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Los Angeles man sues San Francisco Pride for $10 million UTAH ⚫ 5

Salt Lake City gets a lesbian mayor and a famous, out city councilman AIDS ⚫ 3

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Palm Springs elects 3rd consecutive gay mayor, 3 new gay council members An eventful election filled with allegations of corruption, Palm Springs seals its reputation as the Gay City in the Desert.

In an apparent mood to clean house after months of scandal swirling around City Hall, Palm Springs voters Tuesday elected three newcomers, all gay men, in races for mayor and two city council seats.

In a contest dominated by the ethical scandal involving outgoing gay Mayor Steve Pougnet, centered on his ties to a local developer, the winner in the eight-person contest to succeed him was gay retired Navy Commander Robert “Rob” Moon.

According to unofficial returns Wednesday morning, with all precincts reporting, Moon had placed first with nearly 37 percent or 3,529 votes.

“We had no paid consultants, no paid staff. We had 75, 80 people who came in every day for the last eight months and worked their hearts out for us,” Moon told his supporters at his election night party, as seen in a video posted online by the Desert Sun. “Just because they believed in us. It is the most amazing feeling in the world and I can’t thank you enough.”

Moon, who has been with his husband, Bob Hammack, for 34 years, defeated lesbian City Councilwoman Ginny Foat, who came in second with 25 percent or 2,420 votes.

Foat, the city’s sole female council member, had secured endorsements from a number of LGBT groups, such as the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund,

LGBT statewide advocacy group Equality California and the Desert Stonewall Democrats. But she faced questions during the campaign about her own votes on certain development deals backed by Pougnet.

She will remain on the council for the next two years, as her term doesn’t expire until December 2017.

Also in the mayoral race was former mayor Ron Oden, whose election in 2003 marked the first time an African American and a gay candidate had been elected mayor of the Coachella Valley city. But Oden only served one mayoral term as he opted not to seek re-election.

He placed third in Tuesday’s mayoral race, with 1,258 votes or 11 percent.

In the race for two seats on the city council, incumbent City Councilman Paul Lewin, a straight LGBT ally, appears to have lost his bid for a second four-year term. As with Foat, Lewin was hit with campaign ads that painted him as being part of the problem at City Hall.

The victors in the six-per son council contest, should the current vote tally stand, are two gay men who both have ties to the Bay Area. Holding on to a 20-vote lead over Lewin is gay planning commissioner J.R. Roberts, who in the late 1990s was elected to Sausalito’s city council and served a stint as mayor before moving to Palm

Springs in 2001.

Based on the unofficial retur ns, Roberts had captured nearly 24 percent or 4,001 votes, while Lewin trailed behind in third place with 3,981 votes.

Roberts, who has served on the planning commission since 2011, had pledged voters that he would “bring a new perspective to the government of our city with integrity, honesty and transparency.”

The clear winner in the council race was first place finisher Geoff Kors, a former San Francisco resident who moved to Palm Springs in 2011 after resigning as EQCA’s executive director. He garnered 6,126 votes, or slightly more than 36 percent of the vote.

Kors, whose husband, James Williamson, was elected last fall to the Palm Springs school board, currently works for the National Center for Lesbian Rights as a senior legislative and policy strategist. He will be replacing gay City Councilman Rick Hutcheson, who opted not to seek a third term this year.

“I think, first, we had a great campaign team who really worked hard and we had a very detailed plan on what we wanted to accomplish for the city,” Kors told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview Wednesday morning.

In terms of ethics and transparency, Kors said he felt they were “one of the, if not the, top issues in the race.”

Pougnet, elected in 2007, had been expected to seek a third term as mayor this year. But he announced in May that he

Gay retired Navy Commander Robert “Rob” Moon.

would instead step down.

His announcement came weeks after the Desert Sun broke the news that Pougnet had voted to support a land sale sought by a local developer who had hired the mayor as a consultant. The news sparked an ongoing political ethics scandal, with Pougnet admitting he had “made a mistake” in not recusing himself from the vote.

But Pougnet also insisted that he had informed his family months prior to the newspaper’s reporting that he had decided to step down as mayor when

his term ends in December.

The state Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating Pougnet, and last month, agents from the F.B.I. and the Riverside County District Attorney raided City Hall and seized documents from Pougnet’s home.

The questions around city hall corruption became a focal point in the races for both mayor and the two city council seats. It was the main talking point at candidate forums and popped up in political hit pieces GAY CITY continued on p. 18

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L.A. resident seeks $10 million in 2013 SF Pride shooting Gardner maintains that after the shooting “he was left to bleed out,” and that lax security resulted in his shooting. His is one of two shooting at that years parade.

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rganizers of San Francisco’s LGBT Pride celebration, who are being sued by a gay man who was shot at the 2013 festival, are headed to trial after last-minute settlement talks collapsed Tuesday.

Trevor Gardner, 25, of Los Angeles, filed his lawsuit in 2014 claiming that lax security was to blame for the incident, in which he was shot in the leg.

Much of the trial, which is expected to start next week and which Gardner’s attorney has estimated will take five weeks, is set to involve exactly what San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee officials could realistically do to boost security. Discussion will likely include metal detectors, which SF Pride doesn’t currently employ.

In an October 1 declaration, Forrest Franklin, whom SF Pride has designated as an expert witness on security in the case, pointed to differences between the San Francisco and Los Angeles Pride festivals and sought to explain why certain security measures would be impractical at the Bay Area event.

At the Los Angeles party, attendees “allegedly” have to go through metal detectors, he said.

San Francisco’s Pride is “many times larger than any

other similar event, including the Los Angeles Pride event,” Franklin said, and it’s “held within a large footprint of the city, covering many city blocks,” while the Los Angeles festival “is held within a single site.”

The San Francisco celebration footprint “encompasses numerous privately-owned properties, including commercial properties, parking garages, long-term hotels, and other properties in which individuals would likely to be present irrespective of the occurrences of any San Francisco Pride event.”

In documents filed Tuesday, Maria Caruana, Pride’s attorney, made similar comments.

Los Angeles’ Pride event, “is fundamentally different” from San Francisco’s festival, Caruana said.

Among other issues, LA Pride “occurs inside an enclosed park,” while San Francisco’s celebration “includes a parade and occurs in a 7 x 4 city block area.”

The Los Angeles event has at most drawn 90,000 people in recent years, while at least 500,000 come to San Francisco’s Pride, Caruana said, citing a witness deposition.

Franklin talked more about metal detectors in his declaration.

“Metal detectors and similar perimeter security

measures are no guarantee against the presence of weapons,” he said.

“In addition,” Franklin said, “simple math extrapolation supports the premise that screening the hundreds of thousands of persons expected under the permit language would require sever al nonstop 24-hour days to process, assuming all gates were equipped [and] staffed ... .”

He also said the shooting, in which no arrests have been reported, “is consistent with gang violence,” and those “incidents are extremely difficult to control.”

Gardner alleges that after the shooting “he was left to bleed out,” Franklin said, but based on his evaluation of the incident, he said police “were on the scene within three minutes of the shooting. In fact, the first responder to the scene was then-San Francisco Police Deputy Chief John Loftus. ...

That one of the first responders was one of the highest ranking police personnel in the city is likewise an indication of the extent of the police presence” at the event.

Franklin also noted in his declaration that Gardner was shot at 6:35 p.m., minutes after the event had officially ended.

SF Pride “would not reasonably deploy crowd control measures to keep persons out of an event that had concluded,” he said.

In July, SF Pride filed a motion for summary judgment asking for the case to be decided without going to trial.

But in an order signed in October, Superior Court Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith

Trevor Gardner, 25, of Los Angeles. Facebook.

denied SF Pride’s request, and suggested the organization should require metal detectors and check people’s bags, among other measures.

“The causal link between defendant’s security failures and plaintiff’s injury is robust,” Goldsmith wrote.

Gardner is expected to testify in the trial, as are SF Pride and police officials, witnesses to the shooting, Gardner’s doctors, and security experts.

Caruana has also sought to get police Chief Greg Suhr to testify in the case, according to the court documents, but the city has rebuffed

that effort.

Gardner, who was accompanied in court by his parents, declined to comment on the case. SF Pride Executive Director George Ridgely, who was also in court, declined to comment, as well.

Eric Ryan, who was also shot in the 2013 incident at Pride, has also filed a lawsuit against SF Pride.

In his 2014 complaint, Gardner said he was seeking “not less than $10 million.”

Seth Hemmelgarn is an an assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter, the LGBT newspaper in San Francisco.

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Salt Lake City embraces LGBT candidates for Mayor and City Council

Former Utah Legislator Jackie Biskupski appears to have beaten her Democratic rival to become the state’s first openly LGBT mayor.

She wins props as a trailblazer in a conservative state. Openly gay Utah State Senator Jim Dabakis, speaking of her victory in an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune, said “generations of LGBT people could’ve only dreamed of this. Jackie is now an iconic gay leader.

This is a great moment for Salt Lake City — we’re not the stereotype people across the country think we are.”

Another LGBT trailblazer also triumphed in Salt Lake City.

Derek Kitchen, a Utahan who successfully sued to overturn the state’s same-sex marriage ban, handily won a Salt Lake City Council race. In December 2013, federal Judge Robert Shelby ruled in favor of Kitchen, his partner and two other lesbian couples suing for the right to wed.

Salt Lake City, long a bastion of sanity in an otherwise ultra conservative state, has embraced two LGBT candidates who ran on an inclusion platforms

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alt Lake City, Utah voters appear to have elected former state legislator Jackie Biskupski as the state’s first openly LGBT mayor, defeating incumbent Ralph Becker by a margin of 52 to 47.8 percent (at the time of this writing, Biskupski is leading Becker by 1,450 votes). Final vote tallies won’t be released until Nov. 17, but Mayor Becker did compliment Biskupski on a hard-fought campaign.

“I commend her, and really I’ve felt this way, she’s run a very, very strong campaign. And the votes that have been counted so far show her in the

lead, and it’s a reflection of the campaign she’s run, and I commend her for that,” the mayor said. “Beyond that, I think we’re going to have to wait and see what the final votes are.”

Both are Democrats.

Biskupski told supporters “I feel great. “We maintained that lead we had, and we’re going to finish strong, I know it.” She thanked “a diverse group of people from all over the city.”

Biskupski was the first openly LGBT person elected to the state legislature and the second Salt Lake City female Mayor.

Derek Kitchen (left) was a plaintiff in successfully challenging the state’s ban on gay marriage.

He is pictured here with his husband, Moudi Sbeity.

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HIV & AIDS

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Larry Kramer: no leadership on AIDS spells disaster “It’s clear that you have a limited time of effectiveness in Washington if you really are doing anything. If you’re not doing anything, you can stay there indefinitely,” said Dr. George Mueller, whose tough-minded management dauntlessly and successfully supervised getting a man on the moon and then immediately leaving NASA and Washington to return to the private sector. Dr. Fauci has been in Washington for some 40 years.

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come before you once again to tell you that the state of research for some kind of cure for AIDS at the National Institutes of Health is in the toilet.

As reported in Poz, a statistical model has predicted that over the coming years, if present trends continue, by 2035 there will be 1.39 million cases of AIDS in America alone, and some 435,000 deaths, costing the healthcare system some $256 billion.

Last year, an estimated two million people were newly infected with the virus worldwide, according to data from UNAIDS. In America, one in eight people infected with HIV do not even know they are infected. One in four new HIV infections occur among youth and young adults ages 13 to 24. Moreover, there was a 22 percent increase in new HIV infections among

gay and bisexual men in this age group between 2008 and 2010. In Los Angeles, as reported recently in The Pride L.A., recent years have seen the number of new HIV cases at around 4,500 annually, and nationally that number is around 30,000. “In 1995, a record 50,877 Americans with AIDS died — a one-year count rivaling the 58,000 Americans lost in the entire Vietnam War.” (Frank Rich, New York).

HIV and AIDS patient death rates have dropped significantly among western nations thanks to treatment successes.

But treatment is not always gentle.

I have dutifully taken my AIDS meds since they became available and still have respectable T cells and undetectable levels of HIV. Yet I have almost died twice. I spent most of last year in hospitals. Hospital care in this city

— New York — is awful and depressing, especially when they can’t find out what’s wrong with you, which was the case for me.

All of this has been very expensive. Even with ample insurance, the resources my husband David and I now have to get us through our declining years are diminishing. For the first time I am frightened, particularly for David, who is younger and who has sacrificed so much of his own career as a successful architect and designer to get us through all of this.

It was David, more than any doctor, who saved my life. I fear for anyone who suffers an AIDS related illnesses without such a caring partner.

As the survivor population ages, our situation will be an increasingly common one.

I recently spent the day with staff and volunteers at New York City’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis. Under the dynamic leadership of the agency’s C.E.O., Kelsey Louie, and Board Secretary Roberta Kaplan, the organization (which was started in my living room in 1982) serves more than 9,000 clients and feeds several hundred every day. Many of the volunteers and staff of 90 are working there in memory of loved ones who died of AIDS. It was an exceptionally moving experience for me to be with them. They witness first hand and on a daily basis the impact of all I am talking about. They see the many difficulties patients face in their

daily lives, the financial toll treatment imposes on families, the psychological impact it has on relationships, and the physical impact treatment has on many people (particularly as people age).

And now we have PrEP. We are lear ning that, like all HIV medications, it has side effects that manifest over time. Modest but significant bone density loss is now being seen in those taking Truvada (the only drug approved for PrEP) and more so in those taking a higher dose of Viread.

Peak bone mass is an important predictor of fracture risk later in life.

A doctor friend who is gay recently told me that the New York City’s department of health is concerned about an increasing number of deaths from drug-resistant gonorrhea, a disease, like all other STDs except HIV, PrEP offers no protections against.

This very same department of health has seen fit to close down the public health clinic in Chelsea, the neighborhood with New York’s highest HIV and syphilis infection rates Gonorrhea and hepatitis C numbers are out of sight .

The appointment of a new head of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health has been delayed again.

This is when my fear tur ns into anger and then rage. What is going on here? Or rather, what is not going on here? Or rather, what is still not going on here? This plague is 35 years old.

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OAR is where the research money is. Its director is the person who determines where that money should go, which research team should get and what they should focus on.

Its last director, Dr. Jack Whitescarver, a gay man whose tenure brought mixed reviews, retired on June 30. His impending departure was surely know for many months prior to June. One would think in a decent, well-managed, sensible, practical, and humane institution, his replacement would have been ready to seamlessly take over control on July 1.

But the NIH is none of these things. One is struck over and over how casually they waste time, and have done so for these 35 years (and counting) of this plague.

Several months ago, a small group of us (representing amFAR, GMHC, ACT UP, and Treatment Action Group) confronted NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, demanding

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to know what was happening, not only with a new OAR director, but also with the sorry state of their research.

It is no secret now that there’s no cure in sight and that Whitescarver and Dr. Anthony Fauci have been less than forthcoming about their failure to come up with very much. Dr. Fauci is the Director of NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which should be in charge of AIDS, but he is a director who is not allowed to touch the money, which must come via OAR via Dr. Collins. Talk about a bureaucratic nightmare! And all these years, Dr. Fauci has led us to believe that he’s in charge.

Anthony Fauci has said many times that he doesn’t want to retire until he finds a cure for AIDS. I once believed him. I once believed there was a cure for AIDS. Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, the NIH have done their best to refute this notion and tarnish my

hope.

“It’s clear that you have a limited time of effectiveness in Washington if you really are doing anything. If you’re not doing anything, you can stay there indefinitely,” said Dr. George Mueller, whose tough-minded management dauntlessly and successfully supervised getting a man on the moon and then immediately leaving NASA and Washington to return to the private sector. Dr. Fauci has been in Washington for some 40 years.

One in eight Americans infected with HIV still don’t know they have it.

According to Dr. Collins, a final candidate for the OAR director is expected in December or January at the latest. A search committee (which fortunately includes our Peter Staley) is currently reviewing the full packet of applications, and will be interviewing candidates on November 10.

They’ll send their “short list” of three or four recommended candidates

NIH director Dr, Francis Collins is pictured here with Hillary Clinton and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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Larry Kramer, playwright and author, founder of ACT-UP, was the first significant voice in the fight against AIDS.

to Collins about a week later. At that point, their job is done, and Collins picks from this list. God only knows how long he’ll take, and God only knows how long the new head of OAR will take to figure things out, to settle in, to fund new research.

A former head of OAR called a moratorium for an entire year while he tried to learn everything he was meant to know.

We do know Collins is

more interested in Alzheimer’s than AIDS and Congress is not interested in AIDS at all.

Any sense of urgency at the National Institutes of Health, which by charter is meant to look after the health of all the American people, is invisible and relatively non-existent. Time is being wasted on a never -ending daily basis.

That it will take this long to fill a vacated position for a new OAR chief is a

perfect example of how this place wastes time.

By Dr. Mueller’s definition they’re not doing anything. They’ve all been in Washington too long.

LARRY KRAMER is a founder of both GMHC a n d A C T U P. Vo l u m e One of his history of this plague,The American People, has just been published. Last year Yale University awarded him a Doctor of Humane Letters.

Dr. Anthony Fauci vowed he wouldn’t leave Washington until he found a cure for AIDS.

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MagicJack hustler gets 70 mos

Teofil Brank, gay for pay extortion artist and porn star

Teofil Brank, a.k.a. Jarec Wentworth, a gay for pay gay porno stared, scored an Audi sports car and $500,000 in cash from Donald Burns, the multimillionaire founder of MajicJack, but it may have been his pursuit of a $1,000,000 apartment that sealed his fate.

Brank was extorting Burns, by threatening to out him for soliciting other escorts for sex (already an open secret). Burns, a Republican who has donated to Democratic candidates and LGBT causes, while not entirely out, was not shy about being accompanied at high profile events with beautiful young men from the seancody.com gallery of models.

Brank was sentenced Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to repay $500,000 to Burns, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.

Burns allegedly met Brank when he several times paid him between $1500 and $2000 for sex. Later Burns paid Brank in advance to arrange sexual encounters with other escorts but Brank failed to deliver. When Burns protested and demanded the money back Brank in turn grew hostile, sending threatening texts: “I’m feeling evil right now, I can bring your

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Lesbians sue Hawaii claim kissing arrest

Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero

house down….Lies can be made or maybe it’s the truth…Money won’t wash away what people will read and see of you. Wow I guess I hold the cards right now.”

Burns’ lawyers engaged the FBI. Brank agreed to meet a man at Starbuck’s in El Segundo whom he believed to be a representative of Burns. The man, an FBI undercover officer, gave him the title to the car. Brank followed the representative to the parking lot to confirm that the trunk of the car contained one million dollars in cash he was also expecting. He was arrested on the spot and a fully loaded weapon was found in the car in which he arrived at Starbucks.

Brank, even today, claims the relationship was consensual and that he stold nothing. He claims he accepted offers of support, including the 200,000 dollar car and cash, that were initiated freely by Burns.

He has also accused Burns of making violent threats, raping him and of having sex with minors.

Brank also claims his identity is confused with another person.

Brank had been facing up to 53 years in prison.

Of course, he’s still nice to look at.

A local lesbian couple thought nothing of holding hands and smooching in the grocery store until they were zip-tied

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ourtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero just wanted a little rest and relaxation so they decided to vacation in what they thought was paradise. They flew from Los Angeles to Hawaii in March and landed in hell on aisle two at Foodland Pupukea instead.

While shopping Wilson and Guer rero were holding hands, hugging each other and kissing in the store, prompting a homophobic cop to ar rest and jail them.

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday October 27, the couple claim Honolulu police officer Bobby Harrison, a 26 year veteran of the department, violated their civil rights, abused and harassed them before wrongfully arresting them.

“We were holding hands and I was kissing her cheek,” says Guer rero, when Harrison spotted them and began screaming at them from from the opposite side of the store.

“You girls can’t do that in here,” Harrison shouted. But the pair proceeded with their shopping and tried to ignore the off duty uniformed officer. “Take it somewhere else,” he said.

Approaching them while they were in the checkout line Harrison and a store employee threatened

them with trespassing. Wilson, alarmed at the aggression, called the police.

While Wilson was talking to 911, Harrison hit and grabbed her arm.

At that point Guerrero attempted to intervene and the officer stepped up his aggression, pushing the pair with his belly. “I got punched in the face by him,” Wilson said. “I split my nose open. We were on the ground.”

Employees of Foodland were or dered to pin the pair to the floor until someone found plastic handcuffs or zip ties to use as handcuffs. Wilson says they were taken to the basement of the store and there they were verbally harassed.

The couple were asked “if it was worth it, if we were happy where we are.”

“We were just shocked that it all happened.” They were arrested for assault (of an officer), jailed and forced to post bail. The only money they had available to them was what they had brought for the expenses of the trip and all of it was used to secure a 1,300 dollar bail bond.

Broke and not allowed, as a condition of their bail, to leave Oahu they wound up sleeping in a park.

Prosecutors dropped the case after several months but now the couple wants justice.

“I just think that what he did was absolutely wrong without a doubt,” Wilson said. “I just really want an example to be made.”

Harrison is currently the subject of an internal investigation due to the case.

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She’s back, again

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entucky’s ultimate parody of christianity, clerk Kim Davis is wasting more of your tax dollars by asking a federal appeals judge to toss out all the rulings issued by the district court — she was jailed for denying same-sex couples marriage licenses.

Davis’ attor ne on Monday Nov. 2, filed a 126-page document that claims U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning’s order that Davis issue same-sex marriage licenses was a religious liberty denying “rush to judgment.”

Davis, chief clerk of rural Rowan County, was jailed for five nights in September after defying that order. Her case inspired a misguided debate about the intersection of religious freedom.

Davis employed a tactic against the federal gover nment that had previously only been attempted against district court orders or individual states, ceasing the issuance of all marriage licenses rather than comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that legalized gay marriage. The American Civil Liberties Union, representing several couples whom she had denied, sued her and the federal judge ordered her to resume issuance of licenses. She refused and Bunning, holding her in contempt, ordered her to jail.

Davis’ lawyer is requesting that the appeals court rescind four lower court’s rulings, including the order forcing Davis to issue licenses and another which held her in contempt of court. Without any irony, the appeal brazenly

claims that the order ‘commandeered’ her duties in a public office to which she was elected.

“By imprisoning Davis and threatening to hold her hostage indefinitely as a prisoner of her conscience, the district court imposed direct pressure and substantial burden on Davis, forcing her to choose between her religious beliefs and for feiting her essential personal freedom on one hand, or abandoning those beliefs to keep her freedom on the other hand,” says her appeal.

When Davis retur ned to her duties she changed the language on the licenses of same sex couples by adding “pursuant to federal court order.”

Davis also sued outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear for ordering all Kentucky county clerks on the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling, directing them to immediately issue licenses to same-sex couples. The suit alleges that because he acted by fiat rather than as a legislator and that he showed no sensitivities to the religious concer ns of civil workers.

Republican Matt Bevin, a businessman referred to locally as “Kentucky’s Donald T rump, won that state’s gover norship the next day. Bevin, who had rallied in support Davis, handily defeated Democrat (and current Kentucky Attor ney General) Jack Conway.

Talking heads across social media and on TV attributed Conway’s defeat to his role in refusing to appeal a federal court decision striking down the state ban on same-sex marriage.

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Burnt is a masterful and humbling journey toward sobriety Burnt is a remarkably funny and emotional story about the love of food, the love between two people, and the power of second chances.

In the opening minutes of “Burnt,” we see its central character, Adam Jones, a former superstar chef who tanked his career through egomania and drugs, completing his self-induced penance of shucking one million oysters as a kitchen worker at a dive restaurant in New Orleans.

Reaching the last one, he ceremoniously eats it himself and walks out on his job without an explanation or a good-bye, aptly setting up the movie to come by establishing both his quest for redemption and the monumental ego which is his greatest obstacle. Those in real-life recovery will immediately recognize that struggle, and by presenting it so succinctly in its prologue, “Burnt” promises to chart a journey towards its resolution.

Making that journey for us onscreen is Bradley Cooper’s Adam, who plans to re-establish his reputation in worldclass haute cuisine by taking over his friend Tony’s London restaurant and earning the three-star Michelin rating that eluded him in his former career. In order to do this, of course, he must rebuild all the bridges he has burned- not only with Tony, who is not exactly eager to turn over his kitchen, but with the various members of the culinary team he betrayed and abandoned during his aborted rise to fame. There’s also the matter of a dangerous Parisian drug dealer to whom he owes a substantial sum of money, and if that weren’t enough, there’s

also Helene, a hot-shot sous chef he is determined to drag along with him to the top despite her dislike for him. Like any good addict, Adam sets about solving all his people problems through manipulation; admittedly, he’s a master at it, and before too long he’s stepped comfortably back into the role of a tantrum-throwing diva. The crucial ingredient in Adam’s recipe for success, however, is humility, and finding it may be a bigger task than he is ready to achieve- by himself, at least.

On the surface, “Burnt” certainly seems to get it right. It makes it clear from early on that in order to beat his worst enemy (hint: it’s not the Parisian drug dealer) he will need to learn how to connect with other people. Unfortunately, Steven Knight’s screenplay (from a story by Michael Kalesniko), takes it all by rote. It relies on formula and plot contrivances that feel all the more hollow because of the potential sincerity of its premise. It gives us a flawed protagonist and assumes that, because he is played by a handsome and likeable actor, we will be charmed by him despite his insufferable behavior; it sets up a romance between antagonistic people and relies on our accepting it because that’s how love works in the movies; it offers us predictable tropes like the gay best friend (Tony), the former colleague-turnedarch-rival, and the “unexpected” reversal of fortune; and in the end it relies on a “deus ex

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machina” twist to force a resolution. It’s a movie full of un-earned breakthroughs, in which events take place for no other reason than to advance the plot, and instead of character development we get one long cooking montage after another.

Those montages, for what it’s worth, are all handled with skill by director John Wells; he does an admirable job of bringing “Burnt” to the screen, keeping the camerawork simple as he showcases the elegant and authentic locations.

For their part, the actors also deserve a lot of credit. Cooper IS a likeable leading man, and an honest one- which is part of the movie’s problem, because he is so believable in letting Adam’s self will run riot all over the other characters that it’s hard to see any of his presumed charm shining through. Sienna Miller gives Helene nuance enough for us to regret that she’s relegated to being half of a story-mud-

dling romance; and Daniel Bruhl brings warmth to Tony, bestowing him with a dignity that helps to undercut the script’s awkward treatment of his sexuality. There’s also an all-too-brief appearance by Uma Thurman as a haughty food critic; and the always-welcome Emma Thompson, as a therapist, gives a disarmingly pleasant performance which covers the fact that her character speaks almost entirely in platitudes.

“Burnt” was once included on Hollywood’s “black list” of the best unproduced screenplays, and has had several stellar names (from both sides of the camera) attached to it before finally making it to the screen. I’m not sure how much it was rewritten along the way, but I suspect (if you’ll forgive the obvious culinary reference) that it was a case of “too many cooks.” In its final form, it’s a recipe that falls short of its promise, reinforcing our belief in redemption without helping us to rediscover it.

If you enjoy cooking montages, though, it’s the best movie you’ll see all year.

-John Paul King

BURNT Director: John Wells Screenplay: Steven Knight, Michael Kalesniko (story) Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl Playing: Sundance Cinemas West Hollywood, AMC Universal CityWalk 19, ArcLight Hollywood, Pacific Theatres at the Grove

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Jake Bailey Suicide stuns Hollywood

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Bailey posted this picture of himself, uncaptioned, on Instagram only hours before he was found dead.

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ake Bailey, 37, Hollywood’s top makeup artist, was found dead Friday morning, October 23, in his car.

While a coroner’s report is not yet complete, the cause of death is an apparent suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was found by his assistant.

“I’m trying to erase the video from my brain so I can still enjoy the song,” was the final post Bailey made on Twitter. It was one in a series of posts in which he made veiled references to personal turmoil and “many a dark day.”

Bailey’s personal assistant discovered him slumped over the steering wheel of his SUV and frantically dragged him from the vehicle in an attempt to revive him.

A neighbor heard Bailey’s assistant screaming and also tried to help resuscitate him, but it was too late. The neighbor says condensation had fogged up the the windows of the SUV in which Bailey was found.

Only hours before Bailey had posted an image of himself on Instagram in which he was was smiling. There are several reports of him scheduling future client appointments and taking care of everyday business. Other say he appeared happy in recent days.

Bailey was one of the industry’s most sought after makeup artists. His celebrity clients included Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts,

Kate Mara and Olivia Wild. His work been regularly featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, and Allure. He notably travelled the world with Paris Hilton.

Most famously he crafted the September 2014 Cosmopolitan Magazine cover of Katy Perry. There’s an extensive catalogue of his work on his official website.

Social media reaction for members of the LGBT community was intense.

Thousands of people spoke of his compassion and open spirit. Many of his closest personal friends wrote about about his struggle to talk openly about his own demons and how intensely helpful Bailey was when a friend needed an ear to talk about their addictions and struggles against relapse. Most were shocked that such a charmed life had ended so sadly.

Bailey was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and moved to New York City when he was 18. In New York he worked as a male model and at one point also worked for nightlife promoters Peter Gatien and Marc Berkley.

Before moving to Los Angeles he worked with New York photographers David LaChappelle and Tim Walker. He also crafted Vogue and Vanity Fair photo shoots.

A coroners report will be made available in the coming months.

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⚫ BY STEVE ERIKSON

Todd Haynes strikes a 1950s Hollywood pose with Carol The director of Far From Heaven brings together an incredible cast for another look at an era when same-sex romance was taboo

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onservatives like to romanticize the ‘50s and pre-counterculture ‘60s as a period of widespread prosperity when people of color, gays and/or women knew their place. The reality was more than a little different, as one can tell from bebop, early rock’n’roll and writing by the Beats. But it’s a hard period to film, especially since

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Frank Tashlin, Nicholas Ray and Douglas Sirk did a pretty good job of subverting it at the time. Gay director Todd Haynes seems enamored of it – following “Far From Heaven,” “Carol” is his second film set between 1950-1965.“ Mad Men” attempted to show how awful ‘60s life was if you weren’t a straight white man. Its first season was par-

ticularly heavyhanded about this point. Yet the show found a following of guys who saw something appealing in its depiction of smoking, drinking and open womanizing at work anyway. “Carol” suffers from much the same dilemma. It critiques and glamorizes ‘50s life at the same time. One could lay the same charge at “Far From Heaven,” but that film worked through a filter of movie references, as if watching an eclipse, instead of purporting to depict ‘60s life directly. Drawing both on Sirk and his ‘70s German disciple Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Haynes made a “melodrama,” albeit a com-

pletely sincere one. “Carol” is a melodrama without the quotes, but perhaps Haynes needs them.

Therese (Rooney Mara) works at a department store modeled after Macy’s. When the film begins, it’s shortly before Christmas. An attractive customer, Carol (Cate Blanchett), places an order but forgets her gloves. Both Therese and Carol are involved with men – although Carol is in the process of divorcing her husband (Kyle Chandler) – but they’re clearly drawn to each other. Therese comes out to Carol’s house in New Jersey to return the gloves. This forms the start of a dangerous but rewarding relationship. Unfortunately, Carol’s husband uses her road trip with Therese as well as a prior lesbian affair with Abby (Sarah Paulson) in court as a reason to deny her child custody.

Part of the problem with “Carol” is that its cast seems

to have stepped out of a ‘50s Hollywood movie. Butch lesbians hover in the background of a scene or two, but Therese isn’t one of them: rather, she’s a tomboy whose bohemian tendencies and androgynous looks evoke Audrey Hepburn. Carol exudes glamour – there’s never a shot in which she appears less than gorgeous. Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman fetishize the verdant greens of her warfare, the bright red of her lipstick and even her ever-present cigarette smoke. Kyle Chandler doesn’t have much to do but act like a macho oaf. The actor has been typecast as coaches, FBI agents and other kinds of authority figures, but he doesn’t do much here to prove he can expand his range. His work here is a far cry from Dennis Quaid’s excellent turn as the gay husband in “Far From Heaven.”

The opening scenes of “Carol,” in which Carol escapes a

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“Carol,” starring Cate Blanchett

party in a car on a rainy New York night, could be the cover of a ‘50s Frank Sinatra album. Indeed, the film’s most striking scenes take place in cars – Haynes and Lachman seem to like filming through windows. Perhaps this reflects their remove from their cast and characters, as men making a story about a lesbian couple. (However, screenwriter Phyllis Nagy is female.)

In one striking moment, Haynes cuts between enormous close-ups of Therese and Carol’s faces as light gleams off them.

Source novelist Patricia Highsmith based “The Price of Salt,” from which Nagy adapted “Carol,” in part on her own life but imagined things turning out better.

It was the first lesbian pulp novel with a happy ending.

“Carol,” the story of two New York women in the 1950s who fall in love

In real life, she fruitlessly stalked the woman Carol is based on. Highsmith’s misanthropy – she was a lesbian who hated women and a supporter of Palestinian rights who despised Arabs – is a far cry from Haynes’ buoyant film.

Haynes seems almost alone among contemporary LGBT filmmakers in being so drawn to the past. British director

Terence Davies may be his only peer in this tendency, and Davies’ work is overtly autobiographical. Haynes is too young to be filming his childhood, and he’s clearly not telling the stories of his parents’ lives either. He’s extremely literate, both in terms of books and cinema, but that knowledge has its limits. “Carol” suffers from a fascination with the past that

leaves out the protective filters from “Far From Heaven.”

CAROL Director: Todd Haynes Writers: Phyllis Nagy (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel) Stars: Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Cate Blanchett

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RECOVERY

⚫ BY JOHN PAUL KING

Trudging Buddies are big and they are coming soon The long road to sobriety is one of the most rewarding experiences one can have in life, and it’s a story worth telling All too often in life, it seems we have to choose between serving a greater good or indulging our own private pleasures.

Thanks to one altruistic group of L.A. guys, h o w e v e r, y o u c a n d o both. T rudging Buddies, a team of sober and sober -supportive (or “sober -adjacent,” if you prefer) cyclists and

roadies who participate every year in the AIDS/LifeCycle ride, has released a 2016 calendar for you to purchase, called “Straight Pepper Diet,” which features sexy pin-up photos of members of their team. With one simple action, you can lend your support to programs for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention

and support- while also guaranteeing that you can have a naked man to stare at in your house every single day of 2016. It’s a win-win situation, really.

Founded by Erik Zamora and Dave O’Brien in 2013, Trudging Buddies come together first and foremost as an AIDS/LifeCycle team, but also to celebrate what can be collectively achieved once an addict breaks out of the bondage of alcoholism and addiction. In their first year as a team, Trudg-

ing Buddies raised $125,000.00 to fight HIV/AIDS. The followi n g y e a r, t h e y r a i s e d $230,833.00. With its largest team yet, in 2016 they’ve set an ambitious goal of $300,000.00!

For those few of you who may not know, AIDS/LifeCycle is a 7-day, 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raises money and awar eness for the HIV and AIDS services of the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. This

ride marks the fifteenth year for AIDS/LifeCycle and the twenty-third for the event overall, and will take place during the week of June 5 June 11, 2016 D a n We n t z e l i s co-captain, with Adam Bass, of the 2016 team- and he’s also Mr. November in “Straight Pepper Diet.” Wentzel says he came to Trudging Buddies as a “midlife game changer,” to support a cause he believed in but also as a way to support people in recovery. “It never occurred to me that I could bicycle all the way from San Francisco to L.A., but I trained, and I can. And if I can do it, anyone can do it!”

As for the calendar, We n t z e l s a y s : “ E v e r y cyclist has to raise at least $3000, so to assist… we come up with individual and team fundraising idea.

Somebody suggested a pin-up calendar, something that had been done successfully in the past.” There’s an additional reason behind it, though, besides just the notion that sex sells. “Sometimes people have this fear that if they get sober or clean that somehow the fun ends… we wanted to show that being sober is not only fun, but it’s also sexy.”

“Straight Pepper Diet” (the name is a tonguein-cheek reference to a line in the “Big Book” of Alcoholics’ Anonymous) is available for pur chase now. Sales of the calendar raises funds for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention by sponsoring the rides of T rudging Buddies cyclists in AIDS/LifeCycle 2016.

-John Paul King

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Houston, we have trouble “

No men in women’s bathrooms.”

Those five words animated a campaign based in fear and deception that used anti-trans rhetoric to take down an equal rights ordinance in Houston, Texas, which protected 15 classes of people from discrimination.

After last night’s vote on Proposition 1, Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was repealed by the voters. The vote not only strips away protections for LGBT Houstonians, veterans, pregnant people, people of color (whom 53 percent of the discrimination claims impacted) and others, it also sends a very clear message to Houston and the country that when it comes to understanding and supporting transgender people, we have a long way to go.

Everyone loses in Houston, but the trans community, in particular, is reeling from months of vitriol that undermined the very core of their humanity.

The factually dishonest message

that HERO would permit men to enter women’s restrooms relied on a core belief that transgender women are not women. The opposition used fear about and misconception of transgender people to spin lies that the ordinance would make it legal for someone to claim to be transgender in order to enter a restroom and commit a crime — something that has never actually happened in the 17 states and 200 cities that already have protections for trans people. To be clear, the repealed ordinance did not even mention the word “bathroom,” let alone authorize violence. And when it comes to violence and harassment, trans people are far more likely to get harassed while trying to use the bathroom than anyone else.

All that HERO’s repeal actually does with respect to bathrooms is force more men, trans men, into women’s restrooms and place all transgender people in less safe and more precarious positions in all aspects of our

lives.

Though Houston is the latest battleground for this anti-transgender crusade by opponents of LGBT equality, this story is by no means a new one. We see efforts to undermine and demean the humanity of transgender people, particularly transgender women, everywhere from the pages of the New York Times to the stage of presidential debates.

In a year that has witnessed an epidemic of anti-transgender murders, it should be no secret that the messages these campaigns advance directly create the climate in which transgender people — mostly transgender women of color — are murdered. Sending the message that transgender people are deceitful predators who deserve no rights or respect cultivates a sense that we are disposable, unlovable, and shameful. It is this narrative that leads to violence.

If we are looking for answers to the epidemic of violence against trans-

gender women this year, we should start in Houston with the campaign that legitimized the lie that transgender people are less than human.

Despite this devastating loss and the many losses of life and legal protections we have seen this year, the community is full of strength and resilience. The story won’t end here.

Fighting the vicious and dishonest bathroom panic argument is key to winning equal rights across the board.

We have a serious problem. But we have long-shown that there are answers in investing in and mobilizing the most vulnerable and despised among us.

Let’s invest in trans people, trans communities, and trans resistance.

We are fabulous and transformative.

Chase is an ACLU Staff Attorney, LGBT & HIV Project

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for Moon once he is sworn in as mayor December 2.

The mayor of Palm Springs is a voting member on the city council along with four city council members. Thus, with the elections of Moon, Kors, and Roberts, along with Foat, the lone woman on the body, there will be just one straight member on the reconfigured council come next month.

Kors and Roberts will also take their oaths of office December 2. As the Political Notebook reported last week, Kors intends to push for the creation of an ethics and sunshine task force to review ethical issues at City Hall.

“My sense, talking to so many voters, it was less about needing new people than it was about what is the plan to move the city forward differently,” said Kors. “A lot of people put blame on the mayor for the FBI investigation. What people were constantly asking me was how are you going to avoid it happening again?”

directed at Foat and Lewin.

As of Wednesday morning, there were still 3,500 vote-by-mail ballots and another 1,600 provisional ballots to count in the race. Thus, there is still a chance that Lewin could pull ahead and win re-election. Nor had Foat conceded her race Tuesday night.

Elections officials are expected to report revised vote tallies Friday, as the city kicks off its annual Pride weekend festivities.

Moon will be the third consecutive out gay mayor to lead the southern California desert vacation destination. Palm Springs is home to many gay and lesbian retirees LGBT residents are thought to account for more than half of the city’s 47,000 residents – who make up a critical voting bloc in local races.

Palm Springs is also a magnet for LGBT tourists, though its image as a welcoming gay resort town has taken a hit this year due to reports of two gay bashings, the most recent occurring Sunday night.

Public safety is likely to be a top concern

Matthew S. Bajko is an assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter, the LGBT newspaper in San Francisco.

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