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Vol. 46 • No. 30 • July 28-August 3, 2016
Work on stalled LGBTQ district expected in 2017
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arney Frank ignored the boos. Robby Mook ignored the question. But almost nobody ignored LGBT people. That was the Democratic National Convention’s first two days, as the four-day confab got underway this week in Philadelphia. History was made Tuesday when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated a presidential candidate of a major party. She will address delegates Thursday night. On Tuesday, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, delivered a deeply personal speech as he worked to reintroduce his wife to millions of Americans, many of whom already have fixed opinions of her. But for two things, this week’s Democratic gathering might have been a lovefest compared to the contentious Republican National Convention last week: Supporters of Clinton’s chief challenger for the nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I) – and a WikiLeaks release of internal Democratic National Committee emails that suggested the DNC favored Clinton over Sanders during their bitter primary fight. Sanders supporters smarting from the loss of the nomination and the fresh news about the DNC emails booed gay former Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who served as co-chair of the convention’s rules committee, when he reached the podium Monday afternoon. Frank supported Clinton publicly all along and the Sanders campaign had unsuccessfully tried to bump him from the co-chair post. That was enough to prompt some in the Wells Fargo Arena to boo him. But others claimed to be unhappy with what one Sanders delegate characterized as Frank’s “condescending, abusive” treatment of Sanders delegates. Although the boos could be heard only faintly from television, Frank apparently heard them. “Thank you. Thank you or not, as the case may be,” said Frank, stepping up to the microphone. Robby Mook, Clinton’s openly gay campaign manager, was confronted with a difSee page 11 >>
Repairs coming to Castro crosswalks Rick Gerharter
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Robbins explained that San Francisco Public Works would he rainbow crosswalks in need to coordinate scheduling of the Castro that were damthe repairs with Muni, whose 24, aged during filming for a 33, and 35 lines cross 18th and CasTV show should be repaired in tro streets numerous times daily. September, city officials said. “My understanding is that the In April, ABC-TV crews took delays are partially due to the over portions of the Castro and many pieces of the puzzle that other parts of the city to film need to be coordinated to accomscenes for When We Rise, a historiplish this work,” she said. cal drama about the early days of It will take about four days of the LGBT rights movement that’s work to take out the asphalt, redo partly inspired by a forthcoming the asphalt, paint the white lines book of the same name by longand then replace the rainbow time gay activist Cleve Jones. crosswalks, Robbins explained. Rick Gerharter During filming, however, the rainAdditionally, Muni would need Black markings, left when adhesive material was removed for bow crosswalks were unintentionally to deactivate the electric bus a TV shoot, have damaged the rainbow crosswalks at 18th and damaged. They remain in a state of lines without impeding public Castro streets. disrepair more than two months transportation. after the film crew has left the city. Bernard Tse, with Public Works, the damage remains. According to a May 14 story said the agency met with the conTra-Mi Callahan, of ABC publicity, told the published on Hoodline, the crosswalks were tractor Tuesday and anticipates an early SepBay Area Reporter that the network fully indamaged when the TV crew covered them with tember date for the repair work, “so we have tends to pay for the cost to repair or replace the a thick black material in order to hide them – enough time to perform outreach to the comrainbow crosswalks – the east and north stripes the rainbow striping did not exist during the munity and avoid events during the summer.” were damaged beyond repair and do need to 1970s, the setting for When We Rise’s Castro Muni spokesman Paul Rose told the B.A.R. scenes. After the production left the city, the be replaced. Callahan refereed the paper to Su- that his office was in contact with Public Works sannah Robbins, executive director of the San in order to work out the details so that work covering was removed, but numerous pieces of Francisco Film Commission. it remain adhered to the crosswalk’s rainbowcould proceed. “The delay is not in any way caused by the colored stripes. “We are aware of the needed repairs and are Several attempts were made to clean the production, but a scheduling issue with all of currently working with Public Works to identify the different agencies and people that need to crosswalks with pressurized cold water and the appropriate time frame in which the work be involved,” Robbins told the B.A.R. via email. with non-corrosive street cleaning solvents, but can be done as soon as possible,” Rose said.t
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Folsom Street, looking southwest from the Powerhouse bar, is proposed to be part of an LGBTQ cultural heritage district.
ork on the long-stalled creation of an LGBTQ cultural heritage district in part of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is expected to begin in 2017, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. It has been three years since the Board of Supervisors called for establishing such a special use district in western SOMA when it adopted the Western SOMA Community Plan. The planning document also called for a separate Filipino cultural heritage district centered on Sixth Street. While work on the special Filipino zone advanced earlier this year, the LGBTQ district has continued to languish. Initially, planning department staff pointed to the need to first complete the Japantown Cultural Heritage and Economic Sustainability Strategy. Yet after that document was approved in the fall of 2013, little attention has been given to the LGBTQ district. Focus instead in recent years has gone toward the adoption of a local historic context statement that surveyed the entire city’s LGBTQ history. See page 11 >>
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