbreaking African American media shows going back to the 1960s. 2pm. 100 Larkin St. www. BlackPowerTV.com www.sfpl.org

Fall Free for All @ U.C. Berkeley Campus Cal Performances’ annual multi-stage festival of music, theatre, dance and more, with every on-campus stage (Zellerbach Hall, Wheeler Auditorium, Bancroft Studio) featuring dozens of diverse acts. 10:30am6pm. calperformances.org

Folsom Street Fair @ SoMa

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Economic Empowerment Mixer @ LGBT Center Golden Gate Business Association and Make Contact host a mixer for jobseekers and employers. Food and drinks from Whole Foods and Barefoot Wines. 21+. 6pm-8pm. 1800 Market St. www.eewkickoffmixer.eventbrite.com www.sfcenter.org

Will Durst @ The March Boomeraging: From LSD to OMG, the comic wit’s one-man show about aging Baby Boomers. Tuesdays thru Oct. 29. $15$50. 8pm. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.TheMarsh.org

Wed 2 Career Fair @ LGBT Center Bay Area employers will be taking resumes and interviews from prepared job-seeking LGBTQ folks. Free. Registration required. Business attire suggested. 12pm-3pm. 1800 Market St. lgbtcareerfair30.eventbrite.com

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman! @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon theatre’s production of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ ( Bye, Bye, Birdie, Applause ) vintage musical based on the superhero comic strip. $21-$75. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 20. 215 Jackson St. 2558207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Michael Chabon @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley

The 30th annual gathering of thousands of leather fans, freaks, and the merely curious. Donations at the gate $5 and up. 11am-6:30pm. Folsome Street between 7th and 12th. folsomstreetevents.com

The Pultizer Prize-winning author has an onstage discussion with Zach Wyner at a fundraiser for the Park Day School’s academic and financial aide programs. $20$45 (pair). 7pm. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 653-0317. ParkDaySchool.org

Mefistofele @ War Memorial Opera House

Quit Smoking Classes @ LGBT Center

San Francisco Opera performs Arrigo Boito’s Italian opera about the man who made a deal with the devil. $23-$385. Also Oct. 2. 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

First of a 7-session free quit smoking class and support group. 7pm-9pm (with one Saturday morning session). 1800 Market St.. 339-STOP. www.lastdrag.org

Mon 30 Carl Dobsky, Cuong Nguyen @ John Pence Gallery Exhibit of stunning realist paintings and portraits by the two artists. Reg hours Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat til 5pm. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com

Tension Blooms @ Ian Ross Gallery Duo exhibit of beautiful yet slightly creepy paintings by Rachelle Reichert and Brenton Bostwick. Reg hours Mon-Fri 1pm-7pm. 466 Brannan st. 533-5758. IanRossGallery.com

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Thu 3 Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years @ Robert Tat Gallery Exhibit of photos from five decades of prints by the fine art photographer and photojournalist. Thru Nov. 30. 49 Geary St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Richard Learoyd @ Fraenkel Gallery The Outside World, the artist’s exhibit of large-scale photographs. Thru Oct. 26. 49 Geary St. 981-2661. fraenkelgallery.com

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36 • Bay Area Reporter • September 26-October 2, 2013

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was the cable network to best all others, such as The Newsroom. Jane Fonda was amazing this season as Leona Lansing. 75 is the new diva. She looks magnificent, and she’s as good as she was in the Klute days. When the Emmys nominations were announced we were intrigued by the sheer volume of political shows: The Newsroom, Veep, House of Cards, Homeland and Scandal. Rounding out the list of political shows with an Emmy nod were The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. We loved John Oliver while he subbed for Jon Stewart during Stewart’s sabbatical from The Daily Show, but now that Stewart is back – well, there’s no one else like him. Speaking of arch humor, Michael J. Fox is on the cover of TV Guide this week for his new sitcom, which raised a question: How far can we

really go with humor? The Michael J. Fox Show begins Sept. 26 as part of NBC’s comedy lineup. Fox is funny. Fox is also doing something no one else is doing on the tube: portraying disability. Before anyone e-mails or tweets us about Glee, Push Girls, Sons of Anarchy or even Ironside, what we mean is that Fox is putting his own disability out there, then laughing at it in a scripted series. Aren’t we supposed to cry? Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1991 at 30, at the height of his career. The aggressive form of the disease he’s afflicted with has forced him into brain surgeries. He’s spoken on Capitol Hill about the need for stem-cell research. And through it all, he’s kept acting. The past two seasons he appeared in a recurring role on CBS’ The Good Wife, as a somewhat sleazy torts lawyer manipulating his illness to gain sympathy in the courtroom. Now with his own show, Fox

makes Parkinson’s the pivot of his comedy. It’s risky. Will we laugh or change the channel? Only the ratings will tell. But Fox’s (and NBC’s) bold move does put the ball in the viewers’ court: can we look at a disability we’re positive we would never want to be dealing with in a gazillion years and really laugh? America hides disability from the small and big screens. One in six Americans has some kind of disability, however, so why is it we can count the number of disabled characters we’ve seen on the tube on the fingers of only two hands? How many people in America are living with HIV/ AIDS? Yet that diagnosis is pretty much off the tube as if the disease were over. There was a flurry in the 90s of casting people with development disabilities on the tube, but now the only one is Becky (Lauren Potter) on Glee. Yet there are more autistic people than ever now. Nicole Kelly, Miss Iowa 2013, who was born without her left arm, was in the Miss America Pageant last weekend, but two characters on scripted TV, Artie in Glee and Ironside on Ironside, are played by non-disabled actors. So we’ll watch the ground being broken on NBC by Fox. A million Americans have Parkinson’s. Fox will be speaking to/for them, but also to every other person in the country with a disability that is largely hidden. It is to be hoped Fox’s show will remind viewers and TV execs that many of us are dealing with some form of disability every day. And we could use some laughs.

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alum Andy Samberg. This show has an The Office feel to it – mockumentary styling, quirky characters. Tuesdays. CBS’ The Millers looks very funny, with another SNL alum, Will Arnett, as a recently divorced man suddenly living with his mother (the amazing Margo Martindale) after his father (Beau Bridges) decides to divorce her. Martindale and Bridges are also recurring in Masters of Sex. A slew of divorces may not seem to be a funny premise, but Arnett is funny (he deserved a longer stint in the very funny Up All Night on NBC) and worth watching. Also starring Jayma Mays (Glee). Premieres Oct. 3. We re-watched the cliffhanger episode of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy on Sept. 19 to prep for the two-hour season opener on Sept. 26. The final scene, to recap, was Arizona and Callie having a fight they might not be able to come back from. Arizona cheated on Callie with Lauren the night of the storm. But we didn’t really know why until The Fight. In The Fight, Arizona says the only way things will ever be even is if she can cut off Callie’s leg the way Callie cut off hers. “I trusted you!” Arizona screams at Callie. Of course we saw the things Arizona did not, notably her delirious from sepsis and nearly dying, and Callie being forced to amputate if she were going to survive. But we also saw Arizona screaming after the plane crash and watched Lexie die a terrible death, so we know the horror Arizona experienced, and so even though Callie’s been through hell, it’s been a different hell, not Arizona’s hell. One of the things that makes Grey’s Anatomy continue to work after all these years – it’s beginning its 10th season – is we can always see both points of view in the main couplings on the show. Thus we feel for both Arizona and Callie in this battle over things that weren’t ever within their power. Lauren likes Arizona. A lot. But Arizona and Callie are married, and they have a child together. What will happen if TV’s longest-running lesbian couple breaks up? We don’t want to think about it. What’s more, what will happen when Sandra Oh (Dr. Christina Yang) leaves the show this season, as was just announced? The subtextual lesbian relationship between Meredith and Christina has survived everything, including the plane crash, Christina’s move to Minneapolis, two abortions and their respective marriages. So we’re not sure what Meredith will do if Christina leaves her. Scandal returns Oct. 3, and every Washington insider will be watching, as Scandal was voted the most-watched political drama on the tube. Many questions need answers from last season’s cliffhanger, not the least of which is who leaked Olivia’s name to the press as the President’s mistress. We also want to know what Cyrus is up to, and what will happen to his husband and daughter as he gets deeper into trouble over his own cover-ups. Did he leak the story? And will Fitz be discovered for the murder? Lisa Kudrow is joining the cast as another politician. We’ve seen Kudrow do evil. We’re hoping that’s what she’ll

be doing on Scandal. Also coming back for a new season are two of the best dramas on TV, CBS’ The Good Wife and Showtime’s Homeland. In The Good Wife season finale, Alicia decides to drop Lockhart/Gardner and team up with her former rival, Cary Agos, to start a new firm. When Alicia goes, will Kalinda (oh, Kalinda) go with her? Alicia is the love of her life. Does Alicia dump both Peter and Will for work? What kind of role will Alicia’s gay brother play this season? So many questions. The same is true for Homeland, as the Emmy-winning juggernaut returns for a third season. At the end of season two, Carrie realized she would have to leave the CIA. Meanwhile, Quinn is poised, rifle in hand, to kill Brody, but doesn’t. Then Saul tells Carrie she’ll be throwing her life away on a terrorist. Cue car bomb. Now what? Will Carrie go on the run with Brody? Will she go off her meds? Homeland has been criticized for its 24-style us vs. them perspective, but this is a psychological thriller and the lead is bi-polar. If there weren’t some untoward moments, that would be unrealistic. Another highly anticipated return is gay showrunner Ryan Murphy’s new favorite baby, American Horror Story. The third season of this utterly creepy anthology series is titled Coven, and returns Oct. 9 on F/X. The poster for this is almost shocking: three women have a snake winding in and out of all of their open mouths. Actual fellatio might have been less graphically sexual. The incomparable Jessica Lange returns with series regulars Frances Conroy and Sarah Paulson. Echoes of the Salem witch trials also haunt Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Emma Roberts and Patti LuPone. Surely this is one of the most stellar casts ever? We’re looking forward to the super-gay event of House of Versace on Oct. 5 on Lifetime. Gina Gershon (Showgirls) seems perfectly cast as Donatella and is getting major buzz. She looks just like the murdered designer’s sister. Enrico Colantoni (Flashpoint) plays Gianni, Raquel Welch (talk about a spectacular diva) plays Aunt Lucia, and the ever-sinister Colm Feore plays brother Santo. We don’t use the word “camp” much any more, but! The movie will be followed by a documentary, Versace: Beyond the Headlines. America’s Got Talent ended this week with a bang. While other talent shows have withered, AGT has just gotten better. We expected the loss of Sharon Osbourne to upset the balance in the judging, but the introduction of Heidi Klum and Mel B to replace her was genius. We’d like to applaud former AGT judge Piers Morgan for what he’s been doing lately on his CNN talk show, Piers Morgan Live. Morgan was always the imperious British judge on AGT. Now he’s taken his arrogant air and put it to good use grabbing gun nuts by the lapels and trying to shake sense into them. After the most recent mass shooting Sept. 16 at the Naval Yard, Morgan was shaking his fist in some of the same faces he excoriated after Newtown. Frankly, it’s good to see. The gun lobby gets no real challenge in this country. But Morgan is determined to change that. So for that kind of constructive theater, you know you just have to stay tuned.t

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Henry Darger, Throw-away Boy by Jim Elledge; Overlook Press, $29.95 im Elledge (A History of My Tattoo), a seasoned queer historian, awardwinning poet, and culture chronicler, spent a decade writing Henry Darger, Throw-away Boy, a comprehensive, thoroughly researched biography about Henry Darger (1892-1973), an artist the author believes was greatly misunderstood and continues to be underappreciated. The Atlanta-based biographer paints Darger as an intensely reclusive dishwasher and janitor who wrote profusely and drew expansive artwork living within the confines of his home on the North Side of Chicago until his death in 1973. He created works of art to an almost obsessive extent while remaining exclusively private. His death exposed a pseudo-museum when more than 300 paintings and a

30,000-page manuscript were discovered in his apartment by his landlord. The artwork was mainly dismissed by art historians as the etchings of an unstable, pedophilic pervert who achieved satisfaction from illustrating the naked tortured girls (many with penises) seen throughout his epic work ramblingly-entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Better known as The Vivian Girls and shockingly intended to be a children’s novel, The Realm manuscript, as it came to be known, told of the adventures of the naked Vivian fairylike child-warriors and their brother Penrod, who all rebelled against a group of generals who raped and murdered innocent children. These graphically explicit drawings and their accompanying text became misconstrued, writes Elledge, and turned into accusations of pedophilia, child

endangerment, and the psychosexual abuse of children living near to Darger’s Chicago residence. Elledge believes these accusations were false and subsequently forced his subject into hiding, where he remained drawing and writing prolifically until his death. The book describes Darger’s childhood as a torturous one, institutionalized after his father pawned him off at eight-years-old to the clergy at the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, where he spent four years before being transferred to the Illinois Asylum. The Asylum was known for its barbaric controlling techniques of near-choking by strangulation and bloody beatings, and for its horrific punishments for masturbation and the discovery of any boy’s homosexual tendencies. Darger is assumed to have been sexually abused, and

many of his experiences while in the institution formed the fodder for his paintings and prose. Into his adulthood came a long-standing relationship with Whilliam “Whillie” Schloeder, a man who is alluded to in Darger’s expansive journals as a close confidante but never specifically labeled in a romantic context. Elledge believes their friendship wasn’t confined to being platonic in nature and blossomed over the years to one of love and mutual affection. While speculative, Elledge’s assertion of Darger’s homosexuality is supported by pages of substantiation and allusive referential material. The final chapter delves deeper into the discovery and “excavation” of Darger’s personal belongings after his death. Items found packed “to the ceiling” in his room were “several dozen empty Pepto-Bismol

bottles, about 80 pairs of broken eyeglasses mended with tape, 88 pairs of old shoes” and stacks of old magazines, telephone directories, children’s coloring books, and mountains of newspapers bound with twine. Elledge writes that it was akin to a “hoarder’s paradise.” This isn’t Elledge’s first foray into Darger’s eccentric world of wonderment. His well-received 78-page impressionist prose poem book H was released in 2012 by Lethe Press and made impressive creative use of verse and syntax in surrealistically chronicling Darger’s life and times. This biography delves further into one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, reveals minute details, and answers hotly debated questions about Darger’s life, his loves, his passions, his daily life, the misconceptions surrounding him, and what it meant to be an exiled artist with a mind few would ever attempt to understand or appreciate.t

Slow food, fast lives by David Lamble

hen is a movie not really a movie? Haute Cuisine, like virtually all modern French cinema, is about celebrating and guarding Gallic civilization from every possible onslaught, especially the dreaded Anglo-American-fostered global economy and the explosion of fast-food culture. But this fictionalized account of Daniele MazetDelpeuch’s service as chef to French President Francois Mitterrand is not a movie at all, but rather a 95-minute trailer for a movie that we never see. In point of fact it’s a trailer for two films: the first a sturdy provin-

cial gal’s adventures at the Elysee Palace with Mazet-Delpeuch renamed Hortense (Catherine Frot), and the second the same intrepid soul’s serving a rambunctious gaggle of guys at a French base in Antarctica. Sounds like there’s a movie buried in there somewhere, right? But director Christian Vincent (with co-writer Etienne Comar) is very clever. He uses all the razzle-dazzle of modern film to disguise the fact that, despite a well-orchestrated series of kitchen temper tantrums including a never-realized battle royale between Hortense and a furious, rotund pastry chef, nothing of import

ever happens. Yes, after a series of private audiences with the president (Jean d’Ormesson) weighing in wistfully about the disappearance of oldfashioned country food, Hortense does pack in her skillets and abscond to the South Pole. But it’s rather a jumble as to why. Those fleeing mad British TV chef David Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen empire (coming soon: tweener chefs) should take heart in Haute Cuisine’s lavish array of truffles, stuffed cabbage, and Rochefort that would look absolutely scrumptious in 3D. See page 38 >>

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he late drag legend and actor Divine is the subject of the marvelous doc I Am Divine. Divine’s career as a dance-music artist during the mid-1980s is highlighted in the film. The import reissue disc Maid in England (Cherry Pop) features some of Divine’s biggest hi-NRG club hits, including “You Think You’re a Man,” “Walk Like a Man” and “I’m So Beautiful,” all performed in Divine’s own “distinctive singing style.” The 15-track disc includes three bonus tracks, 12” mixes of those songs. Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz, two of the greatest living creators of Broadway musicals, have more in common than just their first name. Gay Sondheim and straight Schwartz had two of their musicals revived in 2013. Schwartz’s Pippin: New Broadway Cast Recording (Ghostlight), the first revival of the musical in more than 20 years, received Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Containing some of Schwartz’s most beloved compositions, including “Magic To Do,” “Corner of the Sky,” “Morning Glow” and “No Time At All” (performed by Andrea Martin), this is an essential cast recording and a fine companion to the original, which starred Ben Vereen and the late Irene Ryan and Jill Clayburgh. A far more serious musical, Sondheim’s Passion: 2013 New York Cast Recording (PS Classics) starred Judy Kuhn

and Rebecca Luker in a story of love and obsession set in Italy in the 1860s. A longtime supporter and ally of the LGBT community, musician Kathleen Hanna has a talent for surrounding herself with talented queer people. Beginning with her band Bikini Kill, a leader in the riot grrrl scene originating in the Pacific Northwest, followed by a groundbreaking all-female electro act (featuring out lesbian J.D. Samson) and her revived project The Julie Ruin, Hanna is still a hero in feminist and queer circles. Run Fast (TJR/Dischord) by The Julie Ruin, featuring gay musician Kenny Mellman (of Kiki & Herb fame), has a punk energy. Songs such as “Oh Come On,” “Ha Ha Ha,” “Party City,” “Kids in NY” and “Stop Stop” indicate that Hanna hasn’t lost her riotous grrrl edge. She sounds like the kid sister of Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry on the amazing “Just My Kind,” while “Cookie Road” recalls LeTigre, and “Goodnight Goodbye” wouldn’t be out of place on an Imperial Teen record. J.D. Samson stayed faithful to the dance aspect of LeTigre and expanded on it a more accessible way in her dance band Men. Men’s 2011 full-length debut Talk About Body was a full-on queer dance party, and its follow-up Labor (Men Make Music) works hard to maintain the momentum on dance-floor delights such as “All the Way Thru,” “Neon

Poles” and “Fucked Up.” Employing all the grooviest modern dance beats, Men doesn’t lose sight of its message-music mission. Songs on Labor feature lyrics that comment on art, sex, culture, sex, class, gender identity, relationships, sex, feminism and more, making it a Labor of love and loathing. Trans musicians are rapidly moving to the forefront of the LGBT music scene. Singer/writer/academic/ activist/performer Elias Krell, formerly of the Homoticons, steps out on his own with the self-titled disc by his new band Elias Krell & the No Good. The 10 songs are Krell’s “first serious attempt to explore a through-line between” the jazz and

Dolores Claiborne

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So the production team was assembled; sets, costumes and lighting designed; and then, well into rehearsals, the star mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick (for whom the role was composed) withdrew for health reasons. Talk about ramping up the anxiety level! Meanwhile, in another part of the War Memorial Opera House, soprano Patricia Racette, a local favorite and genuine diva in her own right, was preparing for dual roles in Boito’s Mefistofele. Racette has worked with Picker before, originating the title role in his Emmeline, but how could she possibly step in with just three weeks to go and keep her commitment to Mefistofele? Known for intelligence, stamina, vocal allure and drive, the young Meryl Streep of opera said yes to the first four performances of Dolores, and dropped some performances of the second role in Mefistofele. That’s trouper with a T. It also saved the premiere of what has turned out to be one of Tobias Picker’s most interesting and dramatically effective works. I asked another audience member on opening night whether he had read the book, and he took my curiosity as an insult. “Do I look like I would read Stephen King?” he hissed. Considering his sales figures,

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Patricia Racette (Dolores Claiborne) and Susannah Biller (Selena) in San Francisco Opera’s Dolores Claiborne.

I thought the author’s demographic was pretty broad, and I confess to admiring the tour de force first-person narrative of Dolores Claiborne the novel. Apparently, librettist McClatchy shares my estimation, for he has stuck much closer to King’s original story than the movie version with the remarkable Kathy Bates. In two tightly constructed acts, he and Picker tell the frightening and woeful story of a hardscrabble blue-collar heroine with a big mouth who is trapped in desperate circumstances. The feminist implications of the plot are boldly portrayed with words and music

that move swiftly, with strong, agitated, sometimes overwhelmingly poignant effect. Ironically, there would be more subtlety to the title role had her wise-ass humor and vulgarity been given more prominence. Oh yeah, you probably won’t be hearing the f-word, or bitch, or ass-wipe again anytime soon in the opera house, but McClatchy has reduced this incarnation of Dolores to basically two modes of expression: anger and self-pity. Racette is aces in the victim department, and she is one furious mama in the violent episodes with her monstrous, child-molesting

Jonathan Groff in director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s C.O.G.

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C.O.G. Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s subversive, darkly funny fable of a young gay man’s almost drowning in his own prideful folly opens on a bus. David is confronted by a Babel of ornery seat companions. David (a genius-level character riff by the freshly out Jonathan Groff) is an arrogant young pup who’s taking a respite from Yale to go apple-picking with a young lass he fancies to be a close friend. Absolutely nothing turns out the way our hero imagines as his personal Grapes of Wrath-inspired journey unravels. Alvarez has pulled off a masterful adaptation of a David Sedaris essay

blues vocalists of the mid-20th century and contemporary female singer/songwriters. Interestingly, two of the covers are of songs by gay male singer/songwriters, Rufus Wainwright (“Vibrate”) and Stephin Merritt (“This Little Ukulele”). The best of the originals include the instrumental “Won’t Help You Dance” (in which Krell’s accordion plays a prominent role) and “Averay.” Laura Love-approved Bay Areabased indie folk singer/songwriter Eli Conley describes himself as “an out gay transgender man.” You can hear Conley’s Virginia roots in his voice and in his lyrics throughout his Indiegogo-funded debut album At the Seams (eliconley.com). The

Commonwealth gets name-checked in the song “Dry as Sin.” That’s lesbian drummer Nikki Glaspie pounding the skins on Dirty Word (Louisiana Red Hot), the second studio effort by jammy and funky New Orleans-based musical outfit Dumpstaphunk. Teamed up with younger Nevilles Ivan and Ian, Glaspie, who also provides vocals, makes her drums speak a language all their own. Glaspie and company are joined by fellow queer New Orleans resident Ani DiFranco on the title cut, and that’s Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea on the blistering “If I’m in Luck.” “Raise the House” does just that, and “They Don’t Care,” the most poppy track, is a must.t

husband Joe St. George (a real starturn from bass-baritone Wayne Tigges), but she isn’t allowed the added complexity of character a few laughs might have provided. That Tigges actually makes Joe rise above pulp-fiction bad-guy is a testament to his craft, but it also shows McClatchy is capable of adding texture. With Picker’s mottos for each of the main characters in the mix, it makes for a fully realized portrait. As the brittle society widow and employer of Dolores with dark secrets of her own, soprano Elizabeth Futral is remarkable at lending nuance to Picker’s horrendous demands on her top register. She transcends the painful shrieking to make Vera an understandable albeit crazy old bat. The other major part belongs to young soprano and former Adler Fellow Susannah Biller as Selena St. George. She is also forced to the extreme at times by Picker’s cruel tessitura, but she also has the luxurious opportunity to sing a beautiful aria in the second act that adds depth to her role. Tenor Greg Fedderly is forced to sing at the top of his voice much of the time, too, as the interrogating Detective Thibodeau, and he gets through the assignment as best he can. It doesn’t make his character more than a plot device to get Dolores going, however. And oh, how Racette gets Dolores

going. All the technical demands and crazy background story that got her into the part aside, she makes a genuine triumph onstage. Would I still like to see her role more completely inhabited? Yes. Still, when one lets go of the nagging wish that a mezzo could take the lead, Racette gives one of her trademark characterizations that completely erase her far more glamorous self, and make us believe completely in whatever she is doing. Picker goes all Puccini on us with Dolores’ wistful final aria, and we know that this is truly Racette territory. It might be a little jarring in context, but it also makes us marvel at their combined professionalism and artistry. The swift and cinematically inventive direction by James Robinson, with the highly evocative sets of Allen Moyer, lighting by Christopher Alkelind, and wonderful projections by Greg Emetaz set the seal on a production that will certainly grow stronger as the run progresses. I have every intention of returning to hear Catherine Cook (who is a mezzo) sing the final performances. Racette, Picker and McClatchy get the cheers, and Gockley gets congratulations for believing in a compelling winner.

from the collection Naked. Calling himself Samuel and making a series of furtive calls home, David proceeds to mess up as an apple-picker, a plant worker, and a Thanksgiving weekend date for horny plant supervisor Curly, a volcanic turn from Corey Stoll, who so impressed with his witty Ernest Hemingway in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. Here Stoll serves as this fable’s truth-seeker. Inviting David home to the shabby trailer he shares with his bedridden mom, Curly is astonished when his “date” sneaks off with mom’s bathrobe before Curly can display his prized dildo collection. David settles in with an equally demanding and ultimately unsuitable mentor, a one-legged, religiously besotted crafts fair worker,

Jon (Denis O’Hare). Kicked out of a devout family’s basement, David and Jon wind up in an abandoned beauty parlor. Late one night Curly comes calling, seeking to pick things up carnally where they left off. “How’d you find me here?” “Well, you ask around the state for a faggy little white boy, and eventually you strike gold.” Alvarez has a talent for invoking the world of difficult, duplicitous and angry men. C.O.G. (Child of God) will not hit the mark for all, especially those looking for cute, cuddly David Sedaris lite. But in this auspicious new era where queer folks can begin to redefine themselves, this one, however fleetingly it hovers on local screens, should not be missed.t

Dolores Claiborne continues in repertory at the War Memorial Opera House through Oct. 4.

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Folsom’s Dirty Thirty d by Scott Brogan

he Folsom Street Fair celebrates three decades this year. It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since it started as a modest street fair. It’s since become the largest leather/fetish street fair in the world. As if it couldn’t get any better, there are several things to check out this year: Folsom Street Events will be doing time-lapse photography of the fair. They’re also compiling 30 stories of Folsom, which people can submit. You can still purchase the official Folsom Street Fair posters online. See page 42 >>

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hiladelphia-based singer-songwriter Aiden James will be performing in San Francisco at the Folsom Street Fair’s main stage on September 29, and at The Midnight Sun on Monday September 30. The independent out gay vocalist’s recent singles have become popular on YouTube. His songs have enjoyed notable sales on iTunes. His new album Trouble With This features a dozen original songs. Before his San Francisco gigs, James is also performing at the Viva la Vida music festival in Pioneer, CA, a town which, I confessed to the singer, required a Google map search to locate. “I had to Google it, too,” he laughed in our phone interview. Nevertheless, the festival has a popular following, and outdoor performances are just part of James’ versatile tour. His previous Bay Area visits have included shows at the Hotel Utah and Dolores Park Café. So, how does the indie musician figure

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out tour dates and other details? “There’s so much that goes into it,” he said. “I have people in my corner that make sure things happen.” While he noted the pleasant aspects of living in Philadelphia, he also mentioned how much he enjoys traveling for shows. He described his neighborhood, the historic Rittenhouse Square, as tree-lined, with cobblestone sidewalks, “very reminiscent of the West Village,” he added. “You don’t need a car. I respond to that. You can get a lot of energy from a city.” Despite being out and proud, the folkpop-influenced singer doesn’t often perform in gay nightclubs, for purely technical reasons. “I don’t play a lot of gay clubs, because for what I do, a lot of the clubs can’t facilitate a full touring rider. I play and perform live, so I can’t just grab a microphone. I need a good soundcheck. I like to uphold the integrity See page 44 >>

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THU 26 Raunch @ Lone Star Saloon Enjoy a Folsom weekend kickoff event with raunchy, sleazy music and gogo men at the bear bar with hunky DJ Brian Maier. 9pm2am. 1354 Harrison St. lonestarsaloon.com

Snag Sport @ Powerhouse Sweat it out at the sports gear, soccer kit and jocktastic night, with a gear contest, prizes, gogo guys and DJ Dam Nation. Proceeds benefit AIDS Emergency Fund and Positive resource Center. $5. 9pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhouse-sf.com

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Smooches at the Folsom Street Fair.

The Folsom edition of the big bear party includes a 7-hour set from London’s DJ Hifi Sean, plus upstairs grooves with P-Play, Mark Louque and others. Pre-drinks at Truck, 7pm-9pm, then the big beary blowout dance party. $20-$30. 9pm-4am. 161 Erie St. www.bearracuda.com

Folsom Friday BDSM Men’s Play Event @ SF Citadel The 15 Association of San Francisco presents their annual Folsom Dungeon Play Party. Come join the biggest net of the year in the larges BDSM men’s club. This is a men’s only event. Invitation required for new guests. $25 donation. 8pm-1am. www.15sf.org

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Be sure to check out the performance arts stage at the fair which features hook suspensions, and of course the cage dancers. The following is a guide to all of the main parties and events scheduled for the weekend. But the fair isn’t just a big fun

party. The weekend’s events raise tons of money for various charities. Check out the website for details. And most of all, be sure to have fun, be safe, and get very, very nasty. If you don’t have fun at some point, then we need to talk! The fair itself starts at 11am on Folsom Street between 7th and 12th Streets. Go to www.folsomstreetevents.org for details.t

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ReCon returns to host the Official Friday Night Play Party of Folsom, a menonly truly sleazy, Euro-style play party. Dress code is encouraged: Leather, rubber, sports gear, spandex, military, punks, jockstraps, boots, harnesses, etc. 21 and over only. $30 advance. $40 at door. 10pm-3am. 525 Harrison St. www.fullfetish-eorg.eventbrite.com

Gear Buddies @ Blow Buddies Gear up for the Official Play Space of the Folsom Street Fair. Have some nasty fun at the joint Gear Buddies (sponsored by Gear Up Weekend) & Blow Buddies play party, with a bondage table, St. Andrew’s cross, slings, and more. Blow Buddies memberships are available at the door. Club opens at 3pm. Gear event starts at 9pm4am. 933 Harrison St. blowbuddies.com

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Mark I Chester’s Open Studio @ Mark Chester Studio All weekend, Mark I Chester opens his doors to feature “Narratives of Desire,” a show of radical sex erotic narratives with new added images. Friday opening party 7-10pm. Sat 2-5pm. Sun 11am-6pm. 1229 Folsom St. www.markichester.com

SF Rollcall @ TBD The San Francisco division of the B&B (Boots and Breeches) Corps hosts this special uniform event at a culinary venue to be announced at the time of purchase; hosted bar, silent auction, all proceeds go to Project Open Hand. $90. 7-11pm. bbcorps.com/events/roll_call.html

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, this is open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 9:30-10:45pm. 4058 18th St. soberkink.wetpaint.com

Steam @ Powerhouse Folsom edition of the bath house-esque night, with a $100 wet towel contest, Chicago DJ Harry Cross, clothes check, towels, massages, and steamworks goodies. Proceeds benefit the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. $8. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Up Yours @ Mr S Playspace Hell Hole’s Folsom Fisting party is back and bigger than ever! 15 slings, benches, dungeon bed, free clothes check, free bottled water and snacks.Touch-up facilities available, as are paper towels, gloves, condoms and cleaning supplies. You must be 18 years or older. This is a safer-sex, drug-free party. This is a private party, so you must be on the list to be admitted. $25. 8pm - doors close at 2am. www.hellholesf.com/invitationform.htm

WÜF @ The Edge The official launch party for wüfGear. Come and check out the gear and get your Folsom weekend started; brought to you by Mr. Edge Leather 2013 and wüfGear Founder/CEO Patrick Dean Holstine. 8pm2am. 4149 18th St. www.qbarsf.com/EDGE

Code @ The Edge Code is glad to be back, just in time to gear up for Folsom. Enjoy geared up gogo guys, drink specials, and Dara (Oregon State Bootblack) working her bootblack station. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. qbarsf.com/EDGE

Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies The official play space of Folsom Street Fair gets wet at the night that’s a whizzing party of fun. Club membership available at the door. Doors open 6pm-4am. Club open to 6am. 933 Harrison St. www.blowbuddies.com

Hot Boots Party @ SF Eagle The annual Folsom Fair weekend party for men into boots; sponsored by Hot Boots. 2-6pm. 398 12th St. www.hotboots.com

Leather Cruise @ SF Bay The Golden Gate Guards and BLUF present the third annual leather cruise around San Francisco Bay. Cruise departs and returns to Embarcadero Pier 3. Check in at 4:30pm. $75. www.ggguards.org

Liberation @ The Powerhouse Kink party presented by The Rubbermen of SF; wear your rubber! 5-9pm. 1347 Folsom. www.rmsf.org

Men’s Spanking Party @ The Power Exchange The SF Men’s Spanking Club presents their Folsom Spanking Party; male only; must be 18 years or older. $20. Half off for military or student ID. 1-6pm. 220 Jones St. www.voy.com/201188/

Magnitude @ The Factory & Terra The official Saturday night dance event is the biggest of the year for the leather and fetish community, this year expanded to two combined venues, with a fivethousand square foot dungeon play area; complimentary expanded coat and clothes check. Enjoy a spectacular 3D projectionmapping visual show, lasers, and live performances by the most perverse adult entertainers in the business. DJs Jack Chang, Tony Moran, Russ Rich and Phil B. Tickets at FSE@Eventbrit or Mr S Leather (385 8th St.) or Phantom (516 Castro St.) and Chaps (4057 18th St.). Limited tickets available for $100 at the door. Must be 21 or older. 10pm-3am. 525 Harrison St. www.folsomstreetevents.org

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of what I do live. A lot of times at clubs it’s not workable.” But would he stay independent if offered a lucrative recording contract, where such details can be handled by others? “At this point I would entertain an offer,” said James, but added that his decision would be cautious. “I know so many of my friends have been signed and lose power and the rights to their songs. I have a great team of industry people that I’ve known over the years, who want to help me, and have experience.” Like the founders of his native city, James prefers his independence. That includes friends who can direct visually appealing music videos, which, for James, “kind of like going out on a first date with a fan.” They see him and listen. In between his casual covers of pop songs like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” James’ video for his own song “Hurry, Hurry” includes a hunky bear impatiently trekking through New York City’s subway system, where he eventually meets up with the singing James in Times Square. Their affectionate kiss represents a lot to the 29-year-old. While mainstream media have gone a bit overboard with their coverage of gay singer Steve Grand, acting as if an openly gay single had never released a sexy or romantic song and accompanying video, James puts it in perspective. “For a lot of people, it is dramatically new,” he said. “A lot of people’s exposure to music is just Top 20. The music industry has such control over artists. For a lot of people, their music is only what’s presented to them, and only what’s accessible. For me to wait for a hunk to meet me at

the train station [as in the “Hurry, Hurry” music video]; that’s not a big part of their lives, and they don’t see it in music.” So, is a male-male kiss set to music still revolutionary? “It’s important to be seen and show our numbers and create,” said James. “As a kid, I never felt like I belonged. I never saw any examples, and what I did find left me feeling empty and unfulfilled. I want to bring a new layer of possibility; someone who’s proud of what they do.” But James is clear about being a ‘cause’ performer. “Ultimately, what it comes down to, is the songwriting,” he said. “I’m a musician. I’m a singer. I produce my own records. I don’t want people to get confused as to what I’m about, not a gay agenda. It comes down to the music.” Like his contemporaries, other out gay male singers Matt Alber, Tom Goss and Eric Himan, the specificity of lyrics is of interest. Since we know the singer is gay, we can discard subtext or coded intentions and enjoy the music for what it is. While being clear about the subject, like others, James sometimes prefers lyrics that are more general and have a wider appeal. “Every song is different,” he said. “It’s important to have a uniform voice and write good songs. Something that’s very honest; that’s what I try to flesh out.” James cites his song “Snapshot” as an example. “I wrote it for two lesbian friends who couldn’t be together,” he said. “Whenever they were together, they would send a snapshot. I write songs for people outside of myself.” Before visiting San Francisco, James will perform at the Viva la Vida Festival Sept 28 in Pioneer, California, with Garrison Star and other musicians.t

Aiden James performs at the Folsom Street Fair, Sept. 29 at 11am, on the main stage (10th & Howard streets). Free/gate donations. James also performs Monday, Sept. 30, 10pm at The Midnight Sun, 4067 18th St., as part of Mahogany Mondays. For our Southern California Readers, he’ll be in Los Angeles October 4 at Room 5 Lounge, 143 North LeBrea Ave. www.aidenjamesmusic.com

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Nips in the Afternoon @ The Powerhouse Will Swagger and Allen Silver lead the pack with a no-shirts day. It’s all about having your shirts off and your libido on! Free clothes-check for shirts off; drink specials too. 2-5pm. 1347 Folsom St. powerhouse-sf.com

Sadistic Saturdays @ SF Eagle The Folsom Edition of Michael Brandon’s popular, and sadistic, Saturday night parties starts at 10pm, with BDSM displays. 398 12th St. sf-eagle.com/storm

SUN 29 Aftershock @ CityNights Aftershock is about dancing your ass off all-night with your friends till the sun comes up on Folsom Street Fair. Every year thousands of guys from around world set their alarms so they won’t miss DJ Abel spin his magic with New York’s Guy Smith and Rob Montenegro controlling the lights and steaming media art. Aftershock is the official after-hours dance party of Folsom Street Fair and just two short blocks from Magnitude. $40 (full price) tickets will be available for sale at the door based on club occupancy. Tickets available at Body on Castro and Mr S Leather in SoMa. 4am10am. 715 Harrison St. www.discosf.com

Deviants @ Beatbox The official closing party of Folsom Street Fair draws nearly 2,000 of the craziest kinksters from every walk of life. The event features live entertainers, uncommon DJs, and lots of unexpected surprises. Taking place on the fairgrounds this year (off Folsom on 11th St.), you don’t have to walk far to be right inside the party. And, the ticket price won’t empty your wallet. You have to check it out to believe it. Tickets on sale at FSE@Eventbrite, Mr. S Leather (385 8th St.), Phantom (516 Castro St.) and Chaps (4057 18th St.). Limited tickets may be available for $35 at the door. 21+. 4:30pm-2:30am. 314 11th St. folsomstreetevents.com

Folsom Street Fair @ SoMa The 30th annual gathering of thousands of leather fans, freaks, and the merely curious. Donations at the gate $5 and up. 11am-6:30pm. Folsom St. between 7th and 12th. www.folsomstreetevents.com

Real Bad @ Club 1015 Folsom The dance party that’s off the hook is most probably already sold out, but that’s because it’s one of the most fun events, and all proceeds go to local LGBT and AIDS/HIV nonprofits. 7pm-4am. 1015 Folsom St. www.realbad.orgt

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Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Hello, Sailor @ Virgil’s Sea Room Pop-up shop party and sale for GaveGoodFace, the fun T-shirt indie company that prints retro-90s imagery; with specialty cocktails. 7pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

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Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.BeatboxSF.com

Latin Night @ The Café Amazingly hot gogo guys, cheap drinks and DJed dance music. $5. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Leather & Feathers @ The Armory

Tommy Tune @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Christopher Daniels, Hans Berlin @ Nob Hill Theatre

The veteran award-winning choreographer performs his semi-autobiographical musical show, “Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales.” $30-$65. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Thru Sept. 28. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 3941111. www.hotelnikkosf.com

The two porn studs perform a live Folsomthemed onstage sex show. $25. 8pm and 10pm. Also Sept 28. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Retro disco tunes and a fun diverse crowd, each Thursday; DJ Bus Station John plays records. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Fri 27

Dancing Ghosts @ Cat Club Darkwave Dance Party with DJs Xander, Daniel Skellington, Tomas Diablo, and BatKat. $7 ($3 before 10). 21+. 9:30-2am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

Fedorable @ El Rio Free weekly queer dance party, with gogos, prizes, old groovy tunes, cheap cocktails. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Bearracuda @ Public Works

Friday Nights @ De Young Museum

Season 9 of the popular weekly early evening museum parties continues, with live music and performance, exhibitthemed workshops and food and drinks. 5pm-8:30pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/fridays

AIDS Emergency Fund’s festive 31st anniversary gala, with drag and/or leather dress code at the expansive Kink.com studios. Enjoy cocktails, food, dress-up contests and a live music set by Brian Kent. MCs Donna Sachet and Sister Roma. $125 and up. 1800 Mission St. www.aef-sf.org

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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Thu 26 Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Have a wank with hunky blond stripper/ porn dude Christopher Daniels. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez hosts the last of the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club. No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 3079 16th St. comedybodega.com

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Cub Camp @ The Lookout Traveling bear fuzz event lands in SF with DJs Scooter, Taco Tuesday and resident Guy Ruben, fuzzy gogo studs, and ursine entertainments. 3600 16th St. 431-0306. www.lookoutsf.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, half-off locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men’s bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Fri 27

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum (this week celebrating Steinhart Aquarium’s 90th anniversary, with old-time cocktails, fish, frogs and fun; plus, food and DJed dancing. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Porno @ The Stud The Folsom edition of the saucy dance night hosted by Turk Mason and Bebe Sweetbriar features guest performer Eli Marrs; porny gogos, porn DVD and drink giveaways. $10-$15. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.StudSF.com

Regina Carter @ SF Jazz Center The prolific violinist performs with guests Jenny Scheinman and Sara Caswell. $25-$55. 7:30pm. 201 Franklin St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned. This week: The Ethel Merman Experience. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun Open during renovations, the popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. midnightsunsf.com

Hard @ Qbar DJ Haute Toddy spins electro beats; cute gogo guys shake it. $3. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Herbert Gronemeyer @ Bimbo’s Popular German rock singer (18 million records sold) performs with his band. $45. 21+. 9pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com

HYSL @ The Lookout Shots, drinks and DJed fun with the adorable David and Trevor. $2. 10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. lookoutsf.com

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel Hans Berlin at the Nob Hill Theatre

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The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

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Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

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Pop the Zipper @ The Lookout

Eight bars, more dance floors; the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon

Chi Chi LaRue DJs and Sister Roma hosts a night of porn sluts, er, stars, er, performers and dancing. 9pm-2am. 3600 16th st. at Market 431-0306. www.lookoutsf.com

Lorde @ The Fillmore

Black & Blue Dance @ Beatbox

Fascinating young vocalist from Auckland performs live. $25. 8pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. at Fillmore. (800) 745-3000. www.TheFillmore.com

Picante @ Esta Noche Weekly show with drag queens and the Picante Boys; hosted by Lulu Ramirez; DJ Marco. 9pm-2am. 3079 16th St. 841-5748. www.jceventssf.com

Pink Friday @ The Mad Dog in the Fog Yo, bro; the Haight straight bar goes gay (and lesbianic!), now each 4th Friday. Gogo guys, pink drinks, no cover, Jell-O shots, and gay fun; DJ Getty spins tunes. 9pm-2am. 530 Haight St. 626-7279. www.facebook.com/MadDogPinkFriday

Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. hitws.com

Special Folsom weekend edition of Sundance Saloon’s two-stepping, linedancing fun night. Dress in country black and blue colors! $8. 6pm-10pm. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.SundanceSaloon.org www.BeatboxSF.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge Weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time’s assured. $8-$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th st. at Harrison. BootieSF.com DNAlounge.com

The Queers @ Bottom of the Hill Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights perform with the pop-punk band that isn’t gay, despite its name. $15. 8:30pm. All ages. 1233 17th St. at Missouri. 626-4455. bigtree.bandcamp.com bottomofthehill.com

Sun 29 Aftershock @ City Nights Official post-Folsom Street Fair afterafterparty (after Magnitude), with DJs Abel, Guy Smith and Rob Montenegro. $20-$30. 4am-10pm. 715 Harrison St. www.folsomstreetevents.org

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar is back, with the most popular Sunday daytime event in town. 3pm-6pm (Also now open daily 11am-2am). 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Deviants @ Beatbox, Mist Official closing party of the Folsom Street Fair, with gender-bending kink and dance grooves by the Hard French and Honey Soundsystem crews, with guests Boris, Matrixxman, Olga T and Aaron Clark. $25$35. 314 11th St. www.folsomstreetevents.org

Folsom Street Fair @ SoMa The 30th annual gathering of thousands of leather fans, freaks, and the merely curious. Donations at the gate $5 and up. 11am-6:30pm. Folsome Street between 7th and 12th. www.folsomstreetevents.com

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Glory Hole @ Tank 18 Diverse gay/whatever dance night, with DJ sets by Foreplay, Sergio Fedasz and the Go Bang guys, Meaty Beats by Juan, and other funky fun. $3-$5. 1pm-10pm. 1345 Howard St. www.tank18.com

Jason Brock @ Martuni’s Our resident vocal powerhouse performs Viva La Diva!, his musical tribute to female music divas. Enjoy a new drink, the Jason Brocktail “Glitter Explosion ($5), and get a free download of his newest song with each ticket. $25. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.vivaladiva.bpt.me

Ólafur Arnalds @ Regency Ballroom Berlin-based electronic keyboardist performs his atmospheric instrumental music. $25-$35. 8pm. 1290 Sutter St. www.theregencyballroom.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular country western LGBT dance night celebrates a decade and a half of fun foot-stomping two-stepping and linedancing. $5. 5pm-10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

Planet Booty @ Milk Bar The groovy fun band led by the cute Germick brothers performs extra-live. 8th Grader opens. $10. 9:30pm. 1840 Haight St. www.milksf.com

Release @ Club OMG Weekly party at the intimate mid-Market club; rotating hosts and DJs, Top 40 dance remixes, giveaways, gogo hunks. Free before 11pm. $3. 9pm-2am. 43 Sixth St. clubomgsf.com facebook.com/ReleaseSF

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland Live bands, DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland’s premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10-$15. Dancing 9pm4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland

Roller Disco @ Women’s Building

Weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

SF Indiefest’s now-monthly disco party on wheels; skate rentals available, costumes encouraged. $10. 21+. 8pm-2am. 3543 18th st. at Valencia. www.sfindie.com

Industry @ Beatbox

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Trannyshack @ DNA Lounge Heklina and her crew of drag talents perform a series of numbers in a Kylie Minogue vs. Lady Gaga lipsynch showdown. $15. 11pm show. 375 11th St. trannyshack.com DNAlounge.com

Folsom leather and kink-themed dance party with DJs Pagano (UK) and Jamie J. Sanchez. $30-$45. 10pm-4am. 314 11th st. at Folsom. www.beatboxsf.com

Magic Show @ Hotel Rex Old-fashioned magic show with Sebastian Boswell III, Adam Sachs and guest performers, weekly in the parlor of the elegant downtown hotel. Two-drink min. Light fare menu. Saturdays thru 2013. $25$30. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. 895-0090. www.MagicattheRex.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous 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

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Monday Musicals @ The Edge

Tristan Jaxx and the Chaos crew host the second annual late night-early morning post-Folsom party. $15-$25. 3am-12pm. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

The popular Castro bar shows fun musicals each week. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

Specials on drinks made with “Cock and Bull” ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Karaoke @ The Lookout Paul K hosts the amateur singing night. 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Sacred Cocktails @ Twin Peaks Weekly gathering for Christian and other faithful LGBTs, sponsored by Oasis, the GLBT Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California. Upstairs, 7:30-8:30pm. Castro St. at Market. www.saintaidan.org

Tue Oct. 1 Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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On the Tab

From page 49

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. This week, Maureen Langan ( Comics Unleashed ) headlines. One-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Soma Country @ Beatbox

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Sundance Saloon’s monthly SoMa twostepping dance night now takes place every Tuesday. $8. 8pm-12am. Lessons 8pm. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www. sundancesaloon.org www.beatboxsf.com

Thu 3

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Wed 2 Booty Call @ Q Bar

Drunken Botanist author Amy Stewart

Juanita More and Joshua J’s weekly night packs the intimate stylish bar with grooves and a groovy younger crowd. $3. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.juanitamore.com www.QbarSF.com

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

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Compete for $200 prize in this amatuer strip contest, or watch the newbies get naked. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm11pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey’s Bebe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos, and retro drink prices. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. midnightsunsf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating new nature museum; plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. This week, Sharktoberfest! Includes lots of beer sampling, German music, motor-powered lansharks, music by DJs Hotthobo and Daniela “Smouse” Zepeda, with live music by Blow Musik. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Oleta Adams @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Grammy-nominated R&B-pop singer performs her new cabaret act. $30-$70. 8pm. Also Oct 4, 8pm and Oct. 5, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. www.hotelnikkosf.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Thu 3 The Drunken Botanist @ Conservatory of Flowers

Transgender Law Center Gala @ Sir Francis Drake Hotel

Author Amy Stewart is the guest speaker at a special night of botanically-themed cocktail tastings. Learn which plants make for great drinking. Taste in the arboretum, and get your copy of Stewart’s bestselling books. $40-$100. VIP tour 6pm. 7pm-9pm. 21+. Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. conservatoryofflowers.org/special-events

Stylish gala at the swanky hotel, with MC Tita Aida; acts include Josh Klipp and the Klipptones, Monica Beverly Hillz, a VIP reception (6pm), awards ceremony at 7pm (Shawna Virago, Lisa Mottet, Kortney Ryan Ziegler, and doctors Judith Lively, Jennifer Slovis and Susanne Watson are honored). $95 and up. Empire Ballroom, 450 Powell St. www.transgenderlawcenter.org

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. HiTopsSF.com

Latin Night @ The Café Amazingly hot gogo guys, cheap drinks and DJed dance music. $5. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories; hosted by Walt Anthony; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. www.SFMagicParlor.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Retro disco tunes and retro cruisy crowd, each Thursday; DJ Bus Station John plays records. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Underwear Party @ Powerhouse Strip down to your skivvies (free clothes check) and watch or compete in the wet underwear contest ($100 prize!) at midnight; gogo guys and DJ Dam Nation. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland

Hip-hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guests. No cover before 11pm and just $5 afterward. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

HHHHHHHH H For more leather and kink events, see “Folsom’s Dirty Thirty.” Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

Thu 3 Tita Aida MCs the Transgender Law Center gala

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Wedded Bliss

by Donna Sachet

new destination is attracting attention and special events: Balancoire, at 2565 Mission Street. With a full restaurant, spacious dance floor/performance space, and friendly owners and staff, they have caught the eye of a few Imperials and Ducals. Last Friday, Empress Galilea and Daft-Nee Gesuntheit hosted a fundraiser for the Gay Rodeo Association. Over the course of the night the place was packed and hundreds of dollars were raised, especially when Emperor Fernando Robles’ Friday the 13th party bus pulled up to add to the excitement. Most performers used country music in a nod to the beneficiary, but all were well received, notably Ed Morgan, Tia Dora, Piper Angelique, Felicia Morgan, and Bohemian Bretheren. Next up at Balancoire, Kylie Minono presents Vocal Vixens every third Saturday of the month with drag queens singing live and a full dinner. This columnist could write an entire column about the various same-gender weddings which we have attended since the lifting of the ban, but Saturday’s ceremony was distinct. Wellknown photographer Rich Stadtmiller and Patrick Miller were united by Kelly Rivera Hart in the early afternoon at BeatBox, fantastically decorated in red and white by Ray Tilton, surrounded by a small group of friends and Patrick’s two sisters visiting from Ohio. After decades together, this seemed fitting and romantic. Shortly after the gorgeous cake was cut and distributed, the event morphed into a birthday party, ostensibly for Rich, but also including Patrick whose birthday would follow in a few weeks. Many more people arrived with birthday wishes, musical tributes (Raquela and Marco Middlesex), humorous salutes, and even a rope bondage demonstration on stage. Guests included IML 2013 First RunnerUp Thib Guicherd-Cailin, Coy & Sal Meza, Jeff Miranda, Demetri Moshoyannis, Mama Sandy Reinhardt, Mario Torrigino, Jeff Doney and Xavier Caylor, and Deborah Isadora Hoffman-Wade. The night then flowed naturally into a dance party marked by BeatBox’s signature lights and sound system, but we had to dash a few blocks away for our next engagement. The Imperial Court hosted two back-to-back events at The Arc, 180 11th Street. From 4-6PM, at a red carpet champagne reception, Reigning Emperor Drew Cutler and Reigning Empress Patty McGroin greeted the new Imperial Crown Prince Kevin Lisle and Imperial Crown Princess Emma Peel, both proven workers and tireless supporters of the Imperial Court. Then, from 6-10PM, the Mr. & Miss Golden Gate Contest came to an end, including a bountiful buffet, thirst-quenching drinks, and an entertaining show. Stand-out performers included Miss Gay SF 2013 Jezebel Patel, Kit Tapata, Khmera Rouge, Misty Blue, and the show opener Empress Marlena. Former GG title holders in attendance included co-emcee BabyShaques Shakes, Deana Dawn, Ray McKenzie, James Kerwin, and Mini Minerva. The evening ended with numbers by outgoing Miss Golden Gate Keri Hanna and the announcement of the new Mr. GG Nic Hunter and Miss GG Miz Eva Sensitiva. This room is proving to be a great facility for all kinds of events, but watch out for that corner high-top table, where all can be

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Rich Stadtmiller (left) and Patrick Miller’s wedding at Beatbox.

seen and much is discussed. How you will decide what to attend this weekend is a mystery to me; the choices are many. Tonight, Thursday, is the 31st Anniversary Gala of AIDS Emergency Fund, Leathers & Feathers, at The Armory with hosts Sister Roma and this writer, and entertainment from Billboard artist Brian Kent.

Major awards go to Empress Marlena, Troy Brunet, Cynthia Hester, and Neil Figurelli. The Grand Ducal Council offers you a weekend full of activities, highlighted by a 40th Anniversary Cruise on the Bay on Friday and Ducal Coronation at Hotel Whitcomb on Saturday. And overlapping it all is Folsom Street Fair Weekend with dance parties, tons of out-of-town visitors, and See page 53 >>

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Attendees at the Stadtmiller/Miller nuptuals.

Imperial Court titleholders at the Mr. & Miss Golden Gate competition.

The styish club Balancoire.

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Competition sex by John F. Karr

knew what was missing in my life. Brett Summers. So when I heard he was paired in the JetSet Men film America’s Next Hot Bottom with Connor Kline – every single one of whose performances are definitely not missing from my life – I got the movie, pronto. And yet, I was wary. JetSet is the home of parody porn – you know, like 21 Hump Street, Jersey Score, and Getting Levi’s Johnson. I’ve not been a fan. Yet Brett Summers is quite a lure. He’s a mere 20 years old, with an imposing athlete’s body (6’3”, 210 lbs.) and impossible beauty (tranquil blue eyes, square-cut jaw, sandy blond hair, translucent pubes – at least what’s left of them after a near deforestation of shaving). Plus a cock (sizable) and asshole (oh so sweet) of moist pink delight. So. It’s a faux reality show, and though the five contestants are ready to bottom their way to the top, it’s obvious right off that Summers will be the winner. The other guys are hot in their own ways, but Summers is the only star among them. With the exception of Connor Kline, that is, who plays a judge of the competition. Naturally, he supplements his knowledge of a contestant in the traditional sexo manner – he fucks the blond silly. You can’t say the movie’s withholding. It throws the Brett & Connor star turn at us right up-front, after a mere four minutes of parody folderol. As Chi Chi likes spit, Chris Ward likes a fist, and Steven Scarborough likes an appointment with the doctor, so JetSet director Chris Steele likes cocksucking. But even though Connor’s got a swell one for Brett to work on – it’s long, not so big-bodied but decidedly bigheaded – Brett’s not a very good cocksucker. Noncommittally back and forth he goes on the first two inches, without a turn of the head, a flourish of the tongue, or tricks of saliva and suction. Yet this suited me, as it left so much of Connor’s cock visible for mine eyes to glut upon. Steele allows Brett to suck away for an appreciable length of time, and Brad Austin’s fine cinematography provides appreciable points of view. But when Connor gets his mouth on Brett’s bazooka? Lacking both gag reflex and a need to breathe, Connor, unlike Brett, leaves no bit of a cock visible when he’s sucking it. His face flattens against Brett’s taut abs with his every cock-devouring lunge. He rims with equal abandon, making the champagnecolored fuzz that surrounds Brett’s sphincter glitter like wet gold. And then he fucks like a Marine in heat. If I were Jan Wahl, I’d have thrown my hat in the air at this point (although the image of Jan Wahl watching porn, naked except for her hat, sure is a detumescent). Contestant Riley Banks is an eyeful; the svelte, baby-faced buddy gets his ass bashed by judge Alexander Gustavo, a rough-looking dude with a monarch’s crown cockily

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the mammoth street fair itself. The following week brings Positive Resource Center’s annual gala Windows of Opportunity on Wednesday at SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission, honoring Wells Fargo for its generous and ongoing support, Transgender Law Center’s Spark! on Thursday at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel’s Empire Ballroom with awards going to Shawna Vi-

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Brett Summers and Riley Banks want to be America’s Next Hot Bottom.

tattooed above his cock. After Brett returns to bottom for Jayden Ellis and Andrew Fitch, we arrive at the exciting finale. Slightly goofy-looking but sweetly aw-shucks Shane Jacobs rides the nine-inch knocker of raunchy Johnny Torque with gusto. Director Steele dwells justifiably on this cockstraddling event, which offers bracing visions of Shane’s thick and so-very-solid meat jutting stiffly upward, a direct continuation of Johnny T’s steely dick jutting straight up into his ass. Wow. Or Yum. Or both. Shane’s hot reactions indubitably make him the movie’s hottest bottom, since Brett is actually a fairly undemonstrative performer. It’s just that he’s so pretty.

I liked the bright lighting, which is clear and clean but not clinical. On the other hand, I don’t care for the way Steele allows otherwise fine editor Tony Biscotti to jettison continuity and development in the sex scenes, by cutting out all the in-between stuff. Like, Brett’s in a Speedo when sucking Connor, but when the director suddenly cuts to Connor sucking Brett, the blond’s bare. Was the big mound in that Speedo mouthed? Was the big bone within slowly exposed as the Speedo was teased off? We’ll never know. Similar abrupt edits throughout the movie jump us into fucking, and from fucking quite arbitrarily to JO conclusions. My conclusions: The parody elements are entertaining, and remove themselves posthaste; the opening and closing scenes are swell, and what’s in-between is good.t

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Finishing off a contest round in a screen grab from America’s Next Hot Bottom are Andrew Fitch, Brett Summers, and Jayden Ellis.

rago, Lisa Mottet, and others, and Horizons Foundation’s gala on Saturday at the Fairmont Hotel honoring James Hormel. Contrary to some opinions, we can’t be everywhere, but we’ll definitely be at the Hotel Whitcomb Saturday night, since we serve as a judge for the Ms. SF Leather Contest. Indications are that it will be a fierce competition and an entertaining night. Sunday, October 5, brings the Castro Street Fair, started over 30 years ago by Harvey Milk himself,

and contines to shine attention on the bustling businesses and neighborhood of the Castro. Surrounding the fair are many events, including a new entry from Real Bad called Recovery on Sunday night from 6PM-midnight at PublicWorks, 161 Erie Street, with popular DJ Christopher B. If you saw the historical presentation about Real Bad at the GLBT Historical Society Museum, you know that they know how to throw a party. Hope to see you there!t

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The famous Doggie Diner statues, now colorfully yarn-bombed by artist Olek, were parked outside the Castro Theatre.

Ducal Court nominees took to the streets in the Castro to get out the vote.

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“What shall we do with a drunken character?” Blythe Baldwin

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Models at the after-party for Glamorama.

BARtab’s Fourth Annual Lit Crawl Reading Writers share what happens when their fictional familiars get flushed. October 19 • 6pm MARTUNI’S, 4 Valencia Street www.LITCRAWL.com

Megan Hilty, star of Wicked, brought cheers at her cabaret show at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Lounge.

Kate Bosworth and Hillary Swank attended the Bulgari jewelry exhibit at the de Young Museum.

Glamorama featured DJs included mash-up icons Adrian Roberts and the Mysterious D.

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