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Vol. 47 • No. 33 • August 17-23, 2017
Racist rally in Virginia turns deadly Openhouse’s Karyn Skultety
Openhouse ED hosts town halls by Matthew S. Bajko
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penhouse Executive Director Karyn Skultety, Ph.D., is hosting a series of town halls next week to update the community on the expansion of programs provided by the LGBT senior services agency and the new construction timetable for the second phase of its senior housing complex. Last November residents began moving into the $40 million project’s first phase, a renovated former college building located at 55 Laguna Street. At the dedication ceremony in March for the city’s first affordable housing aimed at LGBT seniors, it was announced that work to construct the new building with 79 units of affordable senior housing on what is now a parking lot at 95 Laguna would begin this month. Construction is now expected to start next month, with an official groundbreaking ceremony set for sometime in October. The new building should open to residents in April 2019. “We are in the middle of closing on financing and expect to break ground in September,” said Ileah La Vora, a housing developer with Mercy Housing, the nonprofit developer working with Openhouse on the project. The units will again be allotted by lottery, which has yet to be scheduled. The more than 1,700 people on the waiting list for the 55 Laguna units will need to reapply for the units in the new building. The age limit has been raised, however, from 55 to 62 years of age. Fifteen units will be reserved for those at risk of being homeless and another six for low-income people living with HIV or AIDS. One unit will be set aside for an onsite manager. “In the fall of 2018 we will have the application and lottery process going on. But I don’t have an updated timeline on that,” said Skultety. “We will put out an FAQ in either September or October to educate people about the process for how this will work.” The new building will include more than 7,000 square feet of space for Openhouse to use for community events and classes. It will be in addition to the agency’s offices at 65 Laguna Street, known as the Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center due to a $1 million donation from the foundation of the B.A.R.’s founding publisher. See page 14 >>
People stream into an Indivisible vigil for Charlottesville, Virginia Sunday, August 13 at Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley.
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ne of the loudest chants by white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday was “Fuck you, faggots.” The driver of the car that plowed into counterprotesters appears to have associated himself with a rightwing group that believes LGBT people are
“sexual deviants.” And a national leader for white supremacists at the rally is a man who two years ago barred anti-gay participants from his group events. The Charlottesville rally by white supremacists gained widespread international attention August 12 when fights broke out in the streets between the rally participants and a large group of counterprotesters, and
one of the rally participants drove his car at high speed into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19. Attention escalated dramatically after President Donald Trump expressed his condemnation of the violence, but rather than take a stand against white supremacists, See page 13 >>
Gay photog releases book on SF by Seth Hemmelgarn
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or more than 40 years, gay photographer Daniel Nicoletta has been a witness to, and a participant in, LGBT history, capturing iconic moments with his camera – from the rise and death of his close friend, Harvey Milk, through the legalization of same-sex marriage and the film, “Milk,” which brought Sean Penn an Academy Award for his portrayal of the slain gay rights leader. Now, Nicoletta, 63, is sharing his first solo book – “LGBT San Francisco: The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs,” published in July by Reel Art Press. The book includes hundreds of photos, ranging from a man dressed as Marilyn Monroe with his blown-up skirt exposing his bare butt to the caskets of Milk and former Mayor George Moscone lying in state in the City Hall Rotunda in December 1978. (Former supervisor Dan White assassinated Milk and Moscone in City Hall the previous month, just a year after Milk became a city supervisor.) Putting the book together and promoting it has been a “deeply poignant” process, said Nicoletta, and he’s been “a faucet of emotion.” “I have pretty thick skin in that area,” he said. “When you’re a photographer covering a movement like that, we’ve had so much loss ... you kind of learn to live with the ghosts, and I had already been conditioned that way, but this was something else altogether.”
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After chronicling the LGBT community for 40 years, Daniel Nicoletta has published his first solo book of photographs.
Nicoletta, who spent about a year working on the book, said that after photographing the community for more than four decades, he found “many surprises” when looking back at his work. That included “a lot of sleepers” – photos that didn’t necessarily have much “gravity” when he took them but have
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taken on more meaning. One example is a two-page spread of the Twin Peaks Tavern in the Castro, known for its plate glass windows. He recalled that as he rode the 24 Divisadero bus past the bar one day in February 1978, he thought, “Here’s a cute shot of gay life. I’ll just take this picture ... .” Almost 40 years later, the photo, which shows men chatting and embracing, “is really interesting,” and it was “a no brainer” for the book, said Nicoletta. “You can even see the reflection of the bus that I’m in the window’s reflection,” he said. Gus Van Sant, who directed the “Milk” biopic and wrote the forward to “LGBT San Francisco,” stated, “Danny’s photos are a treasured artistic record of the people who initiated a movement from within their own neighborhood and this work links that exuberant time to the larger history of LGBT people.” For just over four years, Nicoletta’s lived in Grants Pass, Oregon. “I love it here, partly because I wanted to change channels a little bit,” and start putting together a book, he said of his life in the small city. Without the “somewhat monastic” environment, he said during a phone interview, “I probably never would have seen a book.” Nicoletta still returns to San Francisco but “I’m very much there as a visitor now,” See page 6 >>
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