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CA, SF OK travel bans

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The Castro will be packed this Sunday for the annual street fair.

Songs of Prince to enliven Castro fair A hot time at Folsom

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10-piece Prince tribute band, The Purple Ones, will appear at this year’s annual Castro Street Fair Sunday, October 2.

The 43rd annual neighborhood celebration, begun by the late Harvey Milk in 1974, will have See page 29 >>

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inimal leather was the rage at the annual Folsom Street Fair due to the hot weather Sunday, September 25. The leather and kink extravaganza drew hundreds of thousands of people to San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood.

Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which produces the

fair and associated parties, told the Bay Area Reporter in an email, “The weather certainly helped to bring people out and facilitated some scantily clad fun.” He added that attendees were still talking about how much they enjoyed the fair days afterward. “Our bands and DJs were a huge hit,” he added. For more photos, see the BARtab section.t

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he state of California and the city of San Francisco this week both banned taxpayer-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws.

The bans are a reaction to the transphobic and homophobic laws various states have passed over the last year, Assemblyman Evan Low most notoriously the state of North Carolina, which continues to be boycotted due to its House Bill 2 that restricts cities in the state from enacting local non-discrimination laws and requires transgender people to use public restrooms based on the gender they were assigned at birth.

Tuesday afternoon, September 27, Governor Jerry Brown announced he had signed into law Assembly Bill 1887, legislation authored by gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) that See page 29 >>

Supe race Berkeley sued in trans woman’s death could see lesbian on T SF board

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t has been 16 years since a lesbian has served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Several candidates have vied for a seat over the ensuing years, but none have been successful post 2000 when board seats reverted back to being elected by district.

Union leader Kimberly Alvarenga is aiming to end that drought of lesbian leadership in the city – it has been eight years since a lesbian candidate has been elected to any political office in San Francisco – by succeeding District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, who is termed out of office and has endorsed her bid.

Alvarenga, 47, is the political director of Service Employees International Union Local 1021. She and her wife, Linnette Haynes, have been together 17 years and live in the city’s Crocker-Amazon neighborhood, where they are raising their 4-year-old son, Oziah.

In addition to highlighting the lack of a lesbian, and potentially any LGBT members, on See page 29 >>

being unlawfully seized, restrained, arrested, and battered by multiple” Berkeley officers. he family of a transgender woman who Kayla Moore had “an extensive history of docdied during a 2013 encounter with umented paranoid schizophrenia and numerous Berkeley police is fighting to keep a fedprior contacts” with police, and despite knowing eral lawsuit against the city and several officers about “Moore’s disabling condition the officers alive as officials work to get a judge to side with initiated an unlawful arrest,” the complaint says. them before the case goes to trial.

The filing, which along with other court Kayla Moore, 41, died in Febdocuments uses male pronouns ruary 2013 after a friend asked for Moore, says police threw her for “mental health assistance” “onto a futon and restrained him for her and police responded to with the combined body weight her home, according to a comof at least six officers, in a fashion plaint filed by Moore’s father. that interfered with his ability to Moore’s family and commubreath, which predictably intensinity advocates say that “excessive fied his psychological distress and force” caused her death. initiated a physiological crisis.”

But according to documents (A footnote in the city’s mofiled by the city, the Alameda tion for summary judgment County Coroner’s office deternoted that Kayla Moore was remined she died from a drug Kayla Moore ferred to as Xavier by her family overdose. (Court records list during her life, and that the male Moore’s name as Xavier “Kayla” pronouns and name used in the Moore.) court proceeding are for “clarBerkeley officials have asked for a summary ity and consistency ... without intending any judgment in the case, but Friday, September 23, disrespect.”)

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer indicated he “Tragically,” the document says, “Moore lost needed more time to examine the arguments. consciousness and died as a result of the offiIn his second amended complaint, filed in cers’ unwarranted and excessive use of force.”

October 2014 in the U.S. District Court for In their response to the complaint, Berkeley Northern California, Arthur Moore, Kayla officials denied the most significant allegations, Moore’s father, says his daughter died “after and in the motion for summary judgment filed

in June, they said, “The coroner determined that the cause of Mr. Moore’s death was ‘acute combined drug intoxication’ (methamphetamine and codeine)” combined with a “grossly enlarged heart” and other heart conditions that lead to cardiac arrest. Moore weighed almost 350 pounds, according to court documents. A copy of the coroner’s report wasn’t immediately available.

In court last Friday, Breyer said, “This is a case involving excessive force. ... Some of the other claims are not survivable, but the excessive force is.”

Lynne Bourgault, deputy city attorney, said Friday that “there was no evidence anyone was on top of the decedent” and “the officers are entitled to a finding of no excessive force.”

They were “simply using control holds,” and there was “no force after [Moore] was restrained and stopped fighting and resisting,” Bourgault said.

At first, Breyer granted the city’s motion disputing Arthur Moore’s argument that his daughter was wrongfully arrested.

But Adante Pointer, one of Moore’s attorneys, noted that the warrant police had found for “Xavier Moore” the night of her arrest was for someone almost 20 years older than Kayla Moore.

“I’ll look again at the arrest,” Breyer told See page 29 >>

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In a Sunday, September 25 Facebook post, Neil Frias, 28, said that the night before, he and his friend, Jeff White, 28, were attacked outside the restaurant, which is at 1100 Fillmore Street.

“Five guys pulled up in a minivan and came out with Mace and started to spray us down while calling us [fags] and telling us we are destroying the institution of family values,” Frias said. “It was one of the scariest moments in my life. To think that people have so much hatred inside of them to target people.”

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Clinton in control F

rom the start of Monday’s pressure-filled first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton demonstrated control and a deep knowledge of the problems facing this country – and more importantly, has a set of policies to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. She more than held her own against an at times combative Donald Trump, who didn’t hesitate to interrupt her. He continued to deny he did anything wrong regarding the birther conspiracy he himself birthed, in which he continued to insist – falsely – that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. even after Obama released his birth certificate in 2011 (an insult that he even had to do it in the first place). On the issue of Trump’s income taxes, Clinton also offered a couple of reasons why Trump is so reticent to release his tax information. “He’s not as rich as he thinks he is,” she said. “Or maybe he doesn’t want you to know that he pays no taxes.” That got under his skin. Trump countered by repeating his excuse that he could not release his tax returns because he’s under audit by the IRS. The tax agency has said people can release their own tax information whether being audited or not.

Later in the debate, however, he let it slip that not paying income tax “makes me smart,” a tacit admission that in at least some years, Trump has paid no federal taxes.

Clinton was at her best when she talked about the economy and other domestic issues. She was eloquent on the subject of race in this country, noting the implicit bias that many people have, and especially the need for police and other law enforcement agencies to train their officers to counter such bias, as well as employ de-escalation techniques. And she pointed out that Trump Management was sued by the U.S Justice Department in the 1970s for discriminating against blacks in its properties. In typical Trump fashion, he countersued, and, according to a New

York Times article, ultimately claimed that a consent decree he signed did not admit guilt.

In contrast, Trump said he would fix race relations with “law and order,” including the widely derided stop and frisk policy that was ruled unconstitutional by a New York judge. He denied that, chiding moderator Lester Holt when he was corrected.

“No, you’re wrong,” Trump said when Holt said stop and frisk had been declared unconstitutional.

There should be no doubt that Clinton is the superior candidate for LGBT voters. While gay issues didn’t come up during the debate, viewers did get to see Trump denigrate a lesbian – again – as he went after comedian Rosie O’Donnell in his well-known criticism of women. He acknowledged he has said some “very tough things” about O’Donnell. “I think everybody would agree that she deserves it, and nobody feels sorry for her,” he said. The feud between the two celebrities started a decade ago, when O’Donnell called Trump a “snake oil salesman.” Trump has responded over the years by calling her “a loser” and making negative remarks about her body.

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he criticized for gaining weight after she was crowned. At the time, he was executive producer of the pageant and humiliated her by ordering camera crews to film her exercising.

During the debate, Clinton mentioned Machado by name, quoting insults that Machado had attributed to Trump, catching him off guard.

“Where did you find this?” he asked repeatedly. But by Tuesday morning he had doubled down on Machado. “She was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem,” he said in a Fox News appearance. It was reminiscent of the weeklong barrage of verbal attacks he lobbed this summer at Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose Muslim-American son, an Army captain, was killed in Iraq. Khizr Khan had called out Trump at the Democratic convention, uttering the famous line about letting Trump borrow his copy of the Constitution.

We’ve seen Trump become combative when he’s behind in the polls or had a poor campaign performance, so this is nothing new.

What is new is that millions of Americans tuned in on Monday night, likely many for the first time. The damning split-screen didn’t help him either; he constantly huffed, sniffled, grimaced, or looked agitated, while Clinton appeared poised and in control. A skillful debater, Clinton has had years of practice and used that to her advantage.

At one point, Trump accused Clinton of – gasp – actually preparing for the debate.

“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate,” Clinton responded. “And, yes, I did.

And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared for being president.

And I think that’s a good thing.”

All of Trump’s weaknesses were on full display during the debate, and that should give undecided voters pause as they consider who to cast their ballots for in 39 days.

LGBT voters shouldn’t be fooled by Log Cabin Republicans who argue that Trump did a good job and can therefore lead the country.

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Names will hurt you

by Wesley C. Davidson

What’s a parent to do?

With these lingering effects, nfortunately, data on bulwhat is a parent to do about lying points to the fact bullying? that if you are LGBT, you can Dr. Jonathan L. Tobkes, expect to be bullied. The statisco-author with me of When tics are alarming.

Your Child Is Gay: What You A 2009 survey of 7,000 Need To Know, says, “a child’s LGBTs aged 13-21 revealed that resilience to bullying is based because of their sexual orientaon whether he feels that he tion, eight out of 10 students has loving and unconditional had been verbally harassed at love. If a child feels judged or school; four out of 10 students ostracized by his family, it is had been physically harassed at almost impossible to recover school; six out of 10 students from external humiliation.” felt unsafe at school; and one To stop bullying, including out of 5 had been victim of a Wesley C. Anderson the more pervasive cyberbulphysical assault at school. lying, parents should help their child combat it.

Lingering effects of bullying Although peer victimization was Did you know that LGBT young adults who less likely to occur in schools with experienced high levels of depression and rebullying policies that are inclusive jection were, according to a survey done by the of LGBT students (zero tolerance Centers for Disease Control and Prevention policies), you still can’t assume in 2014, nearly six times as likely to have high that teachers and other school levels of depression; more than three times as professionals will “have your likely to use drugs; more than three times as child’s back.” likely to engage in unprotected sex; and more A 2012 study by the Gay Lesthan eight times as likely to have attempted bian Straight Education Network suicide? found that 59 percent of students LGBT kids don’t easily outgrow the pain of reported hearing homophobic remarks from bullying, according to a new study by researcher their teacher or other school staff and that 65 William Copeland, a clinical psychologist at percent of students who identified as LGBTQ Duke University’s Medical Center. Copeland felt unsafe because of sexual orientation. and his colleagues used data from a 20-yearA 2011 National School Climate Survey old study that questioned 1,420 kids and their found that 31.8 percent missed one day of parents about general mental heath beginning school per month. at age 9, 11, or 13. Each year, the kids were assessed annually until age 16 and then they came Tips to outwit bullies back for follow-ups at age 19 and 20 years.

To make your home a safe haven, consider Copeland found that the bullied victims had these suggestions: a five times greater risk of depression than nonRehearse what your child should say to the bullied kids, as well as 10 times the likelihood bully. It may be as simple as “Stop!” or “That’s of suicidal thoughts or actions and 15 times the not funny!” Or he/she may want to ignore the likelihood of developing a panic disorder. culprit.

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Have a specific route to and from school that is not isolated.

Know the chain of command in schools to get results: make an appointment with the teacher or guidance counselor. If you don’t get satisfaction, talk to the principal and document all cases of bullying. If you still don’t get resolution, go to the school district superintendent.

Tobkes noted that a child may feel ashamed about being bullied, and even think that they caused it, but parents should be sure your child comes to you immediately if anyone is making disparaging remarks to them. A child should know that it is not considered tattling if he/she reports the bully.

If the bully harasses, assaults, or hazes, then get the police involved.

Know the signs of bullying

Some possible signs of bullying include resistance to going to school; a decrease in making social plans after school or on weekends; an unexpected decline in grades; feigning illness to avoid school; and recurrent damage to or loss of property or clothes.

Be sure, as a parent, you model good behavior. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names DO hurt you.t For more resources, visit www.glsen.org; the Safe Schools Coalition (www.safeschoolscoalition.org); www.stopbullying.gov./news/media; www.meganmeierfoundation.org/discrimination.html; or GSA Network (www.gsanetwork.org).

Wesley C. Davidson is a blogger on gay rights issues and the mother of a gay son.

She is the co-author, with Dr. Jonathan L. Tobkes, a New York City-based psychiatrist, of When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know (Sterling, 2016).

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Down ballot races draw out Oakland residents

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would be the only person from the LGBT community on the board. wo down ballot races this No“People say I have an uphill climb vember have drawn out Oakland against Ellen. But if you know my residents who are new to politics. husband, it definitely is not. You do Nick Resnick, a transgender man, not want to underestimate him,” who with his wife is raising their said Chesmore, whose spouse, Jose son in Oakland, is Guzman, is an auditor and serving one of two candidates as his campaign manager. seeking the open Area The couple moved to the flatlands 6 seat on the Peralta of East Oakland in 2013, the same Community College year they garnered national media District Board of Trustattention after a security guard at ees. Should he win the the Westfield Galleria in Roseville, seat, which includes where Chesmore grew up, confrontparts of Berkeley and ed them for kissing. Asked if they Oakland, he would be had received a settlement from the only the second transmall, Chesmore told the B.A.R. he Attorney at Law gender person to win couldn’t speak about it directly for elective office in the Bay Area. legal reasons.

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He also wants to be an As the Bay Area advocate for the parks that *Certified by the California State Bar Reporter noted in serve low-income comAugust, the men are 400 Montgomery Street, Ste. 505, San Francisco, CA munities, such as where among 16 LGBT he and his husband live, candidates running as the green spaces can for political office provide recreational rein the East Bay this sources and environmenfall. While Chesmore tal benefits for residents. secured the endorse“We need to offer more ment of the East Bay kids, especially from marStonewall Democratic Resnick for Peralta campaign ginalized areas, reasons Chessmore for Parks Board campaign Legal representation in employment and Club, Resnick fell Peralta college board to come out to the parks. insurance disputes. Employment East Bay parks board short of the 60 percent candidate Nick Resnick representation for wrongful termination candidate Daniel Chesmore I think the parks can inthreshold needed to spire this generation to and discrimination. Insurance representation secure the LGBT popursue careers in bioscifor wrongful denial of insurance claims. litical group’s backing. ence or bio engineering, anaya.legal@gmail.com His opponent in the race, Karen rather than being on the streets should be trying to reach and enroll Edward M. Anaya Weinstein, is a psychologist and with the same bad influences,” said them, argued Resnick. longtime Democratic Party ofChesmore, who earned a sociology “We are not doing our due dilificial in Alameda County. The degree at UC Berkeley. gence as a community to get all of Berkeley resident also serves on the Not only is upkeep of the parks a our children, not just those with Peralta District Citizens Advisory top concern, Chesmore also noted college educated parents or the time 8/31/16 1:11 PM Committee. that safety is another issue, point-AnayaLaw_2x2_092916.indd 1 and wherewithal to make sure they Resnick, 31, is a former middle ing to how several bodies over enroll in college,” he said. “We need school teacher in the Oakland Unithe last year have been found at to bridge that gap.” fied School District who lives in the Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. It is an issue that his opponent has city’s Oakmore neighborhood with Regional Shoreline, just miles from also highlighted in the campaign. his wife, Kelly, a real estate agent, his home.

“I’ll work to expand college opand their son Jude. He now works at “I decided to run because I was tions to high school students, which the nonprofit California Education fed up with the violence in our allow high school students to begin LGBT PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICS † OUR FAMILIES & FRIENDS Partners as the math in common parks,” said Chesmore, who with their college work or career develmanager. his husband volunteers on the Siopment while in high school so that “Recognizing right now in our erra Club’s tree team to plant trees when they graduate they are better society your ZIP code does dictate in impoverished neighborhoods. prepared – saving time and money the quality of your education, to “I am running because I think our on their way to a four-year degree me that is a fundamental problem,” parks can do so much more to or careers,” states Weinstein on her said Resnick, who grew up in Boca improve life in these marginalized campaign site.

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1329 Seventh Avenue † info@dignitysanfrancisco.org Weinstein has a significant advanFollow us on Facebook! about running for the community “I will fight to make sure that tage with endorsements from a wide college board. He knew from his our parks are well-maintained and array of local officials, including time teaching in the Oakland pubaccessible to all,” she states on her several gay and lesbian elected leadlic schools that many students and campaign site. “I am deeply comers, as well as the Alameda County their parents were unaware of the mitted to the East Bay Regional Democratic Party. opportunities that Peralta offered, Parks mission of developing, imTo sway voters that he is the better from enrolling in college courses proving, and maintaining a high choice, Resnick points to his devotwhile in high school to other requality, diverse system of interconing his career to educating students. sources found on the district’s varinected parklands that provides “I respect the person I am runous campuses. public access and education while ning against tremendously. We care “None knew about our commuprotecting and preserving our natuabout a lot of the same things,” he nity college district. It was almost ral and cultural resources.”t said. “But she is not an educator and too late for them,” said Resnick. has not worked in nor devoted her “They felt neglected for so long. life to educational injustice and inWeb Extra: For more queer politiTheir kid had been in the Oakland cal news, be sure to check http:// equities, and I have.” www.ebar.com Monday mornings Unified School District for 12 years at noon for Political Notes, the and no one ever informed them Parks district race notebook’s online companion. their children could take free classes In the race for the parks district This week’s column reported on at Peralta or dual enroll.” seat, Chesmore, 24, also faces being the investiture of gay SF judge Fostering stronger ties between a relatively unknown candidate Roger Chan. local school districts and the comrunning against a politically conmunity college district is a main reanected Democratic leader with high Keep abreast of the latest LGBT son for why he is seeking to join the name recognition. political news by following the board, said Resnick, who graduated Nonetheless, he told the B.A.R. Political Notebook on Twitter @ from the Robert H. Smith School of that he believes he can mount a http://twitter.com/politicalnotes.

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“Since I have been going to board meetings, I have found there are wonderful programs going on at Peralta,” he said. “We need to make sure we are allocating resources appropriately so the information lands in our communities.”

Unlike with City College of San Francisco, which is facing an enrollment crisis due to the fight over the last several years to maintain its accreditation, the Peralta district has been “doing a good job,” said Resnick. Yet it too has seen enrollment decline over the last five years, he noted.

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6 • BAY AREA REPORTER • September 29-October 5, 2016

Gimme shelter

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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hope you do not need me to point out that transgender people tend to live on the margins of society. It can be difficult for us to reach a lot of necessary services, including those to meet the most basic of our needs.

I was reminded of this in the last week or so, as I called a health care provider. After outing myself to the disembodied voice on the other end of the line, I could hear that awkward pause as they tried to figure out exactly what to do with me. Eventually I got transferred to another employee who also had no idea how to help me, and eventually hung up on me. This experience is not uncommon.

This is what is driving the battle over public accommodations – particularly restrooms – and what keeps transgender people from seeing medical professionals, legal aid, and any number of other services they need to survive. Our presence is, at best, something that confuses people, something that makes them want to deny the vital needs of transgender people.

On top of this, transgender people, no strangers to discrimination, usually just put up with it. We don’t reach out for care, or we turn away from services when we face an alltoo-familiar uphill battle. We don’t want to be viewed as a problem: we just want care.

Between March and June of 2015, the Center for American Progress and the Equal Rights Center performed a telephone survey on 100

homeless shelters across four East Coast states. The organizations had both a transgender woman and a non-transgender woman call these shelters, and then compared the answers they received.

The trans woman on these calls would inform the shelter of her trans status and would indicate that she was homeless and needed shelter. She would then ask about availability, as well as if the shelter would house her with other women.

The results were unsurprising, and depressing.

Only 30 percent of the shelters were willing to house transgender women with other women at their locations. More than this, 21 percent refused shelter to trans women, while an additional 13 percent offered an isolated location or shelter with nontransgender men.

It is worth noting, too, that two of the four states had LGBT protections, and those states were twice as likely to provide appropriate shelter compared to states that did not. Also, shelters specific to women were over 10 percent more likely to shelter a trans woman.

Nevertheless, callers were misgendered, told they would make other residents “uncomfortable or unsafe,” or were hung up on.

I should also mention that this survey was held just months after the Department of Housing and Urban Development released guidelines to ensure equal access for transgender people in homeless shelters. These guidelines, enacted under HUD Secretary Julian Castro, stated that

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transgender people were not to be asked intrusive questions about their genital status, and should not be denied access based on identity paperwork or due to others’ discomfort with trans people. They further specified that a person’s gender identity be respected.

In all the above, the majority of shelters failed.

HUD created the 2015 guidelines in response to the LGBT equal access rule put in place in 2012. That rule prohibits discrimination based on marital status, sexual orientation, and, of course, gender identity.

The guidelines have – as of September 20 – been strengthened, with HUD issuing a final rule requiring

that transgender people be treated equally in any federally funded shelters. This new rule should prevent what the Center for American Progress and the Equal Rights Center discovered last year in their survey.

At the same time, my long-expired glasses are not tinted rose. I am certain that transgender people will still find themselves turned away for the same reasons, if – hopefully – in fewer numbers. I don’t think I am being cynical in an era where Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was allowed to flaunt the U.S. Supreme Court on marriage equality, or where transgender students and others are still being barred from appropriate facilities around the country, in spite

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of policies from the Department of Education and rulings throughout the current administration.

I also would be remiss not to stress the last three words in the previous paragraph. We are in the waning months of the Obama administration, and face a somewhat uncertain future as both major party presidential candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, continue to duke it out. If there’s anything the Obama years have taught me, it is not only the person at the top who does the work, but people throughout the administration’s bureaucracy. It’s not that President Barack Obama himself made these HUD rules happen solely by his own hand, but by dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people working in the West Wing and elsewhere.

Depending on who next occupies the Oval Office, the work started prior to 2012 – and strengthened in 2015 and 2016 – could be dismantled. Transgender people who have seen their rights expand over the last eight years might see them continue to be reduced, perhaps even more if we end up with a hard-right Supreme Court in place.

Transgender people, as I reminded you, are already often on the margins of society. We still lack nationwide employment protections. We still face discrimination both large and small. We still have to fight for justice in scores of murders.

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t Clinton solid, Trump off his game in first debate 8 • BAY AREA REPORTER • September 29-October 5, 2016

by Lisa Keen

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illary Clinton scored a solid victory in Monday’s first presidential debate, most political observers agreed, as Donald Trump seemed unprepared and rambling.

Political observers noted that Clinton, the Democratic nominee, seemed to “get under the skin” of Republican Trump during the September 26 debate, held at Hofstra University on Long Island.

Meanwhile the national Log Cabin Republicans group is expected to meet this weekend to decide whether to endorse in the presidential race.

Although LGBT issues did not come up during the 90-minute debate, Trump made reference to his well-publicized and long-standing feud with lesbian comedian Rosie O’Donnell. His remark came after Clinton repeated a frequent criticism of Trump, that he has said derogatory things about many women.

Trump responded by acknowledging that he has said some “very tough things” about O’Donnell but that “I think everybody would agree that she deserves it, and nobody feels sorry for her.”

The Trump-O’Donnell feud dates back 10 years and started when O’Donnell called Trump a “snake oil salesman.” He called her a “loser,” and they traded barbs back and forth. The spat took on some political significance at a Republican primary debate last year, when Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly asked Trump about his record of making derogatory comments about women, calling them “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slob,” and “disgusting animals.”

Trump, quipped, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

Gregory Angelo, head of the national Log Cabin Republicans group, said that “nothing” can be read into Trump’s remarks about

O’Donnell Monday night. The long-standing feud, he said, “had nothing to do with [O’Donnell’s] sexual orientation.”

“I didn’t read anything into Donald Trump’s comments then or during tonight’s debate as anything resembling an anti-gay attitude,” said Angelo.

But Trump’s revival of his attacks on O’Donnell to deflect attention away from his negative comments on women generally came just days after the Human Rights Campaign criticized him for “hiring notoriously anti-LGBTQ politician” Rick Santorum and other anti-LGBT politicians to become part of his Faith and Cultural Advisory Committee.

Trump also last week released a second list of people he would consider naming to the U.S. Supreme Court. Among them was former Colorado Solicitor General Tim Tymkovich, who defended the state’s anti-gay Amendment 2 before the U.S. Supreme Court.

But anecdotal evidence and some data suggest many LGBT Republicans are still likely to back Trump November 8. Angelo said he is seeing “a lot of enthusiasm among LGBT voters for Donald Trump.” Matthew Shulman, head of the Arizona chapter of Log Cabin, said he got two emails immediately after the debate from gay Republicans wanting to volunteer for the Trump campaign.

Both Angelo and former national Log Cabin president Rich Tafel said they have heard a number of LGBT people who supported Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries say they might not vote for Clinton.

“I’ve had some amazing conversations with my Bernie friends. I’ve been a bit surprised by the depth of their dislike of Hillary,” said Tafel.

“It is ironic that my centrist GOP friends – gay and straight – seem more comfortable voting for Hillary

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Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took the stage Monday night in the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York.

than my Bernie friends.”

The results of an NBC poll released last Friday show the LGBT vote splitting pretty much the way it always does in presidential elections – 72 percent for the Democrat, 20 percent for the Republican.

When asked to consider Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, LGBT identified voters went 63 percent to Clinton, 15 percent to Trump, 13 percent to Johnson, and 8 percent to Stein.

“An overwhelming 82 percent of LGBT registered voters said they have an unfavorable impression of Trump, compared to 41 percent who said they have an unfavorable impression of Clinton,” said NBC. “Just under six in 10 said they have a favorable impression of Clinton. Only 17 percent said the same of Trump.”

Angelo said he expects the LGBT vote to be higher and noted that the NBC sample was heavily Democratic.

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The survey included 1,728 self-identified LGBT people, surveyed between September 5-18.

Seventy percent of the registered LGBT voters surveyed said they were Democrats or leaning Democratic; 18 percent Republican or Republican-leaning; and 13 percent independent.

Mark LaChey, chair of the LGBT Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party, said he was a Sanders supporter and he “absolutely” thinks most LGBT Sanders supporters will vote for Clinton.

“As a Bernie delegate to Philadelphia,” said LaChey, referring to the Democratic convention, “I watched the change as the convention progressed where he and his delegates, LGBT and otherwise, came on board with Hillary in large part because her adoption of many of his core positions in the 2016 DNC platform.”

LaChey said he would urge LGBT voters to “do your research on the issues that matter most to you in your day-to-day life. ... I trust that you will come to the conclusion that only Clinton/Kaine will promote LGBT equality in the upcoming four years.”

Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is Clinton’s vice presidential running mate.

Lorri Jean, chief executive officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, said she, too, thinks most Sanders supporters will back Clinton.

But, she added, “I also think there remains a significant number of young Sanders supporters who are disaffected and are supporting neither Trump nor Hillary.”

“They are attracted to Johnson because he isn’t Trump or Clinton,” said Jean, “but they do not understand that Libertarians, and Johnson himself, generally do not support many issues that are typically of great importance to young voters.”

Jean said she was struck Monday night with Trump’s “insensitivity to communities of color.”

“If he would stereotype them in the way he has,” said Jean, “it’s likely that he would do the same to LGBT people.”

Gay political columnist Richard Rosendall agreed. Noting that voting rights for African-Americans and reproductive rights for women have “been eroded and are under continual attack,” Rosendall said. “It is hard to understand why LGBT folk would think our advances are invulnerable.

“If Trump wins, he can be expected to cater to the racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and transphobic right wing that is his base,” he added. “The Republicans are determined to erase the Obama presidency, and Barack Obama is the most pro-LGBT president in history.”

Angelo said the board of the national Log Cabin group would discuss whether to make an endorsement when it meets this weekend in Washington, D.C. Although Angelo would not discuss his own preference for a candidate, he did say he felt Trump’s performance during Monday’s debate shows “he can more than hold his own against Hillary Clinton.”

Recent polls certainly suggest Trump is holding his own against Clinton.

Election data guru Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, a gay man, now calculates Clinton as having only a 55 percent chance of winning – that’s down from as much as 70 percent just a few weeks ago. Silver calculates Trump’s chances at 45 percent.

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t Supreme Court cases could test religious exemptions 10 • BAY AREA REPORTER • September 29-October 5, 2016

by Lisa Keen

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here will be at least one case before the U.S. Supreme Court this session testing the ability of groups to claim an exemption to state laws based on their religious affiliation. A second case is asking the court to decide whether a school can be denied state funding if it refuses certain students for religious reasons. And a third is seeking the court’s opinion as to what “sex” means in the context of federal laws barring sex discrimination.

Monday, October 3, is the first official day of the Supreme Court’s 2016-17 term – a session that could have significant impact on prospects for equal protection for LGBT people. The court could decide how free a religious-oriented institution is to discriminate. And it could decide whether federal law already prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. Finally, this term, the Senate is expected to confirm a ninth justice.

Here’s a quick review of what to look for in the coming weeks.

Gloucester v. Grimm (Case No. 16-273)

This is the transgender student case from Virginia. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (in a 2-1 vote April 19) that Title IX of the federal Education Amendments Act of 1972 – which prohibits discrimination based on sex by federally funded educational institutions – also prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.

The appeals panel majority’s ruling in Grimm v. Gloucester came on preliminary motion in a lawsuit filed by a transgender student, Gavin Grimm, in Virginia. The preliminary motion requested that Grimm be able to use his public

high school’s boys’ restrooms until his overall lawsuit – arguing that Title IX does cover gender identity – can be resolved.

The Gloucester school district appealed the 4th Circuit decision to the Supreme Court. In August, the Supreme Court agreed to stay the 4th Circuit’s decision until it could decide whether to take the case for review.

The U.S. Supreme Court may hear Virginia In its petition to the Su- high school student Gavin Grimm’s case in preme Court, the school its 2016-17 term. district’s primary argument is that, when Congress passed Title IX, it meeting where the justices decide intended the word “sex” to mean whether to take up the case. But “nothing more than male and feAmy Howe at scotusblog.com says male, under the traditional binary the case could be on the agenda for conception of sex consistent with the October 14 conference. one’s birth or biological sex.” The U.S. Department of Education’s Masterpiece Cakeshop v. interpretation of “sex” to include Colorado (Case No. 16-111) “gender identity,” it argues, amounts One case that was scheduled for to creating new law. conference, for September 26, was Attorneys for Grimm, which inrecently postponed to give the parcludes the American Civil Liberties ties more time to submit their briefs.

Union, submitted their reply brief The case involves a wedding cake September 13. Their primary argubaker, Jack Phillips, and his Masterment is that this case is “the wrong piece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colocase at the wrong time.” There are no rado. When a same-sex couple asked conflicts – yet – among the various the shop to prepare a cake for their federal appeals courts, says the brief, wedding reception, Phillips said no, and the 4th Circuit has not yet had a saying it was against his religious chance to rule directly on the merits beliefs. Oddly, however, he agreed to of the central issue. ACLU attorneys sell them other baked goods. also suggest Gloucester is attempting The couple filed a complaint to expand the case into a challenge of with the state Civil Rights Division, the Department of Education guidewhich agreed Phillips violated the lines; instead, said the ACLU, the case state law barring sexual orientation is just about the school district’s own discrimination in public accommodetermination that Title IX does not dations. Phillips appealed through cover gender identity. the state court system, which ruled Attorneys from most LGBT legal against him. The Colorado Supreme groups are expected to submit briefs Court refused to hear his appeal. on behalf of the student.

The Alliance Defending Freedom At deadline, the case had not yet has taken the case to the U.S. Subeen scheduled for a conference, a preme Court.

The ADF’s petition to the high court argues that Phillips’ Christian belief “compels him to use his artistic talents to promote only messages that align with his religious beliefs.”

By ordering Phillips to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, said ADF, Colorado is violating the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and “targets Phillips’ religious beliefs about marriage. ...”

The case is similar to one out of New Mexico in 2013, Elane Photography v.

Wilcox. In that case, the photographer, also represented by ADF, said her religious objections to homosexuality should trump the state’s interests in eradicating discrimination against LGBT people and that the First Amendment guarantee to freedom of speech should protect her ability to express her beliefs. The Supreme Court declined to hear the photographer’s appeal.

The Supreme Court has given the ACLU, which is representing the same-sex couple, until November 29 to file its response brief.

Trinity Lutheran v. Pauley (Case No. 15-577)

One case the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this session also implicates state laws against nondiscrimination and the church.

Trinity v. Pauley involves a conflict between the state of Missouri and a church-run daycare school that wants state funding to provide a softer surface for the school’s playground.

The state’s program, funded through a fee it imposes on the purchase of new tires, provides grants to nonprofit groups for such play-

ground resurfacing. But nonprofits operated by churches are not eligible for the program. That’s because the Missouri Constitution states, “no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion. ...”

Trinity Lutheran in Columbia says its exclusion from the state’s scrap tire program violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free exercise and free speech, as well as equal protection and other clauses.

A district court dismissed its lawsuit, and a divided 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that dismissal.

With the help of ADF, the church appealed to the Supreme Court. In January, the court agreed to hear the case.

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund submitted a brief saying it was concerned that many non-discrimination laws might be undermined – not only those prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination but also religious discrimination. It noted the school’s policy states it “does not discriminate [against] students on the basis of sex, race, color, national and ethnic origin. ...” It does not include religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

“The omissions are unsurprising given that Trinity’s parent denomination, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, holds that being lesbian, bisexual, gay, or transgender is ‘intrinsically sinful,’” states Lambda Legal’s brief.

“There is thus reason for concern that the [school] seeks government aid that would support discrimination in its program based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion. ...”

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No matter the winner, next Mission supe will be straight

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ome election night one thing is certain in the race for the District 9 seat on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors: a 16-year lock on the seat by gay candidates will come to an end.

Since 2000, when the city reverted back to electing the 11 members of the board by district, gay men have served in the seat representing the Mission district. Tom Ammiano, first elected to the board citywide in 1994, was the first, succeeded in 2008 by David Campos, who is now termed off the board having served eight years.

No LGBT candidates opted to run to succeed him, and the two leading candidates in the race are both 40-year-old straight, married parents who are renters. Hillary Ronen has served the past six years as Campos’ chief of staff, while Joshua Arce is a civil rights attorney and labor representative.

Both candidates have touted their support for LGBT-related issues during the race. And in their editorial board meetings with the Bay Area Reporter, Ronen and Arce both pledged they would champion LGBT concerns at City Hall should they be elected supervisor.

“I do take seriously the fact I am a white woman running in a Latino district and a straight woman running for a traditionally gay seat on the board,” said Ronen, who with her husband, Francisco Ugarte, is raising their 3-year-old daughter Maelle in the Portola district. “The potential for the first time since the 1990s of not having an LGBT person on the board is a problem I take seriously. I am going to make this community a big priority of mine. The LGBT community will be at the forefront of my mind.”

(As the B.A.R. has noted, there is a slight possibility of seeing no LGBT person serving on the board depending how several races on the November ballot turn out. Under such a scenario, Mayor Ed Lee will face strong pressure to appoint an LGBT person to fill a board vacancy.)

Addressing the violence transgender individuals face, particularly in the Mission, will be a top concern should he be elected supervisor, said Arce, whose brotherin-law is a transgender man who has joined him on the campaign trail.

“For LGBTQ voters, it definitely is on people’s minds that we don’t have any LGBTQ candidates,” noted Arce, who with his wife, Lisa, is raising their sons Desmond and Lennon in the heart of the Mission.

Ronen, whom the city’s progressive political camp hopes will keep the District 9 seat in their column, has the backing of the local Democratic Party as well as the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. She has formed an alliance with two other progressive mothers running for supervisor this fall, Sandra Lee Fewer in District 1 and in District 11 Kimberley Alvarenga, who would be the first lesbian elected to the board since 2000.

“We are excited to tackle the most important needs of our city by drawing upon our collective 50 years of experience improving education, creating affordable housing, and making our communities safer,” Ronen wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday to promote the trio’s goals for their first year in office, such as free preschool for city residents, more Navigation Centers to assist the homeless, and addressing car break-ins.

Arce, meanwhile, secured the support of the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, which awarded him a first place endorsement, and won the San Francisco Chronicle’s sole endorsement. (Under the city’s ranked choice voting system, voters can rank their top three candidates in the race.)

He has argued that electing Ronen will only be a continuation of the failed leadership that he contends Campos has offered the Mission while in office. Foremost, he criticized Campos and his staff for there being no affordable housing built in the Mission the last 10 years.

District 9 supervisor candidate Hillary Ronen

District 9 supervisor candidate Joshua Arce

“I am running because the status quo has failed in District 9 at every level, from the mayor to the supervisor to the supervisor’s staff,” argued Arce.

Although he had been a member of the local Democratic Party’s oversight body, a seat he failed to win re-election to in June, Arce painted himself as the political outsider in the race.

“I am running against a City Hall insider who has been there for more than six years,” he said.

Ronen countered that she is her own person and will not be a continuation of Campos should she win. In particular, she pledged she would not push for a moratorium on building market-rate housing in District 9, a proposal her boss had advocated for last November that was defeated by voters.

“We are different people,” said Ronen, adding that she has faced some sentiment that “your male boss defines you.”

She has promised that, as supervisor, she would push to see that 500 units of affordable housing are built in District 9 each year over the next decade for a total of 5,000 units. She noted there are 750 units

in the pipeline “right now to be built in the Mission.”

Ronen attacked Arce for opposing the 335-unit housing development activists have dubbed “the Beast on Bryant,” arguing that it will result in 139 units of affordable housing as well as provide space for the arts and local manufacturing businesses. (The Board of Supervisors this month approved the project.) Arce was part of a group pushing to see the project set aside more than 50 percent of the units as affordable.

“It is a good project,” said Ronen, who prior to working at City Hall was an attorney employed by La Raza Centro Legal, heading up its worker rights unit.

She acknowledged her position on the project, and housing in general, is “more moderate than activists.” But she believes the best approach to take is “not to oppose” developers, but “to push them to do more than 12 percent affordable housing” in their projects.

Arce, who sits on the board of the Mission Housing Development Corporation, has highlighted that the agency is building a 100 percent affordable, 165-unit

housing development in District 9. Among his housing plans, he wants to push the city to use underutilized parcels of land for affordable housing and proposes that tenants be given a “right of first refusal” to buy their building if it is put up for sale.

“We are saying our district isn’t for sale,” said Arce, who has taken a leave from his job as a community liaison for Laborers Local 261 to focus on his campaign. “Lobbyists and big developers are pouring money into my opponent’s race.”

Apart from their housing stances, race could play an important factor in who becomes the next supervisor in a district where many have voiced concern that Latinos are being gentrified out. Two other Latino candidates, Melissa San Miguel, a former policy manager for the National Center for Youth Law, and Iswari Espana, a training officer for the Human Services Agency, are also running for the seat.

Arce, fluent not only in Spanish, but also conversant in Russian, Mandarin, and Cantonese, grew up in Chatsworth, a town in the San Fernando Valley. His father is from Mexico, while his mother is of Swedish descent.

After graduating UCLA, he headed to San Francisco and enrolled at UC Hastings College of the Law. On his website, Arce prominently touts his being the first Latino president of the city’s Commission on the Environment.

“For many voters in the district, it is important to have Latino representation,” he said.

Also from southern California, where she grew up in Los Angeles, Ronen headed north to attend law school at UC Berkeley. She points to her 14-year track record of working in the district as to why she has attracted support from many Latino residents and community leaders.

She also speaks Spanish.

“I may be the only non-Latino candidate in the race, but I have more Latino support,” said Ronen.t

members of society.” hands with a common sense, Asked about voters who rational solution, we avoid the may be worried Prop 57 would possibility of the courts mandatresult in criminals being let off ing arbitrary release of prisoners,” easy, Newman said, “There are he said. a number of misconceptions” The measure also calls for a about the proposal. juvenile court judge to determine The opponents’ campaign whether a defendant who is a uses playing cards through minor is tried as an adult. Curwhich they are “trying to scare rently, prosecutors make that people with disinformation decision. on criminal justice reform, State Proposition 57 would address changes A spokeswoman for the No on and their caption is ‘Meet in parole and the juvenile justice system.

Prop 57 campaign didn’t respond your new neighbor,’ which is, to an interview request.

I think the technical term is Equality California is among from Sirhan Sirhan [Robert Ken‘complete bullshit,’” he said.

Prop 57’s supporters. nedy’s assassin] to Charles ManNewman said, “absolutely noIn a news release, the LGBT son already becomes eligible for body will be automatically released.” lobbying group said the measure parole. That is far different from Instead, he said, “certain non“would increase parole and good being released.” violent offenders who meet public behavior opportunities for felons Newman noted there’s a federal safety screening” will be allowed convicted of nonviolent crimes and court order for California to reduce “to go before a board of law enwould allow judges, rather than its prison population. forcement professionals to request prosecutors, to determine whether “By taking matters into our own parole. As it is now, everybody to try certain juveniles as adults.”

EQCA said that because of “bias and unequal enforcement of our laws, members of the LGBT community are more likely to be arrested, and convicted upon arrest than the general public. LGBT people of color experience racial profiling, discriminatory policing, and higher rates of incarceration for nonviolent crimes.”

Prop 57 “creates greater opportunities for rehabilitation and for bringing LGBT people and all who have been convicted of nonviolent crimes back into our communities and to productive lives,” EQCA said.

The San Francisco Police Officers Association and numerous other police associations are listed on the No on Prop 57 website as opponents to the measure.

The Harvey Milk and Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic clubs have both endorsed Prop 57.t

eight justices on the bench. Republicans, who control the Senate, continue their blockade against President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. When Scalia died in February, Obama nominated federal appeals Judge Merrick Garland of the D.C. Circuit to replace him.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said this month that the Senate will not vote on Garland’s nomination this year even if Democrat Hillary Clinton

is elected president. Some political observers had speculated the Senate Republicans might want to confirm Garland, who is seen by most as a moderate, if Clinton is elected, rather than allow her to choose a more liberal nominee.

The Senate has also refused to vote on a number of other nominees to federal courts, including that of lesbian attorney Inga Bernstein, who has been nominated to the district court bench for Massachusetts. Obama nominated her in July 2015.t

Courtesy Ronen for Supervisor campaign

Courtesy Arce for Supervisor campaign

Prop 57 addresses prison sentences

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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oters this November will be asked to weigh in on a measure that could impact the sentences of many California prisoners and make changes in the juvenile justice system.

Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, would make eligible nonviolent offenders in state prison to be considered for parole after completing the first term for their primary offense.

Dan Newman, a spokesman for the Yes on Prop 57 campaign, said the measure would “focus resources in a common sense, intelligent way that keeps people safe and invests in rehabilitation so you can both keep dangerous criminals locked up” and “give nonviolent offenders incentives to turn their lives around, so when they reenter society, they are tax-paying, law-abiding, productive

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Missouri’s constitution, said Lambda Legal, properly erects a fence between church and state.

Missouri does not have any state laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but the case has implications for the long-standing friction between the U.S. Constitution’s free exercise guarantee and state laws that do prohibit

sexual orientation/gender identity discrimination.

Lambda Legal attorney Camilla Taylor said ADF is “pushing the idea that whenever government denies funding to an organization based on religion, this is discrimination on the basis of religion.”

“This is not a new argument,” said Taylor, “but it’s come up in a context – for a grant program in Missouri – in a way that is particularly concerning.”

A ruling in this case could open

the way for such groups as Catholic Charities – which will not place foster children in gay homes – to tap into government funding even while violating non-discrimination laws.

The Supreme Court has not yet set the date for argument in Trinity, but it was not scheduled for October or November.

Eight justices

Meanwhile, the high court will open its 2016-17 term with only

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Couple who sued for marriage in 1993 now facing cancer fight

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and paratransit fares to and from hospitals and doctor’s offices.

“We need to preserve and expand the Affordable Care Act,” Ben Cable said.

Ben Cable expressed his concern for the rise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has said that he supports “traditional marriage.” Trump has hired virulently anti-gay former presidential candidate Rick Santorum as a consultant for his own campaign.

“What really concerns me is that everything we as Americans have achieved under [Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton could be overturned by right-wing ideology,” Ben Cable said. “All it takes is a dictator to change the whole landscape, and that’s what Trump is promising. Because of the Supreme Court ruling legalizing marriage equality, I have the right to care for my husband in all 50 states.”

Ben Cable recalled the 1993 battle he and Marcial Bolina Cable fought a decade before former San

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Ben Cable, left, and Marcial Bolina Cable were married two years ago in Alameda.

en and Marcial Bolina Cable, together for 26 years, are facing the toughest challenge of their lives.

The gay Alameda couple, who were legally married two years ago, sued the state of California for the right to marry in 1993. They are now fighting for Marcial Bolina Cable’s life – the 53-year-old is battling a malignant brain tumor. The couple have set up a GoFundMe page in order to help with medical expenses.

So far the campaign has raised nearly $2,000 of the couple’s $9,000 goal.

“The expenses have come as quite a surprise,” Ben Cable, 52, told the Bay Area Reporter by telephone.

“Our insurance has peaked – we pay 10 percent of all the bills. What Kaiser is doing is wonderful, Marcial has a great team, but the cost is enormous.”

Ben Cable pointed out that expenses can include things that insurance doesn’t cover, such as taxis

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Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom defied state law and ordered county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Though the courts invalidated those initial nuptials, Newsom’s actions led to a series of lawsuits that led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2013 legalizing samesex marriage in the Golden State.

Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states.

“We were living in Los Angeles,” Ben Cable said of their 1993 fight.

“We went to the county clerk’s office on the Friday before Valentine’s Day – Marcial’s sister was with us. We filled out an application – the clerk called for a judge.”

But another clerk urged the city to let the couple get married. “That meant a lot,” Ben Cable said. “The judge took our application – we never saw it again.”

And so, with attorney Paul Marchand representing them, the couple filed suit.

“The ACLU wrote an amicus brief on our behalf,” Cable said, referring to the American Civil Liberties Union. “The case went to the California Supreme Court, where it was denied review in a one-sentence ruling.”

Ben Cable added that he was glad that they did not pursue the case further as a ruling against them might have affected the positive Supreme Court decision that came years later. He also expressed his sadness at the lack of support that he and his husband got from the gay community as their lawsuit worked its way through the courts.

“We got more support from straights, which really surprised me,” he said. “GLAAD reluctantly supported us to make themselves look good. We got a full page in the Los Angeles Times, but no support from Frontiers, the LGBT magazine in Los Angeles.”

Marcial Bolina Cable previously worked at American International Group Inc., the American Red Cross, and Kaiser Permanente. He is also a veteran who served in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit of the U.S. Army, where he worked in supplies.

The couple moved to the Bay Area in 2013, Ben Cable said.

Ben Cable shared some details of Marcial Bolina Cable’s illness.

“I’ve no idea how long this will take,” he said. “He has multiple tumors in multiple areas of his brain – that’s the challenge, which makes it difficult to have a prognosis.”

On the day after the interview, Ben Cable emailed the B.A.R. with some good news. “Marcial’s MRI from Thursday supports that the chemotherapy regimen he is on is working,” he wrote. “It appears he has less tumors and others have shrunk. Woo-hoo!”

Ben Cable said that he’s learned some important lessons through the ordeal of his husband’s illness.

“I have a great deal of appreciation for caregivers,” he said. “I had no idea how much this entails. Stories like ours is repeated across communities – I am still learning throughout this process.”

Ben Cable expressed one final thought: “Love is powerful,” he said.

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Lesbian victim in infamous murder topic of new book

by Sari Staver

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ittle known details about the murder of lesbian Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York in 1964 will be discussed by historian and author Marcia Gallo in two San Francisco appearances next week.

Gallo, author of the award-winning book, No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy (Cornell University Press, 2015), spent seven years researching the crime after she learned that the initial media reports that dozens of Genovese’s neighbors refused to come to her rescue were untrue. (The story was debunked in a series of New York Times articles.)

Gallo’s book has won the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction; the Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Nonfiction category), and was a finalist in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards in the gay and lesbian nonfiction category. She is also the author of Different Daughters: A history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (Carroll & Graf, 2006).

Gallo researched Genovese’s lesbian relationship and interviewed her former partner, Mary Ann Zielonko, about their life together in New York at the time of the incident.

Currently an associate professor in the history department at the University of Las Vegas, Gallo, a lesbian and former San Franciscan, talked about her fascination with the crime in a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

When the Genovese murder made headlines in 1964, Gallo was 13 years old, planning to escape the boredom of Wilmington, Delaware for a life in New York City, she said.

“So I always felt I was very much like Kitty,” said Gallo, 65, “looking for an exciting life in the city.”

When newspapers reported that dozens of Genovese’s neighbors witnessed the crime – a brutal stabbing and rape – but did nothing, Gallo said that the story became “a cautionary tale that this is what could happen to a young woman in the big city who was out at night.” Genovese was 28 when she died.

“I can remember thinking, ‘Oh, wow, what does this mean for my dreams for my future’” in New York, Gallo recalled.

Gallo did spend time in New York, after a 20-year detour in San Francisco, where she worked at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, first as director of the First Amendment Education Project and later as director of the field organizing department.

In the late 1990s, Gallo moved to New York City, receiving a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the City University of New York in 2004. It was at this time that the Genovese story resurfaced, according to Gallo.

In 2004, said Gallo, the Times revived the story about Genovese, questioning its earlier treatment and briefly mentioning that at the time she was murdered, Genovese’s roommate was, in fact, her lesbian lover.

The news about Genovese’s lover “was a bombshell for the queer community,” said Gallo. “There was an immediate question if her sexuality had anything to do with the murder, but as it turned out, it did not.”

Among lesbians in New York, said Gallo, the new details about the crime – and about Genovese’s sexual orientation – were a topic of tremendous interest.

“My first inclination was to write a biography of Kitty,” said Gallo, “but there was nothing available in her voice – no letters, no diaries.”

Author Marcia Gallo

Instead, said Gallo, she decided to write a book about the crime, spending the next seven years unearthing details about it.

Getting an interview with Genovese’s then-partner, Zielonko, was a “lengthy process,” said Gallo. Once

the two connected, Gallo learned how difficult life was for Genovese’s lover, who spent the next four decades grieving her loss, but was able to share the story with only a few gay friends because the couple had been so closeted.

Zielonko currently resides in Vermont.

Interviews with then-neighbors of the couple revealed that initial press reports that people saw the crime – but did nothing – “were simply incorrect,” Gallo said.

Instead, said Gallo, the interviews indicated that many of the neighbors were distrustful of police and did not cooperate with law enforcement after the crime.

In fact, added Gallo, there is evidence that a number of neighbors did come to Genovese’s aid and called the police to report hearing what they assumed was a crime in progress.

Once the book was completed, Gallo said she realized it had become “the story behind the story” of the Genovese murder.

Genovese’s killer, Winston Moseley, was sentenced to life in prison; he died March 28.

Murder victim Kitty Genovese

“My goals in writing the book were three,” she said. “Disabusing people that the story happened as originally reported, reinserting Kitty as a person into the story, and challenging the notion that people were apathetic.”t

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CCOP celebrates 10th anniversary

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Ken Craig, left, from Castro Community on Patrol, demonstrated a technique to stop an assault with CCOP member Brian Hill during one of the patrol’s introductory self-defense classes in 2014.

compiled by Cynthia Laird

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astro Community on Patrol will celebrate its 10th anniversary Tuesday, October 4 beginning at 7 p.m. at Espressamente Illy Cafe, 2349 Market Street.

Ken Craig, deputy chief of patrol, said in a news release that it was in October 2006 that the leather community, CCOP founder Carlton Paul, San Francisco Safety Awareness for Everyone, the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station, and then-Super visor Bevan Dufty came together to address serious safety concerns in the Castro and surrounding neighborhoods.

CCOP was born and orange (as in the vests patrol volunteers wear) “became the new fashion statement for late night attire.”

“Against all odds with respect to an organization established in response to a ‘crime wave,’ CCOP remains active and arguably more effective 10 years later as we moved quickly from an initial reactionary model to our current preventive and educational model,” Craig explained.

In those 10 years CCOP has trained more than 500 volunteers, distributed over 90,000 free safety whistles and associated literature, conducted dozens of free community self-defense seminars, and established both the Castro Business Watch program and the Stop the Violence program.

CCOP has summoned medical help for countless numbers of people during regular patrols, and worked with SFPD and the district attorney’s office on specific cases, helping to secure prosecutions and stay-away orders.

Next week’s event will include community awards, CCOP patroller awards, and food and refreshments.

To RSVP, email info@castropatrol.org.

SF treasurer boots Wells Fargo from city program

Gay San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros announced last week that Wells Fargo Bank has been suspended from the city’s Bank On San Francisco program, which helps city residents without bank accounts to open one.

In a news release, Cisneros cited the recent disclosures that Wells Fargo had engaged in widespread potentially illegal practices around account openings, sales targets, and compensation incentives forced him to take action.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf was grilled on Capitol Hill last week about many of these issues.

In a news release, Cisneros said that Wells Fargo has been suspended from the Bank On San Francisco program and removed from all marketing materials.

“The mounting evidence regarding Wells Fargo’s practices is nothing short of shocking. Consumers walked into Wells Fargo looking for an account to keep their hard earned money safe, and that’s not what they got,” Cisneros said in the release. “I started the Bank On San Francisco program because as treasurer I believe that money is safest in a bank account, not under a mattress. What Wells Fargo has done goes way beyond cross-selling practices. This is deceptive, it is wrong, and it is predatory.”

Wells Fargo customers in San Francisco who may have been affected by the bank’s recent disclosures can seek help, Cisneros said.

He has requested that Balance, the city’s consumer credit counseling partner, offer free one-on-one credit counseling for anyone who believes they may be affected by Wells Fargo’s actions. San Francisco residents can call Balance at 1-800-706-6006 and speak to a certified credit counselor to learn how to access their free credit report and resolve any negative impacts Wells Fargo’s actions may have on their finances.

BALIF to honor founders

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, or BALIF, is holding its fall reception Tuesday, October 4 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pitman LLP, 4 Embarcadero Center, 22nd floor.

The evening will honor the founders of BALIF, including retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donna Hitchens, Carl Wolf, Fred Hertz, Nanci Clarence, and others. The evening will celebrate the organization’s past while looking at the future LGBT civil rights battles ahead. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, will provide a legal update.

To register, visit http://balif.org/ event-2313294/Registration.

PRC to honor AEF, Baker Places

The Positive Resource Center will honor the AIDS Emergency Fund and Baker Places at its Windows of Opportunity gala Wednesday, October 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the City Club of San Francisco, 155 Sansome Street.

PRC, which provides employment services and benefits counseling to people living with HIV/ AIDS or mental health disabilities, took over both agencies earlier this year in a merger. Baker Places provides residential treatment services to people with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS-related issues. AEF provides emergency financial assistance for low-income residents disabled by HIV/AIDS. “On the heels of our summertime merger with AIDS Emergency Fund and Baker Places, this year’s Win-

dows of Opportunity gala kicks off a very special and important time for our newly combined organization,” Brett Andrews, CEO of the new agency who has served as PRC executive director, said in a statement.

Special guests expected to be on hand include gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), and gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, who is running for Leno’s seat.

Jonathan Vernick, current executive director at Baker Places, and Scott Williams, current board president of AEF will also attend.

The evening will include cocktails, appetizers, desserts, music, and a silent auction.

Tickets are $125 and are available at https://www.eventbrite. com/e/windows-of-opportunitytickets-26830732443. For more information about PRC, visit http:// www.positiveresource.org.

ment office, located in the basement of City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. The office is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In related news, Arntz encouraged city residents to prepare for the upcoming election by making sure they are registered to vote, filling out their ballot worksheet in advance of voting, and participating in the elec-

tion either at their polling place, at the City Hall voting center, or mailing in their ballot.

The last day to register to vote is October 24. The City Hall voting center opens Tuesday, October 11.

The deadline to request a mail-in ballot is Tuesday, November 1.

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WCRC’s ‘Swim a Mile’ benefit

The Women’s Cancer Resource Center’s popular “Swim a Mile for Women with Cancer” benefit will be held October 1-2 at the Mills College pool at the Trefethen Aquatic Center, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland.

The event encourages people to sponsor participants, who can either water-walk or swim their mile in the pool. The benefit will also include food and music. Registration varies depending on age: $40 for youth 18 and younger, $55 for adults under 55, and $40 for adults over 55. Families and teams can also participate. A new registration ($30) is the “virtual swimmer” category for folks who can’t come to the pool but still want to participate.

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This year’s event theme is “1001 Nights around the World: An International Extravaganza,” and will include a reception, program, live music, small plates from around the world, beer and wine, and soft drinks. There will be silent and live auctions, and, in a twist, a reverse auction, in which the roles of seller and buyer are reversed.

Proceeds will benefit the Night Ministry, which for the last 52 years has offered pastoral care, counseling, and crisis intervention every night of the year between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.

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Elections dept. seeks poll workers

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Pacifica man faces new rape charges

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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San Mateo County man already accused of raping three men has been charged with raping four more men.

Joseph Paul Courtney, 32, of Pacifica, now faces 31 counts, including sodomy by use of force, sodomy by anesthesia or use of a controlled substance, sodomy of an unconscious victim, possession of child pornography, second degree robbery, and allegations that he tied or bound his victims.

The district attorney’s complaint also includes an allegation that Courtney committed the alleged offenses knowing that he has AIDS. Courtney, who could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty to all counts and denied all allegations Wednesday, September 21, according to court documents. He was arrested July 28 and is being held in Redwood City’s Maguire Correctional Facility. His bail was raised last Wednesday from $5 million to $10 million.

As he has previously, Steve Chase, Courtney’s attorney, suggested in an interview this week that the alleged victims had engaged in sex with his client willingly.

“The DA and I are just trying to wait and see whether this turns out to be a crime, or whether this turns out to be something else,” Chase said. He said the charges may have stemmed from “consensual sex.”

“It’s not like people were dragged off the street and given drugs that they did not ingest voluntarily to have an enhanced sexual experience,” he said.

He added, “I don’t know whether the new claimants just jumped on the bandwagon after seeing [Courtney’s] name in the newspaper,” during coverage of the initial charges, “or if they have legitimate beefs.”

Chase said he hasn’t yet received names or police reports related to the new charges.

“I have no idea where these people came from or what their complaints are, other than the charges are the same for each one,” he said.

He doesn’t know the ages of the victims at the base of the new charges, but he said they’re in the 20s to 30s age range.

The earliest date listed in court documents for the alleged incidents is January 2010. The latest is July 2016.

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Despite Chase indicating Spanheimer has also said that he and the prosecutor in that the incidents started in the case aren’t sure whether 2007, and police had been a crime was committed, investigating Courtney “for District Attorney Steve almost a year” before his Wagstaffe has expressed no arrest. doubt.

In an interview Monday, Along with the numerhe said that more victims ous charges recently added may be added. to the complaint against The investigation “is still Courtney, in a case summary ongoing,” Spanheimer said. detailing the original counts, “I don’t know if anybody’s Wagstaffe said, “On three come forward in the last separate occasions involving couple weeks.” three separate male victims, He couldn’t say whether [Courtney] met with the victhe victims listed in the tim for consensual sex twice amended complaint had at his residence and once at come forward because of a Comfort Suites Motel. On media coverage of Courtney. each occasion, [the] defenSeveral of the charges dant drugged the victims would require Courtney to with GHB (date rape drug) register as a sex offender if and other drugs, knocking he’s convicted.

Courtesy Pacifica Police Department them unconscious.”

His next court date is NoAdditionally, the DA said, Joseph Paul Courtney vember 21 for a preliminary Courtney “and unidentified hearing, when a judge will male associates proceeded determine if there’s enough a news release this summer that, to have sex with the unconevidence to hold him for trial.

“Investigators found that Courtney scious victims and on one occasion Courtney has declined an interoften used websites and smartshowed the victim the video recordview request. phone ‘apps’ to contact his victims,” ing of the unconscious sex by mulChase said Monday, “Joseph is and that he’d “also had contact with tiple men.” trying to keep his spirits up. It’s hard minor males for the purpose of enCaptain Joseph Spanheimer, a in jail. It’s not the nicest place to be, gaging in sexual intercourse.”

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Unity Palo Alto’s out reverend retires

by Heather Cassell

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nity Palo Alto’s Reverend Karyn Bradley will give her final sermon Sunday, October 2.

Bradley, 65 and a lesbian, took over as the senior minister of the Christian church on the Peninsula in October 2005.

“The people here are so genuine and so accepting. No push back because I’m gay,” said Bradley, although some congregants left the church at the time.

September has been overwhelming for Bradley, who doesn’t know what she will say for her parting words, she said. It has been an emotional month of saying goodbye to members of her congregation.

“Now that I’m retiring I’m hearing people say how much they are going to miss me and how much that I’ve meant to them,” said Bradley. “It’s just really overwhelming.”

She said the church, which serves about 150 congregants, is on solid ground with a bright future ahead of it.

“I think they are on the next verge of growth,” said Bradley, who

believes she’s done her job setting the church on a positive path. “I really think that they are really on the verge of something greater.”

The Reverend John E. Riley, who is a straight ally and has co-ministered with Bradley for eight years, will take over the congregation October 3.

A passion to serve

In spite of the sadness of closing this chapter of her life, Bradley said, she’s ready to embrace the next adventure. She and her partner of 22 years, Gerry Franzen, are packing up and moving to Auburn, California, where the couple’s best friends live. She plans to hang out with them and explore her creative side, such as painting, and find “another passion,” she said.

“I don’t know exactly what it’s going to look like or what it’s going to be. I’m just open to the expression of that creativity,” said Bradley.

Raised Catholic, she said she never felt it fit her, but she kept searching for answers about herself and a way to serve that led her to Unity.

“The faith of my childhood did not fit with what I saw or felt in the

noticed other LGBT world,” said Bradpeople and after a ley, who wanted to while she discovered be a priest, not a she was welcomed. nun, when she was She then started takgrowing up. ing some religious However, she classes to go with grew up and got a the counseling she degree in applied was receiving. Durscience and became ing one of the classes a physical therapy the passage from assistant before reIsaiah 30:21, “Your turning to school to own ears will hear get a degree in eduhim. Right behind cation for the hearJo Lynn Otto you a voice will say, ing impaired from ‘This is the way you Trinity University in Reverand Karyn Bradley should go,’ whether San Antonio, Texas. to the right or to the She then went on to left,” shook her to her core. graduate school, but ended up not “I broke down in tears,” said completing the program. Instead, Bradley, of hearing the words of she found a teaching job at a military the Scripture during prayer time. high school where she taught for 15 “That’s when an opening came, reyears before becoming a minister. membering that I wanted to serve in “It had to have been a calling,” some fashion.” said Bradley, who was searching for She embraced the calling and the next phase in her life while healhasn’t looked back since then. ing after the breakup of a 10-year reAfter receiving her license as a lationship. “It was not on my radar minister in 1995, Bradley served at to do this.”

She shyly entered a Unity church, Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas sitting in the back during services. She City for a decade before coming to

the San Francisco Bay Area.

“My time serving as a minister has been one of the most incredible adventures that I’ve been on,” said Bradley. “I’m not the same person I was 22 years ago, which is a good thing.

“It has changed my life profoundly,” said Bradley, whose mission has been to help others experience deep change in their lives by walking with them along the path. “It’s not always easy ... when you let go of old ways of thinking: you hear that you are an original blessing and not an original sin.

“You are good. You are a beautiful human being on the inside and out and your true essence is that of love,” she continued. “Really, that’s the only job that we have is to be the love that we are and spread it in the world. That sounds real simple, but it’s not always easy.”t Reverend Karyn Bradley’s last sermon will be Sunday, October 2. The worship service starts at 10 a.m. at Unity Palo Alto, 3391 Middlefield Road. For more information about the church, call (650) 849-1111, email prayer@ unitypaloalto.org, or visit http:// www.unitypaloalto.org.

Authorities again shut down Uganda Pride

by Heather Cassell

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gandan police blocked LGBT activists’ second attempt to host Uganda Pride this year, stopping the September 24 event before it even started.

Getting ahead of activists, police arrived at Entebbe, by Lake Victoria in southern Uganda, near the capital city Kampala, where the event was relocated.

More than 100 people were gathering when they were confronted by police, who rounded them up and placed them into buses without explanation, according to media reports.

“The police arrived at the venue before the event organizers,” human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo told BuzzFeed News.

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera refused to leave the event, and confronted authorities, asking them, “On what grounds should we leave?”

“We are people who have come to have fun,” said Nabagesera, pointing out that celebrants were gathered in a public park. “Until he gives us reasons and any legal offenses that we’ve committed we aren’t going anywhere.”

Nabagesera’s car was eventually towed by police.

Last month, police raided a Uganda Pride pageant, arresting and detaining movement leaders and participants. One man was so scared he jumped out of the fourstory building and was hospitalized.

The unnamed participate sustained serious injuries but is doing well, Richard Lusimbo, a 29-year-old gay man who is the research and documentations officer of Sexual Minorities Uganda, told the Bay Area Reporter earlier this month.

Authorities claimed neither event was authorized. Ugandan LGBT rights leaders dispute authorities’ claims, and have posted documents showing that authorities approved the event.

Homosexuality is currently criminalized in Uganda.

Simon Lokodo, minister of Uganda’s ethics and integrity cabinet, defended blocking Uganda Pride, stating that the parade was designed to promote homosexuality to young people.

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LGBT activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, left, confronts police at Uganda Pride 2016.

“We wish to emphasize that whereas the promotion of homosexuality is criminalized under the penal code, there is no violence against the LGBT community in Uganda – contrary to some claims made loosely by proponents of this movement,” Lokodo said in his statement banning the event.

Ugandan LGBT activists disagreed. They said both efforts to stop Pride events serve as examples of the types of violence LGBT Ugandan’s face.

SMUG outlined the types of violence Uganda’s LGBT community experiences in a report released earlier this year.

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Obama highlights LGBT rights at last UN meeting

President Barack Obama made one final stand for LGBT people around the world when he addressed the United Nations’ 71st General Assembly in New York last week.

In his last speech to the U.N. as president, Obama warned against preserving identities that “dehumanize or dominate another group.”

“If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray,” he said.

“The world is too small, we are too packed together, for us to be able to resort to those old ways of thinking,” Obama continued.

He expressed hope talking about

people in remote corners of the world who have been standing up and “demanding respect for the dignity of all people” without regard to disability, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

“Those who deny others dignity are subject to public reproach,” Obama said, noting the effect of social media for better or worse in displaying human rights atrocities to being a social enforcer for dignity of all people.

“And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice. We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration. Or we can retreat into a world sharply divided, and ultimately in conflict, along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion,” he said. “I want to suggest to you today that we must go forward, and not backward.”

when countries take concrete steps to protect people: new laws, policies and programs. This takes leadership and a commitment to work with affected communities.”

Belizean LGBT activist Caleb Orozco, who was a guest of honor of OutRight Action International at the event, was a prime example.

Orozco successfully challenged Belize’s sodomy law, which led to the country’s high court striking it down last month.

Throughout the week Orozco participated in other LGBT U.N. side events hosted by OutRight, an international LGBT human rights organization, such as the panel discussion, “Gender Identity at the United Nations.”t Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at Skype: heather.cassell, or oitwnews@gmail.com.

UN event promotes LGBT rights

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined more than 20 world leaders to discuss the future of global LGBT rights and the challenges ahead during a U.N. side event during the General Assembly.

The event followed Obama’s speech.

The world leaders attended #Path2Equality: Global Leaders Discuss Progress Toward LGBT Equality hosted by OutRight Action International.

“Every year, hundreds are killed, thousands are badly hurt, and millions live their lives under a shadow of discrimination and disapproval.

This is an outrage,” said Ban. Ban has been a champion for the global LGBT rights, after facing criticism when he was first appointed in 2007. He has supported historic U.N. resolutions to protect LGBT people around the world and launched the U.N.’s Free and Equal campaign. This year, he supported the U.N. Human Rights Council in appointing its first-ever U.N. independent expert of LGBT individuals.

Ban’s tenure leading the international governmental organization ends next year.

“Many governments refuse to acknowledge human rights abuses against LGBT people – or accept responsibility for ending them,” Ban said. “These abuses will only end

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ew state-level data show that syphilis continues to rise among gay and bisexual men, with states in the South having the highest rates, researchers reported at the 2016 STD Prevention Conference last week in Atlanta.

Other studies looked at a cluster of drug-resistant gonorrhea cases in Hawaii and sexual transmission of hepatitis C among gay men in Michigan.

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each drug over the years,” Katz said at the briefing.

“That’s made us extremely vigilant, so we were able to catch this cluster early and treat everyone found who was linked to the cluster.”

Mermin stressed the importance of promptly treating gonorrhea using the recommended ceftriaxone plus azithromycin regimen and reporting any signs of suspected treatment failure to health officials.

“Despite the growing threat, gonorrhea continues to be preventable, treatable, and curable,” he said.

cluster of apparently sexually transmitted hepatitis C virus infection among HIV-positive gay and bi men.

The CDC has long held that sexual transmission of HCV is rare, at least among monogamous HIVnegative heterosexuals. But starting in the early 2000s researchers began reporting clusters of acute HCV infection among HIV-positive gay and bi men who denied ever injecting drugs – the most common route of HCV infection. Although much less common, sexual transmission of HCV has also been seen among HIV-negative gay men, including a few cases among men on PrEP. Most experts have assumed that HCV is transmitted through sexual activities that involve blood, but the virus has also been detected in semen and rectal secretions. A number of risk factors have been implicated – including condomless anal sex, fisting, group sex, use of sex toys, having other sexually

transmitted infections, and noninjected recreational drug use – but these have not been consistent across studies.

In February an astute clinician in Detroit reported an increase in recent HCV infections among HIVpositive gay and bi men. Further investigation identified 22 confirmed cases and 11 suspected cases by midSeptember, with around 30 sexual contacts still under investigation.

All 22 cases involved HIV-positive men and most were African-American. All of them reported having sex with men, and all but one said they had never injected drugs. While all are in HIV care, only about half had undetectable viral load. Most also reported a history of other sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.

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Syphilis is not as com- This map shows primary and secondary syphilis mon as chlamydia or rates in the U.S. gonorrhea, but rates are HCV cluster on the rise. In 2014 more in Michigan than 63,000 new cases of Finally, Jenny Gubler, of than white or Latino men (14, 8, and syphilis were reported in the United the Michigan Department of Health 11 percent, respectively).

States, mostly among men who and Human Services, described a “Despite the recommendation have sex with men, according to for at least annual screening among the Centers for Disease Control and all sexually active MSM, less than Prevention. one-half of MSM reported recent Alex de Voux, Ph.D., with the syphilis screening in 2014,” the reCDC, and colleagues calculated searchers concluded. “While screenthe first-ever state-level estimates ing among MSM increased, more of primary and secondary syphilis work is needed, especially given in– the first two stages of infection creases in syphilis diagnosis among – among gay and bi men, using those screened from 2008 to 2014.” national syphilis surveillance data from the CDC and recent estimates Antibiotic-resistant from Emory University of the numgonorrhea reported ber of gay men in each state.

Public health officials in Hawaii Nationwide in 2015 there were have identified the first cluster of 17,887 cases of primary and secondgonorrhea cases with reduced susary syphilis among men – including ceptibility to both drugs in the cur12,118 among gay and bi men and rent recommended treatment regi2,866 among heterosexual men – men, according to another report at and 2,030 cases among women in the STD meeting. the 44 states with adequate data.

“There are new troubling signs The nationwide rate for gay and that our current gonorrhea treatbi men was 309 cases per 100,000 ment may be losing its effectivecompared with 2.9 per 100,000 for ness,” Dr. Jonathan Mermin, direcheterosexual men. tor of CDC’s National Center for Although gay and bi men had HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, about four times as many actual and TB Prevention, told reporters cases of syphilis as heterosexual men, during a September 21 media briefwhen taking into account their much ing. “We urgently need more treatsmaller number in the population, ment options in the pipeline.” their rate was 107 times higher.

Antibiotic resistance is a growing Alaska had the lowest rate of prithreat worldwide. On September mary and secondary syphilis among 21 the United Nations General Asgay men (73 per 100,000) while sembly discussed the problem at a North Carolina had the highest (748 high-level meeting, committing to per 100,000). Three other Southern improve surveillance, diagnosis, and states – Mississippi, Louisiana, and treatment. Resistant gonorrhea is South Carolina – also had very high among the biggest concerns, as it has rates. California’s rate of 332 per already developed resistance to most 100,000 was a bit above the national of the drugs once used to treat it. average.

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ou don’t have to twist my arm to venture up to Sonoma for a weekend of wine tasting and exploring the restaurant scene.

Just thinking about it makes my girlfriend and I want to recline back on a porch with a glass of wine and a plate of appetizers as we carry on conversations with our friends.

I can see it right now: we are all looking out at the vineyards, with the leaves turning to beautiful auburn, gold, and burgundy hues.

People move through the neatly planted rows plucking grape bunches from the vines. Those grapes will become our favorite wine in another year and a half or sooner, depending on the varietal.

LGBT Sonomans don’t believe there is much more anyone can ask for, living in one of the most beautiful places in the world. They all gush about the beauty, food, wine, and the warm and welcoming community – straight and queer alike.

Wine country is experiencing an increase in its LGBT community as people escape big cities like San Francisco, adult LGBT natives return after venturing out into the world, and a new generation of queers who were born and raised there decide to stay.

“It’s a beautiful part of the world.

I love that you know it’s serious, looking at the wine industry, it’s serious about what it does, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously,” said Linda Trotta, a 53-year-old lesbian wine expert who, after traveling the world, settled in Sonoma. “It just feels homey and not pretentious.

The people are fun and the wines are good.”

Others pointed to the great weather.

“The weather is amazing. It’s so beautiful. It’s one of the most naturally beautiful places that I’ve ever lived in,” said Sarah Deragon, 39, a queer woman who is the founder, owner, and photographer of Portraits to the People. “The natural beauty up here is unparalleled and there are so many things to do besides drink wine and eat food. It’s just a lovely place to be.”

Deragon and her business partner and wife, Natalie Joseph, 41, decamped from San Francisco nine months ago.

“It’s just freakin’ charming. I’m just really happy here,” said Deragon, talking about waking up to birds chirping rather than the street cleaner and Muni rolling by outside their former San Francisco apartment, and having a backyard for their dog.

The move has been good for her photography business; she splits time between Sonoma and her San Francisco studio.

“I’m getting paid a lot in wine and food, which I love,” said Deragon, laughing.

She also enjoys the fact that because the LGBT community is small but growing in the Sonoma Valley, gay men and lesbians mix and mingle more, which isn’t always the case in the city.

Other gay wine country transplants escaping the rat race are New Yorkers Gary Saperstein, 56, coproprietor of Out in the Vineyard, an LGBT wine country event and tour company based in Sonoma,

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Sonoma’s grapes are plump and ready for harvest.

and Lloyd Davis, 50, owner and winemaker of Corner 103.

“It’s just a nice lifestyle,” agreed Lisa Pidge, 47, a lesbian who is the founder and co-producer, with her wife, Carlee Pidge, 34, of Crushers of Comedy.

The sold-out comedy show celebrating wine and laughter attracts audiences of 150-300 monthly and 600 for the annual comedy festival.

A native of the Sonoma Valley, Pidge lived and traveled all over the world before returning to her

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roots not only because her family lived there, but also because Sonoma is so welcoming of the LGBT community.

Mike Kobler, a 33-year-old gay man who is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Kobler Estate Winery, returned back to his family in Sonoma County during the recession.

He and his father launched Kobler Estate Winery, a family-owned boutique winery in Healdsburg, and he’s been pouring ever since.

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Queer couple and business owners Osvaldo “Ozzy” Jimenez, 29, and Christian Sullberg, 28, run Moustache Baked Goods and Noble Folk Ice Cream and Pie Bar, which were named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Top 50 LGBT Businesses this year.

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Neither of the men, who are Sonoma County natives, thought about opening their shops or sourcing the materials used to make their baked goods from anywhere other than their own back yard.

The only question was where in Sonoma County to set up shop? In this case the two stores are right on the square in Healdsburg, Sullberg’s hometown.

“This is our home; this is our community, these are the people we know and speak to every day ... let’s give them the best type of dessert, something from the region, something that’s from the county,” said Jimenez.

The couple opened their first shop, Moustache Baked Goods in 2011, followed by Noble Folk Ice Cream and Pie Bar in 2014. The stores have become destinations for travelers, especially since appearing on the Cooking Channel and in other media outlets.

“Healdsburg is the best place to visit if you want to get away from the city for a couple of days,” said Jimenez. “Rolling hills, wine country, some of the best wines in the world, and then also good-earth people.”

“So, if you ... want a real authentic Sonoma County experience then come to Healdsburg,” added Jimenez, who would love it if more LGBT travelers would discover one of the county’s northernmost towns.

Savor Sonoma

The food, wine, and the people are the reasons why my girlfriend and I continue to escape to Sonoma County, so it was a no-brainer when Saperstein invited us to be his guests for a weekend among the vines to see what was new in Healdsburg and Sonoma.

Sonoma, which is already home to Girl and the Fig, is undergoing a restaurant renaissance, with a handful of new restaurants and shopping experiences – not to mention vino.

The French-inspired Girl and the Fig will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year and it launched its first food truck at the beginning of the summer. We also had the pleasure of dining at Sonoma Grille and Bar, which served up filets and fish, paired with local wines. The

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Sonoma Grille is one of the latest Sonoma restaurants, joining Dehli Belly Indian Bistro, Oso Sonoma, and Tasca Tasca Portuguese Tapas Restaurant and Wine Bar. For dessert, Sonoma is welcoming the CocoaPlanet Chocolate Factory and Tasting Room this fall.

There’s also a lot of new shopping and tasting experiences in Sonoma, including the soon-to-reopen fully renovated Fat Pilgrim and a contemporary general store. Sonoma’s once well-kept secret, Cornerstone, off of Highway 121 right across from the road that leads up to Gloria Ferrer Caves and Vineyards and behind Sonoma County’s airport, offers unique wine country experiences.

Cornerstone is the new home of Sunset magazine’s test kitchen and garden, along with a plethora of tasting rooms for beer, wine, and spirits; restaurants, boutiques (including gay-owned florist Tesoro); and a wedding venue. It was easy spending half of an afternoon hanging out at Cornerstone with our friends.

Later in the day we had our appreciation of wine elevated to a whole new level by Davis at Corner 103. This is not your average wine tasting. Whether wine novices or aficionados, Davis takes guests through a whole experience, showing the delicate dance of wine, glass, food, and individual taste buds and how the flavors change when they interact and don’t interact with one another through a simple cheese and wine pairing. My girlfriend and I will never taste wine the same again.

Our next wine experience was at the recently opened MacRostie Winery and Vineyards, a stylish and modern winery that has electric vehicle charging stations. The hostesses at MacRostie greeted us with our first glass of wine as we approached the front door.

Other good places to try include Passaggio Wines in Sonoma and the aforementioned Kobler Family Winery in Healdsburg. Corner 103 and MacRostie offered pleasant experiences.

After tasting, we enjoyed dining on tapas at Bravas Bar de Tapas and dessert at Noble Folk Ice Cream and Pie Bar in Healdsburg.

I couldn’t help but dig into the mountainous espresso mud pie. It satisfied my sweet tooth, making me feel like a kid again.

Where to sleep

Wining and dining can be exhausting. Fortunately, we didn’t have far to walk to where we were staying as guests of the Best Western Sonoma Valley Inn. It’s perfectly situated right around the corner of Sonoma’s plaza. The hotel was comfortably filled with wedding guests, families, and other wine travelers like ourselves. Our room was big with a Jacuzzi that partially opened up looking out into the room and two balconies overlooking a tree-lined street just off of the square. The hotel also offered a continental breakfast in the lobby every morning.

I also suggest checking out the inn’s sister hotel, the Best Western Dry Creek Inn, which looks like an Italian villa and is located just off of Highway 101, about a mile and a half from the heart of Healdsburg.

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Memorial reading to be held for former ‘Advocate’ editor Mark Thompson

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riends and others inspired by the writings of Mark Thompson, a former Advocate reporter and senior editor who died last month, will have a memorial reading of his work Friday, September 30 in San Francisco.

Mr. Thompson, who chronicled the early years of the LGBT civil rights movement and later became one of the architects of the gay spirituality movement, was found dead at his home in Palm Springs August 11, a week before his 64th birthday.

A longtime HIV survivor, according to Karen Ocamb, in a tribute she wrote for the Pride LA, Mr. Thompson “was prone to fainting as a result of health issues and medications, so his friends believe his death was accidental, that he fell or collapsed.” A toxicology report from the Riverside County Coroner’s office is due soon.

Born in 1952 in Monterey, as a journalism student Mr. Thompson helped found the Gay Student’s Coalition at San Francisco State University as well as its gay newspaper, the Voice. His work attracted the attention of the Advocate and he began writing for the magazine in 1975, quickly becoming its cultural editor for the next two decades.

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cades of the LGBT movement in his 1995 book Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, a compendium of features, interviews, and first person accounts, as well as over 700 photographs.

Poet and novelist Trebor Healey, one of the two organizers, along with Rick May, of the San Francisco reading, in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter said that Mr. Thompson parted with the Advocate as its focus became more mainstream and assimilationist.

By the late 1980s, Mr. Thompson had become Courtesy The Advocate involved with the Radical Former Advocate editor Mark Thompson Faeries and had attended their first Arizona gathering in 1979.

Steward, Eric Rofes, John Preston, “Mark had interviewed Pat Califia, and Joseph Bean.

Harry Hay, which had a big imHealey observed that for Mr. pact on him as Hay thought there Thompson, “the leather community was something special about being was an experiment. He wanted to queer, that we weren’t like everyexplore all gay consciousness, even one else,” Healey said. “Mark, who if it took you to the edge. He was had training as a Jungian theradedicated to nurturing those who pist, thought gay people needed were on a spiritual journey, giving their own mythology. He was not them permission to grow no matter a separatist, but did believe we had where it took them. For him, being different and unique gifts to give to gay was a gift. As gay people we are human culture, which also meant always evolving, individually and we had our own spirituality.” communally.”

In his personal life, he would Trio of books become half of the most famous In a landmark trilogy of books, couple in gay religious circles, his Mr. Thompson would outline the partner being the Episcopal priest tenets of such a gay spirituality, and writer, Malcolm Boyd, an early starting with Gay Spirit: Myth and pioneer in the integration of ChrisMeaning in 1987, which included tian sexuality and spirituality who articles and books excerpts on the became one of the first major relisubject from the Advocate by Judy gious leaders to come out publicly Grahn, William S. Burroughs, Mitch in the mid-1970s.

Walker, Christopher Isherwood, and They met in Los Angeles in 1984 Edward Carpenter, among others. and despite Boyd being 30 years his Surrounded by death due to senior, their intergenerational, inAIDS, Mr. Thompson began askterfaith (Mr. Thompson identified ing, why are gay people here and as neo-pagan) relationship would what is their crucial role in defining endure till Boyd’s death last year society that can accentuate their at age 91. They were blessed at the virtues of compassion, empathy, LA Cathedral Center officiated by and bridge building? How does one Boyd’s friend, Episcopal Bishop Jon create an identity and a “consciousBruno in 2004, years before same-sex ness born out of love” from the marriages were legal and the Episcoshadow realms of a false/closeted pal church sanctioned gay weddings. self? Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of They legally married in 2013.

Gay Spirit and Nature in 1994 was After Boyd’s death, Mr. Thompcomposed of interviews with such son moved to Palm Springs to convisionary foundational gay elder tinue his work as a therapist. He was figures as James Broughton, Will also an accomplished photographer, Roscoe, Ram Dass, Joseph Kramer, having taken pictures of the many and Andrew Harvey, “seeing them famous people he had interviewed as being infused with the resilient or encountered during the last 40 spirit of the disenfranchised and years. He served on the board of the the empowering spirit of pride and One Institute and Archives in Los hope.”

Angeles, the world’s biggest LGBT It would be nominated for a library. A memorial service was conLambda Literary Award. ducted there September 18.

Finally in 1997 he produced Gay When May, a local gay short story Body: A Journey Through Shadow writer, suggested a reading of Mr. to Self (another Lambda nominee), Thompson’s work at Dog Eared a mix of theory and autobiography Books, Healey agreed to help. exploring the stages of healing and “I reached out to people who recovery leading to a fully integrated knew Mark, but also to some body and spirit, relating his experiyounger people who may not have ences in faerie circles and the leather met Mark but were familiar with his movement. He saw gay people as a work and could now give it a second third gender, the in-between ones life,” Healey said. “Suddenly every“who can entertain irreconcilable one was finding out about it and we differences in uniting opposing had to turn people away, thus showforces as one, with gender being ing Mark’s huge influence.” as much about what we do – our Healey said that the Sisters of ‘wide-eyed sense of wonder’ contriPerpetual Indulgence are bringing bution to the world and its possibilia contingent. Other guests include ties – rather than what we are.”

Ganymede, Carol Queen, Andrew Concerning the leather world, in Ramer, Will Roscoe, Justin Tanis, and 1991 he edited a much-loved anJim Van Buskirk, who will read from thology, Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, a wide range of Mr. Thompson’s People, Politics, and Practice, the writings spanning his entire career. first non-fiction, co-gender collecThe memorial reading, which is tion of leathersex history, philosofree, takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. phy, spirituality, and anthropology, at Dog Eared Books, 489 Castro featuring contributions from Geoff Street.t Mains, Dorothy Allison, Samuel

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World Outgames sees delay in getting venues

by Roger Brigham

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ith eight months to go before the scheduled opening of the 2018 World Outgames in Miami, organizers are working to assure potential participants that the swimming portion of the event will proceed as planned despite delays in securing venues.

Before August, organizers had listed Ransom Everglades School Aquatics Center and the University of Miami as the host locations for pool events. But an August 19 story in the Washington Blade reported swimming finals would be held at Florida International University Stadium, and shortly afterward the reference to swimming venues disappeared from the World Outgames website.

On September 14, the board of the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Association wrote its members, saying it had “become aware of potential issues with Outgames aquatics, and are working

to resolve the situation as best we can to ensure the integrity of the IGLA Championships for IGLA participants and member teams.

We encourage athletes who intend to register for Outgames 2017 to please postpone doing so until questions around the status of the championships are fully resolved.”

This week, the IGLA board reported organizers had told them they had signed an agreement with Ransom Everglades and paid a deposit, and now were in the process of negotiating a contract for another facility, and asked athletes to wait a bit longer until the second venue was secured.

Through a spokesman with Goodman Public Relations, Outgames organizers told the Bay Area Reporter this week that they were confident they could hold swimming, water polo, and synchronized

swimming.

Several athletes have expressed nervousness about the Miami Outgames because of past problems with the sports component of the World Outgames sports, cultural and conference event. Registration numbers fell far short of initial projections for the first two World Outgames in Montreal and Copenhagen, and although Copenhagen reported finishing in the black, the Montreal Outgames lost millions of dollars. Some competition brackets were collapsed or tournaments eliminated at all of the Outgames, and the Antwerp event in 2013 never published financial or registration figures.

An article in Hot Spots magazine in 2014 claimed “attendance records from the 2013 World Outgames, where over 10,000 athletes participated” would be “eclipsed”

by Miami with “over 15,000 participants.” A fundraising page set up for the 2017 Outgames in 2014 repeated that 15,000 “athletes and participants” projection.

Asked this week about how many people had registered for 2017 and whether organizers were still projecting 15,000 participants, Goodman’s Robert Wagenseil said he did not know how many had registered and that statements about past and projected attendance were based on figures provided by the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association, the organization from which Miami purchased the licensing agreement. Wagenseil said organizers still hoped that they would have 8,000 to 10,000 participants in sports and 1,000 to 2,000 each in cultural events and human rights conferences. Those goals include volunteers and speakers in addition to artists and athletes.

Miami organizers have had two fundraising pages – https://www.

indiegogo.com/projects/2017-worldoutgames-miami - / and https://www. generosity.com/sports-fundraising/ world-outgames-miami-2017--2 – with published combined goals of $300,000. As of the start of this week, they had generated a combined total of less than $14,000.

Wagenseil said funding is “on track,” with money coming largely from government and tourism agencies, as well as corporations.

Sin City Shootout registration

Registration is now live at http:// www.sincityshootout.com for the 10th annual Sin City Shootout in Las Vegas, to be held January 15-19.

The multisports festival, which started out as a softball tournament a decade ago, has grown organically into the largest annual LGBT sports event and now offers 32 sports. In addition to sports such as tennis, basketball and soccer, the festival offers ice hockey, water polo, and arm wrestling.t

SF mayor’s gay chief cleared of ethics complaint

by Matthew S. Bajko

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thics commissioners this week cleared San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s gay chief of staff of a public records violation stemming from his former policy of having his assistant delete his calendar every two weeks.

In June the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force had found that Steve Kawa had “willfully violated” two provisions of the city’s open records laws for not retaining and producing copies of his electronic calendar. The oversight body was responding to a complaint filed by gay blogger Michael Petrelis, a self described “proud muckraker,” who had requested several months worth of Kawa’s calendars.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera, however, had argued that Kawa was not in violation of the sunshine ordinance as under its provisions mayoral aides are not required to maintain their calendar records. The policy as governed by the voter-approved

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“I was sprayed and fell to the ground, blind and disabled,” Frias said.

He said the suspects were “five African-American men. The one I saw was wearing blue jeans with a gray shirt and neutral colored button down.” Andraychak said the

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Diaz

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melted bin was found with CanulArguello’s heavily charred body.

Jurors acquitted Diaz of seconddegree murder but convicted him of involuntary manslaughter, arson, mutilating human remains, and de-

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Castro safety

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knows it’s time for change, and she’s amenable to that.”

Although Robinson wants treatment and is hoping for “an unbelievably bright and promising future,” she also understands “the Castro community does not want her there anymore.”

Assistant District Attorney Blair Pickus, who prosecuted the case, said that officials had already tried to get Robinson substance abuse treatment but “it was turned down every step of the way.”

ployee faces the same acProposition G, stated cusations that he has.

Herrera’s office, only ap“What do we need to plies to the mayor, memretain because we will bers of the Board of Suretain it,” said Kawa, who pervisors, and the heads has been maintaining his of city departments. calendar records since the Herrera’s office reitersunshine task force ruled ated its stance in a letter he was required to do so. to the ethics commisAdded Kawa, “Watchsion. And Kawa defendJane Philomen Cleland ing this process tonight, ed his actions at the ethI ask the ethics comics commission’s hearing Steve Kawa mission to help all of us Monday, September 26 in city government and as being based on the city employees to understand the advice he had been given for years by process, because I was following it. I the city attorney. know I did the right thing because of “When it came to Prop G, it was the advice I got.” the mayor’s calendars, not staff calEarly on in the meeting, Petrelis endars,” said Kawa, who has worked hurt his cause by tangling with sevfor the city for 25 years, the last 20 of eral ethics commissioners over if he which for various mayors. “It was my was barred from holding a campaign practice to keep it for two weeks and sign for his BART board bid. An move on.” upset Commissioner Peter Keane, Kawa requested the ethics comwho voiced support for the argumissioners clarify if city staff should ments Petrelis had made regarding his also retain their calendars and adopt complaint against Kawa, nonetheless such a policy so no other city em-

called Petrelis a “clown” and stated that his antics had cost him his vote.

Former Judge Quentin Kopp, taking part in his first ethics commission meeting, also verbally sparred with Petrelis throughout the hearing, taking umbrage at Petrelis’ “personal remarks” about the commissioners.

Petrelis in turn chastised Kopp for interrupting him during his public comments and “trashing members of the public.”

As for Kawa, Petrelis contended that he had been “destroying public records” for years and accused the city attorney of failing to hold him to account.

“We need a city attorney who is a sunshine watchdog not a lap dog to the mayor’s office and other folks at City Hall,” he said.

Keane expressed empathy for Kawa’s predicament but said he agreed with the determination that his calendar should be retained.

“I think, Mr. Kawa, you have been acting in good faith but I think the

city attorney has been misadvising you,” said Keane, an attorney and former police commissioner who now teaches law. “The public records act is being parsed much too strictly and through too many avenues and meanderings to have any value. Even though you are not a department head, you are a major official in the mayor’s office in regard to so many things coming your way and the citizenry and the public has a right to know about it.”

The commission deadlocked 2-2 on a motion made by Keane that would have found Kawa’s calendars should have been retained, with Kopp in favor. The commission then voted 4-0 to approve its staff recommendation to reject the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force’s ruling and found that Kawa had not “willfully violated” any open records laws.

The commissioners also voted to send a letter to city officials asking them to see if Kawa’s calendar is preserved somewhere on a city server.t

suspects have been described as 25 to 35 years old.

Asked about how the suspects may have been able to tell he was gay, and what he’d been wearing, Frias said that he’d had on “sweat pants, leather boots, and a gray shirt. “ White had worn a cut-off T-shirt, “shorts, leather boots, and a baseball cap.”

He said that he and White still went to the fair Sunday.

“The experience was a bit surreal,” he said. “The story got picked up that morning. People kept recognizing me and wanting me to talk about what had happened. The support I’ve received from the community has been very positive.”

White didn’t respond to a Facebook message, but he said in a post that the suspects had yelled “fag, faggot, [and] queer” and told him

and Frias that they were “destroying the institution of family values and that we needed to get the f-out because there are children.”

White said, “I am not sure what family values they are trying to protect by driving around and attacking strangers but I am glad that I am not a part of them.”

No one at the McDonald’s answered the phone Tuesday afternoon.

Andraychak said that a conviction for felony assault with pepper spray could result in a state prison sentence. If a suspect’s convicted, a hate crime enhancement “could result in additional prison time,” he said.

Anyone with information in the case can call the police anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411. Type “SFPD” and then the message.t

stroying evidence. He was released in September 2014 after spending more than three years in custody.

Superior Court Judge Donald Sullivan dismissed the arson count.

Metzger was in court Monday but declined to comment.

Asked about community concerns about Diaz being released, Max Szabo,

a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said in an email that all San Francisco police officers “have been notified of this pending release and have been provided a copy of Diaz’s mugshot and stay away. This defendant is due back in court next week [October 5] to prove he has his electronic monitor on, and that he has reg-

istered as an arsonist – both of which will allow for greater supervision.”

Lilien said, “This is a negotiated disposition that hopefully addresses David’s needs and the concerns of the community.”

Diaz has undergone a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. Lilien said the results are confidential, and the proba-

tion department will determine what he engages in treatment for.

Formally, Moscone sentenced Diaz Friday to three years and eight months in state prison, but with the time he’s already served and other credits, as well under the state’s split sentence guidelines, he’s set to do the year of mandatory supervision.t

Pickus said having Robinson get help in custody “is all we’re left with.”

“The people in the Castro need a break from her,” he said.

Feng told Robinson, “You are a very strong young lady” with “tremendous potential,” but “what you did did affect people.”

Robinson is expected to be sentenced to three years of probation.

Among other conditions, Robinson is likely to be ordered to stay out of the area bounded by Market Street to the north (including Harvey Milk and Jane Warner plazas), 19th Street to the south, Collingwood Street to the west, and Sanchez Street to the east.

Her sentencing was delayed after attorneys discussed with Feng whether she should be immediately released to probation, or wait in custody until a residential facility that can provide her with six months of treatment is found.

Feng opted to continue the sentencing to allow some time to find a treatment bed for Robinson.

stressed from the long days of her misdemeanor trial, could not sleep, and told her new cellmate that.

Her cellmate is alleged to have offered her something to help her sleep, and she allegedly intended on taking it after her shower, before bedtime, which was when she was searched and it was located. The cellmate was charged with bringing suspected morphine into the jail. Ms. Robinson did not even know what the substance was, and although it is alleged by the district attorney in the complaint to be morphine, there has been no laboratory confirmation of such.”

Solomon added, “The only rea-

son this drug possession is charged as a felony is that it was alleged to have occurred in the jail – simple possession of a controlled substance is otherwise a misdemeanor.”

She also expressed concern that “it looks as though [Robinson] will remain incarcerated, potentially for months, because the judge wants her to wait in custody, where drugs are obviously accessible, for a bed in a residential treatment facility.”

Robinson’s co-defendant in the morphine case is Brenda Wilburn.

Sheriff ’s department records indicate she’s not in custody. Rafael Trujillo, her attorney, didn’t respond to interview requests.t

Morphine charge

In an email to the B.A.R., Deputy Public Defender Ilona Solomon, who’s representing Robinson in the unrelated morphine case, said, “The report alleges that Ms. Robinson, who had been anxious and

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four entertainment areas, hundreds of vendors, and food and beverages.

Milk was a big booster of the Castro, he had his camera shop business there for years and was elected supervisor of the district in 1977.

Tragically, disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White assassinated him and then-Mayor George Moscone in November 1978.

A suggested donation of $5-$10, payable at the gates, goes to support local nonprofits.

The fair takes place on Castro between Market and 19th streets, on 18th Street between Diamond and Noe streets, and Market Street between Collingwood and Noe streets. The fair’s information booth is located near the intersection of

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the board, Alvarenga has also been vocal about the need to elect supervisors from the city’s Latino community, as there is also the possibility of seeing no Latinx supervisors following the November election.

Raised largely by her mother in the city’s Mission district, her parents were immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador who separated when she was a young child.

“We used to have a bigger voice,” Alvarenga said of the city’s LGBT community during an editorial board meeting with the Bay Area Reporter. “Also, as a Latina, we need to make sure the voices of our Latino communities are represented on the Board of Supervisors.”

She is facing a tough contest, however, against fellow union official Ahsha Safai, 43, who lost to Avalos in 2008 for the District 11 seat, which includes the city’s southern neighborhoods of the Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, Outer Mission, and Crocker-Amazon. A first generation American of Iranian descent, Safai was born in Iran and, at the age of 5, moved with his mother to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After graduating from Northeastern University in 2000, he and his wife, Yadira, who was born in San Francisco, moved to the city. They live in the Excelsior with their two children.

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prohibits state-funded travel to any state with a law in effect that sanctions or requires discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

“The Golden State has always been a leader in protecting civil rights and preventing discrimination. I’m very pleased that Governor Brown joined me today to stand up and say we will fight back against the discriminatory policies passed in states like North Carolina and Mississippi,” Low wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon, referring to a state law allowing businesses in Mississippi to refuse to serve LGBT people. “California has said clearly, our taxpayer dollars will not help fund bigotry and hatred. If other states try and pass similar laws, we will work to stop them.”

Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group, had co-sponsored the bill and delivered more than 4,000 letters to the governor last week that urged him to sign it.

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Pointer. “I owe you that.”

He said that he would decide on the rest of the case by October 17, when it will be back in court for a status conference.

Court documents indicate that

Market and Castro streets, where people can pick up a program and buy a limited-edition T-shirt of this year’s event and past fairs.

The main stage, located at Castro and Market, will feature the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band; Fun Home, soon to be at the Curran Theater; Bitch, Please; Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls; Simone Gemini; and special guests, Oakland’s The Purple Ones.

According to Castro Street Fair Executive Director Fred Lopez, The Purple Ones is “not a typical tribute band with a Prince lookalike or impersonator.”

“The Purple Ones bring audiences to their feet, night after night, by speaking Prince’s musical language: a mix of energy, rhythm, creativity, and of course ... a serious dose of

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unadulterated funk,” he said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter.

According to Lopez, The Purple Ones is a “labor of love that was born in 2012” when Bay Areabased founder Morty Okin “decided to build the greatest Prince tribute on the planet.” The Purple Ones includes Levi Seacer Jr., Prince’s former musical director and co-founder of the New Power Generation.

Prince died April 21 at his home in Minnesota. He was one of the most popular and successful musicians and singers of his generation, and had a large following among LGBTs. Dance Alley (in the parking lot behind Walgreens, off of 18th Street) will feature the DJ talents of RoseGold, Juan, Adam Kraft, and Jim Hopkins.

The Castro Street Stage (between 18th and 19th streets) will showcase live performances from The Monster Show, Vollmer, Beautiful Machines, and Markus.

Sundance Saloon (behind the Castro Theatre) will feature line dancing to country and western music.

Since the fair is a little more than a month before the election, Lopez said that organizers invited candidates who were on the ballot, but at press time, only gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, running for state Senate, has promised to appear. Others will likely be on hand though, as the fair typically draws about 50,000 people.

Juan Garcia, chairman of the board of directors at the Castro Street Fair, said new fees levied by the city add to the challenges of

keeping the fair afloat. Last year, the fair donated over $45,000 to nonprofits, he said.

Garcia, an event planner who also teaches at San Francisco State University, pointed out that at the fair, “everyone is a volunteer so we can give away as much money as possible. We would always like to be able to give more away.”

According to Garcia, many fairgoers don’t know that the event is a fundraiser and don’t donate at the gate.

“We only have a few seconds to give them that message,” he said.

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Considered the more moderate allowing 16 year olds to vote rather sors for many years and the last three candidate, Safai worked for former than on more everyday needs like mayoral administrations. It is an mayors Willie Brown and Gavin potholes, parks, and parking. inherent problem,” she said. “We are Newsom and has been the political “We are tired of being the forgotlargely a working class community so director for San Francisco Janitors ten part of San Francisco,” said Safai, people don’t have the time to advoUnion Local 87 since 2008. who launched his campaign last cate at City Hall.”

He secured the Alice B. Toklas October. “Our commercial corridor As an aide to gay former state AsLGBT Democratic Club’s endorsehas lots of vacancies. To me, that is semblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San ment but fell short in earning the failed leadership.”

Francisco), whose district included endorsement of the local District 11 and who has enDemocratic Party. Meandorsed her, Alvarenga said while, Alvarenga secured she has experience working an early endorsement from on various issues in the comthe progressive Harvey munity. While she “doesn’t Milk LGBT Democratic see myself as a career politiClub and more recently cian,” Alvarenga said she is won the backing of the running to be a “nuts and national Gay and Lesbian bolts supervisor.”

Victory Fund.

She has formed an alliance While Safai acknowlwith two other progressive edged few LGBT people mothers running for superlive in District 11, he visor this fall, Sandra Lee pledged to be a strong Fewer in District 1 and Hillary champion of the commuRonen in District 9, and this Alvarenga for Supervisor campaign nity’s needs at City Hall. week the trio released what Safai for Supervisor campaign “It is important we have District 11 supervisor their goals for their first year candidate Kimberly District 11 supervisor a strong voice in support in office would be, such as free Alvarenga candidate Ahsha Safai of HIV funding and the preschool for city residents, city’s Getting to Zero plan more navigation centers to asto end HIV transmission,” sist the homeless, and addresssaid Safai.

Alvarenga, who entered the race ing car break-ins.

A main issue in the race for in December, laid the blame more In an email to supporters reboth candidates has been the need on various mayoral administrations garding the “Moms with a Vision to bring more city services and rather than the supervisor’s office. for San Francisco” platform, Alvaresources to District 11’s various She pointed to Avalos sponsoring renga noted, “San Francisco needs neighborhoods, which oftentimes the resolution that formed a comto become a city that prioritizes the are overlooked, they contend. munity benefit district on Ocean needs of our families. Currently, Safai was particularly critical of Avenue as one example of his focus too many families are facing skyAvalos’s time in the office, criticizon the district’s needs. rocketing housing and others costs, ing him for focusing on issues like “The issues go across the superviand can no longer afford to raise

their kids in our city.”

During his editorial board meeting with the B.A.R., Safai stressed that he too will be focused on addressing the issues of working families in District 11. Providing more affordable housing will be a top priority, he said, and “access to childcare will be a big deal for me on the board.”

Gay backers of Safai include state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), Supervisor Scott Wiener, and former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who has dual-endorsed Alvarenga, he told the B.A.R. While both candidates acknowledge there needs to be citywide attention on addressing homelessness, neither has advocated for seeing the city open a Navigation Center in District 11. Alvarenga was noncommittal when asked by the B.A.R. if she would want to see such a center, aimed at moving people off the streets into supportive housing, in that section of town.

“Citywide we need to look at it,” she said. “It is not appropriate for me to make that decision. As the district supervisor, I would want to work with my constituents on it.”

Safai, meanwhile, said he believes opening a Navigation Center in District 11 would be a wasted resource.

“We don’t have the need in our district. There are places in the city that could use two or three,” he said. “We don’t even have the space for low to moderate income housing.”t firmly with our LGBT brothers and sisters throughout the country.”

Wiener’s office noted that city departments will be able to appeal the ban, including for public health and emergency crises, if there is only a single source that provides the service required, or for other issues that may be detrimental to the public interest.

The city administrator will be responsible for creating and maintaining the list of states that are covered. The list will be reviewed and updated biannually.

According to a news release from Wiener’s office, he worked closely with Lee’s staff in drafting the ordinance. The mayor is a cofounder and leader of the Mayors Against Discrimination, a coalition of mayors formed to fight laws that discriminate against LGBT people.

Lee plans to share the ordinance with the other members of the group, such as founding members Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and gay Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.t Before a pre-hearing rally outside the courthouse Friday, Maria Moore, 42, Kayla Moore’s sister, said that she’d “wanted to live a normal life. She thought she could have that in Berkeley. ... To say that she died of an overdose is an insult.

We’re hoping the court will see that.”t

“California has become the first state in the country to pass a law through its Legislature banning travel to states with laws that discriminate against LGBT people,” said EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur. “This new law will put the force of the world’s sixth largest economy behind a strong message that bigotry against LGBT people is costly. It provides a strong disincentive to states that may be considering adopting anti-LGBT laws similar to North Carolina’s HB 2.”

Brown’s office made the announcement without comment. The policy covers any anti-LGBT state laws adopted after June 26, 2015.

The state attorney general’s office will be tasked with developing, maintaining, and posting on its website the list of states that fall under the ban. It will be up to the various state entities to ensure they are adhering to the list.

Along with government agencies, the policy also covers both the University of California and California State University systems. Travel necessary for the enforcement of Cali-

fornia law, to meet prior contractual obligations, or for the protection of public health, welfare, or safety is exempted from the policy.

“Our zero-tolerance policy says there is no room for discrimination of any kind in California, and AB 1887 ensures that discrimination will not be tolerated beyond our borders,” wrote Low. At its meeting Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted its own travel ban on a 10-0 vote, with Supervisor John Avalos absent.

Gay Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Campos, along with straight ally Supervisor Mark Farrell, co-sponsored the policy. Like the state’s travel ban, anti-LGBT state laws that have been adopted since June 26, 2015 will trigger San Francisco’s policy.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee had banned city-funded travel to North Carolina through executive order earlier this year after passage of HB 2.

Now such travel bans will be a matter of policy going forward, as Lee is ex-

pected to sign the ordinance into law.

In June 2015 Santa Clara County was the first municipal government to adopt a travel restriction to states with anti-LGBT laws. The county board did so at the request of gay Supervisor Ken Yeager. As of late March, four states were on the county’s banned list: North Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

This past spring Santa Cruz County followed suit, as did the cities of Santa Cruz and Watsonville, at the behest of the county’s GLBT Alliance.

San Francisco, in addition to banning travel, will be the first to also prohibit the city from contracting with or doing business with any company based in a state with an anti-LGBT law.

“These laws are despicable and out of a different, uglier era in this country when we used to in the U.S. have many, many laws discriminating against residents of this country, and we have to take a firm stand against these laws,” said Wiener, adding that “this will send a strong message as San Francisco stands

Moore had been troubled for years before she died and that she could be violent.

A San Francisco landlord working to evict her in 2007 said, “You forced your way into” another tenant’s room “and refused to leave, causing the tenant to call the police to have you removed.” The landlord

complained there had been similar incidents.

The records don’t include a response from Moore, and the case was eventually dismissed with prejudice.

In a 2011 eviction case, a property manager at a different building in San Francisco wrote that Moore

had been a “nuisance,” including by fighting and causing fires, court documents show.

A response countered that the landlord hadn’t made “needed repairs” on the property and the smoke alarms were “overly sensitive.” The case was eventually settled.

SF adopts local travel ban

The Castro Street Fair runs Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Event details can be found on its website, www.castrostreetfair.org.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037243300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LACHINECN, 1047 STOCKTON ST #301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIA KONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037222600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ST. FRANCIS DENTISTRY, 697 MONTEREY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL W. HING. 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 08/18/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037224800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPIRALS AND SPRINGS, 49 ZOE ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MONA SALINAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037238600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOWN AND OUTLAWS, 378 2ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed PETER DANZIG, CHRIS DANZIG, KYLE LUCK & JON CARR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037239900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DISCOUNTED OUTLET, 4802 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed VY NGUYEN, PHUONG HOANG NGUYEN & CALVIN LU. 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 08/31/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037240400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON MACIAS, 1757 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SALON MACIAS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/31/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037244300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOGHORN HOLDINGS, 250 KING ST #474, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ANNELYSE FINLEY & JEN NORVELLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037232200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 2705 JACKSON STREET, 2705 JACKSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by joint venture, and is signed WILLIAM T. BOATRIGHT, KENNETH E. BOATRIGHT, RAYMOND E. BOATRIGHT & TIMOTHY A. BOATRIGHT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037241700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NANDE-YA, 1737 POST ST #375, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed M&M INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT LLC (OR). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/01/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033818000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: SALON MACIAS, 1757 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by JUAN CARLOS MACIAS CHAIRES. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/2011.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552368

In the matter of the application of: GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, 45B WRIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, is requesting that the name GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, be changed to GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN HICKEL SPOR. 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 3rd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name

should not be granted.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037248800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISANA, 3927 24TH ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TEJINDER GREENHILL. 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 09/07/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037249700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOGACI CLEANING, 6248 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VIOLETA VELAZQUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037245900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL; SWELL CREAMERY; SWELL COFFEE; 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BENSON Y. CHIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037219700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OBA JANITORIAL, 3207 MISSION ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RUDIS E. AMAYA. 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 08/17/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037234900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUN RUN MOVING COMPANY, 1720 15TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZHI JIA JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037252000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREENSURGE, 1000 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SERGIO NOVOA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037222900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OVER THE MOON, UNDER THE SUN, 2335 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDEN TRENOR. 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 08/18/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037255600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEST LAID FILMS, 1574 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILLAIM POOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037245400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELLOOFFICE, 1415 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HELLOOFFICE, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037246000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL CREAM & COFFEE, 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CREAM & COFFEE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037253000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BIRD, 115 NEW MONTGOMERY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 115 NEW MONTGOMERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO:

FILE PES-16-300186

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: OCTOBER 18, 2016, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MICHAEL YEE (SBN 258811) MEYER & YEE, LLP, 950 RESERVE DR, SUITE 110, ROSEVILLE, CA 95678; Ph. (916) 599-7297.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552377

In the matter of the application of: LANI NAHLEEN PANG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LANI NAHLEEN PANG, is requesting that the name LANI NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI WAH PANG AKA LANI LAI WAH PANG AKA LAI WAH PANG AKA LANI N. F. PANG AKA L. NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI SEKTA, be changed to LANI NAHLEEN PANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 22nd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037269700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MACH ELECTRIC, 20 PRECITA AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERVIN ROLANDO MACH BOCH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLD STAR CLEANING SERVICE, 75 CAINE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAURICE YAROSLAVA LUCAS VILLAGRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037243000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DRAPERY SERVICE, 4721 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DIANA G. SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037259000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAMBINO’S TREATS, 2261 MARKET ST #15, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANNA ORTIZ SELJUK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037258400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RODEUS, 619 BOSWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROEL DEUSS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT FILE A-037263200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAYSIDE PLUMBING, 1218 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZULMA CRUZLOPEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037257100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMON’S PAINTING, 969 PINE ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE L. SIMON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037257300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MHS HOSPITALITY, 280 NEWHALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROCHELLE MITCHELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037237500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONNIE Y. CHAN ATTORNEY AT LAW; AYNI LAW GROUP, 405 SANSOME ST 2ND FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CONNIE CHAN & ASSOCIATES PC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037233200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BERTI PRODUCE SAN FRANCISCO, 1960 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037266900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NABE, 2151 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 2HW INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037263400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHIPELAGO; LINDSEY MILLER, 115 DUBOCE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DEMETERRA, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/13/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUBE NUTRITION, 1990 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VEETURN 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 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037271400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MILLER’S REST, 1085 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MILLER’S REST 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 09/20/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036684200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLAYTRONICA, 1215 VALLEJO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PLAYTRONICA (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/25/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036684200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CONNIE Y. CHAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW; LAW OFFICES OF CONNIE Y. CHAN. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by CONNIE Y. CHAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/15.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037266200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANA BANANA HAPPY DAY CARE, 3238 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed

ANA CAROLINA N. ARAGAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FREEDOM BARBER SF, 520 MONTGOMERY ST #107, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON HARLEY MAXWELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037282400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLT INSURANCE AGENCY, 2826 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GOLDEN BAY INSURANCE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037254600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVAN KINORI, #4 1530 MCALLISTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ELJI, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/21/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037270200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRANSPACIFIC ARCHITECTS, 888 O’FARRELL ST #W606, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RACHEL ELLE HEGE SORROW ARCHITECTS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037275800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNION STREET JEWELERS, 1850 UNION ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIAMOND BROKERS OF LOS ALTOS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TASTY POT, 815 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SCOOP CUISINE CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FILM LOCATION SUPPORT; NO STOPPING ZONE; NO STOPPING SF; NO PARKING; NO PARKING SF; NO PARKING ZONE; EVENT LOCATION SUPPORT; NO STOPPING, 1354 POWELL ST #326, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VIBRANT TRADING COMPANY INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037270600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COSA NOSTRA, 108 RAFAEL DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ALITOUR 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 09/20/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037244400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CEREMONY BEVERAGE CATERING, 2925 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed P&T WEST HOLDINGS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036775500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: BRILLIANTLY STONED JEWELRY, 2229 15TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by DAVID LEON HONE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/15.

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Darren Criss comes full circle

San Francisco native Darren Criss returns to his Broadway role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch when the musical begins its tour at the Golden Gate Theatre.

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hen Darren Criss was starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, he could hear his parents in the audience laughing at one risque joke or another. “And I’d be, like, guys, what I just said was terrible. You should be scolding me.”

His parents may be “a little bit old-fashioned,” but after his run as the transgendered rocker had ended, “My mom was always telling me, ‘I miss Hedwig. I miss Hedwig.’ Had you told my 16-year-old self that my mom would be anticipating the next time I got to do this character in this movie I was watching in the basement, I’d say you’re crazy.”

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y day, she’s a 30-year-old gender queer third-year law student, but at the 21st annual Drag King Contest, she’ll be competing as “Pussy Diet.” Pussy is one of eight contestants competing at the annual gala, held at the Oasis on Sept. 29. Billed as the “largest drag king event in the world,” this year’s theme is “A flashback to the 1970s.”

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dward Albee, the great American playwright, died at 88 on Sept. 16, after a short illness, at his home in Montauk, NY. His 50-year career produced two masterpieces, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance.

Two more works remain an essential part of the canon: Zoo Story, often cited as the

best one-act American play, and Three Tall Women, his autobiographical tour de force.

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The First Lady’s first lady

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n this election year of “Settle for Hillary” vs. “The Orange Baboon Who Doesn’t Pay Taxes” (credit: Paul Rudnick), Out There finds it helpful to remember that there have been figures in American political life who have been truly inspiring to us. At the top of that list has always been Eleanor Roosevelt, the original template for a First Lady who gives a damn about social justice and uses

her position to get things done.

OT owns two volumes of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s definitive ER biography, and coming in November is Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962, from Viking. Meanwhile we have a new book that tackles head-on ER’s famous love affair with AP reporter Lorena Hickok.

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Hick got Eleanor to keep a diary that eventually became her own newspaper column, “My Day.” The bosom buddies also wrote over 3,000 letters to each other, in which both wrote that they “ached” for each other. Some of that torrid correspondence is reproduced here.

They channeled their ardor into actively working to make the world a better place. Quinn’s book reminds us of the strength of their love.

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OT has ample access to advance copies of newly published books, but sometimes we have to catch up with literary sensations of seasons past. That’s the case with The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, which made quite a splash upon its publication in 2013 and deservedly won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. We only dove into the sea of its 771 pages this month, then could not put it down until we’d swum it.

Tartt is one of those natural-born writers who seemed to emerge fully formed from the womb. Her debut fiction The Secret History (1992) is one of the great all-time college novels, and The Goldfinch is one of the great bildungsromans. Its initial passages, after a short framing device, are a difficult entry: 13-year-old Theo is visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his most beloved mom when a terrorist bomb goes off. Amid fully described carnage and mayhem, his mother is killed. Theo saves the Dutch masterpiece of the title, then walks off with it.

Though mostly set in NYC, shades of Wharton and Salinger,

there is a big middle section set in decadent desolation in exurban Las Vegas, where Theo meets Boris, a Russian-Ukrainian refugee and a beautifully drawn rogue. Though not a gay novel, The Goldfinch does nod to brief erotic interludes between the two delinquent teens.

There’s even a tender passage when they part, when Theo realizes that what he feels for Boris is love.

The Goldfinch is one of those long, lived-in novels you can swing a cat around in. Among other themes, it explores love, loss, grief, drug abuse, criminality, parenting, male bonding, art history, furniture restoration, connoisseurship, class divides, suburban dystopia and urban angst. It’s a hugely satisfying read.

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The current release of Author: The JT LeRoy Story prompted a reader to remind us that OT was prescient in our indignant Laura Albert outrage. From Out There, 1/5/2006: “One fun thing about the year just passed was the SF-based JT LeRoy literary hoax that splattered in the faces of various litero establishments and personages like an egg soufflé gone terribly wrong.

“Why do such hoaxes so typically arise in SF? You have to admire an enterprise that can singlehandedly sucker novelists popular (Armistead Maupin of The Night Listener) and transgressive (Dennis Cooper of The Sluts). Apparently ‘Speedie’ was quite speedy enough to bamboozle celebrated queer authors across generations and aesthetics, whether masquerading

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yet poetically surreal, as opposed to the elegiac lyricism of Tennessee Williams. Albee was influenced primarily by the theater of the absurd, especially Ionesco and Beckett, which at its roots was experimental and iconoclastic.

Perhaps the opaque quality of Albee’s plays has its origin in his troubled family life. He was adopted at three weeks. Neither of his parents were warm or nurturing: his father an absent womanizer, and his mother critical and self-absorbed.

They were wealthy, and he became the enfant terrible of elite private schools. He graduated from the prestigious Choate in Connecticut, where his artistic ambitions were nurtured. He knew he was homosexual at 8, and had his first gay sex at 12. He was kicked out of Hartford College after a year for not attending classes and chapel. He fled to Greenwich Village to pursue a writing career, but neither poetry nor short stories were the right medium for him. Thornton Wilder encouraged him to write plays.

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“Is the poor old Dowager Madam (that’s San Francisco, for those readers just joining us from home) so desperate for a literati with gravitas greater than society novelists Danielle Steele or Amy Tan that she falls for even the most unlikely of candidates? Big, world-weary sigh here.

“But the nagging question about the whole scandale, then we’ll shut up about it, is why, in nine long pages in New York magazine, the Real Author of all those endless columns by ‘JT’ for 7x7 magazine was never mentioned. Here’s a big clue: It wasn’t Speedie.

“Guess what, our double-deep background source implies in so many words that the 7x7 columns weren’t the only ones that were ghost-written. In fact, they were just the tip of the iceberg. We suspect that initially, hoaxstress Laura Whatever just suckered the Ghost Writer for free copy-editing, one sorta desperate type leaning on another. It snowballed from there.”

We’ll give Cooper the last word.

From his blog: “I finally saw the documentary The JT LeRoy Story that I’m interviewed in for a minute or so. I really hated it. It’s a totally superficial whitewash that treats Laura Albert like she’s some kind of kooky folk hero instead of as the psychopathic, destructive user that she is. I regret allowing the director to interview me for it. It put me in a really bad mood the whole weekend.

Disgusting.”

OT seconds that emotion.t Off-Broadway movement as a home for serious subjects. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) was a revelation of his talent. He dissected American life in the form of a bitter academic couple – George, a history professor; and his wife Martha, the daughter of the college president – during an alcohol-fueled night of combat and sadistic psychological games, harrowing and enthralling, as they entertain a younger couple, Nick and Honey. It was made into a 1966 film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, each giving the greatest performance of their careers in an adaptation that’s one of the best transfers of a play to the screen in cinema history. Dysfunctional families would be his muse for his other magnum opus and Pulitzer in that decade, A Delicate Balance (1966), concerning a long-married couple, Agnes and Tobias, whose terrified neighbors want to move in with them, a standoff showing the huge emotional price people are willing to pay to stay together.

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Monarchy on the morning after

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here’s no need to brush up your Shakespeare to enjoy King Charles III. A merest remembrance of the words, worlds, and characters that the Bard created will give you a boost into Mike Bartlett’s audacious drama set in, as I type these words, the near future. It’s a time frame that probably won’t have changed as you read this, but it’s a near future that could become the present in a heartbeat.

For now, Bartlett has the luxury of making up a future for characters we already know, but how will the play register when the inevitable triggering event actually happens and a different scenario most likely occurs in its aftermath? It could become an instantly dated play, but also, an intriguing what-if drama that retains its relevance as a tale of an individual’s principles in a battle with traditions that can trump ethics.

The triggering event is the death of Elizabeth II, whose

64-years-and-counting reign has broken the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Another record-holder is her oldest son, Charles, the longestserving heir apparent in British history, whose years of standing by, in Bartlett’s play, have left him eager to be a force for the good of his people.

The problem is that British law and centuries of tradition have turned the monarch’s force into a symbolic sword, and not even the pen he uses to sign official documents has any might, since the signatures are preordained.

King Charles III opened in London in 2014, began a Broadway run the following year, and is now at ACT’s Geary Theater in what is truly a conquering production.

Written in blank verse, with the occasional rhyming couplet to put a button on scenes, Bartlett provides a Shakespearean structure, and while the words themselves pull from contemporary vernacular, those words can be arranged in 16th-century stylings even as kebob stands,

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Robert Joy, as Britain’s new king, seeks advice from his wife Camilla as his reign begins with a crisis in ACT’s King Charles III at the Geary Theater.

social media, tabloid intrusions, and youthful freak-outs are evoked.

The newly elevated King Charles III bemoans his powerless position, suggesting that “democracy is just an option like GPS on a car.”

The crisis that immediately confronts the new king, the Parliament, and ultimately the nation is Charles’

refusal to put his pro forma signature on legislation that would limit freedom of the press by heightening privacy rules. The conundrum is that if the king gets his way, royal prerogative undercuts democracy, but if he loses, democracy takes a hit to the freedoms it is meant to preserve. The leaders of Parliament are aghast at the king’s assertion of power, wife Camilla supports him, older son William and wife Kate at first seem like bland extras in the drama, while younger son Harry is ready to renounce his royal standing to live the boho life with a girl he has just met.

On Daniel Ostling’s towering set of stone walls and arched windows, the drama plays out with Shakespearean force as characters strut, brood, deliver soliloquies, encounter ghosts, and briskly clear the way for another scene to begin.

David Muse’s direction is very much at one with the playwright’s work,

and together they convince us that a contemporary tale of a monarchy whose members we know so well really could swell into something of Shakespearean proportions, stopping only short of regicide.

Robert Joy, as the new king, is more diminutive than the Prince Charles we know, and when he dons his ornamental military attire the image has an irony beyond original intentions. But the veteran actor is able to turn that into the reality of the moment with a thoughtful, intense, and layered performance that drives the production.

There is much coming and going by family members and politicians with various stakes in the king’s actions, but the most vivid of these performances comes, unexpectedly, in the role of the person with the least interest in the unfolding drama. As Prince Harry, unlikely ever to sit on the throne, Harry Smith See page 37 >>

Cold War gamesmanship

by Richard Dodds

not seem to be part of what has made it to the stage. here exists no definiNow back in its sungtive version of Chess, a through form in the intimate fact that now allows theaters Custom Made space on Sutter to chop, dice, mix, and stir Street, director Brian Katz’s ingredients from its various production becomes someincarnations into a customthing of a staged concert with made creation. And that’s a unit set, costumes not too exactly what Custom Made far from street wear, minimal Theatre has done for its proprops, and occasional dance duction of the London hit moves choreographed by musical that was improved to Daunielle Rasmussen. Focus death on its way to Broadway. is concentrated on the perTouted as one of the transatformers, whose main mode Jay Yamada lantic behemoths that were of communication is through traveling from London to Chris Uzelac and Heather Orth play a Russian song. There is passion behind New York in the 1980s, Chess couple whose marital problems affect Cold War all the performances, though is now receiving a chamber- rivalries in the musical Chess at Custom Made the vocal skills in communisized production that allows Theatre. cating that are variable. you to focus on the mateThe tale’s main protagorial – which can be a mixed nists are Freddy Trumper, an this version of Chess, everything is blessing. obnoxious American chess genius expressed in song whether or not the With its Cold War backdrop in the Bobby Fisher mode, and moment deserves it. And even when of undercover spies, changing alAnatoly Sergievsky, his Soviet-conit doesn’t, or perhaps to compenlegiances, unexpected treachery, trolled challenger of quavering loysate for the fact that it doesn’t, the and romantic alliances, Chess is alties, and together they are in Italy songs by lyricist Tim Rice (Evita) still about chess, not that you need for a propaganda-rich showdown and composers Benny Andersson to know anything about the game tournament. Mischa Stephens has and Bjorn Ulvaeus (the male half other than it’s harder than checkers. the right kind of arrogant swagger of ABBA) can become overwrought That is difficult to musically draas Freddy, but the songwriters can in that Jean Valjean/Inspector Javert matize for two-and-a-half hours, push his songs into a kind of power sort of way – and with no hints of even in a world where all characters falsetto that pushes his voice to the the bouncy Mamma Mia! sound. become metaphorical game pieces limits. As Anatoly, Chris Uzelac is Working as Custom Made’s drain a battle between unseen powers. appealing with his character’s efforts maturge, Stuart Bousel had several There are moments when the audiat understated honor, but his songs sources from which to draw for the ence reaction may well be, hey, do often have unexpectedly bombastic current production, including the we really need a song at this point? intensities that Uzelac delivers with original concept recording, a concert Songs in musicals are usually hammering blows. version, and the successful London reserved for those moments when Anatoly has a wife and chilproduction of 1986. The radically something emotionally important dren back in Russia, but he’s more overhauled version for Broadway that needs to be communicated, but added spoken dialogue and upended See page 37 >> since there is no spoken dialogue in the plot, and flopped miserably, does

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Edward Albee

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he continued writing. His lifetime companion, Jonathan Thomas, a Canadian sculptor almost 20 years his junior, helped him give up booze.

Albee later admitted he would have died if it weren’t for Thomas. Albee was reckoned a has-been past his prime, but starting in the early 1990s with revivals of his earlier plays (Tiny Alice and Lady from Dubuque were positively reevaluated), then Three Tall Women (1994), he staged the greatest comeback in dramatic history, with the best reviews of his career and another Pulitzer. TTW was based on memories of his adoptive mother.

He explored how she became the person she was, with three actresses playing her in youth, middle age, and near death at 90. Albee continued his professional renaissance with The

Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (2002), detailing a passionate love affair between a married man and a goat named Sylvia. It won the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2005, Albee was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Tony, having already won the Kennedy Center honor in 1996.

Openly gay for decades, Albee was attacked for not writing on LGBT themes. His only gay character was the silent rejected son scorned by his mother in Three Tall Women.

Albee felt topical issues dated plays, and he disdained ghettoization in any form. He spurned the label “gay playwright.” Albee believed the universal ideas he wrote about, such as cruelty and death, applied as much to gay people as it did to straights.

Dissident critics interpreted Virginia Woolf as pertaining to four homosexual men, but Albee stopped any all-male productions, terming

them ludicrous since it involved Martha’s hysterical pregnancy. But it can be argued that Albee was a queer writer long before the term became au courant. His themes of exposing dark secrets, challenging people to live outside their comfort zone, finding your inner truth, stripping away false illusions, and not being constrained by social norms, all have a deep gay resonance.

Albee’s voice was angry, satirical, unnerving, and exhilarating, balancing tragedy with savage wit. He didn’t care if audiences liked his plays or left outraged. His view of commercial theater and critics was dismal. Albee held up a mirror for us to face up to our human condition, to pay attention to the fears, violence, and darkness lurking underneath the veneer of contemporary life. His plays will continue to be produced for time immemorial.t

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Reflections in a steam bath

by David Lamble

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pa Night, a Sundance-commissioned intimate family drama, opens with David, a beautiful 19-year-old man whose parents emigrated from Korea to give him a leg up in life, standing semi-nude with his father at a small neighborhood steam bath. David wants to return to the modest Koreatown apartment the men share with his demanding mother.

As claustrophobic and funny as one of Philip Roth’s Jewish family sagas, first-time feature director Andrew Ahn’s film plants his goodlittle-boy protagonist (Joe Seo, in a Sundance Special Grand Jury Award performance) in a family-run business that, while a nightmare for David, provides us with a catbird seat’s view of a complex immigrant community that has had more than its share of bad publicity. TV coverage showed Korean shopkeepers fending off looters with guns during the early-90s LA riots.

Although it enjoyed a prestigious debut at the Frameline festival this year, Spa Night is really less a queerthemed drama than part of an everexpanding genre of films showing how a tidal wave of new immigrants are altering and being altered by the chaos of 21st-century America.

Ahn makes clear that despite their

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Joe Seo won a Sundance Special Grand Jury Award performance as David in director Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night.

Herculean efforts to make it in America, David and his family are still just a major financial hiccup away from disaster. When his parents’ small restaurant collapses under a sea of debt, David takes a job at an old-fashioned Korean male bathhouse, long a popular hangout for middle-aged men seeking a taste of the Old Country.

He discovers to his shock that it has somehow morphed into a de facto late-night gay male sex club.

One of Spa Night’s many pleasures is how director Ahn and his talented cast demonstrate the different strategies young Korean Americans use to be accepted as hip, productive Americans, while

still clutching to remnants of their society’s more conservative mores around dating, and taboos against same-sex behavior. Invited to a college party by the sexually dodgy son of one his mom’s workmates, David gets mixed messages from the girls (“I want to see boys kiss”) and from the hunky boys his age (“Hey man,

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can you stop looking at my dick?”).

Those catching Spa Night for its overt homo makeout scenes need to be patient, for the film’s erotic moment arrives only in the last minutes of the third act. Ahn also waits until late in the movie to stage a moving meltdown scene between David and his dad. Sitting in the shotgun seat of the family sedan, David innocently tells his father how much he has enjoyed working at their nowdefunct restaurant.

Dad: “You’re supposed to be better than that.”

David: “I’m not.”

“Yes, you are better than that. We didn’t move here so you could move furniture. Go to college! Get a girlfriend! Move out!”

“What about you and Mom?” “Don’t worry about us, we’ll be okay. I thought I could do better for you. I thought I could do more.

You’re such a good kid. That’s why you’ll make it. You’re going to find success for all of us.”

With its deft, open-ended ending, Spa Night paints a poignant picture of the role gay men and women are playing in elevating and expanding the definition of success in the early moments of this new Millennium.t Opens Friday at the Roxie Theater. In English and Korean, with English subtitles.

Frankenstein, wherefore art thou?

by Erin Blackwell

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“

ook within” might be the motto of the great Romantic poets of bygone England, Keats and Shelley. Oh, and Byron, who was admittedly distracted by foreign wars. Metaphysics starts at home. If you can’t find miracles in your own backyard, you needn’t travel. In the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, human subjectivity and the Mother Nature that was its mirror were felt by sensitive types to be threatened by certain objective and unnatural forces. In this historical moment, a teenage girl wrote Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, not as a love letter but as a series of screams issuing from a premonitory dream. Two hundred years later, Rutgers gives us Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives.

Monstrous Progeny is a great title and led me to expect some delicious and methodical tracing of lines of descent from the great foundational origin story of the modern world. I

naively hoped it would be as thrilling as the text it owed its existence to. I was mistaken, or deceived, and dismayed to discover that Monstrous Progeny is one of those idiot children who never quite get it together enough to even merit the honorific Monster, being merely 236 pages of random babbling about a myth that has held the world in thrall since it was published in 1818. Here’s a sample of the execrable prose style, flabby reasoning and ludicrous conclusion: “The novel’s draw is its plot, but the substance has to be the questions it asks but doesn’t answer, the ones we keep asking – even as we dissect, deep-freeze, and microwave marshmallow bunnies. Does desiring and pursuing knowledge endanger our humanity? That question precedes the early 19th century by a few thousand years.

The Renaissance was obsessed with the potential for knowledge to bring people closer to God and salvation while simultaneously fearing the traps set by demons to lure scholars

into the pursuit of knowledge for personal gain and thus endanger their souls. Shelley incorporates this theme and develops a strong case for why scientific knowledge should be grounded in the academy, governed by peer oversight, and responsive to social rather than theological expectations.”

Co-authors Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kavey are both firmly wedged into a bureaucratic structure called Academia, governed by peer oversight, and therefore can be forgiven for thinking Mary Shelley was writing an encomium to social expectations. Anyone else reading Frankenstein for the first time will be amazed by what a wild ride it is through three separate subjectivities: the Doctor’s, the Monster’s, and the Captain’s. This has never been remotely captured by the Hollywood movies that have warped contemporary appreciation for the novel.

Hollywood loves gangsters, so they

made the Creature a dumb brute, whereas Mary understandably crafted him a Romantic sensibility. This glaring discrepancy isn’t dealt with, but all the plots of all the Universal

and Hammer films are gone over ad nauseam before lumping in further derivative mass garbage.

Seventy-year-old Friedman has been cranking out books on popular films for decades, but 30ish Kavey recently wrote an article called “Mercury Falling: Gender Malleability and Eroticism in Popular Alchemy.” My hunch is, she was supposed to provide some scholarly grounding to Friedman’s plot rehashes.

There are some enticing glimpses of Renaissance metaphysics that might be said to ground Mary Shelley’s resolutely unscholarly and madly imaginative story, but these threads are dropped once the droning on about Hollywood product commences. I hypothesize it was Kavey who wrote the chapter which concludes, “The Creature is immensely human, and he calls upon us to exercise those oft-sleeping angels of our better natures to recognize the human in those we deem alien and to meet them with kindness.”t

these painful moments without looking back. Later we revisit some of her subjects. With the young boxer, who has just lost a decision in the ring and looks ready to tear down the arena, the second viewing is a valuable lesson in the control of anger. His pain is mitigated only when he goes back into the arena, where his mother wraps him in her arms. Later in the film, Johnson confesses to a small clutch of survivors of the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina the joy she feels being again in their company. She also takes us into the fold of her biological family. We meet her Alzheimer’safflicted mother, her baby twins, and her dad, who volunteers to bury the dead bird.

In her brilliant book-length essay On Photography, the late Susan Sontag warned about taking for granted the meaning of a still photograph.

Cameraperson is valuable for the lessons it provides in extending Sontag’s

warning to the world of movingpicture documentaries. If seeing is believing, just what are we seeing?

Two-thirds of the way through the film, a thoughtful Middle Eastern man warns us of the danger of voyeurism in an age of too many vicarious film experiences available at the click of a dial. But my favorite moment comes during Johnson’s work for Moore on Fahrenheit 9/11.

Moore, who projects an inner calm even when dealing with dastardly subjects, has just finished interviewing a young African American soldier, and his concern for the young man’s fate radiates through Johnson’s camera.

Best Documentary Feature Award winner at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Cameraperson opens Friday for at least a week’s run at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Theaters in SF, Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley, and the Smith San Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.t

Behind the lens

by David Lamble

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ack in the early 1950s when I first saw films in theaters, the operators would often permit you to stay through more than one screening. Or if you entered in the middle of a program, they let you stay until you had viewed the whole thing.

Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson is a 102-min. journey through her career as a professional cameraperson on 24 feature-length documentaries, for many notable directors, including Michael Moore. My advice, if you choose to see it, is that you sit through it a second time, even if you have to pay twice.

Cameraperson is one of those rare viewing experiences that may really test your patience, and only you will know if that’s a good or bad thing.

It’s a visual march through a 26-year career shooting a Whitman’s Sampler of subjects, often in troubled parts of the globe, interacting with

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Kirsten Johnson with her camera in Cameraperson.

subjects who’ve seen things many of us would rather not see. Johnson introduces us to an angry amateur boxer, a dead bird, an African midwife at work, a man who remembers a burglary he committed years ago

for a good cause, and another who points out exactly where, long ago, wartime atrocities took place in what appears now to be a beautiful stretch of rural forest.

At first Johnson barrels through

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Drag Kings

From page 33

In an interview with the B.A.R., Pussy said he talked a handful of other law students into joining a drag king quartet to perform at the event. “We’re still putting the finishing touches on our act, the story of a 1970s boy band trying to make a comeback in the 1980s. It’s my first time performing with a group,” he explained, “but the stage [at the Oasis] is so large that I thought it would be just perfect for a group.”

A Brooklyn transplant who arrived in San Francisco two years ago, Pussy had performed in the drag collective Switch N Play for several years. Here in San Francisco, he’s been performing occasionally at the Edge. “I’m busy looking for a job,” he explained, asking that the B.A.R. withhold his legal name.

Competitions like this “give a lot more visibility to drag kings,” he said. “It’s the one time of the year we can meet and connect with old and new faces. It’s all about community.”

According to a flyer for the event, the contest will again be co-hosted

by Sister Roma (“the most photographed nun in the world”) and Fudgie Frottage (“the man with the biggest balls in show business”). In an interview with the B.A.R., Fudgie said his first drag show was 40 years ago, at the Parliament House in Orlando, FL. Twenty years later, Fudgie hosted his first drag king contest, a benefit for Stone Butch Blues author Les Feinberg called Give More for Les. Fudgie, aka Lu Read, arrived in San Francisco in 1997, for work that “wasn’t exactly legal,” he said. Over the years, he’s had a variety of jobs, including law firm messenger and restaurant server, but is now semiretired, following a back injury.

“You don’t see me out and about that much,” he said.

This year’s contest may be the largest to date, said Fudgie. “Drag kings are trending now,” he said, despite the dwindling number of performance spaces in San Francisco. At this year’s show, there are eight contestants, and another half-a-dozen or more “on the waiting list.” Recently, noted Fudgie, RuPaul sparked a controversy about drag kings during an interview with the Advocate when the host of the television show Drag Race said that drag kings would probably not appear as contestants on the popular program.

RuPaul’s comments were “a bit disappointing,” said Fudgie, “but let’s face it, drag queens are betterknown than drag kings.” Recently,

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King Charles III

From page 35

creates a swashbuckling bad boy who yearns for an everyday life of fast food, paparazzi-free frolics, and guiltless hedonism. He thinks he’s found his soul mate in a feisty art student vividly played by Michelle Beck. Another strong performance amid many strong performances comes from Ian Merrill Peakes as the flabbergasted prime minister, a staunch royalist as long as the rulebook is followed.

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Chess

From page 35

interested in defecting to the West and hooking up with Freddy’s former assistant/lover. Florence shuttles between the chess masters, for both romantic and strategic reasons, with Leah Shesky not quite mustering the strength of personality or voice that the central character needs. Heather Orth may not make an appearance until the second act, appearing in Bangkok to reclaim her Russian husband, but from the opening notes of her first song, the audience knows that at last a proper

David Sweet

Drag king Mason Dixon Jars.

when he went to an acupuncture college for treatment, a student asked, “What’s a drag king?”

“I think everyone in the gay community knows what a drag king is, but the rest of the world, probably not. If someone like RuPaul put us on his show, that would go a long way to introducing ourselves to the public.”

This year’s event is expected to attract at least 300 people, he said, noting that the demographics of the city are “changing rapidly. A lot of dykes who lived in the Mission and Bernal Heights are now in Vallejo.

We hope they’ll make it back to the city” for this year’s event.

This year’s event has eight judges, including drag king Arty Fishal, aka Leslie Einhorn, the 45-yearold founder and executive director of Children’s After School Arts (CASA), a nonprofit creative arts after-school program located at Rooftop School in San Francisco, which her nine-year-old daughter attends.

Arty, who won the contest in 1998, has appeared on daytime talk shows and radio shock-jock programs and has taught drag at Good Vibrations and at an all-women’s Shakespeare company.

For many years, Arty has been a judge at the annual contest. “I guess you could say I like being judgey,” Arty said in an interview with the B.A.R. As far as drag appearances go, Arty says the annual contest “is absolutely the highlight of my year.” Although “being a mom and having a morethan-full-time job” has limited Arty’s ability to make too many public appearances, “I was delighted to see that my daughter loves Arty, too.

“If you’ve never been to this event, you should come. There are so few queer venues left, especially for dykes and transgender folks. This is an affordable and fabulous event, and we could really use the support.”t

KATYA SMIRNOFF SKYY

WILLIAM GIAMMONA

PATINA MILLER

October 6

October 14

October 15 – 16

For tickets: feinsteinsatthenikko.com Feinstein’s | Hotel Nikko San Francisco 222 Mason Street | 855-322-2738

Info: sfdragkingcontest.com.

It is Prince Harry who cuts to the core of the matter as he pleads for freedom from the strictures that come with “living atop the mound unearned.” Everyone, he pleads to his father, “should be allowed an unpredicted life.” But ultimately not even the chafing Harry has the will to accomplish that. Tradition can be an unsparing grindstone. t King Charles III will run at the Geary Theater through Oct. 9.

Tickets are $20-$105. Call (415) 7492228 or go to act-sf.org.

voice has arrived on stage.

Music director Armando Fox ably leads a four-piece band through the musically complicated nonstop score. It’s a score that belongs to its time, the mid-1980s, when ponderous rock opera was in vogue. If Chess did not do much to advance that form, Custom Made Theatre is providing a rare opportunity to actually see this mighty if misguided effort.t Chess will run at Custom Made Theatre through Oct. 15. Tickets are $25-$45. Call (415) 798-2682 or go to custommade.org.

We are the future of the LGBT community.

“My girlfriend and I want to get married next year. We met in school, and we’re determined to be together.

The problem is that I live here and she doesn’t. She can’t visit me for long periods of time because of harsh immigration laws. And our future together in this country depends on how our country rewrites those laws. So it’s important to us that we understand how this year’s elections could impact LGBT citizenship.

We keep up with EDGE’s political coverage on our mobile devices. Because we know that’s where our future will be.”

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Through Knowledge to Justice @ GLBT History Museum Through Knowledge to Justice: The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), about the early gay rights pioneer and scholar, whose early museum was destroyed by the Nazis. Thru Nov. 23. Also, Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall, Robert W. Richards’ exhibit of gay men’s erotic magazines from the 1950s to the ‘90s. Thru Oct. 16. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Trebor Healey @ Dog Eared Books

Thu 29

Flyaway Productions @ Fort Mason Center

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h, theatre, music, dance. Swirl like an autumnal leaf. For more events, visit us online at www.ebar.com. For nightlifery, check out On the Tab in BARtab.

Thu 29 19th & Lexington @ Qulture Collective, Oakland Photos from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015, a group exhibit of photos and comics from the popular and much-missed Mission bar.

Thru Oct. 7 (closing celebration 6pm9pm). Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 12pm4pm. 1714 Franklin St., Oakland. www.qulturecollective.com

August: Osage County @ Marin Theatre, Mill Valley Marin Theatre Company’s production of Tracy Lett’s five-Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning darkly comic family drama. $25-$45. Tue-Sat 7pm. Thu & Sun 1pm. Thru Oct. 2. 497 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org

The Brothers Size @ Eureka Theatre Tarell Alvin McCraney’s musicfilled gay-themed drama about African American brothers and their unbreakable bonds. $15-$40. WedSat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 15.

215 Jackson St. at Battery. www.TheRhino.org

Caught @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of Christopher Chen’s drama about a real-life Chinese dissident who was jailed over a work of art, and the conflicting accusations of fictionalized accounts. $25-$35. Oct. 2. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. www.shotgunplayers.org

Flyaway Productions @ Fort Mason Center Jo Kreiter’s new acrobatic dance, Grace and Delia are Gone, premieres, with seven daring dancers and a commissioned sound score. $22-$30.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7:30pm.

Thru Oct. 2. 2 Marina Blvd. www.flyawayproductions.com

Intersecting Film, Music and Queerness @ SF Public Library Author-composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky discusses his book about queer representation in film and music. 6:30pm. Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

King Charles III @ Geary Theater American Conservatory Theatre’s season premiere is Mike Bartlett’s multiple-Tony-nominated royal drama about Britain’s current remaining family troubles after Queen Elizabeth’s death. $20-$105. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 9. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Little Shop of Horrors @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre Company’s new production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s long-running Off-Broadway hit based on the 50s B-movie about the nerdy owner of a man-eating alien plant. $15-$40.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 8 (Oct. 8, 2pm w ASL interpreter). 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

Michael Feinstein/Lorna Luft @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The piano master and singer-actress perform a special salute to the music of Judy Garland (Luft’s mother). $80$100. 7pm. Sept. 29 & 30, 8pm. Oct. 1 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Mincing Words @ The Marsh Tom Ammiano returns to the stage with his comic solo show about his life in politics. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 25. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Sept. 29 & 30: Reel Rock outdoor adventure film (7pm). Oct. 1-3: 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia. (2pm & 7pm). Oct. 4: Christopher Guest at a screening of his new film, Mascots.

(7pm). Oct. 5: An American Werewolf in London (7pm) and Shaun of the Dead (8:55). Oct. 6: Waiting for Guffman (7:15) and A Mightly Wind (5:30-9pm). $11-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Queer Fashion Week @ Various Oakland Venues Second annual conference with multiple events, including fabulous runway shows of designs by local LGBTQ designers. Thru Oct. 2. Venue, 420 14th St., Starline Social Club, 2236 MLK Drive, and other venues. www.queerfashionweek.com

A Roof Over My Head @ SF Public Library Alison C. Wright and Tommi Avicolli Mecca’s new musical about the San Francisco housing crisis gets a reading. Free. 6:30pm. Latino/ Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Seared @ SF Playhouse World premiere of Theresa Reback’s play about a Brooklyn chef who deals with the pressures of sudden success. $35-$75. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sat 3pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 12. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Smuin Ballet @ Palace of Fine Arts The SF dance company performs Madness, Rack, and Honey by Garrett Ammon, Stanton Welch’s Indigo, and Michael Smuin’s Stabat Mater. $25$68. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm.

Thru Oct. 2. 912-1899. smuinballet.org

The award-winning and former Bay Area author reads from and discusses his new book, the gay-themed short story collection. Eros & Dust. 7pm.

489 Castro st. www.treborhealey.com www.dogearedbooks.com

The Way You Look (at me) Tonight @ CounterPulse Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis’ multimedia dance-performance duet explores who people see and interact with each other. $20-$35.

ASL interp. Sept 30 & Oct. 7.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm.

Thru Oct. 9. 80 Turk st. www.counterpulse.org

Flagging in the Park @ Nat’l AIDS Memorial Grove

Patti Smith @ Nourse Theatre

The outdoor flow arts picnic and party welcomes guest DJ Jerry Bonham.

Bring blankets, flags, bubbles, etc.

Donations benefit the Shanti Project.

1pm-4pm. Nancy Pelosi Drive Golden Gate Park. www.flaggercentral.com

The rock icon and author discusses her life, art, and her latest book, M Train. $29. 7:30pm. 275 Hayes St. www.cityarts.net

Holding the Edge @ The Marsh Berkeley Elaine Magree’s insightful and funny solo show returns to the AIDS wards of the mid-1980s, and how an outraged lesbian fought to save lives. $20-$100. Thu 7:30pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 15. 2120 Allsont Way, Berkeley.

282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Sun 2 Abrazo, Queer Tango @ Finnish Brotherhood Hall, Berkeley Enjoy weekly same-sex tango dancing and a potluck, with lessons early in the day. $7-$15. 3:30-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley. (510) 8455352. www.finnishhall.com

Dear Liar @ Geary Theater

Fri 30

American Conservatory Theatre presents Annette Bening and Mark Harelik in a one-night reading of Jerome Kilty’s witty 1967 play about letters between playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. 7pm. 415 Geary St. act-sf.org

Bianca Del Rio @ The Warfield

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Golden Gate Theatre

The RuPaul’s Drag Race star returns –yet again– with her Not Today, Satan comedy show. $37-$75. 8pm. 982 Market St. www.TheBiancaDelRio. com www.thewarfieldtheatre.com

East Bay Queer Book Club @ Books Inc. Alameda The group discusses Jackie Kay’s Trumpet. 6pm. 1344 Park St., Alameda. www.booksinc.net

Mark Morris Dance Group @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley World premiere of Morris’ Layla and Majnun, inspired by the first Muslim opera, performed with Silk Road Ensemble. $36-$126. 8pm. Oct. 1, 8pm., Oct. 2, 3pm. Bancroft Way at Dana St., UC Berkeley campus. www.calperformances.org

Mark Thompson Memorial Reading @ Dog Eared Books More than a dozen local writers, scholars and artists read about and from the works of the late authoreditor Mark Thompson. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.facebook.com/ lgbtqpridereadings www.dogearedbooks.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle returns with his hit solo show about the polarized sides of right and leftwing America. $25-$100.

Fri 8pm & Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 15. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Sat 1 Bars, Baths & Butches @ Mission District Radar Production’s Mariconerias project and host Valentín Aguirre lead a walking tour down queer memory road to the former sites of queer Latino/x venues, with popup performances by Persia, Lynn Breedlove, Kat Marie Yoad and others.

Free (map $10). 2pm-5pm. Meet at the Women’s Buidling, 3543 18th St. www.radarproductions.org

The Big Reveal @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Gala 35th anniversary benefit for the historic gay theatre company, where the completely renovated lobby (by architects FOG Studios, Tiffany Redding and Brandon Marshall) will be unveiled; with food and drinks from local restaurants, and pop-up performances. $125 and up. 7pm10pm. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level.

861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

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Darren Criss and Tony Award winner Lena Hall reprise their acclaimed Broadway roles in the national tour of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular rock musical about a down and out German transgender singer. $45-$212. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 30. 1 Taylor St. www.hedwigbroadway.com www.shnsf.com

SF Hiking Club @ Cowell-Purisima Trail Join GLBT hikers of the SF Hiking Club for an easy 6-mile hike along the Cowell-Purisima Coastal Trail. Bring lunch, water, hat, layers, sunscreen, comfortable walking shoes. Carpool meets 9:00 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (650) 740-9849. sfhiking.com

Mon 3 Rhino in the Castro @ GLBT History Museum Theatre Rhinoceros, the local gay theatre company, performs another script reading, this time Oedipus at Palm Springs by the Five Lesbian Brothers, where a vacation among friends reveals some secrets. $5. 7pm.

4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Tashlique @ Ocean Beach LGBT Jewish group Keshet and Rebooters hosts a Rosh Hashanah cleansing ritual, with noise-makers, music with Jazz Mafia and the Ministers of Sound. 5pm-7pm. Ocean Beach at Fulton. www.rebooters.net www.keshetonline.org

Tom Stoppard, Carey Perloff @ Geary Theater The acclaimed playwright and A.C.T.’s artistic director discuss shared productions and theatre. 7pm. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Tue 4 Andrew Jordan Nance @ Dog Eared Books The author of the new children’s book Puppy Mind discusses his work. 7pm.

489 Castro St. dogearedbooks.com

Jamil Hellu @ Thacher Gallery, USF Once Upon a Time, an exhibit of the artist’s photos, screen prints and videos that visualize his conflicting queer and Middle Eastern identity. Thru Oct. 23.

Gleeson Library, Geschke Center, 2130 Fulton St., USF campus. www.usfca. edu/thacher-gallery/once-upon-a-time

Queer Jitterbugs @ The Verdi Club Enjoy same-sex (and other) swing dancing, with lessons, social dancing, ASL interpreters and live music. $15. 9pm-11:45pm. 2424 Mariposa St. at Potrero. www.queerjitterbugs.com

Marcia Gallo @ GLBT History Museum The author of Race, Gender & Sexuality in the Story of Kitty Genovese discusses the 1964 rape and murder case. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Will Durst @ The Marsh The political comic’s updated solo show, Elect to Laugh: 2016, adds topical jokes about the bizarre election season. $15-$100. Tuesdays, 8pm. Extended thru Nov. 8. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Wed 5 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s online and cable interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. 7pm. Thu-Tue 11 & 11:30am & 10:30pm. www.ComcastHometown.com

Bruce Springsteen @ Nourse Theatre The rock musician discusses his work, and his new autobiography, Born to Run, with Dan Stone. $29. 7:30pm.

275 Hayes St. www.cityarts.net

Modern Comedy @ Modern Times Bookstore Laugh it up with hosts Nato Green, Allison Mick and Natasha Muse, plus Irene Tu, Gabrielle Poccia and Joel Spears. 7pm. 2919 24th St. www.mtbs.com

Sadie Barnette @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery Multimedia solo exhibit of the artist’s impressions and refl ections on her life with an FBI-surveilled father, who was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party’s Compton chapter. Thru Oct. 29. Tue-Fri 10am6pm. Sat 10am-5pm. 464 Sutter St. www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com

Thu 6 Alan Lessik @ Dog Eared Books The local author of the gay & mythology-themed novel The Troubleseeker reads from and discusses his debut novel. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Home Land Security @ Presidio Trust Park Site-specific multi-artist installation in and around the historic gun turrets overlooking the bay and Golden Gate Bridge; curated by Cheryl Haines with the For Site Foundation. Thru Dec. 18. www.for-site.org

Queer Trailblazer @ GLBT History Musuem Scholars Mel Gordon, Gayle Rubin, Susan Stryker and moderator Gerard Koskovich (also the Hirschfeld exhibit curator) discuss the life and work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the homosexual studies & rights pioneer. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Shonen Knife @ DNA Lounge The super fun Japanese pop-rock trio performs. $15 and up. 8pm. 375 11th St. www.shonenknife.net www.dnalounge.com

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Italianate thrills

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he first month of the San Francisco Symphony’s new season ends this week with Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducting a world premiere commission and exciting works by Igor Stravinsky. Pianist Yuja Wang plays Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with gifted SFS trumpeter Mark Inouye adding his own diamond bright solos. It’s a chance for locals to catch works and artists to be included on the orchestra’s upcoming tour of Asia, featuring 10 concerts in six cities, Nov. 9-22.

Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng’s Overture to Dream of the Red Chamber is a stand-alone piece not intended for use with the new opera. His music is an intriguing blend of East and West. Sheng will probably be jaywalking between Davies Symphony Hall and the War Memorial Opera House to observe both premieres of his SFS and SFO commissions.

DSH has been jam-packed with excitement all September. Last week, an especially attractive program featured some operatic delights starring a singer who is building a huge Bay Area fan base. Tenor Michael Fabiano, notably admired from his appearances at SFO, tore the roof off DSH with Italian arias and songs.

His performance in the second half of the all-Italian program ended with the thrilling call-to-arms from Verdi’s Il corsaro. Ragnar Bohlin’s sonorous SFS Chorus joined in the exciting charge to end an evening that stimulated one of the biggest audience ovations in recent memory.

The Chorus started the second portion of the bill with a beautifully molded rendition of Verdi’s Te Deum from Quattro pezzi sacri. One wouldn’t have guessed the beloved composer never really considered himself a man of god; MTT either, as he led the orchestra (most notably the brass) to an almost unbearably

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Tenor Michael Fabiano sang Italian arias and songs at Davies Symphony Hall.

bright level of exaltation.

The first half of the big night celebrating Italian composers began with SFS Principal Oboe Eugene Izotov beautifully leading and playing Marcello’s delightful Oboe Concerto in C minor. It was a wonderful if cleverly calculated introduction to what followed. We were in a mellow mood to receive Luciano Berio’s fabulous Sinfonia for Eight Solo Voices and Orchestra (1969). It was planned to “rock your world,” as MTT predicted, and for the next half-hour the auditorium was filled with a babel of languages, singing and declaiming poetry ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime.

The legendary Swingle Singers, in their latest incarnation, navigated the dauntingly virtuosic terrain with breathtaking and often quite beautiful results. The section devoted to the name and memory of Martin Luther King still resonates today, especially in the context and turmoil of current national events.

The sound of the Swingle Singers remains uncannily close to the group’s original membership, and hearing them work with MTT, as their elders once collaborated with Leonard Bernstein in the early days of the Sinfonia, was electrifying.

The orchestral musicians also had plenty of work to do. The fourth part,

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with its references to Mahler and great works of the repertoire, anchored Berio’s breathtaking invention with swift and haunting flashes of familiar symphonic scores. The Sinfonia still sounds freshly minted. The avantgarde cry of the late 60s continues to ignite an amazing response today.

The previous week MTT presented another fabled symphonic work in a concert of discovery that started with an engaging lecture and ended with a full performance of Beethoven’s game-changing Symphony No. 5 in C minor. It was a Sunday matinee, separate from the week’s subscription concerts that also featured the Fifth.

The regular programs also gave us a first half devoted to works in the key of C: C Major, that is. Haydn’s Symphony No. 69, Laudon (1779) finally got its first SFS performances, and the Sibelius Third (1907) was sandwiched in but still managed to shine in MTT’s typically impassioned and intelligent reading.

The Beethoven Fifth is in C minor, and a world apart from any other Symphony before it. MTT’s absorbing lecture, with musical examples provided by members of the SFS Chorus and Orchestra, helped even jaded listeners to a renewed appreciation. His charming wit and congenial, infectious enthusiasm guided us to the full performance. Aficionados and neophytes spontaneously rose to applaud. It seemed a wonderful way for newcomers to become accustomed to the pleasures and challenges of classical music, and a way for old-timers to recharge their batteries.

October approaches and brings welcome return visits from conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and young cellist Alisa Weilerstein. MTT also gets back on the podium at DSH one more time, with the Brahms Symphony No. 2, before heading off to Asian halls and the ambitious November tour.t

Country ’tis of thee

by Gregg Shapiro

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nown for putting her money where her mouth is, versatile Tony Award-winning diva Cyndi Lauper is an outspoken supporter of the LGBT community. But it was her singing voice and distinctive fashion sense that initially caught our eye. After forays into pop, dance music, standards and the blues, Lauper lends her remarkable vocal range to a set of country numbers on Detour (Sire). Joined by country legends Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris, Lauper leaves her “unusual” mark on mid-20th century country classics, including Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel of Love” and Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces.” She knows when to use country’s trademark catch-in-the-throat on heartbreakers “Misty Blue” and “Begging to You.” Duets with a yodeling Jewel (“I Want To Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart”) and Alison Krauss (“Hard Candy Christmas”) are also standouts.

Has Bob Dylan run out of his own things to say? Fallen Angels (Columbia), Dylan’s second album of covers of songs associated with Frank Sinatra, steps up the torchy twang of its 2015 predecessor. Dylan uncovers the country possibilities of standards by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer (“Come Rain or Come Shine,” “That Old Black Magic”), Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael (“Skylark”), Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn (“All the Way”), Van Heusen and Johnny Burke (“Polka Dots and Moonbeams”), Isham Jones and Gus Kahn (“It Had To Be You”) and others. Depending

Brickell, takes place in the early 1920s. It involves literary ambition and babies born out of wedlock, presented in a vintage country-music setting.

Stephanie Rice, Colonial Blue’s out lead vocalist, has a solid grasp of the concept of from-a-whisper to-a-scream on songs “Break You Bones” and “My Treason” from the band’s debut album Dear Misery (colonialblueband. com). The daughter of a preacher in a small town, Rice has a coming out story involving being tossed out of the house and fending for herself. Music was Rice’s refuge, and these 10 songs prove that was a good thing.

If you ever wondered what Louisiana glam rock might sound like, listen to Dolls of Highland (Sub Pop), the irresistible debut album by Kyle Craft.

Imagine Randy Newman channeling David Johansen via Van Dyke Parks on “Eye of a Hurricane,” “Lady of the Ark” and “Three Candles.”

Country music is filled with legacy artists. Amy Helm, daughter of The Band’s Levon Helm, and Trixie Whitley, daughter of Chris Whitley, are two of latest examples of what can come from good genes.

Helm, who helmed her own band Ollabelle, makes her solo debut with the stormy Didn’t It Rain (E One).

Her voice sure to appeal to fans of Shelby Lynne, Helm performs covers of “Gentling Me” (co-written by lesbian singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier and Beth Nielsen Chapman) and Sam Cooke’s “Good News.” Whitley does her late father proud on Porta Bohemica (Unday).

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Sturgill Simpson’s breathtaking rendition of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” is one of many reasons to get his fantastic third album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (Atlantic). A musical letter to his newborn son, the nine songs are delivered in a retro style that incorporates soul alongside the Southern comfort, as on the magnificent opener “Welcome to Earth (Pollywog).” Prepare to be swept away by the gorgeous “Breakers Road” and shaken up by “Brace for Impact (Live a Little).”

In the early days of his standup comedy career, Steve Martin’s material could best be described as unconventional. But the banjo he played hinted at a more traditional side to his talents. Through the 21st century, Martin has recorded and released well-received bluegrass albums, including collaborations with Edie Brickell, and earned Grammy Awards. Martin and Brickell have taken their collaboration to a new level with the Tony Award-nominated musical Bright Star. Based on a story by Martin and Brickell, Bright Star (Ghostlight), with music and book by Martin, music and lyrics by

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Homosexual conspiracies catalogued

by Tim Pfaff

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f there are any more universitypress bookstores around, look for Gregory Woods’ Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (Yale) in the section called Dish, just left of Cookbooks (Ancient Sumerian Tapas, Burnt Sugar: 10 Best Desserts from Cleopatra’s Library). Devotees of LGBT cultural history who buy it will want to file it at home under Reference, Frequent – but, best of all, LGBT readers of all stripes may keep it on their nightstands. It’s delicious, satisfying reading. Even readers knowledgeable about post-Oscar Wilde gay culture are unlikely to read more than a paragraph or two without learning something they did not know, and I cheerfully confess that my most frequent margin note was “!!!”.

In Homintern, Woods’ careercapping “summa,” the noted British gender-studies specialist and LGBT historian marshals the findings of a lifetime’s avid research around a single, clear organizing idea. He defines his tongue-twisting central term in a taut first sentence: “The Homintern is the international presence of lesbians and gay men in modern life.”

The wary reader will have noted the similarity to “Comintern,” Lenin’s Communist International. Woods is characteristically thorough in listing

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all the individuals who may have coined the gay-altered term. “‘Homintern’ was the name Connolly, Auden and others jokingly gave the sprawling, informal network of friendships that Cold War conspiracy theorists would later come to think of as ‘the international homosexual conspiracy.’”

To reduce Woods’ intricately woven, 350-page tapestry into a hypothesis and response, the research question would be, Was there a Homintern?, and the answer would be a rip-roaring Yes. To the corollary question, Was it a conspiracy?, the answer would depend on how you viewed gay culture, one of the unquestioned driving forces of modernity itself.

Woods is clear that during the last century’s Cold War, “national-security” agencies, and none more that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, “followed the Soviets and the Nazis by starting to take seriously the very existence of homosexuals as a potentially subversive conspiracy.” But the author traces the political trends in their cultural undercurrents and manifestations, allowing his book to press beyond such questions as, Did you have to be/know/like/associate with homosexuals to get anywhere in the world of culture?, or, Did you have to be a Friend of Dorothy’s to take part in the phenomenon by

means of which The Wizard of Oz became one of the best-selling and most-loved movies of all time?

The range and depth of Woods’ scholarship are remarkable, but the power of Homintern owes as much to the unabated vitality of his writing.

In subchapters of a few pages each, he walks the reader through matters as complex as the scientific interest in other-sexuality that emerged in 19th-century Germany and the tortured history of individual nations’ laws regarding the criminality of

homosexuality. Still, the preponderance of evidence is regularly offset by the more engaging accounts of the travels of gay individuals and groups.

Early on is his detailed look at the complex of artistic forces that spun around Serge Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, a saga that has not altogether faded when we read, hundreds of pages later, that when Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, who had had a brief, restrained affair with teenage Russian refugee Boris Kochno, and who had packed the boy off to Warsaw in the lad’s best interest, next met Kochno in Paris, he was Diaghilev’s latest conquest.

Books as scholarly and scrupulously documented as Homintern are years in the making. I couldn’t help wondering if the time lapse accounted for Woods’ neglecting to confirm or deny Robert Craft’s shocking “revelation” of 2013, namely, that at the time of the legendary 1913 Paris premiere of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky was involved sexually and romantically with men.

The cavalcade of creators and innovators that tumble through Woods’ pages is all but overwhelming, but about the time the sheer density of information (and the complexity of the personal networks) verges on

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Who would not want to know that the prima ballerina of the Swedish Ballet, outraged (and fearful of being upstaged) by the gay goings-on around her, decried a “cult of Vaseline?”

Given its scope, Homintern is remarkably even-handed, taking in individuals from cultures North and South, East and West, high and low.

The author gives all credit where it is due but is unsparing in his characterizations of the more unsavory personalities, such as Philip Johnson, American architect of the International School, who picked up a penniless Virgil Thomson, eventually a highly influential composer and music critic, in Paris, treating him with ship fare home. And lesbians get, if not quite equal time, deep and serious consideration.

Woods is particularly strong about individuals who warrant a more prominent place on our present-day cultural map than they have. His thumbnail portraits of Natalie Barney, Federico Garcia Lorca, Manuel Puig and the ill-starred Pier Paolo Pasolini are correcting, balancing and thoughtful. And if you, like me, think you’re versed in historical gay fiction, you’re in for a shock; sprinkled among Woods’ pages is a vast syllabus that could last a queer devotee a lifetime.t

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Starting Oct. 2, Criss’ mother will get her wish, and she’ll only have to travel across town to the Golden Gate Theatre, rather than across the continent. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is beginning its post-Broadway tour in his hometown, and Criss made sure that he would be part of it as soon as he got wind of it. He’ll play Hedwig in San Francisco and then Los Angeles before it travels on with another actor as its star.

“The thought of someone else doing it in San Francisco just seemed so wrong,” Criss said by phone from New York, where he was in rehearsals for the upcoming run. “By the time my run on Broadway was over, I just didn’t feel done with the role, and the fact that I get to resurrect it in my hometown is a very poetic way to finally put the heels aside. It’s a full-circle moment for me.”

Criss got his start on San Francisco stages before he had even reached his teen years, including three musicals with 42nd Street Moon. “It was my first interaction with any kind of professional theater,” he said, “and I think it made me grow up faster than a lot of my peers because I was at the theater with 30somethings, and staying out late, and going with them to a diner after rehearsals.”

In those days, he was playing urchins, orphans and babes on Broadway, and he would become the youngest of the six actors to play Hedwig on Broadway during its recent run. He began lobbying to play Hedwig from the moment he heard that the John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask musical was headed to Broadway in 2014 with Neil Patrick

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Darren Criss played a gay harmonizing high school student for five seasons of the hit TV series Glee.

Harris as its star. “I did everything in my power to do it, and I mean everything,” he said. “In fact, it would have been sooner had I not been shooting Glee.”

The role of the “internationally ignored song stylist” from East Germany, “a slip of a girlyboy” before a botched sexchange operation, was quite a leap from his role as a schoolboy on Glee. He joined the cast of the hit show in its second season as the wholesomely gay Blaine Anderson, who became the love interest of another gay glee-clubber in a

storyline that led to their marriage by the time the series ended in 2015.

Glee instantly sent his career into orbit, and earned him special attention in the gay community. He “came out” as straight in 2011 because, he told Out magazine, “I think it’s more empowering to everybody, including myself, if I’m articulate about identifying myself as a straight male playing a gay character.”

In Hedwig, he’s playing a character of indefinable sexuality who arrives on stage looking like a woman and makes a final exit as a man.

In-between, the audience learns her story during a concert, as the musical moves between monologues and glam-rock songs. Hedwig shares the stage with her husband and backup singer, Yitzhak, a former drag queen whom she both depends on and abuses. Lena Hall, another San Francisco native, won a Tony Award for her performance as Yitzhak. She had left the Broadway production by the time Criss joined it, but she’s returning to the show for the SF and LA runs.

“We both kind of lean to the rock-n-roll sides of our singing,” Criss said, “so to be able to put those two things together is fun, and it makes it something new for both of

Darren Criss, as the title character in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has shed the glam-rocker guise by the end of the show.

us. She worked with a lot of different actors as Hedwig, so now she’s kind of reconfiguring her muscle memory to what I do.” Hall will also play Hedwig at one performance a week, with an understudy taking her place as Yitzhak.

“The cool thing about doing the show on tour is that we’ve had a year-and-a-half to reconsider a lot of things that were locked in on Broadway,” he said. “After notes today, I said, ‘How come you never said that to me the last time, because I would have played it completely differently?’ And it was, like, oh yeah, at the time we were just trying to get you into the show. I was taking from the hodgepodge of the actors who had come before me, but now we’ve all had a clean reset.”

Not that Criss didn’t feel like he made the role his own on Broadway.

“I never felt like I was doing someone

else’s show. There were plenty of moments that were definitely unique to me. The role has been added to and taken away from by all the people who have done Hedwig, and it’s fun to be part of that small club.”

When Criss first joined the Broadway company, a joke was inserted that acknowledged that he was a younger Hedwig than his predecessors. “It never got any response,” said the 29-year-old actor.

“The people were, like, why did you take me out of the story? It was jarring. Whatever the age of the actor, Hedwig comes on full force and you’re transported into her story. It’s the kind of part that just possesses whoever’s playing it.” t Hedwig and the Angry Inch will run Oct. 2-30 at the Golden Gate Theatre. Tickets are $55-$212. Call (888) 746-1799 or go to shnsf.com.

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Visual troubadour of urban blight

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rt museums and alert curators provide an invaluable service when they shine a light on artists who haven’t received the attention they’ve deserved. Such is the case with Anthony Hernandez. Though the prolific LA-born-and-raised photographer has been around and producing work for over 45 years, he is just now getting his first career retrospective, which opened last week at SFMOMA’s new Pritzker Center for Photography.

Hernandez, a dignified whitehaired figure at the age of 69, has referred to his native LA as his “studio.” His is not the LA of opulent Beverly Hills mansions and Hollywood glitz, but of homeless encampments, derelict buildings, the crumbling infrastructure near the LA River, and especially South Central and Compton, where tourists and movie stars fear to tread. A visual troubadour of urban blight and society’s discarded and abandoned, he has often returned to those rough neighborhoods that, over the years, have proved to be fertile artistic ground. The show’s 160 works, dating the 1960s through 2015 and organized chronologically into six galleries, chart the evolution of his practice and changes in format, from small 35mm black & white gelatin prints shot with a Leica to sensational large-format urban landscapes in living color, as well as his shifts in subject matter, from figurative to abstract inkjet prints almost tactile in their heightened, sensual detail. On occasion, he has strayed from his center of gravity to the ruins of Oakland, and Baltimore. In Rome, where he had a fellowship in 1998-99, he forewent the ancient sights for hidden modern marvels of that great city, shooting a kelly-green barrier grid in a subway (#36) or aiming down an empty elevator shaft for a Matrix-like, Vertigo-inducing image (#17). Recently, his “studio” has expanded beyond the boundaries of LA to encompass greater California and Nevada, resulting in some less-interesting long shots of desert landscapes. Overall, though, an admirable propensity for forcing himself out of a comfortable groove, indicative of a restless creativity and a spirit of inquiry, has served him well.

The early black & white street photographs from the 1970s, mostly shot in downtown LA, some with a cumbersome 5x7-in. camera requiring a tripod, making CartierBresson’s on-the-run stealth photography impossible, are among the least compelling and a tad dull.

Hernandez is self-taught, and at least initially, he wasn’t schooled in the history of the medium or its legendary practitioners. Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, to whom all aspiring street photographers are inevitably compared, pull you inside the frame, which Hernandez does not.

Since 1984, he has worked almost exclusively and more successfully in color, with thrilling results. That transition roughly coincided with shooting images devoid of people, a liberating mode in which, he says, he found his true calling as a photographer. It’s not surprising, then, that the experience of moving from the opening galleries into those that contain work produced from the mid-1980s onward is quite literally going from black & white to color in more ways than one. It’s also the moment where the artist and the show take flight, in series like Shooting Sites (1986-88), a grouping of a half-dozen close-ups photographed in the barren hills of the Angeles National Forest, where debris fields are littered with shell casings

from an improvised target practice area, and dead bodies, presumably dumped there. A child’s foot, halfburied and poking out from under the rubble, points accusingly at the viewer in one image, while in another the head of a platinum blond is face down in the dirt. They’re mannequins, not corpses, but one would be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

With Landscapes for the Homeless (1988-91), a project focusing on encampments on the streets of LA, one senses Hernandez had arrived.

In these urban wastelands, still lifes of a sort Cezanne would have never conceived, absent transients on the bottom rung of the economic ladder are defined by the harsh, unforgiving environments of their adopted abodes and the possessions they left behind, such as the dingy, torn-up mattress with soiled, rumpled linens stashed beneath an underpass (#85); a makeshift chair “re-upholstered” with particle board, conveniently positioned near a dented can of Hunt’s tomatoes on a trash-strewn cement shelf (#18); or a coiled leather belt and lightbulb socket keeping company with a rotting, half-eaten apple (#29).

Hernandez revisited the subject of homelessness several years later

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“Discarded #50” (2014), inkjet print by Anthony Hernandez, now on view at SFMOMA.

in Forever (2007-12), a series that includes a picture, striking in its simplicity and visual acuity (#62), of the hand of an African-American man gripping a broom handle. The rich chocolate skin tone contrasts with the warm tan of the handle and picks up the dark brown veins of the wood. After all, this is an artist who can make the ebony walls of an underground culvert, defaced by yellow chalk scratches (#36), look like an Anselm Kiefer collage.

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“Pictures for Rome #17” (1999, printed 2016), inkjet print by Anthony Hernandez.

Hernandez achieves the desaturated, stunningly vivid color and graphic detail that characterize his best imagery by shooting on transparency film, primarily Velvia Fuji. When enlarged, the 2 1/4-in. negatives, twice the size of their 35mm counterparts, produce an impact that can be startling. Take the electric turquoise of Wilshire Blvd. (1996). Despite the sci-fi aura of a pulsating, bluish white core at its center and hints of the Aegean

Sea – more evidence he excels at rhapsodies in blue – the effect is actually generated by a florescent tube in a light box photographed through Plexiglas. One can discern the black scuff-marks on the display case, vacant where advertisements had once beamed their messages.

Hernandez discovered it at a bus stop that had been vandalized – right up his alley.t Through Jan. 1. Info: sfmoma.org.

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’ve always tried not to get involved with politics in my act,” says Jeffrey Roberson, who performs under his nom de plumage, Varla Jean Merman, at Oasis next Wednesday through Saturday night. “If you hear me talking politics, its really urgent.”

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Celebrate the Grunge Years with Katya Smirnoff-Skyy

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atya Smirnoff Skyy has been an influential and world famous celebrity (in her own mind) ever since she played the Tuesday 3AM show at the Continental Baths in New York City. Skyy taught Bette Midler everything she knows.

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Katya Smirnoff-Skyy.

Porn Again History A swim through San Francisco’s ‘Moral Cesspool’

by Michael Flanagan

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hen the Tea Room Theater (145 Eddy Street) closed earlier this year, I began to wonder how institutions like it came into being. Unlike gay bars, the history of “adult” gay movie houses had an astounding lack of persecution. Perhaps it was because, unlike bars, pornographic cinemas sprang up at the end of the 1960s. Or perhaps it’s because heterosexual porn was frowned upon as well.

Regardless, things were in disarray in the early days and heterosexual pornographers took the heat while the gay industry grew.

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An ad for The Fabulous Four at the Powell Cinema.

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In over two decades of drag shows, the strapping, 6’ 2” native Louisianan has tended to prattle on about urges more physical than political. But this go-round, things feel different.

“I was starting to put the show together for Provincetown this year,” explains Roberson, who has performed for the past 18 summers in Cape Cod’s gay getaway. “Usually I have a specific theme I want to work around—I’ve done fairy tales, Disney, circus. This time I just wanted to make fun of white people. I was thinking, why are there so many jokes about every other group, but the only jokes about white people are about how they’re boring or they’re not passionate?

“I started to pull together all these songs by people I’d heard on AM radio as a kid; Anne Murray, Helen

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Now clawing her way back to the top after a period during which she lived in exile in Seattle, on October 6, Skyy returns to Feinstein’s at the Nikko with her new show Katya: A Bittersweet 90s Symphony.

“The show is about the period of my life, from 1990-1999, when I lived in Seattle,” Skyy said in an in-

Varla Jean Merman in a recent show in Provincetown.

Reddy, the Carpenters. It’s not very good—but it’s a genre.

“Then all of these shootings started showing up in the news and Trump started in with all his racist talk. Last year was such a positive year with gay rights and gay marriage. But this year, with Pulse nightclub and the police violence and the election, it gave a political context to the show.”

Thus was born A Little White Music, which Roberson promises is full of the same sassy attitude and wicked wordplay for which Varla has always been adored.

“There’s a point-of-view in there,” he explains, “But it’s not heavyhanded. It’s not about politics, it’s not Vote for Varla!”

Provincetown Magazine assessed the piece as “the most hilariously subversive and delightfully iconoclastic show Varla Jean Merman has ever done.”

Today, San Francisco audiences –

who have embraced Roberson ever since his first performances here in the 1990s at the late, lamented Castro cabaret Josie’s Juice Joint– reap the benefits of Roberson’s summerlong P-Town residencies.

“I bring a new show to Provincetown every year and do it seven times a week for ten weeks. It’s a hard audience because everyone has had the same experience that day; they’re all on vacation, so if the weather was bad, they’ve all had a disappointing day. There are so many choices of cabaret every night and everything is word of mouth, so the show has to get really tight. I can’t do a bad show.

I have to keep making it better. Every single beat has to work right.

“The world of drag has changed so much,” reflects the 47-year-old Roberson. “You used to have to work your ass off to get famous. There was no TV, no magazines. Someone like Lypsinka was a rarity, and it took her years to get barely known.”

Roberson adds, “Back in the ‘90s, before RuPaul’s Drag Race, there was no such thing as instant fame.

But it’s made drag seem like a viable career. Some of the girls, like Jinx Monsoon and Courtney Act and Bianca del Rio had their shit together before they were on TV and will continue to be successful. But plenty of those girls make lots of money to go to a club and lip-sync a song or two. It’s hard to make that last. They’re attracting attention because they’re celebrities, but you have to move on from being an instant celebrity to figure out what it is you actually want to do. You’ve got to have something to back it up.”

On the flip side, Roberson notes with some irony, “I can’t do half the things they ask contestants to do on Drag Race. I can’t sew. I can’t do my own make-up!”

While proud to be recognized as drag royalty, Roberson, who is

a classically trained vocalist and in the 1990s appeared in the Broadway production and national tour of Chicago, is closer in spirit to Barry Humphries, the man behind Dame Edna, than to many of today’s younger queens.

“I’m an actor and a writer,” he said. “One of the first drag performers I was inspired by was Coco Peru, because she did long, thoughtful monologues.

She showed me that drag could be more than just being dirty and nasty and reading people. I can’t hit the high notes I hit twenty years ago, but the more I write and perform, the better I get.”t

terview with the Bay Area Reporter.

“I was busy raising my daughter in Seattle. I lived next door to Kurt Cobain, and was influenced by the grunge movement. I had weekly salons in my living room during which many people in the music industry talked about music and philosophy.”

We were also able to speak to the celebrated Bay Area stage actor J. Conrad Frank, a “close friend”

of Skyy’s. The two are so close that Frank has been known, on occasion, to wear Skyy’s stunning outfits.

“She’s the mistress of her own grand illusions,” Frank said of Skyy.

He also notes the huge rebirth which drag is currently enjoying.

“It’s because of RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Frank explained. “We lost a lot of drag and leather bars in the ‘80s and ‘90s, but now they’re coming back. And drag isn’t just for gay

folks anymore. I do a lot of character drag and cabaret.”

Frank tells us that he’s a trained opera singer. “I did a lot of classical singing for awhile,” he recalls. “But I don’t do opera anymore. I get more kicks out of making people laugh.

Music is all about passion, which Katya knows a lot about.”

Frank explained what Skyy’s new show will entail.

“There’s nothing like hearing

a mezzo soprano sing Nirvana, Courtney Love, the Backstreet Boys and the Indigo Girls,” he said. “In most of my shows I pick music that’s before my time. This is the first time I’m doing music that I grew up with, with a full band.”

Joe Wicht serves as Skyy’s musical director for the current show.

The two performers are old friends, having co-starred in last year’s acclaimed production of Charles Busch’s Die Mommie, Die! at New Conservatory Theater Center.

Frank assures us that Bittersweet 90’s Symphony is a show that Skyy’s fans have never seen before.

“It’s all one hundred percent new material,” Frank promises. “I never sang these songs before or told these stories.”

The show promises to reveal the truth, the whole truth, about Skyy’s adventures during those mysterious Seattle years. Added Frank, “She’ll be telling all her tales in between gulps of vodka.”

It’s a show that will, according to Feinstein’s, “take you back to a time when groove was in the heart, streets were paved in plaid flannel, and no one ever dared to destroy your sweater.”t

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Katya Smirnoff-Skyy at a recent holiday show at Feinstein’s at the Nikko.

Varla Jean Merman performs ‘A Little White Music’ at Oasis. $25, $35, and VIP champagne tables $225. 7:30pm. October 5 thru 8. 298 11th St. at Folsom.

795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy performs ‘A Bittersweet ‘90s Symphony,’ Thursday, October 6, 8pm. $30$50. Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

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The monthly goth, New Wave & Brit Pop night plays queer 80s faves (Soft Cell, Klaus Nomi, Erasure, etc.) spun by Xander, Tomas Diablo, Starr and Donimo; tickets giveaways for upcoming Pet Shop Boys and Gang of Four shows. $8-$10. 9:30pm-2am. 917 Folsom St. at 5th. codeword-sf.com

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Clinton/Kaine Fundraiser @ Lookout

Sat 1

Flagging in the Park @ Nat’l AIDS Memorial Grove

The sexy fun male burlesque show returns with a new sizzling kinky Folsom-themed show. $25-$50. 7pm.

Thu-Sat thru Sept. 30. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the fun sexy night. $100 cash prize for best bulge. $5-$10 benefits various local nonprofits.

10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Karaoke Night @ The Stud

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am.

1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Viewings @ Several Venues Enjoy weekly screenings of the fun drag show at several bars and cafes, at 8pm: NoMan Coffee, 55 Duboce St. www.nomancoffee.com; at Oasis (followed by Lip-Synch For Your Life with Kylie Minono), 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com; Port Bar, Oakland 2023 Broadway. portbaroakland.com

Sing along and sing out, Louise, with hostess Sister Flora Goodthyme. 8pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s James J. Siegel’s monthly reading series at the popular martini bar welcomes Cyrus Armajani, Yvonne Campbell, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Hollie Hardy, David Welper, and singer-songwriter Kim Lembo. No cover. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

Sat 1

Raja Gemini at Mother @ Oasis

Music night with local and touring bands. $8. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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

Fri 30

Ain’t Mama’s Drag @ Balancoire

Bawdyhaus @ SF Eagle DJs Bill Dupp and Gingerbear spin at the new manly men night at the famed leather bar, with gogos and more. $8-$10. 8pm-1am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Bianca Del Rio @ The Warfield The RuPaul’s Drag Race star returns –yet again– with her Not Today, Satan comedy show. $37-$75. 8pm. 982 Market St. www.TheBiancaDelRio.com www.thewarfieldtheatre.com

The piano master and singeractress perform a special salute to the music of Judy Garland (Luft’s mother). $80-$100. Sept. 29 & 30 at 8pm. Oct. 1 at 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Second annual conference with multiple events, including fabulous runway shows of designs by local LGBTQ designers (Kirrin Finch, Unbound Estillo, Re/Dress, Size Queen Clothing, Dapper Boi, Ricee’s Pieces Designs, Sambi Fashions, and many more), parties, performances and panels. $10 (single event)-$200 (full pass). Thru Oct. 2. Venue, 420 14th St., Starline Social Club, 2236 MLK Drive, and other venues. www.queerfashionweek.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted by Cruzin d’Loo. 8pm10pm. No cover. 2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com

Michael Feinstein & Lorna Luft @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Queer Fashion Week @ Various Oakland Venues

DTF Fridays @ Port Bar, Oakland

SF Drag King Contest @ Oasis Fudgie Frottage and Sister Roma cohost the 21st annual hilarious fun and sexy contest for the best drag king act, with Leigh Crow, Arty Fishal, Mason Dixon Jars, Momma’s Boyz, Madd Dogg 20/20, Klingon Vanna White, Mutha Chucka, Clammy Faye, Rebel Kings, Fella-Fem, GenderQueer Society and more. Proceeds benefit PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support). $20-$25. 9:30pm-12am. 298 11th St. www.sfdragkingcontest.com www.sfoasis.com

DJ Pacifico plays house music at the new gay bar’s weekly event. 9pm2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

Hard Fridays @ Qbar DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Enjoy Latin, hip hop and electro, plus hot gogos galore, and a big dance floor. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Midnight Show @ Divas Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Saturdays. $10. 11pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud

Sat 1

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

Boy Division @ Codeword

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Baloney @ Oasis

Drag Me to Brunch @ Lookout

Latin, hip hop and Electro music night.

June 11, Banda Tierra Del Sol performs live. $5-$25. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

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Sat 1

Horizons Foundation Gala @ Fairmont Hotel

The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved, with new acts. $10. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www. redhotsburlesque.com

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat themed drag performance night. $7. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Support the democratic presidential candidates. Bring proof of $50 donation; one free drink, raffle for hats, T-shirts, etc. 5pm. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Flagging in the Park @ Nat’l AIDS Memorial Grove The outdoor flow arts picnic and party welcomes guest DJ Jerry Bonham.

Bring blankets, flags, bubbles, etc.

Donations benefit the Shanti Project.

1pm-4pm. Nancy Pelosi Drive Golden Gate Park. www.flaggercentral.com

Go Bang! @ The Stud The historic Trocadero Transfer gets a loving music tribute with Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, Prince Wolf and guests Allen Craig and Kenneth L. Kemp. Dig the disco, sisters! $10. 9:30pm-3am.

399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland

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The weekly hip hop and R&B night celebrates Oakland Pride, with a live performance by Netta B. $15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 7597340. www.club-bnb.com

Dance Party @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy relaxed happy hour cocktails early (open at 5pm) and later dancing in the cozy back room at the newest LGBT bar.

Daily 5pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. portbaroakland.com

Sat 1

Scott Gessford @ Hotel Rex

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The LGBT nonprofit honors Bishop Yvette A. Flunder and Senator Mark Leno at their 36th annual gala, a seated dinner with a silent auction, casino fun and dancing in The Tonga Room. $300 and up. 5:30 VIP reception, 7pm dinner/program, 8:30pm dessert and dancing. 950 Mason St. www.horizonsfoundation.org

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. Oct. 1 is a “Glam” show, with RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 3 winner Raja Gemini and Trevor Rains. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Know and Jorge T. $4.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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

Scott Gessford @ Hotel Rex The local actor-singer performs Hookups & Hangups: The Music of Madonna, about one-night stands, cabaret-style; adults only! G. Scott Lacy accompanies. $30-$50.

8pm. 562 Sutter St. societycabaret.com

Sat 1

Ships in the Night @ The New Parish, Oakland

Calabash @ Food for Thought, Forestville Annual fall fundraiser for the food bank, including food, drinks, gourd art, and garden tours. $50. 1pm-5pm. 6550 Railroad Avenue, Forestville. (707) 8871647. www.FFTfoodbank.org

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Luis.

7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Paige Turner @ Oasis The sassy New York queen (Michael Musto dubbed her the Holly GoLightly of drag) performs her comedy & song show, Confessions of an Un-Natural Blonde. $20-$30. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Mon 3

Peaches @ Mezzanine

Afternoon Delight @ The New Parish, Oakland DJ Justime and pals’ fun patio queer dance party, with guest DJ Collin Bass and Allen Craig, plus performer Kale Mary Soup & Salad, local vendors artists and food. 3pm-8pm. 1743 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. www.thenewparish.com

BeBe Sweetbriar’s Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st.

920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night.

9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany’s weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Mule Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy frosty Moscow Mule cocktails in a brassy mug, specials before 8pm.

2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

No No Bingo @ Virgil’s Sea Room Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Soul Party @ Elbo Room

Sun 2

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe

Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. edgesf.com

The monthly women’s and queer hip hop dance party, with DJs Durt, Cremosa, Jibbz and Lady Ryan. $5.

9pm-2am. 1743 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. www.thenewparish.com

DJs Lucky, Paul, and Phengren Osward spin 60s soul 45s. $5-$10 ($5 off in semi-formal attire).

10pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. 5527788. www.elbo.com

Mon 3

Musical Mondays @ The Edge

Ships in the Night @ The New Parish, Oakland

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Peaches @ Mezzanine Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet often hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Sunday Brunch @ Thee Parkside Bottomless Mimosas until 3pm at the fun rock-punk club. 1600 17th St. 2521330. www.theeparkside.com

Unleash @ The Ivy Room, Albany Page Hodel and Mysdefy DJ the dance party at the lesbian-owned pub, with live performances by Alex U. Inn and Mailman of the hiphop group Kingdom. $10. 4pm-8pm. 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. (510) 526-5888. www.ivyroom.com

The art-pop singer returns for another wild rousing concert. $22. 8pm. 444 Jessie St. www.mezzaninesf.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht.

9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Tue 4

Bandit @ Lone Star Saloon New weekly queer event with resident DJ Justime; electro, soul, funk, house.

No cover. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.facebook.com/BanditPartySF www.lonestarsf.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Enjoy daytime partying with bears and cubs, plus fundraisers for the SF Fog Rugby team. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (Check the website for a list of recipients). 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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It didn’t start out that way. On September 25, 1964 the San Francisco Police seized a copy of Jean Genet’s film Un Chant d’Amour when it was shown by the San Francisco Mime Troupe at the Abandoned Church at 20th and Capp streets.

However, though police thought the film “filthy and crude,” they returned it, probably because obscenity cases were not going their way in San Francisco in the wake of the “Howl” trial, where the publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s famous epic poem

was not deemed to be obscene.

Police stopped Genet’s film from being shown in Berkeley and a subsequent case regarding it went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the film was declared obscene.

By 1966, there were already theaters in San Francisco showing straight “nudies,” which were mostly short 8mm loops. In 1967 the Roxie was the first theater to advertise their “adult films” in the San Francisco Examiner. In ‘68 the Screening Room Theater on 220 Jones opened and showed straight porn from owner Alex de Renzy, who battled San Francisco censors to show his films.

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The Park Theatre in Los Angeles was the first theater to show softcore gay porn on June 26, 1968, in what the owners Shan Sayles and Monroe Beehler called “A Most Unusual Film Festival.” The program included short films from Pat Rocco and Mike Kuchar. Sayles and Beehler would bring these film to San Francisco at the Park Show Room at 459 Geary beginning Oct. 1, 1969.

When Sayles arrived, he already had competition. The Harding Theatre at 616 Divisidero began showing gay films on June 30, 1969. Though the Harding is better known as a rock venue where the Grateful Dead played, it was also the An ad for Song of the Loon. first movie house that showed gay films in San Francisco.

The police Bureau of SpeStreet) and Spartan Theater (150 cial Services (vice squad) got a Mason) spread adult theaters to new director in 1969, Ed Nevin. the gay neighborhoods of the Polk, Nevin decided to institute a new Castro and Tenderloin. Even the policy to stop the proliferation Strand Theater (1127 Market) got of porn theaters in San Francisinto the act in 1983 (the balcony co: arrest the patrons of movies had something of a sex scene going as well as the owners. even before the gay films started), During August and Sepbefore being recently renovated tember, police shut down the into a new theatre by American Screening Room, the Peerless Conservatory Theatre (a few salTheater (148 3rd Street), the vaged seats from the old theatre are Reel Theater (1013 Mission), by the downstairs bathrooms).

Gay Paree (122 Sixth Street) and What was missed by the moral the Nob Hill (729 Bush), arrestcritics was that many of these vening patrons and owners alike. ues contributed to the community.

It had an unintended conseJohn Karr, long-time porn reviewer quence. Within a year both the for the Bay Area Reporter, told me Peerless and the Nob Hill began that when Clif Newman moved showing gay films. The Peerless from managing The Nob Hill to the had two screens and showed East Of Castro Club, he created “viboth gay and straight films. The sual tone poems of porn,” often runNob Hill changed owners (being ning multiple films and slide projecbought by Sayles) and went gay. tors for a multi-layered artistic effect.

The police policy lasted only Artists and thinkers like porn aca few months. By November tors Scott O’Hara and Aiden Shaw 14, they went back to citing the came to our community from owner of the theater and seiz- Kenneth Marlowe aka Mr. Madame. this world. Mister Marcus held ing the film being shown. That charity slave auctions at Savages, day, the target of the raid was and Turk Street Follies held AIDS the Showroom Theater (as the considering strategies for “drying fundraisers. press then called it) at 459 Geary. It up these moral cesspools” and said, Ultimately it was the VCR, the was the only authorized police raid “I am outraged not only as a superDVD and the internet that closed on a theater showing gay “adult” visor but as a citizen, a wife and a most of them, not moral naysayers. theater in San Francisco I found remother as well.”

And in the end which side would ported in the press.

Feinstein also took her campaign you rather be on – Dianne FeinThe theater was showing Kenneth to a meeting of the Society for Indistein’s or Pee Wee Herman’s?t Marlowe’s The 12 Faces of Love. Povidual Rights in 1971. The Berkeley lice watched the film for about 20 Barb reported she told them: The author would like to thank minutes, stopped the screening, cited “The gay community’s wellJohn Karr and Jack Fritscher for the owner and seized the film. Marmeaning goals and aims will not be their assistance and information.. lowe, also known as “Mr. Madame,” realized by the sick films that are bewas not cited. The author of a book, ing shown in smut theaters. Porno also called Mr. Madame, told the movie houses and bookstores and press, “I’ve never been arrested, even smut papers are making it harder when I ran a house of ill repute.” for the gay community to become He was there to give away a door part of the accepted mainstream of prize: one of the male models in the America.” film (the police left the door prize Though Feinstein’s campaign behind). Marlowe described the against porn would continue film as “an astrological sort of film through the 1970s, it did not have about sex.” much effect. There was an explosion Marlowe went on to perform in of gay theaters.

The Kenneth Marlowe Show at the De Renzy’s Screening Room went Nob Hill through 1971 and later gay in 1980 and become Savages and lectured in prisons about homothen the Campus Theater, which sexuality and transgender topics, closed in 2004. The Aquarius Theater transitioning and becoming Kate stopped showing art films in 1976 Marlowe in 1974 (and marrying an and became the Tea Room. Sayles inmate, becoming Mrs. Robert Lonwould open the Century Theater nie Barnes in 1977).

(816 Larkin) in 1978 and it would Police raids largely stopped by remain gay till new owners took over A murky image of the Tom Cat 1970. On May 17, The Nob Hill bein 1989. The New Laurel (2111 Polk) Theatre in the 1960s. gan showing gay films and continand East of Castro Club (3968 17th ues to do so today. The first gay film shown was Song of the Loon, from the novel of the same name. Richard Amory, the author of the book, wrote the first movie review for a gay porn film in San Francisco in the July 1970 issue of Vector. He was not pleased. In his review “Song of the Loon Becomes a ‘Looney Tune,’” he disassociated himself from the film.

Though the raids had stopped didn’t mean there was no further objection to the films. The San Francisco Examiner ran a series of articles early in 1970 with titles like “Underworld Link To Porno Films” which suggested connections between sex in films and crime.

By November, they had an ally.

Newly elected supervisor Dianne Feinstein visited a porn theater in A scene from Jean Genet’s film Un Chant d’Amour. the Mission and didn’t like what she saw. She told the paper she was

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Hella Saucy @ Q Bar Queer dance party at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Hysteria @ Martuni’s Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 6pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents with MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7. Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down as the strippers also take it all off. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Queer Jitterbugs @ The Verdi Club Enjoy same-sex (and other) swing dancing, with lessons, social dancing, ASL interpreters and live music. $15.

9pm-11:45pm. 2424 Mariposa St. at Potrero. www.queerjitterbugs.com

Retro Night @ 440 Castro Jim Hopkins plays classic pop oldies, with vintage music videos. 9pm-2am.

44 Castro St. www.the440.com

Tap That Ass @ SF Eagle Bartender Steve Dalton’s beer night happy hour. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Under the Golden Gate @ The Stud Online nightlife talk show cohosts DJ Dank and Maria Konner premiere their new video newsmagazine, PUFF, all about pot. Donations for Yes on 64 (the legalize pot measure), with a gaggle of drag queen performers. 8pm-10pm.

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B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland

Varla Jean Merman @ Oasis

Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location.

No cover. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. bench-and-bar.com

The powerhouse drag star performs her new, hilarious musical parody show A Little White Music. See interview in this issue. $25, $35, and VIP champagne tables $225. 7:30pm.

Thru Oct. 8. 298 11th St. at Folsom.

795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Floor 21 @ Starlight Room Juanita More! presents the weekly scenic happy hour event, with host Rudy Valdez, and guest DJs. No cover, and a fantastic panoramic city view.

5pm-9pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440 Buy a drink and get a wooden nickle good for another. 12pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials. $4. 10pm-2am. Preceded

by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

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Under the Golden Gate @ The Stud

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The weekly gay/straight/whatever fetish-themed kinky dance night. $7$10. 9:30pm-2:30am. 1190 Folsom St. bondage-a-go-go.com catclubsf.com

LGBT Pub Crawl @ Castro

Bone @ Powerhouse

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West

Weekly punk-alternative music night hosted by Uel Renteria and Johnny Rockitt. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

The gay Jewish guys’ (and their pals & admirers) social party, themed High Homo Days, with hostess Kylie Minono. No cover. 9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences

Underwear Night @ Club OMG

Bondage-a-Gogo @ The Cat Club

Mazel Top @ Oasis

Weekly guided tour of bars. $10-$18.

Meet at Harvey Milk Plaza, 7:45pm.

Also morning historic tours on Mon, Wed, & Sat. www.wildsftours.com

The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm.

424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

Pussy Party @ Beaux Ladies night at the Castro dance club.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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Karaoke Night @ The Stud Sing along and sing out, Louise, with hostess Sister Flora Goodthyme. 8pm2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Our favorite Russian exiled countesssongstress (actor J. Conrad Frank) returns to the swanky nightclub with A Bittersweet ‘90s Symphony, a comedic all-90s & grunge cabaret show about her life in Seattle (See interview in this issue). $30-$50. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Oct. 6: Gems and Minerals, with DJ Bobby McCole, geology chats and displays. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Shonen Knife @ DNA Lounge The super fun Japanese pop-rock trio performs. $15 and up. 8pm. 375 11th St. www.shonenknife.net www.dnalounge.com

Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels Groove on wheels at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the “Godfather of Skate.” Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm.

Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St. at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com Want your nightlife event listed?

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Shining Stars Steven Underhill Photos by

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he sweltering heat didn’t melt the kinky rubber, latex and leather gear among the thousands of attendees at the annual Folsom Street Fair. Skimpy outfits, drinks and dancing, plus lots of strutting and sun block made for a great fair, with admission proceeds going to a variety of deserving local nonprofits. Along with the several official parties, it made for a hot weekend! www.folsomstreetevents.org More photo albums are on BARtab’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at www.StevenUnderhill.com.

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