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Seven gay California Assembly candidates win primary races

by Matthew S. Bajko even gay California Assembly candidates won their primary races this week, ensuring that the current four-person LGBT Legislative Caucus in Sacramento will gain new members in 2011.

The outcome of Tuesday’s intra-party races had several firsts. Two gay men – Ricardo Lara and Rich Gordon – won their Democratic primary battles for seats in districts without LGBT neighborhoods.

And this fall will see the state’s first general election match-up between two out opponents for a legislative post with Democrat Toni Atkins, an out lesbian, running against gay GOPer Ralph Denney for San Diego’s 76th Assembly District seat.

Incumbents Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) were both unchallenged in their races Tuesday, as was gay Republican Eric Hickok, who has little chance of defeating incumbent Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) in the South Bay’s 22nd Assembly District.

Two gay men lost their bids for Assembly seats: Vallejo City Councilman Michael Wilson and Manhattan Beach Mayor Mitch Ward.

With Atkins expected to defeat Denney this fall, and Lara and Gordon facing token Republican opponents in heavily Democratic districts, the LGBT caucus should expand to seven members on Election Night in November. The largest the caucus has been is six members.

“Overall, the results were amazing,” said Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors. “Barring something extraordinary happening, California will have the largest number of openly LGBT legislators in the history of the nation.”

EQCA put considerable resources in numerous Assembly and Senate battles this week, not only donating thousands of dollars but also assigning staff members and volunteers to campaign for its endorsed candidates. Gordon credited the statewide LGBT lobbying group for helping with his get-out-the-vote operation Tuesday

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Rich Gordon won his Democratic primary race for an Assembly seat on the Peninsula.

Southern California Assembly candidate Ricardo Lara won his primary race.

in his race for the 21st Assembly District seat on the Peninsula.

“We were stunned and surprised yesterday when knocking on the door of our campaign headquarters was Geoff Kors and a team of a dozen people from EQCA who spent the day working on our campaign. I appreciated what they were able to do for me,” said Gordon, who has spent the last 12 years on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.

Gordon was the odds-on favorite to win his race but he faced stiff competition from political newcomer Josh Becker, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who tapped into his high-tech connections to amass a large campaign war chest. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, Gordon was able to hold back Becker’s bid with 38 percent of the vote, capturing 11,060 votes cast.

Becker fell short with 34 percent, garnering 9,889 votes. Former Palo Alto City Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto finished third with 28 percent or 8,294 votes. Gordon now will face off against Republican challenger Greg Conlon but

is expected to easily capture the seat this fall.

Nonetheless, he said he is not taking a victory for granted and plans to continue campaigning and staffing field offices in the district.

“I don’t intend to take my opponent in November lightly. I am going to continue to run this race,” said Gordon, who is married to his partner Dr. Dennis McShane. “I do think as I work initially to solidify the Democratic base here, I will have some time to help candidates in other areas.

I am more than willing to do that. In fact, I told Speaker Perez if I was successful Tuesday, I would be looking for some assignments.”

Having no opponent in the primary Atkins, a former San Diego city councilwoman, has already been funneling money to other Democratic candidates throughout the state. She received 21,798 votes Tuesday, according to unofficial returns, while Denney easily beat two GOP opponents to become the Republican candidate with 46 percent of the vote. It is his third time seeking the seat.

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an Francisco officials and state legislators, in conjunction with the AIDS Policy Project, last week recognized the accomplishments of Dr. Gero Huetter, the German doctor who made headlines in 2007 when his team achieved the first functional cure for HIV. “There have been many advances in antiretroviral therapy so people can manage their HIV/AIDS, but we need to get behind those Dr. Gero Huetter working on a cure,” said District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, presenting a proclamation from the Board of Supervisors during a ceremony outside City Hall on June 3. “What makes a cure possible is investment of resources and recognizing that it’s an achievable goal.”

In addition, Huetter, who was in San Francisco last week to attend the International Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium, also received commendations from Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (DSan Francisco) and state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).

The man Huetter treated – an HIVpositive American known as the “Berlin Patient” – required a bone marrow stem cell transplant due to otherwise untreatable leukemia. Huetter’s team managed to locate a donor who was not only a compatible match for the patient, but also had an uncommon genetic mutation that makes cells resistant to HIV infection.

HIV can use two gateways, or co-receptors, to enter cells, known as CCR5 and CXCR4. A small proportion of the population – estimated at about one in 1,000 people of European descent – has a mutation that prevents cells from producing CCR5. Individuals that carry the CCR5 deletion mutation are highly resistant to HIV infection, and those who do become infected may be “elite controllers” who are able to keep the virus suppressed without treatment.

The Berlin Patient received two transplants of hematopoietic stem cells from a donor with the resistance mutation, and his own immune cells were destroyed to eliminate the leukemia. This type of stem cell gives rise to all the various white blood cells that make up the immune system, so the procedure essentially replaces the recipient’s immune system with the donor’s.

After the first transplant, researchers were unable to find any evidence of continued HIV infection. Today, according to Huetter, the man is in good health, in long-term remission from leukemia, and remains HIV free. A report of the case appeared in the February 12, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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ringing her trademark “smart on crime” philosophy to the state stage, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris easily won the Democratic primary for California attorney general Tuesday, June 8, beating back a stiff challenge from former Facebook privacy chief Chris Kelly.

Now, the aim for Harris will be to defeat her Republican opponent, moderate Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, in November.

In the AG race, unofficial returns showed that Harris, a strong supporter of the LGBT community, received 33.1 percent of the vote. Kelly came in a distant second with 15.9 percent.

Cooley garnered 47.3 percent of the vote on the Republican side, preliminary numbers indicated, which put him ahead of John Eastman, who received 34.2 percent of the vote.

Brian Brokaw, Harris’s campaign manager, said over the next five months Harris “is going to make the case that the only way to be tough on bid for state attorney general.

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crime is to be smart on crime.”

“That means taking on the status quo of this revolving door justice system that cycles criminals in and out of prison and into neighborhoods,” he said, as well as “zeroing in on” violent street gangs. He also referred to Harris as “a champion for the environment” and said she will fight to support health care reform, explaining those are among the positions that contrast her with Cooley.

Brokaw said LGBT voters should support Harris because she’s “clearly” the only attorney general candidate “who has a long history of fighting for and working with the LGBT community around the state.

Whether it’s opposing Prop 8 and aggressively prosecuting hate crimes in San Francisco, Kamala Harris has a track record of siding with and fighting for the LGBT community,” Brokaw said.

Like Harris, Cooley also supports marriage equality.

Cooley’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris thanked supporters at her Brokaw also noted that Cooley victory party Tuesday night and will advance to the general election in her

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Research into lubes has worrisome findings

by Bob Roehr ew research has found that some lubricants used in anal or vaginal sex can cause damage to those tissues that can leave people more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Surprisingly, this is the first time that anyone has even looked at the question of whether basic sexual lubricants can cause damage to rectal tissue. The studies were presented at the Microbicides 2010 conference in Pittsburgh at the end of May. A decade ago research presented at the first microbicides conference showed that nonoxynol-9 (N-9), a spermicide added to many lubricants to prevent contraception, was extremely toxic to rectal tissue. Later studies demonstrated that it increased the risk of becoming infected with HIV through vaginal sex.

The gay community learned to avoid lubes containing N-9, and pressured manufacturers to remove it from most products.

This long overdue study of the lubes themselves put six of the most commonly used products to a series of tests used to evaluate the toxicity of potential microbicides – products that might protect against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

An online survey by International Rectal Microbicides Advocates identified the most popular lubes from among more than 150 brands and variations on the market.

It turned out that the most important factor is the osmolality, the amount of salts in the product.

Water-based lubes that were hyperosmolar “were actually damaging the epithelium of the rectal and cervical tissue,” said Charlene Duzzetti, the University of Pittsburgh researcher who led the study. “The one that was not hyperosmolar, that didn’t have any

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salts in it, and the silicon-based one, did not show any damage.”

The top layer of cells that provides the greatest barrier protection from disease was stripped away by the lubes.

The higher the osmolality of the lube, the greater the damage; but the damage was not as severe as what had been seen in tests of products using N-9.

Water-based lubes that scored poorly were Astroglide, Elbow Grease, ID Glide, and KY Jelly. The only waterbased lube that scored well, with no harm to tissue, was PRe. The condomfriendly silicon-based Wet Platinum scored equally well.

The openly gay founder of Wet Lubricants said he was not surprised his product did well in the study.

“According to the study, ingredients in some of the lubricants tested were found to be responsible for stripping away cells on the rectal tissue, thus increasing the risk of transmitting disease,” Michael Trygstad, founder and CEO of Trigg Laboratories, said in a statement. “The subject of the research study, the Wet Platinum prod-

uct we market, does not contain these dissolved salts or sugars and was found by the study to have no toxicity.”

A separate study, by UCLA researcher Pamina M. Gorbach, analyzed a group of 229 men who had engaged in receptive anal intercourse (RAI) within the last month, and 192 women who had done so within the last year. It asked about sexual behavior and tested them for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

It found that 76 percent used waterbased, 28 percent used silicon-based, and 17 percent used oil-based [Crisco] lubricants, often in combination.

The men and women who used lube at the last recorded RAI were about twice as likely to have chlamydia or gonorrhea as those who did not use lube.

“This suggests that the use of some rectal lubricant products may increase the risk of STIs,” Gorbach said.

Unfortunately, the sample was not large enough to see if there were any differences between the types of products used.

IRMA’s chairman, Chicago AIDS Advocate Jim Pickett, said it’s known that “dry” sex, with no lube, often results in great physical damage to the rectum. It may be more harmful than using even the most damaging lube.

He called for more research and urged the gay community to become wise consumers when it comes to purchasing lube, just as they did in shunning products containing N-9.

Duzzetti suggested looking for lubes labeled isotonic or isosmolar, or silicon-based and condom compatible.

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by Seth Hemmelgarn fter criticism over last year’s television and online broadcast, change is on the way for this year’s coverage of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.

Last year’s TV broadcast raised the ire of many in the community.

Local celebrity Donna Sachet, also the Bay Area Reporter’s society columnist, was among previous

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hosts who were gone from the airwaves. But this year, she’ll be back.

Sachet won’t be joined by Jai Rodriguez, of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame. Last year, Rodriguez made several on-air blunders that included not knowing who openly gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) was as he marched past in the parade.

Radio host Michelle Meow and journalist Sebastian Kunz, who also co-hosted last year’s coverage, will return this year.

SFPrideLive.com will show the parade live and uncensored on Sunday, June 27. An hourlong pre-show begins at 9:30 a.m.

A live broadcast will also be featured on Comcast Hometown Network, cable channel 104.

KOFY TV20/Cable 13 will air a primetime special on the parade beginning Sunday night at 8 p.m.

Comcast On Demand will offer coverage of the parade Monday, June 28, starting at 7 p.m.

Sachet, who said she’s “excited” about this year’s coverage, said Rodriguez was “a talented gentleman” but he had been “a little out of his element.”

She said Meow and Kunz “will be able to do a great job.”

The theme for this year’s Pride festivities is “Forty and Fabulous,” in recognition of this year being the 40th anniversary of the Pride Parade.

Val Klein, director of marketing at Clear Channel San Francisco and executive producer of the broadcast, said coverage is “centered around the historical nature” of Pride’s 40th anniversary.

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Bringing back Sachet, as well as other hosts from the past, is part of that.

“We’re reaching out to a wide variety of members of the community and we’re asking them to do pretaped segments,” said Klein. Community members’ segments will appear as their contingent passes in the parade. She said participants were still being confirmed.

Klein said there will also be a couple other “surprise guests who’ve done coverage from years past.”

As far as last year’s coverage, Klein said, “We did solicit feedback on our website, and it was based on that feedback that we heard you.”

Meow, who said this will be her fourth year as co-host, said there has been a learning curve. “We’re definitely open to all the comments we receive,” she said.

Kunz said, “What we’ve managed to create is really improving, and no one is perfect at this sort of thing.”

He said he and others have worked “really hard ... to create a watchable and all-encompassing broadcast.”▼

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Kaiser hospitals get top HRC ranking K

Some problem areas HRC’s analysis also revealed some troubling information.

Ninety-three percent of health care facilities included in the study do not have fully inclusive policies toward LGBT people, and 42 percent don’t include “sexual orientation” in their patients’ bill of rights/non-discrimination policy, according to HRC. The index independently reviewed a representative sample of 200 of the largest health care facilities nationwide.

stitute these much-needed policies.”

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Janice Langbehn speaks of the importance of same-sex patients’ rights during a press conference to announce that Kaiser Permanente had received a perfect rating from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality index. Kaiser representatives Christine Robisch and Ellen Leonard and HRC’s David Smith look on.

It also includes data from 178 facilities across the country that voluntarily provided information on patient non-discrimination, visitation, cultural competency training, and employment non-discrimination.

There is some overlap between the two lists.

Of those 178 facilities, 11 individual facilities, along with Kaiser, received perfect ratings.

The 2010 index is dedicated to the memory of Lisa Pond and the advocacy of her partner, Janice Langbehn.

In 2007, Pond was rushed to a hospital emergency room in Miami with a brain aneurysm, but Langbehn and their children were kept from Pond as she died. Media coverage of the incident prompted Obama to call Langbehn from Air Force One. Langbehn appeared at the news conference Monday and told the

story of the day Pond died. She took a long pause before recalling how she watched from the waiting room as other families with children were taken to see their loved ones without trouble.

The only thing “that made me different from people in that room was that I was gay,” said Langbehn.

In a statement, Joe Solmonese, president of the HRC Foundation, which is the education arm of the lobbying organization, applauded Kaiser’s inclusive policies.

“As the largest network of health providers to achieve a perfect rating on the Healthcare Equality Index, Kaiser Permanente is leading the industry toward a day in which LGBT patients can receive equal care in every hospital in America,” stated Solmonese. “HRC is proud to have worked with Kaiser Permanente to in-

Other Bay Area health care providers were also mentioned in the index.

The UCSF Medical Center has been a top performer in the index for three years.

Dr. Timothy Kelly, a professor of pediatrics at the UCSF School of Medicine, was at Kaiser Monday and said he was “very justifiably proud” of UCSF. Other area providers’ policies were a little less clear in the index, however.

According to information in the index for 200 of the largest U.S. hospitals, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco includes gender identity and sexual orientation in its patient bill of rights/nondiscrimination policy. However, it is not listed as a top performer.

Tom Sullivan, a co-editor of the index, said in a phone interview that California Pacific didn’t submit a survey that would have answered other questions for the index.

Kevin McCormack, California Pacific’s media relations manager, wrote in an e-mail that the provider had last taken part in the index in 2008. He wrote that HRC had recommended that in order to get a perfect score, they needed to add gender identity to their non-discrimination policy, which they did.

McCormack wrote that California Pacific met the remaining criteria for the index, but “we simply didn’t have time” to fill out the annual survey, due to staff shortages.

According to the index report, San Francisco General Hospital did not include gender identity in its bill

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aiser Permanente, which is headquartered in Oakland, has become the first large health network to have a fully inclusive nondiscrimination policy for LGBT people after updating its patients’ bill of Rights, the national Human Rights campaign Foundation announced this week.

Kaiser’s policy updates, which took effect in its network of 36 hospitals Monday, June 7, make Kaiser the first health network to achieve “Top Performer” status in HRC’s Healthcare Equality Index.

The health care provider has added gender identity to its patient bill of rights, which stipulates that patients are entitled to “considerate and respectful care,” among other rights, regardless of economic status, sexual orientation, and several other categories.

In addition, HRC’s 2010 survey required documentation of language specifically stating that visitation policies grant same-sex couples and parents the same access as oppositesex couples and parents.

Kaiser complied with that requirement, which had not been included in previous surveys.

At a press conference Monday at Kaiser’s offices in San Francisco, Ellen Leonard, Kaiser’s vice president of health plan and hospital operations said, “This isn’t a new commitment.”

Kaiser has a history of providing culturally competent care, she said.

However, she added, Kaiser’s “written policies were slightly behind our actual practices.”

Since 2008, the health care provider has participated in the index and has consistently moved up

in the rankings. The index started in 2007.

The 2010 index follows an April memorandum from President Barack Obama directing the Department of Health and Human Services to implement rules that require all hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funding – almost every hospital in the country – to protect the visitation and health care decision-making rights of LGBTs. Also, the Joint Commission, which accredits and certifies health care facilities, has announced fully inclusive patient non-discrimination standards as part of its accreditation process.

Besides looking at whether providers’ bill of rights or non-discrimination policies cover sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as their visitation policies, there are other rating criteria that HRC uses.

The index also looks at cultural competency training on health care issues related to LGBTs, and whether equal employment opportunity policies include “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity or expression” or “gender identity.”

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John Laird for state Senate lthough the California primary election just occurred, in two weeks residents in the 15th Senate District will vote again in a special election to fill the vacant seat. One candidate, former Assemblyman John Laird, is our choice in this race, and his victory would benefit the district – and the LGBT community – in several ways.

Laird, of course, is openly gay. But that’s not why we’re endorsing him. He has had a long career as a lawmaker, starting first in Santa Cruz, where he served as mayor, and later in the Assembly. During his tenure in the lower house, Laird, a Democrat, was responsible for updating many of the state’s laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He is a supporter of marriage equality. He also served as chair of the Assembly Budget Committee and knows first-hand about the state’s fiscal mess, making him one of the few people qualified to fix the problems.

Which leads us to another important reason to support Laird: if he wins, the Democrats would be one vote closer to getting to the twothirds majority they need to pass the budget in the state Senate. (If the Democratic candidate wins in another special election in November, the party would have the two-thirds needed in the Senate.) After all the gridlock of the past year that delayed passing the budget on time – only to see a multimillion-dollar deficit still unresolved – the Democrats need to get to this threshold to break it and pass legislation. One of the major reasons that the state’s budget process is broken is the two-thirds rule – a supermajority if you will – that currently allows Republicans to push problems into the future or threaten to gut muchneeded social and educational programs.

But more than just being an additional Democratic lawmaker, Laird is a qualified one. And he is a longtime supporter of the environment.

With the Gulf Coast disaster now in its 52nd day – and hundreds of birds and other wildlife dead on the beaches or near-death, covered in thick, toxic oil – it’s a good time to remind Central Coast voters about the importance of electing Laird to the state Senate. He has a 25-year record of opposing off-shore oil drilling. Recently, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to open up California’s coast to more off-shore drilling; thankfully, he quickly changed his position after

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the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of million of her own money to handily defeat her Mexico. One of the worst oil disasters back in primary opponent, state Insurance Commis1969 was in Santa Barbara, the result of a sioner Steve Poizner. Whitman has given every blowout on an off-shore oil platform. We don’t indication that she will continue her massive need another one. spending during the general election campaign.

Pointedly, Laird’s main opponent in Whitman is no moderate and she is against the special election, Republican Assemsame-sex marriage. During the primary bly leader Sam Blakeslee, not only campaign, she did not offer details about supports off-shore oil drilling, he once how she would solve the state’s budget worked for Exxon. Blakeslee also has crisis or improve education. Instead, she never supported LGBT legislation ran television and radio ads saying she while in office. was against unions.

The differences between Laird and his opBut Brown hasn’t exactly been very ponent could not be more apparent. Voters in specific either, and now that the prithe 15th Senate District should vote mary is over, both candidates need for John Laird on June 22. Let’s send to inform voters about where they E DITORIAL stand on the issues and present a an experienced, fair-minded legislator back to the Capitol where he can help plan for stabilizing the budget withmove California forward. out massive cuts to social services that will hit lower and middle-class people the hardest. They Off and running also need to tell voters what they will do to jumpstart California’s economy, which at 12 percent Billionaire Meg Whitman won the Republiunemployment rate is higher than the national can nomination for governor in Tuesday’s prifigure. mary election and she will face former Governor Californians are looking for a leader, not Jerry Brown, who had no serious Democratic someone who buys their way into public opposition, in November. office.▼ Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, spent $71

An exceptional, historic IML winner

by Demetri Moshoyannis ome members of the leather community are confused, upset, and even outraged.

Why are they so displeased? Our new International Mr. Leather, Tyler McCormick, is a transgender man in a wheelchair. That’s it – that’s the reason.

I met McCormick on Thursday, May 27 at the International Mr. Leather meet and greet for contestants and judges. I had the honor of serving on a panel of very distinguished and accomplished leathermen – and, one very exceptional leatherwoman – as a judge for the contest. McCormick, from New Mexico, impressed me right away with his generous spirit and outgoing nature. It was clear that McCormick was in a wheelchair, but, during our conversation, I could tell that his disability was not going to hold him back. We chatted briefly about his title and the Rio Grande area. I could tell instantly that McCormick is a special man.

Over the course of the next two days, the judges interviewed 52 leathermen, all competing for the title of International Mr. Leather 2010. Questions ranged from the political to the social to the downright silly. With only eight minutes per contestant, it can be hard to get a good sense of one’s background and personality, but we all did our best. We judged each contestant on his own merits. Not once did any judge ask to look at another judge’s scoring or try to compare notes.

With the scoring complete, a list of the Top 20 was compiled, based solely on the numbers given to our tallymasters. As the judges, we only knew our individual favorites, but we did not G UEST know the results of the Top 20 until they were announced on stage in front of us and the audience at the same time.

Over the next three hours of the contest, we judged each remaining contestant on Leather Image, Physique, and Speech. The judging was fast and furious; yet it was always professional, consistent, and fair. Each man performed at his best, answering questions from the MC and de-

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livering speeches of social meaning and depth.

Never knowing how other judges had scored the competition, we could only guess as to who was going to place in the top three. I guessed two out of the three correctly, and McCormick was one of them.

McCormick’s speech, in particular, was heartfelt and stirring, reminding us all that we are sometimes more frightened by our power and strength than by our failings and limitations. He also spoke honestly about his transition and the doubts expressed to him by friends and peers (e.g., “you’ll never be able to take your shirt off ”). Although referring to his gender identity, O PINION some of the judges thought he meant the transition from “boy” to “man” and assumed that he had body image issues like many of us gay men face in today’s world. It was not until after the contest had been called in favor of McCormick as IML that many of the judges had to be told that he is female-to-male transgender.

People are making claims that the judging was “fixed.” Frankly, there is no way to do that.

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And, more to the point, such claims only pit our leather brothers against one another. My friend, Lance Holman, did an incredible job representing the city of San Francisco, placing first runner-up in the contest. I am extremely proud of him! My explanation of the judging process above seeks to convey the transparency and impartiality with which IML conducts the process.

When McCormick’s name was called as the new IML, all of his class brothers left on stage surrounded him with a massive group hug, reminiscent of a sports pile on. Clearly, his colleagues were proud of him and happy for him.

That outcome is not something that we could have ever predicted as the judges. Those leathermen who knew McCormick best were the happiest of all with the decision. So, really, why are some people – those of you who probably do not know him – so upset?

Perhaps you do not agree with the weighting of the scores. Maybe you think more points should be afforded to physique and beauty so we can ensure that our IML is the guy we want to fuck (or have fuck us). Of course, then IML is nothing short of a true “beauty” pageant; and, is that really what we want? Be careful what you wish for. Personally, that is not what I would want.

To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., I trust that we can live in a nation where we are not judged by the color of our skin – or any other intrinsic trait – but by the content of our character. If you do not know Tyler McCormick, then get to know him. You should judge him on a personal level as a fellow leatherman, not based on what you have heard about him or preconceived notions that you may have because of his gender identity or disability. He is nothing short of exceptional, and he proved that to all of us at IML 32. Now, let us see what he does with his title year. I believe he will make us all proud. Just wait and see.▼ Demetri Moshoyannis is the executive director of Folsom Street Events. To see McCormick’s winning speech and his outtakes from IML 2010, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhUbtkRodzg.

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Painting the pink triangle

pink paint into the atmosphere, and not wearing protective masks. And these folks will probably tell us they are It is with profound sadness that I saw the painting of environmentalists! This behavior continued until late in the pink triangle on your front page [“Preparing for Pride the afternoon with nonstop spraying. weekend,” June 3]. Patrick Carney and his cohorts proved We, the park users, had been alerted just last to be preoccupied with their endeavors not to week about birds nesting in the bushes just see the environmental damage they caused. next to all this paint spraying activity. When First of all, on such a bright and sunny day, brought to their attention, that the nesting the small States Street park draws a small was taking place, there was no attempt to recrowd of park users, with or without pets, locate the spray guns, thus causing more families with small children, and just generaldamage. ly park lovers. Once Mr. Carney’s crew was Most of us stood in horror at this attempt under way, we, the users, were almost forced to stand by and allow the desecration of the M AILSTROM to do good while doing bad. And we suffer pangs of conscience since none of us called park. Once they completed their task, and any authority to stop this damaging behavyou can see this in your picture, the grass was ior. It was a terrible day to be gay and watch this unreacovered by several layers of pink paint, which, by Monday, sonable behavior continue. And the Rec and Park folks had killed the grass on the meadow. A fine greeting for the who did come to the park the following Monday, well, Summer Camp for Kids, sponsored by the Randall Musetheir thoughts can’t be repeated. Needless to say, there were um, which began Monday, June 7, and will be confronted a lot of angry park users, Rec and Park, and Randall Muby this outrageous pink paint. seum folks wondering what to do about the pink paint.

Furthermore, when asked if he had a permit to use the For shame, Mr. Carney. park in this manner, we only received a shrug of the shoulder. Among his volunteers were two young boys, about 10 Jim Higgins years old, who were busy using the spray guns, spewing San Francisco

Seniors Pride event in Berkeley compiled by Cynthia Laird avender Seniors of the East Bay and other organizations are holding the seventh annual LGBT Pride Celebration in Berkeley Tuesday, June 15 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Avenue. There is no cost to attend.

The afternoon will be filled with food, entertainment, and community giveaways.

Dan Ashbrook, director of Lavender Seniors, said the event is important because there are very few senior centers in the Bay Area (the state, or even the country) that celebrate LGBT elders or provide activities specifically for them.

By hosting the event, the North Berkeley Senior Center is raising awareness for LGBT N EWS older adults who have been traditionally invisible.

“LGBT older adults grew up in a time when it was considered sick and criminal to be gay,” Ashbrook said.

“Many had to hide their sexuality in order to avoid being arrested and institutionalized in addition to being shunned by family, friends, employers, and the community.”

Today, LGBT seniors continue to be among the most overlooked, underserved, and invisible populations in the country, he added.

Tuesday’s party is being produced

by Lavender Seniors and the Coming Out Again Group and is sponsored by the senior center’s advisory council and the Coffee Bar Club. For more information about LGBT Pride for older adults call the senior center at (510) 981-5190 or Lavender Seniors at (510) 667-9655.

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third annual LGBTQ Pride Picnic and Barbecue Sunday, June 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Heather Farm Park, 310 N. San Carlos Drive.

Organizers said that spouses, partners, kids, parents, and pets (leash laws are in effect) are welcome to attend.

The day is to honor friends and family members who support and embrace diversity, love, and pride.

The cost for adults is $10 in advance or $15 at the event, $5 for children under 12. There are also special packages available if people want to purchase a pride shirt. Tickets are available at www.rainbowcc.org or contact pride@rainbowcc.org or (925) 692-0090.

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Sunset cruise benefits Tenderloin Health

Tenderloin Health, which provides health and housing services to the homeless and residents B RIEFS of the Tenderloin, is celebrating 20 years of service with a sunset cruise on San Francisco Bay Thursday, June 17 from 5:45 to 9 p.m. The agency was created four years ago after a merger between the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center and Continuum.

Guests will leave from Pier 40, South Beach Harbor, in San Francisco and sail on the Commodore Fume Blanc for an hour followed by entertainment, silent auction, and an awards presentation. Tickets are $125.

Those being recognized by the agency include Barbara Garcia, deputy director of the Department of Public Health; and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund. The health department collaborates with Tenderloin Health in providing medical and HIV services. The Goldman Fund has supported the agency since its beginnings.

Jazz musicians Chuck Gee and Friends will provide entertainment.

Pride picnic in Walnut Creek Tickets are available by contacting The Rainbow Community Center (415) 437-2900, ext. 104 or in Contra Costa County will hold its zareh.amirkhanian@tlhealth.org.

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of rights. Sullivan also said that the foundation had not received a survey from the hospital.

Rachael Kagan, spokeswoman for SFGH, said its non-discrimination policy doesn’t include the words “gender identity,” but “we do have a broad anti-discrimination policy” that includes sexual orientation, race, and several other categories.

Asked why gender identity isn’t specifically included, Kagan said, “I don’t think that it was something we ever felt we needed to spell out. ... We certainly don’t discriminate based on gender identity or any other identity, and we have a long, proud history” of serving transgender people.

“I believe that it was not seen as necessary to be explicit, because it’s

something that is second nature to us. But we could certainly revisit that,” she said.

Kagan did not know if the hospital had responded to the survey, but she explained how the hospital’s practices meet all the other criteria for the index.

She also said the hospital was the first in the country to open its doors to people with HIV and AIDS. According to the index, Stanford Hospital and Clinics’ visitation policies do not specifically grant samesex couples the same visitation access as different-sex couples and next of kin.

Sullivan said, “As with so many others, [Stanford] honestly would say they do their best to treat everyone equally,” but “our emphasis is on specific language.”

But Gary Migdol, Stanford Hospital’s director of communications,

Homeownership workshop The San Francisco LGBT Community Center is hosting an indepth homebuyer’s educational workshop on June 15 and 17 from 6 to 9 p.m. both days. The workshop is being taught by Ethan Pope, one of the nation’s most respected homebuyer education instructors.

Topics to be covered include credit repair and saving money, financial benefits of owning a home, and other information designed to inform renters about the entire homebuying process. Upon completion of the homebuyer education, people will be eligible to apply for a variety of homebuyer assistance, including free, one-on-one counseling, and other programs available through the Mayor’s Office of Housing.

The workshop is also a necessary step to qualify for down-payment assistance available through the mayor’s housing office. Participants who complete the program will be paired with a professional housing counselor who will assist them with a personal action plan.

For more information, contact the LGBT center’s economic development program at (415) 865-5515 or visit www.sfcenter.org.

GAPA looking for ‘Runway’ contestants The Gay Asian Pacific Alliance’s “Runway 22: GAPA Goes Wild” takes place in August but organizers are now accepting applications from gay Asian and Pacific Islander men residing in the Bay Area who are interested in competing for the titles of Mister or Miss GAPA 2010.

Entry forms can be found online at www.gapa.org through June 30.

Winners of Mister and Miss GAPA receive a crown and tiara, respectively, sashes, and cash prizes.

They will also represent GAPA as ambassadors to the community atlarge. The contest is August 14.▼ said in an e-mail that the index is not accurate in regards to those particular visitation policies.▼

Clarification The June 3 article “Milk Club dinner celebrates progressive politics,” should have included the following information on the honorees: In addition to presenting [Angela] Davis with the Harvey Milk Justice Award, the club also celebrated several other local activists. Maggi Rubenstein, Ph.D., received the Harry Britt Lifetime Achievement Award for promoting awareness of bisexuality and for her sex-education advocacy, while Angela Chan of the Asian Law Caucus received the Bayard Rustin Award for her work on behalf of immigrant families. The online version has been updated.

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by Matthew S. Bajko ransgender judicial candidate Victoria Kolakowski came in first in her historic bid for a seat on the Alameda County Superior Court in Tuesday’s primary. She

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now advances to a fall runoff election and is one step closer to being the first out transgender person elected as a trial court judge in the country’s history.

Across the bay deputy public defender Linda Colfax, an out lesbian, won her bid outright for a seat on the San Francisco County Superior Court in Tuesday’s primary, while openly gay attorney Michael Nava blocked sitting Judge Richard Ulmer from retaining his seat on the court this week and forced him into a runoff race this fall.

“On both sides of the bay it was a very good night for LGBT judicial candidates and our community. We did very well,” said Kolakowski.

In her second campaign for the bench Kolakowski, an administrative law judge for the state Public Utilities Commission, garnered 60,254 votes or 45 percent, according to unofficial returns with all precincts reporting.

She will face off against Alameda County Deputy District Attorney John Creighton, who received 42,950 votes or 32 percent of the total.

Landing in third place was Louis Goodman, a criminal defense attorney and former P OLITICAL Alameda County prosecutor, with 29,422 votes or 22 percent of the total.

The challenge now for Kolakowski, the wife of Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird, is to attract Goodman’s supporters to her campaign.

Going in to the June 8 election Kolakowski expected to win the majority of progressive voters while her opponents split the votes of the more conservative electorate. Combined, the two male candidates netted 72,372 votes, enough for one of them to have won the race outright this week.

In Kolakowski’s favor is the fact that Alameda County voters have not elected a sitting deputy DA to the court in more than 30 years. Nor do they elect white men; they have, instead, favored female and minority candidates. Also, the fall election is expected to attract more Democrats and independents to the polls, which could aide Kolakowski.

“The electorate or people voting in November will be a different segment of the total public. With contested Republican primaries, they had higher turnout. A lot of independent voters didn’t vote at all,” she said.

Her election will be a key race for LGBT groups this fall. Equality California, the statewide LGBT lobbying group, has already made it a top priority, while her first place finish this week is sure to boost attention to her campaign from the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.

Nava’s race against Ulmer in San Francisco is sure to be another highprofile campaign for EQCA and the LGBT community. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, Nava took first place with 34,327 or 46 percent of

the total with Ulmer coming in second with 31,630 votes or 42 percent.

A third candidate, openly gay attorney Daniel Dean, garnered 8,964 votes or 12 percent. Ulmer said he always knew he would have to beat Nava and expected it to be a close primary with progressive voters in the city drawn to the polls due to the race for seats on the Democratic Party’s governing body.

“We are looking forward to doing a direct one-on-one comparison of our qualifications now, which we weren’t able to do before,” said Ulmer, a former GOP member who was appointed to the bench last summer by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I think progressive forces in San Francisco turnout well for every election but in the fall it will be a different electorate.”

Nava said Ulmer “is dreaming” if he thinks his chances will be better this fall considering it was Republicans with the majority of contested races on Tuesday’s ballot. He also said that had Dean not been in the race, he likely would have won outright this week.

“I won yesterday and Ulmer lost so that is going to make fundraising sigN OTEBOOK nificantly easier for me,” he said.

“San Francisco voted for diversity again.”

Colfax pulled off a surprise victory outright Tuesday night considering she was in a four-person race. According to the unofficial results, she captured 40,725 votes or 53 percent of the total, winning a clear majority to avoid a runoff election.

Her closest opponent was Assistant District Attorney Harry Dorfman, who received 23,863 votes or 31 percent. Trial attorney Roderick McLeod took third with 6,892 votes or 9 percent, while openly gay attorney Robert Retana trailed in fourth place with 5,559 votes or 7 percent.

Colfax said Wednesday morning she had yet to adjust to being called “judge.” She said she was shocked that she won the judicial seat outright.

“Most of the people who are in the business had braced me for the fact with four people in the race there likely was going to be a runoff. I was cautiously optimistic and thrilled and surprised when I saw the results,” said Colfax, who credited her win to the grassroots support she received.▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column looks at state Senate races that have attracted LGBT attention.

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

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by Matthew S. Bajko oters in the northern part of Alameda County elected the first gay man to serve on the county’s board of education in Tuesday’s primary, while a gay man seeking to be the county’s first supervisor lost his bid.

In the North Bay, a former Sonoma County prosecutor became the second lesbian to be elected district attorney in California as well as the country, while the openly gay president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors cakewalked into a second term.

Joaquin J. Rivera, a former Berkeley school board member, trounced his opponent, Lois Corrin, in his race for the county education post. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, Rivera netted 15,491 votes or 72 percent of the total tally while Corrin finished with 5,822 votes or 27 percent.

A chemistry professor at Skyline College in San Bruno, Rivera will represent District 1 on the county oversight board. The seat covers the East Bay cities of Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont, and portions of Oakland such as North Oakland and Chinatown.

With his win this week, Rivera, who is married to his partner, Joel Cohen, becomes the highest ranking out politician in Alameda County.

“It feels good, I guess. I hadn’t thought about it that way,” said Rivera.

“It is very exciting. I wasn’t going to take anything for granted and I didn’t.

I won big so that was good.”

But with the state’s deficit troubles, Rivera said he knows it is not an easy time to be an education leader in California.

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with all the budget cuts,” said Rivera, who lives in Berkeley.

Openly gay Hayward City Councilman Kevin Dowling lost his bid for the District 2 seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. Political newcomer Nadia Lockyer, whose husband, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, used his Democratic connections to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to his wife’s campaign, came in first and advances to a November runoff against former state Senator Liz Figueroa, who used to date Bill Lockyer.

Despite allegations that Lockyer inflated her credentials on campaign materials, she led the supervisor race with 8,626 votes or 38 percent of the total, according to unofficial returns Wednesday. Figueroa came in second with 5,652 votes or 25 percent. Union City Mayor Mark Green took third with 5,389 votes or 24 percent; and Dowling finished fourth with 2,915 votes or 13 percent.

In Sonoma County Jill Ravitch, a

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Out lesbian prosecutor Jill Ravitch, riding in Guerneville’s Pride Parade last weekend, won her race to be Sonoma County’s next district attorney.

former county prosecutor who now works in the Mendocino County District Attorney’s office, ousted District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua from office Tuesday. In her second try at defeating her former boss, Ravitch captured 46,454 votes or 54 percent of the total, according to unofficial returns.

Passalacqua fell short with 39,146 votes or 46 percent.

Ravitch is the country’s second out lesbian D.A. after Bonnie Dumanis in San Diego, who is running unopposed for re-election this year.

And in Santa Clara County Ken Yeager was unopposed for his seat on the Board of Supervisors. Currently serving as board president and the countywide body’s first (and only) openly gay member, Yeager won with all 36,102 votes cast, according to unofficial returns.▼

Primary told San Diego Newsroom recently that current Attorney General Jerry Brown should have defended Proposition 8 in court, while Harris backs the position Brown took in not defending the amendment to the state constitution that bans same-sex marriage.

SDNR quoted Cooley as saying, in part, “California’s Supreme Court ruled that [Prop 8] was constitutional, and since they ruled it is constitutional and there are no clear and obvious unconstitutional aspects to it, the AG should defend it as a matter of his or her oath of office.”

Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors noted the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s effort to defeat Cooley failed, “showing Republican primary voters will stand up to the most anti-gay candidates, and in that race we’re fortunate to have such a champion as Kamala Harris,” said Kors, adding that the race for attorney general “will deservedly receive a lot of attention.”

Governor’s race In what will be a closely watched race for governor, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman trounced fellow Republican Steve Poizner, the state’s insurance commissioner, by a margin of 64.2 percent to 26.9 percent in the GOP primary, preliminary results show. Whitman now advances to a November showdown with Democrat Brown, who served two terms as California governor in the 1970s and 1980s.

Unofficial results showed Brown received 84.1 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary and faced no serious opposition.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, now the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, speaks to supporters Tuesday night.

The match-up is one between Brown, a supporter of same-sex marriage, and Whitman, who is opposed, although she supports civil unions.

In his current job as attorney general, Brown last year asked the state Supreme Court to strike down Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban passed by California voters in November 2008, and he has supported repealing the measure.

Neither Brown’s nor Whitman’s campaigns provided comment for this story.

Kors said defeating Whitman, who’s a billionaire and has reportedly spent about $71 million of her own money on her campaign so far, is one of EQCA’s “highest priorities.”

“The LGBT community should be very concerned that someone who worked to pass Prop 8 is trying to buy the governor’s office,” said Kors.

Noting Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took “the unprecedented step of not defending Prop 8 in federal court,” Kors said

EQCA is “very worried” that Whitman “would reverse that position and use the state’s limited resources to advocate Prop 8 as the case works its way up to the 9th Circuit and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Closing arguments in the federal Prop 8 trial, which has been under way in San Francisco, are set for June 16. The case is widely expected to reach the country’s top court.

More top races In her bid to unseat pro-equality Senator Barbara Boxer (D-San Francisco), Republican Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, defeated former Congressman Tom Campbell, a marriage equality supporter. Fiorina opposes marriage equality.

Preliminary results showed Boxer with 80.5 percent. She had no serious opposition. Data available Wednesday morning showed Fiorina with 56.5 percent, and Campbell with 21.8 percent. Assemblyman Chuck DeVore trailed with 19 percent.

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Firestorm erupts over Palm Springs sex sting

by Ed Walsh e was walking home from a birthday party one evening last June.

He saw a good-looking man hanging out in a dark parking lot at one of the gay resorts in Palm Springs’ Warm Sands neighborhood. The man flirted with him and eventually asked him to show him his penis.

He did so.

But the guy wasn’t interested. He was a police decoy. The man who exposed his penis was arrested and is being charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure, penal code section 314, a charge that is usually reserved for flashers. If convicted, he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life in a database that is accessible only by authorities.

That man is among 24 men arrested last June in a sting operation in the Warm Sands neighborhood. The cases are setting off a firestorm in Palm Springs, a city of about 45,000, with a gay population estimated at 30 percent to 40 percent. The city appears to be in full-scale damage control mode now over the public relations fallout over the sting. The Bay Area Reporter has learned that just last week and again this week, closed door meetings with the police chief and other city officials were scheduled to discuss the arrests.

The sting and the subsequent prosecution of the cases is sparking a debate over whether there is a double standard for how police and prosecutors handle public sex among homosexuals and heterosexuals.

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The sculpture at the beginning of Warm Sands Drive in Warm Sands; the Palm Springs neighborhood has been rocked by a sex sting targeting gay men.

authorities handled the sting is a former county prosecutor, Thomas Hughes, who was working in the Riverside County District Attorney’s office when the sting was planned.

“It’s unbelievable,” Hughes told the B.A.R. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Hughes left the district attorney’s office last year and is now in private practice. He told the B.A.R. that in his nearly three years with the DA’s office he has never seen cases of consensual public sex being treated so harshly.

Hughes said that there was an agreement prior to the sting between the DA’s office and the Palm Springs Police Department. The agreement was that the men who were arrested would be charged with indecent ex-

posure, 314 PC. Also as part of the agreement, the men would not be allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, as has been routine in the past, the former prosecutor said. Hughes reiterated that he has never heard of 314 PC charges being pursued for consensual public sex.

Michael Jeandron, a spokesman for the Riverside County DA’s office, sharply disagreed with Hughes and denied that there had been any prior agreement between law enforcement and the DA’s office over how to prosecute the cases.

“That’s not how we operate,” Jeandron told the B.A.R. But Hughes’s claim of a prior agreement between the DA and the

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Deals heat up Palm Springs

by Ed Walsh was sitting by the pool at the InnDulge resort in Palm Springs about 9:30 p.m. earlier this month going through e-mails. I did a quick check on my laptop for the current temperature in Palm Springs. It was 78 degrees. Then I checked for San Francisco. It was 55. I felt very lucky.

It may seem like a tough sell to get people to visit Palm Springs in the summer but the warm summer nights and midnight swims get visitors to return in the slow season year after year. The summers are particularly popular for European tourists.

All the resorts have misters that create a cooling during the 100-plus summer temperatures. For an instant outdoor temperature plunge, the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will take you to the top of Mt. San Jacinto, where it is about 25 degrees cooler than on the desert floor. The summers aren’t a bad time to check out the Joshua Tree National Park, about a 90-minute drive from downtown Palm Springs. It’s cooler where the Joshua Trees grow, above 2,500 feet. The gay-friendly Desert Adventures Jeep Tours is one of the best ways to get an insider’s tour of the park and its amazing rock formations and abandoned gold mines.

Almost everything you want to do in Palm Springs is cheaper and less crowded in the summer. The Palm Springs area’s gay business organization, the Desert Gay Tourism Guild, is brining back the popular Summer Splash program with discounts all summer long.

Discounts were being offered even in the high season, which for Palm Springs is the late winter and early spring. Now gay businesses are banding together to offer some of the deepest discounts ever.

The official Summer Splash Web site, www.palmspringssummersplash .com, lists the deals. Once you get into town, you can pick up a pass at gay businesses that you can use for discounts at gay and gay-friendly places all over the city. Summer Splash started on June 1 and runs until September 30. The website also includes codes that you can use to get discounts on airline flights and car rentals.

What kinds of deals can you expect?

The Vista Grande Resort in the heart of the Warm Sands neighborhood is offering rooms for just $59 for weekday stays. The Vista Grande is one of the best places to stay in the summer because of its ample shade and lush vegetation.

A number of resorts are offering deals for a third weeknight free when you stay two nights, including Terrazzo, the Triangle Inn, East Canyon Hotel and Spa, Warm Sands Villas, InnDulge and Inn Exile. The superb La Dolce Vita offers a two-for-one

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InnDulge’s Manny Villarreal left, with Jean-Guy Lachance, welcomes visitors during the summer season.

deal plus a discount on its spa. The luxury Santiago Resort offers bargain summer rooms starting at $99, nearly half of its high season rates.

What’s new in Palm Springs?

A brand new gay club, Elevation, celebrated its grand opening last month. It is in Cathedral City, which is the city right next to Palm Springs.

Elevation has a spacious bar and good-sized dance floor. It is located at 67-555 E. Palm Canyon Drive, in the space that used to house Sidewinders. Show your Summer Splash card there for one $1 well drink. The new owner completely renovated the space, giving it a modern and upscale feel. Elevation is on the second floor above Upper Crust Pizza in the same shopping complex as the city’s second newest gay bar, Studio One Eleven.

Palm Springs’ after hours club, Heaven (formerly Oasis), sadly closed last fall after a fire. It recently reopened but as a straight club.

The Bacchanal Resort in Warm Sands was sold in March. The new owner, a contractor from Canada, plans to reopen the resort in the fall after a complete top to bottom renovation. The new resort will be called Pura Vida Resorts.

The gay-owned Trio Restaurant opened just last year and is already drawing a loyal crowd and rave reviews. It will give a 10 percent discount for anyone with a Splash Pass.

The long-popular Copleys Restaurant will give you a free glass of wine with dinner and the swanky Tropicale has a special Splash Pass early bird menu from 5 to 7 p.m. SundayThursday.

The biggest concentration of gay business in Palm Springs is along Arenas Road in the heart of downtown. If you present your Splash Pass at Streetbar on Arenas Road, you will get a free T-shirt or tank top.

Hunters, just next door, is offering

drink specials all summer.

Summer events If you can get away next weekend, June 19-20, the Desert Romp is a series of parties, including a gay midway carnival. Discounts are offered with the Splash Pass. Desert Romp proceeds go to charity.

The BigMuscle Summer Splash parties happen over the July 4 weekend. And the Palm Springs area’s largest gay resort, the Cathedral City Boys Club, plans big parties over the July 4 and Labor Day weekends.

Palm Springs’ gay theater, the Thorny Theater, does not take the summers off. From June 25-July 31, the theater performs Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! ▼ For more information, visit www.palmspringssummersplash.com.

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by Matthew S. Bajko ach year LGBT people the world over celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City. The June 28, 1969 spontaneous protest against police harassment of LGBT bar patrons is roundly credited with sparking the modern gay rights movement.

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The Greenwich Village protests did give birth to San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade 40 years ago. They also gave rise to Los Angeles’ fourdecade-old Pride festival, whose nonprofit parent is named Christopher Street West Association Inc. after the Manhattan street the Stonewall bar calls home.

Yet, like their counterparts in the city by the bay, whose LGBT citizens

had begun protesting police harassment and taking on political campaigns early in the 1960s, gay Los Angelenos had also begun standing up for their rights at the start of the turbulent Sixties decade.

Only now, though, is that history reaching a larger audience outside the Los Angeles area. Following on the success of Lillian Faderman’s and Stuart Timmons’s 2006 nonfiction book Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians comes a new documentary

by California oral historian Glenne McElhinney that is bringing this largely overlooked chapter in the gay rights movement to the big screen.

Called On These Shoulders We Stand, McElhinney’s 75-minute movie showcases the lives of 11 LGBT LA elders who had a hand in shaping the fate of the local LGBT movement.

“I was always a little bit insulted we were overlooked when we were busy long before Stonewall,” said Donald “Don” Norman, one of the people profiled in the film. “Finally, people are acknowledging that here on the Pacific Coast we were helping out this whole movement. We weren’t waiting on our hands waiting for someone to tell us it was okay

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Film highlights LA’s overlooked LGBT history

Donald “Don” Norman, shown here as a young man, recounts early gay life in Los Angeles in the documentary On These Shoulders We Stand.

to be gay. We were busy being gay.”

Norman, 74, who is gay and African American, grew up in a segregated Los Angeles. As a young man he began to explore the city’s underground gay life. Unlike during the 1950s in San Francisco, where gay bars clustered in North Beach were

relatively safe and attracted straight tourists, Norman said Los Angeles gay bars were routinely raided by the police.

“Whereas San Francisco was kind of known as a place you could go to Finnochio’s and other places ... there was nothing like that here,” said Norman. “We were determined to be gay, I know that.”

The other interviewees include Los Angeles Times film critic Kevin Thomas; the Reverend Troy Perry, who founded the gay Metropolitan Community Church; and Ivy Bottini, who helped found the first chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1966.

The film project grew out of McElhinney’s gay oral history project called Impact Stories. Since 2007 McElhinney, who splits her time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Palm Springs, has traveled to senior centers and nursing homes throughout California to record the personal recollections of the Golden State’s LGBT seniors.

Having helped start San Francisco’s Pride Parade back in the 1970s, McElhinney said she was especially struck by the stories she heard from residents of Triangle Square, an LGBT senior housing complex in Los Angeles, who recounted how difficult it was to be gay in LA back in their youth.

“These Hollywood seniors had these incredible stories,” said McElhinney. “It was a real eye opener. I had no idea how difficult it was back then in Los Angeles versus San Francisco.”

Initially, McElhinney planned to post vignettes from her interview subjects on YouTube to help educate younger generations of LGBT people what their forebears went through in Los Angeles fighting against a hostile police department, anti-gay city leaders, and homophobic coverage in the L.A. Times. But after showing the material to other historians, she was encouraged to turn the footage into a documentary.

“I emptied my savings account. I emptied my bank account,” said McElhinney, who worked with a cinematographer she met on the 2008 AIDS LifeCycle ride. “We put it together in five months.”

Clips from the interviews are interspersed between archival news footage and old photographs. It cost more than $300,000 to produce.

“We made it on purpose to connect with audiences to bring forth the importance of LA gay history to the national movement. We also made it to show the importance of our LGBT seniors and their contribution to our social rights movement,” said McElhinney. “The film shows that individuals can stand up.

You don’t have to be a ‘gay leader.’”

The film has been traveling the LGBT film festival circuit, premiering at last year’s Outfest where it won the LA-based LGBT film festival’s Freedom Award. It also won plaudits from the audience at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.

Norman said he is grateful that audiences have embraced the film and hopes LGBT people from outside southern California will watch it and learn about another piece to the LGBT community’s collective history.

“Because it pertains to everybody who is gay and lesbian. It pertains to the whole country and how we all had to live through this time when it was so unpleasant to be gay,” said Norman. “I think it is important for people to know we were here in LA working just as hard as they were.

Everybody put an effort forward; our effort should be acknowledged.”

The documentary will screen during this year’s Frameline LGBT film festival in San Francisco at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 19 at the Roxie Theater on 16th Street.▼

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Small pride marches staged in Moscow despite ban

by Rex Wockner GBT people managed to stage two small, brief pride marches in Moscow on May 29 despite another ban from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who says gay marches are “satanic.”

In previous years, police violently prevented or broke up the small “illegal” marches, but this time activists outwitted the authorities. Hundreds of riot and undercover officers ended up at the wrong location.

“The [main] march was relatively short, around five minutes, but we managed to fool the police and the anti-pride protesters,” said Moscow LGBT people managed to stage a short, five-minute march in Moscow late Pride organizer Nikolai Alekseev. “It last month. was a real military operation. We had given a meeting point to a group of unannounced gay march for 10 minoutside the EU [European Union] selected journalists whom we took utes on a downtown pedestrian Commission’s offices. As a result, the for a three-hour excursion around street. It ended when police blocked police put the whole area in total Moscow until they reached the pride their path and the marchers ran lockdown, closing nearby streets and spot at 1:15 p.m. Then, when they araway. No attempt had been made to metro stations, in a bid to prevent rived, the march started and everyone get a permit or permission for that protesters assembling there.” came out waving a 20-meter march.

The authorities also rainbow flag.”

This was the fifth year that tailed journalists, in hopes The march took place Luzhkov banned Moscow Pride, sent of finding the parade, on Leningradsky police to smash it, and called gay said Andy Thayer of Prospekt near the Bepeople names.

Chicago’s Gay Liberalaruskaya train station.

“For several years, Moscow has extion Network, who took “The guerrilla-style perienced unprecedented pressure to part in the march. hit-and-run Moscow conduct a gay pride parade, which Nonetheless, “pride gay pride march was over before the police W OCKNER’ S organizers were able to cannot be called anything but a satanic act,” he said in January. “We ‘embed’ and get coverage arrived,” said British gay W ORLD have banned such parades and will from major international activist Peter Tatchell, ban them in future as well.” news agencies, including who joined the march.

Moscow Pride organizers have the Associated Press, Agence France“When they turned up, officers scursued over the hostility in a series of Presse, Reuters, TF1 (France), ried around aimlessly, searching for cases that have been merged at the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Swedish protesters to arrest.”

European Court of Human Rights. A television, BFM (French news chan“All morning the gay pride orgaruling is expected within months.▼ nel), France 2, and the Australian nizers fed the police a steady stream Broadcasting Corporation,” Thayer of false information, via blogs and said. websites, concerning the location of More world news is online at Earlier in the day, a different the parade,” Tatchell explained. “They ebar.com. Bill Kelley contributed to group of some 25 activists staged an suggested that it would take place this report.

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Woman settles with local motorcycle shop

by Matthew S. Bajko locally-owned Harley Davidson dealership will pay a former transgender employee who accused it of gender discrimination $55,000 as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The federal agency filed the suit in 2008 against the Dudley Perkins Company, the country’s oldest Harley Davidson motorcycle dealership, on behalf of Bowen Dean, a self-described butch dyke who worked for the family-owned business as an entry-level lot technician.

“I am happy it is resolved,” Dean told the Bay Area Reporter during a phone interview this week.

As detailed in the EEOC’s lawsuit, the motorcycle shop refused to allow Dean to work as a mechanic, despite her being trained to repair Harleys, and hired less qualified men. After Dean filed an EEOC sex discrimination charge against Dudley Perkins in February 2006, the company fired her two months later in April of that year.

The EEOC then filed a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the motorcycle shop, which opened in San Francisco in 1914. The Perkins’ family relocated to South San Francisco in 2006.

As part of the consent decree that Dudley Perkins entered into to resolve the legal matter, the company must revise its equal employment policy and complaint procedure; train its staff every year about sex discrimination and retaliation; post a notice stating the terms of the de-

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cree and how to complain about discrimination; include in its advertising a statement affirming its commitment not to discriminate based on sex; and report its hiring decisions to the EEOC for the decree’s two-year term.

“This settlement will help the motorcycle industry take a step forward,” EEOC San Francisco regional attorney William R. Tamayo stated in a release issued this week announcing the terms of the consent decree.

Cindy O’Hara, the EEOC’s senior trial attorney who worked on the case, noted that under current federal law the agency is not tasked with investigating job-based discrimination based on sexual orientation or transgender status. But she said it can investigate matters where an LGBT person faces harassment due to their sex or not fitting in to gender

norms as violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“Gender-based discrimination can include failure to conform to gender norms,” said O’Hara. “If someone says they were discriminated against because they are gay or transgender, that is protected under state law. That is something that has not been achieved yet under federal law.”

Dean had moved to Hawaii after being fired by the company, and apart from attending the Butch Voices conference in Oakland last year, has rarely visited the Bay Area since.

She declined to discuss her current employment status, only to say, “Yes, if the question is have I been making anything go faster.”

She did allow that she still dreams of being a Harley Davidson mechanic.

“If anybody knows anybody in Amsterdam Harley Davidson, I heard they are more progressive about gender issues,” said Dean, who turns 46 this year. “I would really love to work in Amsterdam. I got to think big now since it didn’t work in San Francisco, so maybe Amsterdam.”

Dean is limited by the consent decree in commenting directly about the terms of the settlement with Dudley Perkins. As for what she plans to do with the money, Dean would only say she would like to use it to train other gender nonconforming women how to be mechanics.

“I would like to teach them what I am able,” said Dean.

Having fallen in love with motorcycles at the age of 9, when she saw a photo of Janis Joplin seated upon a bike, Dean added that, “I would love to do a custom bike for Janis.”▼

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AIDS cyclists take off for LA aul Bradley Trask and Alex Mace of San Francisco ride tandem during the start of AIDS/LifeCycle 9 as cyclists leave the Cow Palace on Sunday, June 6. The 545-mile journey will end on Saturday in Los Angeles.

The event is a fundraiser for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

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by Roger Brigham unglasses and spandex. Roiling surf on craggy cliffs and rolling strawberry fields forever. Fog and sunshine with a chance of cyclists. If nothing else, the ninth annual AIDS/LifeCycle ride, which started Sunday, June 6 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and is currently wending its way to its finish Saturday in Los Angeles, compresses the essentials of

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California style, scenery, and compassion into one inspirational five-day moment in time.

“It’s hard to remember why I got started,” said Lieutenant Randy Files, a watch commander with the Berkeley Police Department participating in his 12th ride. (The ride, benefitting the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, was previously called the AIDS Ride before the two organizations severed ties with producer Dan Pallotta and created their own event, LifeCycle.)

“The bigger question is what keeps me coming back. What brings me back are the people, the camaraderie,” Files added. “We’re taking a pandemic by the horns and doing something about it.”

An official count of 1,925 cyclists accompanied by a considerable support squad of roadies began the charitable trek at 6 a.m. Each of the cyclists had to guarantee at least $3,000 in donations to help with the HIV/AIDS services provided by SFAF and the LA center.

The number of cyclists is down from the record of 2,500 set in 2008 when registration had to close early and some $12 million was raised, and slightly down from earlier projections of 2,400, but LifeCycle and other mass sports events remain important fundraisers for SFAF. AIDS/LifeCycle organizers said they hope to raise about $10 million from this year’s event. Through its Greater Than One programs, SFAF also raises funds through the Avia Wildflower Triathlon, held in May; the Seismic ChalJ OCK lenge 200-mile bike run in October; and the new Big Gay 10k, scheduled for August at Crissy Field. With shrinking government funding for AIDS, an increasing amount of SFAF’s $21 million budget comes from these programs.

As the cyclists made their way Sunday through the microclimates from San Francisco down scenic Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, a shroud of fog kept them cool as far as southern San Mateo County, then sunshine blazed forth the rest of the way to the first day’s finish at Harvey West Park.

The riders trickled in throughout the afternoon, headed for massages, showers, and food before sacking out in a sea of blue tents dotting the local Little League baseball field. Files was among the earliest noontime arrivals.

He said the enthusiasm from roadside supporters provided more than enough energy for the cyclists.

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“You get some people who have weird perceptions about whether you are gay or straight and say things, or the occasional driver who just can’t wait another 30 seconds for a cyclist to pass, but the vast majority of the people are incredibly supportive,” he said. “One mother is there every year with a sign.

It shows me people still care. It chokes me up every year when I see her.”

Files describes himself as “mid40s ... mid-to-late 40s ... closer to 50 than 40.”

“I’m a flaming heterosexual,” he joked when asked about his orientation. “Does it really make a difference?”

He said he has raised more than $100,000 in the years he has cycled in the event but believes his bigger contribution has been in recruiting and training other riders.

Blake Strasser, 41, of Brooklyn was one of the first women into Harvey West Park.

She said she has been riding in AIDS cycling events for 14 years. Because she doesn’t get to ride in the 285TALK mile Braking the Cycle trek from Boston to New York City since she helps manage the event, she has taken a couple of weeks off from work the last half dozen or so years for the AIDS/LifeCycle.

“I lost a lot of really great friends back in the 1980s,” Strasser said. This is a chance to do something to make it so others don’t have to suffer that loss, she added.

“On AIDS rides, there’s a family that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Strasser said. “There’s a connection you don’t get anywhere else.”

Heath Allen, 36, who works in the Academy of Arts film department, is a self-described bike commuter.

“I bike to work every day, and one day each weekend I try to bike 100 miles. I’ve been cycling my whole life, but I never did any long distance events,” Allen said. “This is a chance to

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Beat poet Peter Orlovsky dies

by Liz Highleyman eter Orlovsky, a Beat-era poet best known as the life partner of Allen Ginsberg, died of lung cancer on May 30 at a hospice in Williston, Vermont. He was 76.

Mr. Orlovsky was born July 8, 1933 in New York City’s Lower East Side and was raised on Long Island.

His four siblings, mentally ill and disabled, were frequently institutionalized. Faced with his parent’s alcoholism, poverty, and eventual separation, he quit school to support himself at age 17.

“Grew up with dirty feet & giggles,” Mr. Orlovsky wrote in an autobiographical sketch for New American Poetry 1945-1960. “Trouble in school: always thinking dreaming sad mistry problems. ... I.Q. 90 in school, now specialized I.Q. is thousands.”

Mr. Orlovsky was drafted into the Army in 1953, during the Korean War, but due to his vocal anti-war sentiments he was transferred to San Francisco, where he served as a hospital medic.

After his discharge, the strikingly handsome Mr. Orlovsky was modeling for painter Robert LaVigne when he met Ginsberg in 1954; legend has it Ginsberg fell in love with Mr. Orlovsky from a photograph before they met in person. The men soon moved into an apartment in North Beach, ground zero of the burgeoning Beat scene.

Mr. Orlovsky and Ginsberg considered their relationship a marriage – Ginsberg listed him as spouse in Who’s Who – and they were together more than 40 years. They were

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Bill Stephens Aug. 9, 1929 – May 27, 2010

On his latest European tour, William George Stephens died after a stroke in Rome.

A native Oaklander, Bill graduated from Castlemont High, San Francisco State and received his library credential from San Jose State. He was a substitute teacher after his retirement from the Fairfield School District.

Bill was a stellar volunteer at Oakland’s Paramount, SF Ballet, Opera and Symphony, ACT, Berkeley Rep, Herbst and New Conservatory Theatre, Frameline and other film festivals.

Bill explored the world, including a

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do that, and I think it’s a really important cause. Although it hasn’t affected me personally, I know a lot of people who have been affected.

“This is such a great physical challenge and it’s a chance to be part of something really worthwhile.”

Information on SFAF is available at www.sfaf.org. Information on the LA Center is at www.laglc.org. For information on the fundraising Greater Than One events, visit www.greaterthanone.org. For photos, blogs, and information on AIDS /LifeCycle, visit www.aidslifecycle.org.

Golden Bear softball tournament San Francisco teams took the three top spots in the top B Division of the Golden Bear Softball Tournament held over Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco. The Hitmen took first, Rage second, and Treat third.

In the C Division Barbary Coast, Queen’s Mary of Long Beach won the championship, followed by Hollywood Swingers of Los Angeles and SinSquad of Seattle. The C Division Golden Gate was won by Spartans of Los Angeles, with Steamworkers of San Francisco second and Houston’s

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consistently non-monogamous, however, and both Ginsberg and Mr. Orlovsky, who was bisexual, had other relationships.

“They were soul brothers, beyond categories,” wrote writer and former Ginsberg apprentice Steve Silberman in an elegy in the Buddhist magazine Shambala Sun. “Their love and mutual devotion was another weed that flourished in the cracks – an impossible happiness.”

Over the years Mr. Orlovsky traveled widely with Ginsberg and other Beat luminaries. In 1957, after the landmark obscenity trial for Ginsberg’s epic poem “Howl,” they moved to Paris. There, Mr. Orlovsky began writing his own poems, which were simultaneously childlike and erotic. His published works include Leper’s Cry (1972) and Clean Asshole Poems and Smiling Vegetable Songs (1978).

In the early 1960s Mr. Orlovsky

stint on a Norwegian freighter, and hitchhiked across the USA several times. Other passions included bridge (ranked, Gold Medal at Gay Games, Sydney 2002), horse racing, the financial markets, reading and sometimes (festive occasions) fabulous faux drag.

His friends will remember him as a diminutive man with a giant heart, sharp wit and irreverent (often bawdy) sense of humor. Bill loved movie star Carole Landis, visiting her unmarked grave at Forest Lawn.

Bill was cremated and will occupy a niche in the San Francisco Columbarium. A remembrance gathering will be held in the near future. Those interested in attending, telephone 552-9426 or 947-0395.

Bill is survived by his brother, Jon Stephens, and sister, Charlotte Beitinger.

Montrose United third. Top spots in the D Division were all taken by Los Angeles teams, with Demons first, Bandits second and Bulldogs third.

Host San Francisco Gay Softball League will hold its Switch-hitters Ball this Saturday, June 12, at Most Holy Redeemer’s Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond Street. For information, visit www.sfgsl.org.▼ A longer version of Jock Talk is online at ebar.com

and Ginsberg traveled extensively in India, including a visit to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. The men developed their interest in meditation and Tibetan Buddhism, which they in turn helped introduce to America.

Charged with caring for his schizophrenic brother Julius, Mr. Orlovsky and Ginsberg moved back to the Lower East Side. Mr. Orlovsky struggled with alcohol and drugs much of his life, and his methamphetamine abuse likely contributed to his obsessive cleaning habit.

In 1968 Ginsberg purchased an organic farm in Cherry Valley, New York, to offer an escape from the city’s drug scene. In 1974 Mr. Orlovsky joined the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which Ginsberg and others founded at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

In his later years, struggling with emphysema, Mr. Orlovsky lived in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Ginsberg, who died in 1997, left him money for a house and arranged for his care by members of their Buddhist community.

Over the years Mr. Orlovsky appeared in several films including Andy Warhol’s Couch (1964) and documentaries about the Beats. The relationship between Mr. Orlovsky and Ginsberg is portrayed in the new film Howl, which will be the closing night feature of this year’s Frameline festival.

Mr. Orlovsky is survived by his brother Lafcadio; it is not known whether his other siblings are still alive. A funeral for Mr. Orlovsky was held this month at the Karme Choling Meditation Center in Barnet, Vermont.▼

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police is backed by the man who helped supervise the sting operation.

Palm Springs Police Sergeant Bryan Anderson said that the department had reached an agreement with the DA’s office over the charges. The sergeant said in a deposition that the department was disappointed in the past that the arrests for indecent exposure were pleaded down to a charge of 647(a), a lesser lewd conduct charge that would not require the defendants to register as sex offenders.

Jeandron said that his office has prosecuted heterosexuals with indecent exposure, but he didn’t know if any of those cases had involved consensual pubic heterosexual sex. Jeandron said that the Warm Sands cases had not reached a discussion of pleabargains.

As to the allegation that the DA’s prosecution of the case is homophobic and in any way discriminatory toward gays, Jeandron responded, “That’s an outrageous and false accusation.”

Assembly Lara, a legislative staffer, defeated three opponents to become the Democratic nominee for the 50th Assembly District seat in the Los Angeles area. He won with 44 percent of the vote, or 5,809 of the ballots cast, according to unofficial returns.

Ward came up short in his bid for the 53rd Assembly District seat, which covers the coastal communities south of Los Angeles. He took fourth in the eight-person Democratic primary with 3,972 votes or 14 percent, according to unofficial returns. EQCA board member Betsy Butler, who earned the group’s en-

According to Roger Tansey, a public defense attorney representing five of the accused men, in one case it took a decoy officer 20 minutes of convincing before a man agreed to display his penis. In another instance, a man insisted on going to his hotel room but the decoy insisted on “seeing the goods” before he would agree to go home with the man. Tansey noted that the area where the sting took place was a dark parking lot of a gay resort. The attorney added that in some cases the police decoy massaged his own crotch in an effort to get the men to expose themselves.

Tansey told the B.A.R. that if police wanted to find heterosexuals having sex in public they wouldn’t have to go far from Warm Sands. Tansey documented that it is commonplace for opposite-sex couples to have public sex in the parking lot of a nearby heterosexual bar as well as a public water park.

“The police spend thousands of dollars to set up stings for what is a victimless crime,” Tansey said. “A crime for which no one has com-

dorsement and that of many LGBT leaders, won the contest with 7,588 votes or 27 percent.

In his bid for the 7th Assembly District seat, centered in Santa Rosa, Wilson came up 520 votes short. The winner, former Santa Rosa Planning Commissioner Michael Allen, captured 13,623 votes or 41 percent, according to unofficial returns.

Wilson, who had won the backing of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, came in second with 13,103 votes or 39 percent. A third candidate, former Santa Rosa City Councilman Lee Pierce, received 6,681 votes or 20 percent.

Wilson’s strong showing, combined with Gordon’s win Tuesday night, is a sign that LGBT candidates

plained. And only blocks away men and women are doing the same thing.”

Tansey said that if what police are charging is correct, the men deserve to be arrested and should be prosecuted, but for section 647(a) of the penal code, a lewd conduct charge that applies to someone who engages in lewd behavior in a public place.

That charge does not require those convicted to register as sex offenders.

B.A.R. contributing writer and Palm Springs resident Robert Julian Stone, who uses the pen name Robert Julian, is on the advisory council of the Warm Sands Neighborhood Organization. He also represents Warm Sands on the Palm Springs Neighborhood Involvement Committee. He believes anyone caught engaging in public sex should be arrested, but that a prosecution that would require those convicted to register as sex offenders is excessive.

Stone noted that for two weeks prior to the sting operation, the Palm Springs Police Department reported that they had observed men engaging in public sex. Stone questioned why

the men weren’t simply arrested instead of police executing an elaborate and expensive sting operation. Stone said his neighborhood organization had been doing an effective job cutting down on the problem of drugs and sex in part by working with police. Stone said the sting operation has left him angry and it has shown the department’s lack of sensitivity to the gay community.

“I’m appalled, totally appalled,” Stone said.

Stone said that he knew of no openly gay men who were on the 99member Palm Springs Police Department and he knew of only one out lesbian officer.

The B.A.R. phoned and e-mailed Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, who is openly gay and currently running for Congress, and the other four people on the City Council. Palm Springs City Manager David Ready returned the call to respond on behalf of the mayor and council.

In response to Stone’s complaint about the lack of out gay men in the police department, Ready told the B.A.R. that the department actively

can win elections outside of the state’s gay urban enclaves, said EQCA’s Kors.

It signals to political pundits and other LGBT candidates that they “can win in places without large LGBT populations,” said Kors.

Gordon agreed that it sends a positive message about the viability of out candidates in more suburban districts.

“I think it says two things. One, increasingly we are no longer judged on our sexual orientation. We are increasingly judged on our performance and our contributions and our abilities,” he said. “Also, I think it says there is no need for anyone, any longer to be afraid to be out in all of our communities.”▼

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Boxer’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment, but in a statement released Tuesday night, Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer’s campaign manager, said, “The nomination of Carly Fiorina means that California voters will have a very clear choice in November. This election is about who’s going to create jobs and who’s in touch with California voters.”

Fiorina’s campaign could not be reached for comment.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who jump-started the national debate over same-sex marriage when he ordered city officials to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples in 2004, won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. According to data available Wednesday morning, he beat fellow Democrat, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, 54.7 percent to 34.2 percent.

Newsom, however, has a tough race in November as he will face current Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, a moderate former state senator.

Maldonado defeated Sam Aanestad in the Republican primary, 43.2 percent to 30.5 percent, preliminary numbers showed.

Newsom’s campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment, but in an e-mail blast sent Wednesday morning, he touted his support for making public education accessible, among other issues.

“I’m so thankful that I can write to you today with this good news, but we must not lose the focus and drive that

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patient I treated,” Huetter said as he received the award from Mirkarimi on the steps of City Hall. “I hope this will give hope to other patients that there will be treatment beyond antiretroviral therapy.”

California efforts It is, of course, not practical for every person with HIV to receive a bone marrow transplant from a resistant donor. What’s more, the ablation procedure that destroys the recipient’s immune cells so they can be replaced by those of the donor is too risky to use on people who are maintaining relatively good health on antiretroviral treatment.

But the Berlin Patient offers “proof of concept” that has stimulated related research.

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, established in 2004 with funding of $3 billion when voters passed Proposition 71 to support stem cell research, has awarded two

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recruits officers from the gay and lesbian community. The city manager said that there were gay and lesbian officers on the force but that he didn’t know whether they were publicly out about their orientation.

Ready added that Palm Springs is a very gay-friendly city and he noted that Pougnet and one of the city council members are out gay men and that another councilwoman is lesbian. The Palm Springs City Council is made of five people, including the mayor.

The city manager also denied that there had been a deal in advance to charge the men with the more serious 314PC charge or to deny those arrested the option to plead down to a lesser charge.

When asked if he thought the publicity about the sting could hurt Palm Springs’ image as being gay-friendly and ultimately hurt tourism, the city’s lifeblood, Ready noted that gay and lesbian tourism is an important niche market that the city welcomes and aggressively promotes.▼ A longer version of this story is online at ebar.com.

brought us to this moment,” he said in the e-mail blast.

Maldonado’s campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Discussing statewide races to watch in November, Kors said, “Obviously, both Whitman and Fiorina are real concerns due to their personal fortunes, but we have to watch every one of these races.”

For example, he pointed to Newsom, who he called a “true advocate,” running against anti-marriage equality candidate Maldonado.

Other results Preliminary data available Wednesday morning also showed outcomes for several other statewide races.

For secretary of state, incumbent Democrat Debra Bowen will run against Republican Damon Dunn. In the controller’s race, Democratic incumbent John Chiang will be in for a rematch against Republican Tony Strickland. In the bid for treasurer, Republican Mimi Walters will try to unseat incumbent Democrat Bill Lockyer.

Democrat Dave Jones will work to defeat Republican Brian Fitzgerald for insurance commissioner, although unofficial data showed Fitzgerald just barely beat GOP candidate Mike Villines.

In the nonpartisan race for superintendent of public instruction, Larry Aceves and Tom Torlakson were leading the field.

In the state Board of Equalization race, incumbent Betty Yee easily won the Democratic primary and will face Republican Kevin Scott in November.▼

grants focused on approaches related to Huetter’s work.

A team led by John Zaia at City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles is attempting to use zinc finger technology developed by Sangamo BioSciences to delete CCR5 from hematopoietic stem cells. The idea is to extract stem cells from an HIVpositive patient, cut out the gene for the CCR5 co-receptor, and return the altered stem cells to reconstitute the individual’s immune system with HIV-resistant cells.

“The hope is that we can take this procedure that has functionally cured one person in Germany and make it widely applicable,” said Jeff Sheehy, a member of CIRM’s governing board and of the AIDS Policy Project, which was started last November to promote HIV cure research.

“We think that with today’s drugs, people have lost sight of this goal,” said APP member Stephen LeBlanc.

“This is not an issue just for the first world, or just for the privileged. We think the time is right now for much more effort to find an actual cure.”▼

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In Re: 2002 Arne Magnussen InterVivos Trust Arne Magnussen, also known as Arne Magnussen, Jr., Arne Riis Magnussen, Arne Riis Magnussen, Jr., Arne R. Magnussen and Arne R. Magnussen, Jr., settlor of the 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust dated March 19, 2002, died on March 09, 2010 in the City of San Francisco, County of San Francisco, State of California.

Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the abovenamed decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102 and mail or deliver a copy to Justin W. MacNeil, as Trustee of the 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust dated March 19, 2002 wherein the decedent was the settlor, residing at 2028 Judah Street, San Francisco, CA 94122, within the later of four months after May 27, 2010 or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 30 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code, Section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested to Justin W. MacNeil, Trustee of the 2002 Arne

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Date: May 20, 2010 S/Justin W. MacNeil, Trustee 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust P. O. Box 26024 San Francisco, CA 94126-6024

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032721400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Salon Yuni, 2434 California St., San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Yuni Cho. 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 04/21/10.

MAY 20,27, JUNE 3,10, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032775400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kids Only, 1608 Haight St., San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Marie T. Samson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/13/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-032747900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KitchenDoula, 4104 24th St. #763, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Susan I Sullivan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/30/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/10.

MAY 20,27, JUNE 3,10, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0308256-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as Dogpatch Biofuels, 765 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business was conducted by a corporation, signed Michele Swiggers. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/08.

MAY 20,27, JUNE 3,10, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0326722-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as Java Jitters, 1125 Ocean Avenue, #102, San Francisco, CA 94112. This business was conducted by a general partnership, signed Edison F. Shaw. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/10.

MAY 20,27, JUNE 3,10, 2010 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: PLAYBAR INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 101 6th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-2814. Type of license applied for:

48-ON-SALE GENERAL PUBLIC PREMISES JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE # CNC - 10 - 546860 In the matter of the application of Billie Cayot Gordon for change of name. The application of Billie Cayot Gordon for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that Billie Cayot Gordon filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to Billie Jill Cayot . Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 13th day of July, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0288134-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as Los Jarritos, 901 South Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94110. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Dolores Reyes. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/31/05.

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STATEMENT FILE A-032790200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Jalisco Restaurant, 901 South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Dolores Reyes. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/20/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032778700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Veal’s Residential Care Home, 69 Lobos Street, San Francisco, CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Keiko Kanezaki Wells. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/14/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/14/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032770400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fifi & Fanny, 2987 25th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Carolyn Edison. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/07 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/11/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032786500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Buffalo Whole Food and Grain Company, 598 Castro Street,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Nagi Mubarez.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/19/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/19/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032790700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NM Group, 101 Jules Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Nathaniel Vizcarra. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/20/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032794100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Salinas Auto Sales, 790 Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Maria Guadalupe Garcia. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/21/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032781000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1.ElderWorks 2.LGB&T Elderworks, 2000 Van Ness Avenue,Suite 516, San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Helene V. Wenzel. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/00 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032795500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ace Electrical Service, 2200 Cesar Chavez Street, #4, San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Dennis James Stevenson. 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 05/24/10.

MAY 27, JUNE 3,10,17, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032793700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: West River Trucking, 854 30th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Albert Nishikawa. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/21/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1.Center for Business and Consciousness, 2.Tree of Life 58 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Natalie Zeituny. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/20/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/14/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Get To Russia Travel, 5438 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Karine Mkhitaryan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/12/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/10.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ALAMEDA In the Matter of the Petition of Kristen Gardner to Declare Zora Linh Nguyen, a minor, Free from the Custody and Control of Khanhlinh Nguyen (a.k.a. Jackie Nguyen) ) Case No.: RA10505755 CITATION TO PARENT Family Code §788 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA To Khanhlinh Nguyen (a.k.a. Jackie Nguyen): By order of this court, you are hereby advised that you may appear in Department 13 of this court, located at 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, California, on July 9, 2010, at 9:30 a.m./p.m., then and there to show cause, if any you have, why Zora Linh Nguyen (hereinafter referred to as “Minor”) should not be declared free from your custody and control for the purpose of freeing Minor for placement for adoption.

The following information concerns rights and procedures that relate to this proceeding for the termination of custody and control of Minor as set forth in Family Code Sections 7860 through 7864: 1.At the beginning of the proceeding the court will consider whether or not the interests of Minor require the appointment of counsel. If the court finds that Minor’s interests do require protection, the court will appoint counsel to represent Minor, whether or not Minor is able to afford counsel. Minor will not be present in court unless Minor so requests or the court so orders.

2.If you appear without counsel and are unable to afford counsel, the court must appoint counsel for you, unless you knowingly and intelligently waive the right to be represented by counsel. The court will not appoint the same counsel to represent both you and Minor.

3.If the court appoints counsel for you, at the end of the proceeding, the court will hold a hearing to determine the amount, if any, that you will be required to reimburse the county for services of your appointed counsel.

4.The court may continue the proceeding for not more than 30 days as necessary to appoint counsel and to enable counsel to become acquainted with the case.

5.Pursuant to Family Code §7883, if you are personally served within California and fail without reasonable cause to appear and abide by the order of the court, you may be held in contempt of court.

DATED:MAY 21, 2010 CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT BY:TASHA PERRY, DEPUTY CLERK Superior Court of California County of Alameda 1225 Fallon Street Oakland, CA 94612 Phone: (510) 891-6144

JUNE 3,10,17,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032812600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oakside Cafe, 1195 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Shu Ping Chen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/10.

JUNE 3,10,17,24, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0296756-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as Oakside Cafe, 1195 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94117. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Brenna Li. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/31/06.

JUNE 3,10,17,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032798600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bruce Weitzman, MFT, 295 Fell Street, Suite B, San Francisco, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Bruce Weitzman. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/07 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/10.

JUNE 3,10,17,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032778800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brass Knuckle, 507 Mississippi Street San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Shellie Kitchen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/14/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/14/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: “K” Salon, 1134 Lombard Street San Francisco, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Lethuy Nguyen. 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 05/28/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1.BV Health Solutions, 2.Sexual Health Clinics of Northern California, 1246 Castro Street, #9, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed William Bell. 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 06/08/10.

JUNE 3,10,17,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032828700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cow Tools Productions, 2261 Market Street, #182, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Susan D. Conley. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/10.

JUNE 10,17,24, JULY 1, 2010 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Case No. PES 02- 283087 Superior Court, State of Californa County of San Francisco In Re: 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust Notice is hereby given that subject to confirmation of the Court, on or about June 15, 2010 at 12 noon, or thereafter until an offer to purchase is accepted within any time period allowed by law, the undersigned Trustee of the 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust will sell at private sale to the highest and best net bidder on the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned all right, title and interest of the trustee and trust in and to all that certain real property, located in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, at 132-25th Avenue, San Francisco, California 94121, Accessor's Lot 25, Block 1334 and more specifically described as follows: Commencing at a point on the Easterly line of 25th Avenue, distant thereon on 200 feet Southerly from the Southern line of of Camino Del Mar, running thence Southerly and along said line of 25th Avenue 30 feet; thence at a right angle Easterly 120 feet; thence at a right angle Northerly 30 feet; thence at a right angle Westerly 120 feet to the point of commencement. Being part of Outside Land Block No. 48.

This sale is subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price.

The property is being offered "AS IS," without condition, representation, warranty or covenant of any kind, express or implied. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made as to the condition or construction of the improvements and/or building now situated on said property, as to whether the improvements and building conform to existing building, use, zoning and/or any other laws of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California or United States relating to the building and/or land, as to the age, character, condition, quality or workmanship in the construction of said improvements, as to the suitability of the use now existing or contemplated by any prospective purchaser of said property, or as to the freedom from dry rot, termite infestation, asbestos, and/or other hazardous materials regarding the land, building and/or improvements. Any prospective purchaser must rely only on his or her own investigations and inspections of said property and the improvements located therein.

No personal property is included in the sale.

The property is being offered at the gross sale price of $ 1,200,000.00. The sale is subject to Court confirmation.

Bids or offers must be in writing, and will be received at the office of Powers & Associates, 1645 Irving Street, San Francisco, CA 94122, Tel (800) 300-3504, (415) 665-3500 at any time after first publication of this notice and before the date of said sale. The bids or offers shall be opened and considered on a first come, first serve basis at the office of Powers & Associates until a sale is made. For inspection of the property, call Powers & Associates at (800) 300-3504, (415) 6653500, which has entered into an Exclusive Listing Agreement with the trust. No lock box has been installed on the property.

The property will be sold on the following terms: All cash in the lawful money of the United States upon Court confirmation of sale and upon such terms and conditions agreeable to the trustee. Ten percent (10%) of the bid amount shall be deposited with the bid by cashiers' or certified check made payable to Justin W. MacNeil, Trustee of the 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust, the balance in all cash to be paid to the Trustee. Any taxes, assessments, rents, homeowner's association fees, and/or operating and maintenance expenses shall be prorated as of the date of the close of escrow for the proposed sale.

Commission, if any, in the sum of five percent (5%) of the gross sale price shall be paid only out of the proceeds of the sale.

The undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all bids and offers.

Date: May 21, 2010 Justin W. MacNeil, Trustee 2002 Arne Magnussen Inter-Vivos Trust P.O. Box 26024 San Francisco, CA 94126-6024 (415) 434-3490

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JUNE 10,17,24, JULY 1, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032809200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Scope Architecture and Design, 2550 Baker Street, San Francisco, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Emily O’Keeffe. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/28/10.

JUNE 10,17,24, JULY 1, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032825800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zooty Designs, 2939 B, Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laura Tulloss. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/10.

JUNE 10,17,24, JULY 1, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032819500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dream SF Real Estate, 150 Manchester Street, San Francisco, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Beth C. Newman. 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 06/03/10.

JUNE 10,17,24, JULY 1, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032828600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M Design, 1738 18th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Marlene Duong. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/10.

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Photographer Daniel Nicoletta discusses his storied career • by Sura Wood

fresh transplant from upstate New York to San Francisco via the Kansas City Art Institute, budding photographer Daniel Nicoletta lucked into a job that gave him the ultimate catbird seat for witnessing a critical chapter of gay history. As a 19-year-old film student in 1975, he was hired at Harvey Milk’s camera shop on Castro Street, a job which led to work on Milk’s campaigns and, later, a position as the keeper of the flame of Milk’s legacy after the Mayor of Castro Street was assassinated in 1978. It also landed him right in the middle of the dizzying highs, political and pharmaceutical, of the turbulent 1970s, an era of hope, despair, social engagement and exhilarating sexual adventure.

In a case of art imitating life, Nicoletta became one of two photographers of record on the set of Gus Van Sant’s movie bio Milk, photographing scenes from the film and pairing them with images taken from real life, a déjà vu, mirroring experience that’s mind-boggling to comprehend.

Nicoletta’s latest show of over 50 photographs, More Glitter – Less Bitter, on view at Electric Works gallery through July 10, represents his documentation of SF’s LGBT communities over the last 30 years. The show is, in his words, “Milk-centric,” with black-and-white pictures of Milk and his cohorts, recreations of historic events and their cinematic doppelgangers, mingled with contemporary work: festive photos of the flamboyant theatrical life that express this photographer’s long-term, ongoing love affair with the city and its performers.

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Sura Wood: What are trying to convey with your current show?

Daniel Nicoletta: I’m still riding the tidal wave of success of Milk. So I’m working the runway and showing what I’ve got, which is three years of solid documentation of being friends with Harvey and Scott Smith.

Why are you attracted to the theatrical culture?

When I was a kid, we were constantly putting shows on in the house, and one of my parents came from a theatre background. I had sawdust in the bloodstream. When I rolled into town, I immediately sought out the Angels of Light, which was the next iteration of the Cockettes, and I worked with them for 10 years.

In 1978, photographing Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, because Max Waldman had photographed them, and Waldman’s work was one of the reasons I got into theatre photography. Ludlam and his company of freaks were considered the bees knees of the avant-garde during the 70s and 80s, until Charles and many of them were taken from us by AIDS.

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What’s the most thrilling photograph you’ve shot?

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As I would later tell my friends: I should only look so good when I’m a 77-year-old Jewess.

One of the ground rules that Rivers insisted on before filming was, “It cannot be a puff piece. There are so many films where they get six friends to say you’re wonderful. I said, ‘I don’t want that kind of a documentary,’ and in return I gave them total access.”

The only edits she requested were on behalf of her daughter Melissa, who got upset when Rivers expressed her anger towards her husband Edgar, who committed suicide.

“My joke was, ‘You should only die. Oh wait, he did.’”

That face! Rivers admits in the film that she can’t stand seeing herself in the morning without makeup, yet the film opens with an extreme close-up of her bare face, as her makeup ritual begins. “I know, I know!” she says. “But I got so close to the cinematographer and the sound guy, I just said, ‘Come in the bathroom.’ When they showed it to me, I thought it was a wonderful way to start the film.”

Other moments reveal Rivers’ sense of competition with other comics. “I’m in competition with everybody, not just comics. When I read that a 19-year-old amazing black actress has gotten a deal, I get crazy. Because I am very competitive. I could’ve played Precious, and I would’ve been

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oan Rivers is indeed a piece of work. Whether you know her from her years on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, from her years of accosting celebrities on the red carpet, or from her hilariously foul-mouthed live comedy concerts, there’s no denying that Rivers is a comedy icon.

But don’t call her an icon or a trailblazer to her famously lifted face. As you’ll discover in the documentary Joan Rivers A Piece of Work (opening Friday) or in a suite at the Fairmont, where I had the recent pleasure of chatting with her, Rivers never looks back or takes pride in her past achievements.

There’s no rear-view mirror on the limo that is the 77-yearold comic’s career, just one gear: overdrive.

Relaxing in their hotel suite on the day their film would close the San Francisco Internat’l Film Festival, the documentarians Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg said they were surprised when Rivers granted them total access to her life. “She was so open and game and present that we both instinctively knew it would work,” says Stern.“And I didn’t know that she was so funny, all the time. And she’s a very downto-earth person.”

When the star herself arrives, after eight hours of radio and television interviews, two things immediately strike me, aside from her petite stature. She’s very warm and genuine, and she looks fantastic. Say what you like about her multiple plastic surgeries, which Rivers was the first to admit and joke about.

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Joan Rivers at the Castro Theatre for the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival.

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by Roberto Friedman he Nob Hill Adult Theatre in San Francisco went into massive meltdown last Saturday night when three of the hottest men in the erotic film industry, plus house dancers, appeared in a rousing benefit for the Black Coalition on AIDS. Along with MC Michael Brandon and Tony Aziz, porn star Race Cooper served up some serious body, and he even made time for a few words with photojournalist Cornelius Washington. This is how it went.

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Cornelius Washington: Baby, your performance was insane! You could tempt Satan!

Race Cooper: Glad you enjoyed it.

Here we are at the legendary Nob Hill Theatre. This joint’s been rocking for over 40 years, and I’m thrilled to perform here.

We’re all people, and we should all help each other. Porn stars have the right to do that, too. The porn community wants to do its part and show by example. We’re not living in a bubble untouched by people living with AIDS and HIV. And you’re helping out by slinging dick!

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I’ve noticed a backlash in the LGBT community about you guys in the adult-film business being seen as “celebrities,” that the money you raise to fight AIDS is somehow “tainted.” Care to comment?

Erotic-film star Race Cooper graces the Black Coalition on AIDS benefit at the Nob Hill Adult Theatre last Saturday night.

Cruz and Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky got a flash mob of dancers going in a prom-themed number that honored teenage boyfriends Richard Goodman and Derrick Martin, who made headlines by defying school Bravo, baby, God bless your chocorules to attend their prom together. late gay soul!

The hilarious Bruce ViGay gala lanch kept the laughs coming throughout the evening Our spy at Saturday and well into the afternight’s GLAAD Media party, where he happily Awards at the Marriott posed for more photos Marquis in SF reports acthan a Jewish Santa. Queer tress Cybill Shepherd was as Folk’s Thea Gill and stunning in scarlet, and Michelle Clunie upped the gave a moving acceptance glamour ante, but the speech when presented stunning, freshly out with the Golden Gate O UT T HERE country star Chely Award by her out daughWright stole the show, ters Clementine Ford singing “Heavenly Days” with producand Ariel Shepherd-Oppenheim. Preer/singer Rodney Crowell. cious gay director Lee Daniels, sporting a new short haircut and a shimSummer in the city mering gray suit, accepted the DavidWe don’t do GLAAD, but it’s not as son/Valentini Award. Jai Rodriguez if Out There spends quiet nights at and Wilson Cruz made an adorable home going through our press clipduo of presenters, joking about the pings. Two sample runabouts: Last days when Rodriguez was Cruz’s unTuesday, Out There attended a sneak derstudy in Rent. preview party at YBCA, where executive director Kenneth Foster and curators offered advance dish on arts and performances coming to the 2010-11 season at that multidisciplinary arts space. The YBCA crew divvied up the goods into four “Big Ideas” with titles like, “Dare: Innovations in art, action, audience,” but OT says all the jargon ain’t necessary to dress up a diverse bill of programming. Some highlights that snagged our attention are Ralph Lemon’s dance/text piece How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?, coming on Oct. 7-9, And we’re all having fun. I’m showing my rosebud, too. All of us performing tonight are having a great time. Rosebuds to fight AIDS!

and Song Dong’s large-scale installation Waste Not (Feb. 26-June 12, 2011), made up of thousands of household items collected by his mother and grandmother. We grooved to the music of composer Jewlia Eisenberg and her band Charming Hostess, who will have a site-specific project in this summer’s Push Play at YBCA. Last Thursday, OT was in the chateau for a cocktail party at the Residence of France in Pacific Heights (right next door to Dede Wilsey’s house!) which was hosted by Air France VP Christine Ourmieres and Consul General Pierre-Francois Maurier. The balmy evening found OT hanging with the fumeurs out on the front patio, while BAR publisher Tom Horn chatted inside with Pablo grandson Charles Picasso. The Consul General gave valedictory remarks in French, but Ourmieres announced big new service to Paris in English.

Going our way?

RIP Donald Windham, 90, novelist, memoirist, intimate of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote, and a last link to the great gay American mid-century.

RIP Peter Orlovsky, 76, poet, muse and romantic partner of late, great, gay poet Allen Ginsberg. Howl, indeed!

From the Washington Post obit: “‘Morning again, nothing has to be done/maybe buy a piano or make fudge,’ reads Orlovsky’s ‘Second Poem,’ written in Paris in 1957, when he and Ginsberg were staying with fellow poets William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso at a boarding house known as the Beat Hotel.” Where the mini-bar is stocked full with psychedelics, and it’s always check-out time.▼

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Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky at the GLAAD Media Awards last Saturday night.

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FILM

Hasidic Brooklyn & hetero Noe Valley The brave new worlds of opening films ‘Holy Rollers’ & ‘The Full Picture’

by David Lamble queer activist buddy asked if I could take him to catch the new religious family melodrama Holy Rollers, convinced by its somewhat misleading title that this might be another type of the delicious fruit of Christians behaving badly. Actually, the forbidden fruit in Kevin Asch’s film (screenplay by Antonio Macia) is the sweet/sour tang of secular freedoms tasted by a young rabbinical student (Jesse Eisenberg) in the lost world of pre-9/11 New York.

It’s 1998, and young Sammy Gold (Eisenberg) appears happy in the cradle-to-grave womb of Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, just another sexually immature Orthodox Jewish teenager waiting for his fate to be sealed through an arranged marriage brokered by his father and the rabbi of his temple. Beneath the surface calm we see that Sammy is unhappy with his dad’s propensity to screw up

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the family business, leaving mom without even a working stove. Things come to a head when the bride Sammy has his heart set on is inexplicably awarded to his goody-twoshoes best friend. Heartsick and not feeling the call to be a rabbi, Sammy is a perfect target for a scheming smoothie, Yosef (Justin Bartha), who coos that easy money can be found acting as couriers for a local businessman importing “medicine” from the Netherlands. Socially awkward Jewish boys with their funny black hats, telltale corkscrew side-curls and frightened looks are waved through pre-9/11 airport customs without question. Yosef tells Sammy to keep his suitcase closed, “mind your business, and act Jewish.” A witty scene has Sammy and his friend using airplane pillows to protect themselves from the temptation of sitting next to attractive females.

Holy Rollers is compelling as the filmmakers expose a business-savvy but sexually naïve boy/man to the

Jesse Eisenberg, Ari Graynor, Danny A. Abeckaser, Q Tip and David Vadim in Kevin Asch’s Holy Rollers: escaping the cradle-to-womb community.

heady if tainted pleasures of Dutch dance parties and the special attentions of the drug boss’ #1 girl, Rachel (Ari Graynor). Even after he realizes that the medicine he’s carrying is actually the potent rave drug Ecstasy, Sammy luxuriates in his wads of cash and the freedom, denied him by his obstinate father, to actually set the prices for his cagey if volatile boss, Jackie (Danny Abeckaser).

While the filmmakers smartly avoid the sex-and-violence-fueled payoff scenes we expect, they also fail to anchor Sammy’s bitter life lessons in the context of his abandoned faith.

In Peter Weir’s awesome Witness, a young Amish boy comes to realize that for all its agonizing material depravations, Pennsylvania Dutch life

does insulate one from the chaotic violence and brutish racial codes of “the English,” Amish slang for impious Americans.

In Eisenberg, Holy Rollers has the screen’s go-to boy for innocence corrupted, then ever so subtly redeemed.

Just as he did in his signature role as The Squid and the Whale‘s pretentious aspiring writer, Eisenberg here gives it his all. He displays a nuanced understanding of how an immature lad sabotages his chance to succumb to the temptations of the flesh. Later on, Eisenberg employs his surface sweetness to give extra oomph to two paradoxical moments: the first, where he cuts off his paylot (side curls) in an act of spiritual abandonment or humiliation; then, in a truly powerful epiphany, when he asks Yosef’s aid in strapping the leather tefillin onto his arm, trying to summon back a god now dead to him.

At a brisk 80 minutes, Holy Rollers embeds us in an exotic corner of American life, made all the more relevant given the growing power and numbers of the Orthodox in Judaism, and the recent tragic deaths at an Ecstasy rave at the Cow Palace. But it flubs its lesson lifted from the Talmud: “Sin is sweet in the beginning, and bitter in the end.”

In the shadow of Sutro Tower In The Full Picture (opening Friday at the Roxie), two very mismatched bros share a drink and a gander at San Francisco’s scariest view.

“There it is. Now that’s a landmark. People come to this city, they want to see the Golden Gate Bridge, want to see Chinatown – no one ever mentions this thing. You can see this alien piece of shit from every corner of the city! No one ever talks about it.”

In this witty if bitterly acidic portrait of young married life in Noe Valley, Sutro Tower looms over the proceedings like a Cyclops.

Writer/director Bowden spins a dark

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family comedy from the agonizing tension that has grown up around two 30something siblings, Mark and Hal. Mark (the deliciously self-effacing Daron Jennings) and Hal (Die Mommie Die’s Joshua Hutchinson) have, in different if equally neurotic ways, adjusted to their parents’ longago messy divorce. Hal is a cynical, tart-tongued, womanizing workaholic, while younger brother Mark is dithering over when or whether to confess his nutty family’s buried secrets to his stout-hearted girlfriend prone to anxiety attacks, Erica (the terrific Lizzie Ross).

Like a pending execution, Mark and Hal greet the arrival of their emotionally controlling, bitter mom. “Just call me Gretchen.” Gretchen (Bettina Devin, in a wonderfully brittle performance giving off just a hint of Nancy Reagan) makes particularly nasty use of a small digital camera, trying to preserve some horribly ill-timed gesture or awkward body language for future emotional blackmail.

This glimpse at young hetero love at its messiest (with pit-stops for liquid lunches and tension-abating quickie sex) isn’t for all tastes, but for those with the stomach for a totally homo-free peek at life in a gussiedup Victorian flat, this intimately photographed, sublimely acted farce comes with lessons on how to eat sushi, family wrestling 101, and a deceptively sweet curtain line: “Come to bed.”▼

Web content This week, find Sweet Lips’ and Victoria A. Brownworth’s Lavender Tube columns online at www.ebar.com.

From the Lavender Tube column, “Sizzling summer”: “While BP has been running mea culpa ads in prime time, especially during the evening news, another ad that Americans are not likely to be seeing is running in France. McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast-food chain, has been running a samesex ad there. The ad, which features a demure teenage boy talking to his boyfriend on his cell phone as he sits waiting for his father at McDonald’s, is more sweet than sexual, portraying first love as it does. But the outrage has been immediate. Not in France, of course. But among right-wing talk show hosts in America.

“We thought the ad, in which the boy’s dad says what a shame it is that the kid goes to an allboys school because he would be a lady-killer like his old man (the boy smiles knowingly during the rant), was sweet, funny and realistic. Email McDonald’s and tell them you’d like to see it here.” www.ebar.com

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THEATRE

Next door to glee club Director Robin Stanton on ‘Speech & Debate’ lie, is already in pre-production for Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind, opening Aurora’s new season in August, and then it’s back to Solano for a production of Annie with high school and college students.

“One of the things that popped out at me when I first read Speech & Debate was the state of arts education,” Stanton said. “The arts is a place we can go to learn confidence, self-esteem, group work, and tolerance. Tolerance is a big part of arts education. And in this play, it’s not just tolerance of the people around us, it’s also about accepting ourselves. This is a relationship-based play where you come into your own through your journey with others.”▼

by Richard Dodds uring Robin Stanton’s tenure as producing artistic director of the Spokane InterPlayers Ensemble, the city’s anti-gay mayor was caught up in an Internet sting in which he was found to be soliciting young gay men for unpaid intern work. Mayor Jim West admitted to gay encounters, tried to hold onto his job, but was overwhelmingly removed from office in a recall election.

In the play Speech & Debate, which Stanton is directing for Aurora Theatre, a parallel situation is playing out in Salem, Oregon, and an aggressive reporter for the high school newspaper is trying to convince his faculty adviser to let him pursue the story. But ironically, Solomon, the young reporter, is trying to yank the mayor out of a closet for which Solomon himself hasn’t found the exit.

Stephen Karam’s play, which debuted in New York in 2007, is unabashedly a comedy, though its subject matter, of which the fictional mayor’s peccadilloes are just a small component, finds its way into darkly complicated places. “I think comedy makes discussions easier in our society,” Stanton said on a recent afternoon before rehearsals. “I remember when Mel Brooks said in an interview about The Producers that the best way to deal with Hitler was to laugh at him. Otherwise your heart can break.”

In addition to the aspiring reporter (played by Jason Frank), the young characters include Diwata (Jayne Deely), a would-be diva who wants to take down the drama coach for thwarting her dreams, and Howie (Maro Guevara), an openly gay student whose online chat with the prowling (and insufficiently anonymous) drama coach opens the play. These three misfits form a speech-and-debate society as they use each other to further their own personal agendas. That their Oregon hometown of Salem shares its name with a Massachusetts community with a dark past is not lost on the kids. They concoct a musical in which a time-traveling character from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible meets up with a gay Abe Lincoln.

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a teacher and a reporter, and in the Aurora production, that actress happens to be married to the director.

Holli Hornlein and Robin Stanton became wife and wife during the brief window of opportunity in California when same-sex marriages were legal. They had met in 1996 when both were living in Chicago, and they made the move together to Washington when Stanton got the producing artistic director job at the Spokane InterPlayers Ensemble.

When they read about Mayor Gavin Newsom’s independent, and soon disallowed, decision to sanction same-sex marriages in San Francisco, they decided to move here as soon as Stanton’s contract with the Spokane theater would allow.

“Spokane is an area that thinks it wants to celebrate diversity, but it does not,” Stanton said. “The discrimination we felt there was a constant discrimination, and we never wanted to face that again. We felt we needed to empower ourselves, and when we heard about what Gavin Newsom was trying to do, we thought this was the place we should be. We are so happy about that decision.”

Both work in the youth theater program at Solano Community College, and Stanton shuttles between her job there and as a frequent director of Aurora Theatre productions. Stanton, who had spent the morning of our interview dealing with various crises in Solano’s production of Thoroughly Modern Mil-

Jason Frank, Jayne Deely, and Maro Guevara become high-school conspirators in Speech & Debate at Aurora Theatre.

Speech & Debate will run at the Aurora Theatre June 11-July 18.

Tickets are $34-$45. Call (510) 8434822 or go to www.auroratheatre.org.

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The devil & the museum piece

by Jason Victor Serinus hat opera-lovers will do for a host of good tunes. In Charles François Gounod’s 1859 opera Faust, with which San Francisco Opera launched its threeopera summer season last Saturday night, those tunes proliferate in three hours and 45 minutes of a trying museum piece in which the Devil Mephistopheles initiates a pact with the aged, suicidal scientist Faust, granting youth in return for his soul.

For a plot that includes a scene in which the Devil is warded off with the sign of the cross, we too sell our souls, enduring claptrap about hell, damnation, and salvation.

I suppose that instead of maintaining the original 19th-century German setting, as does the Lyric Opera of Chicago production that SFO has borrowed, the company could have tried updating Goethe’s drama to modern times. Instead, we’ve got what has been resurrected and reconstituted from Gounod’s decade of revisions to an opera that initially lasted over five hours. Shorn of its potentially transporting mad scene, as well as other sections that would have made a lot more sense than some of the current abrupt transitions, the libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré centers around Mephistopheles (bass John Relyea), Faust (tenor Stefano Secco), and the woman whose vision convinces Faust to contract with the Devil, the beautiful and innocent young Marguerite (soprano Patricia Racette).

Let’s start with Hell, and work our way up. The great bass Samuel Ramey, who is about to conclude his operatic career, made a name for himself by specializing in Devils. Into

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his sizable shoes trods towering former Adler Fellow/Merola Opera alum Relyea. Darkening the tone of his voice with its naturally sonorous beauty, Relyea created an imposing portrayal. Lacking the last iota of dark, devilish humor, irony, and bigger-than-life presence that makes for greatness – he still seems to be biting into the role rather than chewing up the sets – his Mephistopheles impressed with its power, range, and promise of future mastery.

Secco, who first sang here a year ago in the Donald Runnicles-led Verdi Requiem, makes his role debut in this production. Initially darkening his tone on opening night in the Domingo manner, he eventually al-

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John Relyea (Mephistopheles) in San Francisco Opera’s Faust.

Patricia Racette (Marguerite) and Stefano Secco (Faust) in San Francisco Opera’s presentation of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Faust.

lowed the more lyric aspects of his voice to emerge. Most curious was his great aria, “Salut! demeure chaste et pure,” in which he expressed his instant love for Marguerite. The tone remained dark until the all-important high C. Hit lightly, then swelled into larger, semi-incandescence, its sweetness seemed born of another voice entirely.

Once over that hurdle, Secco relaxed. As the action unfurled, his portrayal grew in strength, beauty,

and passion. His garden love scene duet with Racette, caressed by beauty, was one of the lyric highlights of the evening. Although director Jose Maria Condemi, who injected some nice touches throughout, didn’t quite succeed in evoking Secco’s ultimate hopelessness and despair, I expect that future experience with the role will enable additional pathos to emerge.

Our girl Pat, who over the past few seasons has triumphed in Pucci-

ni’s Madama Butterfly and Il Trittico, tested her limits as Marguerite. Besides challenging herself to look like a young innocent destroyed by her lover’s inexplicable abandonment and brother’s condemnation, the Adler/Merola alum had to encompass a role that, in the manner of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, begins with a well-known lyric-coloratura showpiece, “Un bouquet! O Dieu! que de bijoux!” (the Jewel Song), and grows increasingly dramatic as the opera progresses.

The voice on opening night lacked the flexibility the Jewel Song demands. As adorable as Racette looked polishing her mirror on her skirt, the trills were virtually non-existent, the coloratura somewhat labored, and the high B-flat less than fortunate. As with Secco, once she cleared that hurdle, her singing became increasingly secure and riveting. By her final scene, in which she ascends to the scaffold (i.e., heaven), arms outstretched in Christ-like fashion after hitting a strong high C, she was as dramatically and vocally magnificent as ever.

As Valentin, baritone Brian Mulligan looked somewhat clumsy, but sang with increasing strength and magnificence. I’m not a big fan of former Adler Fellow Daniela Mack’s slightly shrill radiance, but she did a fine job as Siebel. Baritone Austin Kness, a current Adler Fellow, cut a fine figure and sang very well as Wagner, but the voice has not developed the size and weight that bigger roles require. Veteran mezzo Catherine Cook’s Marthe was, as expected, delicious in its humor. Had Gounod allowed her more time onstage to balance out the Christian crap, the opera would have been far more bearable.▼

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Passion fruit

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wonderfully played by Helene O’Connell, is pressing her case as the biggest mother of them all. She relates how each of her three children came bounding out of the closet into lifestyles that pressed hard at her levels of tolerance.

That daughter Leslie was a lesbian was an easy guess, 6-foot-4 Ronnie’s decision to become a woman was a little harder to take, but she had issues when son David announced that he was not only into leather but also scat. “For a second, I lose it,” Helene tells us. “I become my mother, I say, David, in this house we use the toilet, not a friend from Tribeca.”

An NCTC production of a Rudnick play without Patrick Michael Dukeman would be like fruit without its zest, and as Mr. Charles, currently of Palm Beach, Dukeman gets to play the quintessential queen banished from New York because of his antediluvian nelliness. With his hair in an elaborate pompadour, and an outfit that you could

run up a flagpole and 20 emerging nations would salute, Mr. Charles sashays his way through a local late-night cable access show in which he shares his philosophies of life, answers questions from viewers, and periodically gets to showcase his hunky “ward” Shane (Seth Michael Anderson) in a series of revealing outfits. Dukeman is explosively funny throughout the scene, and he tops it off with a 60-second recap of the history of gay theater, including Angels in America, both Parts I and II. The tone shifts abruptly for the third scene, and the ingredients could easily become cloying if not for Rudnick’s skill and Deborah Rucker’s warm embrace of the material. She plays Barbara Ellen Diggs, who has become a highly competitive arts-and-crafts maven, and it’s easy to laugh at her collection of handmade flyswatters and toilet-paper cozies. But her passion was

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Best known for the play Jeffrey and the movie In & Out, Rudnick has not always been able to find a forum that can sustain his glittering wit. Ironically, in The New Century, now at New Conservatory Theatre Center, Rudnick manages to straddle both sides of the troublesome fence. The first act, sharply directed by George Maguire, is a collection of three scenes, essentially monologues that let Rudnick run riot with his zingers without having to sustain a plot over an extended time or develop relationships among multiple characters.

In the second act, Rudnick concocts a situation to bring these characters and their stories together for a closure that can be forced if still not merrily punctuated.

While The New Century opened at Lincoln Center in 2008, two of the three first-act monologues had been previously produced, in 2004 and 1998, so the second-act melding of all characters would be surprising if it didn’t come served with some lumps. By the way, though the word hasn’t yet appeared in this review, the password is “gay.” As in “GAY.” As in “GAAAAAAAAY.” There are, in fact, a lot of letters on a banner strung across the stage in the opening scene: “PLGBTQCCC&O.” We are at a mutated form of a PFLAG meeting, at which the current speaker, the brassily sarcastic Helene Nadler,

Seth Michael Anderson and Patrick Michael Dukeman in a scene from The New Century at NCTC.

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Salacious Salon, Thu.

OUT&ABOUT Fri 11 >> The Bakla Show @ Thick House Pratfalls & Rising Stars

Alan Quismorio’s theatrical exploration of Filipino queer identities, inspired by traditional myths and fables. $10-$20.

8pm. Thru June 13. 1695 18th St. at Arkansas. www.bindlestiffstudio.org

Bilicious @ LGBT Center

gaylicious

Readings, spoken word, and panel discussion with Carol Queen, Free Roaming Chicks, Julie Cohen, Khalil Sullivan, Nick Leonard, and Susannah Layton. $12-$20. 7:30pm.

1800 Market St. www.biliciousproductions.com

by Jim Provenzano

emember those little six-packs of tiny cereal boxes you could get at the supermarket? You have to be of a certain generation to remember them. It was fun to fight with your siblings over who got the Fruity Pebbles mini-box and who ended up with Raisin Bran (which, of course, I now like, being an old fogey).

Anyway, it seems every night of this week is a sample pack of queer art and happenings, except all the boxes are fruity and queerishly delicious, and none of them will rot your teeth. Here are the best group showcases, variety snack packs of entertainment.

Friday, June 11, the Festival of New Voices at The Marsh hosts solo shows by various performers take on serious and funny themes, including lesbian comedian and radio host Marilyn Pittman’s new solo show, It’s All the Rage, about her parents’ murder-suicide. $15-$50. Various times.

Thru June 13. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 826-5750. www.themarsh.org Also June 11, Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble performs Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble Submerged Queer Spaces: Music and Architectural Remains, a music-cinema experience combining new images of spaces where LGBT bars and clubs used to exist. $12-$20. 7:30pm. African American Arts & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. 762-2071. www.queerculturalcenter.org How about the Literary Death Match at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, also June11? Def Poetry Jam meets Double Dare at this gloves-off, glasses-on competitive reading extravaganza. Booze it up as author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Pulitzer-winner Jane Smiley and Olympic figure skating champion Brian Boitano pass cruel and unusual judgement as wordsmiths (Jillian Lauren, Daniel Alarcon, Beth Lisick, Taylor Mali) navigate their way through two rounds of cutthroat competition. $10.

6:30pm. 701 Mission st. www.ybca.org While not gay, per se, Pratfalls & Rising Stars at SF Circus School is definitely a festive variety of talent at the graduation performances by stuBefore We Were Named dent aerialists, jugglers, clowns and more. $10-$20.

June 11, at 7:30pm. Also June 12, 2pm, 7:30 and June 13, 2pm. 755 Frederick St. www.circuscenter.org The Queer Women of Color Film Festival at Brava Theater, the 6th annual festival of 38 films by lesbians, offers a sumptuous sampling of sapphic cinema. Free. 7:30pm. (Sat 4pm, Sun, 2pm). Thru June 13. 2789 24th St. www.qwocmap.org www.brava.org Small Town Boys at the LGBT Center, hosted by Guy Writers, presents K.M. Soehnlein (The World of Normal Boys) and members of the gay men’s writing group, who share stories of revisiting their histories and hometowns. $12-$20. June 11, 7:30pm. 1800 Market St. www.guywritersonline.org www.queerculturalcenter.org For a snack pack of designer wear, go to Thread | Bare at The Lab, the fifth annual striptease fashion auction and trunk show, with MCs Danyol Leon and Michelle Tea, modeling by Fauxnique, Philip Huang, Peter Max Lawrence and others donning and doffing designs by local artists. SF Boylesque performs, plus DJed dancing afterwards. $10-$20. June 11, 7pm.

2948 16th St. 864-8855. www.thelab.org For songs sweet and sincere, Bijou at Martuni’s hosts Disney song night at the cabaret show celebrating five years. Timitio Artusio, Jeffrey Ramos, Jennifer Martinelli, Alyssa Stone, Reggie White, Erika Von Volkyrie and Monica Turner sing tunes from animated classics. Tom Show and Trauma Flintstone accompany and host. $5. Sunday, June 13. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com Back at The Lab, myth, fable and fairytale are told through music, dance, media, performance and ritual in Before We Were Named with Irina Contreras, Nico Dacumos, Cherry Galette, Juba Kalamka, Gaston Mazó, Carlos Oxford and SoliRose. $12-$20. Tuesday, June 15. 8pm. 2948 16th St. www.queerculturalcenter.org Have a magically gaylicious week.▼

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Book Swap @ Duboce Park Café Betty’s List Literary Salon and Book Club, featuring Jewelle Gomez, Ali Liebegott, Dr. Carol Queen, Kit Kennedy and more. Benefiting the Radar Queer Writers Lab. 6pm9pm. 2 Sanchez St. www.bettylist.com

Boys Will Be Boys @ New Conservatory Theatre Joe Miloscia’s comedy musical revue takes on a variety of gay stereotypes. $22-$40.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 26. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Dance Continuum SF @ Dance Mission Theater Life, Love and Rituals, a concert of new works by the dance group. $20. 8pm. Thru June 13. 3316 24th St. www.dancecontinuumsf.org

Ethnic Dance Festival @ Palace of Fine Arts Showcase of dozens of the best ethnic dance ensembles in Northern California, including 600 performers, 26 world premieres and 4 new commissioned works. Benefit gala June 11 ($125. 6pm-10:30pm). Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm thru June 27. $22-$44 (packages $80-$158). 8pm. 392-4400. www.worldartswest.org

Giant Bones @ Exit Theatre Stuart Bousel’s play based on his novel The Innkeeper’s Song, about storytellers and fantasy. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. 156 Eddy St. (650) 728-8098. Thru June 17. www.GiantBonesPlay.com

Global Lives Project @ Yerba Buena Arts Center Collaborative exhibit of filmmakers, photographers, artists and everyday people working together to create a video library of human life experience. The show features 240 hours of video of Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Serbia, Lebanon, Kazakhstan and the US. $8-$12. Thru June 20. 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.globallives.org www.ybcafree.org

The Golden Girls @ Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory Heklina, Cookie Dough, Matthew Martin, Pollo Del Mar, Mike Finn and Laurie Bushman stage scripts from the popular senior ladies TV show. $20-$25. 7pm & 9pm. ThuSat thru June 25. 1519 Mission St. at 11th, 2nd. floor. www.trannyshack.com

Joan Rivers: a Piece of Work @ Embarcadero & Bridge Cinemas In-depth verité-style documentary about the legendary 76-year-old comedian. One Embarcadero Center, and 3010 Geary Blvd.

267-4893. www.landmarktheatres.com

Klass Klown @ Berkeley Repertory John Leguizamo’s solo comedy show starts off the theatre’s summer Fireworks Festival (with other shows by Dan Hoyle, Wes Nisker and the already sold-out David Sedaris). $35, with free samples of sponsor Tres Agaves Tequila. Thu-Sat 8pm Wed & Sun 7pm. Thru June 12. Other shows $25-$35, thru July 3. Half-price for under-30. 2025 Addison St. at Shattuck. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Marga Gomez, Proud & Bothered @ New Conservatory Theatre Marga Gomez is back with her GLAAD Media award-winning comedy, Proud and Bothered. About Pride MC gigs gone wrong, and a hilariously sordid affair with a Jersey girl; direction by F. Allen Sawyer; originally directed by David Schweizer. $22-$34. ThuSat 8pm; Sun 2pm. Thru June 26 (no show June 25). 25 Van Ness Ave. near Market St. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

The New Century @ New Conservatory Theatre West Coast premiere of Paul Rudnick’s gay comedy. $22 - $34. Thu-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm. Thru July 11. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level, near Market St. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle (Tings Dey Happen) premieres a new multiple-character solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru Aug 8. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Sex and the City 2 @ Castro Theatre Sarah Jessica Parker and the gang head off to do Dubai in the sequel to the popular film based on the TV show. 429 Castro St. www.sexandthecitymovie.com

SF Moving Men @ The Garage The annual concert of men’s dancing works returns, with dances by Joe Landini, and Christine Cali & Co. $20. Fri-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru June 26. Also, Garage AllStars, women’s dances, June 13, 14. 8pm. $10-$20. 975 Howard St. www.975howard.com www.sfmovingmen.org

Something COOL Festival @ Eureka Theatre Carly Ozard, Tom Orr and Russ Lorenson headline a month of weeknight jazz and cabaret shows, with lots of singers and open mic nights. Free-$10. Lorenson’s Tony Bennett tribute Thu-Fri 7:30, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Other acts 7:30 (Mon-Tue) 8pm (Wed). Mon-Wed thru June 27. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. (800) 838-3006. www.somethingcoolcabaret.com

Speech & Debate @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Stephen Karam’s hit Off-Broadway comedy about three geeky teens, including a gay kid, who fight for truth amid a small town scandal. $24-$45. Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm & 7pm. Previews thru June 17 (opening night). Thru July 18. 2081 Addison St. (5100 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Topsy-Turvy @ Metropolitan Community Church Two queer one-act plays by Kenneth Alford (lost.found) and Maureen Bogues (Coming Out Blonde) about true love and a hot onenight stand. $10-$15. 8pm. Also June 12.

150 Eureka St. 863-4434. www.mccsf.org

The Tosca Project @ American Conservatory Theatre Dance and theatre blend through the talents of SF Ballet, modern and local theatre artists in this North Beach bar-inspired operatic re-imagining of a century of romance; directed by ACT’s Artistic Director Carey Perloff, with music by Puccini, Jimi Hendrix and others. $7.50-$85. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. LGBT “Out with ACT” show June 23. Thru June 27. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

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The Art of Dr. Seuss @ Dennis Rae Fine Art Fascinating exhibit of rarely seen prints, paintings, sculptures and a few of the more known drawings by Theodor Geisel, the author/illustrator of the immensely popular children’s books. Ongoing, with updates and new items. 351A Geary St. 391-1948. www.dennisraefineart.com

Birth of Impressionism @ de Young Museum Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay includes approximately 100 paintings from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection. $10-$25 (free/members). Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive.

750-3600. www.deyoungmuseum.org

Forever Never Comes @ Boxcar Playhouse Crowded Fire Theatre’s production of Enrique Urueta’s “psycho-southern queer country dance tragedy” set in Virginia.

Partial proceeds June 10 & 11 benefit youth programs at the LGBT Center. $15$25. Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm thru June 26.

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

Hot & Healthy @ Café Flore Garza hosts a cocktail party with a fun drag show, healthy information, naughty raffle prizes and proceeds benefitting the API Wellness Center. 9pm-11pm. 2298 Market St. at Noe. www.cafeflore.com

In the Wake @ Berkeley Repertory Obie Award winners Lisa Kron and Leigh Silverman’s complex drama set at a Thanksgiving dinner where American political freedoms (or lack of) come into question. $13.50-$71. Thru June 27. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm, Wed Sun 7pm, Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm.

Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. (510) 6472949. www.berkeleyrep.org

More Glitter - Less Bitter @ Electric Works Gallery Exhibit of fascinating photographs by Daniel Nicoletta from 1975 – present. Through July 10, 2010. 130 8th St. 626-5496. www.sfelectricworks.com

Pastor Tom Show @ KUSF Dr. Tom Polcari’s LGBT music and talk show. 4pm. Weekly on 90.3 FM.

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture. $30$69. 8pm. Extended, Fri & Sat thru August.

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

Robert Philipson @ A Different Light Author of the poetry book Very Goodlooking Seeks Same reads from his new work. Free.

4pm. 489 Castro St. www.adlbooks.com

SF Gay Men’s Chorus @ Old First Church The Grammy-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus joins the men in performing John Rutter’s Magnificat, plus repertory from their California Freedom Tour. $10-$15.

2pm, 8pm. 1751 Sacramento St. 8652787. www.sfgmc.org

Texas Rose Country Western Dance @ Humanist Hall, Oakland Country & Western dance for queer women and their trans and FTM friends, with dance Instructor Cumba Siegler. 6:30-7:15pm beginning 2-step. 7:15-8pm intermediate 2step. 8-10pm open dancing. 10-11pm Social Hour with a buffet. Free parking in the county garage next door. $10, $5 with student ID. 390-27th Street, (510) 451-5818. www.humanisthall.net

Whodunnit: Queer Mystery Writers @ LGBT Center Reading, panel discussion and signing with authors Sean Reynolds, Michael Nava, Katherine V. Forrest and Steven Saylor. Jewelle Gomez moderates. $12-$20.

4th fl. 1800 Market St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

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City Solo @ Off-Market Theater Queer and comedic solo shows by Janine Brito, Martha Rynberg, Julia Jackson and Thao P. Nguyen. $15-$20. 7pm. Sundays thru June 20. 965 Mission St. www.cafearts.com

Dirtstar @ African American Arts & Culture Complex Installation with farmers, chefs, storytellers, headphones, seedlings and an imagined queer edible history. $12-$20. 6pm. 762 Fulton St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Hot Greeks @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddler’s second revival of a hilarious Cockettes show, this one Martin Worman and Richard Koldewyn’s 1972 musical extravaganza with Connie Champagne, BirdieBob Watt and Michael Soldier in this wacky update of Lysistrada. $30-$69. Thu 8pm, Sun 7pm. Thru June 27. 575 10th St at Bryant. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

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Yoga Classes @ LGBT Center Fun, friendly weekly classes for beginners or experienced with Bill Mohler. $10-$20.

6:30pm. Also Wednesdays. Room 302, 1800 Market St. at Octavia. www.billmohleryoga.com www.sfcenter.org

Wed 16 >>

Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene @ Robert Tat Gallery Exhibit of high fashion, art, and nude prints by the two iconic gay photographers of the 20th century. Tue-Sat 11am5:30pm, by appointment, and first Thursdays til 7:30pm. Thru July 31. 49 Geary St. Suite 211. www.roberttat.com

Katya …A One Night Stand, Sun.

Jim Van Slyke @ The Rrazz Room Gay cabaret singer performs a tribute to pop music composer/singer Neil Sedaka, who also performs. $45. 2-drink min. 2pm.

Also, Linda Kosut and Nancy Tierney; $25.

June 14, 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason st.

(866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Katya …A One Night Stand @ Eureka Theatre Katya Smirnoff Skyy’s cabaret show about her glamorous (fictive) life. Part of the Something Cool Summer Cabaret Festival. $17.

7pm. 215 Jackson st. www.eurekatheatre.org

Kink & Porn Workshops @ Femina Potens Modern porn and pinup photography party and workshop with Courtney Trouble, $25.

6pm; and BDSM on a Budget with Juicy Justine, $20. 8pm. 2199 Market St. www.feminapotens.org

SF Hiking Club @ The Presidio Join GLBT hikers for a 10-mile hike from the Presidio to Crissy Field to the Coastal Trail to Baker Beach to Ocean Beach.

Meet: 10am Cafe Enchante, Geary Blvd. & 26th Ave. Also, June 17, a hike in Tilden Park, Berkeley. 515-4908. www.sfhiking.com

Sins Invalid @ The Women’s Building An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility, a multidisciplinary event for and about queer and gender-variant artists. $12-$20. 7:30pm. 3543 18th St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $30. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Tony Awards Party @ Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Sharon McNight performs at Berkeley Playhouse’s viewing party for the televised theatre awards. Donations. 7pm. Reservations required. 2640 College Ave. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Mon 14 >> Nine Vines Dinner @ Jardinere

Tue 15 >>

Fierce Love @ SF Public Library Stories from Black Gay Life, a 20th anniversary reading directed by original Pomo Afro Homos’ Brian Freeman. Free.

6pm. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Manuela Carrasco & Co @ Zellerbach Hall The Queen of Gypsy Flamenco dance and her 10 dancers and musicians headline the Bay Area Festival of Flamenco Arts. $30$100. Bancroft Way at Telegraph, UC Berkeley campus. 8pm. (800) 838-3006. www.bayareaflamencofestival.com

Mary Patricia Anderson @ Magnet Exhibit of portraits of “Glam Community Heroes” like Glamamore, Tita Aida, Donna Sachet, Sister Roma and more. Exhibit Tue-Sat 11am-6pm Wed-Fri 2pm-9pm.

Thru June 27 (closing party 3pm). 4122 18th st. at Castro 581-1600. www.magnetsf.org

Our Lady of the Burning Dreams @ Good Vibrations Closing reception for an exhibit of erotic art by Penny Slinger, Carol Queen and Bobby Morgan, with wine and nibbly things. Free. 5:30pm-7:30pm. 1620 Polk St. at Sacramento. 345-0400. www.events.goodvibes.com

Pride Event @ Castro Senior Center Tom Orr (Dirty Little Show Tunes), comic Lisa Geduldig and ventriloquists Ron Coulter and Star perform; refreshments and raffle prizes. Free. 1:30pm. 110 Diamond St. at 18th. www.ggsenior.org

RecLAmation @ The Garage Hilary Goldberg’s film with live narration about a future Los Angeles run by queer superheroes. $12-$20. 8pm. 975 Howard St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the Bay Area: 1950 to 1970 @ Luggage Store Gallery Fascinating exhibit shows how women and people of culture were part of the abstract expressionist movement, but shut out by the era’s bias toward white men. Exhibit thru July 31. 1007 Market St. at 6th. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Enjoy a sumptuous four-course dinner featuring chef Traci des Jardins, with wine-pairings.

Proceeds benefit Project Open Hand. $75. 6:30pm. 300 Grove St. www.ninevinesevents.com

Street Power @ GLBT Historical Society Joey Plaster and Rev. Megan Rohrer present the first-ever oral histories and multimedia ephemera about the nation’s first gay liberation organization, the Tenderloin-based 1966 Vanguard. Free. 6:30pm.

657 Mission St. www.glbthistory.org

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

Writers Unearth and Re-imagine the Lives and Legacies of Queers Gone By, readings by several authors and writers. Free. 6pm.

Also June 23. Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Third Person @ The Garage Joshua Klipp and Freeplay Dance Crew perform (When the) LGB (fucks the) T (and how to make love instead), about the tensions between LGBs and Ts. $12-$20.

8pm. 975 Howard St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

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Border Out @ African American Arts & Culture Complex Stilt-walking acrobats to gender bending llaneras and border crossing rancheras, artists tell their stories through spoken word, music, dance and theater. $5-$15.

8pm. 762 Fulton St. 762-2071. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Eric Poole @ Books Inc. Author of the wild memoir Where’s My Wand? One Boy’s Magical Triumph Over Alienation and Shag Carpeting reads from and discusses his book. Free. 7:30pm.

2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Frameline Film Festival Opening Gala @ SF Botanical Garden Society Celebrate the opening night of the 34th annual LGBT film festival. After the screening of the historical romance The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, enjoy cocktails, wines, food, dancing in the style of the Jane Austen-esque costume drama. $30-$35 (film only); $45-$60 (gala only) or $75-$90 for both. Film 7pm at the Castro Theatre. Gala, 9pm-11pm at 1199 9th Ave at Lincoln Way. Film festival continues thru June 27. www.frameline.org

Fresh Meat Festival @ Theater Artaud Opening night of the diverse transgender/queer performance showcase featuring hip hop, modern dance, theater, voguing, clogging, live music, comedy and more from Sean Dorsey Dance, Barbary Coast cloggers, GAPA Men’s Chorus and others. $17-$20. 8pm. Thru June 20 (7pm). 450 Florida St. at 17th. www.freshmeatproductions.org

Garage All-Stars, SF Moving Men @ Supperclub Dance, music and performance (Josh Klipp, Makeup Mutiny and others) and DJed dancing in a benefit for the Queer Cultural Festival. $5. 8pm. 657 Harrison St. www.queerculturalcenter.org

Queer Comedy @ El Rio Karen Ripley, Lisa Geduldig, Nick Leonard, Ray Ferrer, David Hawkins, and Yayne Abeba perform with host Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. (800) 838-3006. www.koshercomedy.com www.elriosf.com

Old School @ SF Public Library

Passionate Struggle @ GLBT Historical Society Manuela Carrasco & Co at Zellerbach Hall, Tue.

Exhibit about Bay Area LGBT historical events and people.

Also, Man-I-Fest, a new exhibit of letters and documents by FTM transgender pioneer Lou Harrison and friends.

Free/donations. Wed-Sat 1pm5pm. 657 Mission St. #300.

777-5455. www.glbthistory.org

Salacious Salon @ Kunst-Stoff Arts LGBT performance, video, dance and visual art showcase with the House of Delicious.

8pm. Thru June 27. 929 Market St. at 5th St. 5th floor. www.queerculturalcenter.org

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by Donna Sachet he best way to sneak a preview of a soon-to-be released movie?

With the Movie Bears, of course! We got a peek of Sex and the City 2, courtesy of organizers Dave & Drew, at the Westfield Cinemas recently, surrounded by a friendly, boisterous capacity crowd of obviously die-hard fans of the hit television series and movie spin-off. At check-in, each person selected a plastic bracelet with the name of the character with whom they most identified. (We noticed a remarkable shortage of remaining Samantha bracelets.) Movie expert and local Bear favorite Jan Wahl introduced the film with her notable aplomb, and the attendees, including Brian Benamati, Tony Onorati, and Dana van Iquity, settled in for the duration. At the conclusion, we agreed with Jan that the first 20 minutes were delightful, but the remaining two-plus hours careened out of control. We were there largely for the wonderful company, and so the night was a success.

Last Sunday’s Fresh at Ruby Skye had an added plus, preceded by a solo show by visiting Candis Cayne in the club space below called Slide. This intimate but luxurious venue was a perfect setting for the hilarious stand-up comedy, cult film lip-synching, and uncensored monoO N T HE logue delivered to a loyal audience, including Sister Roma, Michael Youens, Bebe Sweetbriar, Michael Loftis, and longtime fan Mike Lane. At one point, she enlisted four volunteers with whom she pantomimed a recent musical production number from the popular Glee television show. With smiles on our faces, we then ascended the stairs to dance away the night with the packed holiday masses.

Can an organization ever thank its loyal volunteers enough? Stop AIDS Project hosted a thank you party for its restaurant ambassadors

Jai Rodriguez and Wilson Cruz clown around at the GLAAD Media Awards, last Saturday night at the Marriott Marquis.

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and other supporters of Dining Out for Life last Wednesday at the new Leticia’s on Market St. (Welcome back to the Castro, Leticia!) Executive director Kyriell Noon welcomed all, and development director Chris Minchillo emceed a short program, announcing the participation of over 140 restaurants this year, and over $60,000 raised on raffle sales. Outstanding contributions were recognized, then a drawing was held for several prizes, including a vintage 1958 Mercedes! Although the winner of that prize was not present, his roommate seemed overjoyed.

Wells Fargo again demonstrated its commitment to the LGBT communiT OWN ty with a check for $15,000, presented by Stephen Kling.

On a sad note, we join so many in mourning the passing of Quentin Easter, co-founder and executive director of the local Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. The other half of this creative and engaging duo, Stanley Williams, himself recovering from cancer surgery, has announced a memorial service which is bound to be filled with theatrical and musical performers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Mon., June 14, at 7 p.m. Let’s give this talented and generous man a wonderful send-off.

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As always, the month of June in SF is not for the faint of heart, with a plethora of events leading up to the biggest Pride Celebration in the world. Tomorrow, the local chapter of Colage celebrates 20 years of service to the sons and daughters of LGBT parents at the Hamm’s Building, 1550 Bryant, featuring comedienne Diane Amos and debuting a short film about the organization called Family Time. Honorees include Kate Kendall, James Hormel, and Marina Gatto. The following weekend will keep us busy with the Imperial Court’s Mr. & Miss Gay Pageant on Sat., June 19, at Hotel Kabuki. Outgoing Mr. Gay David Slack, who has done a laudable job with the title, will say his farewells, and an esteemed panel of judges will select among the contestants a new Mr. & Miss Gay San Francisco. Expect elaborate costumes, extraordinary talent, and a convivial crowd! The next night, Patrik Gallineaux presents the second season semi-finals of Dance Off with the Drag Stars, following last year’s successful take-off on the hit television series with professional male dancers paired with local drag divas in competition for the coveted mirrored-ball trophy. It takes place at Cheryl Burke Dance Studio, 1830 17th St., June 20, starting at 6 p.m., and this year benefiting the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation.▼

Coming up in leather & kink >> Wed., June 10-Sun., June 13: The 15 Association Boot Camp Weekend. Pre-registration is required. Must be 21 and have a photo ID that states you are male. Go to: www.the15association.org.

Wed., June 10: Effective Flogging, a Paideia playshop with Angela and Iain at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). $15-$25, sliding scale. Doors open 7 p.m. Workshop from 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Wed., June 16: SoMa’s Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, The Eagle) have specials for those who have the Men’s Club dogtags. See your favorite SoMa bar for details.

Fri., June 11-Mon., June 14: Desire: Leather Women Unleashed! Palm Springs. Go to: www.desireleatherwomen.com.

Fri., June 11: Women and Trans Play Party, Looking Glass, Jack London Square area, Oakland, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $20 per person, $35 per couple. RSVP to mail@lookingglassarts.com.

Sat., June 12: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back-patio bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather.

10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., June 12: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 per person. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., June 12-Sun, June 13: The Erotic Dominance Weekend Intensive for Men: Tops and Switches, by Club Dubois’ Academy of SM Arts, at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). Sat. from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., we share and explore the many layers of conscious BDSM together, from the quality of touch to Selina’s Anatomy, skills playshops to scene dynamics. Sun. from 11 a.m.-10 p.m., focus your dominant intent; find your authentic self and the roles you play. Then welcome your partner for Sunday evening’s private play party. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., June 12: Hell Hole Fisting Party. Expanded hours for Pride: Doors open 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Party ends at 4 a.m.

No admission after 1 a.m. $25 admission. Free clothes check. For an invitation, visit www.HellHoleSF.com.

Sun., June 13: SF Men’s Spanking Party at 385A 8th St., above Mr. S Leather. 1-6 p.m. “This is not a S&M Leather group.” More for guys into Spanking & Spanking Fantasies like traditional Old-Fashioned Spanking over Daddy’s Knee, or a Fraternity-style Pledge Initiation Paddling. This is a safe place for beginners to explore their Spanking Fantasies, or just a good place to meet and talk to other guys into this fetish. Info: call (415) 864-2766, email: SanFranParty@yahoo.com or check the bulletin board www.voy.com/201188.

Sun., June 13: The Brotherhood San Jose, along with friends & guests, will ride the historic Roaring Camp Railroad train from Felton through the Pacific Coast redwoods to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Take the “Beach” train departing at 10:30 a.m., advance reservations suggested. Go to: www.roaringcamp.com /beach.html.

Mon., June 14: Dominant Discussion Group (DDG) at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). Doors open at 7 p.m., discussion from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sun., June 13: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Tue., June 15: North Bay Meander: An easy walking group for kinksters. Coffey Park, 1908 Dogwood Dr., Santa Rosa, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Go to: fetlife.com/events/18970.

Tues., June 15: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., June 16: Naughty Knitters, ladies’ crafting social time at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 7-9 p.m. $5 admission. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., June 16: Underwear Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison St.). 8 p.m.-Midnight. $12, Buddies membership required, $8 for 6 months. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., June 16: Bare Bear, a night at the baths at The Water Garden, San Jose. 6-10 p.m. This event is held every third Wednesday of the month. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com.

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Boys on the sand

by Ernie Alderete en in Motion, photographs by Michael Reh (Bruno Gmunder), explores masculine sensuality and playful intimacy entirely in black-and-white.

From 2003, it’s part of our series of looks back at classic erotic photo-books. The subjects are typically white-bread beach boys, blonds in the surf, buff boys on the sand, and handsome guys doing the cannonball dive or generally horsing around at the seashore.

Virtually all of the models in Men in Motion are looking straight at you, or rather, directly at the camera.

Nice, if looking into their dreamy eyes is your primary desire. But I prefer the few pictures where the subjects are not so strictly posed, where they are more in actual motion, as the title implies. You can’t do that with your eyes fixed on the camera. That’s a basic incompatibility.

There is one magnificent composition near the back of the book of a dark-haired guy perched atop a tall

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building, precariously seated on a vent fixture with the skyline beyond him as a backdrop, that is out of this world. As the models remain anonymous, I can’t tell you who he is, but I would have put him on the cover and printed it up as a poster, it is that good. An indelible icon of raw, sweaty masculinity.

Men in Motion shows lots of skin, but no privates. Still it’s a cut above, definitely worth a peek. There’s also a Men In Motion postcard book, with a sexier cover than the book it-

self. A similar book by the same photographer, Sun Kissed continues the al fresco theme. These titles appear to be out of print, but I have seen them for sale from online merchants for very competitive prices.▼

X-treme motion

by Rachel Pepper STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero by Elizabeth Streb; Feminist Press, $18.95

lizabeth Streb is one of those seminal figures in modern dance who defies easy classification. Trained classically, Streb always reached beyond the limits of form and tradition, becoming a pioneer of the concept of what is now termed “extreme action” choreography.

An out lesbian, Streb has an impressive list of accomplishments. A dancer since her teens, she spent two years in San Francisco in the early 1970s with the Margaret Jenkins Company. Then she headed back to New York City, where she has remained since. In 1985, she formed her own company, which eventually evolved into STREB, and soon began choreographing for flying trapeze, trampolines, walls, and platforms. Included among Streb’s many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two New York Dance and Performance Awards for her “sustained investigation of movement,” and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award in 1997. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and sits on the Mayor’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission in New York City.

In 2003, Streb took over a vacant loading dock in Brooklyn and established the much-beloved STREB Lab for Action Mechanics [SLAM], which houses the company’s school, camps, performance space, rehearsal facilities (open to the public most days of the week), trapeze rig, business offices, and storage. In 2007, the company was able to purchase the building, and it is now an enduring New York cultural institution, a singular artistic presence on an otherwise underutilized block in Brooklyn. Entering this building is a bit like submerging oneself into a different reality. A blend of courage, cunning, contortionism, and queer urban cheekiness defines this unique company and its founder.

STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero is Streb’s first book, less an autobiography than an innovator’s manifesto. Divided into non-sequential sections entitled “In the Beginning,” “Body,” “Space,” “Time,” “Motion” and “The Real Move,” the book also includes a foreword and interview with Streb by ac-

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tress Anna Deavere Smith (who calls Streb a “brilliant rascal”), and an introduction by feminist critic Peggy Phelan.

Streb’s childhood is sketched out briefly, with few details given other than she was adopted, grew up in Rochester, NY, once accidentally burnt an entire barn down to the ground, and enjoyed brave feats of spectacle as a tomboyish child, like extracting a hook from an eel at age 8, whereby a group of fisherman gathered around her cheered, “Good fella!” which she recounts made her “hugely proud for hours and hours.” As a young woman, she was an avid downhill skier and motorcycle racer, ultimately riding her motorcycle across the country from NY to San Francisco, arriving unknown and with $70 in her pocket, a “stark beginning” that she writes was crucial in teaching her, as a young woman, to “take up space” and survive in a city. Armed with a burning ambition to succeed, Streb soon became an unstoppable “human action machine.”

Most of the text is concerned with the mechanics of space, place, and time, and how dance can subvert these notions. In her classical training, the author writes that she “immediately took issue with the fact that men got to do the most exciting movements in dance class. Men lifted women, they performed the grand allegro. It wasn’t fair. I got into some gnarly arguments with my ballet teachers. [These] included not just ones about gender, but also more intricate issues about the true nature of a human body in motion.” Irritated by the traditional, rigid world of classical ballet, Streb writes she wanted “to find a way to be true to my own experience of action,” which included wanting to fly. She writes, “The failure to investigate or even attempt human flight is at the heart of the artificiality of the dance field.” As such, much of the choreography that evolved from these early ambitions

became stunt-oriented, pushing her willing accomplices into exciting and oft-dangerous territory.

Indeed, Streb is known for creating daring raw moves that make the polished stunts of groups like Cirque du Soleil seem almost safe by comparison. Continually guiding her dancers outside a comfort zone of tradition and “into physical territories that provoke the fight-or-flight response,” Streb never ceases to innovate. Whether it’s using cement blocks like pendulums in the piece “Gauntlet,” diving through panes of glass in a 1997 performance called “Breakthru,” or subverting the principles of gravity by having her dancers run up walls, Streb gets pleasure from challenging an audience’s perceptions of what is possible.

As a book, STREB exists, like the person who inspired it, as a work in progress. It is not a finished opus encapsulating an entire life’s journey or analyzing its performances. Rather, it is an enjoyable introduction to the creative mind of Elizabeth Streb, one of the LGBT community’s artistic geniuses. Enjoy the trip through STREB as you would enjoy sauntering through an engaging gallery, pausing at a particularly rousing passage, chuckling at a surprising turn of phrase or event, and gathering revelatory new insights into the worlds of space, time, and motion.▼

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The face behind the mask f you want a hint at how funny the new documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is, consider some of the juicy tidbits that did not make it into Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s look at comedy’s original comeback kid: A 20something Joan notched an early stage role playing opposite an even younger Barbra Streisand, and claims her character was a lesbian with a crush on Streisand’s character; Rivers once sued a female impersonator for using some of her comedy routines in his Vegas act; and in 2009, Rivers served as a “pink carpet presenter” for the broadcast of Sydney’s annual gay Mardi Gras parade. Oy vey!

Many gay folks will key into the kind of bottomless rage that the

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Was San Francisco a moveable feast when you arrived in the 70s?

The second wave of gay liberation was exploding right before me. It was an exciting, ebullient time. There were lots of public displays of affection, potlucks and art groups forming. We managed to get beers at The Stud and rolled joints for hours.

Do you miss those times?

I’m a little numb to nostalgia. Let’s stop being hypnotized by the 70s and make that euphoria our angle on the world now.

How did you get the job at Milk’s camera shop?

I was a customer first. I had scoped it out as a place to bring my Super 8 films after I moved to Castro Street. I

Brooklyn-born comedienne can seemingly draw on at the drop of a hat. During a Wisconsin comedy concert, Rivers locks horns with a middle-aged heckler, reading the man to filth. The moment works precisely because you don’t see that winking signal that she doesn’t really mean it. There is ample material here to suggest there are moments when the anger is real, that Rivers may indeed really mean it. The filmmakers make it perfectly clear that for Joan, standup is very much a blood sport.

The doc waltzes through the early career highlights, revealing an ambitious young woman whose physical appearance bears only the slightest resemblance to today’s heavily madeover comic. Rivers’ career throughline has never strayed far from the small screen, and A Piece of Work is at

its best showcasing the golden moment when comedy wizard Johnny Carson plucked her from anonymity to instant stardom as a Tonight Show headliner and his own apparent successor. Rivers was abruptly expelled from Oz when Johnny took umbrage to her attempts to moonlight without his Papal blessing. She was banished from late-night for accepting a competing Fox show: “Johnny slammed down the phone, never spoke to me again, and had me blacklisted. To this day, I’ve never been on NBC Late Night.”

At 76, Rivers demonstrates that queers have no monopoly on camp or self-deprecating humor. Why? Maybe the name changes required of any aspiring Russian-Jewish comic: Joan Alexander Molinsky became Joan Rivers, with a 22-year private so-

Scene from Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work: standup as blood sport.

journ as Joan Rosenberg, wife of Edgar, mother to Melissa.

The filmmakers make clear that the sudden devastating suicide of

stopped in there and they were superenthusiastic about my work and personality. I couldn’t believe how friendly these two guys were. Little did I know that I was being cruised by Harvey. He loved being invested in the lives and projects of many people, but I have to say that I was singled out as a protégé. A year after we met, they asked me to come work for them. It was my initiation into political activism and freelance photography.

What was like it like for you on the Milk set, given that the film recreated events you’d actually lived through?

Milk was charismatic, but could you tell from the start that he was really going places?

What is Milk’s legacy?

Oh, yeah. He was hyper-real from day one, and very gregarious. When Harvey spoke with you one on one, his tone of voice became very deliberate and it was like you were the best thing since baked bread, and he was all ears for what you had to say and were about, especially if you were a cute guy.

It was profoundly poignant. All of us who were Milk colleagues felt the same vibe. We couldn’t get over that we were having our rites of passage turned into poetry. It was something to behold, and we were on the verge of tears many of those days. When the circus left town, we suffered serious post-production blues.

Dan Nicoletta.

by David Lamble

Scorchy’s holster, SF LGBT Pride Celebration, June 28, 1992,

by Dan Nicoletta.

He was a gay everyman, yet he became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the world, which he knew would secure a lasting effect on the LGBT civil rights movement. He succeeded against all odds, in terms of business acumen, creativity and political identity. Like many leaders, he was

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born when she saw pictures of the AIDS Quilt laid out on the National Mall, and she created a piece for her late son. Though there are tears, Rucker’s performance of Barbara Ellen’s loopy life force brings us back to bluer skies.

After the intermission, Rudnick brings all his characters, without much effort at plausibility, to the maternity ward of a New York City hospital. The

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brilliant. They would’ve called it Semi-Precious.“ Seeing Rivers live onstage, one is struck by her physicality and vigor as she flails around the stage with the same energy she had 30 years ago.

Does she have a workout regime?

“Three times a week I get on a treadmill and I do free weights, and then I run around the stage, which is a workout. And I walk through airports. I will never take that moving staircase, I will always take the stairs.”

The film depicts Rivers constantly getting in and out of limos, planes and hotels, which made me wonder when she sleeps. “I sleep on planes, I nap, I never get a really good night’s sleep.

This is a business where you don’t worry about sleep. This is a business where you do what you do. And you say, ‘Thank God they want me.’”

In another revealing moment, Rivers’ daughter Melissa talks about the insecurity of standup comics and their need to get up on stage and say, “Look at me and laugh.” Her mother’s response to this comment?

“How’d she get so smart? Isn’t that amazing how much she knows? She never says that to me. Good for her that she gets it.”

Melissa gets it. Joan gets it. But in the film, one man at a Joan Rivers performance in Northern Wisconsin didn’t get it. In response to her relatively mild Helen Keller joke, he

hubby Edgar – tied into the fiasco that the Fox show quickly became – produced one of the few emotional earthquakes in Rivers’ life that can’t be neatly measured. The doc attempts explanations of why, after multiple nips and tucks, Joan keeps on trucking, why she’s still hungry for the hefty personal-appearance fees and upgrades. An assistant quips, “No upgrade? Well, then they’ll get $125,000 worth of attitude!”

The filmmakers drop hints: a lavish lifestyle, concern for her daughter’s career, and a nagging sense she’s never been taken seriously as an actress or accepted into comedy’s angry-man fraternity. Think she’s happy as a pioneer? Think again! “If one more female comic says, ‘You’ve opened doors for me.’ Go fuck yourself!”▼

the right person at the right time in the right place, but because he had that weird prescience about his own mortality, he felt a sense of urgency.

Once he was killed, you got a deep sense of how great it was and how fleeting. I felt compelled to return the favor and commit to the larger community. Then shortly thereafter, we were hit with AIDS. We all figured out what it takes, and it took a lot. For want of a better way to say it, I became the family photographer for the San Francisco LGBT community. I still have such a great romance with the city. It’s as clear and as fresh as the day I set foot here.▼ Electric Works, 130 8th St. Info: (415) 626-5496 or www.sfelectricworks.com.

gathering offers up some foolish fun, and a serious moment or two about 9/11, before a final summation is required. “We’re all in this together,” Mr. Charles announces, “and there is only one way to fix this planet.” If you’re expecting a hint at the meaning of life, a mirror ball and some disco music will have to suffice.▼ The New Century will run at New Conservatory Theatre Center through July 11. Tickets are $22-$40. Call 8618972 or go to www.nctcsf.org.

shouts out, “That’s not funny! I have a deaf son!” And in a jaw-dropping moment, Rivers launches into a tirade, shooting back, “Don’t tell me what’s funny, you stupid son-of-abitch! This is comedy! If you laugh about it, you can deal with it!”

“That was the first time in seven years that someone said something to me. He got so crazy that I slapped him down very hard. There were 2,999 people who wanted to laugh that night. And you cannot let one person disrupt and ruin it for the other 2,999. They paid. They put their car in the garage. So don’t yell at me for doing a goddamn fuckin’ Helen Keller joke! Wait til you hear what I’m going to say about Anne Frank!”

Rivers has no time for political correctness, or show biz bullshit of any kind. Having interviewed innumerable stars on the red carpet, she has nothing but contempt for stars who everyone knows hate each other, claiming that they love each other dearly.

“In real life I have given up so many friends because I won’t deal with it anymore. After six o’clock, tell me the truth or I’m not wasting dinner on you. I’ll listen to shit at lunch, but after six o’clock, you tell me if your daughter’s on drugs.”

Reflecting on the banner year that her documentary captures, Rivers remains grateful and in the moment about her recent success. “If you don’t appreciate and enjoy every moment when it happens, then you’re a true fool.”▼

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