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SFAF CEO Santa Clara County awards discusses record $1M to LGBT programs vision

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fter just over a month on the job, the new CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is looking at how the organization can provide more help to people of color Rick Gerharter and the transgender community.

Joe Hollendoner Joe Hollendoner, 35, who took over in May as the leader of San Francisco’s largest AIDS-related nonprofit, said in a recent interview that he’s been doing “a lot of listening and learning” with staff, clients, SFAF’s partners, and others.

“It’s been really wonderful to hear their perspective on what’s going right and where they’d like to see the foundation going,” Hollendoner said.

He praised the work of staff at Strut, the gay and bi men’s health center at 470 Castro Street that SFAF opened in January. The center’s services include HIV testing, and assistance with obtaining PrEP, which is a major part of the city’s Getting to Zero initiative to eliminate new HIV infections.

Hollendoner, who’s on the Getting to Zero steering committee, said, “Strut has absolutely been a success,” and what’s been learned there about linking people to care and helping people access PrEP can be applied to people outside the Castro, which is typically seen as a neighborhood for white men.

“If we’re serious about getting to zero,” he said, and about working with communities of color and transgender people, the question is “how do we best care for those populations?”

He’s hoping the Strut model can be built out in the Tenderloin, the neighborhood where SFAF’s 1035 Market Street headquarters is located. Many of the nonprofit’s clients live in the area, which is one of the city’s poorest districts.

However, asked specifically whether there would be a facility like Strut in the Tenderloin, Hollendoner said, “It’s too early to tell.”

He said he and his staff want to learn from the community what its needs are.

Hollendoner said his vision for SFAF includes looking at how health disparities impact wellness, including for people who are homeless or living in poverty, and how racism and stigma affect people.

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As for what improvements people have suggested for SFAF, Hollendoner said he’s met with clients from programs like TransLife, the Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network, See page 13 >>

The total amount the Board of Supervisors allocated for LGBT proanta Clara County supervisors grams came to $1,032,087. It is largely awarded a record $1 million due to the creation of the county’s to LGBT and HIV programs LGBTQ office and the launching of in their new fiscal year budget that its own Getting to Zero initiative to began on July 1. reduce new HIV infections.

The money is going to pay for a Supervisor Ken Yeager, a gay man wide array of services, from prowho lives in San Jose and is the only grams for LGBT youth and people LGBT member of the board, pushed of color to prevention measures for the funding in the county’s Fiscal aimed at ending HIV transmission Year 2016-2017 budget. in the South Bay. “I would call this a record amount,” Courtesy Maribel Martínez “I think it is great that the county Jo-Lynn Otto Yeager told the Bay Area Reporter Office of LGBTQ Affairs is moving in this direction,” said in a phone interview last week. “We Supervisor Ken Yeager director Maribel Martínez Maribel Martínez, the manager of needed to fund new programs and the county’s 7-month-old Office of keep existing funding going. We also LGBTQ Affairs. “The LGBTQ comthe Santa Clara County Public Health Departhad additional revenue we were able munity is definitely one that has been historiment estimated in 2013 it numbered 3,500 to find to do the funding.” cally underserved.” adults based on national estimates that 0.3 The LGBTQ affairs office was awarded According to California Health Interview percent of the U.S. population is transgender. $75,000 to create a standardized baseline Survey data, Santa Clara County estimates (The numbers are vastly higher than those LGBTQ 101 training for all county staff. It is that 4 percent of its 1.9 million residents aged in a Gallup survey released in March 2015 that also receiving $92,272 to hire a third full-time 25 or older, approximately 47,000 adults, looked at LGBT residents of the country’s top staffer who will handle community outreach identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. About 3 50 metro areas. It pegged the LGBT populaefforts. The position should be filled by the percent of adults identify as lesbian or gay and tion in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara end of the summer. about 1 percent as bisexual. area at 3.2 percent, or 3,368 residents age 18 See page 13 >> As for the county’s transgender population, and older.)

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Stud bar’s future uncertain

by Khaled Sayed

Temprano said he was inspired to see so many people come together and he building housing one of San be willing to do the work to keep this Francisco’s oldest gay bars has place open. been sold and the owner said “I believe that our community will he’s retiring and moving to Hawaii, be able to rally around the space that leaving the club’s future uncertain. means so much, to keep it,” he said. “It Stud bar owner Michael McElhaney will be tough given what the number announced the news at a July 3 emerlooks like, but this community has gency meeting. The bar was filled with done this before and I think we can do emotions as the owner spoke before a it again.” crowd of around 50 friends and patrons.

Nate Albee, another attendee, said The crowd, which reflected the culthat this is something that has been ture of the quirky bar, listened silently happening to queer bars and queer as McElhaney delivered the bad news. spaces all over the city.

The Stud bar building was sold for $2 “I’m sad. This is a place that has million. McElhaney has two months been a home for me and for my comKhaled Sayed to sell the business or put up with a munity that we might lose,” Albee Stud owner Michael McElhaney acknowledges the crowd at 300 percent rent increase. said, “but I also know that this is a a meeting he called Sunday night to discuss the bar’s future.

The bar will continue to pay the strong and resilient community and same rent for the next two months but when we come together and fight we starting September it will be increased wild and entertaining events like Meow Mix, A often win.” to $9,500.

Danceable Homo Destine, and karaoke night. It Artist and nightlife fixture Mica Sigourney, McElhaney made it clear he is not planning was long the home of Heklina’s Trannyshack show. who as Vivyanne Forevermore hosts the Stud’s to be the owner anymore. He proposed a few Tom Temprano, a gay man who is a part “Something” drag show, sent an email to the Bay options that he thinks might make sense, inowner of Virgil’s Sea Room in the Mission, was Area Reporter Tuesday saying that he was explorcluding transferring the business to someone one of the attendees at the meeting. He said that ing forming a co-op to buy the club and negotielse who can carry on the bar’s legacy. He said he remembered his first public DJ gig was at the ate a new lease. that, after more than 25 years at the Stud, he Stud and he feels a deep personal connection McElhaney’s announcement drew support is moving to Hawaii to take care of his aging to the space. from those in attendance. People were hugmother and explore other ventures.

“With the sort of changes we have seen in ging him and each other to show their support.

The bar, currently located at the corner of 9th San Francisco, losing an institution and comSome even believed that this could be a great and Harrison streets, opened in 1966. It has long munity hub like the Stud would be heartbreakcause to bring the community together and been a home for LGBT people to party and hold ing,” he said. keep the Stud alive.t

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Lambda Legal program aids LGBT youth

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fter being accepted into the 2014 freshmen class at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco, Soul left his home in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to travel to the U.S. and begin his studies with an eye toward a career in Silicon Valley.

He also came to the Bay Area, as so many other LGBT people before him, in search of a welcoming environment where his sexual orientation wouldn’t be an issue. When he first disclosed to his father that he was gay in 2009, Soul was kicked out of his father’s house and returned to Mali, where he was born, to live with his paternal grandmother in Bamako, the country’s capital.

“When my grandmother passed away, I didn’t have anywhere to go. It was a few months before graduation and my only solution was to go back to Senegal,” said Soul, 21, who asked that his last name not be disclosed due to his relatives’ homophobic attitudes.

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Lambda Legal’s Currey Cook, left, stands with client Soul at the organization’s recent event in San Francisco.

supply stores, Soul lied to him that he was not gay.

“My life wasn’t like before,” recalled Soul, who finished high school and then enrolled in a local

“It wasn’t easy at first to come here because dad didn’t want me to come here.

Dad wanted me to marry.”

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Senegalese college to start taking computer science classes.

He was close to graduating with an associate’s degree, but unhappy with having to live in the closet while under his father’s roof, Soul searched about San Francisco and its gay community online and decided to apply to USF. “It wasn’t easy at first to come here because dad didn’t want me to come here. Dad wanted me to marry,” said Soul. “I decided to quickly move here. Dad bought my plane ticket and paid for school at USF.” Once in the Bay Area Soul decided he no longer wanted to keep See page 14 >>

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ndependence Day weekend in Denver saw over 4,000 Christian conservatives attending the annual Western Conservative Summit and over 6,000 LGBT singers attending the quadrennial GALA Choruses Festival, literally rubbing shoulders in hotel elevators.

Convened at the Colorado Convention Center under the banner of “Faith, Family, Freedom,” the Western Conservative Summit is a project of Colorado Christian University and is billed as the largest annual gathering of conservatives outside of Washington, D.C. Log Cabin Republicans were, however, not invited. Local Log Cabin members expressed disappointment over that fact, but the group did not seek an official presence this year due to a focus on June’s LGBT Pride festivities. The group had participated last year under the umbrella of the state Republican Party.

Headlining the summit was Republican presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Senator Tom Cotton (RArkansas), Carly Fiorina, and over 50 other thought leaders on the Christian right including Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., who addressed the summit on the issue of religious freedom.

Anderson, who has been quoted

by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, spoke to a half-full hall on July 2 and focused on the impact of marriage equality for “you, your charities, and schools.” Predicting increased

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves to the crowd after delivering remarks at the Western Conservative Summit.

scrutiny of the charitable status of institutions that continue to discriminate against LGBT people, Anderson set an agenda for Christian conservatives to “try to look more like pro-lifers than racist bigots.” He also had harsh words for Westboro Baptist Church, which he described as “evil, stupid and responsible for great harm,” concluding, “these people must be stopped.”

The small church, which used to be led by the late Fred Phelps, these days mostly tries to disrupt funerals of LGBT people and others.

Anderson went on to state that “religious voices were no longer welcome in the pubic square,” blaming changes in the church, growth of government, the sexual revolution, and the absence, so far, of a national political action committee to strategically combat anti-

discrimination laws. His final message to delegates was: “Don’t retreat from the religious freedom debate.

It’s not bigotry, it’s the truth!”

Meanwhile, next door, at the Denver Performing Arts Center, 6,600 LGBT singers representing approximately 170 choruses and ensembles from around the world, including San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Lesbian/Gay Chorus of See page 14 >>

Correction In the June 30 article, “Gay man takes reins of Jewish group,” the surname of former American Jewish World Service President and CEO Ruth Messinger was misspelled. The online version has been corrected.

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Judge slams police in SJ park sex case

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Santa Clara County judge recently dismissed charges against several men who had been cited for cruising at a San Jose park, saying police had discriminated against them by singling them out because of their same-sex attractions.

The case involved six men who’d been arrested at San Jose’s Columbus Park between June 2014 and November 2015 for allegedly violating section 647(d) of the penal code, “loitering near a public restroom with the intent to commit a lewd or lascivious or unlawful act.”

All six pleaded not guilty in court.

In the operation, police had gone to a dingy bathroom in a corner of the park pretending to look for sex.

Police and prosecutors defended their actions by saying that they were responding to complaints about sexual activity at the bathroom, which is a few feet away from a softball field.

In a June 17 ruling, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Jose S. Franco was unequivocal about how he felt about the police department’s actions.

“The way in which the San Jose Police Department conducted its investigations for violations of Penal Code section 647(d) at Columbus Park demonstrates that it intentionally targeted men who engage in homosexual sex,” Franco said.

He said that “by conducting themselves in a way that mimics ‘cruising’ behavior of the suspects targeted, the undercover officers demonstrated the intent to target this group to the exclusion of other perpetrators of lewd conduct” in San Jose.

“Unpopular groups have too often been made to bear the brunt of discriminatory prosecution or selective enforcement,” Franco added.

“The unconstitutional selective en-

Courtesy John Jerome Ferguson

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John Jerome Ferguson had his case dismissed.

A bathroom stall at Columbus Park shows the covered up glory hole at right.

forcement of the law as seen in the cases before this court undermine the credibility of our legal system and risks eroding public confidence in our ability to achieve just results.”

One of the men who had been cited was John Jerome Ferguson, 55, of Morgan Hill.

San Jose police Officer Samuel Marquardt wrote in his report that soon after he entered the men’s room at about 5:15 p.m. May 14, 2015, Ferguson stuck his fingers through the glory hole that had been cut into the wall of the bathroom stall.

In his summary, Marquardt explained what a glory hole was, then said, “By the subject placing his fingers through the hole, it was apparent that he was soliciting me to engage in sexual acts involving my penis.”

He engaged Ferguson in “a very brief, casual conversation,” he said.

Eventually, another man walked into the restroom, took out his penis, “and began to masturbate while looking at me,” Marquardt wrote.

Ferguson soon moved into the stall’s doorway and started “rubbing

his penis through his jeans,” which were unzipped. He was about to show his penis, Marquardt wrote, when another officer walked in and Marquardt, who was in plainclothes, identified himself as a police officer.

Both Ferguson and the other man were cited and released at the scene.

Other reports depict similar encounters. In a June 2015 incident, Marquardt engaged a 23-year-old man in conversation and asked him “if he was looking to get into anything?” and soon followed up with “Do you suck dick?” The man replied, “Yeah,” and they talked about exchanging oral sex before Marquardt identified himself as a police officer.

The man was cited and released.

In an interview, Ferguson said, “I think the judge was very thorough.

I didn’t know how this was going to go ... . I think the discrimination toward gay men is shadowy. This shines the light into that a little bit.”

In his report, Marquardt noted graffiti inside the stall said, “I eat man cum,” “Blow jobs Tuesday 12:30,” and “Feed me your cum.”

Those messages were gone when the Bay Area Reporter visited the bathroom at about 5 p.m. on a recent Saturday, and the glory hole had been covered over.

A softball game was underway as L.J. Johnson, 39, of Palo Alto, walked toward the restroom.

Johnson, who’s gay and was visiting the park with a friend, said he hears sexual activity “all the time” when he goes to the park.

“It’s not just gay people,” he said.

“Everybody does it.”

The activity happens mostly in some bushes at the park, Johnson said.

19 reports

In October 2015, Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Carlie Ware filed a motion seeking to have the cases dismissed. An intern at the public defender’s office had gathered 19 police reports from the park alleging 647(d) violations.

“All 19 arrests involved a male undercover police officer,” the intern found. “There was no mention

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of heterosexuals in any of the 19 reports” and “There was no mention of money in exchange for sex in any of the reports.” There were also no minors involved.

The prosecution and the defense stipulated that the 19 reports represented all the SJPD’s documented arrests and investigations for 647(d) violations between June 2014 and December 2015.

Ware wrote, “These cases result from a pattern and practice by SJPD to focus its law enforcement efforts on gay men ... and not straight people” who “regularly and openly engage in this exact behavior outside the bars and nightclubs in downtown San Jose, near public toilets, and are not singled out for prosecution.”

In a response she filed in December, Deputy District Attorney Judith Sklar said the operation “began after the police started getting complaints from people running the trails and playing softball in the fields next to the bathrooms that men were loitering around the bathrooms and engaging in sexual acts in and around the bathrooms.”

Sklar said the operation “was not aimed at any particular group, other than those committing crimes in the park and in and around those restrooms. There is not a scintilla of competent evidence proffered by the defense to show invidious discrimination or that a particular group was selected for special prosecutorial treatment, or that any constitutional principles were violated.”

In his ruling, Franco made clear that he didn’t agree.

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new book has rekindled interest in Pedro Zamora, the young star of MTV’s Real World who died in 1994 of AIDS-related complications.

Pedro Zamora, Sexuality, and AIDS Education: The Autobiographical Self, Activism, and The Real World is by Christopher Pullen, a senior lecturer in media theory at Bournemouth University in England. Pullen was at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro June 14 for a talk about his book and a screening of A Tribute to Pedro Zamora, an MTV documentary that was produced a few weeks after his death.

Zamora was only 22 when he died, yet Pullen, 57, who discovered him in 2004 while writing his dissertation on documentaries and reality TV, felt contemporary audiences should not forget him, he told the Bay Area Reporter in an interview.

Pullen, a gay man, had seen the 2009 biographical film Pedro, yet the real Zamora seemed so much more powerful than the celluloid one. So Pullen wrote his book, believing he is still relevant today.

Zamora was a gay AIDS activist engaged in charitable work and became a worldwide media sensation after he starred in the third season of The Real World, which was one of the first examples of reality TV. The 1994 season was set in San Francisco. Diagnosed as HIV-positive at the age of 17, Zamora became an AIDS educator who had a gift

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in the Navy,” she said, referring to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Fimbres survived those abuses and has been a community leader since coming to San Francisco in 1996. A long-term HIV survivor, she has worked with the Shanti Project and AIDS Emergency Fund. She also served on the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commission for 14 years.

She has also taught third year medical students at UCSF how to deal with transgender patients and is a licensed vocational nurse.

She was happy to see the ban on trans military service lifted.

“I commend the Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, for stepping up to the plate, as it has not been done,” she told the B.A.R. “It is awesome. Bill Clinton should have done it, instead of that stupid Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”

Signed into law by Clinton, DADT was a policy by which gay and lesbian people could serve in the military as long as they didn’t disclose their status. It went into effect in 1993 and Congress repealed it in 2010. GLB people could serve openly in the fall of 2011. Trans service members, however, were still unable to serve openly.

Congressional action was not needed for the Pentagon to lift the ban on trans service members.

Fimbres urged LGBT people who are against the military to respect the choices of those who wish to serve.

“While many veterans hate war, the experience and what can be gained by being in the service cannot be stressed enough,” she said.

“It should be a personal choice, and now that they have removed all restrictions regarding being trans in the service, I think many trans men and women may very well join. The choice is up to the individual. If it meets their needs, who are we to tell them to not join?”

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for reaching out to queer youth and people of color in Miami, where he lived after his family escaped Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift.

“Pedro was an icon for gay male sexuality who had charisma and heartthrob looks, but projected honesty and integrity,” Pullen said.

“He once famously said, ‘If you are looking at me, you are looking at my sexuality.’ His ability to identify with younger people as well as empathize and respect people enabled him to seize an audience who appreciated his genuineness. His Latino identity gave him credibility among nonwhite crowds.”

Pullen believes today, Zamora’s life can continue to inspire people, especially because HIV disproportionately affects people of color and poorer people.

“I’m sure he would have expressed a deep sense of tragedy and loss at the Orlando shooting, especially because so many of the victims were gay Latinos,” Pullen said.

Although he couldn’t find a direct tangible link, Pullen thinks Mariela Castro Espin, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, may have been influenced by Zamora’s ideals in her support of LGBT people and people living with HIV. “Pedro reminds us that we need

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Author Christopher Pullen makes a point while talking about Pedro Zamora at the GLBT History Museum.

to work together more,” said Pullen.

“He was not afraid to tell things like it was. He was willing to give advice, asserting that AIDS was a health, not a moral, issue. He could share stories from his own life that could speak to the experiences of his listeners. By presenting himself as vulnerable and being forthright about his mistakes, people were touched by him and could relate to him.”

Pullen also said Zamora was a sophisticated public speaker who could get his message across.

“In his final interview with Poz magazine, he revealed he had been sexually abused by an older man as a child, which was very brave to admit back then,” Pullen said. “He was non-judgmental, accepting people as they are, not ashamed of any sexual practice. He rejected abstinenceonly policies. I think he might have been an advocate for PrEP today.”

Pullen believes Zamora bridged some gaps between being a reality TV star and a political icon.

“Compared to [film historian] Vito Russo, he doesn’t seem that political, but he was political, even participating in ACT UP,” he said.

“Russo challenged the system from without in a very in-your-face way, but Pedro took the trickier position of taking apart the system from within, working with the people who were trying to bring you down.

For example, he advocated access to medical care for all PWAs, even though he had none himself, but he wouldn’t tell audiences about his situation.”

For Pullen, Zamora was a reality star with a political edge embedded in him.

“Today’s reality stars are enter-

tainers, celebrities with no politics at all. They are self-reflective and talk only about themselves,” observed Pullen. “Pedro was one of the first reality stars to have an autobiographical sense but he used it to educate people about AIDS. Gay people have never been more honestly and favorably represented than they were that year on Real World, especially the relationship between Pedro and Sean Sasser.”

Sasser, who died in 2013, began dating Zamora on the show.

“It is incredible to think in 1994, way before Will and Grace or Ellen, you saw two gay men kissing on TV and two men of color with HIV falling in love and having a commitment service arranged by the network,” Pullen said. “Today, the gay romantic relationships shown seem stereotypical.”

But Pullen remains optimistic that Zamora and what he symbolized won’t be forgotten.

“When I arrived [in San Francisco] passing through immigration, the woman official asked me why I was coming to the U.S.,” Pullen said, “and I answered, to launch a book on Pedro Zamora. ‘Great guy,’ she said. That gives me hope he is still remembered and can have an impact.”t

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t’s finally time for the Republican and Democratic national conventions. The Republicans, barring some crazy last-minute upset, are poised to nominate racist businessman Donald Trump, whose approval numbers are in the toilet. The Democrats, saddled with an equally unlikeable candidate, but one who is experienced and competent, will nominate Hillary Clinton. If nothing else, both conventions promise to be more than the usual staid, scripted affairs and might actually be worth watching, and maybe even interesting if convention planners schedule trans people as prime time speakers.

Democrats

According to trans advocates, an out trans person has never addressed the Democratic convention on the floor. Trans people have introduced speakers, but even then, it’s been at an LGBT Caucus meeting or other session, not on the convention floor, which the networks televise nightly. In 2012, the Democrats had the most out trans delegates ever, 14, and that is likely to hold steady or increase this year. We learned last week that California will have its first out trans delegates to this year’s convention – Bay Area health advocate Tiffany Woods and San Diegan April Spilker were selected as at-large delegates last month and will soon head to Philadelphia.

The Democrats are overdue for a major address by a trans person – the first gay person to address the convention was San Francisco activist Jim Foster in 1972. The nation is confronting the growing fight for equal rights for trans people. The horrendous bathroom law in North Carolina has shone a bright light on trans people’s experiences as they have begun to tell their stories. Since North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2 this spring – it prevents cities from enacting their own non-discrimination laws and forces trans people to use public restrooms that correspond to their gender assigned at birth – reaction from LGBT organizations, the business community, fair-minded politicians, parents of trans kids, and the LGBT community has

been largely outrage.

Meantime, trans people have discovered they have powerful allies as they come out in greater numbers, putting a human face on what’s shaping up to be a civil rights touchstone. Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailar spoke on CBS’ 60 Minutes and provided an honest portrayal of his struggles switching from a top performer on the women’s team to the men’s swim team after he transitioned, where he’s not doing as well. But now he is living his life authentically. In Virginia, trans high school student Gavin Grimm won a court victory a few months ago when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that public schools must allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.

Political history was made in June when two trans women won their respective primaries for Congress. In Utah, Misty K. Snow won the Senate Democratic primary and will face off in November against incumbent Senator Mike Lee (R). In Colorado, Misty Plowright will challenge incumbent Congressman Doug Lamborn (R).

Politico reported that both women have uphill fights; Snow is running in a Republican- (and Mormon-) heavy state, and Plowright’s district is the most conservative in the Centennial State.

But both won their primary races convincingly; Snow in particular ran to the left of her fellow Democrat, criticizing him for supporting limitations on abortion rights, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune.

Democratic convention planners should reach out to either of these women as they embark on potentially groundbreaking campaigns. An address by Snow or Plowright would show Americans watching at home that trans people are indeed everywhere, and that they bring their perspectives to the party. After the bruising primary season, Democrats need to unify. But let us be clear: Snow, Plowright, or some other trans person needs to take the convention stage in prime time. It’s not enough to be shunted off to a convention caucus meeting in a side room. We need the “T” in LGBT to be

fully represented this year at the Democratic convention.

Republicans

It’ll be harder for the Republicans, but we’ll call on the GOP to meet the same standard: an out trans person speaking from the stage in prime time, giving his or her own address, not merely introducing another speaker.

We’ll admit that the bench is pretty thin. In fact, Caitlyn Jenner is probably the only person who could fit the bill, and she is as media savvy as the presumptive nominee and even stars in her own reality TV show, like Trump used to do. Since she came out, Jenner has unapologetically spoken about her conservative politics. At one point she mused about being Ted Cruz’s “trans ambassador,” but after he flamed out in the primaries, Jenner threw her support behind Trump. Like The Donald, she even manages to make conflicting statements in one sitting. ENews has reported that she wasn’t a big fan because of Trump’s “macho attitude,” yet she said he’d be “very good” on women’s issues. More recently, she confirmed her support for Trump and doubled down on his support of women and the LGBT community.

We disagree wholeheartedly with her political positions, but it would be heartening to see Jenner on stage to let conservatives know that they, too, have trans constituents; the LGBT community is not monolithic. Besides, Republican planners are having difficulty filling their speaker slots, as more and more party leaders opt to stay away from the convention in Cleveland.

A report last week by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law estimates there are about 1.4 million adults who identify as transgender in the U.S. That doubles estimates from a decade ago. The new findings are “critical to current policy discussions that impact transgender people,” Jody Herman, one of the study authors, said in a news release.

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Is the queer community losing its soul?

by Kate Raphael

repressed, bombed and bankrupted, Puerto Ricans have been driven to n May 1987, the United States sent U.S. cities where they are profiled, 7,000 troops to Honduras to parunderemployed and over-policed, all ticipate in an exercise called Operation the more so if they are gay or trans. Yet Solid Shield. The show of force was when Democratic Congress mema warning to the socialist Sandinista bers used their deaths to strengthen government of Nicaragua that the U.S. a racist secret “terror watchlist,” some could invade at any time. On the third of us actually cheered them on. night of this mock invasion, 1,000 Manning cautioned against this angry queers marched through San trap in an eloquent op-ed in the Francisco, nonviolently confronting Guardian newspaper days after the Rick Gerharter police and chanting support for the massacre in Orlando. “Current proA large contingent supporting Chelsea Manning marched in popular movements of Latin America. last month’s San Francisco LGBT Pride parade. posals for hate crime laws and terThe AIDS Action Pledge (later to berorism enhancements only take more come ACT UP/San Francisco), which power away from our community,” these histories when she made her courageous modeled itself on the Central America she wrote. “We consolidate power decision to bring U.S. war crimes to light, but solidarity network Pledge of Resistance, was a with law enforcement only to have those same she knew what lay beneath them all: People key part of this mobilization. Even Gilbert Baker mechanisms turned against us.” fighting to live and love freely cannot kill was there with the rainbow flag he designed.

I planned to march in the Chelsea Manothers for doing the same.

Four years later, when president George ning contingent this year, as she preThe government knew it too.

H.W. Bush launched the first assault on Iraq, pares to appeal her sentence. But I In 1994, while the ink was drying known as Desert Storm, queers poured into could not, because our community on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the the streets again. Affinity groups from ACT leaders chose to increase the miliPentagon entertained a $7.5 milUP joined with Queer Peace, a spinoff of tarization of our own celebration, lion proposal to develop a “gay Queer Nation, along with Lesbians and Gays making unsafe the very people bomb,” a chemical weapon that Against Intervention, Revolting Lesbians, Arab who were to be honored – Black would cause enemy soldiers Lesbian Network, Radical Faeries, Somos HerLives Matter, Transgender Gender to fall in love with each other. manas, Men of All Colors Together, Lavender Variant and Intersex Justice Proj(They also considered bombs to Veterans for Peace, dozens of other groups and ect, and St. James Infirmary, and cause bad breath and flatulence.) hundreds of unaffiliated queers, to shut down making a mockery of the theme of Twenty years later, the San Francisco LGBT a whole side of the Federal Building.

“For Racial and Economic Justice.” Since when Pride Celebration Committee revoked a demMost of us didn’t want cops in our parades does banning shopping carts and speakers – not, ocratic decision to honor Manning as a grand in those days; we definitely didn’t want their as far as I know, preferred weapons of any termarshal. Some in our community proposed protection, and they didn’t want to protect us, rorist cell on the planet – make us safer? Even if to open the festival to military recruiters, who so all was good. We waved pictures of those it did, we’ve never been a community that prized lure young people into an institution where burning police cars from May 1979 and they safety over freedom. The fags who came out in they are far more likely to be sexually assaulted declared martial law in the Castro in October Selective Service offices, the dykes who started than graduate from college. Does anyone think 1989 to put down ACT UP. whistle stop brigades, the Street Transvestite Acit’s a coincidence that the military decides it’s The queer movement was born in the strugtion Revolutionaries and the AIDS activists who OK to be gay, even promises to pay for gengles against colonialism, racism, militarism, and shut down the FDA and the Golden Gate Bridge, der reassignment surgeries, just when they’re patriarchy. Years before Stonewall, gay men who didn’t do it all so we could sacrifice each other sending more troops to Iraq and Syria? well understood the risks used the army’s hoon the altar of security.

In the terrible wake of Orlando, even rightmophobia to stay out of the draft, not only to As Manning wrote, “Our safety and security wing culture warriors said nice things about save their own lives but because, to paraphrase will come when we organize, love, and resist queers. That may not mean they’ve changed. the late Muhammad Ali, “no Vietcong ever together.”t It might mean we have. called them faggot.” In 1972, three gay men who The Puerto Rican queers killed at Pulse were extras in the San Francisco Opera unfurled Kate Raphael is a member of LAGAI-Queer were living in Florida because of our country’s a banner onstage reading “Dykes and Fags SupInsurrection, former community grand more than century-long colonization of theirs. marshal, and author of the novel Murder port the Vietnamese Peace Plan.”

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People will benefit from HIV funds

The HIV/AIDS Provider Network feels compelled to speak out against recent baseless attacks on leading allies in the fight against HIV and AIDS on the Board of Supervisors [“Campos, Kim accused of fighting against HIV funds,” June 30]. Supervisor Scott Wiener has certainly been a great champion of HIV services. So, too, have Supervisors Jane Kim and David Campos, along with all of the members of the Board of Supervisors.

People living with and at risk for HIV will benefit from the $3.1 million in new initiatives agreed to in June by the mayor and Board of Supervisors. This funding will support services for long-term survivors of AIDS, services to increase linkage and retention of HIV-positive people in care and treatment, and increased access to PrEP for HIV-negative people. In addition to this HIV specific funding, the city’s new budget includes increased funding for other services that are important for people living with HIV: housing subsidies, food security, and services for transitional aged youth. We are particularly pleased that new funds will support essential services for the 76 percent of people living with HIV who are at risk of homelessness in our city.

San Francisco truly does have the opportunity to become the first U.S. city to get to zero in the fight against HIV, with no new HIV-related deaths and no new HIV infections by the year 2025. Lifting the great burden of this disease from our lives requires the support and involvement of as many San Franciscans as possible. This is not a time for divisiveness in our struggle to fight the epidemic. We can and must do better.

Bill Hirsh and Lance Toma, Co-Chairs and the HAPN Executive Committee San Francisco

Pride is a sellout

The San Francisco Pride Committee’s sellout to right-wing corporate America is now complete with the inclusion of Wal-Mart in the 2016 Pride parade. This family-dominated corporation – and the likes of AT&T, PG&E, Wells Fargo, etc. – have from their beginnings contributed billions of dollars to the worst elements of the Republican Party in support of policies that oppress working people worldwide both within and without LGBT communities, especially the oppression of people of color.

Now, within days of the Orlando massacre, we are treated to a perky parade float from Wal-Mart that once sold semi-automatic weapons nationally in stores and online – and which still is the largest retailer of bullets that arm them – as well as rifles and guns.

This is an outrage.

The amoral leadership of the current Pride Committee points with “pride” to its meetings with Wal-Mart executives to discuss LGBT employment issues, a frankly myopic and narcissistic effort that avoids the larger issues posed by this corporation’s donations to the national and state legislators responsible for our continued oppression and discrimination [“SF Pride president pushes corporations on LGBT issues,” Business Briefs, June 9].

The thought of LGBT store clerks being required to sell guns and ammunition as a condition of employment is horrific.

Billions of campaign and political action committee monies from corporate America to right-wing politicians to protect corporate profits, avoid all taxes, and promote de-regulation and war: Chump change to LGBT communities to glean our business.

The corporatization of our celebrations and film festivals is now complete thanks to those who pose as the voice of LGBT people.

John Caton San Francisco

Thanks from pink triangle organizer

Thank you to the 300-plus volunteers who helped install the 21st annual pink triangle on Twin Peaks over Pride weekend. Also, thank you to the 35-plus people who helped take it down after the parade, including many members of Bridgemen and Gay for Good. The display’s installation and de-installation couldn’t have happened without all of the volunteers. The pink triangle truly is a community-building project.

Thank you to the dignitaries who spoke during the commemoration ceremony including state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), San Francisco Assemblymen Phil Ting (D) and David Chiu (D), city Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener, City College Trustees Rafael Mandelman and Alex Randolph, and SF Pride honorees Joanie Juster, Mia “Tu Mutch” Satya, and Deana Dawn. The first pink triangle went up in the dark of night so we wouldn’t be arrested, now it is celebrated and christened by so many, including elected officials.

Part of this event was remembering and honoring the shooting victims in Orlando. The pink triangle ceremony remembers the hatred of the past, as well as reminds people we aren’t out of the woods yet – as Orlando clearly illustrates. To truly appreciate our victories, we need to reflect on our past struggles and acknowledge the difficulties we still face. The ceremony began with a very moving and informative “History of the Pink Triangle” which was told by Leno. He was then presented with a Friends of the Pink Triangle Special Friend Award for his years of public service as well as his years of dedication to the pink triangle project – he is the only elected official to speak at every pink triangle commemoration.

A big thank you to our 2016 sponsors: Toad Hall; Badlands; Les Natali; the Apothecarium; SF Pride; Rick Stokes of Steamworks; Hodgkins Jewelers; Starbucks for the coffee, tea, pastries, and cookies and for many volunteers; the Pressed Juicery for juices; and Barefoot and Bubbly for the champagne used in the christening. For help inspiring volunteers with “media sponsorship”: the Bay Area Reporter, and Betty’s List/SF Bay Times. Also thanks to the Mayor’s Office and Department of Real Estate for their ongoing support and help; San Francisco Public Works for clearing the site of poison oak, non-native thorny plants and of broken glass before the installation; the San Francisco Police Department and the Sheriff ’s Department rangers who watched over the ceremony and for giving 24-hour coverage; and Katie Hickox for keeping up the pink triangle website (www. thepinktriangle.com).

This event could not have lasted all these decades without the ongoing dedication of Colleen Hodgkins and Hossein Carney, who have been the main helpers over the years. Thank you also to musical theater star Leanne Borghesi, who sang “San Francisco,” and other rousing tunes, accompanied by the incredible SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, which has participated since 2000 and always adds a great deal to the ceremony.

Thank you all!

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus hires new executive director compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has hired a new executive director as part of a staff reorganization.

Christopher Verdugo, a gay man from Los Angeles, was appointed to the position last month, according to a news release from the chorus.

He joins the nonprofit in anticipation of the chorus’ 39th season and together with artistic director Timothy Seelig, will lead the organization to new levels of growth, financial sustainability, and artistic excellence, the release stated.

“I am very proud to be joining SFGMC at this moment,” Verdugo said in the release. “With its rich musical history, deep roots in the community, and unparalleled artistic excellence, SFGMC is poised to become a global influence in the years to come.”

Before joining the chofor the National Gay and rus, Verdugo, 44, served Lesbian Task Force (now as executive director and the National LGBTQ Task CEO of the Gay Men’s Force). He received his Chorus of Los Angeles. bachelor’s degree from Under his leadership, the New World School of GMCLA doubled its Performing Arts. budget, saw massive exThe chorus’ board pansion incorporating praised the appointment.

Courtesy SFGMC education programs “Over the last few in Los Angeles’ high New SFGMC years, we’ve witnessed schools, and com- Executive Director major growth artistically pleted a national Christopher with the chorus,” board tour entitled “It Verdugo Chair Dennis StradGets Better,” ford said in a statement. according to the release.

“We’ve more than doubled our Prior to that, Veraudiences at our season concerts, dugo founded his own we’ve increased the number of outproduction company, reach performances we do for comcreating and producing munity nonprofits and local orgamajor fundraising events and galas in nizations, and we’ve brought major LA for leading LGBT organizations, world-premiere commissions, such including the Human Rights Camas Stephen Schwartz’s Testimony paign, GLAAD, and Beinestar. He also and Andrew Lippa’s I Am Harvey served as director of development for Milk, into the world.”

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Gay man vies for Emeryville council seat as lesbian plans to depart

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gay man is vying for a second time to be elected to Emeryville’s City Council while longtime lesbian City Councilwoman Ruth Atkin has decided not to seek re-election this year.

Instead, she has pledged to help elect John Bauters to one of three open seats on the five-person council this November. Bauters, who bought a home in the East Bay city in March with his longtime partner, Aaron Feeney, unsuccessfully ran for a council seat in 2014 two years after first moving to town from Chicago.

He is expected to be the only out LGBT person among six likely candidates in the race once the filing deadline closes in August. Along with Atkin, City Councilwomen Jac Asher and Nora Davis also have opted not to seek re-election.

Since his first campaign Bauters, 36, has raised his public profile in the city. For the last year he has served on the Emeryville Planning Commission and he chairs the oversight committee for the city’s school district parcel tax.

“For me, I am just really active in the community,” said Bauters, the policy director at Californians for Safety and Justice.

He is well known in gay sports circles, having worked part-time as an umpire in the San Francisco Gay Softball League the last four years.

He took time off from campaigning over the Fourth of July weekend to umpire the Emerald City Softball Classic in Seattle. In August he is headed to Austin to umpire his eighth consecutive Gay Softball World Series.

His signature look of sporting a bow tie has taken on a key role in his campaign, with Bauters asking supporters to include the hashtag #ThatBowTieGuy when talking about his council bid on social media.

He began wearing them back in Chicago where he worked as a legal aid lawyer. One day he told the social worker for a client he had yet to meet, an elderly woman fighting her eviction from public housing after she put her rent money to pay for the burial of a grandchild who had been shot and murdered, to look for the guy adorned in a green checkered bowtie, which he had bought for a St. Patrick’s Day party.

He won the case, and soon more calls came in from social workers with clients in need of courtroom counsel. Each was told to look for the bow-tied attorney at the courthouse, and soon Bauters bought a second, purple one to wear.

His collection is now up to 50 different bowties, including a dozen silk ones from Block’s Department Store that his maternal grandfather wore in the 1950s working as a tractor salesman in the Midwest. His grandmother sent them to him following his grandfather’s death.

Many of the others are handmade by his mother.

“I pick out the fabric and mail it to my mom. She has it down and custom sized to my neck,” he said.

Unlike his last campaign, when he jumped into the race shortly before the filing deadline, Bauters began laying the groundwork for his 2016 campaign last fall. He lined up endorsements from all five of

Courtesy John Bauters

Emeryville City Council candidate John Bauters

the sitting council members and the local firefighters union was among his first donors.

His main concern and reason for running is housing issues, from the cost of housing to what types of housing gets built in Emeryville.

The city boasts a workforce of 36,000 people but its residents only number 11,000, which Bauters said is due to many city employees and workers at the various retail outlets unable to afford to live there.

“The number one issue is housing, housing, housing,” said Bauters.

Even with the city having one of the highest minimum wages in the country – it is currently at $14.83 per hour though it is $13 for businesses with fewer than 55 employees – Bauters said many people are priced out of Emeryville.

“All these people crowd our freeways and drive here because so many of them have low and minimum wage jobs,” he said. “Even with the minimum wage increase, it doesn’t close the gap on how people access housing. Housing is extremely expensive in Emeryville.”

Atkin told the Bay Area Reporter that Bauters has a credible chance of winning the race this year.

Not only does it help there are no incumbents running, she said he has built up his name recognition

Emeryville City Council member Ruth Atkin will not seek re-election this year.

years. It is time for me to put my mind on other things,” she said, adding she plans to continue to work and is not retiring from her day job. “I have got some irons in the fire. We will see.”

Among her proudest achievements while in office was pushing through the city’s minimum wage increase last year and fostering stronger ties between the city council and local school board. The relationship has resulted in the Emeryville Center of Community Life program, which aims to integrate the city’s school sites into the lives of all citizens.

“I have been on the council 17 years. It is time for me to put my mind on other things.”

–Councilwoman Ruth Atkin

with voters since landing third out of four candidates running for two council seats in 2014.

“I would hope he will be successful. I think he is the most solid candidate,” said Atkin, 58, who has served on the council since 1999 and currently works for Contra Costa County.

Married to her longtime partner, Janet Tobacman, Atkin said she is ready to devote her time to other pursuits. While she wouldn’t divulge what she plans to do once she steps down either in November or early December, depending on when the new council members are sworn in, she did say she has no plans to run for higher office.

“I have been on the council 17

“If you look around at any other city, usually the relationships between the school board and city council are strained at best. We truly are unique,” Atkin said.

She also was the first, and so far, only known openly LGBT mayor of an East Bay city. She first served in the role, which rotates among the council members, in 2002 and served a fourth time as mayor last year.

“I broke some ground,” she said.

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Running the numbers

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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oughly 20 years ago, in the mid-1990s, I was managing the first public transgender community space on the then-nascent internet.

While the service we were located on, America Online, was just then ramping up its onslaught of free hours compact disks that led to its astonishing growth by the end of that decade, our little corner of the service was all but unknown. The Transgender Community Forum existed as a subset of the larger Gay and Lesbian Community Forum, which itself was a subset of AOL’s Clubs and Interests section.

In this era, the transgender community – such as it was – looked a lot different from what you know now. Most of the community was deeply closeted. If we met up, it was done in the back rooms of your local motel or some such. The notion of meeting via computer and accessing content and people across the world was still one step removed from a science fiction story.

In this place, we often dreamed of changing the world, but we were all aware of one obvious limitation: there simply were not enough of us.

We were a small community on an internet service that was limited at the time in scope, in demographics, and in users. Surely we could never make any serious gains, given how frightfully miniscule our numbers were. We were sure that there were probably only a couple thousand of us worldwide, and maybe a couple hundred who were internet savvy and within our tiny part of it all.

A year or two after we started this forum of ours, I ended up talking with one of AOL’s higher-ups.

He had some questions for me. As it turned out AOL – in spite of its “billions of hours free” CDs – was facing issues with what it referred to as “churn rates.” People would join the service, stay briefly, and go away, never to log in again. Those, however, who came to our area stayed – and would log in daily, often for many hours at a time. What’s more, we were seeing upwards of 20,000 unique accounts doing this over the course of a month. We were the only place with those sorts of numbers other than AOL’s hugely successful “People Connection” chat rooms.

What I learned that day was that there were a lot more of us out there than any of us knew.

Fast forward to today. The transgender community has changed as much, if not more so, as the internet. While not everything is positive, I think it can be safely said that awareness of transgender issues and people is at an all time high.

In 2011, the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law published a paper by demographer Gary J. Gates, approximating the number of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. One of the key findings of this paper – based on survey data from several

earlier reports – was that an estimated 0.3 percent of the population of the United States is transgender.

To put this in simpler terms, the paper estimated that 697,529 Americans were transgender.

Opponents of transgender rights, who wish to claim that transgender people are statistically too few to be deserving of equality, bandy about that 0.3 percent figure a lot. The number was quoted as recently as June 30, when the Department of Defense lifted the ban on transgender people serving openly in the U.S. military. Members of the right wing decried this “social experiment” on behalf of a small minority.

More than this, many on the right, as pointed out in an article

by Zinnia Jones on http://www.genderanalysis.net, have tried to shave our numbers even further, claiming the number is closer to 0.03 percent of the population, based on misquoting other right-wing figures before them.

In 2011, the United States population was at 311.7 million people, with 0.3 percent of them – the aforementioned 697,529 people – were transgender. That is 300,000 more than the population of Oakland at the same time. This is not an insignificant number of people.

Late last month, the Williams Institute released a new paper, titled “How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States.” Spoiler alert: our numbers have apparently doubled in the last five years. Based on data used by the institute, adult transgender people make up an estimated 0.6 percent of the U.S. population, with slightly higher rates of younger adults versus older.

The 0.6 percent figure translates into about 1.4 million adults who identity as transgender, somewhere in the range of San Diego or Dallas.

The current U.S. population is 323 million people.

There are as many people who identify as transgender as there are people who have heterochromia – typically a difference between the iris portions of both eyes. Think of the late David Bowie, for example.

Now imagine what nearly 1.4 million people can do. It is still a small minority compared to many others, but these are the sorts of numbers that can make or break an election, that can sway businesses and advertisers, and that can be loud enough to be heard. We also know that these 1.4 million estimated adult transgender people – and our younger members – intersect with other communities and causes.

We also have allies that bolster our numbers further.

Like I learned, in the 1990s, there were a lot more of us out there than any of us knew – and what’s more, our numbers may continue to grow.t Gwen Smith always thought heterochromia was cool. You can find her at www.gwensmith.com.

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to step up and be part of leadership and say, ‘Where is our seat at the table?’” said Woods, who is raising three kids with her wife.

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Convention later this month in Philadelphia as at-large delegates for presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.

During a meeting last month in Long Beach to select the delegates, both San Leandro resident Tiffany Woods and San Diego resident April Spilker were selected by Clinton’s team as part of her 58 at-large delegates. The state divvied up its 105 such delgates between Clinton and her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), based on the June primary results.

Both women had lost their bids to be delegates in their respective congressional districts when Democrats voted in May to select 317 districtlevel delegates. They will help the state party meet its pledge that 12 percent of its total delegate contingent will be LGBT. Back in 2012 Democrats in San Francisco had elected a trans person as a district-level delegate who had just started to transition their gender identity. But Marilyn Murillo, who was selected under their previous name, was unable to attend the convention that year.

According to Woods, there are at least 16, possibly 20, transgender delegates headed to the DNC this year out of the more than 340 national LGBT delegates expected to attend. They have begun meeting via Facebook

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groups ahead of the convention.

“I think the significance is trans people are getting out there. We can’t afford to sit back and let others speak for us,” said Woods, the transgender programs manager at Tri-City Health Center based in Fremont. “I think we are just literally saying we are getting involved and get over it. When I was running as a district delegate, to my knowledge I was the first trans person to run in Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s district. Nobody made an issue of it.”

According to transgender activists, the first trans DNC delegate was Minnesotan Jane Fee in 2000.

Four years later there were six, and the number had more than doubled to 14 in 2012.

This year’s delegates are pushing

to see one or both of the two transgender women seeking congressional seats in November – Utah Senate candidate Misty Snow and Misty Plowright, who is running for a House seat in Colorado – be the first trans people given primetime speaking slots at the convention.

And some have expressed disappointment with the draft version of the party’s platform as not being forceful enough in terms of addressing bathroom access for transgender individuals or in opposing bills that allow discrimination based on religious beliefs. Woods said they are seeking amendments to the document ahead of its ratification at the convention.

“We are at a point now where trans leadership in politics needs

Ten years ago on the June primary ballot, Ken Yeager became the first openly gay person elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. This month, supporters of the San Jose resident are hosting a fundraiser to mark his historic victory.

“As the first openly LGBTQ elected official in the county, I have been proud to lead our region on issues of equality and visibility for over three decades,” wrote Yeager, who in 1992 was first elected to a local community college board and later to a seat on the San Jose City Council. “I have been honored by your past support, and I am hoping I can count on you again.”

Yeager, 63, having won re-election in 2014, is now serving in his third and final four-year term on the county board. He has yet to announce if he plans to run for another political office come 2018, though he has long been eyed for state legislative office, having abandoned in 2011 a bid for state Assembly.

“I am keeping all options open,” Yeager told the B.A.R. last week when asked about his future plans.

He said the July 14 fundraiser is to help offset “the ancillary expenses”

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he accrues as a county supervisor.

“I can’t believe how fast the time has gone as well,” he said of his serving in the elected post. “I am going to hate to see it end. It is a remarkable job.”

To date, there doesn’t appear to be another LGBT person primed to replace him on the county board.

San Jose has been without an LGBT city council member since Yeager left, and there are few out elected officials in the county ready to mount a supervisorial bid.

“I very much worry about not having LGBT representation at San Jose City Hall and the county building. It makes a big difference having an LGBT person in the room,” said Yeager, who last month secured a record $1 million in county funding for LGBT programs and HIV services. (See story, page 1.) “There is no one in the pipeline to run. I worry the $1 million in funding we found in this upcoming budget may not happen again if there is not an LGBT person making sure these programs are funded.”

The fundraiser for Yeager will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, July 17 at the San Jose home of Bryan Rodriguez and Jean-Marie White, 450 South 16th Street. Donations beginning at $25 are requested of those who attend.

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PrEP use rising fast, but racial disparities remain

by Liz Highleyman

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ore than 49,000 people have filled prescriptions for PrEP at retail pharmacies in the United States, but use is still low among black and Hispanic/Latino men who have the highest rates of new HIV infections, according to a study presented at the recent American Society for Microbiology’s Microbe conference in Boston.

“HIV prevention education and PrEP services may need to be racially focused and culturally relevant to increase PrEP uptake and decrease new infections in populations at the greatest risk,” the researchers from Gilead Sciences recommended.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention in July 2012. Adoption was initially slow, but numbers began to rise as gay and bisexual men began promoting PrEP within their communities.

It is difficult to estimate the total number of people who have used PrEP because this information is not centrally collected. The Bay Area Reporter recently estimated that at least 6,000 people in San Francisco are taking PrEP, though many experts think this figure is low.

Gilead has conducted surveys of retail pharmacies to get a handle on how many people have been prescribed Truvada for PrEP. The combination pill is also used for HIV treatment and off-label hepatitis B treatment, so the survey excluded patients with these conditions mentioned in their medical records.

In 2013, Gilead researchers reported that a survey of 55 percent of U.S. pharmacies found that fewer than 1,300 Truvada PrEP prescriptions were written in 2012. By the first quarter of 2014, the number had risen to approximately 3,250 prescriptions.

At a conference in October 2015, PrEP researcher Dr. Robert Grant from the UCSF Gladstone Institutes said that the latest survey found that around 8,500 people had been prescribed Truvada for PrEP – more than double the previously reported number, even though the proportion of responding pharmacies had dropped to 39 percent.

At the ASM meeting, Staci Bush from Gilead reported new data collected from 82 percent of pharmacies, showing that a total of 49,158 people had started Truvada for PrEP between early 2012 and the third quarter of 2015. This number reflects a more than 500 percent increase between late 2013 and late 2015.

Information on race and ethnicity was available for 44 percent of these PrEP recipients. Within this group, 74 percent were white, with Hispanics (12 percent), African Americans (10 percent), and Asians (4 percent) accounting for much smaller proportions.

The number of women starting

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SJ park case

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suasive and with minimal merit,” he said. “There was very little evidence presented of citizen complaints and the specific substance of those alleged complaints.”

Franco also noted, “13 of the 19 arrests or citations occurred after 8 p.m. – not typically a time when families would be present at a park.”

In an interview, Ware said, “I’m happy the police department decided to stop these sting operations” after the public defender’s office took action.

“I’m extremely proud of the judge’s ruling ... The judge was very

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Strut nursing director Pierre-Cédric Crouch

PrEP remained about the same at around 2,500 per year. But as the number of men on PrEP rose, the proportion of women fell from about half in 2012 to just 11 percent in late 2015. Black women were more than four times less likely than white women to have started PrEP. Looking at age, about 8 percent of people who started PrEP were younger than 25 years, with a similar age distribution across all racial and ethnic groups.

This breakdown of PrEP users does not reflect the distribution of the U.S. HIV epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44 percent of new HIV diagnoses occur among African-Americans, who make up about 12 percent of the total U.S. population. People under age 25 account for one in five new diagnoses, with 80 percent of them being young gay/ bi men and more than half of those being black.

As the B.A.R. recently reported, San Francisco last month allocated additional funding to expand PrEP services to underserved communities and has launched a new PrEP campaign called Our Sexual Revolution (http://www.oursexualrevolution.org).

to getting PrEP from their primary care providers within three months.

This allows us to always have capacity to initiate PrEP for new patients.”

Some large PrEP programs are not included, however. For example, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, which provides PrEP to more than 1,800 city residents, does not report pharmacy data to Gilead, according to Brad Hare, Kaiser’s director of HIV Care and Prevention Services.

On the other hand, the numbers in the surveys may be reduced by the fact that many people who start PrEP do not stay on it indefinitely.

“I’m sure [the survey estimate] is way low,” said Strut nursing director Pierre-Cédric Crouch. “There is probably a decent amount of people who are getting online generics.

People who stop for six months and then come back. People transferring their care. It’s a very challenging number to come up with.”

PrEP willingness greater than use

The number of people receiving Truvada PrEP prescriptions at surveyed pharmacies is an underestimate of the total number of PrEP users in the U.S. Many public and private clinics – including San Francisco City Clinic and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s Strut men’s health center – send their clients to retail pharmacies to get their Truvada PrEP prescriptions filled.

“Most of our patients fill their prescriptions through retail pharmacies – this includes patients with private insurance, Medi-Cal, and those who are receiving PrEP through the Gilead medication assistance program,” Robert Blue, coordinator of HIV prevention services at City Clinic, told the B.A.R. “We encourage patients with private insurance to make the transition

A related study recently published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases found that more than half of gay/bi men in the U.S. are willing to use PrEP – much higher than the number who have actually done so.

Brooke Hoots from the CDC and colleagues looked at nearly 6,500 sexually active gay/bi men in 20 cities surveyed through the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance system in 2014. Participants were asked about their willingness to use PrEP, actual use during the past year, and indications for PrEP as recommended by the CDC (such as condomless anal sex).

While only about 4 percent of respondents reported using PrEP, about 60 percent said they were willing to do so. There was no difference in willingness to use PrEP between black and white gay men, but actual use was about twice as high among whites.

Men with more education, higher incomes, and health insurance were more likely to use PrEP, suggesting that the disparity “may be attributable to racial differences in health care access rather than a lack of interest,” the researchers wrote. In addition, men in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. reported greater PrEP use than respondents in other NHBS cities.

The researchers also found that while more than half of all respondents had indications for PrEP, this was less common among young black gay/bi men. This is consistent with previous studies showing that although their HIV rates are higher, black gay men report less risky sex and drug use than white men.

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careful in reviewing the evidence and went beyond the rhetoric and imagery that surrounds cases like this,” she said, adding that Franco “discarded” the “allusions made to gay interaction being dirty.”

The judge’s ruling meant, “people shouldn’t be afraid to be gay in public, and they shouldn’t be targeted,” Ware said.

Sergeant Enrique Garcia, a San Jose police spokesman, said of the case, “We have an obligation to respond to concerns that citizens bring to our attention, and we need to take appropriate action. ... We don’t do sting operations. This was as a result of citizen complaints.”

Garcia said if there were more

complaints, officers may respond.

In an email, Assistant District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said, “We do not believe the San Jose Police Department engaged in discriminatory actions. Their investigations were based on numerous complaints from residents who live near or visited the park.”

He said that “many months before” Franco issued his ruling, the SJPD “had already moved away from undercover operations of this kind and were instead attempting to address such community concerns through a campaign in cooperation with our office and the county’s public health department. We will continue with those efforts.”t

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Reborn on the Fourth of July

by Roger Brigham

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sually Independence Day fireworks don’t go off until after sundown. In the NBA this year, however, the July 4 fireworks exploded hours earlier at the break of day.

That’s when Oklahoma City free agent forward Kevin Durant announced in a statement on http://www.theplayerstribune.com that he would leave the Thunder and join the Golden State Warriors. That triggered a

massive shakeup on Golden State’s roster – the Warriors immediately hit the eject button on starters Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut as well as supreme center backup Festus Ezeli – and around the league as pundits, players, and fans tried to wrap their heads around the new world order.

When I watched the Thunder battle the Warriors in the playoffs to seven games, I kept marveling at the brilliance of Durant. I kept thinking what a perfect fit his play would be

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with the selfless game the Warriors play, how beautifully they complemented each other.

It was meant to be.

“It really pains me to know that I will disappoint so many people with this choice, but I believe I am doing what I feel is the right thing at this point in my life and my playing career,” Durant wrote. “I will miss Oklahoma City, and the role I have had in building this remarkable team. I will forever cherish the relationships within the organization – the friends and teammates that I went to war with on the court for nine years, and all the fans and people of the community. But I am also at a point in my life where it is of equal importance to find an opportunity that encourages my evolution as a man: moving out of my comfort zone to a new city and community which offers the greatest potential for my contribution and personal growth. With this in mind, I have decided that I am going to join the Golden State Warriors.”

Almost immediately television sports pundits began second guessing Durant’s decision. They thought it showed little class for him to leave a highly talented team to join a team they had just lost to in the playoffs.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith in particular accused Durant of deciding to jump on the Warriors championship bandwagon rather than working to earn one on his own.

Forget championship rings, shoe endorsements, and historical legacies. Durant’s decision to jump to the Warriors makes all of the sense in the world for one very good reason.

Fun. Being a professional athlete and carrying a bucket load of expectations can be an emotional grind.

The Warriors have made it look easier than it is the past two seasons for the simple reason that they enjoy

of front line talent. They will have to replace a lot of the depth that was the trademark of their success the past two years, and they have lost a notable amount of rim protection with the departure of center Bogut.

But they now boast the winners of the league’s past three MVP awards (Durant in 2014, Stephen Curry in 2015 and 2016), their interior defense has become more athletic, and they add another brilliant shooter and playmaker.

Haters gonna hate, but they will not be able to deny that the Warriors are once again going to be the team that everyone loves to watch.

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what they are doing and they enjoy each other. They have fun and are fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to be part of that?

For a refreshing change, a professional player made a decision based less on money and more on day-today enjoyment. This is not a super team created solely on the egos and decisions of the front office, not on a group of superstars deciding to pool their talents. It is a budding dynasty created by intelligent front office decisions, a commitment to hire players whose egos are in check and whose characters are exemplary – and by the desire of those players to want to come to the Warriors.

After a historic regular season in which Golden State won an unprecedented 73 games, the Warriors now have an unprecedented array

The Federation of Gay Games announced July 1 that 10 cities were joining San Francisco in moving forward with plans to bid for the rights to host Gay Games XI in 2022.

Dropping out of the bidding war after expressing initial interest were Anaheim, California; Des Moines, Iowa; Atlanta, and Minneapolis.

The cities that each submitted a $2,500 fee to continue the process in addition to San Francisco were the American cities of Austin and Dallas in Texas; Denver, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Washington, D.C.; as well as South Africa’s Cape Town, Mexico’s Guadalajara, China’s Hong Kong, and Israel’s Tel Aviv.

As previously reported, San Francisco’s initial fee was donated by the San Francisco Travel Association.

Bid organizers said the next fee of $5,000, due at the end of July, has been pledged by City Club. Public donations are being sought on Gofundme for future fees: https://www. gofundme.com/2022sanfrancisco.

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“We want to move through the process as quickly as we can,” said Martínez, who lives with her wife in downtown San Jose. “This position will allow for a person with some dedicated time and skill for outreach. That would be of great benefit to the entire county to get the information out that our office and different programs are available to the LGBTQ community.”

The bulk of the funding, at $526,815, is designated for the county’s Getting to Zero efforts and matches what county health officials had requested back in May to fund implementation of the initiative. It will partly be used to hire two staff members tasked with linking clients to services as well as fund community organizations providing HIV care and conducting prevention efforts.

In 2014, the most recent year for data, there were 155 newly diagnosed cases of HIV in Santa Clara County and an estimated 378

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“We are extremely grateful to Supervisor Yeager to immediately responding to our needs for funding. The Board of Supervisors as a whole didn’t bat an eye and is extraordinarily supportive of our work.”

–Youth Place employee Cassie Blume program, which operates out of a downtown San Jose space, annually serves 4,000 LGBTQ youth at a total budget per year of $600,000, 60 percent of which comes from a contract with the county’s behavioral health department.

It had seen the other 40 percent of its county funding cut in half last year, said Yeager.

“It wouldn’t be able to stay open with half of the funding,” he said.

The program is now expanding its reach to serve youth in Palo

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and others, and one thing that’s come up is people are “feeling like the HIV service system is really complicated to navigate,” and “people often get lost.”

Hollendoner said SFAF will work with the city’s health department “to make sure all our programs and services are welcoming” and help people get into care.

The city’s case management system can be a hurdle, and he hopes to see an approach that will mean there is “no wrong door” for clients to enter when they’re looking for help.

Hollendoner, who previously served as first deputy commissioner at the Chicago Department of Public Health, noted he’s spent years working in public health, and he’s “really encouraged by what a good partner the Department of Public Health is, and what a thought leader they are on Getting to Zero.”

Others associated with the initiative expressed confidence in Hollendoner’s involvement.

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people who are infected but not yet aware of their infection. Based on those numbers, there are now likely 4,391 HIV-positive residents in the 15 cities under Santa Clara County’s jurisdiction.

The county’s Getting to Zero plan, so far, is vague about a target date for eliminating new HIV infections, and instead, is focused on expanding access to PrEP and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis), increasing HIV testing, retaining HIV-positive people in care, and reducing the stigma around HIV. With rates of HIV and STD infections in the county disproportionately found among Latino men who have sex with men, the supervisors budgeted $40,000 to update the http://www.N2Men.org website operated by the county’s Health Trust.

The money will also go toward creating a Spanish-language micro version of the site.

The second largest allocation, at $264,000 over five years, will fund the Youth Space and allow it to continue operating till at least 2021, according to Yeager’s office. The

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Stradford said that Verdugo would bring leadership and management to the chorus.

Seelig said that he had previously worked with Verdugo.

“In 2010, just before moving to San Francisco, I had the privilege of working with Chris when I guest conducted GMCLA for their holiday concert,” Seelig stated.

The chorus recently wrapped up its 38th season, which included three major concerts. The chorus traveled to Denver this week for the quadrennial GALA Choruses Festival. It will then embark on an extension tour to Colorado Springs, where it will host a benefit concert for local LGBT charities.

Chorus spokesman Peter Zimmerman said the organization last had an executive director about four years ago. The chorus has an annual budget of $1.55 million. Verdugo’s salary will be $130,000.

For more information on the chorus, visit www.sfgmc.org.

Black Brothers Esteem turns 20

Black Brothers Esteem, a program of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation focusing on black gay and bi men, turns 20 this month and there are several events planned to commemorate the anniversary.

On Thursday (July 7), at 11:30 a.m., people are welcome to join BBE members on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, as it marks Black Brothers Esteem Day.

“Joe is doing a terrific job so far. He completely understands the importance and potential of our Getting to Zero effort, and he’s committed to making it a reality.”

–Supervisor Scott Wiener “Joe is doing a terrific job so far,” said gay San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, who’s helped lead the city’s Getting to Zero initiative. “He completely understands the importance and potential of our Getting to Zero effort, and he’s committed to making it a reality. He’s also a pleasure to work with.”

Dana Van Gorder, executive director of Project Inform, a local nonprofit that does HIV advocacy and other work, said in a phone interview that SFAF’s role “is really important given the size and breadth of the work they do in

the community. They need to be a major part in the conversation and have been.”

Van Gorder, who used to be the state and local policy director at the foundation, added that he’s found Hollendoner to be “a really great presence” who appears to want to work with other local agencies more than SFAF has done “for a while.”

An opening reception for a photo exhibit, “BBE Then and Now” will be held Thursday, July 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street. The photo exhibit, located in the Skylight Gallery on the sixth floor, runs through August 25.

Finally, a 20th anniversary gala will be held Sunday, July 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Strut, SFAF’s men’s health center in the Castro, at 470 Castro Street. The evening will feature awards for founding members, catered refreshments, a live DJ, and giveaways to the first 100 people.

There is no cost to attend. For more information, visit the Facebook page at “Black Brothers Esteem 20th Anniversary Gala.”

The camp will close with a small showcase of the work students have devised over the two weeks. Identity Matters is being led by Lindsay Krumbein, GRC executive artistic director, theater instructor Ian Enriquez, and GRC alumni Joy Knighton, Dashawn Franklin, Maurice Jones, and Marques Conerly.

“Gritty City Repertory is thrilled to work with NCTC this summer on Identity Matters,” Krumbein said in a news release. “We can’t wait to see what develops as youth train in physical theater as they ask and answer questions about personal identity.”

Ed Decker, NCTC founder and artistic director, said he was excited about the project.

“This unique two-week, tuitionfree workshop is underwritten by the vanguard support of the Mukti Fund and the Ahroha Philanthropies, with the explicit aim to use the transformative power of theater to help young adults come into their own and to better appreciate the experiences of others,” Decker said in the release. “It’s an extraordinary opportunity.”

To enroll and for more information, visit http://www.grittycityrep. org.

Theater companies offer youth summer camp

Next week, the New Conservatory Theatre Center and Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre will offer Identity Matters, a free youth theater summer camp exploring identity.

In this unique collaboration between the two organizations, both with long histories of progressive arts education, students will learn acting techniques to create theater based on their life experiences, interests, and views of the world.

The camp will specifically explore topics such as gender diversity and expression, sexual diversity, ethnicity, family, stereotypes, social status, politics, and more.

The camp takes place Monday through Friday, July 11-22 at the Flight Deck in downtown Oakland.

It is open to youth ages 14-20, with no prior drama experience required.

Staff vacancies

SFAF, which has a budget of $32 million and more than 150 employees, has recently seen the departure of some key staff members, including

D8 clean team coming up

San Francisco Public Works will hold one of its community cleanup events in District 8 Saturday, July 16.

Community Clean Team allows people to get a volunteer group together to help with projects all around District 8, which includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Duboce Triangle, Diamond Heights, Glen Park,

Alto and in east side San Jose. It is also launching an LGBTQ Wellness Speakers Bureau with $2,500 it is receiving from a separate pool of funding the county board awarded to numerous local nonprofits working with marginalized LGBTQ communities.

“We are extremely grateful to Supervisor Yeager to immediately responding to our needs for funding,” said Cassie Blume, the Youth Space’s director of LGBT Programs. “The Board of Supervisors

as a whole didn’t bat an eye and is extraordinarily supportive of our work.”

Other groups receiving a portion of the $28,000 set aside by the board include the African-American Community Services Agency, the Project MORE Foundation, and Tadaima, which are each getting $2,500. Song That Radio is receiving $3,000, while Colectivo ALA, the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center, and Adolescent Counseling Services’ Outlet De Ambiente Program will each receive $5,000.

The supervisors also budgeted $6,000 to the Community Health Partnership in order to convert restroom signage at 21 nonprofit community health center clinic sites in the county to be inclusive of all genders. The participating clinic organizations include Asian Americans for Community Involvement (two sites); Gardner Family Health Network (four sites); Mayview (three sites); North East Medical Services (one site); Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (six sites); and School Health Clinics (five sites).t

two people who’d worked at Strut.

Tim Patriarca, Strut’s executive director, left this month without having another job lined up. He said in June it’s been “a complete and utter honor” to lead the center, but with the facility established, “It seemed like a great time to leave.”

Steve Gibson, who’d served as director of sexual health services (also known as Magnet) left in April to become the HIV prevention branch chief at the State Office of AIDS in Sacramento.

Hollendoner said he was meeting with Strut staff to talk about how to handle the vacancies. He indicated finding replacements is a priority.

Neil Giuliano, who served as SFAF’s CEO for five years, left in December to become CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership, a business organization focused on civic improvement activities.

During his tenure, one of the areas Giuliano had focused on was financial efficiency.

Charity Navigator, a national group that looks at how much organizations spend on fundraising and

other areas compared with services, currently gives SFAF three out of four stars. That’s up from two stars in 2012.

Hollendoner plans to continue being careful with money.

“I am frugal, and we need to be good stewards of every dollar we have coming into this organization,” he said.

Corona Heights, Twin Peaks, and Mission-Dolores. Public works staff said that they have painting, planting, cleaning, and greening projects to keep volunteers busy.

The day will kick off at Mission High School 3750 18th Street (enter from Dolores Street) at 8:30 a.m.

Participants should wear appropriate clothing for working outside and getting dirty. Additionally, people should bring sunscreen and a reusable water bottle. Valuables should be left at home.

Lunch will be provided to participants. An RSVP is required in order to get your group on the list. People should email jimmer.cassiol@ sfdpw.org or jonathan.gomwalk@ sfdpw.org by Tuesday, July 12 and be sure to mention how many volunteers are in the group as well as any special requirements (food restrictions, accessibility concerns, or if you are bringing small children).

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Keshet’s Nice Jewish Guys plans hike

Nice Jewish Boys, a Keshet social group for gay, bi, trans and otherwise queer young Jewish men in the Bay Area, will have a Glen Canyon hike and picnic Sunday, July 10 at 1 p.m.

An announcement in Keshet’s newsletter said that the short twomile afternoon hike will walk along recently re-opened trails in beautiful Glen Canyon, followed by a picnic lunch. The groups will have some snacks, but participants are encouraged to bring their own. There is no cost to attend.

An RSVP is required to learn the exact meeting location and can be

Guns

The Bay Area Reporter’s interview with Hollendoner came just days after the June 12 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which Omar Mateen fatally shot 49 people and injured 53.

SFAF is taking a look at gun violence, an issue that LGBT organizations haven’t typically addressed.

“For me, it harkens back to my background in public health,” Hollendoner said. “... Gun violence is a public health issue.”

He said he’s been talking to people at other LGBT organizations about how they “can take a stand on this” and ensure that such tragedies don’t happen again.t

Queer people of color gathering announced

The Groundswell Institute has announced its first Xrysalis Gathering, a weekend retreat for queer people of color.

Groundswell is a 2-year-old nonprofit retreat center in the Anderson Valley, about two hours north of the Bay Area. It has launched over a dozen unique programs that rejuvenate, celebrate, and inspire queer people and their allies. Xrysalis is its latest program and takes place July 22-24.

“We view Xrysalis as a beginning phase in the healing and emergence of a stronger collective QTIPOC community,” said organizer Jimmy Hill, referring to queer, trans, and intersex people of color. “Xrysalis celebrates our connection with nature, with art, and with ourselves.

Our vision is to activate leadership and the creators of culture.”

A gathering for and by queer people of color, the program is focused on healing and empowering these communities that often face greater oppression and fewer services. There will also be time for socializing with dance parties, pond swimming, and group games, organizers said.

Food will be provided, along with lodging in one of Groundswell’s 10 cabins. Camping in the redwood forest is also an option.

Groundswell programs have sliding scale fees and scholarship options. General registration for Xrysalis is $175. For more information, visit http://groundswell. institute/our-programs/xrysalis/.t

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lying about his sexual orientation.

Three months after first arriving in San Francisco, he came out for the second time to his father.

To his astonishment, his father cut him off and told him to never contact him again.

“I didn’t know that he would do that,” said Soul. “I am not going to be here without anybody.”

So he contacted friends he knew from Senegal, two straight brothers in their 20s, who had moved to New York City. They didn’t care about his being gay and invited Soul to live with them in the Bronx.

There he found his way to the city’s LGBT community center, which referred him to Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and its Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project. The program aims to improve the lives of LGBTQ youth across the country in foster care, the juvenile justice system, are homeless, or dealing with immigration issues.

“It wasn’t easy for me to tell my story. But after that I felt comfortable,” said Soul. “People gave me assistance and I knew I wasn’t alone.”

The older brother he is staying with agreed to act as his legal guardian here in the U.S. Lambda Legal not only helped them formalize that relationship, the agency also assisted Soul with applying for special immigrant juvenile status from the federal government.

“The court has to decide it is not in your best interest to return to your country of origin,” explained Currey Cook, a senior staff attorney at Lambda Legal who for the past three years has served as the director of the Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project.

Cook and Soul spoke with the Bay Area Reporter in the spring while in San Francisco to attend the agency’s local fundraiser where Soul was one of the featured speakers. It was his first time back in the city since leaving USF. The Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project launched 12 years ago with the aim of training youth-based agencies to work with LGBTQ youth. It also directly assists a handful of youth each year; Cooks aid he was working on the cases of five youth.

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San Francisco, Oakland-East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, offered a different brand of faith, family and freedom at over 150 separate events held over seven days. The loudest cheers were reserved for the new wave of trans choruses, the Orlando Gay Chorus and, attending the festival for the first time, the Beijing Queer Chorus. The Beijing singers began their performance wearing masks, which they removed after their first song in testimony to the new confidence of the LGBT community in China.

New music was also showcased at the festival including “Power Lines,” with lyrics from a poem by Denise Levertov which, according to conductor Cathy Roma, encapsulated the state of the LGBT

“We are interested in helping providers and LGBTQ youth who have been rejected by family or having various issues,” said Cook. “They may encounter LGBT centers or other youth providers that may not be aware of their status to get them immigration relief.”

Without proper training, some youth-focused organizations “may be missing the boat when working with LGBTQ youth,” Cook said, adding that, “most people are not asking about sexual orientation or gender identity when doing an intake with kids. And they are not offering the fact they are LGBTQ.” As for Soul, his legal residence application was approved in late December, a few days ahead of the new year. Within five years he intends to apply for full U.S. citizenship.

“Now Soul can work and pursue his dreams,” noted Cook. “Soul is very lucky his friend could take him in.”

Since moving to New York he has been taking computer science classes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, which is part of the City University of New York system.

“My focus is to finish school and get my degree,” he said.

He would eventually like to move back to San Francisco, perhaps as soon as next summer. He has been exploring scholarship opportunities at several Bay Area universities.

“My plan for this summer is to get job, work, then try to save some money to move back to San Francisco. I think this is my plan right now,” he said. “All my dream is here in San Francisco, why not come back here?”

He has also talked with Cook about the need to establish a center for LGBT people in Senegal that could provide similar assistance as that he has found through Lambda Legal.

“In Africa we don’t have this kind of thing. In Africa, LGBT people, they don’t have any place to go and meet and talk about their problem,” said Soul. “If they have something like this they can go be themselves, meet each other, and talk about problems and solutions.”

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choral movement: “We have only begun to know the power that is in us if we would join our solitudes in the communion of struggle,” the poem states.

In another event Timothy Seelig, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, conducted members from 11 choruses across the U.S. in a 700-voice performance of I am Harvey Milk at the 5,000-seat Bellco Theater.

Asked about the abutment of the events, GALA board Co-President Mindy Taylor said, “The polarization in our society can lead to a demonization of people with different views. Having the events side-byside, was a surprise, but one which I hope sparked conversations.”t Full disclosure: Teddy BashamWitherington serves as the co-chair of the GALA Festival Committee.

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Legal Notices>> NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF DAVID JOSEPH DYROFF IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-16-299887

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID JOSEPH DYROFF. A Petition for Probate has been filed by STEPHEN COWAN C/O JOSHUA C. PEACOCK, ESQ. SBN 257257, THE PEACOCK LAW GROUP, LLP, 291 JOAQUIN AVE, SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that STEPHEN COWAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: JULY 12, 2016, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: JOSHUA C. PEACOCK, ESQ. SBN 257257, THE PEACOCK LAW GROUP, LLP, 291 JOAQUIN AVE, SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577; Ph. (510) 483-3400.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF STEPHEN WAN IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-16-299872

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552201

In the matter of the application of: HONG THU THI NGUYEN, 1433 SILLIMAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HONG THU THI NGUYEN, is requesting that the name HONG THU THI NGUYEN, be changed to MILEY NGUYEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 16th of August 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037141200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MV CONSTRUCTION; MCV PROPERTIES, 467 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS VRIHEAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037137000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UPBEAT MUSIC CAMP, 518 1/2 LINDEN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH M. RODRIGUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/10/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037137500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUSCAN PROPERTY SOLUTIONS, 143 POPE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GINETTA LUCCHESI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/13/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037135500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PEOPLE CHANGE GROUP, 15 RICO WAY #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LISA MARIE FELICE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/10/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/10/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037137100

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037132800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE UPS STORE #2255, 588 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed INJP, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037130400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOPSY’S BARBER SHOP, 1348 9TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SUNSET GROOMERS, LLC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037138300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAGAWA-YA UDON NOODLE COMPANY, 1455 MARKET ST #3A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed KAGAWAYA NOODLE COMPANY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037117500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALLAWAY LANDSCAPES, 101 27TH ST #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LEE BRITT CALLAWAY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/15/15.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037116900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARINA GREEN MEDIA, 1490 JEFFERSON ST #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed COLIN McCRACKEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037125900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INNER CIRCLE ACUPUNCTURE, 3150 18TH ST #442, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHELLE MEDINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/03/16.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of STEPHEN WAN. A Petition for Probate has been filed by CHI LING WONG AKA GILLIAN WAN c/o SONIA M. AGEE, ESQ. SBN # 164560, ROPERS MAJESKI KOHN & BENTLEY, 50 W. SAN FERNANDO ST #1400, SAN JOSE, CA 95113 in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that CHI LING WONG AKA GILLIAN WAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: July 05, 2016, 9:00 am, Probate Department Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: SONIA M. AGEE, ESQ. SBN # 164560, ROPERS MAJESKI KOHN & BENTLEY, 50 W. SAN FERNANDO ST #1400, SAN JOSE, CA 95113; Ph. (408) 947-4889.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FISHER WEISMAN COLLECTION, 1101 CLAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FISHER WEISMAN INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JOE’S PICKLES, 46 SEWARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH NORTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE ONES, 315 MONTGOMERY ST 9TH FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARIA DEL PILAR ALVARADO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/10/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037133400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CURIOUS CAT CLUB, 2955 CLAY ST #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINDSAY SAITO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/09/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/09/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037135800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STELLAR JEWELS; LUXURY LIVING, 855 LA PLAYA ST #363, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALISON WAHL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/10/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/10/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037117900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CKO+ MEDIA; CKO PLUS MEDIA, 219 DWIGHT ROAD, BURLINGAME, CA 94010. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed LOURDES ALCAZAREN-KEELEY, CAROLINE OCAMPO & ESTHER MISA CHAVEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/16.

JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 07, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037110900

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037143100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NADI’S CHARMES AND EVENTS, 349 CHICAGO WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NADINE MANUELLE KPOKPA ZIHIRI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037123000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADVENTURE INK, 1227 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZACHARY WINE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037145100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OPERATION ACCESS, 1119 MARKET ST #400, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AMBULATORY SURGERY ACCESS COALITION, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/20/95. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/17/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037140100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HH MICRO, 5999 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AMERITECH COMPUTER SERVICES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/14/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/16.

JUNE 23, 30, JULY 07, 14, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037160400

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037122400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE BOILING POT, 1155 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DIANE J. CHEUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/16.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037148300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO BAY COMPUTER SERVICES, 4736 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed EDUARDO SANCHEZ & MICHAEL POHLABLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/22/16.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037143900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KINGDOM RICE, 1337 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO LIGHTHOUSE (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/16/16.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037152800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PSYCHIC HORIZONS, 970 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CHURCH OF NATURAL GRACE (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/18/81. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/16.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037146600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNLIMITED AUTO TITLE LOAN, 1315 23RD AVE. #212 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LINCOLN EASY CASH (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 06/21/16.

JUNE 30, JULY 07, 14, 21, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037147400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRIMAVERA REALTY, 60 GOLETA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VERA KOPILENKO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/21/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/21/16.

JULY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037163100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARMIN HAMMER PRODUCTIONS, 2200 CESAR CHAVEZ ST #99, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124.

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JULY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037165900

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JULY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037141300

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This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ACCESS BIOPHARMA TRAINING, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/12/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/16.

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n his 13th birthday, Stanley Kubrick received a fortuitous gift from his father: his first camera. For that, he and the world owe Pere Kubrick a debt of thanks. A notorious perfectionist whose exacting standards and exhaustive research contributed to a limited output of 16 films over five decades, Kubrick is widely regarded as a visionary filmmaker ahead of his time technically and philosophically.

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Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) in A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick (GB/United States; 1970-71).

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ut There was thrilled to be in the War Memorial Opera House for last Saturday night’s performance of Spanish director Calixto Bieito’s fabulously decadent Carmen for San Francisco Opera.

This was the performance that was simulcast live for free at AT&T Park for an audience of tens of thousands. We’d love to know how all the sensational elements (SFO warned, “Please note: This production contains violence, nudity and suggestive behavior”) looked up there on the big screen. On the opera house stage, it threw sparks.

Bare-chested ruffians, sleazy behavior, flashy costuming, a blowjob, a knifefight, boozing, smuggling, petty crime – Bieito’s take on Bizet’s eternally popular masterwork is the Scarface of powerhouse opera. Oh, and that’s not even to mention the full-frontal male nudity that kicks off the third act. The cast, led by Irene Roberts as Carmen on Saturday night, and by Ginger CostaJackson for the final performance on Sunday, was fully committed to all the transgressions.

And they all appeared in San Francisco Giants gear for their curtain calls, a generous nod to the crowd enjoying the show from the ballpark. More of this boisterously alive opera for the masses, please!

Up the Academy

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has done their proper outreach this year after taking deserved knocks last Oscar season for the lack of minorities among its members. Among the 683 film people invited to join the Academy was director Cheryl Dunye, whose 1996 feature debut

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Ginger Costa-Jackson as Carmen in the second cast of director Calixto Bieito’s Carmen for San Francisco Opera.

The Watermelon Woman was the first feature-length narrative film written and directed by an out black lesbian about black lesbians. About time!

Also invited to the academy is gay Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Amazingly, AW is the first Thai ever to be asked to join the Academy. A related aside: the just-released Blu-ray of AW’s latest film, Cemetery of Splendor (reviewed in last week’s issue), also contains his hour-long Mekong Hotel. That’s a lot of vintage Weerasethakul on one disc.

A true mensch

Last week, OT attended the opening of Stanley Kubrick: The

Exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum/San Francisco, reviewed in this week’s issue. We were delighted to find waiters, bartenders and support staff dressed up in droog drag, a la Alex DeLarge in Clockwork Orange: black derby, white jumpsuit, suspenders. That’s the very costume that our perky pal Pepi rocked for whole decades of Halloween nights – plus the contrapuntal jockstrap, understandably missing from the CJM apparel.

The CJM seems to staff its openings with senior volunteers, such as the gentleman who checked us in at the entrance. When we self-identified, he responded, “Ah, I remember the name! And I remember the face!”

From previous openings, or from reading our column? We don’t know, but it didn’t matter. “Welcome! I’m Xander!” His warm welcome put us in a right good mood for the rest of the night. If only all arts orgs treated us with such loving kindness! A midsummer night’s dream.t

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irst-time Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas tells an especially dark tale about the confusing interactions between a brutal Caracas street thug, Elder (humpy newcomer Luis Silva), and a middle-aged denturemaker, Armando (Alfredo Castro), in From Afar. Armando pays to dominate bad boys like Elder without physically penetrating them. In a dance macabre series of brutal encounters, thug and denturemaker refuse to let each other or us glimpse their true feelings and needs, in a society that has been repeatedly brutalized and betrayed by politics from both left and right.

An early encounter between the boy and the man, right after the kid beats and robs the almost-senior

citizen, shows an almost poetic escalation of macho pride through obscene street lingo.

Elder: “You won’t get your wallet back, so piss off, old faggot.”

Armando: “I don’t want my wallet back.”

Elder: “I’ll beat you again. So piss off, motherfucker.”

The old man presses a large wad of bills into the kid’s hands and walks off with the cryptic, “I’ve got more of this at home.”

Against the backdrop of a classstratified, post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela whose citizens are reevaluating the fruits of Chavez’s petro-fueled revolution, Elder and Armando lurch toward some kind of intimate familial bond that defies an easy definition. Their bond appears

to fetishize power on both sides, as both men struggle to trust the other and, for that matter, themselves.

At one point Elder asks Armando if his father ever beat him, and if he’d beat his own kids if he could.

The older man shakes his head no to both questions while the kid snarls, “I would beat them as hard as I could, to show them how full of shit the world is.” From Afar dramatizes, in a series of quick, violent takes, the kind of maleon-male violence seldom glimpsed outside the boxing ring. The filmmakers dare to step up the stakes of their ballet of blood and bruises without ever turning us off or making us less than complicit in this dirty little war.t Opens Fri., July 8, at the Roxie Theater.

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Bedding the English

I am the future of the LGBT community.

I was married to a wonderful woman for 30 years. Now it’s time to be who I really am. Now I’m happy, authentic, and dating a wonderful man. I read EDGE on all my devices, because I have a whole future to look forward to - and that’s where I want it to be.

by Brian Bromberger

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ive minutes into watching the new straight-to-DVD English TV series Outings, just released on DVD by TLA Releasing, a revelation arose as to why the two-season HBO gay series Looking had failed: the characters were bland, and the show lacked energy. No such criticism could be directed towards Outings, billed as Queer as Folk-meets-Skins in this explosive, smart, three-part British dramedy. The show is written, directed, and acted by Rob Ward and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan. It’s obvious they are major up-andcoming talents, and Outings seems only to hint at their exceptional potential.

The three episodes focus on three gay 20-somethings “trying to work it all out,” meaning searching for love and career fulfillment, just like 30-somethings Patrick, Augustine, and Dom on Looking.

The first episode opens with Kane (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan) in bed with his on/off-again boyfriend Thom (Nathan Morris) in the middle of unsuccessful, tense anal sex. Kane is a lousy bottom, and though they have tried anal (in all its unsavory details) for a year, it hasn’t worked.

In frustration, Thom unexpectedly breaks up with Kane. The show scores points dealing with an almost-taboo topic that we know will never be discussed by Mitchell and Cameron on ABC’s Modern Family. Kane at 25 has to move back into his mother’s flat and starts dating again, as well as trying to get enthusiastic about anal masturbation to relax his tight ass. He wants to be a director and is working for free, writing stage notes for a tyrannical director in a hooligan production of Romeo and Juliet. He falls for Louis (Simon Keen), the actor playing Romeo.

The second episode features Kane’s friend Kiegan (Rob Ward), who is asked by his brother Dom to be best man at his wedding. But Kiegan can’t stand his future narrow-minded, crude sister-in-law Kelsey (“It was my idea, because it’s bad you will never get married or have kids because you’re gay; it just makes me so sad, but this is the next best thing”) and wants to say

no, but shamed into it, reluctantly agrees. He returns home for his baby niece’s christening and has to explain his going-nowhere life to his family. He is a budding but failing playwright. He’s recovering from a relationship split by getting drunk and acting out, as well as conjuring romantic fantasies with unattainable men.

The third episode centers on Kiegan’s roommate Tim (Daniel Wallace), who is throwing an 80spop-star fancy-dress birthday party for his girlfriend Lucy (Verity-May Henry). They are having sexual and romantic difficulties when a former crass, tell-it-like-it-is stocky girlfriend, Hoppy (Ali Kahn in a hilarious performance: “If you’ve got a booty like J-Lo, you have to shake it like a Polaroid picture”), reemerges. She knows all about Tim’s past as a gay man. Is Tim really bisexual?

Can he resist a tempting fling from a gay partygoer? What is refreshing here is there are no boundaries. Sexuality is fluid, and no one cares. We have a straight woman trying to seduce a gay guy (“from behind, the mechanics are all the same”), and she triumphs. All the recurring supporting characters are well-etched and distinctive, not the usual cardboard cliches seen on American TV. Outings moves at breakneck speed with short but potent scenes accompanied by a buoyant soundtrack and clever dialogue, though some British colloquialisms will be lost here. Ward and Eyre-Morgan use a graphic-novel cinematography at key junctures, enlivening our interest. Although there are three episodes, it’s a continuing story that feels like an extended pilot, mainly because each episode ends rather abruptly, suggesting it was cut to be serialized. But each episode revolves around one of the three characters, so they stand on their own. We genuinely start caring about these outcasts trying to find their place in the world. If Looking had been half as imaginative and edgy as Outings, it might have been a hit. Yes, we definitely want more episodes, and TLA Releasing is to be commended for bringing this offbeat, intoxicating charmer to American audiences.t

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Olivia de Havilland, a star at 100

by Tavo Amador

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n July 1, Olivia de Havilland celebrated her 100th birthday.

She’s the only important player from the greatest decades of the classic Hollywood studio system still living. Ironically, she was also instrumental in undoing the studio system.

Born in Tokyo to English parents who divorced when she and younger sister, the future Joan Fontaine (1917-2013), were little girls, she was reared in Saratoga, California.

While attending Mills College, she auditioned for the legendary Max Reinhardt’s lavish stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

She essayed Hermia when the play was staged at the Hollywood Bowl.

She made her screen debut in the all-star film version of Dream (1935), which featured James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck. It’s available in DVD. Warner Bros signed her to a seven-year contract and frequently teamed her with Errol Flynn, but she got her most important early part away from the studio: Melanie in David Selznick’s Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. In lesser hands, Melanie would have been too good to be believable. But de Havilland conveyed her decency and strength. She was utterly convincing in her loyalty to Scarlett. Author Margaret Mitchell insisted that Melanie was the novel’s heroine, and de Havilland’s performance gives credence to that assertion. The film, like those discussed in the following paragraphs, is available in DVD. In 1938, she and Flynn were paired in their best movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood, a thrilling version of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, shot in vibrant colors. In many of their films, she was a passive beauty, waiting to be rescued.

But as Maid Marion, she’s not only ravishing, she’s intelligent, spirited, courageous, and instrumental in

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Olivia de Havilland in her most glamorous studio days.

saving Robin and his men. She was touching in The Strawberry Blonde (1941), playing Cagney’s devoted wife. Again, her ability to make a good woman interesting and appealing allowed the audience to feel Cagney’s dilemma in choosing between her and Rita Hayworth’s more traditional temptress.

In 1943, de Havilland’s contract ended – or so she thought. The studio, however, disagreed, insisting it had six months more to run.

Following common practice, Warners had added onto the original termination date the weeks it had suspended her for refusing poor roles in bad movies. She challenged that practice, sued, and won. That historic case is known as the “de Havilland Decision.”

The legal proceedings prevented her from working for two years, but

she triumphantly returned in 1946, winning the Best Actress Oscar for her moving performance as the unwed mother in To Each His Own. That Oscar made her and Fontaine the only sisters to have won that prize. That same year, she dazzled in Robert Siodmark’s The Dark Mirror, a superb noir in which she plays twins – one murderous, the other innocent. She convincingly conveyed their individual personalities and strong sibling bonds.

The Snake Pit (1948) was a landmark look at mental illness and the “asylums” in which patients were warehoused. Foregoing obvious histrionics, de Havilland touchingly showed how seemingly “normal” individuals could suffer from severe psychological problems. Audiences identified with her. She lost the Best Actress Oscar to Jane Wyman’s

Johnny Belinda, but won the New York Film Critics prize.

The following year, she was The Heiress, helmed by William Wyler.

For this dramatization of Henry James’ novella Washington Square, she camouflaged her beauty and radiance to unforgettably portray the plain, insecure, unloved Catherine Sloper, daughter of a wealthy doctor (Ralph Richardson) who blames her for her mother’s death in childbirth.

He has unfavorably compared her to her mother for her entire life.

When his suspicions about the motives of a handsome, penniless suitor (Montgomery Clift) prove correct, her heart breaks, then hardens.

She avenges herself on both men, famously telling her Aunt (Miriam Hopkins), “Yes, I can be very cruel.

I have been taught by masters.” Her extraordinary performance garnered a second Best Actress Oscar and another New York Film Critics Award.

She was director Elia Kazan’s and Marlon Brando’s first choice for Blanche in the film version of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), but declined because she felt the role wasn’t right for her.

After starring in Broadway revivals of Romeo & Juliet and Candida, she

Castro classics coming in July

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uly at the Castro Theatre is a blissfilled treat, from black-and-white gems like The Third Man through blood-drenched noir classics like The Postman Always Rings Twice.

The Third Man (1949) Whether you think of it as the ultimate hard-luck buddy adventure or as a boy-genius comeback project, this trek through the sewers of postWWII Vienna remains gloriously entertaining. British director Sir Carol Reed puts naive American Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) on a seemingly larky journey across the war-ravaged capital, which appears little more than a network of scarcity-generated rackets, from housing slots through counterfeit food-ration coupons. This marks the onset of the period when Orson Welles began to be identified for a series of eccentrically executed acting turns rather than for his great visions as a filmmaker.

The Fallen Idol (1948) Another sublime treat from Carol Reed involves a young boy whose worshipful feelings for a household servant are destroyed upon the discovery of a nasty crime. With Ralph Richardson and Bobby Henrey. (both 7/7) American Psycho (2000) Brad Easton Ellis’ early-90s bestseller is a lurid, guilty-pleasure screen treat.

Leave your internal trash detector at home.

Less Than Zero (1987) At the time, Robert Downey Jr.’s turn as a pretty-boy fast-lane cocaine addict

appeared little more than art imitating life. A generation later, judge for yourself. (both 7/8) The Searchers (1956) John Ford and John Wayne combine forces to give us what many critics regard as the greatest Western ever shot for the big screen. One of the film’s astonishing moments has Wayne’s genocidal, Indian-killing frontiersman shut out of the house as the

civilized members of his family search for a more righteous path to conquering another savage tribe.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood team up in this pioneering spaghetti western. (both 7/10) 3 Women (1972) Robert Altman established his reputation as a director with a keen sense of women’s inner lives. With awesome turns from

Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall, this one gives off the unique feel of a 70s sensibility.

Mulholland Drive (2001) Surreal genius David Lynch, who mesmerized with Blue Velvet, returns with another dark-side urban chiller. (both 7/13) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) John Garfield and Lana Turner are smoking hot as

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returned to the screen in an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel (1952), playing the ambiguous title character with precision. The young Richard Burton co-starred.

She had married writer Marcus Goodrich in 1946, but they divorced in 1953. In 1955, she married Pierre Galante, editor of Paris Match, and moved to the French capital, where she still resides. That marriage ended in 1979, but they remained on amicable terms.

As The Ambassador’s Daughter (1956), set in Paris, she gave a delightfully comic performance.

But A Light in the Piazza (1962) was serious – she played a woman determined that her beautiful but developmentally disabled daughter marry and have a comfortable life.

Once again, she combined gentility and strength to create a memorably sympathetic character.

She was harrowing in the terrifying Lady in a Cage (1964), trapped in her private elevator while her home is ransacked by young hoods who don’t realize they have met their match. That same year she replaced Joan Crawford opposite Bette Davis in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, playing the soignee, malicious cousin Miriam with charm, and stealing the picture from her old friend.

For the next 24 years, she worked in films and on television, retiring in 1988 with characteristic grace. Her stature, however, increases with each passing year. A 2003 appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony earned her a lengthy, show-stopping standing ovation. President George W. Bush presented her with the National Medal of Honor in 2008. In 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed her a Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur, France’s highest civilian award.

The significance of her artistic legacy is indisputable. It’s all the more memorable because it’s linked to rare intelligence, character, and elegance.t

cheating lovers in this first adaptation of James M. Cain’s noir murder novel. Remade in the 80s with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.

After Dark, My Sweet (1990) James Foley re-invents noir with a nifty cast: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern. A seldom-seen minor gem. (both 7/14) What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Peter Bogdanovich revives the 30s screwball-comedy genre with this madcap, San Francisco-based laugher, starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal.

Moonstruck (1987) Cher grabs the spotlight as a Brooklyn lass determined to pursue her heart’s desires. Norman Jewison directs John Patrick Shanley’s script about obsessed characters who won’t take no for an answer. Benefits from an early goofy turn from Coppola nephew Nicolas Cage and Oscar-nodded turns from Olympia Dukakis, Cher and Shanley. (both 7/15) The Muppet Movie (1979) Miss Piggy is in the thick of the fun as the Muppets hit Hollywood.

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Pee-wee Herman is determined to get his little red fire engine back to the playhouse. (both 7/16) Blow Out (1981) Brian De Palma introduces us to the sexy young John Travolta as a film sound guy who stumbles into a political conspiracy thriller that provokes and puzzles.

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SPF9 @ ODC Theater

Confessions of a Catholic Child @ Exit Theatre

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza

Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries

Elizabeth Appell’s comic play about a woman indulging in stories about her youth and life as a Catholic. $15-$30.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru July 9.

156 Eddy St. www.theexit.org

The outdoor performance series returns, with varied acts each weekend. July 9, 1pm: The Beauty Operators string Band. July 10, 11am: Art in the Plaza with Mary Delave.

Castro St. at Market. castrocbd.org

Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials celebrating the two decades of the LGBTQ collections.

Also, Bar Rags to Mainstream Press: San Francisco’s Local LGBT Newspapers & Magazines, at the Main Library, 100 Larkin St., 5th floor.

Thru Aug 7. 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. sfpl.org

Flower Piano @ SF Botanical Garden

Summerican

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he year is half over, with half a year to come. Some say a glass is half empty or half full, while others know it’s always refillable. Drink up the arts. For more events, visit us online at www.ebar.com. For nightlife events, check out On the Tab in BARtab.

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Thu 7 Baloney @ Oasis The sexy funny all-male (and a drag king or two) burlesque revue returns with a hot summertime series of acts. $20-$50. 7pm. Thru July 9. www.sfbaloney.com www.sfoasis.com

Cabaret @ Golden Gate Theatre Randy Harrison stars in the Tonywinning revival touring production of Kander, Ebb and Masteroff’s classic musical set in a pre-Nazi Berlin nightclub, and based on the Christopher Isherwood book. $40 rush; $65-$212. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Fri & Sat 2pm. Thru July 17. www.shnsf.com

Colette Uncensored @ The Marsh Berkeley Lorri Holt’s acclaimed solo show about the pioneering writer moves to the East Bay theatre. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Aug. 20. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Colors of the Tenderloin @ Tenderloin Museum Opening reception for an exhibit of photography by Darwin Bell. 6:30pm9pm. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, $6-$10 ($15 includes walking tour). 398 Eddy St. 351-1912. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Diana Ross @ Various Venues The iconic singer performs her classic hits with an orchestra. July 7 at Wente Vineyards, $99-$300. 8:15pm.

5050 Aroyo Road, Livermore. July 9 at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, $45-$190. 8pm. 1200 Athens Ave., Lincoln. July 10 at Mountain Winery, $162-$354. 7:30pm. 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga. www.ticketmaster. com/Diana-Ross-tickets/artist/736009 July 12 at The Orpheum Theatre, 1182 Market St., San Francisco. $148-$600.

8pm. 1182 Market St. (888) 746-1799.

July 13 at Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. $66-$226. 8pm. (415) 473-6800. www.rbpconcerts.com

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast @ Orpheum Theatre Touring production of the charming popular musical based on the awardwinning animated feature, with music by Alan Mencken and lyrcis by Howard Ashman. $40-$212. Thru July 10. 1192 Market St. www.shnsf.com

Hello, Dolly! @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Musicals in Concert, a new series, kicks off with Jerry Herman’s rousing musical about a matchmaker; directed by Allen Sawyer, with Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill, Alex rodriguez, Darlene Popovic and others.. $40-$60. Wed & Sat 7pm.

Thu & Fri 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru July 10.

Also Mame, Aug. 10-14. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

LGBT Chronicled: 1933-2016 @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Group exhibit of photos documenting Bay Area LGBT lives. Tue-Wed 4pm8pm. Thu 1pm-9pm. Sat & Sun 12pm5pm. Thru July 16. 50 Scott St. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Lightning in the Brain @ The Marsh Corey Fischer (cofounder of the traveling Jewish Theatre) performs his new music-theater work full of tales from his long life of Hollywood, Paris and roaming through America. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm. 1062 Valencia St. Thru July 9. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre July 7: The Third Man (7pm) and Fallen Idol (9pm). July 8: American Psycho (7pm) and Less Than Zero (8:55). July 9: She-Devil, with a drag pre-show from Peaches Christ and crew (3pm & 8pm - $25-$70). July 10: Chuck Jones cartoon tribute (12pm), The Searchers (6pm) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (8:15). July 13: 3 Women (6:45) and Mulholland Drive (9:05). July 14: The Postman Always Rings Twice (original, 7pm) and After Dark My Sweet (9:05). $11-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Philadelphia Freedom @ GLBT History Museum Philadelphia Freedom: Gay Patriots, Protesters & Profiteers at the Bicentennial, a talk with historian and author Marc Stein. 7pm. Also, exhibits Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS, an exhibit of photos and ephemera, curated by Glenne McElhinney, about Bay Area dancers who died of AIDS. Thru Aug. 7. $5. 4127 18th St. www.dancerswelost.org/exhibit/ www.glbthistory.org

SPF9 @ ODC Theater SAFEhouse Arts 9th annual dance and performance festival features works by 17 solo and ensemble groups. $10-$20. Wed-Fri shows at 7pm, 8pm & 9pm. Sat & Sun, 2pm to 9pm shows.

Thru July 10. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. www.odcdance.org

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, a new multimedia exhibit about the prolific filmmaker (thru Oct. 30). Other exhibits as well. Free (members)-$12.

Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 6557800. www.thecjm.org

Fri 8 American Idiot @ Contra Costa Civic Theatre, El Cerrito East Bay production of the Tonywinning Green Day rock musical about 20somethings struggling in a post9/11 world. $17-$31. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru July 17. 951 Pomona Ave., El Cerrito. (510) 524-9012. www.ccct.org

City of Angels @ SF Playhouse Cy Coleman and David Zippel’s Tonywinning film noir musical is produced by the acclaimed local theatre company. $20-$125. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 17.

Kensington Park Hotel, 2nd floor, 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

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Enjoy dozens of impromptu outdoor piano-playing entertainments, from classical, jazz and modern professionals to students and amateurs, in a 12-day installation at multiple areas of the beautiful garden; Saturday & Sundays have the most performers. Thru July 18. www.sunsetpiano.com/flowerpiano

John Leguizamo: Latin History for Morons @ Berkeley Rep The award-winning comic, stage, TV and film actor performs his solo show about trying to teach his son about Latin history, with satirical takes on the Civil War, Aztec and Incan history. $35-$60. 8pm. Tue-Fri & Sun 8pm.

Sat 7pm & 10pm. Also Sun 2pm. Thru Aug. 14. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Ken Ireland @ Strut Re-Mastered, classical art works redone as gay erotica by the local artist. Opening reception. 8pm-10pm.

Thru July. 470 Castro St. strutsf.org

Low Hanging Fruit @ Z Below 3Girls Theatre Company’s production of Robin Bradford’s drama about four homeless women military veterans struggling to survive in LA. $20-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 30. 470 Florida St. www.3girlstheatre.org

Master Harold …and the Boys @ Aurora Theatre Athol Fugard’s award-winning drama about a South African white young man and his family’s Black employees. $32-$60. Wed-Sat 8pm. Tue & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 17.

(510) 843-4042. auroratheatre.org

Risk Live @ Marines Memorial Theatre Comic actor/storyteller Kevin Allison and locals tell amazing true tales. $25.

8pm. 609 Sutter St. ticketmaster.com

Sketch 6 @ Cowell Theatre Amy Seiwert’s Imagery presents “Use Your Words,” a night of new daring dances-in-progress with prose, poems, and songs by Seiwert, Val Caniparoli, Nicole Haskins, and AdamHougland. $25-$75. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. 2 Marina Blvd. fortmason.org/event/sketch-6-useyour-words/

Sat 9 La Cage Aux Folles @ Victoria Theatre Bay Area Musicals’ production of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s nine-Tony-winning musical adaptation of the French film about a nightclub owner and his partner who try to hide being gay when their conservative in-laws-to-be visit. $20-$100. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 31.

2961 16th St. www.bamsf.org

Comic Book Sale @ SF Public Library Donation Center Choose from 35,000 comic books for only 25 cents each. 10am-4pm. 1632 17th St. www.friendssfpl.org

Erika Sanada @ Modern Eden Gallery Opening reception for the Japanese artist’s aborable and slightly spooky dog and bird sculptures. 6pm-9pm.

Thru July 30. 801 Greenwich St. 9563303. www.moderneden.com

Kinsey Sicks @ Herbst Theatre The hilarious drag-apella quartet returns to wreak musical havoc on politics and pop culture with their new show, Electile Dysfunction 2016: Hard Choices, Firm Positions. $25-$55.

8pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.kinseysicks.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle returns with his hit solo show about the polar sides of right and leftwing America. $25-$100. Fri 8pm & Sat 8:30pm. Thru Aug. 27.

1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Schooled @ Various Venues San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new satirical political musical comedy takes on collapsing educational system and corporate intervention.

Free/donations. July 9 & 10, 2pm at Live Oak Park, Shattuck Ave. at Berryman, Berkeley. Other shows thru Sept. 5 thorughout the Bay Area. www.sfmt.org

SF Hiking Club @ Huddard Park Join GLBT hikers for a nine-mile hike at Huddart Park and Phleger Estate, which sit amid majestic groves of coastal redwoods and Douglas fir.

Carpool meets 8:30 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. 740-9888. www.sfhiking.com

She-Devil @ Castro Theatre Peaches Christ and Sharon Needles (with Heklina, Holotta Tymes and others) perform a drag parody show paired with a screening of the Roseanne Barr & Meryl Streep comedy. $25-$70 (VIP includes cast reception and cocktails). 3pm & 8pm.

429 Castro St. peacheschrist.com

Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen @ Exploratorium New exhibit of the amazing walking sculptures that resemble giant insectlike creatures. Thru Sept. 5. Free-$25.

Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest

Sun 10 Abrazo, Queer Tango @ Finnish Brotherhood Hall, Berkeley Enjoy weekly same-sex tango dancing and a potluck, with lessons early in the day. $7-$15. 3:30-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley. (510) 8455352. www.finnishhall.com

Eating Pasta Off the Floor @ The Marsh Maria Grazia Affinito returns with her comic solo show about ItalianAmerican family life and her mother’s history. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sun 5pm.

Thru July 24. 1062 Valencia St. 2823055. www.themarsh.org

Various Exhibits @ de Young Museum Exhibits of Bruce Davidson photos, Printed Stories, The Sumatran Ship cloth, and works by Kay Sekimachi.

Free/$25. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.famsf.org

Mon 11 Broadway Bares: Tech Tails @ Club Fugazi Randy Harrison, David Hernandez, Jai Rodriguez, Cassandra Cass and cast members from the touring production of Cabaret perform in the first West Coast version of the popular New York City sexy strip show benefit for the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation. $30-$100. VIP after-party. 7:30pm.

678 Green st. www.reaf-sf.org

Perfectly Queer Reading @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza “The Long and Short of It,” readings by long and short gay fiction authors Michael Aleynikov ( Ivan and Misha ), Jim Provenzano ( Forty Wild Crushes), and Na’amen Gobert Tilahun ( The Root), with a panel discussion, refreshments and door prizes. 7pm.

601 Van Ness Ave. www.booksinc.net

Tue 12 Rabbi Mychal Copeland @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza Director of Interfaith/Bay Area discusses her book Struggling in Good Faith: LGBTQI Inclusion from 13 American Religious Perspectives. 7pm.

601 Van Ness Ave. www.booksinc.net

Radar Reading @ SF Public Library Queer reading series continues with Mai Doan, Mari Naomi, Gina Gold and Fisayo Adeyeye. Free. 5:45pm. Latino/ Hispanic Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Sell/Buy/Date @ Berkeley Rep Tony Award winner Sarah Jones performs a multi-character workshop presentation of her NYC-bound solo show about sex workers. $20-$40.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 31. Osher Studio, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Will Durst @ The Marsh The political comic’s updated solo show, Elect to Laugh: 2016, adds topical jokes about the bizarre election season. $15-$100. Tuesdays, 8pm. Extended thru July 26. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Wed 13 Confederates @ Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto World premiere of Suzanne Bradbeer’s political drama about a man running for president, his rebellious daughter, and a Confederate flag scandal. $19$80. Tue, Wed 7:30pm. Thu0Sat 8pm.

Wed & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Aug. 7. 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

(650) 463-1960. www.TheatreWorks.org

Daniel Bacon @ Books Inc. Berkeley The author of Frisco reads from and discusses his debut mystery novel set in 1934 San Francisco. 7pm. 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.booksinc.net

Thu 14 Hal Sparks @ Cobb’s Comedy Club The star of Queer as Folk and numerous films performs his stand-up comedy act. $20; 2-drunk min. 8pm.

July 15 at 8pm & 10:15. July 16 at 7:30 & 9:45. 915 Columbus Ave. 928-4320. www.cobbscomedy.com

Our Lady J @ Oasis The gospel-sounding yet highly irreverent singer returns for a uniquely rousing concert, with guest vocalist Derek Scmidt. $20. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Sono Musette @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Enjoy French pop and folk classics on Bastille Day with the voclainstrumental ensemble. $25-$40. $20 food/drink min. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketfly.com To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.For more bar and nightlife events, go to On the Tab in our BARtab section, online at www.ebar.com/bartab

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Christian Thielemann’s bully podium

by Tim Pfaff

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vidence is there’s heavy withdrawal after SF Opera’s sensational Summer Season, and, opera fans, this is why God made recordings. As usual, the industry inaugurates the European summer-festival season with videos of last year’s biggies; this year, almost uncannily, the two most prominent ones feature perennial opera newsboy Christian Thielemann, grand wizard of the Bayreuth Festival and European opera’s bully-in-chief.

But first some good news from free-to-view gay-opera central.

One of the most recent offerings on Opera Platform, where international productions can be viewed for free for six months, is the Dutch National Opera’s The Queen of Spades, theoperaplatform.eu/en/ opera/tchaikovsky-queen-spades.

It’s a new production by Stefan Herheim, one of the Continent’s leading directors. With Tchaikovsky the most famously gay of front-rank composers, Herheim adds (he only ever adds) the composer’s interest in men as an element in his Queen.

Thielemann’s reputation as a conductor is secure enough to permit asking an old question: Can a compromised person, politically and otherwise, make great music?

The jury’s out on whether he is a great interpreter of the central European concert repertoire, but most people are happy with him in the opera pit, where it helps that you see so little of him, and at Bayreuth nothing at all. Rule of thumb: If you liked Herbert von Karajan, you’ll probably love Thielemann, bearing in mind that, at the end of his tenure, the Berlin Philharmonic threw Karajan out on his ear, and the present-day Philharmonikers voted politically far-right Thielemann out of the music director challenge on the first ballot.

It’s said that what Thielemann envies most about Karajan is his predecessor’s two Nazi Party cards. To watch Thielemann at his intimidating best, look no farther than his brittle performance of Strauss’ Four Last Songs with born-to-sing-them soprano Anja Harteros (C-Major DVD); see creamy-voiced Harteros sing as nervously as if these were in fact the last four songs she’d ever sing, before the firing squad enters.

Thielemann holds roughly the same sway over the Salzburg Festival as Karajan did, the results similarly varying from the brilliant to the inflated, with little in-between.

He’s at his best in the 2015 Salzburg

Easter Festival Cav-Pag (Sony).

You’d think Italian verismo would be anathema to Thielemann, but he takes to Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci as if his wet nurse were from Sicily. He doesn’t just serve up the red meat, he concentrates on the sauces, yielding some meltingly beautiful orchestral playing and choral singing.

I thought I was done with both of these pieces, but have watched this set over and over.

It doesn’t hurt that his Turridu and Canio are Jonas Kaufmann, in one of the most gripping, vocally

glorious performances of his career. Like Placido Domingo before him, Kaufmann is the consummate ensemble performer, seeking to outshine no one else but making everyone around him reach. A bad production (e.g., the Met’s Ring) can lick even him as an actor, but in both of these performances he marshals the physical dexterity of Charlie Chaplin with, in Pagliacci, the smoldering, volcanic menace of a Pacino. At full cry he banishes memory of anyone else in these roles, centerpieces of the tenor repertoire sung fresh.

Philipp Stoelzl’s twotiered, six-paneled production eats up every square centimeter of the enormous Grosses Festspielhaus stage, but uses all of it shrewdly.

The ever-so-slightly jittery chorus could use a dose of Peter Sellars’ direction, but they sing so gorgeously you beam like adoring parents.

Liudmyla Monastryska’s roof-raising Santuzza perfectly balances the seemingly ageless Stefania Toczyska’s unyielding Mama Lucia in her Maggie-the-Cat glasses.

Dimitri Platanias’ monstrously malevolent Tonio in Pagliacci would steal the show if the lit fuse of Kaufmann’s Canio weren’t sparking away so inescapably.

Kaufmann’s extraordinary run of Italian roles lately has deflected some of the mania for his yet-tobe-announced first Tristan (first, his Otello), but you can bet that it won’t be under Thielemann’s stick. DG has just released the maestro’s televised Wagner Tristan und Isolde from last summer’s Bayreuth Festival, almost simultaneously with the latest Thielemann scandal. A month before the See page 25 >>

High expectations for solo turns

by Gregg Shapiro

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eyoncé (Knowles) first came across our radar as the dominant diva in the all-female, modern R&B group Destiny’s Child. But it didn’t take long for Queen Bey to fly the hive and make honey as a solo artist beyond measure. Thirteen years and six albums into her solo career, Beyoncé has exceeded all expectations with her latest release, Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia).

Her excellent eponymous 2013 disc was going to be a hard act to follow, but squeezing a thirst-quenching song cycle out of domestic distress has turned out to be her forte. Beginning with the “dishonesty all over your breath” in “Pray You Catch Me,” it’s fair to say that this drink is going to be tart. It’s also worth noting that the disc is a testament to working with the right collaborators, such as James Blake (“Pray You Catch Me,” “Forward”), Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend (“Hold Up”), Jack White (“Don’t Hurt Yourself ”), The Weeknd (“6 Inch”), Wynter Gordon (“Daddy Lessons”), and Kendrick Lamar (“Freedom”). Proper placements of classic samples “Can’t Get Used To Losing You,” “When the Levee Breaks” and “Walk On By” also go a long way in setting the tone.

Dramatically delivered numbers “Sandcastles” and “Formation” are too powerful to forget.

Thirty years after the release of Graceland, and at almost 75 years old, with Stranger to Stranger (Concord) Paul Simon continues the 21st-century streak of creative

brilliance that began with 2006’s Brian Eno-produced Surprise and 2013’s Phil Ramone-produced So Beautiful or So What What.

Reunited with “his old partner,” producer Roy Halee (co-producer of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Waters, as well as numerous Simon solo efforts), Simon sounds as fresh and modern as ever.

Simon has incorporated international influences in his music since his first post-S&G album in 1972, and continues to expand his musical palette with this album. Still our greatest living story-songwriter, Simon reels us in immediately with the terrifying on many levels “The Werewolf,” and doesn’t release us for nearly 40 minutes. The humorous “Wristband,” the ominous instrumental “The Clock,” “Street Angel” (which makes great use of samples), the exhilarating “In a Parade” (which could be a massive club track with the right remix), and the three breathtaking tunes that close the album (“The Riverbank,” “Cool Papa Bell” and the devastatingly beautiful “Insomniac’s Lullaby”) qualify this album as one of the best of 2016.

In case we forgot that Alice Bag was the former lead singer of LA punk legends The Bags, she opens her long overdue eponymous solo debut (on Don Giovanni) with the searing “Little Hypocrite.” But it’s what follows that tune that really rocks our world.

The girl-group retro of “He’s So Sorry” is a kind of brilliant answer song to the unfortunate 50-year-old Carole King/Gerry Goffin number “He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss).” Bag also bags it on the intelligent punk of “Programmed” (“We’re on an ocean and the

boat is sinking, no knowledge without critical thinking”), the infidelity heartbreaker “Suburban Home,” and the anti-sexual-violence anthem “No Means No!” The presence of queer musicians Kristian Hoffman and Allison Wolfe only makes this disc even more essential to your music library.

Highly regarded queer musician Lou Reed’s life as a solo artist was far lengthier than the time he spent in the Velvet Underground. Nevertheless, the influence of the short-lived Velvet Underground can still be felt today. Reed also provided plenty of inspiration to others when he went out on his own, beginning with his transformative 1972 disc Transformer, which included the massive and subversive hit single “Walk on the Wild Side.” For the next 40 years, the late Reed would go on to surprise and challenge us with each recording. Due to be released in October, three years after Reed’s passing, the 17-disc box set The RCA & Arista Album Collection (Legacy/RCA/Arista) compiles 17 albums, including masterpieces such as Coney Island Baby, Street Hassle, The Bells, The Blue Mask and New Sensations.

Would you look at that? The kids from Nickel Creek are all grown up!

Chris Thile is a dad and is about to take over A Prairie Home Companion hosting duties following Garrison Keillor’s retirement. Fiddler and singer Sara Watkins has just released her third album, the interestingly titled Young in All the Wrong Ways (New West). Watkins rocks us and

herself on the title track and “Move Me,” with strong results. Even when she finds her way back to her modern Americana roots, as she does on the delightful “One Last Time,” the foot-stomper “The Truth Won’t Set Us Free,” and serious numbers “Like New Year’s Day,” “Without a Word,” “Tenderhearted” and “Invisible,” she puts a distinctive spin on what we hear.

Richard Ashcroft, of The Verve fame, returns with These People (Harvest-Cooking Vinyl-RPA), his first solo album in six years. Easily one of his most accessible efforts, Ashcroft bravely traverses electronic dance territory on “Hold On” and “Out of My Body,” with satisfying results. He also

doesn’t shy away from the kinds of statements he’s known for on “They Don’t Own Me,” “Songs of Experience” and “Everybody Needs Somebody To Hurt,” which is reminiscent of “Bittersweet Symphony.”

We Were Wild (Grand Jury), the latest solo album by Esmé Patterson of the Denver band Paper Bird, is equal parts wild (“Feel Right,” “Moth Song”) and tame (“Guadalupe,” “Wantin’ Ain’t Getting’”).

Formerly of Titus Andronicus, Amy Klein, whose vocal style is reminiscent of Romeo Void’s Debora Iyall, burns it up on her solo debut Fire (Don Giovanni), particularly on the title track, “Yes Men,” “Parallels,” and “Runaway.”t

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Love & war

by Jim Piechota

Queerspawn in Love by Kellen Anne Kaiser; She Writes Press, $16.95 n her affecting, heartfelt memoir Queerspawn in Love, Kellen Kaiser, a writer with a particularly fascinating journey into and out of the lens of love, lays her heart bare on the page as a kind of exorcism of the bad luck that has plagued her romantic life.

Born in 1981, the author was raised in San Francisco as the daughter of four lesbians, a unique family dynamic that seems unremarkable by today’s standards, but in the era when the author was raised, “having gay parents meant something.” Kaiser’s addictive, dramatically written story, which she admits she wrote “because I want my soul back,” opens at a dinner where her best friend sits across from her fondling her oversized diamond engagement ring while Kaiser drowns her sorrows in a chocolate souffle, lamenting the disintegration of her own five-year-long fallen romance with a man serving in a foreign army.

The author’s history, beginning in 2001, is presented in chatty, conversational prose much akin to a dialogue enjoyed with a friend over Sunday brunch. Kaiser vividly

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recounts her love affair with Lior, whom she’d gone to preschool with as a child at a Jewish community center. The couple met again as adults while Kaiser was attending college and Lior was home on leave from his duties as a soldier serving on the Israeli Defense Forces.

Though their philosophical differences drove shards of doubt into their burgeoning romance, love won out, and the long-distance relationship that ensued burned bright for years.

Eventually, Lior was discharged and they moved in together, but along with the chronicle of their relationship, Kaiser shares her perspective on war and her immersive role as a veteran protester. “I’d protested the first Gulf War with my family,” she recounts. “I’d protested for Tibet, Burma, reproductive rights, racial equality, and gay rights, and against the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum.” Her opinions on Israel are clearly stated in the book, just as they may have been while she and Lior were a closelyknit couple. “I’ve never understood how people can believe in autonomy for folks like the Palestinians and the Tibetans, then demand Israel’s demise. If you believe that every people who feels the need to have their own space deserves it, then a two-state solution is probably the answer.”

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Eventually, these beliefs would drive a wedge between her and IDF soldier Lior. “Which came first: my desire for Israel, or my desire for Lior?” Kaiser questions.

Perhaps the most telling statement in the memoir arrives as Kaiser reaches an epiphanic moment in the book’s eloquent epilogue. Here, she reflects upon and extends a literary rosette toward her mothers, for instilling morals and standards in her life, which have formed a kind of salve on her wounds after her painful break-up. Her mothers “have found self-satisfaction outside of men – outside of partners, too, for the most part. They are happy for their own sake,” she reflects. “Lesbians do not live in spite of or despite men. They build their lives to their own specifications. I have learned to take comfort in the comfort they find within themselves.”

Published by Berkeley-based She Writes Press, this resonant memoir touches on themes of love, family, belonging, personal (and conflicting) values, the world of romance and engagement, and how these sandcastles can be washed away in a sea of misunderstanding, discord, and resentment. Personal satisfaction is the key to a fulfilling life, and the memoir reflects this with illuminative prose and a true heart.t

Why do Dark Shadows fans hate so much?

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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ark Shadows was a daytime drama like no other. From June 27, 1966 until April 2, 1971, it brought tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts and time travel to daytime-TV audiences. For three of its five-year run, Dark Shadows was one of the most talked-about TV shows in the USA. It commanded a daily audience of 20 million viewers. The series was featured in The New York Times and Newsweek magazine, a then-unheardof achievement for a soap opera.

It was the April 1967 introduction of Barnabas Collins, a 175-yearold vampire, that catapulted Dark Shadows into the stratosphere.

Barnabas was portrayed by Jonathan Frid (1924-2012), a classically trained stage actor who played the role as though he were playing Shakespeare. Audiences were mesmerized, and Frid, then 43, found himself cast as a most unlikely sex symbol and teen idol.

Jonathan Frid was a gay man.

In 1967, coming out would have been career suicide, so he remained “discreet.” But during the 1970s, in the years immediately following the Stonewall Riots, Frid may have taken a few steps out of the closet. He could often be seen enjoying cocktails at Julius’, a popular gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, and was photographed at the gay beach on New York’s Fire Island with his Dark Shadows co-star Louis Edmonds.

Many gay fans have said that the sight of Jonathan Frid, a closeted gay man playing a closeted vampire, awakened the first stirrings of their own sexualities. Yet at Dark Shadows Festivals, the annual fan gatherings, and in Dark Shadows chatrooms on Facebook, discussions of Frid’s sexuality or gay subtext on the series have been deemed taboo. Many LGBT fans report being bullied and threatened for attempting to discuss these issues.

One person who feels the brunt of these abuses is Gio Sue, an openly gay Italian man in New York who works in musical theater. Sue told the B.A.R. he receives daily hate mail as a reaction to his Facebook page, “Jonathan Frid Was Gay and That’s OK.” “If Jonathan Frid had come out,

Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in TV’s Dark Shadows.

would his so-called fans have celebrated his bravery, or would they have branded him as demonic as his character?” Sue asked, speaking to the B.A.R. “The true demons are the ones who refuse to recognize all the aspects of Mr. Frid’s historic legacy as they terrorize other gay fans.”

“I find this page to be offensive,” Dark Shadows fan Thomas Cianci wrote to Gio Sue on April 29. “You’re using the name/likeness of movie/TV legends to further your own ends and bring attention to yourself. Now that is what I call offensive and disturbing.”

On June 29, Sue was banned from “Jonathan Frid Treasures,” a Facebook chatroom, for attempting to start a discussion of Frid’s sexuality. Elana Nacanther, who runs the Jonathan Frid Treasures Group, told the B.A.R. that Sue was banned because his post was “not on topic.”

“I’d rather not say anything on the subject because as far as I’m concerned a person’s sexuality is none of my business,” Nacanther said. “I don’t want my love life discussed, so why would I invade anyone else’s privacy?”

Other gay fans report incidents in which physically disabled fans were

laughed at for being “ugly,” or where fans with mental disabilities were taunted for being “sick.”

“Although there are many kind, reasonable people who enjoy Dark Shadows and its fandom, there are far more self-centered, unkind, in some cases even cruel, unfeeling souls who delight in causing others pain and strife,” gay lifelong fan Tim Goss told the B.A.R. “They seem to look for vulnerability or weakness, then pounce.”

Goss said that he was at a loss to understand why the conduct is so virulent. Jim Pierson, who runs the Dark Shadows Festivals, and members of the Dark Shadows cast have been made aware of the behavior.

Pierson told the B.A.R. that claims of discrimination against LGBT people or people with disabilities are “false and erroneous.”

“I am sorry that you believe yourself to be a perpetual victim, and I hope you will seek careful counseling from qualified professionals,” Pierson said. “Avoid those with whom you have tangible, legitimate conflict in your life.”

“Throughout Dark Shadows fandom, there are superficial people that have cruelly offended others

and divided themselves into packs,” said Joe and Jean Blasy, a straight couple in Sacramento, both staunch LGBT allies. “Their purpose is to target the victims whom they hate.

I wonder if they intentionally want to make trouble because they’re so bored with the life they have that they need to bully people.”

Jean Blasy told the B.A.R. that at a recent Dark Shadows Festival, an irate fan whom she’s never spoken to slammed a door on her shoulder. Blasy has no idea why she was attacked, and most likely won’t be attending future Dark Shadows fan events.

“I’m sorry to see what Dark Shadows fandom has become,” David MacDowell Blue, a lifelong fan, said. “It’s a cesspool of seething hatred. The worst fandom ever.”

“To witness so much homophobia and bullying among the fan base of a long-defunct TV series is disheartening,” added Patrick Henry, a gay Dark Shadows fan in San Francisco.

“When strangers gather in crowds, whether for a festival or on social media, some people seem to feel more at liberty to say whatever they damn well please,” said Marie Maginity, a political columnist who writes Dark Shadows fan fiction

under the pen name Mad Margaret.

“On Facebook, Dark Shadows fans have got into vicious fights over which characters should have been romantically involved, whether or not a certain actor was gay, or personal differences.”

Is Dark Shadows fandom a mirror image of the bruised egos that seem to have taken over our society, or is it just the victim of old-fashioned homophobic hate? It appears to be a little of both. Where does that leave gay fans, many of whom have faced a lifetime of exclusion from society?

“The worst mass shooting in US history since Wounded Knee,” Gio Sue wrote at the “Jonathan Frid Was Gay” page on the day of the recent mass shooting at Pulse, the gay club in Orlando. “This is why the truth about our public figures is necessary. And one more reason to honor the memory of a great gay man.” t Two years of Dark Shadows episodes are streaming free of charge at Hulu: hulu.com/darkshadows-1966. The complete series can also be purchased in a coffin-shaped DVD box set, and a new 50th Anniversary Dark Shadows best-of compilation is also available on DVD.

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Our post-Stuxnet world

by Erin Blackwell

balloon to demonstrate how Stuxnet achieved its crippling industrial sabotage. A small computer known as a programmable logic controller, or PLC, is universally employed to run programs for power plants, factories, and countless services from healthcare to finances. They programmed a PLC to pump air for five seconds, then infected it with the virus, after which the pump kept going until it popped the balloon. How Stuxnet messed with the centrifuges was more complex but

equally destructive. The Symantec Duo were amazed that code had crossed over into “real world physical destruction,” having considered the concept “Hollywoodesque.”

The coolest thing in Zero Days is an eerie cgi blonde who’s a cross between Caitlin Jenner, Patty Hearst, and Dorian Grey. This intriguing entity, modeled on flesh-and-blood actress Joanne Tucker, enunciates the analysis and expresses the frustration of various NSA staff “angry about secrecy but afraid to come forward.” See, the thing is, even though everyone knows whodunit, the perps still refuse to come clean.

The film’s final chapter is devoted to pleading for open debate in our socalled democracy, with an aim to establishing international treaties like those that exist for humanity’s other heinous engines of destruction.

Well-researched, meticulously edited, densely informative, Zero Days is utterly riveting as visual display and thoroughly mind-boggling as technomilitary history, not to mention scary as hell in terms of just how sneaky, vicious, and ultimately self-defeating our military-cyber complex is. Stuxnet is industrial sabotage on a grand scale now available to any entity with the will and the means to replicate it.

So, yeah, the power grid can go down any minute due to an adversary in the network. In the words of erstwhile NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, “It’s not really ever secure.”t

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illary Clinton makes a brief but telling appearance early in a new documentary about the infamous Stuxnet worm to intone with a straight face, “I categorically deny any U.S. involvement.”

In retrospect, I guess she was even then practicing the presidential lie as a means of demonstrating her loyalty to the great U.S. tradition of military aggression and its Middle Eastern corollary: enabling Israel’s persecution complex as the ultimate rationale for preemptive attack.

Just how Israel’s Mossad partnered with our own CIA, NSA, and Cyber Command to design and launch globally disruptive malware is the subject of Zero Days, opening July 8 at Landmark Embarcadero.

Writer and director Alex Gibney lays out the complex story in a well-ordered series of chapters that don’t draw attention to themselves as such, but simply slide seamlessly from one surreal aspect to another.

After a six-minute prologue proffering an elusive mosaic of elements without narrative context, we meet the film’s protagonists, cyber sleuths Eric Chien and Liam O Murchu of Symantec Research Labs, in Santa Monica. These guys explain in layperson’s terms how they tracked down the perpetrators by reverseengineering the computer code and deducing which geopolitical actors

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A scene from director Alex Gibney’s Zero Days.

had the means, motive, and moral arrogance for the deed.

The baton is then passed to New York Times reporter David Sanger, whose beat combines cyberspace, nuclear weapons and espionage. He narrates a condensed history of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, starting with the U.S. gift of a nuclear reactor to the Shah in 1967. After the 1979 revolution, the situation reversed itself as Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan started sharing nuclear know-how with Middle Easterners the U.S. considered

undeserving of the technology. The film’s focus then narrows to the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Facility in Iran, which would become Stuxnet’s target. The Bush White House decides to disable Iranian centrifuges from inside the computers running them, rather than let Israel start a messy physical fight they’d expect the U.S. to finish. Obama continues the program, and the worm starts wriggling in June 2009.

Chien and O Murchu use a simple air pump blowing up a

Complex, violent noir

by Tavo Amador

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irector-writer Nicholas Ray (1911-79) did his best work during the last decade or so of classic Hollywood’s Studio System.

His films are eclectic but deeply personal. Even those he was forced to make to earn a living or placate a mogul show his innate sympathy for marginalized members of society.

After working in the theatre in New York, where he became friends with Elia Kazan and John Houseman, Ray was signed by RKO, then owned by Howard Hughes. He made a remarkable directorial debut with They Live By Night (1948), starring handsome gay actor Farley Granger as a wounded escaped convict and Cathy O’Donnell as the woman who helps him. Inexplicably, Hughes delayed releasing the movie for two years. Critics were enthusiastic, but business was modest. Humphrey Bogart, however, admired it. About to produce his first independent venture Knock on Any Door (1949), he signed Ray to direct it.

Bogart, working at Columbia, then requested Ray to helm In a Lonely Place (1950). Newly released in Blu-ray DVD by Criterion, it’s a striking, complex noir that rises above its genre to be a compelling portrait of a deeply troubled, often violent man and the woman who falls in love with him. It is Bogart’s finest performance, and will impress even those who have never understood the star’s legendary, multi-generational appeal.

Dixon Steele (Bogart) is a Hollywood writer who hasn’t sold anything for awhile. He lives in a courtyard apartment. Dix is accused

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Thielemann

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opening of this summer’s festivalopening new Parsifal – rumored to have “an Islamic theme,” which should calm everyone down – its scheduled conductor, Andris Nelsons, fled the Green Hill over “various [artistic] differences,” and particularly heavy interference by Thielemann, who has

of murdering a woman, a charge he vehemently denies. The testimony of his sexy neighbor, Laurel Grey (the extraordinary Gloria Grahame), exonerates him, at least initially. Laurel is an actress with a couple of very brief appearances in low-budget films to her credit. But she is attracted to Dixon. As she tells the cops, “I like his face.” They are drawn to each other. Her knowing, flirtatious manner sets the pace for their relationship, which soon becomes intimate. He resumes writing. She takes care of his needs.

But police captain Lochner (Carl Benton Reid) thinks Dixon is guilty of killing the woman. Laurel is either mistaken about what she saw or lying.

The captain’s suspicions put Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai (Frank Lovejoy) in a quandary – he and Dixon served in the army together during WWII and have remained friends. Now he’s being asked to investigate his old buddy.

He invites Dix and Laurel to his home for dinner, prepared by his wife, Sylvia (Jeff Donnell). During the evening Dix, using Sylvia, demonstrates how he would have committed the murder. He’s so convincing and forceful that Sylvia is frightened and hurt. Laurel is unnerved.

As the relationship between Laurel and Dixon intensifies, his mood swings increase. They are violent and unpredictable, triggered by road rage and a misunderstanding at a restaurant. Laurel gives his loyal agent Mel (Art Smith) the completed script of a novel he was hired to adapt. Even when Mel tells Dixon that the studio loves his work and will use it, Dix cannot let go of his anger.

Dix is eager to marry Laurel. He buys her an engagement ring. He

wants to elope. She’s torn between love and fear. While Laurel is getting a massage, her butch masseuse Mildred (Martha Stewart) makes it clear Dixon is trouble, but the viewer senses she is a rival for Laurel’s affection.

As Dix’s obsessive love for Laurel increases, along with his need to control her, Laurel’s dilemma becomes more urgent. Any sign of hesitation may trigger an outburst of verbal and physical abuse. The suspense builds as the viewer watches Dix struggle for self-control while

Laurel realizes her life is in danger.

Under Ray’s guidance, Bogart captures the character’s tortured psychology, the romantic temperament buried by the volatility, anger, and need to be in control. He shows enough vulnerability, charm, and intelligence to make Laurel’s falling in love with him believable.

Grahame, the most fascinating blonde of the era, gives another of her memorable performances. Her elusiveness, her ability to suggest a wildly erotic nature, her confidence in

her allure, and her intelligence make Laurel unforgettably sympathetic. She was easily Bogart’s best noir co-star in his post-Lauren Bacall period.

The rest of the cast is excellent, especially Lovejoy as the conflicted cop.

Ray’s camera makes full use of the courtyard apartment building’s setting, which makes privacy difficult.

His subtle suggestion that Mildred is sexually attracted to Laurel slipped past the censors. Andrew Solt wrote the excellent script from an adaptation of Dorothy Hughes’ novel by Edmund H. North. Jean Louis designed Grahame’s superb costumes.

In a Lonely Place was completely ignored when it came to Academy Award nominations. But Bogart would win the Best Actor Oscar the next year, for his sentimental performance opposite Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen. Grahame would collect the Best Supporting Actress Award for her memorable work in 1952’s The Bad and the Beautiful. She gave many brilliant performances in the 1950s, most notably in Fritz Lang’s outstanding noir The Big Heat (1953). Ray’s only Oscar nomination came for his screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause (1955), his best-known film.

Grahame and Ray’s marriage, which produced a son, was falling apart during filming of In a Lonely Place. They divorced in 1952. In 1960, she married Anthony Ray, his son by an earlier marriage, who was 14 years her junior. They had two children. No doubt the resulting scandal contributed to the swift decline in her career – after 1959, she appeared on television or had small roles in low-budget films. She worked up until her death in 1981, at 58.t

yet to bag a decent Parsifal (Nelsons has, in concert) and has nothing like the Latvian’s collegiality.

Last summer, dangerously late, Thielemann dismissed the Isolde, Anja Kampe, from that Tristan over “differences,” possibly her being the amour of Kirill Petrenko, who beat Thielemann out of the Berlin job, yet who was, at that very time, saving Thielemann’s bacon, taking the

helm of Bayreuth’s disastrous Frank Castorf Ring, in which Kampe sang a triumphant Sieglinde. In the event, feisty Evelyn Herlitzius, a spitfire Heldensopran who knows her way around Thielemann, stepped in with an uncommonly focused if predictably fire-breathing Isolde, giving the Festspielhaus audience every shredded fiber of her being and the television audience her

complete dental history.

When Wagner issued his famous (if ambiguous) call, “Children, make something new,” he probably hadn’t foreseen what his great-grandchildren might produce. After previous productions on the Green Hill that many thought vandalized The Master’s work, Festival co-director and stage director Katharina Wagner calmed the troops with a merely

mystifying Tristan set in a nuthouse (European directorial cliche of the season) on a hyperkinetic Jungle Jim only Bayreuth’s state-of-the-art theater could operate. Stephen Gould’s in-every-way huge Tristan matched Herlitzius’ sexy Isolde cannily. Once upon a time, it was high praise to say that you weren’t even aware of a great Wagner conductor. There’s no getting around Christian.t

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Stanley Kubrick

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He tailored genres for his own purposes and with each project reinvented his style. One need only to look at films as varied as the dystopian A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which aside from winning an Oscar for Special Effects, has been cribbed from by an untold number of directors; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), a wicked satire of Cold War paranoia with Peter Sellers in multiple roles; and The Shining (1980), a cult horror classic that continues to be analyzed to the nth degree by fanatic fans.

While not all of Kubrick’s movies were masterpieces or to everyone’s taste – they can be glacially slow, cerebral and easier to admire than to love (think Barry Lyndon) – one could count on their visual beauty and artistic integrity. A meticulous, obsessive researcher, the vast archives Kubrick maintained at his London home and workspace until his death in 1999 have provided a wealth of source material for Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, the first comprehensive retrospective of his life and work. The touring show, containing over 800 objects from his estate, opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum last week.

So what’s Kubrick doing at a Jewish museum, you ask? True, he grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in the West Bronx in the 1930s, where he met several key future collaborators. It’s debatable whether his work reflects his Jewish heritage, except in the most general terms; he was an agnostic, and positioning him as a Jewish filmmaker is a bit of a stretch. Still, one can’t fault CJM for endeavoring to attract a wider audience with pop culture shows that

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Broadway Bares

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Fifty performers, including local talent, special guest stars, and members of the touring cast of Cabaret, perform routines that variously suggest the burlesque striptease of Gypsy Rose Lee, the stuff-a-billin-my-posing-strap erotica of the Chippendales, and contemporary Broadway styling, all put together by veteran Broadway performer Deb Leamy.

Scheduled guests include Randy Harrison (Cabaret, Queer as Folk), Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), reality TV star Cassandra Cass, and American Idol finalist David Hernandez. The locally based Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) has teamed with Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS to introduce Broadway Bares to San Francisco.

REAF has been presenting Help Is on the Way cabaret-style shows since 1995, and will offer its latest edition in that series at the Herbst

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2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick (GB/United States; 1965-68).

have the broad appeal of this one.

Many in that audience will be familiar with Kubrick’s most iconic titles, but make no mistake: this exhibition is a film buff ’s paradise.

It’s packed with movie-making arcana and emphasizes the director’s approach to shooting, writing, editing and scoring, all of which he oversaw, rather than delving into personal psychology. The show, which takes up the entire second floor of the museum and is divided into sections examining all of his films (13 features and three docs), follows his development with numerous production stills, on-set and behind-the-scenes photographs, shooting schedules and continuity docs, film clip compilations, the director’s thoughts on various projects collected in notebooks one can flip through, annotated scripts and questions in Kubrick’s own hand, props, costumes like the gorilla-like “Moonwatcher” body suit from 2001, production design sketches, and storyboards such as a modernist renderings in color for Spartacus,

finely executed by none other than Saul Bass; a Roman tunic and warrior uniform from the film are on mannequins nearby.

Also here is his correspondence with Vladimir Nabokov, author of the novel and screenplay for Lolita. A letter to Kubrick from the “Christian Action” group protests the “deleterious effect” of Lolita on the moral fiber of society and asserts it shouldn’t be made. Tough tootsies: it had already been shot. It was Nabokov who chose Sue Lyon for the teenage temptress, and tiny color pictures of her by Bert Stern play up her woman-child quality on a strip of slides that can be viewed through a magnifier. The background in the Lolita section is painted cherry red. Enough said.

Kubrick started as a photographer, selling his first image at age 16 to Look magazine, and became a staff photographer the following year. Suffice it to say: the boy was a natural, and over 900 of his pictures of boxers, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift and other subjects were published during his tenure

Theatre on Aug. 21.

The Broadway Bares enterprise began in 1992 as a shoestring effort

by Jerry Mitchell, then a member of the chorus in The Will Rogers Follies, who enlisted several of his performer buddies to do a choreographed striptease routine at a Manhattan gay bar, and the next day he was able to deliver a pillow case filled with $8,000 in soggy bills to Broadway Cares. Mitchell’s work on the increasingly elaborate Broadway Bares productions helped land him a job as choreographer on the stripthemed The Full Monty, and he has since won Tony Awards for choreographing La Cage aux Folles and Kinky Boots.

In the beginning, Broadway Bares inspired some controversy.

“People asked, ‘Is this the right way to raise money for AIDS?’” Mitchell recalled.

“As a gay man myself, surrounded by friends dealing with HIV and AIDS, I could see that AIDS was taking away their dignity. Part of what I was trying to do was encourage people not to lose

sight of their sexual selves and to celebrate their bodies in a safe and responsible way.”

Tickets are available by calling (415) 421-4222.

Jef Valentine and Robert Molossi play patrons of the Last Chance Salon in Stale Magnolias: The Musical at Oasis.

Korova Milk Bar Maids; lewd tabletops in the shape of kneeling naked women; a mannequin in Alex’s white jumpsuit, trademark black derby and cane, positioned outside the gallery entrance, waves one inside like a carnival barker.

Kubrick could be ponderous, never more so than in his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, a portentous snoozer that he considered his most important work. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic novella of sexual desire and decadence in early 20th-century Vienna, Kubrick’s updated, New York-set version with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman got lost in translation in more ways than one, and flopped in the U.S. and England. Though intended as a vision of a modern hell and bourgeois ennui, when one encounters a scene of a chanting voluptuous women in nothing but thongs, spike heels and Venetian masks, the temptation to case the exits and flee is irresistible.

The masks, with black feather plumage, decorated in gold, or with three faces, were the high point, except for a brief turn by the late Sydney Pollack. Kubrick suddenly died in 1999, shortly after its premiere. A tantalizing concluding section looks at several unfinished projects one wishes he could have made: Napoleon; The Aryan Papers, a Holocaust drama whose timing conflicted with the release of Schindler’s List; and A.I., which Spielberg eventually directed, based on Kubrick’s preparatory work.

This fine exhibition (through Oct. 30) notwithstanding, his true legacy lies in the films he left behind. In conjunction with the show, Kubrick in Black & White, a series highlighting his works from the 1950s and early 60s, will be at YBCA, July 15-31 (ybca.org); Kubrick in Color runs Aug. 12-Sept. 24 at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (drafthouse. com/sf).t

Musical ‘Magnolias’

The blossoms needed a little watering, and now refreshed, are returning as Stale Magnolias: The Musical. Don Seaver and Sean Owens have added songs to Owens’ mashup of southern-fried comedies, first staged in 2009 at the Glama-Rama Hair Salon and now premiering in a musicalized version on July 21 at Oasis.

The presenters of Stale Magnolias: The Musical see their show as “a sequel to Steel Magnolias, a lost season of Designing Women, and a second helping of Fried Green Tomatoes.” The setting is the Last Chance Salon, where a group of women regulars gather weekly to have their hair enlarged. Rivalries, jealousy, revenge, and maybe even murder turn the salon into a cauldron that is burning hot even for Rectal, Texas.

Cora Values is directing a cast made up of such drag talents as Marilynn Fowler, Jef Valentine, Robert Molossi, Michael Phillis, ’Drew Todd, and Jerry Navarro. “Showstopping wigs” by Jordan L’Moore are promised, and fair warning: Two lucky audience members nightly will be selected for a “Rectal Reclamation” makeover, with a chance to appear in the show’s finale.

Stale Magnolias: The Musical will run through Aug. 6 at Oasis. Tickets are available at sfoasis.com.

Writers on the rise

James Jordan

(1946-51). One of those black & white photographs of a tense moment before a swim meet, competitors poised at the edge of the pool, steam rising from the surface of the water, is vintage Kubrick.

His first feature and first war film, Fear and Desire (1953), an early effort he was dissatisfied with and later tried to pull from circulation, was made outside of a studio, unusual at the time and an early example of the fierce creative autonomy that drove his career. He borrowed $40,000 from his uncle to fund his next project, Killer’s Kiss (1955), a gangster noir that bears his signature long tracking shots, probably influenced by Orson Welles and Max Ophuls; handheld camerawork; scrupulous attention to set design; and strategically planned action sequences. An alcove exploring A Clockwork Orange, based on Anthony Burgess’ satiric novel about violent youth culture in a not-sofuturistic England, where the state employs aversion therapy to reform Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a teenage thug, contains plastic models of the

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Among the six plays that will have readings during the 39th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, subjects of dystopian futures, the invidious social world of the Web, and warwrought family estrangements are on the agenda. And then there’s the play about the boy next door.

In Sarah Sander’s Sycamore, with

Playwright Sarah Sander’s Sycamore looks at a brother-sister rivalry over the new boy on the street during the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

readings on July 17 & 23, teenage siblings both set amorous sights on the strange and quiet new boy in the neighborhood. This is not the first time that Henry, a gay math nerd, and Celia, a straight cheerleader, have been romantic rivals; their first competition over a boy had damaging impacts on both. “I’m exploring sibling rivalry, sexual fluidity, and costumes – how we dress, and what that says about us,” says Brooklynbased playwright Sander.

The festival also includes Wild Goose Dreams (July 15 & 23), in which South Korean playwright Hansol Jung and composer Paul Castles find how two Koreans estranged from their families can find new frequencies for communication performed both by actors and a live choir.

In Boston-based Walt McGough’s Non-Player Character (July 16 & 22), best friends Trent and Katja, designers of an online role-playing game, have a falling out, and Trent marshals an army of misogynistic internet trolls to wage real-life war against Katja.

Philana Omorotionmwan, the

daughter of a Louisiana mother and a Nigerian father, looks to the year 2083 in her play Before Evening Comes (July 16 & 24). In this draconian future, the government has mandated that nearly all males of color be homebound and disabled as they reach manhood. But Mary, mother to four sons, is determined to find any way necessary to subvert her boys’ fate.

In Good, Better, Best, Bested (July 17 & 23), Bay Area playwright Jonathan Spector imagines a motley crowd that’s part of the ongoing Las Vegas street party who, when they learn about a devastating world crisis, must decide whether or not to party on. “One of the big questions the piece is wrestling with,” says Spector, “is, What is our responsibility to tragic events that don’t affect our lives directly?”

All readings take place at the Custom Made Theatre at 533 Sutter St., where SF Playhouse formerly made its home. Readings will be followed by a talkback with the playwrights.

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Drag Diva Duo

Joey Arias and Sherry Vine at Oasis

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Sherry Vine and Joey Arias in Juano Diaz’ futuristic fantasy.

herry Vine and Joey Arias are old friends. Drag artists, celebrities, respected vocalists and seasoned performers, the pair will take to the Oasis stage on Friday July 15 for a look back on their brilliant careers as they ponder the future.

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“Joey Arias and I have worked together since 1993,” Vine said in a Bay Area Reporter interview as she was preparing for Looking Back at the Future, the Oasis show.

“Joey saw me performing as Edith Piaf at Bastille Day in New York City and invited me to join her and Raven O at the legendary Bar d’O. We have traveled extensively together around the world, always laughing and turning it out onstage. Joey is

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After Dark @ Exploratorium Enjoy cocktails, DJed music and creatures from Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen, the new exhibit of the amazing walking sculptures that resemble giant insectlike creatures. $10-$15. 6pm-10pm.

Pier 15 at Embarcadero. 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest

Art Against Violence @ Dada Bar Sable Jones MCs a benefit for CUAV and Orlando shooting victims, with drag performances by Mutha Chucka, Sophilia Leggs, Mama Dora, Cruzin d’Loo, Strobe, Caitlin Crandall, Alabama Slamma and Rasa Vitalia.

Hosted by Bernadette Bohan (Miss Royal Bunny); vegetarian sandwiches, hors d’eouvres, drinks. Donations.

6pm-2am. 86 2nd St. at Mission. www.dadasf.com

generous, kind, out-of-control and a living treasure! Oh, and a whore.”

“Loved her the minute I saw him, I mean her,” Arias said with a laugh.

“My friend said that we were going to be great friends, and it’s been that way ever since. And the rest is history.”

Both stars shared a little of their personal histories for potential newbies in the audience. “Sherry Vine is a show girl with a heart of gold,” Vine said. “She came to be about 25 years ago when she first stepped onstage in a wig and a dream and has

Baloney @ Oasis The sexy funny all-male (and a drag king or two) burlesque revue returns with a hot summertime series of acts. $20-$50. 7pm. Thru July 9. sfbaloney.com sfoasis.com

Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the fun sexy night. $100 cash prize for best bulge. $5-$10 benefits various local nonprofits. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Diana Ross @ Various Venues The iconic singer performs her classic hits with an orchestra. July 7 at Wente Vineyards, $99-$300. 8:15pm. 5050 Aroyo Road, Livermore. July 9 at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, $45-$190. 8pm.

1200 Athens Ave., Lincoln. July 10 at Mountain Winery, $162-$354. 7:30pm.

14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga. www. ticketmaster.com/Diana-Ross-tickets/ artist/736009 July 12 at The Orpheum Theatre, 1182 Market St., San Francisco. $148-$600. 8pm. 1182 Market St. (888) 746-1799. July 13 at Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. $66-$226. 8pm. (415) 473-6800. www.rbpconcerts.com

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a sold out concert at the Castro Theater, and previously at Feinstin’s at the Nikko in a Klaus Nomi tribute with Nomi’s songwriter Kristian Hoffman. Arias promises that he and Vine will do a meet-and-greet after the Oasis show.

“This is my favorite part of the night, to meet everyone,” she said.

“Sherry will be in the bathroom fixing her lipstick.”

Vine assures us that a good time will be had by all, and hopes people will come and share the love that she and Arias feel for each other.

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never looked back. The original scat queen, Sherry’s act is filthy, hilarious and at times on-key.”

“My act is always classy,” offered Arias. “I started working with Klaus Nomi [in the 1970s]. Years after Klaus passed, I got involved in the drag world, It was new and exciting. Thierry Mugler put me in his George Michael video, “Too Funky,” and my life changed. I was channeling Billie Holiday in a suit, but when I was dressed, the game changed and the money tripled.”

Araias added that performing in drag is one of his favorite things to do. “I adore getting all dressed up.

It’s called show biz! I never looked back at my boy clothes.”

Vine explained the meaning behind the show’s title.

“Looking Back at The Future for me means literally just that,” she said. “We are bringing some of our big hits from the past into the present with a futuristic twist. Drag is in every living room now, but what we have to offer is special and unique.”

“The audience will hear some Billie Holiday, and original tunes,” said Arias of her own contribution.

“We will have lots of fun singing classics and originals. And of course there will be serious moments. How can you not reflect on what’s going on in this world?”

Both stars indeed reflected on the recent tragedy in which 49 LGBT people were murdered by a gunman at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida.

“I had to do a brunch show the very next morning after the Orlando tragedy,” Vine recalled of that horrific day. “I texted the owner saying I didn’t think it was a good idea, but then texted him right back and said, ‘We have to do it.’ It’s important to carry on and not give in to fear or let terror win.”

“I was torn apart,” Arias said. “I’ve lived through so many deaths and I

don’t even know if I have tears anymore. It just seems to be the norm, and no one does anything about it. I’m getting angry. This - it must end. The gays/LGBT will be the ones who will make sure it ends.”

They both said that they’re excited about coming to Oasis, which, for Vine, is a San Francisco homecoming.

“I have performed at Oasis,” she said. “Once for my solo show and last year with Jackie Beat in our Battle of The Bitches show. I make fun of Heklina a lot, and she deserves it, but I have to say they did an amazing job with Oasis. It’s a real stage with real lighting and sound.

I think, as queens, they appreciate that and took the time to do it right.

There’s also a big dressing room.

That’s like a unicorn for gay bars!”

Arias, who is making his Oasis debut, has performed in the city numerous times, most recently for

Hello, Dolly! @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun

Musicals in Concert, a new series, kicks off with Jerry Herman’s rousing musical about a matchmaker; directed

by Allen Sawyer, with Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill, Alex Rodriguez, Darlene Popovic and others. $40-$60. Wed & Sat 7pm. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru July 10. Also Mame, Aug. 10-14. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

The weekly drag show with DJ MC2, themed nights, gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

The popular video bar ends each work week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The Ohio Players @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Hard Fridays @ Qbar

Kingdom of Sodom/Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Interactive strip and sex party with a cash bar. $20. 8pm. Stage show 10pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 3976758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Mary Go Round @ Lookout Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes’ weekly drag show. $5. 10:30pm show.

DJ Philip Grasso. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Mazel Top @ Oasis The meet & greet for gay Jewish men and their admirers returns. $5-$10.

9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com

Sherry Vine and Joey Arias at the Low Life festival in 2009.

The world-famous funk band performs their classic songs at the stylish nightclub-restaurant. $29-$69.

8pm. Also July 8, 8pm & 10pm. 510 Embaracadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am.

1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Music night with local and touring bands. $8. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Shot in the City

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. No cell phones on the dance floor, please! $5.

10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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Joey Arias and Sherry Vine: Looking Back at the Future. Friday, July 15, 7pm. Oasis, 298 11 Street. $25-225. www.sfoasis.com

DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Ladies of San Francisco @ Club OMG Galilea hosts the weekly “old school drag show” with guest performers and DJ Jack Rojo. $4. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubOMGsf.com

Midnight Show @ Divas Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Saturdays. $10. 11pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved, with a special “Ch-ch-ch-cha-Changes” Bowie tribute show. $10. 8pm9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Santiago Figueroa & Casey Williams @ Nob Hill Theatre Live duo sex shows with the hot studs. $25. 8pm & 10pm. Also July 9. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted by Cruzin d’Loo. 8pm-10pm. No cover.

2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com

Some Thing @ The Stud

Boy Bar @ The Cafe

Uhaul SF @ Oasis

Gus Presents’ weekly dance night, with DJ Kid Sysko, cute gogos and $2 beer (before 10pm). 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. $7.

10pm-3am. 399 9th St. studsf.com The wild women’s dance night moves to Oasis, with DJs Ms. Jackson and China G $ 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. uhaulsf.com sfoasis.com

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The (once) local and (now) London singer charms at Feinstein’s

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ext weekend in San Francisco, Holly Penfield will celebrate ties.

Penfield, a fixture of London nightlife, saw her beloved father pass away last year, at the age of 98.

Now, Penfield –who has sported lampshades, birdcages and all manner of headgear in her act (“I was doing Lady Gaga before she was even around”) – has gathered her dad’s neckties and commissioned a designer friend to fashion them into a statement piece for her upcoming appearances at Feinstein’s at the Nikko July 15 and 16.

And the statement they make: There are ties that bind.

“For almost six months,” explained Penfield in a recent Holly Penfield phone interview, “I’ve been back in Orinda, where I grew dral of St. John the Divine during up, trying to settle things with my his own childhood. While he evenfather’s estate. He left me this beautually served in the army and purtiful house, where I was raised in the sued a business career to support 1960s. I’m trying desperately to fighis family, his devotion to music ure out how to hold on to the house. continued and, noting Holly’s aptiMy friends say it’s crazy financially, tude and focus, he arranged for her since my home is in London now. to take singing lessons with Judy But it’s not about the money. It’s Davis, the esteemed Bay Area vocal about keeping the house and all the coach who had worked with Barbra memories I have around it.”

Streisand, Judy Garland, and Frank Those memories center around a Sinatra among others. childhood in which Penfield, while “My parents would drive me to ostracized as an oddball by many of Oakland to study with Judy from her schoolmates, was celebrated by the time I was 13, and despite what her parents, who unflaggingly supwas going on in popular music at ported dreams of musical stardom. the time, she taught using the great “From eight years old, I wanted American songbook and I learned to be a nightclub singer,” recalls all the jazz standards.”

Penfield who, uncharacteristically With Davis’ assistance, 14-yeardemure about her age, is someold Penfield booked a series of prowhere in the neighborhood of 60. “I motional events for Macy’s, singing took ukulele lessons and then guitar at stores statewide and cutting a when my hands were big enough. I giveaway 45-RPM record that still, wrote my first song at twelve, to earn to Penfield’s shock and delight, a Campfire Girls badge.” shows up in the hands of autoHer father, Raymond Penfield, graph-seeking fans at her infrequent had been a choirboy at the CatheBay Area performances.

In her late adolescence, Penfield felt increasingly out of sync with the other students at Camplindo High School.

“I was telling my counselor I would kill myself if I had to keep going to school,” she recalls. “It wasn’t right for me.”

Penfield’s parents agreed to hire an at-home teacher and send Holly to a psychiatrist.

And Judy Davis arranged a nightly gig for her star pupil.

“My parents were over the moon!” recalls Penfield, still appreciative of their accepting the fact that the gig was singing at the Roaring Twenties, a topless and bottomless club in North Beach. “I didn’t have to take my clothes off, but the girls did all around me.”

It was around the same time that Penfield began to listen to the contemporary music of the early 1970s. “When I first started paying attention to Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell, that was it,” she recalls. “I wanted to write and perform my own music.”

Penfield assembled a band and began playing a wide variety of venues in the Bay Area’s booming rock scene, ultimately headlining at the Keystone Berkeley and Winterland, noted trolling grounds for record companies’ A&R men.

“In the end,” recalls Penfield, “I got a deal with Mike Chapman, who had become famous for producing Blondie and The Knack. Getting signed to his Dreamland records was quite a big deal. Chapman immensely believed in my talent. But he was a lousy businessman. A great producer, but he didn’t really know how to run a label.”

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In 1980, having invested over $500,000 in cultivating her career, Dreamland released Penfield’s Full Grown Child album, a studio-slick

Symphony Sips

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onight (July 7), the San Francisco Symphony begins its festive summer season, featuring accessible programs sure to attract a broad swath of the general public as well as orchestra afficionadoes.

From the soundtracks of movie blockbusters, to some of the most popular highlights of the classical canon, to programs featuring guest performers including Bay Area favorites Pink Martini, it’s a series that will make summer evenings go down easy.

On that note –pun intended– BARtab invited local mixologists to concoct seasonal cocktail pairings to harmonize with the featured programs. We’ll showcase their creations this week and in our next two issues.

Whether you’re pre-gaming, or shall we say tuning up, for an evening of fine music, or gathering for a post-concert nightcap, these libations plus the SFSO’s orchestrations will bring cheers to your ears.

Tonight’s opening concert features the music of five-time Oscar and 22-time Grammy Award winner John Williams, with excerpts from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park and Jaws on the program.

With an M.F.A. in poetry, bar director Christopher Longoria of Polk Street hot spot 1760 couldn’t resist a little wordplay in making an adult beverage as

a tribute to one of his childhood favorite movies.

“I was always fascinated by the Death Star,” noted Longoria, “And this drink is my homage, built around tequila, campari, and (death) star anise.”

In taste and appearance, it offers some zingy summertime special effects.t In addition to tonight’s John Williams concert at 7:30 p.m., the symphony will perform Beethoven’s Ninth on Friday at 7:30 pm. and Saturday at 2 p.m. at Davies Symphony Hall. www.sfsymphony.org Christopher Longoria runs the cocktail program at 1760.

1760 Polk St. 415-359-1212. www.1760sf.com

The Dark Side John Williams created by Christopher Longoria of 1760 Vigorously muddle together: Quarter wedge of ruby red grapefruit 1TBSP superfine sugar .75oz lemon juice Small pinch of cayenne To a cocktail shaker, add: 1.5oz tequila blanco 1 tsp of Campari .5oz triple sec .25oz dry vermouth 1 egg white In a small rocks glass, place: 1 large ice cube 1oz Campari (poured gently over cube) Shake without ice to emulsify egg white.

Add ice to shaker.

Shake vigorously for 8 seconds.

Double strain (through Hawthorne strainer and sieve) gently into rocks glass.

Christopher Longoria

Garnish with: Light pinch of cayenne One full pod star anise

production that, in retrospect, sounds more like Pat Benatar or Kim Wilde than the bohemian singer-songwriters that Penfield most admired.

“So much of the business was about being in the right place at the right time,” Penfield recalls. “I was at this middle level, where I hadn’t become famous, but the record company had put a lot of money into me. I had a single that made it into the Top 100, but there were only so many women making it to the top then. I was up against Debbie Harry and Olivia NewtonJohn. I was really quite an arty little writer. For the moment, the Laura Nyro thing had passed. Later on, Tori Amos managed to build a big career with music that was along the lines of what I’d been doing.”

“I recorded a second album that was pretty much disappeared by the record company,” Penfield remembers. “All the way into my late thirties, I was a dedicated singer-songwriter. But I was a failed singer-songwriter.”

While painful at the time, Penfield today values her soclose-yet-so-faraway shot at mass stardom.

“I don’t regret any of it.

I’ve had an extraordinary life and chances are, it wouldn’t have happened without those early years.”

While making the rounds in the rock scene, Penfield met –and ultimately married– Scottish producer and composer Ian Ritchie, perhaps best known for producing Radio K.A.O.S., Roger Waters’ first album post-Pink Floyd. The couple eventually settled in London where, in her early forties, Penfield decided to revisit the standards she’d learned as a girl.

“I can’t explain why my own songs never caught on, but I was way too far gone as an entertainer to stop. So I started playing little venues in London and eventually, I was doing five nights a week.

Things really took off. I was constantly playing in Soho and I developed a really big gay following.”

“In my forties and fifties, it was like I was freed. I could just let go of my former ambitions and perform. I wasn’t taking myself so seriously any more.”

“I have no British reserve, so for London cabaret, my act is quite dangerous. The rock chick in me is still alive. I’m completely fearless, I have no embarrassment level.”

“Plus,” Penfield deadpans.

“I’m a pretty good singer.”

In the final years of his life, Penfield’s widowed father spent lots of time with his Top: Holly Penfield performing at Londaughter in London. Quite don’s Hippodrome. Middle: The stylish unexpectedly, he also became Holly Penfield. Bottom: Another glam outfit worn by Holly Penfield. a YouTube sensation.

“My father loved to sing,” says Penfield. “And he always “I met an eleven-year-old boy on encouraged me. So I wanted my walks,” she says. “He sings in a to encourage him. We made these choir and he’s made it to the finals little videos for the internet and of [local talent show] Orinda Idol. suddenly we were getting a hundred I’m working with him, trying to thousand views.” help him with his performance.”

In the most popular, nonage“I never had children, so maybe this narian Raymond croons Robert is a little way for me to help. But this Palmer’s “Addicted to Love,” his dotkid isn’t sure he wants to make singing ing daughter one of the black clad his life’s work. Not like I was.”t chorines singing back up. (https:// youtu.be/O2GTHFeN4LM ) Holly Penfield @ Feinstein’s at the During her recent time back in Nikko. $20-$40. July 15, 8pm.

California sorting out her father’s July 16, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, estate, Holly Penfield has taken a 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. daily five-mile walk around her old www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com Orinda neighborhood.

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Asheq @ Club OMG The Middle East & North Africa dance party includes belly dancers, amazing dance music, sexy gogos, and fun. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Bears Get Wet @ Waterworld California, Concord SF Movie Bears’ gathering at the aquatic theme park for hundreds of gay beary men and their pals, with DJs Collin Bass, Justime and Ryan Crowder, lunch, cash bar and frozen treats. $25-$39. 10:30am-6pm. 1950 Waterworld Parkway, Concord. www.bearsgetwet.bpt.me

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge The mash-up DJ dance party, with four rooms of different sounds and eight DJs. $10-$15. 9:30pm-3am. 375 11th St. www.bootiesf.com www.dnalounge.com

House Party @ Powerhouse Guy Ruben’s House music night, with co-DJ Mohammad, hot gogos. $5 goes to Grassroots Gay Rights Fund.

10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Kool-Aid @ The EndUp Lady Ryan, Val G and davO DJ at the monthly 2nd Saturday tea dance. $10$12. 2pm-8pm. 401 6th St. www.instagram.com/endupsf/

Modern Ethnic Fashion Fete @ SOMArts Cultural Center 3rd annual ethnically inspired haute couture fashion show, gala, with culinary creations and on-site chefs, drinks, music, art auction and live acts. Free-$250. 10am opener, 5pm6:30pm gala, 6:30pm art auction and show, 9pm live music, 10pm-2am DJed music and dancing. 934 Brannan St. www.modefa2016.eventbee.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. July 9: Ladies of the 90s. $15-$25. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Know and Jorge T. $4.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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Soul Delicious @ Lookout

She-Devil @ Castro Theatre

Brunch, booze, sass and grooves, with the Mom DJs, Motown sounds, and soul food. 11am-4pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Sugar @ The Cafe Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club.

9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Writers With Drinks @ Make Out Room Charlie Jane Anders hosts the spoken word variety show. $5-$20. 7:30pm.

3225 22nd St. www.makeoutroom.com

Sun 10

BeBe Sweetbriar’s Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st.

920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (Check the website for a list of recipients). 3pm6pm. Now also on Saturdays. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Big Top @ Beaux The fun Castro nightclub, with hot local DJs and sexy gogo guys and gals. July 10: Naomi Smalls performs. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.Beauxsf.com

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Luis.

7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Still Queer @ Beauty Bar SF Dyke March’s new monthly tea dance, with DJ China G. 3pm-7pm. 2299 Mission St. www.beautybarsf.com

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe

Block Party @ Midnight Sun

Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night.

9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm.

2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

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Gaymer Night @ Eagle

Honey Mahogany’s weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing.

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No No Bingo @ Virgil’s Sea Room Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Opulence @ Beaux Weekly dance night, with Jocques, DJs Tori, Twistmix and Andre. 9pm-2am.

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Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. www.the440.com

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Hella Saucy @ Q Bar Queer dance party at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Hysteria @ Martuni’s Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 6pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents; MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7. Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

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Beauties and the Beast

by John F. Karr

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mong the new guys who are thrillin’ me are a Beauty and a Beast, with Beauty turning out to be the beastlier of the two.

First up, the ostensible Beast. I offer no excuse for being bedeviled by Cameron Diggs. As the latest word in str8,

inked-up badboys being served up for homo delight, Diggs is decidedly politically incorrect. Although his face is arresting, it was his full-torso tattooing that first snared me. It’s a swirling fantasia of female faces and arcane symbols that funnels down cunningly to a point just above his cock, a bait leading unto perdition.

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Do we have to dismiss Diggs goes after Jonah’s ass. Jonah if his inkings include an Iron and Dylan flip-fuck heartily, Cross and the SS insignia? and climax by gushing a gallon “There’s gotta be a line beor so of cum into each other’s tween bad boy and white sumouth. premacist” wrote one on-line Ashton wriggles all around commentator. Diggs claims as he rides Jonah’s cock, in a multiple arrests and a five-year long, excellent scene that capprison term. But while the tats tures the couple’s playfully inare undeniably real, it’s hard to tense interplay, on the DVD, tell how much of the rest is fact, Ass Blasters. Ashton sure is enand how much is a character he thusiastic. But then again, look plays. what he’s working with.

Complicit, we can only quesJonah’s third partner is Xavition why we find it so alluring. er Jacobs, in Bareback AudiAnd after all, eyeballing doesn’t tions 3. Handsome Xavier is a confer endorsement. burly, bearded, complement to Yeah, the dude’s dick is Jonah’s more boyish loveliness. mighty, alright, a chewable al He teases his cock into Jonah’s dente throat-filler. Diggs’ Burt ass (“Make it wink for he,” he Lancaster chin and Mt. Rushurges), and although he’s not more nose are surmounted by the most accomplished fuckNakedSword deadpool eyes that seriously er, he’s an eager one. And he work an accusatory, truculent Cameron Diggs gives ya the cold stare, at relishes the cum-spray Jonah look. It’s arresting, and scary NakedSword. lands in his mouth.t (though tinged with sadness) in photographs, but it softens I think that porn stardom isn’t somewhat on screen, abetted by his in Diggs’ path. Still, how can whispered sexpressions. you help checking him out? He Twenty-nine year old Diggs was may be politically incorrect, but working as a stripper in Dallas, I surrender, dear. He sure is catwhere Trenton Diggs found him nip to Karr. and dragged him into porn. His debut was a trance-like scene with Levi Fontana’s fountain Karter for CockyBoys, in which, unAnd now, on to Lucas Enterlike most trade you see in porn, he tainment, where Michael Lucas sucked cock right off the bat. has provided his assured direcThen NakedSword glommed tion and quality filming to three onto him, and put him in a pair of scenes starring Jonah Fontana, carefully tailored scenes directed the Beauty who fucks like a by mr. Pam. First up came the feabeast. Top or bottom, versatile ture Berkeley, in which he plays a Jonah brings hot-blooded lust punk rocker. He’s empathetic in to the screen. conversation with co-star (and exThe nearly six foot tall, cellent deep-throater) Jed Athens, 23-year-old Jonah strikingly but I can’t say the scene completely pretty, a real heartthrob. He rocked me. Although he fucks well, has a Continental suavity, a he remains non-reciprocal, and toned, slightly beefy body, and when they’re done, he sends Jed although he’s at least partly packing.

Hispanic, his handsome and Does the scene’s disappointimpressively large cock is ciring emotional disconnect suggest cumcised. I can’t trace a preDiggs’ real-life str8 roots, or is it Lucas history for Jonah, so these simply part of a calculated macho scenes seem to be his porn deact, and ripe for rejection? but. I’m glad he fell into such Much better is Diggs’ teaming good hands. with the striking Colton Grey, in My favorite of Jonah’s three Fuck You, I’m Infamous. The DVD’s scenes is his pairing with Dylan four rousing scenes present a collecJames, on the DVD Hitting It tion of porn stars pretending to be Raw (which also features a swell bad boys. Diggs certainly stands out scene pairing 6’5” Dolf Dietrich for unforced reality among them. with 5’4” Rafael Lords). Dylan’s His attitude and presentation are cock has always entranced me more sharply defined here, and the –long, smooth and delicately setting is more atmospheric. The colored, it’s the quintessential pounding he delivers cute Colton’s blond guy’s cock. He can be ass is more vigorous, and Colton’s NakedSword/Lucas Entertainment sorta inscrutable sometimes, response more excited. but Jonah’s unfailing ardor gets Top: Raptured while enwrapped—it’s But you know what? I don’t sense him going.

Cameron Diggs with Colton Grey in a real connect with another guy “You’re so tight!” he exclaims, NakedSword’s Fuck You I’m Infain Diggs’ admittedly professional while Jonah screams and shouts mous. Bottom: He’s so fine. Jonah work. Diggs’ attributes may be quite beneath him. It must be true, Fontana in a glamour shot from a come-on, but my infatuation with since that’s the same thing Ash- Lucas Entertainment. him may be short-lived. Somehow ton Summers cries when he

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Left: Ashton Summers takes advantage of all Jonah Fontana has to offer, in Ass Blasters.

Right: Xavier Jacobs and Jonah Fontana are a handsome pair, in Bareback Auditions 3.

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Left to Right: Two sexy leathermen pause from marching with the Leather Contingent to kiss, a display of affection but just as importantly an act of pride; The 15 Association was one of many clubs and organizations that marched as part of the Leather Contingent in the Pride Parade; Sir Beth Bicoastal was this year’s women’s Leather Marshal for the 2016 Leather Contingent in the Pride Parade; Pups were present in large numbers as one of many kinks proudly represented as part of the Leather Contingent in the Pride Parade.

Out, proud, and marching

by Race Bannon

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’m going to start this column with a confession. I was not going to march this year with the leather contingent in the recent San Francisco Pride Parade. I was tired of us being in the back of the bus in the parade lineup for so many years. I was not convinced being in the parade ultimately had much value to our leather and kink scene.

I was not even all that enthusiastic about Pride generally.

Then things happened that changed my mind.

After a San Francisco Leathermen’s Discussion Group town hall meeting during which the topic of the leather contingent’s participation in the Pride parade was the focus, the community directly asked for better placement in the parade lineup. Pride Board members were in attendance, well known leatherman Gary Virginia in particular. They listened.

The leather contingent was number six in the parade lineup this year.

Thank you to the Pride Board and thank you to Jason Husted who so adroitly navigated all that on our behalf and so skillfully organized the contingent itself.

Orlando happened. I don’t need to say much else about that. On some level it felt like I’d be disrespecting the people who died in Orlando if I didn’t show up. Not that

those who chose not to march were disrespecting anyone, but for me personally that’s how it felt. It was my own “Hell, no” statement to the haters and bigots.

At the same time, an online discussion was taking place about leather titleholders being out and not closeted and that led to a general discussion about whether it’s alright for our public-facing leaders to be closeted. I fell on the side that such leaders must be out if they are to be effective, but I know some disagree with that opinion.

Taken altogether, I had to march this year. I resisted the curmudgeon inside me who wanted to stay home on the couch and abdicate participation in the leather contingent to others.

If we asked the Pride Board for better placement and didn’t show up, would that not be a slap in the face to the Board who listened to our request?

If I didn’t march, would I then feel that I somehow disrespected those people in Orlando who will never get a chance to march anywhere again?

If I feel so strongly that those of us who attempt to lead in some capacity within the leather and kink scene must be out, must I not continue to make a personal statement that I’m out? Must I not proudly say this is me, walking and waving in

Both photos: Daniel Samblanet

Top: Daddy Ray Tilton was this year’s men’s Leather Marshal for the 2016 Leather Contingent in the Pride Parade. Bottom: A proud collection of leather titleholders rode in the Leather Alliance truck as part of the Leather Contingent in the Pride Parade.

front of hundreds of thousands, on television for anyone to see?

So, I marched. So did many others. Being early in the parade we were seen by everyone this year.

The crowds. The television coverage. Loud applause and cheers were evident as we passed the onlookers who lined the street dozens deep.

No one taunted us.

I didn’t even see the usual “You’re going to hell!” protesters anywhere this year. We were celebrated and respected in our kink splendor and, most of all, we were seen. We mattered. We were front and center and included as part of the overall LGBTQ community, and it felt glorious.

I watched as Danny led the contingent, cracking his bullwhip, entertaining the crowd and announcing our arrival on Market Street. He was immediately followed by a whip drill team.

Our banner, carried by members of Rubber Women of San Francisco, followed, telling the world that yes, we’re the San Francisco Leather Contingent. We’re here. We’re mostly queer. Get used to it. All with a smile and in an atmosphere of fun.

Proudly carrying the American, California, San Francisco, gay pride and leather pride flags was the California Boots and Breeches Corp.

Then came the always popular pony carts, people in the mindset of ponies pulling an assortment of carts with people in them. Two of the carts carried this year’s Leather Marshals, Sir Beth Bicoastal and Daddy Ray Tilton. These two fine people do so much good for the scene in our city. I’m glad they were honored in this very public manner.

Enthusiastically waving her “Born This Way” flag was American Leatherwoman, LE LeGirl.

Representatives from The Stampede, one of the nation’s largest organized ponyplay and human animal roleplay groups, were walking with the contingent followed by a large banner announcing the LGBT March Against Gun Violence in Washington, DC, October 1-2, 2016.

Titleholders are always in attendance in large numbers as part of the leather contingent and this year was no exception. A wide array of local and visiting titleholders waved to the crowds from the truck sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance.

Both the San Francisco Leathermen’s Discussion Group and their newer affiliated Young Leathermen’s Discussion Group were present followed by one of the nation’s oldest gay men’s BDSM clubs, The 15 Association.

Rounding out the lineup were representatives of three organizations, the Rubber Men of San Francisco, Alameda County Leather Corp., and Society of Janus.

In addition to all of the people associated with the groups I mentioned were a large number of un-

affiliated leatherfolk and kinksters who simply wanted to march with the contingent to express their pride and enjoy communing with their fellow kinksters.

So, back to my initial reticence to march in the parade this year and why I finally decided it was important to do so. As Harvey Milk said, “Coming out is the most important political thing you can do.” If you’re LGBT, it’s difficult enough to come out, but if you’re also kinky, especially if much of your sexuality and identity is entrenched in our scene, it’s yet one more closet door to open.

Here I was marching with a large group of fellow kinksters who were willing to be out and visible. They were willing to be the seen. They were willing to be, to the best of their ability, a positive representation of our kinky selves.

Perhaps a few people in the crowd saw us and thought to themselves,

“Hmm, they seem like okay nice people.” Perhaps others thought, “Hmm, I’ve always had some kinky urges that I’m ready to explore now.”

Whatever the crowd thought as we walked by or when they saw us on television, I feel we presented a vibrant, healthy and bonded community of people who respect each other and that mutual respect emanates from us when we’re together.

To everyone who participated in the leather contingent this year, you rock. You did a good thing. You did our scene and yourselves proud.t

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Wed 13 Bedlam @ Beaux

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