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Gay icon Jose Sarria dies at 90 by Cynthia Laird
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ose Julio Sarria, a legendary San Francisco drag queen who made history as the first openly gay person to seek political office in America and founded the Imperial Court system, died Monday, August 19. He was 90. Mr. Sarria had been ill for several months and died at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was in San Bill Wilson Francisco last December to be recognized by Jose Sarria the Imperial Court on the occasion of his birthday. Last year Mr. Sarria told the Bay Area Reporter that he was diagnosed with a rare cancer in the adrenal glands. He had declined chemotherapy treatment. Local officials praised Mr. Sarria. “He provided inspiration,” gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano told the Bay Area Reporter. “He was one of the people who lit the fuse – at great risk to himself. He’s just irreplaceable.” In a statement, gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) said LGBTs of all stripes lost a “dear friend and fearless community leader who will forever hold a place in our hearts.” “When Jose threw his hat into the ring for San Francisco supervisor more than 50 years ago, he became one of the first to publicly proclaim that there is no reason, constitutional or otherwise, to deny lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people first-class citizenship, respect, and dignity under the law,” Leno said. He added, “Jose’s visionary and legendary leadership helped build the foundation for our successful, modern-day LGBT civil rights movement. His sly humor and wicked wit disarmed nearly every adversary.” Stuart Milk, the openly gay nephew of slain former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was the first out gay elected official in the city, also praised Mr. Sarria. “He paved the way for my uncle, Harvey Milk, to run for public office by being the first openly gay man to put his name on the 1961 ballot and was right there to support Harvey’s first campaign in 1973,” Milk said in a statement. Milk said that Mr. Sarria led an “extraordinary” life. “For the International Court system he was a guardian and an inspiration. For anyone who felt like they were different he was a defender of our dreams,” Milk said. “He taught us how to turn an idea into action, how to wear a tiara, and how to laugh and ultimately he taught us See page 16 >>
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Social Security updates name change policy
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he Social Security Administration has updated its policy so that partners in same-sex couples can go through the
agency to change their names. The development comes after the federal agency had denied numerous couples the right, even though same-sex marriage has been legal in California for more than
Dawn and Lisa Hagan were married in Oakland earlier this month by volunteer officiant Pamela Whitney, right. Lisa Hagan was initially rebuffed by Social Security officials when she tried to legally change her name following the wedding. The Social Security Administration has since announced that same-sex couples can change their names after they marry. Courtesy Lisa Hagan
a month and an SSA document from July acknowledged marriage equality coming to the state. The document also said marriage certificates for same-sex couples who’ve been legally married are “valid evidence of a name change.” The policy change hadn’t made it to the Social Security office in the East Bay city of Fremont when Lisa Hagan, 46, went there to have her name changed. Hagan – whose maiden name is Gray – married Dawn Hagan, 37, August 12 in Oakland. The women, who live in Fremont, have been together for four years. Hagan went to her local SSA office August 14, with a completed Social Security form number 5 (http://www.ssa.gov/online/ss-5. pdf) and her marriage certificate in hand. A worker there “said I had all the right paperwork,” but then “she asked me if it was a same-sex marriage, and I said, ‘Yes,’” said Hagan. The employee left. When she returned about 15 minutes later, “She said she was sorry, they did not have the go-ahead to do name changes for same-sex marriages yet,” said Hagan. She said the staffer told her that See page 17 >>
LeatherWalk changes hands by Seth Hemmelgarn
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fter 14 years at the helm, the longtime producer of the San Francisco LeatherWalk is passing the duties over to someone else, but not without a little leather drama. Longtime leather community leader and straight ally Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt, 71, is stepping down from the annual event, which kicks off Leather Pride Week each September. Hundreds of people march down Market Street from the Castro each year to celebrate leather and kink while raising money for the nonprofit AIDS and Breast Cancer Emergency Funds. Lance Holman, 46, who’s worked with Reinhardt on the walk in recent years, is taking over. “Lance has been one of my rocks,” Reinhardt said in a statement. “I know he will produce an event that stays true to our roots and raises funds for AEF/BCEF. I look forward to being able to enjoy LeatherWalk this year alongside my family and community.” But in an interview, Reinhardt expressed some bitterness over the transition, indicating that she feels pushed out. Asked if she would participate this year, Reinhardt said, “Honey, I don’t know yet. I really don’t know. ... I want to be there, but I’m so fucking pissed at being degraded and not being acknowledged for the work I’ve done.”
Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt, left, is handing over the reins of the San Francisco LeatherWalk to Lance Holman; this year’s event is September 22.
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LeatherWalk 2013 is set to step off on Sunday, September 22, at noon at Jane Warner Plaza. The walk route culminates at the SF Eagle, 398 12th Street, and includes stops at various South of Market leather bars and clubs. Holman, who was Mr. San Francisco Leather 2010, said, “I want to do everything I can to one, make sure we have a successful event,” and also “honor the work of the leather community,” and honor Reinhardt’s efforts. Leatherman Art Tomaszewski founded LeatherWalk in 1992 as a fundraiser for AIDS Emergency Fund. During her tenure, Rein-
hardt urged people nationwide to donate to both AEF and BCEF (AEF’s sister organization), and under her leadership, the event became a joint fundraiser for the nonprofits, which raise money for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer. LeatherWalk has raised over $200,000 over the past decade, according to AEF. The 2012 event raised more than $16,000. Mike Smith, AEF and BCEF’s executive director, said in a statement, “Mama and her family are the soul of LeatherWalk. Mama’s See page 17 >>
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layborne Carson, Ph.D., center, joined local event producer Bill Doggett, left, and Jeff Steinberg, right, for a program at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley last weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Steinberg is founder of Sojourn to the Past, a San Bruno-based youth mentoring civil rights history nonprofit that was honored by the Obama administration. Carson, director of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute, was the keynote speaker at the event. There were LGBT voices at the event, with remarks by Berkeley City Councilmen Darryl Moore and Kriss Worthington, National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell, and Marriage Equality USA’s John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney. The March on Washington, which took place August 28, 1963, was made famous by King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
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n anticipation of next month’s general annual meeting, several community members plan to run for the board of the organization overseeing San Francisco Pride, as the current board continues to struggle with negative reaction to its handling of the Bradley Manning fiasco this spring. It was clear from two recent meetings – a board meeting and a member meeting – that while the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee has been touting its increased revenue stream and festival turnout, a darker current has continued as infighting and frustration have set the organization on what appears to be a long course toward reconciliation. Emotions ran high at the August 13 member meeting, where the board invited nominations for new board members and themes for next year’s Pride celebration. Accusations of non-transparency were repeatedly raised, and Pride members criticized the board for its failure to follow protocol, often redirecting discussion and neglecting its agenda of tabled items. “There’s a big elephant in this room, and it’s that this organization has not been run fairly,” said member Thomas Plagemann. “This is about a social justice movement and a transparent show of solidarity and pride.
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Joey Cain, a former San Francisco Pride board member, speaks at last week’s Pride membership meeting.
You treated us like shit around the Manning issue.” He was referring to the controversy surrounding the Pride board’s naming of Manning, the Army private who gave downloads of classified government documents to WikiLeaks, as a community grand marshal for this year’s parade. Two days later, the board rescinded the honor, and ever since, has been met with anger from Manning supporters as well as transparency advocates (Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday). The board only acknowledged it made a “mistake” in selecting Manning in the first place, and that was back in early May.
Plagemann, like some of the estimated 40 others at the meeting last week at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center, is a new member of San Francisco Pride. The new members are giving momentum to the organization as it restructures after the Manning controversy. A group called SF Pride Members for Democracy, Accountability and Transparency has also sprouted in the Manning aftermath. Group leader and Castro resident Joey Cain said that 30 members gather for its meetings. Contention at Pride meetings can be subtle. For example, when soliciting theme suggestions for next See page 17 >>
Peaches to headline Castro fair by Matthew S. Bajko
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anadian gender-bending musician Peaches and her Peachettes will headline the main stage at this year’s Castro Street Fair.
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Peaches has been announced as the main stage headliner for the Castro Street Fair.
The outdoor festival is celebrating its 40th year Sunday, October 6. The late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who won election in 1977 as the city’s first out elected politician, launched the fair in 1974 as a way to promote the businesses in the emerging gay neighborhood where he owned a camera store. According to the event’s organizers, Peaches’ performance will include a never-before-seen tribute to disco legend Sylvester, who performed at
the second annual Castro Street Fair in 1975. The Castro resident died of AIDS complications in 1988 at the age of 41. “I am so proud to be part of Castro Street Fair, especially because it was started by the fearless Harvey Milk,” stated Peaches in a news release the fair organizers issued Tuesday, August 20. “This year, being the 40th anniversary, I will help honor another fearless incredible San Fran LGBT legend, Sylvester. I See page 16 >>
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‘Bus of Hope’ to visit Castro plaza compiled by Cynthia Laird
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ainbow World Fund, a San Francisco-based all-volunteer humanitarian service agency that has its roots in the LGBT community, will have its bus in Jane Warner Plaza this weekend in an effort to reach out and show people what the organization does. The group was started in 2000 and is led by Jeff Cotter, a gay San Francisco man. RWF regularly makes global awareness tours to Central America and partners with other organizations in four key areas: hunger, safe water, landmines, and global HIV/AIDS. It also promotes LGBT philanthropy in these and other areas. The “Bus of Hope,� as it’s been dubbed, will be in the plaza Saturday and Sunday, August 24-25, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. “RWF has used the bus in many different ways over the years to provide humanitarian aid on behalf of the LGBT and friends community, including taking thousands of pounds of medicines, medical equipment, and Christmas gifts for children to Mexico,� Cotter said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. “We recently renovated the
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interior of the bus adding a bar and lounge seating for social gatherings and outreach. We invite the community to stop by and visit the bus and learn how our community is helping people in need all over the world.� For more information about RWF, visit http://www.rainbowfund.org.
Argument at Castro club leads to stabbing
San Francisco police reported several incidents over the weekend, including a man who was stabbed Saturday night in the Castro. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the victim, a 25-year-old man, was with friends walking outside of a club near 18th and Castro streets at approximately 11:40 p.m. August 17. The suspect, described by police as a 25-year-old Hispanic man, approached the victim and apparently continued an argument the two started inside the club. The victim then felt pain on his side as the suspect fled the area. The man suffered a non-life-threatening stab wound to his upper body. Two robberies were also reported. The first occurred at 1:50 a.m. Au-
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The Rainbow World Fund’s “Bus of Hope,� seen here during a San Francisco LGBT Pride parade, will be on display in Jane Warner Plaza this weekend.
gust 17 when a 24-year-old man was walking down Liberty Street, near Castro, when a vehicle made a U-turn and approached him. The suspect got out of the vehicle and asked for directions and then showed the victim the handle of a handgun, pointed it at him, and took the victim’s money, police report-
ed in a summary. Two suspects drove northbound on Castro Street. The second robbery took place at 2:15 a.m. August 18. According to the police summary, two male suspects pushed a 38-year-old man up against a wall at Castro and Market streets and proceeded to take his property.
The suspects fled on foot. The victim reported that his cellphone, wallet and cash were taken.
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Same-sex marriage film gets TV debut
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City College seeks review of accreditation decision by Peter Hernandez
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ity College of San Francisco’s crisis took an unexpected turn when the very commission that determined its accreditation would be revoked next year was found noncompliant by the federal agency that oversees it. Last week the federal Department of Education submitted a letter to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges listing four areas of noncompliance, among them conflict of interest, lack of teacher representation, and clear meanings about recommendations for maintaining the school’s solvency. “It calls into question the processes that led to the decision to revoke City College’s accreditation,” said gay former Board of TrusteeS member Rafael Mandelman. The elected trustees of City College were stripped of their authority last month, after the ACCJC issued its report and said the college would have its accreditation revoked next July. Since then Special Trustee Robert Agrella has largely been overseeing the school along with interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman. Even though those areas of noncompliance could make a strong case against the ACCJC as City College submits its documents this week to appeal for a review regarding its revoked accreditation, Agrella has insisted on not addressing those issues. Those faults, which may indicate that ACCJC deviated from its own policies and procedures, seem to strengthen City College’s chances of retaining its accreditation. But
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Agrella said in a faculty-wide e-mail that if City College “joins the attack on the commission,” or references the letter, “I believe that the review and appeals process will be unsuccessful.” “The trouble with using those arguments is that you might offend the ACCJC,” said Mandelman. This is in contrast to a recent City College rally last month that drew a crowd of some 200 downtown, chanting, “Hey ACCJC, don’t privatize me,” or “Downsize ACCJC.” The ACCJC areas of noncompliance addressed in the letter from the Education Department have long been shouted at City College rallies since the ACCJC led a task force through the college of some 85,000 students in 2012. A revised mission statement, fewer teachers, and more administrators – these were weaknesses that the ACCJC said could be remedied with its 14 recommenda-
tions. But a year later the ACCJC report said that the college only addressed some of the recommendations. In an op-ed for the Bay Area Reporter last month, Mandelman said that the college has “undertaken a dramatic administrative reorganization” among other changes in response to the ACCJC. If it loses accreditation, student financial aid won’t be available and college credits likely won’t be accepted at other universities. It’s unclear exactly what affect the Education Department’s findings will have on City College. “The department does not have the authority to reverse any decision made by any accrediting agency,” wrote the Education Department’s Jane Glickman in an e-mail. The noncompliance areas found by the Education Department were: Too few academicians on the CCSF evaluation team; a potential conflict of interest by having the spouse of the commission’s president on the evaluation team; the commission allowing CCSF to be out of compliance for more than two years; and lack of an “adequate due process” to City College when ACCJC called its complaints in a 2012 report “recommendations.” “By using the term ‘recommendation’ to mean both noncompliance with standards and areas for improvement,” the DOE letter reads, “the agency does not meet the regulatory requirement to provide a detailed written report that clearly identifies any deficiencies in the institution’s compliance with the agency’s standards.”t
Safeway boots recycling center by David-Elijah Nahmod
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an Francisco Community Recyclers will be forced to cease operations next month after Safeway evicted it from the parking lot it shares with the grocery store on Market Street in the Castro district. There has been mixed reaction to the news, which was first reported by the Haighteration blog earlier this month. The recycling center is scheduled to close September 6. “It’s been at that location since 1985,” recycling center director Ed Dunn said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. “It employs eight full-time and part-time workers at the site.” When asked what the workers would do, Dunn responded with one word: “Unemployment.” Many homeless and low-income people rely on the center for muchneeded income. They collect cans and bottles from around the city and trade them in for cash at the center. Yet some in the community appear happy that the center is leaving. In an August 8 story posted at SFist, Andrew Dalton noted that the recycling center was “known for being somewhat odorous, as well as a magnet for homeless people in the neighborhood.” Gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener told the B.A.R. that he supported the closure. “Although I am sure there will be some controversy around the closure, I’m very supportive of it and made that clear to Safeway,” Wiener said in a statement. “I’ve been asking Safeway to consider alternatives to the recycling center. With the advent of curbside recycling, we can offer recycling redemption
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With new residential development in the background, people bring their bottles and cans to San Francisco Community Recyclers, which Safeway has evicted from its parking lot, effective September 6.
that is less impactful to surrounding neighborhoods. We can still allow low-income people to redeem recyclables without enabling the recycling theft criminal enterprises that plague our city and often pay less than full value to the poor and homeless people who collect recyclables.” Dunn disagreed. “The Market Street recycling center is a regulated, state-certified recycling center subject to audits and inspections by Cal Recycle, the state agency that oversees recycling in the state,” said Dunn. “Closing it down will only fuel the growth of
the fly-by-night, black market recycling operators that have invaded the city, a trend that has sharply accelerated since the recent wave of recycling center closures.” According to Dunn, the recycling center pays five cents for cans and bottles less than 24 ounces, and 10 cents if they are larger than 24 ounces. During a visit to the center Saturday, August 17, many people were lined up with huge bags and shopping carts filled with cans and bottles. They were waiting to trade these items for cash. See page 7 >>
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ho needs pink fog in the Castro when you could have a rainbow crosswalk instead? Readers may remember the somewhat wacky proposal to emit pink mist to create a pink cloud over the Castro. That winning design from a 2000 competition to enliven Harvey Milk Plaza never did come to fruition. But that’s okay, because improvement plans for the Castro this time around are more reasonable – and actually have the funding to achieve them. We’ve been impressed with the planning for the Castro sidewalk widening project. A number of workshops and meetings were held, and planning staff refined the design to include a number of items requested by community members. Funding for the $4 million project comes from the $248 million road-paving bond measure approved by San Francisco voters. (So, to those naysayers who complain that the money should be used for something else, it can’t.) The plan calls for widening the sidewalks along Castro Street between 17th and 19th streets from 12 to 18 feet and eliminating a traffic lane. The amount of street parking would remain the same and left turn pockets from Castro onto 18th Street should remain in place. As the Bay Area Reporter has noted in numerous stories this year about the project, the goal is to make Castro Street more pedestrian-friendly between 19th and Market streets. Along with widening the sidewalks, the project will bring cosmetic improvements to Jane Warner Plaza, the miniparklet at the corner of 17th, Market, and Castro streets, and see a new bulb-out built in front of 575 Castro Street, where the late Supervisor Harvey Milk had his camera shop. And while area merchants – and shoppers – will be inconvenienced once construction starts, the end result should be worth it, with wider sidewalks that will accommodate more foot traffic in the gay neighborhood. The privately funded Rainbow Honor Walk’s first 20 plaques honoring historic LGBT figures will also be installed, giving visitors and residents yet another reason to tour the neighborhood. But what got us excited was the news last week that there are plans for a rainbow crosswalk in one
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Jose Sarria’s legacy
The death of Jose Sarria this week is a reminder of the pioneer he was, both in politics
and entertainment. Sarria, who died Monday at the age of 90, was the first openly gay person in the country to run for public office. His campaign so terrified the city’s Democratic leaders that they persuaded other candidates to run, thus diluting the vote and decreasing Sarria’s chances for a seat on the Board of Supervisors. But in deciding to seek election, Sarria shattered barriers and helped show San Franciscans that gays could wield political clout. He was right when he said that he probably could have won if he had run again. His campaign inspired another gay person to seek elective office just over a decade later: Harvey Milk, after two attempts, won a seat on the Board of Supervisors in 1977, and since then, there has been gay and lesbian representation on the board. Sarria also founded the Imperial Court System, a charitable organization that celebrates drag and helps raise funds for numerous causes. He led a long life and accomplished much. Sarria is a true San Franciscan who always exemplified our values. He leaves a legacy that will always live on. “God, save us nelly queens!”t
Fighting homophobia in Russia is an LGBT tradition
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of three possible intersections, along with proposals for other gay-themed crosswalks. The Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District will foot the bill for the decorative crosswalks and we say that the $28,000 will be well spent. Similar crosswalks in West Hollywood and other cities are very attractive and make the neighborhood stand out. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency must sign off on the crosswalk designs, and we’re confident they will approve a rainbow design for one of them. Making the Castro more appealing to pedestrians is something that merchants and residents can support. The Castro is one of the city’s tourist destinations and its streetscape should reflect its importance in LGBT history. Wider sidewalks, the bulb-out, new trees, and the gay-themed crosswalks will add to the Castro’s prominence.
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ome readers of this paper – especially those of us slightly on the older side – might remember 22 years ago when the plight of Russia’s LGBT citizens was also a big focus in our community. They might even remember the late publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, Bob Ross, joining a group of 90 diverse American LGBT activists who took a historic trip to Russia with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in July 1991, where we met with government officials, grassroots activists, and held a joint U.S.Russian LGBT conference and film festival in (then) Leningrad and Moscow. Just a few weeks after our delegation flew back to the U.S., readers may also remember there was a coup attempt and days of protest in Moscow, where LGBT activists were part of the democracy movement that helped bring down those big iconic Stalin and Lenin statues, and with it the Soviet Union, ushering in a new Russia. That new Russia brought with it new freedoms and opportunities for a civil society to grow and flourish for all, including a new generation of LGBT Russians. In those days we were calling for the repeal of the anti-gay sodomy law – a law that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union had on the books – although in the USSR it actually landed hundreds of gay men in prison or labor camps for up to five years. With the help of then-Congressman Barney Frank and others, and together with brave Russian activists, we nudged and nudged until President Boris Yeltsin got rid of that law in a set of modernizing penal code reforms, which helped to repeal not only Russia’s sodomy law, but a number of others in the former Soviet Republics as well. Fast-forward 20 years, the Russian LGBT movement blossomed with scores of organizations, film festivals and cultural events, a thriving club scene,
and even plenty of activist infighting. Also blossoming during that same period was the Russian Orthodox Church and its homophobic and heterosexist focus on the family and so-called traditional values. In the most recent years, homophobia and Russian nationalism have found an overt kinship – both for President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin policies – as well as in society, where antigay sentiments poll high among Russian citizens. A more violent strain of homophobic nationalism is also growing, leaving at least two gay men dead over the past few months. In foreign policy, Russia leads the charge at the United Nations against progress on human rights for LGBT people, with its “traditional values” resolution. Domestically, Putin’s party members proposed the anti-propaganda laws in a dozen regions before the national law was enacted in the Duma in June. These laws, as well as the lesser-known modifications to the adoption law making it illegal for same-sex parents to adopt in Russia, are all in the name of “protecting children.” While we can easily see through this protection rhetoric as deliberately anti-gay measures, these legal changes are receiving large-scale public support in Russia. Homophobia is popular and even more so, it is perceived as Russian and not Western. But taking an LGBT-only view misses a few key points about what is happening right now in Russia, including in the run-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. This anti-LGBT campaign is occurring within a much larger crackdown on Russian civil society. Gays are an easy political scapegoat, and as such, Putin’s government is test-driving some of their new repression techniques on this vulnerable community. Two of the very first nonprofit organizations charged and fined under the re-
cent “foreign agents” law are LGBT groups in St. Petersburg – their equivalents to Frameline and the LGBT Community Center. These two brave organizations, together with the other human rights groups and the individual leaders of those groups charged as foreign agents, are refusing the government’s requirement to register as such and will likely have to close their official doors and pay large fines. Today, hundreds of non-governmental organizations have been charged under this new law, had their offices searched, or received warnings by the government not to violate this law, creating a crippling climate of fear among civil society and advocates. The growing repression, harassment, and danger to the lives of the LGBT community groups and activists, is also growing for the many other brave advocates in Russia working on a huge range of issues, including freedom of the press and association, political reform, anti-corruption, and the abuses against those migrant workers brought in to erect the huge Olympic stadiums in Sochi on the land where people were forced to evacuate their homes without proper compensation. Focusing our community’s outrage on the new anti-gay law is proving to be a catalyzing force in politics and the media. Let’s keep that up. But let’s also seize the attention to contextualize these abuses and call for the broader reforms needed in Russia to keep some basic level of democratic freedom for its citizens. Russian and American LGBT activists helped fight together for democratic reforms 22 years ago in Russia – that’s a gay tradition worth keeping.t San Francisco resident Julie Dorf is senior adviser for the Council for Global Equality, and founder of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
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Tough times for renters
I support the protest at the home of real estate developer William Young in Atherton as reported in the Bay Area Reporter [“Activists travel to Atherton to protest Castro eviction,” August 15]. I hope there will be more. I have been seeking ways to move home to the Castro since I moved to Massachusetts five years ago. After 30 years in San Francisco, and in the Castro especially, I have not been able to regain my happiness here. For over two years I have owned property here that is languishing in a slow market. Meanwhile, prices in San Francisco and across the bay have skyrocketed. One way to get back is to have a co-housing partner, and I found one here who is eager to move to San Francisco, and find a way – they do exist – to buy a rental building, take two units for ourselves, and maybe even have income from a possible third unit to help supplement modest incomes. Don’t anyone think this is a moral idea. I was disgusted at myself the moment I thought of it. It would mean throwing someone else into the very suffering I have had, or worse. I can’t and won’t do it. I haven’t even researched the loopholes. I won’t contribute to San Francisco’s slide into irrelevance as a gay sanctuary. The city can paint crosswalks in rainbow colors in the Castro, but it means nothing. Back in the day, when we were all mostly renters sharing flats, gradually turning a dowdy old neighborhood into what Castro became, most of us were just happy to be free from the nightmare cities and towns many of us had come from and to live in a city where even the air itself breathed freedom. We all know what will happen to the building on which Mr. Young is attempting the Ellis Act evictions. It will be turned into a tenancy in common or conceivably condos. There is little difference at this point. After the kitchens have been tarted up and the baths made trendy the units will hit the market at a minimum of $750K-$800K or more, maybe much more. So while I can’t afford it alone, I can afford to find someone like me, and we could do what Mr. Young is attempting, and even though it would be housing for me, I am choosing not to go down that road. I won’t. And that is why wherever I live I remain in San Francisco. The best of good fortune to the protesters and to the tenant, Mr. Mykaels. Peter Little Amesbury, Massachusetts
Russian Winter Olympics boycott
Clean up the Castro
The Castro needs to be cleaned up, not painted over [“Castro Street could see rainbow crosswalk,” August 15]. I’m sick and tired of hearing a sum of $28,000 is to be spent on a tacky idea. Have you seen the one in Sydney? Money needs to be spent on steam-cleaning the streets. Filthy streets attract filthy occupants and it’s a health hazard. It’s a total embarrassment for Castro residents. If you haven’t noticed the condition of the Castro, then I dare you to have a seat and take a look. Rusty Gaspard San Francisco
Time to reconsider bathhouses in SF
In response to the article “City ponders bathhouse rules” [August 8], it is time for the San Francisco Department of Public Health to reconsider allowing bathhouses to return to the city. Although the SFDPH closed the bathhouses in response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, two facilities outside the city (in Berkeley and San Jose) have remained open for the last 30 years with no extraordinary contribution to the problem of STDs. Paradoxically, there are several sex clubs in the city that have been allowed to operate for 15 years or more. Despite the position of the SFDPH (and also the general public misconception) that bathhouses contribute to the transmission of HIV and other STDs, there is no actual proof these facilities are a more risky venue for gay sex than private homes. There are also the usual gay bars and hundreds of Internet sites for men to hook up and these now account for the background level of HIV cases. Intoxication is a major contributor to unsafe sex practices. However, my experience with bathhouses is they are very well managed and patrons are screened for signs of intoxication and drugs before being allowed to enter. The operators also have a state of the art knowledge of the trend in STDs, their treatment and preventative measures, and they provide a source for anonymous testing. These facilities have amenities for those who just like an erotic atmosphere such as complete nudity, a hot tub or pool, and a steam room rather than catering to those looking for a purely hardcore encounter. Bathhouses do have a redeeming social value in the sense they provide a venue for men to act out their sexual fantasies in a legal and responsible manner and they are also a lucrative business activity. There are now bathhouses operating in at least 25 major cities in North America and Canada, yet here in San Francisco there are none. The SFDPH position that these facilities should remain banned is now outmoded and an objective analysis of their return is greatly needed.
As previously reported in this newspaper Russian President Vladimir Putin has instigated, for largely local consumption, a horrible backlash on the emergent LGBT community in Russia. Physical and emotional violence to the community is now rampant and widespread with overt government support. Sadly this appears to have incredible – upwards of 80 percent – popular support in the country. Backwards country, backwards people. Sad but true. The Winter Olympic Games are soon upon us in the host Russian region of Sochi and a handful of leading U.S. corporations are lending their support, names, and funding. Let’s be real. If Putin’s thuginistas were going after people of color, or Christian churches, no Fortune 500 company would go anywhere near the games. But they have apparently “done the math” and figured out the sponsorship value is greater than possible retaliation by citizens likely to be offended by the LGBT hate campaign. Let’s prove them wrong. Here are the main sponsors of the Russian Winter Olympics: Coca Cola, Visa, Proctor and Gamble, Panasonic, and Samsung. To quote from one of the petitions: “It’s time for these companies to put their support for LGBT people first, and send a message to Russia that their anti-gay laws are not only contrary to basic human rights, but fly in the face of the spirit of the Olympic Games, which celebrate human dignity and community above all else.” Google is your friend to locate online petitions to demonstrate loud and clear to these companies (and others) that we can and will boycott their respective products and services. And a note to our neighbors in Berkeley and Oakland – perhaps you might want to reevaluate your sister city relationships in Russia.
Now that the San Francisco Department of Public Health has finally issued its FAQ sheet about the permitting process for SF bathhouses [“Bathhouse FAQ available,” News Briefs, August 15] and a spokesperson for the city attorney has gone on record in the Bay Area Reporter [August 8] with an interpretation that “ ... rooms cannot be locked and club staff must have some means of viewing what’s going on in the room,” it is clear that if newly licensed San Francisco bathhouses want to remain competitive with gay-oriented bathhouses in Berkeley and San Jose, Section 26 of the Police Code will have to be amended to legitimize private rooms. Such private rooms are now only implicit in bathhouse rules and authorized by tradition up until the 1984 injunction that banned privacy. Short of such legislation, the Board of Supervisors should pass a resolution condemning the SFDPH’s ban on privacy in its sex club rules. A prima facie case can be made that the SFDPH’s ban is unconstitutional pursuant to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 2003 opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. It appears that the city attorney’s office is conflating bathhouse regulations with sex club rules in its interpretation of “city law.”
David Podger San Francisco
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Dunn said that the LaPlaya Recycling Center, located in the parking lot of the Ocean Beach Safeway in the Outer Richmond district, would be next to close when that site is redeveloped. Wiener said that the city’s been looking at ways to change recycling. “The Department of the Environment has been advocating a more dispersed model of accepting recycling, with reverse vending ma-
Glenn Holland San Francisco
[Editor’s note: The health department did not ban bathhouses. A court order required doors to be removed from private rooms, and gay bathhouse owners in the 1980s chose to shut down rather than comply.]
Police code needs amending
chines and the like spread throughout the city and not concentrated in just a few neighborhoods,” said Wiener. “It’s not fair that these neighborhoods have had to bear the brunt of the recycling center’s impact. I support a dispersed model of recycling redemption and am working closely with the Department of the Environment to move us toward that model.” Dunn said that curbside recycling, while more convenient for residents, does not provide for people to get the redemption money.
“People have a right to get their redemption value back,” said Dunn. “Curbside recycling does not do that for people. That is what recycling centers are for. San Francisco used to have a dispersed network of recycling centers, but now with the recent waves of closures they are being concentrated in certain neighborhoods.” Safeway spokeswoman Wendy Gutshall did not respond to the B.A.R.’s phone and email requests for a comment.t
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peaking before Castro merchants during their August meeting, District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener was asked about the new groundfloor retail spaces being constructed in a dozen mixed-use housing developments along Market Street. Wiener, a gay man who lives in the city’s LGBT district, said it is incumbent upon the gayborhood’s residents and current business owners to encourage local retailers to move into the storefronts that will be available between Octavia Boulevard and Castro Street in coming years. “We need to be very proactive and make sure local retailers are aware of this,” said Wiener. “If we are passive about this, landlords are going to take the path of least resistance and that is to bring in banks and real estate companies. We need a mix.” The issue of what types of retailers call the Castro home has been contentious for decades. Recent debates over proposed Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and Chipotle Mexican Grill along Market Street have roiled the gayborhood, with the national chains failing to win acceptance for their plans. This year saw the city’s planning commission adopt stricter rules for formula retail along upper Market Street aimed at curbing the chains’ ability to open along the busy thoroughfare. The zoning change is seen as giving an assist to local merchants seeking stores in the Castro. But even locally based businesses can find frosty receptions to their proposals. A new bar planned for a storefront on the 2300 block of Market Street and a gay gentleman’s
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club eyed for the building that housed Diesel at Harvey Milk Plaza were both dropped due to negative reactions from the neighborhood. Or they encounter resistance from landlords, unwilling to take a chance on non-formula retailers. Take for example gay San Francisco resident David Wilson, 43, who owns the pop-up shop Hero. The underwear and swimwear store temporarily opened May 26 at 2286 Market Street in a vacant store space at the Market Noe Center. Wilson needs to be out of the storefront by September 3 as pharmacy chain CVS will begin remodeling the building prior to its planned store opening in 2014. “Literally, I was looking for eight months until it just so happened Kent Jeffery, whose family owns the building, was kind enough to let us use the space until CVS moved in,” said Wilson. “He gave it to us as a favor. It is really wonderful he gave us the opportunity to prove the concept.” He and his sister, Jennifer Wilson, an out lesbian, have owned Prerogatives since 1989, a wholesaler that started selling Pride-themed items and now sells 6,000 products, mostly adult sex toys and videos. His new store is a separate business he currently solely owns and carries brands Prerogatives doesn’t. Earlier this year Wilson had approached the new ICON development at the corner of 16th, Market and Noe streets about leasing one of three small retail spaces fronting Noe. In order to win approval for having Bank of the West as his main commercial tenant, developer An-
Castro Street project receives green light by Matthew S. Bajko
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ity planners received a green light this week to proceed with a major overhaul of the streetscape in the heart of San Francisco’s gay Castro district. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board unanimously voted Tuesday, August 20 to approve the Castro Streetscape Improvement Project. The $4 million makeover will widen sidewalks, slow vehicular traffic and improve the aesthetics of the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street. “I think it is a great project, which has broad community support,” said Edward Reiskin, the city’s director of transportation. Cheryl Brinkman, the SFMTA board’s vice chair, agreed. “This looks like it will be lovely,” she said, adding that if there are travel delays for bus routes through the area that planners “go back and tweak it a little bit so we are not impacting the level of service for bus passengers.” Dustin White, an SFMTA transportation planner, said the agency is predicting 20- or 30-second delays for buses during peak times. “We have included several design measures to mitigate those delays. The bus stops will be brought up to standard lengths so there is less delay,” said White. “We have tried to balance the goals of the project.” Slated to start construction in January, city planners have pledged that the work will be completed before the 2014 Castro Street Fair, which will be held the first Sunday in October. Phase I is expected to focus on the 400 block between Market and 18th streets, with the 500
block between 18th and 19th streets done as phase II of the project. Along with widening the sidewalks, the project will bring cosmetic improvements to Jane Warner Plaza, the mini-parklet at the corner of 17th, Market, and Castro streets, and see a new bulb-out built in front of 575 Castro Street. The site is where the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk had his campaign headquarters and photo supply store in the 1970s. It has become a popular tourist destination, and the extra sidewalk space is designed to showcase the historic location. New street trees will be planted, with Columnar ginkgos used for the majority of the street and King palms for accent plantings. And the first 20 Rainbow Honor Walk plaques honoring LGBT people who have made significant contributions to society, which a nonprofit group is privately raising the money for, will be installed along Castro Street as part of the street redesign. A rainbow crosswalk could also be installed at one of the three intersections included in the project area. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in an article last week, the Castro/ Upper Market Community Benefit District has allocated $28,000 to fund four decorative crosswalks along Castro Street. While a community process will be held to determine the designs, one of the proposals will call for having a crosswalk painted in rainbow colors. The CBD will also pay for the installation of down wash lighting on 24 poles along the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street. The LED lights will be programmable to shine in varying colors, from a rainbow scheme to all pink or all red.t
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David Wilson stands by racks of merchandise in his pop-up store, Hero, on Market Street.
gus McCarthy struck a deal to carve out several smaller storefronts to be leased to local merchants. Yet Wilson was told that the bank preferred to have a similar business as its neighbor, such as a title company or some other financial service firm. “I basically had given up when this pop-up popped up. It was so frustrating with basically no call backs from anybody,” said Wilson, who also had no luck contacting the owners of vacant retail spaces along Castro Street. “The few conversations I had initially were we are looking for financial services companies or things like that.” Hearing about Wilson’s difficulty landing a lease in the gayborhood, Wiener this summer proposed making it tougher for real estate offices, insurance firms, and title companies to open along upper Market Street. In July the Board of Supervisors adopted interim rules requiring such businesses to seek conditional use permits from the city’s planning commission in order to open in a
storefront on Market between Castro and Octavia. The new rule sunsets in 18 months, but in the interim, planning staff has been instructed to study the issue and propose a more permanent zoning solution for the business corridor. “The last thing we need is to have all this new retail space come on line and have it all filled up by title companies and office uses. We want active ground floor retail,” Wiener told the Bay Area Reporter. “I was concerned we would see a trend toward title companies, real estate companies and financial services and not see landlords take a risk on local retailers and restaurants.” Wiener said a number of small retailers looking to open clothing stores or restaurants in the Castro have told him they couldn’t get a call back from landlords. “It is very challenging for them to find spaces. Sometimes landlords won’t even speak with them,” he said. With the new rule in place, Wil-
son and his commercial leasing agent did speak with the leasing agent for ICON but determined the asking price for the spaces, almost $10 a square foot, was out of his reach. He is hopeful he will be able to reach a deal for the vacant storefront at 432 Castro Street where clothing store Injeanious had been. The space has been vacant since last summer and plans to turn it into a French bakery fell through. “Nothing is for sure,” said Wilson. “If Injeanious fell through I am not very optimistic I will find a space.” He has talked to practically every store in the Castro to inquire if they plan to close anytime soon in hopes of taking over their lease. “So I have a list of every possible space, and even some people don’t know are going to open up,” said Wilson. “It is slim pickings.”
Magnet extends lease as project stalls
San Francisco AIDS Foundation officials have obtained a one-year lease extension for Magnet as plans to relocate the gay men’s health center in the Castro district to a larger space have stalled due to permitting delays. Last fall, SFAF officials announced they had signed a 10-year lease for 474 Castro Street and would combine Magnet, the Stonewall Project, and the Stop AIDS Project into the location after overhauling the building. With Magnet’s current lease set to expire in September of this year, the AIDS agency had planned to have its new health and wellness center open either next month or October at the latest. But the $10 million project has yet to be scheduled for a hearing before the city’s planning commission, which is now on summer recess until Thursday, September 12. As of this See page 17 >>
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Parents, protection, and pee politics by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
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parent, as a general rule, is going to put the safety and security of their own child above all else. They want their child to have a life without the sorrow, without the embarrassment, without the pain that they themselves experienced. Given a choice, they will most likely do all they can to make sure their child has a charmed life. Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1266 into law. Known as the School Success and Opportunity Act, the law, which goes into effect in January, ensures that students are permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and can use facilities consistent with their gender identity, regardless of what’s listed on the student’s school or other records. This bill will allow transgender students to fully participate in their school’s curriculum. They’ll be able to participate in physical education, having an experience in line with others of their preferred gender. This will play a role in their ability to graduate – they need P.E. just like everyone else, after all – and will play a big part of their success in life in the future. I happened to be in Sacramento on August 12 when Brown signed the bill into law. Heck, I was a short walk from his office, in another wing of the state Capitol getting ready to lobby state senators and Assembly members on a trio of other
state bills. Bill author Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) announced the signing as he entered a room where a couple dozen transgender activists and allies were preparing for a long afternoon of talking to lawmakers and their legislative aides. We all cheered the news, and then went down to stand in front of Brown’s office and cheered for the cameras. Of course, not everyone is pleased with the law. Many on the right, still licking their wounds over their loss at the U.S. Supreme Court over Proposition 8 – California’s same-sex marriage ban – have now latched onto AB 1266. The argument has been put forth that this law violates the privacy rights of all nontransgender students, as if there are not locks on bathroom stalls already. Still, they say that rather than help foster equality and help transgender students succeed, the bill will allow adolescent boys into girls’ restrooms and changing facilities, presumably to ogle the opposite sex. Yes, the so-called bathroom meme strikes again. This is, of course, ridiculous. It implies that a non-transgender boy is going to go through the hassles, the personal discomfort, and the fears of ostracism from family and friends that goes hand in hand with being transgender, just to eye pubescent girls? Does this sound at all logical? I’m sure that any budding sex offenders will find easier ways to get their kicks rather than going through the difficult process of
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coming out as transgender. Other arguments put forth from conservatives include the Traditional Values Coalition stating that this law will “encourage youth as young as 5 years old to question their sex and gender,” and the Pacific Justice institute stating that this could “victimize” a student “who is prevented from playing on a sports team because someone from the opposite gender took their place.” Still, most trot out bathrooms and locker rooms first and foremost, even trying to falsely claim that AB 1266 makes school facilities somehow co-ed. The more I hear arguments about why transgender people should not be allowed to use the facilities of their preferred genders, the more I feel that it’s not about protecting people as it is about somehow pun-
ishing transgender people. That by forcing them to use facilities opposite their identity, and putting them into risky, dangerous situations, they’ll simply “fly straight” or otherwise “learn their lesson.” A recent report from UCLA’s Williams Institute, lead by Jody L. Herman, Ph.D., made things clear to me: 70 percent of transgender people surveyed reported facing harassment and other discrimination while trying to use a restroom in Washington, D.C. Sixty-eight percent faced verbal harassment. Nine percent faced physical assault. Eighteen percent were denied access. Several conservative groups are now starting the process of overturning AB 1266 at the ballot box. They now have a little less than 90 days to gather a just over 500,000 signatures in order to put it to the
people of California. Meanwhile, the Pacific Justice Institute is already gearing up to back legal challenges. As I said, parents want to make sure their kids are safe. What the opponents of AB 1266 are doing is trying to tell all parents in California that AB 1266 is directly threatening the well-being of their children. Those of us who are trans, and those who are our allies, need to speak to that. We don’t need to convince the conservatives from the Traditional Values Coalition or Pacific Justice Institute: that is a waste of air. We need to talk to all those other parents. We need to show them that AB 1266 does nothing to harm their children, and provides them good resources for them and their kids. We also need to show them that AB 1266 provides for the safety and success of those students who are transgender – because it does. This law is the first of its kind, but it is not the first time a school district has issued similar rules. For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District, which serves over 670,000 students, already has a similar policy in place. No, none of the fears espoused by the aforementioned conservative groups has come to pass in that district. Parents just want what’s best for their children. We need to help all parents see that AB 1266 doesn’t hurt their kids, and helps other kids. We need to foster success and safety for all.t Gwen Smith was raised in the Los Angeles Unified School District. You can find her online at http://www.gwensmith.com.
Gay guys join ‘Brotox’ trend by Matthew S. Bajko
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pset at seeing the onset of crow’s feet before he had reached his 30s, James “JD” Heffernan turned to a plastic surgeon for help. For the last two years he has been receiving regular injections of botulinum toxin type A, more commonly known as Botox, in his face every five to six weeks. “I had a bunch of wrinkles, I felt, prematurely,” said Heffernan, a nurse who recently moved from San Francisco to Tennessee to attend graduate school. Having grown up in the South, “I was in the sun a lot as a kid,” recalled Heffernan when asked what had caused the creases in the skin next to his eyes. “I am sure it is vanity; we all want to look good,” he said about opting for the treatments. “For me, I noticed more and more wrinkles in the mirror each day. I am only 31, it annoyed me.” The openly gay Heffernan is part of a growing trend in men, both gay and straight, using what has been dubbed “Brotox” to treat their wrinkles. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Botox was the number one minimally-invasive procedure among men in 2012. It reported 390,000 men using “Brotox” that year, an increase of 7 percent from 2011. The next most used procedure is laser hair removal, with 194,000 men seeking it out in 2012. That marked a 5 percent increase from 2011. The society reported that facial rejuvenation procedures saw the most growth overall last year, with
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Dr. Edward Miranda, left, talked about Botox and other cosmetic treatment options with patient James “JD” Heffernan.
6.1 million injections of botulinum toxin type A. The figure is the highest number of injections to date, according to the plastic surgeons group. Among patients, procedures such as Botox are gaining ground with those in their 40s, 50s, and older. There was a 7 percent increase in 2012 among both 40-54 year olds and people 55 and over who had minimally-invasive procedures. For people in their 30s, there was a 3 percent increase last year, while such procedures grew by 4 percent among twenty-somethings. The country’s Mountain/ Pacific Region, which includes California, accounted for the most cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. in 2012 – a total of 4.2 million.
Usage of Botox has been increasing faster among men than women for the last decade. Yet scientific studies have failed to catch up to this trend, as most research tends to focus on women who use the procedure. “More men are seeking neurotoxin treatments each year and will probably continue to seek more of these noninvasive treatments as our culture becomes more accepting of the concept of male beauty,” concluded a study published earlier this year in the journal Cosmetic Dermatology. “There is no consensus on exact dosing regimens, but as a general rule, men require higher doses of all currently available neurotoxins.” The study, “Neurotoxin Techniques for Men” whose lead author was Dr. Whitney P. Bowe from
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, noted that since botulinum toxin was first used in the 1990s to treat hyperdynamic facial wrinkles “an increasing body of evidence has supported the efficacy and safety of this cosmetic treatment.” San Francisco-based plastic surgeon Dr. Edward Miranda, who had been treating Heffernan, said he has noticed an uptick in men, mostly gay, seeking out Botox in recent years. He pointed to the improvement in the economy since 2008 and relocating his office from Laurel Village to near the Van Ness Muni station as contributing to the increase of gay male patients at his business. “Our focus shifted to be able to accommodate more straight and gay men,” said Miranda, 36, who is straight and has been in practice seven years. “We had more women when we first started; straight men are the least common here. Gay men are much more in tune with their appearance.” The majority of his male clientele who use Botox are in their 30s and 40s, said Miranda. The cost ranges from $350 to $700 per visit every four months. He has also noticed more gay men seeking out rhinoplasty, liposuction, and facelifts. His office offers a new procedure called cool sculpting, which costs $2,500 and requires two treatments two months apart, that freezes the fat deposits at a person’s waistline. Over time, the body will remove the frozen fat cells on its own. As for facelifts, the cost can vary from $12,000 and up depending on the person. It is mainly men in their
50s and older who are opting for the procedure, said Miranda. “We restore the fat and soft tissues to where it belongs. We don’t like to pull people Joan Rivers tight,” he said. A nose job can cost $6,500 and up, and most men seek out a rhinoplasty either because they don’t like the look of their nose or they injured it playing sports and it is now crooked. “Fifteen years ago guys wouldn’t bother to get that fixed,” said Miranda, adding that the procedure is “sometimes” partly covered by insurance if done to correct a breathing problem. Heffernan sought out Mirada to help improve his facial appearance because he had known him through the hospital where he worked. His partner of seven years, who is now 45 years old, had been getting Botox injections himself for the last five years. “I could see how it worked on him,” said Heffernan. There is minimal pain, he said, but the Botox injection “hurts less than a flu shot.” Within two weeks of his treatments he can visibly notice a difference, said Heffernan. He also experiences fewer headaches at work, which he said were caused from focusing on paperwork during his 12-hour shifts. “It’s temporary, so it is a commitment if you want to do Botox, so that can be a good thing and a bad thing,” said Heffernan, who expects he will not be able to afford the treatments now that he is going back to graduate school. “I am nervous about giving up Botox for the next three years.”t
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how to lift up and nourish a marginalized community.” “We will forever keep Jose in our history books and in our hearts,” Milk added. Known for his years of performing at the famous Black Cat gay bar in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s, Mr. Sarria entertained customers in drag as he sang satirical versions of popular songs while beseeching gay patrons to come out, imploring them that “united we stand, divided they catch us one by one.” Thomas E. Horn, publisher emeritus of the B.A.R., said he first met Mr. Sarria when he was an entertainer at the Black Cat in the 1960s. “She was an inspiration to us all,” Horn said, referring to Mr. Sarria’s drag persona. “She was always in the forefront of the gay rights movement, whatever the risk to her. And she definitely never put up with any nonsense.” It was indeed a different era, one of police raids and sting operations. Mr. Sarria himself was arrested for solicitation at the St. Francis Hotel, leading him to abandon his dream of being a teacher. But Mr. Sarria really shook up San Francisco’s political establishment in 1961 when he decided to run for supervisor. It was the first time an out gay person had run for elective office. The reaction was swift. During his bid Mr. Sarria had to threaten to sue the local Democratic Party after it tried to keep him from running as a Democratic candidate. The Democrats relented, but fearful
that Mr. Sarria could win one of the six seats up for grabs that fall, party leaders recruited two-dozen people to enter the race. Mr. Sarria ended up in ninth place on Election Night. Last year during a celebration honoring Mr. Sarria by the current board, gay Supervisor David Campos offered him an apology. “I am sorry the city government didn’t treat you well and the police harassed you,” Campos told Mr. Sarria, who had come to the ornate board chambers for the commendation. “The city that didn’t treat you well at that time loves you and honors you today.” Mr. Sarria said at the time that he believed it was a mistake for him not to run in the following election as he likely would have won. Winning, however, wasn’t his goal at the time. “I wanted to prove I, as a citizen of San Francisco, had the right to help govern the city,” Mr. Sarria said. “Once I achieved that, I moved on to the next problem. I think I made a mistake. Had I run again, I would have won.”
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Mr. Sarria went on to raise money for the Tavern Guild, a business association for gay bar owners, and the Society for Individual Rights, one of the first gay rights groups. He gave himself the titular title “Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco, Jose I, The Widow Norton,” in homage to Joshua Norton, an eccentric city resident who in 1859 declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. In doing so Mr. Sarria also laid the groundwork for the Imperial Court
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Jose Sarria, in drag as the Widow Norton, went to Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma in February 2011 during her annual pilgrimage to the gravesite of her late husband, Emperor Joshua Norton.
system, now an international charitable group that raises money through drag shows. Mr. Sarria was the San Francisco chapter’s first empress. According to the Imperial Court’s program for the 2001 Coronation, on October 31, 1965 at the Winterland Ice Rink, the Tavern Guild held its third Beaux Arts Ball. “A message had been sent by Norton I. He wanted a wife of state (Royal Empress de San Francisco) to reign in the realm of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Not this imposter who had been appointed as ‘Emperor Jose Norton’ at Halloween at the Black Cat.” The program goes on to state that attendees at the ball accepted this change of title to Royal Empress de San Francisco, Jose I. With that, Mr. Sarria became San Francisco’s first empress. For several years, the Imperial Court only had empresses. Then, in 1972, Marcus Hernandez became the Emperor I After Norton. Hernandez, who died
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can’t wait to be a part of this! Yes!!!!” Born Merrill Beth Nisker, the 46-yearold Peaches lives in Berlin, according to her Wikipedia entry. The Peachettes are
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in 2009, was the B.A.R.’s longtime leather columnist. Mr. Sarria was born December 22, 1922 as the only child of Maria Delores Maldonado of Colombia and Julio Sarria of San Francisco. Mr. Sarria served in the U.S. Army during World War II, rising to the rank of staff sergeant prior to his discharge in 1945. Michael Gorman, who wrote a book about Mr. Sarria, The Empress is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria, said that growing up as the gay son of an unwed mother, Mr. Sarria “did not have the kind of background that screamed success in early 20th century America.” “Add to that the social and legal discrimination against gay people during the majority of his lifetime, and you have a man who began life with the cards stacked against him,” Gorman said. “However, what always distinguished Jose from the crowd was an unquenchable hope in a better tomorrow and a street-wise creativity that few forces of oppression could successfully confront.” Mr. Sarria, Gorman said, “literally created his own world in which he was the empress of an Imperial Court that welcomed the outsiders and underdogs and gave them his own version of Camelot in which to live. Jose, for all his campy work as the entertainment at the notorious Black Cat Cafe in the city’s North Beach neighborhood, never stopped reaching out to try and make the world a kinder gentler place for the downtrodden. “Civil rights activists tend to be people who live large, but no activist in history can quite match the flair with which the Empress lived, loved, and worked,” Gorman added. “We all own him a debt.” Mr. Sarria received countless honors and awards. In 2006, after a campaign led by San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, and the International Court
Council, the city of San Francisco renamed a section of 16th Street in the Castro neighborhood as Jose Sarria Court, thus becoming the first openly gay man to have a city street named after him in San Francisco. (A portion of an alley off of Van Ness Avenue had previously been named for lesbian Alice Toklas.) “San Francisco is recognized as the world’s LGBT mecca and it’s fitting that Jose Sarria is the first gay man to have a street named in his honor here,” Dufty, who authored the legislation naming Jose Sarria Place in the Castro, said in a statement. Mr. Sarria collected many LGBT historic documents during his life and materials from his collection comprise the Jose Sarria Papers at the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco. Other papers are at the Smithsonian Institution. Additionally, Mr. Sarria was honored by the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee with its Lifetime Achievement grand marshal title in 2005. A plaque outlining Mr. Sarria’s contributions is embedded in the sidewalk in front of the Harvey Milk Memorial Branch of the public library at 1 Jose Sarria Court. In 2009 the state Assembly honored Mr. Sarria during an official celebration of LGBT Pride Month. The Imperial Court announced that the services for Mr. Sarria would be held Friday, September 6 at 11 a.m. at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street. Viewing will be held Thursday, September 5 from 1 to 9 p.m. at Halsted N Gray-Carew and English Funeral Home, 1123 Sutter Street. Following the funeral Mr. Sarria will be interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma. After that a reception will be held at the Lookout bar, 3600 16th Street. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Jose Julio Sarria Charitable Giving Fund. Checks should be sent in care of the Imperial Council, 584 Castro Street, PMB 469, San Francisco, CA 94114.t
a group of local performers produced by Midnight Mass choreographer Rory Davis, according to the press release. “The Castro Street Fair is beyond thrilled to have Peaches as part of our Ruby Anniversary celebration,” stated George Ridgely, the fair’s executive di-
rector. “She will undoubtedly deliver a show-stopping performance.” Peaches released her first full-length album The Teaches of Peaches in 2000, and her electronic pop music has been featured in several movies, including Mean Girls and Lost in Translation. t
for dazzling handmade Halloween costumes and inventive Christmas Parade of Light floats. At Heaven’s next costume ball, we know who will win first prize. With his partner of 20-plus years he created a multi-faceted life raising parrots, puppies, and pheasants while fundraising for nonprofit groups, traveling to Germany, Italy, Costa Rica, and Hawaii. Some of his favorite activities included gathering with friends, gardening, cooking, quilting, and cheering for the Green Bay Packers. Stuart is survived by his partner Tom Fleming; his sisters Sally Deneys and Jean Fabry; his brothers Jack Peot and Scott Peot; and countless friends in the Russian River community. Memorial gifts should be sent to Food for Thought and Face to Face. A memorial celebration of life service is being planned in the next month or so (date to be announced) at the R3 Resort in Guerneville, California.
young adulthood while bravely fighting several physical disabilities, which prevented him from enjoying life as he longed for. He fiercely loved family, and he protected them from his personal trials, choosing to face life’s difficulties on his own. In addition to his parents, Mark is survived by his brother Joseph Smith of Georgetown, Texas, and his brother David P. Smith and wife Maureen and three nieces, Caitlin, Erin, and Delaney Smith of Riverside, California. He was preceded in death by his most beloved grandmother, Jo (Bugie) Roper, recently deceased in Texas. Mark didn’t get the opportunity to fulfill his many dreams but he never lost hope. He will, however, live in the hearts and memories of his family forever. Go in peace son, you are in a better place. Donations may be made in his name to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Salvation Army.
Obituaries >> Bob Owen 1930 – 2013
Bob Owen, also known as “Bobby O,” passed away July 10, 2013 of heart failure and pneumonia. He was 83. A native of San Francisco, he lived briefly in Chicago. He lived at Muir Beach for 39 years with his partner, Russ, until Russ died in 1991. Shortly thereafter Bob met James and they spent a glorious 21 years in San Francisco with yearly holidays in Rio at Ipanema Beach. Bob was a witty and generous entertainer, often inviting friends, and, as he called them, “orphans of the storm” to his homemade holiday dinners. He also made room with a studio for the odd “starving artist.” He is survived by family Don, Barbara, and Karen; friends Caroline, David, Terry and Joann, Deborah and Jason, and many more. Bon voyage, sweet Bobby O.
Stuart Peot August 28, 1962 – August 12, 2013
Stuart Peot died peacefully Monday morning, August 12, 2013, after a difficult two-year struggle against lung cancer complicated by AIDS. Stuart moved to the Russian River Resort area in the mid-1980s from Wisconsin, working as a superb waiter and bartender. He became an extraordinary costume creator, well-known
Mark Christopher Smith June 5, 1961 – August 11, 2013
Mark Christopher Smith, 52, passed away on August 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The muchloved son of Judith and Hank Haliasz of Texas, entered the Navy in 1980, and later worked in the electronics industry in Silicon Valley, until severe illnesses changed his life. Mark stoically endured his
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year’s Pride celebration, a member last week suggested “Transparency,” and when any nomination procedure occurred, Cain, a former Pride board chair and longtime board member, interjected. “Someone on this board, read your fucking rules,” said Cain as the board reviewed nominations for the three remaining slots among seven new board seats. Some 10 members ac-
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she would hold onto the paperwork, and once the agency’s policy changed, she’d submit the documents and send Hagan a new Social Security card. “Then she congratulated me for getting married, which was nice, but I was a little disappointed,” said Hagan. “I didn’t know what to say. I was confused.” She added, “I didn’t feel like she was being homophobic. She seemed kind of disappointed herself that she couldn’t fix it for me.” When Hagan got home, she emailed the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the national LGBT organization based in San Francisco. An NCLR staffer told her “they were getting similar complaints,” said Hagan. In an interview Monday, August 19, Shannon Minter, NCLR’s legal di-
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week, SFAF was still waiting to learn when the oversight panel would vote on its project. It has had to rework its designs for
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energy and singular focus on raising funds for the neediest in our community set an extraordinary example for others. Her tireless efforts and heartfelt leadership have guided this event and so many other fundraisers for our clients. Mama or a member of her family have served on AEF and BCEF’s board of directors for the past two decades. We were thrilled when Mama selected Lance Holman to take the reins.” Reinhardt has for years been the center of Mama’s Leather Family, made up of mostly gay leather men in the Bay Area and beyond who are active in the leather community. Reinhardt said she wasn’t paid for the LeatherWalk work, and Holman said he wouldn’t be, either. Holman, who attributes his involvement in the walk to Reinhardt, said in an interview that he’s been participating for about four years. This will be his third year serving as emcee. “Mama took me under her wing after I became Mr. San Francisco Leather,” he said. “I became part of her family just before my title year.” Holman said he doesn’t plan to make any changes to the walk. “I’m producing for this year, but I’m doing this in conjunction with Mama. She’s mentoring me though the process,” he said. In an interview Monday, August 19, however, Reinhardt criticized the transition. Reinhardt said she found out producing the walk was formally going to Holman “last year.” Nobody formally notified her, she said. In 2011, Smith and others came up with a LeatherWalk banner, Reinhardt said. “There was something funny going on” that year, said Reinhardt. “... I felt like I was not needed there.” Smith said AEF created the banner in 2012 because the walk hadn’t
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Currie presented the Pride Committee’s fiscal report, which shows a 141 percent increase in parade income. Parade contingents increased from some 140 to 210 this year. Although there was an increase in turnout, gate donations at the festival saw a modest 7 percent gain, while beverage sales increased by nearly 20 percent.
An organizational consultant named Melvin Musick appeared at the August 6 board meeting. Board President Lisa Williams said that Musick has aided the Pride Committee through the peak of its Manning controversy since May for a cost of $3,000. “I’m here to decide what structure is important for disseminating information. So essentially I’m a doctor, like you might need a doctor, or like I might,” said Musick, who was not at the August 13 meeting.
In the only instance of levity, the board solicited suggestions for next year’s Pride celebration theme, which garnered titles like, “Let’s Have a Kiki” and “A Roof and Respect for All,” but that serendipitous moment was cut short when the board resumed its review of allowing military recruiters at the festival, as happened this year when the National Guard had a booth. The board did not come to a consensus on that subject, which was tabled from a July meeting.t
rector, said, “A lot of people are having problems” changing their names even after the U.S. Supreme Court announced June 26 that it had effectively struck down the state’s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban. “The Social Security Administration has not updated its guidance, so all the Social Security staff are still looking at an outdated guidance that says same-sex couples cannot marry in California,” said Minter. Minter said NCLR has alerted the federal agency to the problem and he and others were “pretty confident they will fix it promptly.” Shortly after Minter spoke with the Bay Area Reporter he emailed the paper a link to the SSA document outlining the policy update (https:// secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/ lnx/1502712006). The document is dated July 26 but wasn’t set to be effective until August
16 – two days after Hagan’s visit to the agency’s Fremont office. It explains the Supreme Court’s ruling and the events that led up to it. Two days after the justices announced their 5-4 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted its stay on same-sex marriages, allowing the weddings to resume immediately in the state. “On June 28, 2013, California again began authorizing the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples,” the Social Security document said. “Therefore, the Social Security Administration (SSA) should accept California marriage certificates issued to same-sex couples, between June 17, 2008 and November 4, 2008,” when such marriages were first legal statewide, “or after June 27, 2013, as valid evidence of a name change.” A Social Security spokeswoman wasn’t available to comment for this story.
Hagan said in an interview after the policy change was released that she would “wait a few days” for her name change to be finalized, and she’d return to the Fremont office if she didn’t hear from agency staff. Finally, in an email Wednesday morning, August 21, she said, “I checked my online account with Social Security and they’ve already changed my name to Hagan.” It seems Social Security staff should have been aware that samesex marriage is allowed in California when Hagan first visited the agency, but Minter was sympathetic. “I understand they work for the government,” he said. “... I wouldn’t point the blame to those individual employees,” since they’re supposed to follow the agency’s guidelines. Going through the SSA is “the simplest way” for someone in a same-sex couple to change their name, said
Minter. The alternative is to go before a judge, “and that’s much more cumbersome,” he said. In an email last Wednesday, before the SSA policy change went into effect, Dawn Hagan said her reaction to her wife’s experience was “disappointment.” “Lisa was really looking forward to changing her name and we thought all the obstacles had been lifted,” she said. “It’s hard that we are still treated differently than any other couple just married.” Dawn Hagan was pleased with the federal agency’s policy update. In an email after the change was announced, she said, “Lisa and I are hoping this will be the last hiccup in this process. It’s the little things like this that are a constant reminder that we all need to do our part to ensure that we are all treated equally.”t
the new space due to feedback from both city planners and nearby residents. City leaders also had to enact a zoning change along Castro Street in order for the nonprofit to be allowed usage of the entire building. The latest iteration of the design
shows fake, oversized wooden doors lining the entranceway, a second-floor balcony over wine bar Blush, which is remaining as a tenant, and a new third floor recessed rooftop addition. “The process is going well, and our pre-application discussions with
the city have been very helpful in insuring we submit the best possible package for review by the commission,” stated SFAF spokesman James Loduca in an emailed response to questions last week about the status of the project. “We’ve been planning
for a September review, and seem to still be within our target range.” As for Magnet’s lease at its current location at 4122 18th Street, it has been extended until September 30, 2014 with an early termination provision, Loduca told the B.A.R. t
had one and there hadn’t been anything to tell motorists or others what the event was. He also said they felt the sign should be at the front of the walk, but if Reinhardt had wanted another arrangement, she could have said so. At last year’s event, Smith and the others “got in front of the line,” ahead of Reinhardt, several walkers, and the sound truck, and “they just took over,” she said. Reinhardt said she eventually found out that Tomaszewski had given the rights to the walk to AEF and BCEF. (It appears Reinhardt never had the rights to the event herself.) She also said, “This year I hope not a lot of people show up. I’m very disappointed.” Reinhardt later asked that her comments not be published. On her website – http://www.mamasfamily.org – she encourages people to attend, saying, “Hope you can join me as we walk from the Castro” to the South of Market neighborhood. In an interview Tuesday, August 20, Smith said that Tomaszewski had approached his agencies and said, “he thought it was best for the beneficiary agencies in general to own the rights to their events, because people come and go, and at some point, Mama would retire.” Tomaszewski “didn’t feel like he could take it on, and he wanted to make sure it could continue,” he said. Smith said Tomaszewski had told him and others the deal “was already done,” and he “must have chosen not to bring it up with Mama.” Smith also said the transition from Reinhardt to Holman was “completely” her idea. “I think it was just a big misunderstanding,” he said. Tomaszewski didn’t respond to interview requests. Holman said he wasn’t aware of Reinhardt’s grievances.
“I was not aware there was any animosity when she asked me to get
involved,” he said.t
walk or make donations, go to www.leatherwalk.org.
cepted nominations for the positions. Among them are Cain, Gary Virginia, John Caldera, Kevin Bard, Marsha Levine, and Jesse Sanford Oliver. Several of the current board members are also expected to seek re-election. An email to Pride CEO Earl Plante to confirm which board members are up for re-election was not returned by press time. Control over the meeting shifted to the audience while the board grew uneasy, with Secretary Lou Fischer insistently quelling comments or
suggestions even from a fellow board member, Treasurer David Currie.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549676 In the matter of the application of: ANTHONY T. HOANG, CHIN-YI LEE for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ANTHONY T. HOANG, CHIN-YI LEE, is requesting that the name ANTHONY TAI HOANG be changed to ANTHONY TAI HUANG; the name CHENNAN LEE HOANG be changed to CHENNAN LEE HUANG; and the name ANNIE LEE HOANG be changed to ANNIE LEE HUANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 1st of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035256400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRIME REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, 63 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO., CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN KONSTIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/10/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/23/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035270800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KNIGHTS INN, 1 RICHARDSON AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ASLEM A. SHAIKH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035232200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN BAY CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY, 936 RUTLAND ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE A. CORTEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035208200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLES, 2407 OCEAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WEI CHAO KUANG. 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 07/27/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035273000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AIRWERKS, 1527 27TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed WILSON TAM & WING CHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035264400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MULE RADIO SYNDICATE, 209 9TH ST. #300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed MULE DESIGN STUDIO INC. (CA) & CALEB SEXTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035236300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TWIN WALLS MURAL COMPANY, 3840 FOLSOM ST. #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. 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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549673 In the matter of the application of: RAYMOND FONG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner RAYMOND FONG, is requesting that the name JIA CHENG FANG, be changed to ANSON FONG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 26th of September 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035271300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAFE PATIENT HANDLING SOLUTIONS, 1226 32ND AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SAFE PATIENT HANDLING SERVICES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035258000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOSCA CAFE, 242 COLUMBUS AVE., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 242 COLUMBUS AVENUE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035252000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COBBLE & FORGE, 358 EDINBURGH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed COBBLE AND FORGE, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035266400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAATCHI & SAATCHI S, 501 YORK ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ACT NOW PRODUCTIONS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/07/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/13. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033379400 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: KINDRED NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER-VICTORIAN, 2121 PINE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by KINDRED NURSING CENTERS WEST, LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/11. AUG 01, 08, 15, 22, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 07/31/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: CITY SPIRITS S.F., LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 587 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-1228. Type of license applied for 47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE AUG 08, 15, 22, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 07/15/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: WSF BEVERAGE CORPORATION. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 486-490 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-1223. Type of license applied for 47 - ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE AUG 08, 15, 22, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035285300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: I DO I DID I CAN, 1060 PINE ST. #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BLUE YOUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035231800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLADE & BLUE, 23 EUREKA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PETER PAPAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/10/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013
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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549661 In the matter of the application of: JOSHUA EZRIN & LARA EZRIN,, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOSHUA EZRIN & LARA EZRIN,, are requesting that the name ANA LUCERO EZRIN, be changed to ISABEL ANA LUCERO EZRIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 24th of September 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035276700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARBARY ROUGE HAIR & MAKE UP STUDIO, 3150 18TH ST. #229, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JESSE GARCIA. 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The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035271500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALLY’S NAIL SPA, 3915 24TH ST. #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HUONG THI THU BUI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035274200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FINANCE SOLUTIONS LLC, 176 A HIGHLAND AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FINANCE SOLUTIONS LLC (CA). 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The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035241900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: S & S, 3251 20TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SUSANNA KWAN. 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 07/16/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035243000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMITH BRAND BOW TIES, 1546 HAMPSHIRE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IAN SMITH. 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 07/16/13. AUG 08, 15, 22, 29, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13549701 In the matter of the application of: MELISSA BOTH, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MELISSA BOTH, is requesting that the name MELISSA BOTH, be changed to MICAH CAIDEN OAKS BOTH. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 8th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035287100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HILL/ STEVENS DESIGN, 3421 16TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JEANETTE HILL & STEPHANIE STILLMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/06/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035294800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOGWASH, 582 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed BUTTERS ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035296300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KABUTO JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 5121 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KABUTO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035294100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOCU INC., 560 SUTTER ST. #300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LOCU INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/22/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035294200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GS RIVERSIDE GRILL, 3751 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035289200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANZ REFACING CABINETS, 1351 SHELTER CREEK LN., SAN BRUNO, CA 94066. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLAY ZHUCHKOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/07/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/07/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035284200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAMMER AND HEART BUILDING, 1009 CABRILLO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY ROGALA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035259600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEARLESS ENTERPRISES, 1230 MARKET ST. #520, SAN FRANSICO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL SUDERMAN JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035295100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAPHIC USER, 4789 19TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRADLEY S. THOMAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035285400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DC.JOES, 23 DARTMOUTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE JORGE MEJIA MEDINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035247700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNSET SPROUTS, 1834 41ST AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAROLYN FOGARTY. 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 07/18/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035288800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HL ORGANIC SKIN CARE, 6 CLEMENT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HELEN LAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/07/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13549700 In the matter of the application of: ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, is requesting that the name ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, be changed to ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA ARAIZA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 3rd of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 15, 22, 29 SEPT 5, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGE lICENSE Dated 08/13/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: GS RIVERSIDE GRILL. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3751 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118-3208. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING PlACE AUG 22, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION TO SEll AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGES Dated 08/14/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ON THE FLY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 550 MONTGOMERY ST., GROUND FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111-2534. Type of license applied for 21 - OFF-SAlE GENERAl AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 2013 NOTICE & ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, EAU ClAIRE COUNTy CASE NO. 13Cv406 In the matter of the name change of KHYRYN MALIK RIO SAGE & EMERY WATSON SAGE by NOEL NICOLE RODRIGUEZ. Notice Is Given: a petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: KHYRYN MALIK RIO SAGE & EMERY WATSON SAGE to KHYRYN MALIK RIO RODRIGUEZ & EMERY WATSON RODRIGUEZ, birth certificate to KHYRYN MALIK RIO SAGE & EMERY WATSON SAGE. It Is Ordered: this petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Eau Claire County, State of Wisconsin, Judge Michael A. Schumacher, Br 2 Circuit Ct., Eau Claire County Courthouse, 721 Oxford Ave., Eau Claire, WI 54703, September 6, 2013, 11:30am, If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-839-4816 at least ten working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation. It Is Further Ordered: notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the newspaper published in the community where the father resides. By The Court: Michael A. Schumacher, Circuit Court Judge, July 31, 2013. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME & GENDER IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549718 In the matter of the application of: TIFFANY JO STRUB, for change of name & gender having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TIFFANY JO STRUB, is requesting that the name TIFFANY JO STRUB be changed to TAYTON JOSEPH STRUB, and requesting a decree that the petitioner’s gender be changed from female to male. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 10th of October 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035311300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JEWEL DRYWALL, 11 DEDMAN CT., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMICA JACKSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035309000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SE SE SHI JIE, 745 CLAY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAIQING LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035308800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FILLMORE COMPANY, 3107 FILLMORE ST. #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed REGAN CAPONI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035302500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CANDY COVEN, 1251 2ND AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed OSCAR GALLEGOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/13/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549717 In the matter of the application of: CHIN YI LEE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHIN YI LEE, is requesting that the name CHIN YI LEE, be changed to JANIE CHINYI LEE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514, on the 15th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549714 In the matter of the application of: OFELIA ROSAS & MADISON LEE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner OFELIA ROSAS & MADISON LEE, are requesting that the name MITZY ISABELLA LEE ROSAS, be changed to MITZY ISABELLA ROSAS WU LEE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 22nd of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035312500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASTLE BUILDERS CO., 1870 16TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROMAN ORLOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/19/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035310300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PROPER JOB SQUAD, 1201 6TH AVE. #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MILES FORD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035305400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAMA LOUNGE, 3910 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed STCC INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035309100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOKYO EXPRESS BATTERY, 77 BATTERY ST. #100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JC & DC RESTAURANT, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035266200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE MEDICAL LABS, 130 SUTTER ST., FL. 2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ONE MEDICAL LABS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035292000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEVER TOO LATTE XPRESS LLC, 303 SACRAMENTO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed NEVER TOO LATTE XPRESS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035312300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAL PACIFIC A DIVISION OF BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS; BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS CAL PACIFIC TEAM; BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS THE TOUCHSTONE GROUP; 100 CALIFORNIA ST. #1100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BAY EQUITY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013
ebar.com SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT CONTRACT NO. 6M4284 EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the General Manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District has extended the time for receipt of Proposals until the hour of 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 3, 2013, at the District’s Offices, 23rd Floor Receptionist, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA 94612 (by Hand Delivery), or to the District Secretary’s Office, P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, CA 94604-2688 (by U.S. Mail), for Small Business Bonding Assistance Program Services, RFP No. 6M4284, as more fully described in the RFP Documents. Thereafter, Proposals will either be accepted or rejected by the District. Dated at Oakland, California, this 12th day of August, 2013. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 8/22/13 CNS-2521900# BAY AREA REPORTER
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Notice is hereby given of 8 vacancies on the AAB. Applicants must have at least 5 years experience as one of the following: Certified Public Accountant or Public Accountant; licensed Real Estate Broker; Property Appraiser accredited by a nationally recognized organization, or Property Appraiser certified by the California Office of Real Estate Appraisers. For additional information or to obtain an application, please call 415-554-6778 OR visit the Board of Supervisor’s website at www.sfbos.org.
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For recently granted Asylees, Refugees, and Victims of Human Trafficking Newcomers Health Program works to promote the health and well-being of newly arrived refugees, asylees and immigrants throughout San Francisco by providing access to excellent medical services and community referrals. We offer health assessment services, and access to, in-person medical interpretation, referrals and ongoing health services for new refugees, asylees and victims of trafficking (VOTs). Our health workers are professionally trained medical interpreters who speak more than 8 languages and we have access to interpreter services for many other languages. These services are FREE to you if you have Medi-Cal (public health insurance). You must apply for Medi-Cal within the first 8 months of your legal status as a refugee, asylee, or VOT. Call us at 415-206-8608 for help with Medi-Cal or for any other questions about the program.
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t is unlikely that anyone will write more rewardingly about Fire Island than Tom Bianchi does in the preface to his photographic recollection of the Island’s pre-AIDS life, Fire Island Pines (Damiani; cloth, $50). It begins as Bianchi’s autobiography: how he came to be a photographer, and how he developed the ethos that From Fire Island Pin es, Polaroids 1975has informed his work. It was a 1983 by Tom Bianchi. calling that began on the Island, and his memoir of life there delivers its history and meaning as a Tom Bianchi, courtesy Dam iani Press place of freedom and joy, sex, drugs, tea dances and, sadly, death. But on a beach holding hands, and even fall in more importantly, as a place where gay brothlove.� For Bianchi, that place was Fire Island; erhood and community were built. San Francisco has always been that island for The siren’s call of Fire Island isn’t hard to me. understand. It’s beautiful. And, like the CasThe subheadings of Bianchi’s memoir tell tro, it was refuge. Bianchi writes, “In the Pines you what his easy prose will deliver, from the I found a force that gave birth to and nurtured simple geography of “The Place� to the social my gay soul. I grew up attracted to males in history of “Who Were These People,� and on a hostile world that rejected men like me to “We Loved To Party.� There are sections as queers. I dreamed there might be a place See page 30 >> where boys like me could play in the sun, walk
Will Giammona, center, plays a gay man now with an ex-wife (Dana Zook, right) who rocks their companionable relationship when he falls in love with a Spanish teacher from Mexico (Ulises Toledo) in Brad Erickson’s American Dream. Lois Tema
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Playwright Brad Erickson’s new play was certainly inspired by current events, but he didn’t know just how current it would wind up when he sat down with the morning paper on June 30. That See page 30 >>
Jane Austen immersion
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ane Hayes (Keri Russell) is a 30-something unwed American, the kind once described as “spinsters� or “old maids,� but also the prototype for sitcom “new women� like TV’s Mary Tyler Moore. As we first meet her, she is sharing a flat with a straight female roommate who regards Jane’s fascination with all things
Jane Austen as borderline lunacy and an impediment to her ever attracting a suitable man. Jane has turned her bedroom into a Regencyera showcase. She decides to up the ante on her fantasy by blowing her life savings on a vacation to Austenland, a British resort promising a fullimmersion baptism in Austen’s world, a place
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where the mere possession of a digital phone will be grounds for a no-refunds expulsion. Austenland, from one-half of the team that brought us the nerd-boy comedies Napoleon Dynamite, Gentleman Broncos and Nacho Libre, exhausts its threadbare pleasures in its first half-hour. It’s amusing to watch a Masterpiece Theatre addict be bullied by her supposed best friend, fleeced by a smooth travel agent, then treated like a common scullery maid by the literary theme park’s snooty proprietress, Mrs. Wattlesbrook (Jane Seymour). But like Dickens’ Oliver Twist, I found myself wanting a lot more. First, there’s the man department. Once Jane emerges from her unheated, dungeon-like accommodations and gets used to her halfwitted companion, Miss Elizabeth Charming (Jennifer Coolidge, pitching her performance somewhere between Sheridan’s Mrs. Malaprop and Yogi Berra), she’s set upon by Mrs. Wattlesbrook’s squadron of eligible bachelors, who turn out to be unemployed actors with whom the clientele are encouraged to have robust-fantasy good times short of physical contact. While this sounds like a delicious diversion for straight women and gay men alike, these Austen men are distinct second-raters. Instead of the athletic, quick-witted and handsome James McAvoy from the rollicking 2007 Austen send-up Becoming Jane or the virile Matthew Macfadyen
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Keri Russell as Jane Hayes in director Jerusha Hess’ Austenland.
from Joe Wright’s cheeky 2005 Pride and Prejudice, which also took liberties with Austen, we get a cast that would more likely be found chatting with Regis Philbin while promoting the road company for The Full Monty. If Austenland were as much fun as Monty, or as bracingly original as Jerusha Hess’ Napoleon Dynamite or Gentleman Broncos, I’d be well-satisfied. One of the delights of jousting with American pop culture is how many times you can find yourself charmed and seduced by some totally unlikely enterprise. Hess and partner Jared’s 2004 Napoleon Dynamite was a funny exercise where a group of misfits navigates rural Idaho in both their own made-up universe and reality. Even further out there and more queer-friendly was 2009’s Gentlemen Broncos’ crazy spoof of teen-boy lit. Austenland’s sin is not that it mocks a sacred cow, but that Hess doesn’t really kick out the jams and risk alienating Austen purists, as the makers of Becoming Jane did with McAvoy’s boxing and cricket episodes, with Anne Hathaway’s Jane proving an unlikely but superb batsman. Jane Austen can be a formidable intellectual fortress, guarded by academic trolls like Lionel Trilling. An Austen movie should be your pass to the good stuff. Skip Austenland, at least until it gets to cable, for the spirited fun and wisdom of Becoming Jane.t
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Twisted Pair, about collaborator, has written The his new play Slugs and to hitch his wagon fers backstage comedy in a desperate scientist who tries House. Its population The Shocktoberfest Kicks being staged at Thick to the 1953 discovery of DNA. a beautiful actress, a Grand Guignol play includes a young gay actor, bill also includes the 1922 romantic. (Nov. 24collaboration between vicious queen, and a hopeless Coals of Fire, a musical Koldewyn, and the Dec 9; www.therhino.org) Leigh Crow and Scrumbly ’ anThrillpeddlers finale. (Sept. for 13 spook-show Number It’s lucky traditional lights-out that this year indlers.com) Starting here nual Shocktoberfest celebration Michael Phillis 27-Nov. 17; www.thrillped director, executive Rhino’s has a major plays. e Theatre John Fisher, cludes two world-premier Playwright Sheila Callaghan to provide his theater The Bride of Death to New York, which is can usually be counted on (D*Face) has contributed “downtown� reputation in and so it is as Rhino the actors in the story Home is headed afwith a new play each season, the program, and is one of where Port Out, Starboard anniversary. Fisher, mansion houses horSee page 32 gets ready to celebrate its 35th of a reclusive actress whose MuThe Medea: frequent Thrillpeddlers whose previous works include rible secrets. Rob Keefe, a Sarria Experience, ofsical and SexRev: The Jose
prior exposure to a haven’t seen it before, nor does tier. What follows title need relegate it to a second theater season, which is a selective look at the fall – world premieres. will begin with – what else?
Fall’s bounty in shows
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22 • Bay Area Reporter • August 22-28, 2013
Coming attractions: fall arts events by Roberto Friedman
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he fall arts season is really just around the corner, and the Arts & Culture section will offer previews of autumn fare from our writers in two issues beginning next week. Out There gets the party started early in our column this week, a grab-bag of offerings that have piqued our interest and may well reward yours. The first exhibition of the fall at Robert Tat Gallery, specializing in 20th century photography, is Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years, celebrating Gatewood’s 50 years as a photojournalist and fine art photographer. Best known for documenting the sexual underground and helping launch the “Modern Primitives” movement into popular consciousness, Gatewood is the self-proclaimed “family photographer of America’s erotic underground.” Gallerist Tat promises vintage prints, many never before exhibited, along with old favorites. The Gatewood photograph il-
lustrating this column is “a favorite with my gay male collectors, especially those who remember the carefree pre-AIDS times,” according to Tat. It’s “Untitled (Boy Tripping on the Circle Line Ferry to Fire Island),” and doesn’t that take us back! Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years will show at Robert Tat Gallery, 49 Geary St., SF, from Sept. 5-Nov. 30, with an opening reception and book-signing with the artist on Sat., Sept. 7, 3-5 p.m. The GLBT Historical Society will offer an exhibition opening Sept. 14 devoted to the history of the fabulous San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, founded in 1978 as the first openly gay choral group in the world. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song will feature posters, artifacts, photographs, video and sound, to portray the contributions of the chorus at key moments in contemporary LGBT history, from the memorial march following the assassinations of SF Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey
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“Untitled (Boy Tripping on the Circle Line Ferry to Fire Island)” by photographer Charles Gatewood.
Milk in 1978, to public celebrations of marriage equality this year. An opening reception will be held Thurs., Sept. 19, 7-9 p.m.; the exhibit runs through Jan. 15, 2014. Info: glbthistorymuseum.org. The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) will host a pair of free outdoor movies adjacent to the site of BAM/PFA’s future home in downtown Berkeley on consecutive Fridays in late Sept./early Oct. Co-presented by the Downtown Berkeley Association, Endless Summer Cinema will feature a pair of 1970s cult classics set in the Bay Area: Berkeley-based director Philip Kaufman’s creepy allegory of Watergate-era paranoia Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Hal Ashby’s unlikely cross-generational romance Harold and Maude. Body Snatchers (1978) shows on Sept. 27, Harold and Maude (1971) on Oct. 4, on the crescent lawn at the West Gate of the UC Berkeley campus, where Oxford and Center Streets meet. Shorts begin at 7:30 p.m., with the feature films screening at 8 p.m. Over in their new digs at Pier 14, the Exploratorium offers a number of special events this fall, including their first-ever Fog Festival, Sat., Sept. 28, Noon-5 p.m. Their Cinema Arts program will feature fog-related films for Noon
and 2 p.m. screenings in the museum’s Kanbar Forum. At 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Fog Bridge in their public plaza, Exploratorium staff will lead a series of scientific and aesthetic demonstrations about fog. Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, the creator of Fog Bridge, has created fog environments all over the world and will be onsite. At 4 p.m. in the Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery, filmmaker Sam Green, creator of the film Fog City, which will debut at the Exploratorium on Wed., Oct. 2, will lead a discussion with people featured in the film who have intimate relationships with fog, through their profession or their personal interests. Green’s talk is the first in a series of Conversations about Landscape. Info at Exploratorium.edu.
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formance. Comics Marina Franklin and Faizon Love join Moran’s group for a night of comedy and jazz on Sat., Nov. 23. The weekend closes with a rare evening of solos and duets with jazz piano icon Randy Weston and saxophone luminary Billy Harper (Sun., Nov. 24). Looking ahead, Laurie Anderson joins guest musicians onstage for four nights at the SFJAZZ Center, April 17-20, 2014. There are always readings of note going on at Books, Inc., 2275 Market St. Author Steven Jimenez reads from The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard on Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. “Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Shepard’s murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew’s story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a 13-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to 20 states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than 100 sources.” We’re intrigued.t
San Francisco Performances’ 34th season kicks off with a concert in the new SFJAZZ Center featuring internationally renowned guitarist Xuefei Yang (Oct. 5), performing a program including works by Britten, Schubert, Bach, W. Walton and R. Deyense. Pianist András Schiff returns to SF to complete his explorations of the monumental works of Bach in a co-presentation with the SF Symphony, where he is currently Artist-in-Residence. Schiff performs two recitals at Davies Symphony Hall: Bach’s Complete Partitas on Oct. 6, and a rare pairing of the Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations on Oct. 13. SF Performances’ Jazz Series kicks off with their Jazz Artist-in-Residence Vijay Iyer (Nov. 16) in a solo performance at the SFJAZZ Center (program to be announced from the stage). For tickets and info on all of the above, call (415) 392-2545 or visit sfperformances.org. The SFJAZZ Center’s second season runs Sept. 5 to June 8, 2014. From a full line-up of exciting performers, two on our must-hear list: Pianist Jason Moran presents a set of performances that highlight his wide-ranging creativity. It begins with a quartet date featuring Courtesy the GLBT Historical Society SF-born trumpeter Ralph Alessi, bassist Drew Gress Poster for a 1979 San Francisco Gay and drummer Nasheet Men’s Chorus concert. The San FranWaits, Thurs., Nov. 21. On cisco Chronicle declined to publish it Fri., Nov. 22, Moran pairs because the now tame-looking illuswith singer Cassandra tration did not meet its standards of Wilson for a duet per- appropriateness.
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The books of late summer by Gregg Shapiro
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oets’ corner Award-winning gay Latino poet Richard Blanco continues the roll that began in early 2013 when he read his poem “One Today” at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Boston Strong: The Poem (U. of Pittsburgh Press) is a commemorative chapbook-length poem, sales of which benefit The One Fund Boston following the Boston Marathon bombing. Gay poet Frank Bidart, who was recently singled out and praised in a critical piece by Joel Breuklander in The Atlantic Monthly, returns with Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the awardwinning writer and educator’s first new book of poems in five years. In Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (Turtle Point Press), gay poet David Trinidad’s 516 haikus range from plot summaries to commentaries, alternating between funny, sexy and bitchy. As he writes in Haiku 151, “So many bad lines/and actors to poke fun at,/so few syllables.” Published late last year, Appetite (U. of Pittsburgh Press) by gay poet Aaron Smith is just as enticing and tasty as the day it was released, featuring a series of accessible yet personal poems that speak to the contemporary queer experience. Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the new book by prolific gay poet and writer Carl Phillips, who teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis, is his 12th. In the publisher’s words, it features “poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny.” Due out in November 2013, Alternative Medicine (Duke University Press), the sixth poetry collection by Rafael Campo, a gay poet, doctor and educator, explores the “primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing.” Skin, Inc. (Graywolf) poet Thomas Sayers Ellis was recently featured as one of the “23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013” on flavorwire. com. Originally published in 2010, Skin, Inc. makes its paperback debut, with such poems as “Ways to be Black in a Poem” and “The Obama Hour.” Novel approaches A novel in rhyme that would be just as at home in the Poets’ Corner above, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish (Doubleday), the final book and first novel by the late, beloved gay humorist David Rakoff, is an essential part of his legacy. Y/A novelist Bill Konigsberg’s Openly Straight (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic) follows gay teen Rafe across the country, from Boulder, CO to Natick, MA, from public school to boarding school, where he attempts to reinvent himself with unexpected results. To commemorate the upcoming Christopher Isherwood centennial, three of his novels, 1946’s The Memorial: Portrait of a Family, 1959’s Down There On a Visit and 1964’s A Single Man, have been reissued in handsome trade paperback editions by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In her October novel Bodies of Water (Kensington), straight writer T. Greenwood tells the story of an unexpected relationship between two women in the suburban Massachusetts of the early 1960s, and the impact that it had on everyone involved. Set in the summer of 1979, Lambda Literary Award-winning novelist Z Egloff ’s second novel Leap (Bywater Books) follows the exploits of Rowan during her “last carefree summer vacation” in the time between high school graduation and the beginning of college. A “cat-and-mouse-friendship” is at the heart of Mario LópezCordero’s debut novel Monarch Season (Magnus Books), which is said to elevate the gay beach-read to another level entirely. For Gorgeous (Scholastic Press), Paul Rudnick’s first novel since his 1989 comic masterpiece I’ll Take It, the acclaimed gay playwright/ screenwriter/humorist turns his attention to the Y/A audience. It’s the tale of 18-year-old Becky Randle’s transformation. Praised by John Irving, Michael Cunningham, Jayne Anne Phillips, Michael Chabon and David Leavitt, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (Ecco) by novelist Andrew Sean Greer begins in 1985, following the passing of the title character’s gay twin brother, and moves through time while Greta undergoes electroconvulsive therapy. The forthcoming Hild (FS&G) by award-winning lesbian writer Nicola Griffith is an epic work set during the early medieval age, bound to appeal to devoted followers of Game of Thrones. Note to Self (Faber and Faber) is the debut novel by acclaimed singer/songwriter and art-school grad Alina Simone, who applies humor to situations involving cubicle serfdom, craigslist surfing, the art-world and unexpected pregnancy. The U.S. debut of London-based novelist Sophie McKenzie, Close My Eyes (St. Martin’s Press) is an “addictively chilling” novel of suspense along the lines of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Essay what you will Containing essays and reviews written between 1996 and 2012, gay poet and essayist Wayne Koestenbaum’s My 1980s & Other Essays (FSG Originals) conjures Fran Lebowitz and David Trinidad while celebrating the lives and careers of Lana Turner, Debbie Harry, Cary Grant, and gay poets Frank O’Hara, John Ashberry, James Schuyler and Hart Crane. With an introduction by Yusef
Komunyakaa, Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books) is a collection of essays by O. Henry and Lambda Literary Award-winning writer Thomas Glave, known for his novel The Torturer’s Wife. The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between (Graywolf) by lesbian writer Stacey D’Erasmo (Tea and others) explores fictional relationships by examining the work of Joan Didion, Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf, and the photography of Nan Goldin and others. Queer contributors Margaret Cho and Susan Norfleet, as well as Nora Dunn, Beth Lapides (who includes a lesbian couple in her piece), Amy Stiller and Charles Busch’s close friend Julie Halston, have essays in the anthology No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Seal), opening with a foreword by Jennifer Coolidge. To tell the truth In the mem-
oir Eating My Feelings: Tales of Overeating, Underperforming, and Coping with My Crazy Family (Three Rivers Press), now fit-and-trim gay blogger (The Single Life of a Manhattan Homo) Mark Brennan Rosenberg “leaves no stone unturned and no bucket of chicken uneaten” as he takes readers from his childhood to his adulthood, satisfying readers’ hunger for humor and scandal. Tony Award-winning gay theater director Jack O’Brien nimbly navigates the worlds of theater and the memoir in his delightfully theatrical book Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director (FS&G). Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, The Lower East Side and the Prime of Our Lives (!t Books) by Brendan Jay Sullivan, aka DJ VH1, an old friend/collaborator of Lady Gaga’s, paints a colorful portrait of NYC’s hippest neighborhood in the mid-2000s. In Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University), historian Christina B. Hanhardt draws on extensive research in NYC and SF to create a portrait of the challenges
and rewards facing the LGBT community in urban enclaves in major metropolitan areas. Beat scholar Hilary Holladay’s American Hipster: The Times Square Hustler who Inspired the Beat Movement – A Life of Herbert Huncke (Magnus Books) arrives just as the movie version of On the Road (with Kristen Stewart) bows on Blu-ray, setting the Beat Generation revival in motion. Tel Aviv-based feminist bisexual and genderqueer activist and writer Shiri Eisner is the author of Bi: Notes for a bisexual revolution (Seal), a handbook/radical manifesto to give voice to a silenced community with something to say. Jesse Bering, author of Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, returns with Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Scientific American/FS&G), based on the premise that we are all sexual deviants. It bears the dedication, “For You, You Pervert, You.”t
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Haunted by the past by Tavo Amador
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he gods are often capricious. They give most people more ambition than ability. Occasionally, however, they create someone whose talents are prodigious and original, have those gifts recognized early, then conspire to keep all following accomplishments eclipsed by that initial acclaim. Certainly, that was the case with Orson Welles (1915-85), a brilliant director, actor, and writer in movies, theatre, and radio. In 1938, after triumphant and innovative Broadway productions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Julius Caesar, he became famous for his radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which convinced many listeners that Martians had invaded Earth. In an unprecedented move, RKO Studios gave him complete control over his first film, Citizen Kane (1941), one of the most highly admired and influential movies ever made. Welles made other impressive pictures, but never topped Kane. Nor would he ever get the funding for and the artistic control of his movies that he wanted. My Lunches with Orson (Metropolitan Books, $28) recounts conversations between Welles and English director/writer/actor Henry Jaglom. The meetings began in 1983 at Los Angeles’ Ma Maison. They capture Welles’ dazzling intellect
and erudition, his vanity, his opinions on his contemporaries, and much more. Although Jaglom is a fan, he’s not obsequious. A constant theme is Welles’ trying to raise money to direct and star in King Lear, or alternatively, to direct The Dreamers, a movie about a young American politician. Jaglom does his best to get him financing, but neither project was realized. The failure to make Lear is especially sad, because his versions of Macbeth (1948), Othello (1952) and Chimes at Midnight (1965), a life of Falstaff, with Welles playing the leads, are fascinating. Each was filmed with limited resources, often under chaotic conditions. Meanwhile, Welles dismisses Sir Laurence Olivier’s and Sir John Gielgud’s interpretations of the Bard despite their sterling reputations as the leading Shakespearean actors of the era. He speaks touchingly of former wife Rita Hayworth, and refutes accusations that the hypnotic The Lady from Shanghai (1948), their sole collaboration, was his revenge for her divorcing him. According to Welles, she pleaded with him to star in it – they had been separated for a year – and after their divorce, on the eve of her 1949 marriage to Aly Kahn, she begged him to spend the night with her, although their sexual passion was not rekindled. He considers Joseph Von Stern-
berg’s The Blue Angel (1930) overrated, perhaps because Von Sternberg’s visual sense was as vivid as his own and because it made a star of Marlene Dietrich, who would become Welles’ friend. Casablanca (1943) was, to him, kitsch – he did not think much of Humphrey Bogart or Ingrid Bergman as actors, although acknowledged they were stars. In her memoirs No Bed of Roses, Joan Fontaine, who played Jane Eyre (1943) opposite Welles’ Rochester, describes his unprofessional and egotistical behavior. He avenges himself by ridiculing her performance and ability – as well as that of her sister, Olivia de Havilland. He liked the early, English Alfred Hitchcock movies, but nothing he made in Hollywood was worthwhile. “Thalberg was Satan,” he laments, referring to Irving Thalberg, who in the 1930s at MGM elevated the role of the producer at the expense of the director. He is equally acerbic about Thalberg’s wife, the popular Norma Shearer. “One of the most minimally talented ladies to
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ever to appear on the silver screen, and who looked like nothing, with one eye crossed over the other.” He admired director Erich Von Stroheim, whose extravagance and inability to film within budget were legendary and curtailed his career. Welles insists that he tried to interest Darryl Zanuck in the young Marilyn Monroe, but the head of 20th Century Fox Studios saw her as another contract player. He also says that he was responsible for Van Johnson’s (a gay leading man of the 1940s and 50s) success in Hol-
lywood. Although a heterosexual womanizer, Welles admits that like any good artist, he has a feminine side. The beautiful Gary Cooper turned him into a “girl.” Some incidents recounted by Jaglom seem unlikely. For example, during one of their first lunches, Richard Burton approached them. He and Welles exchanged pleasantries, and Burton is quoted, “Elizabeth [Taylor] is with me. She so much wants to meet you. Can I bring her over to your table?” “No,” replied Welles. “As you can see, I’m in the middle of my lunch. I’ll stop by on my way out.” He tells Jaglom, “Richard Burton had great talent. He’s ruined his great gifts. He’s become a joke with a celebrity wife.” He could have been describing himself. The problem with this exchange is that in 1963, Welles had a supporting role in The V.I.P.s, which starred Taylor and Burton. They would have met then. During these lunches, Welles was polishing his legend, so not everything should be taken as fact. That doesn’t make the book any less entertaining or his insights any less compelling. It’s a revealing look at an artist who often triumphed in a commercial field, but who never fully accepted that profits mattered. The book was edited by Peter Biskind (author of Easy Riders), who provides a helpful introduction, summarizing Welles’ career and how he met Jaglom. Given the number of names dropped, it’s a shame an index wasn’t included.t
what Robert watches and observing his subsequent behavior, you may agree. But that’s not the point that Afterschool seeks to make. A young vixen is engaged in a depressing sex colloquy with a smarmy off-screen male. Later, Robert will do a mock reenactment of their salacious chat with his in-school girlfriend, including a stab at strangulation. His attention to the video is rudely interrupted by his roommates pounding on the door. He jumps up, pulls up his pants, turns on the light and unlocks the door, only to be greeted with a derisive bit of schoolboy wit from his drug-dealing roomie, Dave (Jeremy Allen White). “I smell cum. Did you do the math homework?” Robert and Dave are ostensibly friends, but we sense a tension between them that will later erupt into one of those “real” schoolboy brawls that have become a YouTube staple. But then, practically every kid in the film seems about to burst into flames over slights real or imagined. At Robert’s lunchtable, a young man with a helmet of brown hair seethes when he’s casually baited about his sister by an oafish jock. Suddenly the pickedon kid snarls, “You know, I can kick your ass.” Robert knows he’s drowning in this place, and in a poignant moment in a film that’s not big on emotional exchanges, the boy attempts to reach out to his mom by phone. “I don’t think anyone likes me here, Mom.” “Everyone loves you. Don’t say stupid things like that! I love you, honey, tell me you’re okay, please. I have enough to worry about at work. Please don’t make me worry about you all the way up there.” We realize there’s a lot to worry about, and the school authorities will be of little help, especially the guidance counselor, with his fake attempts to insinuate himself into the confidence of the boys and the manipulative headmaster, played with unctuous glee by Michael Stulhbarg.
Robert’s downfall comes in part because of his fascination with digital cameras. He videos and becomes involved in the overdose deaths of two popular blonde twin girls. Campos reveals a sensitive boy entangled in an anarchic situation. In a sterile bathroom setting that accentuates his dark-haired beauty, Miller washes his hands after a fevered masturbation. As the boy bends over the sink, the moment becomes both a cleansing and a kind of purification ritual. Robert will escape formal punishment for his culpability in these deaths, although the nature and degree of that culpability must be gauged by each viewer from the available evidence. Afterschool is a spooky meditation on today’s digital “blank” generation, and for queer viewers there are uncomfortable if unstated allusions to the Rutgers University social-network-provoked suicide of Tyler Clementi. Extras: Deleted and alternative scenes with director commentary; Michael Stuhlbarg’s horrible headmaster’s rants; an interview with Ezra Miller in which he explains his love for his first director and why it was hard to have an onscreen brawl with actor Jeremy Allen White; and Campos’ riveting early short film, 15. t
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Dionne Warwick & beyond by Gregg Shapiro
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he 1960s were essentially ruled by three soul divas: Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and Dionne Warwick. When the 1970s rolled around, Franklin and Ross maintained their domination throughout the decade, losing some ground in the 1980s. Warwick, on the other hand, faltered in her postScepter Records period of the 70s, only to rise again at the end of the decade and become a more consistent presence on Arista in the 80s. Warwick’s The Complete Warner Brothers Singles (Real Gone Music/ Rhino) does a good job of tracking her 70s experience. On the five WB studio albums she released from 1972-77, Warwick performed songs by Bacharach and David (just prior to the dissolution of their partnership), Holland/ Dozier/Holland, and Thom Bell and Linda Creed. For the most part, Warwick’s voice was powerful, and the material (including standouts “If We Only Have Love” and “I Didn’t Mean To Love You”) didn’t vary from the style that made her a superstar. Yet chart success eluded her during this time (with the exception of “Then Came You,” her 1974 collaboration with The Spinner, not included on this comp). Marilyn McCoo of pop/soul group The 5th Dimension was another of the powerful female voices of the 1960s and early 70s, a role she shared with fellow 5D vocalist Florence LaRue Gordon. After The 5th Dimension lost focus in the mid70s, McCoo and husband Billy Davis, Jr., also an essential component of the group, departed for a career as a duo. They achieved success with their first outing and the single “You Don’t Have To Be a Star” in 1976. The pair also had their own network variety show, and McCoo later went on to become a host of the music program Solid Gold. Inbetween, McCoo and Davis released two more albums, The Two of Us and Marilyn & Billy (both reissued in expanded editions on Real Gone
Music) in 1977 and 78. For gay listeners of a certain age, Marilyn & Billy may have more significance. Released at the height of the disco craze, the album contained the hit single “Shine On Silver Moon,” a track that was a big gay club hit in its 12” mix version. That version is included as a bonus track on the reissue. One of the great unsung soul heroes of the 60s and 70s, Merry Clayton is finally getting the attention she long deserved. An in-demand backing vocalist (her vocals on The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” are legendary), Clayton is featured prominently in the marvelous documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, about the trials and tribulations of being a background singer. Shockingly, Clayton, an exceptional artist, never achieved the kind of career as a performer that many of her supporters thought inevitable. The Best of Merry Clayton (Ode/Legacy) collects 17 tracks mostly from Clayton’s Ode Records period, includ-
ing her solo reading of “Gimme Shelter,” Neil Young’s “Southern Man,” James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” and Carole King’s “Oh No Not My Baby” (featuring King singing backup). Eat, drink and be Merry, her time has come. Best-known as one-third of the inexplicably popular Destiny’s Child, Kelly Rowland has been releasing solo albums since 2002. Neither Rowland nor Michelle Williams achieved the kind of solo success enjoyed by Beyonce Knowles, but that could change for Rowland with Talk a Good Game (Universal Republic). Going for a distinctively sexual vibe from the album cover to a song such as “Kisses Down Low,” Rowland earns her first “parental advisory” label. Outrageous opener “Freak” has club potential, as does the subtly thumping “I Remember” and the intoxicating strut of “Red Wine.” Tracks with guest appearances include “You Changed,” which reunites Rowland with Beyonce and Michelle, and “Gone,” featuring Wiz Khalifa, which poorly incorporates a section of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (although Rowland earns points for Joni awareness). Ciara was always edgier than Rowland (or Destiny’s Child, for that matter), and remains so today. Almost as well-known for her dance moves as she is for her hiphop-influenced singing, Ciara is focused on booty and body on her new self-titled Epic Records release. Conjuring Janet Jackson on “Body Party” and playing with words and more on “Sophomore,” Ciara puts the X rating into her explicit content. If she could bottle the libido she sings about it in “Super Turnt Up” and “DUI,” she could retire from the music biz. The dance track “Overdose” is just what the doctor ordered. The body is also on Chante Moore’s mind on “Baby Can I Touch Your Body,” the first cut on Moore & More (Shanachie). Moore, one of the titular vocalists in the TVOne reality series R&B Divas: Los Angeles, co-wrote nine of the 10 tracks on the disc, which closes with a steamy reading of “Cry Me a River.” The most memorable of the originals include the feisty “Alone,” the retro funk of “Doctor Doctor” and the dance-floor blast of “On and On.”t
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Food for thought by Jim Piechota To Eat: A Country Life by Joe Eck & Wayne Winterrowd; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 hroughout their years together, longtime gay partners Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd lovingly cultivated a seven-acre backyard garden in North Hill, Vermont. Both a loving memoir and an homage to the bucolic country life they shared in Northern New England, To Eat: A Country Life celebrates Eck and Winterrowd’s 41-year-long love of the land. It’s not their first foray in farmto-table realness. The pair’s luminous 2009 Our Life in Gardens was a treasure chest of gardening stories, as were other works on Vermont life, A Year at North Hill and Living Seasonally. Here the focus is again on sustainable farming and the grateful recognition of the beauty of planted seedlings and harvesting a bounty of fruits and vegetables. Their interwoven personal histories, told in
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fits and starts amidst a farmer’s market of organic produce, spans from rural Massachusetts in the early 70s to a year in Denmark, then back to Boston, tending a plot in the Fenway Victory Gardens surrounded by an eclectic community of folks unified by a need to “dig in the dirt and raise something.” The authors boast of the immense pleasures that can be found in fruits like “crisp and sharp, vigorous and hardy” McIntosh apples, aromatic puckerproducing citrus, sweet alpine strawberries, luscious blueberries, the underappreciated herbaceous perennial rhubarb, and tomatoes, a fruit they consider “the most debased of all our foods.” The joys of raising old hens, socially interactive pigs, and cows with their “large liquid eyes framed by long eyelashes” are included in detailed chapters dedicated to each, though they end carnivorously with recipes for Chicken Stew, Crispy
Pork Belly and Oxtail Soup. Peas, peppers, Egyptian onions, asparagus, celeriac, and carrots (to make moist layer cake with cream-cheese icing: instructions provided) all get their due, complemented by Bobbi Angell’s lined illustrations and recipes by Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta. Winterrowd died in 2010 while this book was being co-written. Eck’s heartbreaking coda finds him grieving Winterrowd’s absence, wearing his clothes, sleeping in See page 29 >>
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<< Out&About
26 • Bay Area Reporter • August 22-28, 2013
Strange Cinema presents Titicut Follies
American Dream @ New Conservatory Theatre Center
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World premiere of Brad Erickson’s drama about a recently-out architect who falls in love with a Salvadorian teacher; a serious drama about marriage and immigration rights. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 15. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market. 861-8972. www.NCTCSF.org
Andrea McArdle @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko
Mind games by Jim Provenzano
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he passing of gay community icon Jose Sarria marks the loss of another living example of LGBT history in action. Before your memory fades, consider how much of your life, and all our lives, should be documented, preserved or recalled with fond recollection. Through gay history, we travel through time and prove our existence. In the case of the strangely entertaining No Man’s Land, you might forget that the two lead actors are also known as X-men, a starship’s captain (Patrick Stewart), a wizard and a proud out gay actor (Ian McKellen). Just enjoy playwright Harold Pinter’s mind trip down memory loss lane. (See Sat. 24), Whether you’re a good witch or a bad witch, few can compare with the diva of the 1960s-’70s TV show Dark Shadows, Ms. Lara Parker. Her “Angelique” trekked through the ages in the ultimate display of vampiric codependency long before those Twilight twinks began their poutfest (see Fri. 23). For some real mind games, step back in time by decades to witness Titicut Follies, a once-banned documentary about the real goings-on at a mental institution in the 1960s. It’ll put any episode of American Horror Story: Asylum to shame, because it really happened, complete with a talent show (see Strange Shorts, Thu 22).
OutLoud Radio @ LGBT Center
Thu 22 Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez hosts the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club. This week, Justin Lucas, Lydia Popovich, Shanti Charan, Paco Romane and Johan Miranda. No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 3079 16th St. www.comedybodega.com
Jason Brock @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The local singer with a powerhouse R&B voice performs his new show, San Francisco Razzle-Dazzle, at the new elegant cabaret nightclub. $25. 8pm. Hotel Nikko lobby, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com
Performing Diaspora @ CounterPulse
Listen in for “Sumer Stories,” a live LGBT Youth podcast with Eight gay teens ages 16-21. 7pm. 1800 Market St. www.outloudradio.org
Strange Shorts @ Oddball Films Unusual vintage short films, Thursdays and Fridays. Aug 22: Psychedelicatessen, a Feast for Your Eyes (beguilingly colorful animated shorts). Aug 23: Dangerous Minds, a screening of the harrowingly surreal Titicut Follies, the once-banned 1967 documentary about horrible conditions at a state mental hospital. Each $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com
Sweet Bird of Youth @ Tides Theatre
Contemporary performances exploring issues of resistance, spirituality and love, by Jewlia Eisenberg, Muisi-kongo Malonga and Nadhi Thekkek’s Nava Dance Theatre. Thu-Sun 8pm. Thru Aug. 25. www.counterpulse.org
Local production of Tennessee Williams’ haunting play about a boozy has-been actress and her gigolo who escape to his small Gulf Coast hometown after a Broadway flop. $20-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 24. 533 Sutter St. at Powell, 2nd floor. 399-1322. www.tidestheatre.org
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert @ Orpheum Theatre
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Touring production of Stephan Elliot and Allan Scott’s Tony Award-winning hit musical (with more than 500 costumes!) based on the film, about a trio of drag queens touring the Australian Outback; the score includes many disco classics. $45-$210. Tue-Fri 8pm. Sat 2pm & 8pm. Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Also Wed & Fri 2pm. Thru Aug 31. 1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com
All's Well That Ends Well @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s romantic comedy of mixed and missed affections. $20-$37.50. 8pm. Fri-Sun 8pm. Thru Sept 28. 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org
Broadway actress (the original Annie) performs 70s and Sunny, her unique vocal interpretations of 1970s classics songs, with biographical stories, too. $30-$55. $20 food/drink minimum. Also Aug 24. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. www.hotelnikkosf.com
Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? @ Phoenix Theatre Edward Albee’s darkly ironic play about a family whose lives are disrupted when the father reveals that he’s in love with a goat. $25-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Aug. 18 at 2pm. Thru Aug. 24. 414 Mason St. 6th Floor. (800) 838-3006. www.thegoat. brownpapertickets.com
God of Carnage @ Shelton Theater New local production of Yasmina Reza’s darkly funny play (translated by Christopher Hampton) about four parents whose negotiations about a bullying child descend into savagery. $26-$38. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 7. 533 Sutter St. (800) 838-3006. www.SheltonTheater.com
Grounded @ A.C.T. Costume Shop George Brent’s contemporary solo drama about a female F16 fighter whose pregnancy reduces her career to remotely operating drones. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 7. 1119 Market St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org
Jesus Christ Superstar @ Castro Theatre Ted Neeley makes a special appearance at this screening of the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hit Broadway musical version of the life of Jesus, with an onstage Q&A at 6:30pm. Film at 7pm, followed by Monty Python’s Life of Brian at 9:15. $8.50-$11. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com
Lara Parker @ Borderlands Books Actress from Dark Shadows, the classic 1960s-70s ABC gothic soap opera (Angelique) reads from and discusses her new book, Dark Shadows: Wolf Moon Rising, based on characters from the show. 7pm. 866 Valencia St. 824-8203. www.borderlands-books.com
Orlando @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley TheatreFirst performs Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel. $15-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 15. 2-for-1 ticket special for opening weekend. 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 981-8150. www.theatrefirst.com
Sat 24 Beat Memories: Photographs of Allen Ginsberg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Enjoy the new exhibit of vintage prints, taken by the gay Beat poet, of his friends Jack Kerouac and others. Also, Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, part of the SF MOMA’s off-site collaborative exhibits; thru Oct 27. 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org
Fri 23 Lara Parker
Nadhi Thekkek at Perf orming Diaspora
Camelot @ SF Playhouse Local production of Lerner and Loewe’s hit Broadway musical about King Arthur, Guinevere and his court, stars Tony Award winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia (with composer & playwrights’ estates’ approved edits and additional songs). $25-$75. TueThu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept 21. 450 Post St. (2nd floor, Kensington Park Hotel). 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org
Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Don Reed’s new solo show about the groovy 1960s. $15-$50. Sat 8:30, Sun 7pm. Extended thru Sept. 8. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org
Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dancetheatre team. $15-$30. 7pm. Saturdays thru Sept. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 6235300. www.capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org
A Cause for PAWS @ Martuni’s Benefit for Pets Are Wonderful Support includes songs by Valeriana Q and Sammy R, with raffles and a silent auction. 3pm-6pm. 4 Valencia St. www.acauseforpaws.net
Compton’s Cafeteria Riots Commemoration @ Turk & Taylor This 47th annual commemoration of the pre-Stonewall Tenderloin protest outside the former location of Compton’s Cafeteria includes speakers and a “Screaming Queens” cake. 12pm. Turk St. at Taylor.
The Cyrus Cylinder @ Asian Art Museum The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: a New Beginning, a special touring exhibit of the 2,500-year-old cuneiform script, considered the first written bill of human rights (www.cyruscylinder2013.com). Thru Sept. 22. Also, In the Moment: Japanese Art From the Larry Ellison Collection, an exhibit of 60+ artworks from the collection of Oracle’s CEO. Thru Sept 22. Also Art of Adornment, Southeast Asian Jewelry ; Thru Nov 24. Free (members)-$12. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org
East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus @ Laney College
Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza New twice-weekly (Sat & Sun) live outdoor music concerts presented by the Castro/ Upper Market Community Business District. Free. Castro St. at Market. 500-1181. www.castrocbd.org
Mascara @ Castro Country Club The monthly drag show at the LGBT sober space features Jada Halston-Miranda, Serentiy Heart and DJ Hotwire. $3-$6. 10:30pm. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org
No Man’s Land @ Berkeley Rep Legendary British actors Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart pair up in Harold Pinter’s darkly comic masterful 1974 stage play about two writers questioning their lifelong friendship; with Billy Crudup. The show will later move to Broadway. Tickets mostly available via subscription only, but last-minute deals are available. $35-$135. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed 7pm. Thu & Sat 2pm. Sun 2pm and/or 7pm. Thru Aug. 31. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison st. (510) 6472949. www.BerkeleyRep.org
SF Hiking Club @ Alamere Falls Join GLBT hikers of the SF Hiking Club for a 10-mile hike at Point Reyes along the Palomarin Trail to Alamere Falls. There will be spectacular views of the coast and some cool Douglas fir forest. After lunch on the coast by the falls, return via Bass Lake for a swim. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen, hat, layers, sturdy hiking boots, swimsuit and towel if desired. Carpool meets 8:30 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (510) 841-3826. www.sfhiking.com
Showgirls @ Castro Theatre Peaches Christ presents the annual (consistently sold-out) hilarious screening of the campy film about Vegas strippers; with pre-show fun, including a “Goddess Spectacular,” free laps dances with any purchase of a large popcorn, and a NomiMalone look-alike contest. $22-$50 (VIP pre-show reception 6:30pm). 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.peacheschrist.com www.castro theatre.com
Summer Feast @ Dos Rios Retreat Center
Pleasure and Pain, a summer pops choral concert and fundraiser, with a silent auction (vacations, gift certificates, theatre tickets). $35, $50, $75. VIP reception, 5:45pm. Concert 6:30pm. Odell Johnson Theater, 900 Laney College, Oakland. (510) 466-7368. www.oebgmc.org
Dance Mission presents a site-specific hillside outdoor dance, music and performance event, with Dance Brigade, Carpetbag Brigade, Alayo Dance Company, Grrrl Brigade, and from Columbia, Nemcatacoa Teatro, with music and poetry by Verbo Bala and Hojarasca. $15-$25. 5pm-10pm. (800) 838-3006. www.dancemission.com
Erika Sanada @ Modern Eden Gallery
Tribute to Immigrant Women @ New Valencia Hall
Odd Things, the artist’s solo exhibition of unusually lifelike yet strange sculptures of dogs and other creatures. Also, Curiosities, a group exhibition of strange depictions of animals. Thru Sept 6. Reg hours Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. 403 Francisco St. 956-3303. www.ModernEden.com
Yolanda Alaniz is a guest speaker at a film screening of Rape in the Fields, a documentary about the struggles of women immigrant workers in the U.S.; optional Mexiacan meal (veggie or meat) $3-$9. 6:30pm. 747 Polk St. 864-1278. www.RadicalWomen.org
Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre
The Wiz @ Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley
The hit local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta features multiple actor-singers performing the lead. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended with open-ended run. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org
Be Bad…Do Good @ GLBT History Museum
Hot Strokes @ Mark I. Chester Studio
Be Bad…Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a new multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have reaised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits. Thru Oct. 27. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org
Exhibit of erotic, leather and kink-themed male nude drawings made at the studio’s drawing group. Thru August by appointment. 1229 Folsom st. www.MarkIChester.com
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Berkeley Playhouse’s local production of Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown’s Tony Award-winning musical update on The Wizard of Oz. $17-$60. Wed & Thu 7pm. Sat 2pm & 7pm. Sun 12pm & 5pm. Thru Aug. 25. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-8542. www.BerkeleyPlayhouse.org
Sun 25 East Bay Queer Book Club @ Books Inc, Alameda James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is discussed at the gathering of East Bay LGBTQ readers. Free. 6pm. 1344 Park St., Alameda. (510) 522-2226. www.booksinc.net
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Radar Reading @ SF Public Library Author Michelle Tea welcomes Dodie Bellamy, Alejandro Murguia, Stephen Boyer and Carmella Fleming to the eclectic reading series. 6pm. Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.radarproductions.org www.sfpl.org
Ramekon O’Arwisters @ African American Art & Culture Complex
Sat 24 Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man’s Land
Joyland @ City Lights Bookstore Kara Levy hosts and curated a reading that continues the 60th anniversary on the pioneering bookstore, with readings by Helene Wecker, Peg Alford Pursell, Caitlin Myer, Michael McAllister, Mariko Tamaki, and others. 2pm-4pm. 261 Columbus Ave. www.citylights.com
New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Aug 25: The Godfather II (12:30, 7:30) and Heat (4:20). Aug 26: Pedro Almodovar’s I’m So Excited (2:30, 4:445, 7pm, 9:15). Aug 27: The Heat (2pm, 4:40, 7pm, 9:30). Aug 28: Dr. Strangelove (3:30, 7:15) and The Bed Sitting Room (5:20, 9:05). Aug. 29: Easy Rider (3pm, 7pm) and Scarecrow (4:45, 8:55). $8-$12. 429 Castro St. 6216120. www.CastroTheatre.com
Resonance Jazz Ensemble @ Old First Church Jazz octet performs contemporary and original music and arrangements by bandleader Stephen McQuarry. $14-$17. 4pm. 1751 Sacramento St. 474-1608. www.OldFirstConcerts.org
Schubert’s Mass in G @ St. John’s United Fundraising concert for the music program at St. John’s United Church of Christ; also performed, Songs of America, performed by chorus, chamber orchestra and soloists. $10-$15. 5pm. 501 Laguna Honda Blvd. www.sfstjohnsucc.org
Swim for Life @ Hamilton Pool
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Mon 26 Graham Nash @ SF Art Exchange
The singer-composer (The Hollies, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) gets his photography, paintings and digital images shown in an exhibit, This Could Be You. 458 Geary St. at Mason. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. 4418840. www.sfae.com
Ben Sollee @ Yoshi's Oakland Cellist-vocalist performs interesting hybrid original music (bluegrass, jazz, R&B) at the classy nightclub-restaurant. $19. 8pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 2389200. www.yoshis.com
Heart @ America’s Cup Pavilion The ‘70s rock icons Ann and Nancy Wilson perform their hits. Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience opens. $35-$118. 7pm. Pier 27 & 29. www.ticketmaster.com
Fred Raker’s darkly comic self-help parody solo show. $15. 8pm. Thru Aug. 27. 446 Valencia St. www.bitternesstobetterness.com
One of a Kind @ RayKo Photo Center
Native Plant Bloom @ SF Botanical Gardens Seasonal flowering of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 6612-1316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org
Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm-1:30am. 4 Valencia St. at Market.
Tue 27 Bonnie & Clyde @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley
Second annual aquatic fundraiser for Shanti’s L.I.F.E. program and HIV services; prizes for top fundraisers and longest distance swum. 9am-12pm. 1900 Geary Blvd. 674-4724. www.shanti.org
Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room
The Fair of the Flesh @ Alley Cat Books
Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com
Opening event for an exhibit and book event for La Feria de la Carne (The Fair of the Flesh) , and the exhibits of Tránsitos y Laberintos (Passageways and Labyrinths) , with Mexican artists Yunuen Esmeralda Díaz, Héctor de Anda & Víctor Mora. Thru Aug. 31. 6pm-8pm. 3036 24th St.
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in American, 1965-1977, an exhibit of fascinating psychedelic and alternative culture iconography. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm (Wed til 7:30pm). Thru Sept. 1. 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland. (510) 430-2164. www.mcam.mills.edu
Wed 28
How to Make Your Bitterness Work for You @ Stage Werx Theatre
Shotgun Players performs Adam Peck’s dramatic adaptation of the story of the infamous Southern bank-robbing couple. $20-$35. Previews; opens Aug 30. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 29. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org
West of Center @ Mills College Museum
Sugar in Our Blood: The Spirit of Black and Queer Identity in the Art of Ramekon O’Arwisters, an exhibit of multimedia folk art-inspired wprks by the local gay artist. Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm. 762 Fulton St. Thru Sept. 12. www.ramekon.com
Group exhibit of unusual photos. Tue-Thu 10am-10pm. Thru Sept 1. Fri-Sun 10am8pm. 428 Third St. 495-3773. www.RayKoPhoto.com
Thu 29 Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez (often) hosts the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club. No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 307916th St. www.comedybodega.com
Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences New themed event nights at the fascinating new nature museum; plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org
Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay @ Oakland Museum Exhibit of 1935-36 photos showcasing the original construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Thru Jan 12, 2014. Also, the Gallery of California Natural Sciences has been renovated and re-opened. Wed-Sun 11am5pm (Fri til 9pm). Thru June 30. 1000 Oak St. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org
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Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com
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Erica Sanada’s strange canine sculptures
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Leland Carina
Andy Cross, Sarha Shaubach, and Oil Tan Sam pose while being interviewed by Leland Carina.
New title contests bow by Scott Brogan
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here’s a new title contest here in SF tomorrow (Friday) night. It’s the Mr. & Ms. SF Sober Leather contests. Tomorrow night, both contests will be combined and will take place at the Women’s Building (3543 18th St., #8, in the Mission) from 7-9 p.m. The contest’s mission is “to hold a leather title contest to select competent leaders of both the leather and sober communities” while “embracing a sobercentered, leather and kink-positive way of living.” The contests are spearheaded by owner and producer Katerina du Lac of Phoenix Entertainment, and associate producer Cass Alecs Leung. Some may ask, “Why another contest, don’t we have enough titles already?” But you know, if you think about it, there aren’t that many feeder contests to the Mr. and Ms. SF Leather contests. We’re San Francisco, the supposed epicenter of the leather/kink community of the entire country. We should have more feeder contests. Look at Los Angeles, they seem to have tons of them. Do we want to let them best us? Smog vs. Fog – and fog should win! More importantly, this (or rather, these) new contests put the spotlight on a very underappreciated and underrepresented segment of
our community: sober folks. A lot of people out there think that “sober” automatically means “buzz kill” or “boring.” But that’s not always the case. Think of how it must feel for someone who is in recovery to have to go to the bars to support community events. It must seem like always bar-related, and in reality I would guess it’s a solid 95%, if not more. Producer du Lac told me, “This is a contest about sobriety in your life from any addiction, and not a recovery thing. It still represents a group of people who are there as beacons of hope and strength to the community, and who befriend those in need. Our titleholders represent our support system, and a way of life that is fulfilling, with many miracles.” Also of note is that the contests are a great way to “open dialogue with people who want to quit whatever but don’t know how to take the first step.” The bigger picture is the formation of SF Bay Area Sober Leather, which, per Ms. du Lac again, has the goal to “create a vehicle of inclusiveness, sober center kink workshops, fellowship, and social gatherings. As people have been talking about the contest starting up, about producing others across the country, are these huge aspirations? Yes, but we, as community, can build. Sobriety does have a place in the leather kink community.” Expect more events
and happenings in the future. Where’s Andy Cross? Look! Up in the sky! It’s a top! It’s a bottom! Nope, it’s our International Mr. Leather, Andy Cross. Like Superman, Cross has been flying everywhere. I don’t think he’s saved any kittens from any trees, but I bet he’s stroked a few pups. He’s been in Portland, Des Moines, New Orleans, and soon in Dallas, of many other places. He’s been flashing that megawatt smile of his all over the place. And if he gets any more photogenic, I’ll have to hurt him. No wait, he’ll enjoy that too much. In all of his travels, he even found time to sit for a bed interview with Leland Carina over at Leatherati, along with his “Sash Wife,” International Ms. Leather 2013 Sarha Shaubach, and 2013 International Mr. Bootblack, Oil Tan Sam. And through it all, he and his boyfriend Carlton Paul (of Powerhouse fame) became “officially” together. I don’t know what they were before, except maybe fuck buddies? “Going steady?” Perhaps he got pinned. If so, I know exactly where Carlton stuck it. Seriously, congratulations to you both. Andy will next be seen at the Mr. & Ms. SF Sober Leather contest, and at the International Leather Sir/ boy contest in Dallas over Labor Day weekend. Thank you, Andy, for continuing to represent us so well. I’m enjoying following your exploits. Keep up the great work! Finally, a shout out to Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt, who’s been under the weather lately due to complications from vertigo. Get better soon – we miss you!t
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Members of Mama’s Family send her get-well wishes from Up Your Alley 2013.
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Raging Stallion
Dangerously sexy Adam Killian wipes out Derek Parker in Cock Craze.
Cocks of the roost
by John F. Karr
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iven my well-known appreciation of Adam Killian, it seems inexplicable that some months passed before I paid attention to the trilogy of films he directed for MonsterBang. Especially with titles like Cock Tease, Cock Shot and Cock Craze – that four-letter c-word is like a red flag to a bull for me. Well, the movies are worthy of attention whenever it is you get to them, if you like intense, butch, wall-to-wall fuckarama. Adam Killian directs as he performs, with gusto. His cinematography (with an assist from Tony Dimarco) is good. I’m not fond of the way his constantly roving camera makes its subjects defiers of gravity, but it’s steady in its fluidity, sure has a knack for roving right up close to salient details, and sufficiently roves around to standard vertical and horizontal framing. And it couldn’t be crisper or clearer. All three movies have been well-edited by Chris Ward, and have JD Slater’s apt music. The movies’ heightened performances are matched by the theatricality of their costumes (tattered clothing lets body parts inveigle, while jockstraps strain to contain before yielding), the lighting (bold slashes of color), and the unit set that Killian’s ordered up. It unifies the films, while providing a suitably masculine environment that has a roomy variety of spaces for play. It’s a half-destroyed welter of industrial discards, swathes of cyclone fence and broken-down scaffolding, pieces of machinery, and great chunks of crumbling concrete. I’m especially fond of a hallucination of odd bits of furniture that dangles in the air, filling a void over to one side. It’s sculpture, is what it is. The unnamed set designer gets an A+. Finally, the casting throughout all three movies is swell. Killian himself has several scenes in two of the movies, while stalwart thrillers Caleb Colton, Trenton Ducati, and most especially, Jake Genesis are gratefully seen in all three. In striking one-filmonly appearances we get Jesse Santana, Mitchell Rock, Ty Roderick, Derek Parker, Charlie Harding, Jessy Ares, and the delectable pairing of furry lads Shawn Wolfe with Jimmy Fanz.
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his bed, cooking recipes from his cookbook Now You Finally Got a Boyfriend, attempting to conjure his spirit back into the home they shared, ever knowing that “each act was futile and lonely.” Once he
Killian is the only performer who showers smiles as liberally as his cum, but as director he’s imbued his guys with the same extreme attack and, most markedly, the robustly achieved satisfaction that he derives from his own fervently consummated sex bouts. You know I’d like to lasciviate about each scene in all three movies, but I’m going to have to stick to highlights. My favorite of the three flicks is Cock Craze. It launches its two hours with Mr. Killian killing stern-faced Derek Parker. Killian’s nearing 40, and is only growing more dangerously sexy. He’s a rimming, cocksucking and fucking tornado in this scene. It’s a tempestuous event that culminates with Parker’s open maw welcoming Killian’s roiling sperm. These three movies are a maximum-impact testimonial to the smashing if brief sexo career of Jake Genesis. In Cock Tease he’s a top; in Cock Shot, a bottom. Cock Craze offers him at his best doing both, as he vigorously flip-fucks with Trenton Ducati. A scene later, concluding the movie, brawny Charlie Harding tops inked-up, streetwise Caleb Colton, who provides a revelatory RC in the midst of several rounds of demolition
fucking. Jesse Santana is topped by Trenton Ducati in a stormy scene that opens Cock Tease. Sex on a pair of stepladders gives the guys unparalleled access to all cracks and crevices of their bodies, while also allowing the camera to crawl beneath them and gaze fondly upward at their fondest parts. Next, Caleb Colton traumatizes Mitchell Rock, who’s the kind of handsome, meaty power bottom you long to meet. Colton’s the kind of scary tough guy you long to meet in a dark back alley. Which makes him a swell partner for Adam Killian, who tops him in the movie’s rough and bawdy finale. There’s nothing at all wrong with Cock Shot; without being lesser porn, it’s the least of this trio, despite Shawn Wolfe topping Jimmy Fanz, and Jake Genesis and Ty Roderick offering the most prolonged foreplay in the series. You can feel the boners growing inside their shredded pants. Genesis subsequently plants his ass firmly on Ty’s tool, giving us an RC that shows off every inch of his body, with its pumped-up pecs, rigid cock, and assdistending penetration. Then I flipped when they flipped, and celebrated in the traditional manner when the fuck Roderick was getting made the upended dude give himself a tasty facial. www.RagingStallion.comt
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A pair of furry, delectable lads: Shawn Wolfe and Jimmy Fanz in Cock Shot.
trumped severe depressive bouts of malnutrition, dehydration, and exhaustion that landed him in intensive care, Eck writes of surrendering to his crushing reality, conceding how he must “fashion a separate life, one I never envisioned or wanted but I am fated to.” The final chapters form a bit-
tersweet ending to a beautiful, passionately conceived memoir steeped in flora, fauna, and a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables, all cultivated with enduring love and tenderness. Visit www.NorthHillGarden.com to learn more about Eck and Winterrowd’s legacy in their Vermont gardens.t
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Fire Island Pines
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that detail the sex and the drugs, but more important is the why of it all, which is summed up simply in, “What We Did While Looking for Love.” Bianchi’s earliest photos of the boys of Fire Island shielded identity; they might have been created post-Stonewall, but many New York professionals were still closeted. As Bianchi’s subjects became comfortable with his photos, and the photos piled up, he recognized their potential as a book. It was subsequently shopped around New York publishers, who uniformly refused it. It was too early, he was told in the early 1980s, to publish a book so queer. The photos were set aside in a box that, 40 years later, has proved to be an invaluable time capsule. “My book is about the days before the epidemic took our innocence and our lives,” Bianchi writes. “My pictures are about the wit, the beauty, the spirit and creative imagination of a generation of social pioneers largely lost.” Bianchi took Polaroids, and there are 350 of them in his book,
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American Dream
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was Pride Sunday, just a few days after the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act. “I was getting ready to enjoy the festivities,” Erickson said, “and I’m reading an article in the business section about the DOMA decision, and how the federal government would have to recognize any legitimate marriage wherever it takes place in the world. And that certainly would make it easier to bring a noncitizen who you married into the country. And I thought, oh no, there goes my second act.” The play in question is American Dream, El sueño del otro lado, opening New Conservatory Theatre Center’s new season on Aug. 24. It’s the story of a man in his 40s who came out late after a lengthy marriage, and who falls in love with a Spanish instructor while visiting San
Tom Bianchi, courtesy Damiani Press
From Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975-1983 by Tom Bianchi.
Miguel in Mexico. For various reasons, the Mexican had not been able to get a visa, and now the ex-wife is in a position to either help or hinder his immigration status. Erickson didn’t start updating his play on that Pride Sunday, preferring instead to head to City Hall to officially marry his partner. But soon thereafter the rewriting began, and Erickson decided to straddle the DOMA divide. “Now the first act takes place in May of 2013, and the second act takes place in July of 2013,” Erickson said. “So we’re actually watching a play that takes place last month. How often does that happen in the theater?” Erickson’s previous play, The War at Home, produced at NCTC in 2006, also had same-sex marriage as a theme. He thought about updating that play, too, for the sake of future productions. “But no,” he decided, “because Charleston, S.C., certainly
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ne of the things recorded music is uniquely positioned to do is get out the word about important new voices. Hats off, then, to Harmonia Mundi for releasing the first CD devoted entirely to the music of 41-year-old American composer Kevin Puts. Already the master of a range of styles, the Pulitzer Prizewinning Puts (pronounced not in the Yiddish way but like the verb, as in “He puts the competition in the shade”) is represented by his songs for a cappella chorus and his Fourth Symphony, called From Mission San Juan. While Puts is not gay, his music recorded here (the symphony live in June 2012) draws fierce advocacy from LGBT performing artists of the front rank. Gay choral maestro Craig Hella Johnson, leader of the unbeatable ensemble Conspirare, would likely have met Puts when the composer taught composition at the University of Texas at Austin, Conspirare’s home base. Whether Marin Alsop, who conducts the Fourth Symphony with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, encountered Puts in his similar post at Baltimore’s Peabody Institute or on the festival circuit, the symphony was commissioned by
the Cabrillo Music Festival, of which she is the general director as well as principal conductor. She just led the world premiere of his Flute Concerto, at Cabrillo earlier this month. There’s more than kneejerk political correctness in Puts’ decision to set nine poems by women for the cycle called To Touch the Sky. Hella Johnson suggested a large-scale choral work based on manifestations of the “Divine Feminine.” Puts responded with highly individuated settings of verse from poets as diverse as Marie Howe, Mirabai, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Sappho, and Hildegard of Bingen, framed by the theme of “magnificat” and the Annunciation. Each setting has its strong individual color, with almost jazzy rapid repeated (sung) notes lending a buzz to several of the settings. (They become the voice of the “prattle” all around Mother Teresa’s “The Fruit of Silence.”) The suite as a whole has considerable specific gravity, but Puts leavens it in sly ways. In the short fragment by Sappho, ur-mother of lesbian poetry, that gives the larger work its title, Puts sets the seemingly contrary lines “With my two arms, I do not aspire to touch the sky” – on low male voices. Even the compelling darkness of the
Playwright Brad Erickson had to revise American Dream after the Supreme Court’s DOMA decision.
doesn’t have gay marriage.” The War at Home was not autobiographical, but it certainly had personal and geographical parallels to his own life. That’s true of American Dream,
rich, complex setting of Emily Bronte’s “At Castle Wood” has an other-worldly feeling, and the overarching tendency is toward the ecstatic, peaking at Hildegard’s “Most noble evergreen with your roots in the sun.” Still, the most ravishing, sensually and spiritually, of the numbers is the free-standing “If I Were a Swan” by Fleda Brown, who helped select the verses for To Touch the Sky. Her poem is in a style Mary Oliver would understand, and Puts’ music in one to which Eric Whitacre has staked his claim. But, as Puts’ music will, it quickly breaks free of models, influences, and trends to burst into rich, full-throated lyricism stenciled by the faint, rapidly repeated sung notes in the background. The exquisitely blended voices of Conspirare perfectly embody the lines “The world would move under me, and I would be exactly where I am.” Alsop’s advocacy of the Fourth Symphony could hardly have had more punch than at this very moment, when her hard-won conducting career has hit the twin peaks of leading London’s Last Night of the Proms and Gramophone magazine’s just-released special issue about her, with interviews and a survey of her
too, even if the specifics stray further from Erickson’s experiences. He, for example, has been “studying Spanish forever and ever,” and has traveled numerous times to picturesque San Miguel, where many Americans flock to learn the language. “And I was chatting for quite a while online with this Mexican guy who had fallen in love with an American who lived in San Diego. He couldn’t get a visa, so he moved to Tijuana, where they tried to have a cross-border relationship, but it was just too much, and the relationship fell apart.” Another major component of the play is the relationship between Tom and Cara, the ex-spouses who share raising their teenage daughter. They have remained best friends, at least until a serious contender for Tom’s heart enters the scene. “Not to give too much away,” Erickson said, “but she holds a lot of power over what will happen to Salvador.” The Tom-Cara dynamic, in which the husband changed the game plan by coming out, is another element in the play that has a relationship to Er-
impressive array of celebrated recordings. For his part, Puts responds to his deep musical debt to Aaron Copland and Charles Ives by paying it off in full, with music that could not have existed without those forebears yet confidently goes its own, often startlingly direct way. This is not music that books space in your musical memory bank and then detonates there on the third or fourth hearing. It delivers straight up, while also rewarding subsequent hearings. The almost traditional architecture of the work’s four movements is rock-solid, and each has its own character. But most striking is the composition’s use throughout of music inspired by, but not imitative of, the native music of the Mutsun
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in 212 pages. They have that tranquil yet sharp color quality that’s unique to Polaroids. Most are calm and untroubled, although quite a few do convey the excitement of hordes of sweaty, shirtless men disco-dancing, at the birthing place of today’s circuit parties. There are numerous pages of men in Speedos, and men kissing, and even more of what became a Bianchi trademark, lovers in repose. There are nudes and hard-ons, but sexuality doesn’t take precedence, nor seem an overt display – this is simply daily life. Among the men lounging poolside or showering outdoors with a companion, you may recognize some porn stars of the day, like heartthrobs Rod Mitchell and Josh Kincaid. To the eyes of those less informed – say, str8 people – these may seem to be pictures of promiscuity. It was something else to us, though, and we can see in the photos a consciousness of being in on the creation of a gay identity. I hate to end with a criticism, but the pale, silver-gray typeface may have seemed elegant to the designer (Bianchi’s boyfriend), but it’s fucking hard to read.t
ickson’s life. “I was cohabitating with a woman in my early 20s, and then we had to break up, and it was very painful for both of us,” he said. “It’s not that rare that gay people, when they are younger, are in significant relationships with a straight person and then come out. But I don’t think we hear that story too much, and a big part of the play is about telling that story.” Erickson is in his 10th year as executive director of Theatre Bay Area, a service organization that promotes and supports hundreds of local theater entities. As he resumed a playwriting career with The War at Home, and continues now with American Dream, he has been careful not to seem to be using his TBA position to promote his own work. “I haven’t had my wrists slapped for having my own work produced,” he said. “Quite the opposite, they were really excited to know that I was having a play produced. And when I acted in Octopus at the Magic, half the board came to see me buck naked on the stage. That was kind of weird, but hello.”t
Indians, the Native Americans to whom the brothers at the Mission San Juan Bautista (in whose unique acoustic Puts’ symphony had its premiere) tried to teach their own, more cultivated European sacred music, only to find the Mutsun quickly reverting to their own. Research into the music with the Mutsun yielded the realization that their tunes could not be copied. That seems to have released the music from any possible pastiche, parody, or program for a direct hit. In the glorious last movement, all the musical elements fuse in an outburst of glory. Alsop knocks it out of the park.
People’s music
Countless composers have brought the people’s music into their own, but few so systematically and to such rich effect as Hungarian Bela Bartok. Violinist Isabelle Faust looked into the folk music as well as numerous scores to make her own splendid editions of Bartok’s Violin Concertos 1 and 2 (Harmonia Mundi), with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding. Such conscientiousness sounds in every considered note of her probing performances of both. Like her previous recordings of the Beethoven and Berg concertos, this is music-making nonpareil.t
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