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SF gay man’s body found by Seth Hemmelgarn

ope turned to tragedy Wednesday when the family of gay missing San Francisco man Dan Ha said that a body found in the bay is believed to be his. In a statement, Ha’s family said that Dan Ha it does not suspect suicide, and one of Ha’s family members said no note was found. According to KCBS, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said Wednesday that it is awaiting dental records to identify the body that was found in the bay Tuesday, November 11. Family members said that Ha’s personal belongings were found with the body. Ha, 26, was last seen at 8 p.m. on Halloween, October 31, leaving his apartment at Fourth and Brannan streets in the South of Market neighborhood, according to friends. Those who know him have blanketed the area with fliers bearing his picture and have conducted several search parties. Alexa Lee, who’s known Ha for years, said he’d always been in close contact with his family and was “not the kind of person who would just go somewhere and not tell people where he was.” He was “plugged in” and “disciplined,” Lee said. Mark Ha, 22, one of Ha’s brothers, said before the body was found that Ha had never gone missing before. “We’re holding up,” Mark Ha, who lives in New York, said Monday. “We’re hanging in there.” Mark Ha last spoke with his brother a couple days before he went missing. “I emailed him on the 29th, and we just checked in” with each other, he said. “He seemed perfectly normal to me,” Mark Ha said. “I didn’t realize anything was wrong at all. It was a very typical exchange between us. ... It wasn’t a very long conversation.” Steve Liu, 30, one of Ha’s roommates, said “from what we’ve gathered, [Ha] had his wallet and phone with him” when he left, but “he didn’t pack anything.” Ha’s backpack and gym bag were still at the apartment, Liu said. He didn’t think Ha has a car. Mark Ha said one of his brother’s roommates told him he’d left his laundry in the machine. Liu said he’d last talked to Ha sometime around October 29. “It was a brief interaction, so it wasn’t anything beyond normal,” Liu, who described Ha as “really nice” and “really caring,” said. “According to the other roommates, he’s been a little bit more quiet the last couple days, but nothing too out of the ordinary.” See page 14 >>

by Matthew S. Bajko

D Covered CA makes SF stop Rick Gerharter

ate Burch, network director of the California LGBT Health and Human Services Network, points to a sign she’s holding during a visit to San Francisco Monday, November 10 as Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange,

made a stop in the city to promote open enrollment. Burch encouraged uninsured LGBT people to take advantage of the open enrollment period for health insurance, November 15 to February 15. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com.

ue to the poor showing of out candidates in San Francisco this election cycle, the number of LGBT electeds in the city will dwindle in size. There are currently eight officeholders, all Rick Gerharter gay men, in the city and county of San Francis- Supervisor co. The number will fall David Campos to six by the end of the year due to the departures of longtime officeholders Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and College Board Trustee Lawrence Wong. Ammiano, first elected to a school board seat in 1990 and then to the Board of Supervisors See page 13 >>

SF Night Ministry marks 50 years by Seth Hemmelgarn

n organization that provides prayer, conversation, and other help to struggling LGBTs and other people late at night is marking its 50th anniversary this year. San Francisco Night Ministry, founded in 1964, continues to provide a variety of services. The Reverend Lyle Beckman, a gay man who serves as the night minister and the nonprofit’s director, said the organization is there “to talk to people who really want to receive a kind word, some encouragement, a blessing, a prayer, spiritual support,” or information to help them get through a crisis “even without a religious conversation.” The group, which has recently been dealing with its own problems related to filing nonprofit tax documents, also provides referrals for housing, health care, job search, legal assistance, and other help. Through its night ministers – ordained clergy who “walk the streets” – and its volunteer-staffed crisis line, Night Ministry serves about 10,000 different people a year, Beckman, who’s 62 and lives in South San Francisco, said. “We’ll talk with anybody about anything, really,” he said. That includes people who are homeless and those “just hanging out because they don’t have much to do.” The Night Ministry gets an average of 15 to 20 calls a night on the crisis line, which operates from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. About half of the calls

well off ” but “lonely,” and those dealing with grief or suicidal thoughts. About 40 percent of the people his group works with are LGBT, Beckman estimated based in part on the people ministers reach out to and the places they go, including the Castro and gay bars in the Tenderloin. “Historically that was an important reason why our ministry was founded,” he said of the organization’s work with the gay community. Five decades ago, many LGBTs came to the city and faced “a lot of discrimination, and really on every level,” Beckman said. That included violence and the danger “of being charged with lewd and lascivious behavior,” he said. When it was founded, the group committed “to walk with the LGBT community,” and others, he said. Rick Gerharter Although the crisis line operates until 4 a.m., Beckman said, “sometimes we don’t get The Reverend Lyle Beckman, right, director of the Night Ministry, offered assistance to a client during off the phone until 6 or 7 in the morning” when they’re helping someone who’s in crisis. his nightly rounds on Polk Street in May 2007. Recently, Beckman spoke with a gay man who’s been “living on the streets off and on come from people in the city, while most of the for 20 years,” and was considering suicide other inquiries are from other Bay Area cities. The as he struggled with issues related to his famorganization works with every age group, income ily, a recent relationship, addiction, and other level, and circumstance imaginable, Beckman, problems. who’s been with the nonprofit since 2004, said. Beckman helped the man develop a plan to Homeless people aren’t the only ones seekmake his life “a little safer” and gave him seving help from the Night Ministry. Beckman eral referrals, he said, and the man eventually said the group gets calls from single-room got into a drug treatment program. occupancy hotel residents, college students, See page 14 >> nursing home residents, people who are “fairly

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State of LGBT movement includes addressing disparities

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Jessica Stern, left, executive director of the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission, makes a point at a recent Horizons panel where she was joined by ACLU Northern California’s Christine Sun and Equality California’s Rick Zbur.

The dominoes haven’t all fallen yet, but same-sex marriage is legal in 33 states, and more are likely to follow, although a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week that reversed six pro-marriage lower court rulings out of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee put a pause in the momentum. Panelist Rick Zbur is executive director of Equality California, an organization that has largely focused on LGBT civil rights law including marriage. Zbur said that next, Equality California will work to “address disparities in health and well being” for LGBT Californians. This could include health care, LGBT-inclusive sex ed, and housing rights – 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT, Zbur noted. EQCA also plans to focus on these issues and more as they apply to undocumented LGBT people. “One-third of LGBT immigrants in the U.S. are undocumented,” Zbur said. “We want to educate our community about the need for comprehensive immigration reform.”

OutLoud merges with Youth Radio

Immigration is also a key focus for panelist Christine Sun, who leads the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Looking out into the audience of mostly white male donors, Sun said the recent rate of progress is “truly stunning.” Still, she said, much work remains. “The central challenge for the LGBT movement is going to be how to better serve the members of our community that aren’t in this room,” Sun said. That means tackling the wealth gap and discrimination based on race and immigration status, Sun said. Partly, that work could serve to protect the benefits of marriage won in recent years. The LGBT movement can learn from the reproductive rights movement, Sun said. After Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion groups began to chip away at the right to choose. They first targeted poor women, workSee page 6 >>

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by Elliot Owen

ell-known LGBTQ youth media production organization outLoud Radio recently made a major transition that will enable the 12-year-old San Francisco-based nonprofit’s content to reach more people when it was announced that it will merge with Oakland-based Youth Radio. The acquisition of outLoud by Youth Radio was announced October 19, and was the result of conversations begun between the two organizations earlier this year. 5:12 PM The deal was celebrated at Youth Radio headquarters in downtown Oakland last month. Attended by about 80 current and former outLoud and Youth Radio participants, administration, and supporters, the event served as the official marker for the new partnership. Outgoing Executive Director Noah Miller started outLoud when he was 23 as a way to get the stories of LGBTQ youth out on radio airwaves. As a longtime small independent media producer, outLoud’s regularly accessible first person radio broadcasts have been heard on media outlets like StoryCorps, the Public Radio Exchange, and KQED. And, Miller told the Bay Area Reporter, the possibilities for outLoud didn’t stop there. “Recently, we started talking about ways that we could work with more youth,” Miller said. “When the opportunity came up to partner with Youth Radio, who we’ve always looked up to as a big player, it was very exciting because they have tremendous capacity, resources, and name recognition. They get their

content out widely, have state-of-theart facilities, and work with populations we’ve always wanted to reach. For all these reasons, it felt right.” Youth Radio is excited about the relaunch, too. Founded in 1992, the well-established media production company with a $4 million annual budget trains youth from an array of backgrounds in digital media and technology. Known for creating youth-centered content often featured on media outlets like National Public Radio, Huffington Post, and the Public Broadcasting Service, Youth Radio’s lesser known internal programming fosters youth development through media and job skill classes, trainings, and programs. Inclusivity is central to Youth Radio’s mission and, Youth Radio deputy director Jabari Gray told the B.A.R. that Youth Radio wants all young people, LGBTQ included, to receive the training to tell their stories. “It started off as young people in general being a marginalized population within popular media,” Gray said. “Within that age demographic, there are so many ways to slice that community, so many different experiences that make that up. In order to serve youth as a whole, the idea is to be as broadly inclusive as possible. We’re about amplifying the voices of all young people, and moving into a more intentional space around amplifying the voices of LGBTQ youth feels like a natural thing. We want to be more ‘outloud’ about it, really.” Now operating within Youth Radio’s organizational structure, outLoud’s LGBTQ programming is currently being redesigned and on track for implementation between now and

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Youth Radio deputy director Jabari Gray, left, and outgoing outLoud Executive Director and founder Noah Miller shared the stage at a late October relaunch event.

early next year. Integral to outLoud’s relaunch at Youth Radio is Elena Botkin-Levy, the only paid employee that’s transferred from outLoud to Youth Radio. A former outLoud program coordinator, Botkin-Levy is now a Youth Radio media education coordinator and journalism instructor. “Elena’s had a foot in both organizations,” Miller said. “She’s run a number of programs at outLoud over the years, our intergenerational storytelling project, our podcast, and now she works at Youth Radio and is completely ready to carry this on.” Acting as the bridge between the two entities, Botkin-Levy is committed to ensuring the transition is smooth in implementation and comprehensive in approach. Having worked at outLoud since 2008, she’s also excited about Youth Radio’s intent to absorb the mission and work of outLoud into its existing structure. “For the past 12 years,” BotkinLevy said, “outLoud has become a strong space for queer young folks to be with each other, learn to produce See page 14 >>

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Two long years are ahead The midterm election results were a disaster for LGBTs. The incoming Congress will be headed by Republicans in the House and Senate and, while the results weren’t surprising, the reality is sobering. The plain truth is that the Republican Party remains largely anti-LGBT. Sure, there are some individual House members and senators who have voted for LGBT bills, but institutionally, the support is not there. Voters in San Diego and Massachusetts had an opportunity to elect gay Republican congressional candidates, but neither man won, showing that while election night was a red wave, it wasn’t enough to bring gay GOP candidates along. (All six current Democratic LGB members of Congress were re-elected.) The expected House and Senate leadership – Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) – will not move forward any LGBT-friendly legislation. Starting in January when the new Congress convenes, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act would have to be re-introduced and, while that may happen, it’s not likely to come up for a vote in either chamber. (That may not be a bad thing; the religious exemption language that was debated this year as an amendment to the version passed by the Senate would render much of the bill meaningless and allow business owners to use their faith as a basis to discriminate.) Similarly, don’t look for legislative action to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military. More importantly, the election results have emboldened Republicans who don’t want to pass comprehensive immigration reform. That’s a bad move on their part, but they don’t see it that way. Rather, they look at the election results, in which Republicans won Senate seats that Democrats held in Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina, and trot out “the people

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we found that out two days later, when the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal reversed six pro-marriage lower court rulings out of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. In the 2-1 decision, the majority opinion said that it wasn’t the court’s role to define marriage and that the decision should be left to voters. That’s a red herring that has been struck down in courts across the country as judges have found that, in fact, state constitutional bans against same-sex marriage do discriminate and are unconstitutional. Just because voters support discrimination doesn’t mean it’s constitutional. A standard of our justice system is predicated on protecting minority rights. But the 6th Circuit decision now sets up a conflict between it and the other circuits that have ruled in favor of marriage equality, meaning that the Supreme Court may take up the issue. Given the conservative tilt of the justices, it’s certainly no slam dunk that the high court will issue a decision granting marriage equality in all 50 states. We saw the justices sidestep that option last year with the decision to invalidate Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban, on a technicality. The upcoming lame duck congressional session will offer a glimpse into what’s in store for the country. Four years ago, Congress acted boldly during that lame duck session by repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Such historic matters aren’t on the agenda this year, but the administration has appointees awaiting confirmation, and it needs to pass a spending bill to keep the government operating. In the end, the fight for equality will shift to the states in the next couple years, like the marijuana legalization movement that saw victories in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. last week and efforts to raise the minimum wage, which also passed in several states and cities like San Francisco and Oakland. It is by building coalitions locally that we progress, while we wait for a friendlier climate on Capitol Hill for the passage of federal protections. It’s not fair, but it’s the new reality.t

Financial planning in post-DOMA world by Peter Waterloo

ore than a year after the United States Supreme Court repealed a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, LGBT families are still trying to understand what federal and California marriage recognition means to them. There are a complicated web of laws and regulations that influence the financial lives and well-being of same-sex couples. Changes in these laws have a direct impact on LGBT families and how they are managing assets and their estate planning.

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have spoken” canard without acknowledging that this midterm election had the lowest voter turnout since World War II. Yet it’s that abysmal voter turnout that has helped land us in this morass of congressional inaction. Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, and people want their representatives to get to work, but the reality is that 99 percent of members were reelected and Congress will be just as gridlocked next year as it is now. People in many parts of the country simply did not vote in their best interests. Working class white voters in the South and Midwest will not see their lives improved by the Republican takeover. Far from it. Millions of people have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, but congressional Republicans will still want to repeal the law. (They might even get an assist from the U.S. Supreme Court, which last week agreed to hear another health care case this term – even though the justices upheld Obamacare in 2012.) The small government mantra of tea party Republicans does not bode well for action on infrastructure improvements or climate change, two initiatives that would spur job growth. Moreover, elections have consequences and

Same-sex spouses should approach retirement planning just as opposite-sex spouses should, regardless of marriage laws. Several steps are essential, including estimating retirement assets, income required, and sources of income to provide for realistic risk analysis. It is also essential to understand the financial impact of each spouse dying unexpectedly, becoming disabled, or experiencing a long-term or extended illness. Along with investment risk, understanding and managing these risks should be considered.

Estate planning

If an investor does not have a personalized estate plan at the time of death, then the estate plan is determined by the state of residence. The default plan provided by the state could be in direct conflict to the wishes of the samesex couple. In California, marriage recognition laws simplify estate planning for LGBT families. However, it is imperative for same-sex spouses, and particularly those living in nonmarriage recognition states, to have proper estate planning documents including wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney for health care drafted and executed to reflect their intent in passing wealth at death.

Moving to a non-marriage state

Same-sex couples considering leaving California should understand which states’ rights,

privileges and benefits you lose advisers knows LGBT-specific if moving to a non-marriage issues, particularly as marriage recognition state. Some of equality translates to complithe most important are statecated financial planning. In fact, based property and inheritance the report found a significant rights. Check with your attordrop-off in adviser satisfaction ney to make sure your health in terms of understanding the care proxy and other legal financial challenges of samedocuments are current and acsex couples. While most LGBT cessible in the event of an emerinvestors don’t feel they need gency. Some federally based to have an adviser who identibut state administered benefits fies as LGBT, there are certainly are still unavailable to sameadvantages to having a financial sex spouses in non-marriage adviser who can help you plan recognition states, including Peter Waterloo for your financial future as our Social Security spousal benefits. rights and benefits as a commuFor many couples, a spousal nity further expand.t benefit from Social Security can be a useful source of retirement income. Peter Waterloo is a senior vice president of

The benefits of marriage

While I always recommend consulting an accountant when considering tax rules and regulations, it’s important for same-sex couples to note that the Internal Revenue Service now recognizes same-sex marriage regardless of which state you live in, and this means lesser-known tax benefits of marriage are available to same-sex couples. If you’re married or considering marriage, check with your tax adviser about how these changes in the law may affect your tax deductions, transfers of assets or medical expenses.

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AHF needs to rein in hysteria

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It really is time for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to stop its dishonest, hysterical ads in the gay press. First it was over-the-top, statistically misleading ads denouncing PrEP (which AHF’s doctors will reportedly still prescribe and its pharmacy will happily sell you: “[AHF clinic will offer PrEP prescriptions,” November 6]). Now it’s screaming headlines shouting that “The War on AIDS in the U.S. IS BEING LOST.” Baloney. Once again, AHF seems to be cherrypicking statistics for its own purposes. The supposed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention link AHF provided didn’t lead to a working page when I tried it, but the latest CDC stats released last year show a continuing decline in the HIV-related death rate. After peaking in 1995 at 16.2 HIV deaths per 100,000 Americans, the rate dropped to 5.2 per 100,000 in 2000, 4.2 per 100,000 in 2005, 3.0 per 100,000 in 2009, 2.6 per 100,000 in 2010 and 2.5 per 100,000 in 2011 – the last year for which the CDC currently provides figures. Readers can find the stats for 2010 and prior at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/ hus13.pdf#data24.92 and the 2011 figures at http://www. cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/aids-hiv.htm As for rates of care, the CDC’s National HIV Prevention Progress Report, 2013 (at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/ policies_NationalProgressReport.pdf) reports that as of 2011, nearly 80 percent of people with an HIV diagnosis

were linked to care within three months, and of those in care, nearly three-quarters have their HIV suppressed. Yes, there is still room for improvement and some people who could benefit from treatment are not aware of their options or getting appropriate care. Our health care system has plenty of imperfections, and not just related to HIV. But the sky is not falling, and AHF helps no one with its hysteria. Bruce Mirken San Francisco

Appreciates new column

Thank you for introducing the new column Seeing in the Dark, by Belo Cipriani. He has a very engaging style and his stories strike a good balance between humor and the seriousness of living with a life-changing condition. He has a way of putting you in his shoes and enabling you to see things through his perspective, the little details that many of us wouldn’t stop to consider. As a caregiver for a loved one living with a serious disability himself, I know that the world needs more positive role models in this area, and Cipriani fits the bill very nicely. D. M. Eames North Hollywood, California

[Editor’s note: Mr. Cipriani’s column runs the third Thursday of the month.]

Trans remembrance events planned compiled by Cynthia Laird

vents will commemorate the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in several Bay Area cities, beginning Friday and continuing through next week. The remembrance event was started by Bay Area Reporter Transmissions columnist Gwen Smith 15 years ago, a year after the 1998 killing of Rita Hester, an African American trans woman who lived in Massachusetts. The often-somber event is observed November 20 to call attention to trans people who have been murdered in the past 12 months. Locally, this year services are planned in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Oakland will have two events this year. The first is a Shabbat service Friday, November 14 at Kehilla Community Synagogue, 1300 Grand Avenue. The special Shabbat observance will begin at 7 p.m., followed by a potluck vegetarian meal at 8. Those who attend are asked to bring a dish to share. On Wednesday, November 19, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., there will be an observance at Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza. While Tiffany Woods is helping organize the event, she said that it is not a TransVision/ Tri-City Health Center event as it has been in previous years. Rather, Woods and her TransVision team are holding the event on their own. The honorary co-host is state Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro). Woods has reached out to Mayor Jean Quan and Mayor-elect Libby Schaaf. Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan is expected to attend, along with Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney and representatives from the Oakland Police Department. In San Francisco, a Transgender Day of Remembrance event will be held Thursday, November 20 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. The event will include community advocates Miss Major GriffinGracy and Jewlyes Gutierrez, both of whom were grand marshals at this year’s Pride parade. It will also include performances by trans youth, an altar created by El/LA Para TransLatinas, and a special Hawaiian chant by trans legend Kumu

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Gabriel Haaland talked about his friend, the late Jazzie Collins, at last year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance event in San Francisco.

Tatiana Kaneholani. The observance will be emceed by trans youth Alex Bergeron and Rexy Amaral. Finally, Peninsula Metropolitan Community Church will hold its Transgender Day of Remembrance service Thursday, November 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Congregational Church of San Mateo UCC, 225 Tilton Avenue. On Sunday, November 23 at 12:30 p.m. there will be a special Transgender Day of Remembrance service at 1150 W. Hillsdale Boulevard in San Mateo. The service is being planned by Peninsula MCC’s Somewhere in the Middle group. It’s also a Thanksgiving collection and people are asked to bring nonperishable foods for Samaritan House if they are able. There is no cost to attend any of the abovementioned events. For more on the Transgender Day of Remembrance, see Smith’s column on page 12.

CCOP to offer self-defense seminar

Castro Community on Patrol, a volunteer safety group, will mark its eighth anniversary with a free selfdefense seminar Monday, November 17 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Magnet, 4122 18th Street in San Francisco. Organizers said that the seminar is CCOP’s way of saying thank you to the Castro and Duboce Triangle neighborhoods that they serve. For more information, visit www. castropatrol.org.

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a fundraising party marking its 30th anniversary. DIFFA NOW is set for Thursday, November 20 from 6 to 10 p.m. at NWBLK, an applied arts gallery in the former American Can Company factory at 1999 Bryant Street in San Francisco. Local designers Steven Miller and Martha Angus are event co-chairs. The donated objects, mostly for a silent auction, include furniture, paintings, and home decorative items. In a statement, Miller said that DIFFA NOW celebrates the incredible medical progress made against HIV/AIDS over the last three decades. “The event also honors the many volunteers who stepped up in so many creative ways to raise money for the cause,” he added. DIFFA was founded in New York City in 1984 and the first chapter, in northern California, started a year later. Bay Area DIFFA events have included numerous fashion shows, home and garden tours, and Dining By Design. Proceeds from next week’s event will support DIFFA and a special 30th anniversary grant to the UCSF Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital. Tickets are $150 and can be purchased online at www.diffasf.org/ events.

Point Foundation accepting scholarship applications

LGBTQ students seeking financial assistance for their undergraduate or graduate school education can now apply for a Point Foundation scholarship. Point, as it is known, is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit and currently provides financial assistance and programmatic support to 80 full-time students. Students enrolling in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2015-16 academic year are eligible to apply for Point’s multi-year scholarship. Students can submit part one of the application until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time) January 20. Part two is due by 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time) February 2. The scholarships will be announced in June. Students may receive nominations from third parties, such as parents, educators, advocates, and friends. These people can make the nominations online or share a flier with the young person in mind. For more information, visit www. pointfoundation.org.t

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Castro merchants’ holiday wish: Customers by Matthew S. Bajko

ith many Castro businesses reporting weak sales throughout most of 2014 due to a major streetscape project that disrupted traffic for nine months in the heart of San Francisco’s gayborhood, the district’s merchants are wishing for a better-than-normal holiday shopping season this year.

“This holiday season is everything for us,” Terry Asten Bennett, whose family owns and operates Cliff ’s Variety at 479 Castro Street, told the Bay Area Reporter. “We usually depend on the fourth quarter; this year every business in the neighborhood needs it desperately.” Daniel Bergerac, a co-owner of Mud Puppy’s and president of Castro Merchants, the gayborhood’s business

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association, said this year’s Christmas shopping season is “very, very important” due to the drop off in business brought by the sidewalk work. “For the merchants it has been nine months of eating dust,” said Bergerac, echoing a phrase Bennett has used in describing the sales declines attributed to the street project. “Everyone is hurting. Because of the construction project, it’s really been painful. It’s hurt all the merchants.” High on her Christmas wish list, said Bennett, is for “tourists and residents to show us their support” by shopping at Cliff ’s and other Castro stores. “We need the community to get behind the merchants and spend their money in the Castro to keep it a viable, vibrant, activated shopping neighborhood,” added Bergerac. Those who do will find newly expanded sidewalks on the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street as well as new street trees and other enhancements added as part of the $6 million improvement project the city undertook. Most of the work wrapped up in time for Halloween, while crews are expected to finish repaving Jane Warner Plaza and reconfiguring the crosswalks at the Market and Castro streets intersection ahead of Thanksgiving. Because Thanksgiving falls late this year – Thursday, November 27 – merchants will only have four weekends between Black Friday and Christmas week to lure shoppers into their stores. The Castro Merchants will kick off its annual holiday promotion with a tree lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. Monday, December 1. The tree is set to arrive early in the morning of Thanksgiving and will be installed in the plaza fronting the Bank of America branch at 18th and Castro streets. Colorful bows will again be wrapped around the palm trees in the median along Market Street. New this year will be colored lighting for the street trees on the sidewalks along Market Street between Castro and Sanchez. “It will be a nice welcome into the Castro neighborhood,” said Bergerac. To mark its 25th annual Home for the Holidays concerts that take place on Christmas Eve at the Castro Theater, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus is asking merchants in the gayborhood to use a red and silver color scheme this year in decorating their storefronts. Those businesses taking part– 10 had already signed up as of last week–will receive T-shirts promoting the holiday concerts that their employees can wear as well as a commemorative ornament celebrating the 25th anniversary they can display. They are also asking stores to remain open late the night of the performances. “We are not just sticking up posters again on their windows. It is

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ing to ban Medicaid from covering abortions. Now, Sun said, these tactics have escalated to create an “existential threat” to abortion rights. That’s why focusing on the needs of the most marginalized in the LGBT community is in the self-interest of all LGBT people, Sun said. “I recognize that it is in my selfinterest, as a privileged lesbian living in San Francisco,” she said.

Priorities

Panelist Jessica Stern also discussed the importance of making sure the LGBT movement prioritizes more than privileged San Franciscans. She

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Members of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Jeff Bert, Rick Holte, Brad Walden, and André Farris, on November 8 distributed thank you gifts to various Castro area merchants who have supported the chorus’ annual Home for the Holidays Christmas Eve concert over the years. This year’s performances will be the 25th anniversary of the always sold-out event.

more than that because it is the 25th anniversary,” said Tim Seelig, the chorus’ artistic director. “In 1990 no one knew if we would all survive. It was such a dark time.” To honor those businesses and organizations that have survived and supported the chorus over the years, a video montage using vintage photos of the Castro will be incorporated into this year’s concerts. “It will be at the end when we sing ‘Home for the Holidays,’” said Seelig. Tickets for the three December 24 shows – at 5, 7, and 9 p.m. – can be purchased via the chorus’ website at http://www. sfgmc.org. The chorus plans to also sell the commemorative ornaments online for $10 apiece or $5 each when ordering three or more.

Cliff’s school fundraiser enters 7th year

For the seventh year Cliff ’s Variety will be raising money for a Castro-based public school Thanksgiving weekend. Since 2007 the store has raised roughly $20,000 for the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy due to its annual fundraiser. Its target this year is to raise $4,000 for the school adjacent to the Castro’s Collingwood Park and named for the city’s first openly gay elected official. Beginning Friday, November 28 through Sunday, November 30, shoppers at Cliff ’s who make a $5 donation toward the school receive a 20 percent discount on their purchase, excluding ladders, power tools, appliances, and labor.

Gay-owned market launches gift boxes

Big Bottom Market, a gay-owned general store in the Sonoma County resort town of Guerneville, has launched a collection of gift boxes featuring local products in time for the holiday shopping season. The gift boxes come in three sizes – big, bigger, biggest – starting at $25 and feature a variety of items, from CC Made caramel corn and caramels to jars of Mendocino Mus-

is executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Campaign, and she said that LGBT rights as articulated in the U.S. cannot be simply exported to other countries. Instead, she said, people in the U.S. should work to build global solidarity guided by local efforts. “The gay marriage agenda in the U.S. is assumed to be a priority around the world, even when that’s not what people are articulating for themselves,” Stern said. There are unintended consequences to marriage equality gains in the U.S., Stern said. One example is the law signed by Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan in January that banned same-sex marriage. Marriage equality was not a focus LGBT Nigeri-

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Gay-owned Big Bottom Market, a general store in Guerneville, has unveiled assorted gift boxes that include artisan jams, mustards, and personal care products.

tard and Inna Jam, which is based in Emeryville. There are also personal care products from Los Angelesbased Further, which uses restaurant waste grease to make glycerin hand soaps and body lotions. “We are very deliberate in choosing the artisans we work with to curate the shelves at Big Bottom Market with some of the most unique products we can find,” stated Kerry Hyatt, the store’s general manager. “Based on feedback from our customers we’ve put together a collection of the most popular products into three gift boxes and the online shop allows our far away fans to share a taste of Big Bottom Market.” Orders to be sent anywhere in the U.S. can be made at the store’s website – http://www.bigbottommarket.com – where customers can choose among the three gift boxes listed or customize their own.

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Fountaingrove Lodge, the LGBT retirement community in Santa Rosa, hired Kevin Hogan as its new executive director. Hogan had previously worked as the president and chief operations officer of Bay Areabased Nazareth Health Care Inc., which operates a number of senior living facilities. Hogan’s spouse of 23 years, Mick Velasquez, is a general building contractor based in Marin County who focuses on helping seniors age in place in their homes.t Got a tip on LGBT business news? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 829-8836 or e-mail m.bajko@ ebar.com.

ans, Stern said, but “under the specter of gay marriage” in the United States, Jonathan acted to further criminalize LGBT people in his country. The panelists told many stories that demonstrated the complexity of seemingly straightforward LGBT victories. A tourist from sub-Saharan Africa who was quoted in the media as he partied at San Francisco pride is now seeking asylum after the interview made it back to his home country. EQCA volunteers in Palm Springs who spent hours searching for a pair of names on a petition after two teenagers who had signed it expressed fear that if the organization sent any follow-up materials to See page 7 >>

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Lesbians pull ahead in East Bay races by Matthew S. Bajko

A former director of Clean Water Action, Young will serve alongside bisexual EBMUD Board Member Andy Katz, who was unopposed for his Ward 4 seat and endorsed Young in her race.

fter coming up short on election night, two lesbian candidates seeking East Bay seats have since pulled ahead as elections officials review and count the absentee and provisional ballots that remain. Last week Lori Droste had the most votes in the race for the Berkeley City Council District 8 seat when the first round of voting was released late Tuesday, November 4. But because she was well short of the 50 percent plus one needed under the city’s ranked-choice voting system, she saw herself land in second place 25 votes behind gay candidate George Beier after the instant-voter runoff tabulations were factored in. With additional ballots added to the mix, Droste moved into first place on Sunday, and as of Tuesday, November 11, remained in the lead with four votes more than Beier. Droste’s tally was at 2,058, or 50.05 percent after four rounds of the IRV process, and Beier had 2,054 votes, or 49.95 percent, according to the unofficial returns. Having promised her wife, Carrie Gray, with whom she is raising two kids, 3-year-old Simon GrayDroste and 7-month-old Cora June Gray-Droste, they would take a vacation after the election, Droste continued to monitor the vote count and post updates to her Facebook page this week from Hawaii. “While you all figure out what the heck is going on, here is a brief interlude,” Droste wrote Tuesday in a post that featured a short video of birds singing in a lush island landscape. Beier was also closely monitoring the vote counts this week, writing on his Facebook page, “I’ve been catching up in the polls! Only down 4 votes now.” A final tally was expected around 5 p.m. Wednesday, November 12 after the Bay Area Reporter went to press. Should she emerge victorious in the council race, Droste will be the first out lesbian to serve on the Berkeley City Council. There are currently two gay councilmen serving on it, Darryl Moore and Kriss Worthington, who won re-election last week to the newly configured District 7 seat. Having also come up short on election night, Marguerite Young, a lesbian single mom running for the Ward 3 seat on the East Bay Municipal Utility District board, is now holding a sizeable lead in her race against the incumbent, Katy Foulkes, whose re-election bid appears headed for defeat. Over the weekend Young declared victory, and as of Monday evening, she had a 2,068-vote lead.

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the addresses they had given, they could be disowned. Constance McMillen, Sun’s client in Mississippi, a young woman who successfully fought her school board when it refused to let her take her girlfriend to prom in a case many saw as emblematic of a clear-cut U.S. cultural divide – in fact, Sun said, McMillen herself is an evangelical Christian. Even as victories mount, the panelists agreed, much work remains to ensure a true, lived experience of equality for LGBT people. Sun left the audience with two quotes to sum up the need for a broad-

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Marguerite Young has declared victory in her race for a seat on the East Bay Municipal Utility District board.

“The voters have spoken. Almost all absentee votes in both counties have been counted. I have extended the lead I opened over the last few days; the outcome is clear! I am excited to bring my experience, passion and imagination to my service as the newest member of the East Bay MUD Board,” Young wrote in a message to supporters Saturday, November 8. “I want to thank everyone who participated in my campaign and all of the voters who have put their faith in me. I promise as your EBMUD director to do everything I can to make every drop count as we confront more frequent and persistent droughts and other impacts of climate change, address how to sustainably manage our water resources, and tackle the need to fix our leaky infrastructure.” Because the Ward 3 seat straddles both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, Young created a blog where she has been posting updated vote counts to make it easier for her supporters to track the latest totals. Her tally now stands at 27,218 votes, or 51.67 percent, compared to Foulkes’s 25,060 votes, or 47.73 percent. ly focused LGBT rights movement. In the words of Jane Addams, “the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” Or, in the immortal words of the cartoon Lilo & Stitch: “Family means no one gets left behind.” Horizons hopes to help secure rights for everyone, not just the most privileged, in part by channeling resources of wealthy LGBT people in the Bay Area to local organizations for the most marginalized within the community. It also accepts corporate sponsorship and donations. This can lead to unlikely partners like Merrill Lynch,

In another tight race involving an out candidate, Oakland City Council District 2 candidate Abel Guillen, who identifies as Two Spirit, was able to hold on to his election night lead and capture the seat. He bested former local CBS news anchor Dana King, who conceded Monday, November 10. According to the latest count posted Tuesday, November 11, Guillen won the seat with 6,490 votes, or 53.12 percent, after five rounds of IRV. King landed in second place with 5,727 votes, or 46.88 percent. Guillen, who is stepping down from his seat on the Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees, declared victory Saturday, November 8 in an email to his supporters. “When I reflect on the months leading up to this victorious moment, what I see most are your faces,” he wrote. “Your faces smiling at me, cheering me up during the difficult moments, celebrating the achievements that we built upon, step by step.” In a message to her backers this week, King wrote, “I have watched and waited because I wanted every single voter’s voice to be heard and their vote counted. There is no more reason to wait. Abel Guillen is the winner of the seat for District 2 City Council. I wish for him the courage to do what needs to be done in order to lift up all in the district and city.” Guillen becomes only the third out candidate to serve on the Oakland City Council. He will join lesbian at-large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who last week lost her bid to become Oakland mayor and has two years remaining in her council term. The first LGBT person to serve on the council was gay councilman Danny Wan, who was appointed to the District 2 council seat in 2000 to fill a vacancy. But he resigned in 2005 to care for his elderly parents and now works for the Port of Oakland.t

Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on several electoral wins by Sacto’s LGBT community. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

widely reported as one of the worst offenders in the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 that left many LGBT people homeless – or the company that subsequently acquired it, Bank of America. “We hosted the session on LGBT poverty and homelessness in the Bank of America building,” said Deb Stallings, director of development at Horizons. “It’s important to engage everyone who has the means and the inclination to get involved in the fight,” Stallings said. And that fight has a long way to go, Stallings said. “We’re not hanging the mission accomplished banner yet.”t

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12 • BAY AREA REPORTER • November 13-19, 2014

Former SF comedian Danny Williams dies by Cynthia Laird

anny Williams, a well-known gay comedian who brought laughter to many in San Francisco and beyond, died November 4 at a hospital in Maryland. He was 62. The cause of death was a staph infection, his husband Brian Moser said, although Mr. Williams had been on disability since 2012 with progressive nerve damage. “This was sudden and rather unexpected,” Moser told the Bay Area Reporter by phone. Mr. Williams was known for his comedic talents, which started locally on his 30th birthday in 1982 when he decided to try stand-up and stepped on to the stage of the Valencia Rose for “Gay Comedy Open Mic” hosted by Tom Ammiano and Lea DeLaria and did his first routine. “He was an instant hit and showed up every week honing his comedy skills,” said his former partner, attorney Carl Wolf. His day job was as a hospital manager at UCSF Medical Center. After a series of odd jobs he had started at the hospital as a file clerk and eventually managed the Screening and Acute Care Clinic, Wolf said. “AIDS was happening and in the hospital he was going around the wards and being with people in their final stages,” Moser said. “The comedy came out of his activism and people were being decimated financially and he wanted to help.” Moser added that Mr. Williams participated in the 1979 White Night riots following the lenient sentence for Dan White following the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. With the onset of AIDS in the 1980s, Mr. Williams did hundreds of charitable fundraisers all over the country, with the AIDS Emergency Fund being one of his main charities. Wolf told the B.A.R. that Mr. Williams performed at the weekly Big Basket contests at the Edge, raising thousands of dollars for AEF. He was also involved with the Folsom Street Fair at its start and performed

at leather and bear events all over the country, Wolf said. Ammiano, now a state assemblyman, said he was saddened by Mr. Williams’s passing. “He was generous of spirit and made people laugh in dark times,” Ammiano said in an email. “Being an out gay comic is not an easy road.” Ray Tilton, a longtime friend, said Mr. Williams would be missed. “Danny was truly at the forefront of the AIDS pandemic,” Tilton said via Facebook. “With his quick wit and humor he gave us something to laugh at during such a time when it seemed our entire community was in tears. We worked together on events too numerous to count. No matter what event I was doing he never said no to performing or MCing or just lending a hand over the 25-plus years I knew him.” Mr. Williams quit his day job in 1986 to do comedy full time. “He was a master of ad-libbing,” Moser said, adding that most people thought he used notes or a script but he did not. Wolf, too, cited Mr. Williams’s ability to think quickly on his feet. Lesbian comedian Marga Gomez told the B.A.R. that Mr. Williams was “one of the most generous LGBT entertainers out there.” “He never said no to the community,” Gomez said via Facebook. “We were very close in the 1980s – I think we talked everyday and commiserated over the discrimination we faced as gay comedians in a homophobic comedy industry of the 1980s. When he was on stage at Valencia Rose or Eagle or any of our gay clubs you could clearly see he was having a ball and lived for the banter with the crowd. Although we lost touch I know he went on to rock the RSVP Cruises. The world has lost a very funny man.”

Big break

In 1989, Mr. Williams became the host, master of ceremonies/cruise director, and comedian for RSVP Cruises, which caters to the gay com-

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Danny Williams in a 1992 photo.

munity and is now known as RSVP Vacations. He performed for 22 years all over the world, Wolf said. “He performed nonstop on these ships, from hosting the ‘Dating Game’ and the ‘Newlywed Game’ to costume parties, pool games, and calling bingo,” Wolf explained. “Everything Danny did became a comedy show of its own.” Moser said that Mr. Williams went on hundreds of cruises, and Moser went with him on many as well. “He was most proud of the RSVP cruises,” Moser said. Ammiano also said that Mr. Williams had “a huge following from the RSVP gay cruises.” Wolf said that Mr. Williams performed with the late Joan Rivers, Harvey Fierstein, Dianne Schurr, Mary Wilson, Michael Feinstein, and many others.

Early life

Mr. Williams did not have an easy early life, Moser and Wolf both said. Mr. Williams was born in New Orleans on October 23, 1952. Moser said that his parents then moved the family to Phoenix, where Mr. Williams was raised. He graduated from Arcadia High School and attended Arizona State University, where one of his class-

mates was actress Lynda Carter. When Mr. Williams turned 18 he moved to San Francisco, Moser said. His Pentecostal parents put him in a mental institution at 17, where he was given electroshock therapy and other abusive treatments to “cure” him of being gay, said Wolf. Wolf added that Mr. Williams used his harsh upbringing in a oneman show called 1970 that he performed in the 1980s. “He really started comedy when he did performances in school,” Moser said, adding that Mr. Williams performed as Mickey Mouse when did promotional tours with Disney for children with disabilities. Moser and Mr. Williams lived in San Francisco before relocating to Palm Springs in 2000 where Mr. Williams became a successful real estate agent. The couple held a wedding ceremony there in 2003. During the brief period when same-sex couples could legally wed in California in 2008, Moser and Mr. Williams went to the county courthouse and were married.

“He was the love of my life,” Moser said. The couple moved to Maryland in January, Moser said. In addition to Moser, Mr. Williams is survived by his aunt Catherina Patricia Williams, and niece, Shannon Hedlund; sister-in-law Lisa Roja and her husband, Michael Roja; Moser’s sisters, Toni Roja and Diona Roja; and many nieces and nephews and extended family members. Additionally, Mr. Williams is survived by friends Tracey Brandon, Tom Harvey, Don Fenwick, Johnny and Jerry Hedges, Bob Grinchuck, and Reuel Olin. A memorial service for Mr. Williams will be held in San Francisco Sunday, December 7 at 11 a.m. at Beatbox, 314 11th Street. A reception will immediately follow at the 440 bar, 440 Castro Street. Donations at the memorial and reception will benefit AEF and the Positive Resource Center, two of Mr. Williams’s favorite charities. For more information, contact Tilton at dogandpup707@gmail.com.t

Obituaries >> Thomas H. (Tim) Belk July 22, 1941 – October 12, 2014

Thomas H. (Tim) Belk, a resident of San Francisco for more than 40 years and a well-known figure to a wide circle of friends as a professional piano player, died October 12 of complications from a kidney infection. He was 73. A native of Fort Mill, South Carolina, Mr. Belk moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s to began a career of more than 20 years with the California State Automobile Association. But it was through his piano playing at various locales such as the former Curtain Call in the city’s theater district and at the Top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel that many came to know him best. Over the years, many of San Francisco’s most prominent socialites would engage him to play his mixture of show tunes and old

standards at their social events. Mr. Belk, who retained a southern accent and was passionate about literature, theater, music, and all of the arts, was a longtime friend of the author Pat Conroy, who based several of the characters in his novels on his long-time acquaintance. Such books included The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and South of Broad. Conroy once described Mr. Belk as someone who “would have looked natural with a walk-on part in a Tennessee Williams play.” Mr. Belk held a master’s degree in English literature from the University of South Carolina. He is survived by his former wife, Dianne Cunningham of Fort Mill, South Carolina, and two cousins, Joe Belk of Oakland and John Belk of Atlanta. Internment will be at the Neptune Society Columbarium in San Francisco where a memorial service will be held Friday, November 14 at 1 p.m. The Columbarium is located at One Loraine Court, just off Geary Boulevard.

Transgender Day of Remembrance: The big question by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

ifteen years ago, on a rainy evening in San Francisco, a group of transgender people and others met at the Castro Muni station. From there, this small group would walk across the street to the Castro Theatre, standing out front with placards naming various victims of anti-transgender violence while The Brandon Teena Story was shown inside. I then said a few words while standing out in the street in the rain – the sidewalks were narrower back then – and we all made our way back to Muni and headed for home. From these rather humble beginnings in 1999 the Transgender Day of Remembrance was formed. Today it honors those lost in the last year due to anti-transgender violence in sites across the globe every November 20. It has become something much larger than those of us who met that first night thought possible. Today it is one of the few yearly events held throughout the LGBT community – and even beyond. I’m honored to have founded the event, and am truly humbled to see what it has become. I founded it, yes, but it has gained a life far beyond me – and that is cool. Every year, as I give interviews about the event, I get asked one question that has a very difficult

answer: people want to know if the number of people being killed due to anti-transgender violence has dropped. The answer? No, the number of people being killed due to anti-transgender violence has not markedly changed in decades. Indeed, it is possible that the numbers have grown as the transgender community has gained visibility. It is hard to say for certain because reporting of antitransgender murders has also improved, and the community is paying attention to these deaths a lot more. The Internet makes learning about these murders much easier. Interviewers never ask me what seems like the obvious follow-up question: If this hasn’t helped cause a decline in anti-transgender violence, can the Transgender Day of Remembrance be seen as a failure or, at the least, ineffective? I don’t have an easy answer to that question, and I don’t think there is one. I suppose if your metric is a simple cause and effect, then yes, it would seem that the event itself has not caused fewer transgender murders to happen, and that is a pretty damning indictment. But the same could likely be said of most other attempts to draw attention to violence and murder in other communities. It is not so cut-and-dried. What the Transgender Day of

anti-transgender vioRemembrance has done, lence without looking at first and foremost, is build this broader picture. an awareness of anti-transNow back to that gender violence. It has not question at hand. All done it via ribbon magnets, of these have been the color-coded merchandise, impact of the event over silicon bracelets, or other the last 15 years. In the tchotchkes. Instead it has grand scheme of things, done it via direct action, honthe Transgender Day of oring those we have lost, and Remembrance is a very remembering them when so big part of what the many others would rather transgender commuthat they simply be forgotten. nity has become over It has helped bring togethRick Gerharter the last 15 years. Their er a community, and providhistories are very much ed a focus. The Transgender The 2002 Transgender Day of Remembrance intertwined. Day of Remembrance was observance saw people walk up Market Street from While the rate of the first transgender-specific Harvey Milk Plaza. violent anti-transgender event. Today many tie it into place for members of other commurder may not have a Transgender Awareness munities to begin to understand our changed as a direct result of the TransWeek, while the Transgender Day issues. They may glaze over a lot of gender Day of Remembrance, I do beof Action and Transgender Day of our needs and desires, but everyone lieve that the consequences for these Visibility borrow liberally from the can understand how violence and murders have been affected. These Transgender Day of Remembrance’s murder can affect a community, killers may not know it when they name. The transgender community and everyone should be able to emcommit murder, but the transgender honors those it has lost, something I pathize with another’s loss. community is now one that does pay personally consider a very noble and It is also important to note that the attention to those it has lost, and will valuable thing. event has not only drawn attention be there to see that justice is served. Along those same lines, the Transto the issue of anti-transgender vioThat, to me, is the biggest part of gender Day of Remembrance has lence, but has also drawn attention all. We as a community have grown increased the visibility of transgender to other prejudices visible in these to the point that you cannot so easissues overall. In the fight for rights, murders. It’s not enough to simply ily murder us. We’re not so easily the first and foremost one is simply talk about bias against transgender forgotten that you can erase us with the right to exist. From the discussion people in these murders, but also a knife or a bullet. In our numbers of anti-transgender murder comes that the majority of these cases are we have strength, and will always discussion of violence, prejudice, transgender women and are black fight for justice. slurs, and so on. It has been cited in or other people of color. The places And that is the real answer.t hate crime laws, in anti-bullying meawhere transgender issues intersect sures, and in all forms of transgenderwith racism and sexism are writ large inclusive equal rights bills. Gwen Smith can be found at in the event: you cannot talk about The event has also served as a http://www.gwensmith.com.

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Waddell street renaming scheduled by Roger Brigham

tentative date has been set for the renaming of Lech Walesa Street in the Civic Center area to Dr. Tom Waddell Place to honor the founder of the Gay Games. The new street sign is tentatively scheduled to be unveiled at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, November 20. The name change was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in July. Waddell, a gay man and a 1968 Olympian in the decathlon, is credited with creating the vision for the Gay Games, a quadrennial sports and cultural festival founded in San Francisco in 1982 that through the decades has engendered a massive stimulation in the growth of LGBT recreational sports groups. Waddell originally named the event the Gay Olympic Games, but just days before their launch he was enjoined from using the word “Olympics” by the U.S. Olympic Committee – a landmark decision that dragged on for years and was ultimately settled by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the USOC. Before his death in 1987 of complications from AIDS, Waddell worked in San Francisco’s public health clinic. The Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic, on Golden Gate Avenue, is named in his honor.

No domestic abuse charges against 49ers’ McDonald

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office announced November 10 that it will not file domestic abuse charges against 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald, saying it lacked sufficient evidence and cooperation to prosecute the player in connection with an incident at his home August 31 that allegedly left his fiancee bruised. Despite some public outcry and growing pressure on the NFL to fight domestic abuse within its

Out electeds

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four years later, is termed out of his legislative seat this year. And the man he endorsed to succeed him, gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, was defeated in the race for the city’s 17th Assembly District seat by his straight colleague, District 3 Supervisor and board President David Chiu. It marks the first time since 1996 that San Francisco will not have a gay or lesbian legislator representing it in the state Assembly. And due to Chiu able to potentially serve 12 years in the Assembly, it could be 2026 before an LGBT candidate recaptures the seat, which includes the city’s eastern neighborhoods. Wong, who has served on the community college board since 1994, opted not to seek re-election this year. Both of the gay candidates seeking college board seats last week lost, leaving Rafael Mandelman the sole LGBT community member on the board, which is currently not meeting due to a special trustee being appointed during the college’s accrediting issue. Of the 10 out candidates on last week’s ballot, the only person who won was gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who easily clinched a second four-year term. Campos has two more years left before he is termed off the board. The three other remaining out lawmakers are state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who will be termed out in 2016 and is contemplating running for mayor in 2015; city Treasurer Jose Cisneros, who is expected to run

ranks, McDonald remained on the active roster throughout the legal investigation and the Niners said this week his status would not change. “The issue of domestic violence is important to us, as it is throughout society,” the team said in a statement. “We have taken this allegation seriously, just as we have taken the principles of due process seriously. We have said from the beginning that we will consider the information available, allow the facts to lead to our decisions and respect the judicial process. Based on the information available to us and the district attorney’s decision not to file charges, there will be no change in Ray’s status with the team.” The police involvement began on August 31, when McDonald was celebrating his 30th birthday with teammates, with two 911 calls from his house. The first was from McDonald, who said he needed to get a woman out of his house. Two minutes later a call came in from a woman identifying herself as McDonald’s fiancee. The district attorney’s office said this week that in the call, the woman said, “Hello. I’d like to press for a domestic violence. My fiance ... he’s trying to pull me out of the house ... he’s drunk ... I think he’s calling the cops, he, he’s trying to get me out.” The district attorney’s memo said the woman declined to cooperate with investigators after her initial call and that the investigation revealed that she struck McDonald first.

Sports think tank explores religion and sexual orientation

A group of LGBT, religious, college and sports leaders met this month in Indianapolis to explore the best practices to enable college athletes and coaches to be engaged in the sports of their choice regardfor a four-year term next fall; and longtime BART board member Tom Radulovich, who first won election to his seat in 1996 and will be up for re-election again in 2016. While the number of out electeds in San Francisco is shrinking, across the bay in Alameda County, where many LGBT people have moved to in search of affordable housing, the polar opposite is occurring. Due to a slew of LGBT candidates winning their races last week, there will soon be a dozen LGBT officeholders serving in various positions at the city and county level throughout Alameda County. “That tells you something, doesn’t it,” said Wayne Friday, the Bay Area Reporter’s former longtime political editor. The political power of San Francisco’s LGBT community, said Friday, “is waning. It is going down.” The dwindling number of LGBT community members winning public offices in San Francisco is alarming to community leaders who have spent years fighting to ensure the LGBT community has political representation both at City Hall and in the statehouse. Lesbians have not held a political office in the city since 2008. And it’s been five years since an LGBT person served on the school board. Looking at the city’s changing demographics and the lack of a so-called farm team of LGBT people holding “down ticket” offices, such as school board seats, Friday predicted it is likely that Campos’s supervisor seat covering the Mission district could be won by a straight candidate in 2016. “That seat is not, in my mind, gay. The community will still find some-

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Olympic decathlete and Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell

49ers defensive end Ray McDonald

less of religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender expression or identity. Called “Seeking Common Ground: Creating a Respectful Athletic Climate for Athletes and Coaches of All Religious Perspectives, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity or Expression,” the effort is funded by a grant from the LGBT Sports Coalition and included the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Br{ache The Silence. The group is expected to work over the course of the next year to formulate best practice guidelines for faith-based schools, public schools and private secular schools in 2015. “I am excited to be a part of this important discussion,” said longtime activist and author Pat Griffin, a member of the coalition. “Creating common ground in athletics for athletes and coaches of all religious perspectives, sexual orientations, and gender identities is all about respect and I think that is something we all understand regardless of our differences.”

before last year’s NFL draft and was later cut from the Dallas Cowboys practice squad, continues to hope for some team to give him a chance, his historic league-wide snub continues to generate discussion. It was the subject in passing on a segment of the online Larry King Show November 6, in which the host asked former Dallas star Deion Sanders about reaching out to Sam to offer support. The segment was innocuous enough until Sanders, asked if he thought being gay might be a “choice,” said yes. Oops. The gaffe swiftly made the rounds on the Internet and the following day Sanders backed off from his comment in a series of Twitter exchanges with Outsports founder Cyd Zeigler. “Please accept my apology,” Sanders wrote. “I have friends whom felt both ways. Some felt they made a choice and others didn’t.” For the record, Oh Speedy One, being honest and candid, as Sam was when he came out, is a choice. Being gay isn’t. And although you say you neither condemn nor condone homosexuality, I would hope you would condone honesty and condemn the fear that holds it back.

Deion steps in it

As Michael Sam, the former Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year who came out just

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Jamie Rafaela Wolfe came up short in her bid for a school board seat.

body to run out there,” said Friday. “It would have to be an Hispanic gay or lesbian if they want to hold that seat. Basically, it is an Hispanic seat out there now.” Even Wiener’s District 8 seat centered in the city’s gay Castro district could eventually see a straight person be elected to it, he said. “I think in 10 years the Castro will be straight for Chrissakes,” said Friday. Last week’s B.A.R. banner headline “Bad night for out candidates” over stories about lesbian Oakland At-Large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan’s defeat in her city’s mayoral race and Campos’s second-place showing in the Assembly race was ironic, said Friday, considering neither won the paper’s endorsement.

Both candidates saw their straight opponents attract considerable support from within their cities’ respective LGBT communities. It is indicative of how many LGBT people no longer view electing an out candidate as their main priority after years of seeing the LGBT community win legal and social advancements toward greater rights and acceptance. “LGBT people don’t singly vote for LGBT candidates. But we need to think as an LGBT community how we get elected politicians with our ideals,” said Jamie Rafaela Wolfe, a transgender woman who works at a nonprofit school for children with emotional and developmental issues. Wolfe has now twice lost bids for a seat on the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education. In both of her campaigns, one of her main arguments was the need for an LGBT voice on the board, particularly to serve as a role model for queer students. “It is a question I am going to think a lot about, why no one on the school board is LGBT,” said Wolfe, a member of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, which endorsed her school board bid. Like Wolfe, there are those who still argue that LGBT people best know what the issues are that need to be addressed within the LGBT community and, by serving in public office, are more apt to fight for the passage of laws or funding of LGBT-specific services. It is a concern shared by Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group, which this fall for the first time endorsed out candidates

Comedian Artie Lange, a former cast member of the off-color “Howard Stern Show,” has been banned from appearances on ESPN after posting a series of racist and sexist comments on Twitter aimed at studio host Cari Champion. Champion, an African American woman, moderates the show First Take, which features Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless. On Tuesday, November 4, Lange posted several comments on Twitter talking about jacking off to Champion. “She’s so fuckin’ hot,” Lange wrote. “Trying to maintain erection and jerkoff to chick on First Take but they keep cutting back to Stephen A. Smith and the white guy. Frustrating!” ESPN condemned Lange’s comments the following day. “His comments were reprehensible and no one should be subjected to such hateful language,” ESPN said in a written statement. “They objectify and demean one of our valued employees under the thin guise of ‘comedy’ and are offensive to all of us. We will not dignify them with any other comment.”

Swimming sex abuse to get publicity

Several prominent athletes, led by activists such as Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar, have loudly criticized USA Swimming for providing poor institutional protection against alleged sexual abuse by coaches for years. It may be harder for USAS to ignore the issue next month, when the magazine Outside is scheduled to publish a lengthy article on the long history of sexual abuse and institutional cover-ups in swimming. In anticipation of the article, Jim Sheehan, president of USA Swimming, wrote member clubs an internal memo warning them about the article and complaining that Outside is biased against the swimming federation. Outside has a reported readership of 700,000.t in a number of local races around the state. Its political action committee did so, said EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur, after the organization faced criticism from LGBT leaders in Long Beach for not helping gay City Councilman Robert Garcia in his mayoral race, which he won in June. “Everyone said why are you guys doing nothing to help this guy; he is the future of our movement. That resonated with me,” said Zbur. “We decided to do a pilot program in some local races.” EQCA plans to “rethink” its role for the next election cycle, said Zbur, and could increase its participation in more local races to ensure LGBT people continue to serve in public office. Running in his first political campaign, Mark Murphy, a gay man who is a communications and marketing consultant, landed in last place among the nine candidates seeking three school board seats despite having the B.A.R.’s endorsement, as did Wolfe, and the backing of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. “I have said this for years: the good and drawback to LGBT people being less polarizing,” said Murphy, “is that you run the risk of not having a strong base.” An LGBT person running a citywide race, he said, needs to build a broad coalition of support in order to win. “It can’t just be an LGBT person running for office based on being an LGBT person,” he said. “San Francisco has become too diverse to run simply on sexual identity.”t

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media, and exercise voice. In this moment of transition, it seems so natural for outLoud and Youth Radio to link. Youth Radio gets to take on the expertise that outLoud has developed in working with queer youth media production and affirmative space, and build that into what Youth Radio already does really well, which is work with diverse young folks in the Bay Area. We’re going to be really thoughtful and intentional about developing outLoud within Youth Radio, to absorb all the beauty that

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As other media outlets have noted, Ha had not gone to work the day he went missing. “His co-workers said he had a headache on Thursday, so he went home a little bit early,” Mark Ha said. “Friday he emailed in saying he was out sick. I don’t think it was anything serous. All he did was get some Tylenol from Walgreens.” The flier distributed by friends says Ha “has been known to get dizzy spells where he gets lightheaded and has difficulty speaking.” “The headaches that you hear about, from my understanding, come from working extreme hours,” Lee said. “He was an extremely hard worker.” She said she’d seen him “pulling all-nighters working his but off.” Liu indicated he wasn’t aware of Ha having dizzy spells. Asked about the flier’s mention of them, he said, “I don’t know what that was so much about.” According to information provided by Lee, Ha’s phone was last used not long after he left his apartment. In an email, she said he’d “had an event on his calendar” for Halloween, but he hadn’t checked in. Family and friends are seeking video footage of Ha from local businesses. “Most places don’t have it or they say they’re going to get back to us. ... It’s been 10 days, and some places don’t keep it that

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The organization has evolved over the years. Six years ago, the ministry started holding outdoor worship services after people said “they were uncomfortable going into some of the established churches,” Beckman said. Each week, open cathedral sessions in the Civic Center and Mission areas draw a total of about 150 people. After the services, the group feeds approximately 250 people. The Night Ministry would like to add staff in order to serve more people, said Beckman, who estimated more than half of the staff are LGBTQ-identified. There are 16 paid staff and 70 volunteers. Beckman, whose salary is about $70,000, said a primary challenge the ministry faces is sustaining donations. “We don’t have a huge overhead, but the more money we can raise, the more people we can have on the streets,” he said. “It is as simple as that.” The budget is about $400,000, Beckman said. A nonprofit that he declined to name provides office space, and the ministry also receives “a lot of in-kind donations.” The Night Ministry doesn’t get public funding. About 70 percent of its income is from individuals, 15 percent is from congregations and organizations, and the other 15 percent is fundraisers. Beckman said groups like the Imperial Council of San Francisco have been “very supportive of the Night Ministry over the years.” John Weber, the council’s board

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long,” Mark Ha said. According to the website http:// www.FindDanHa.com, Ha, the second of four children, was born in British Columbia. He graduated high school in Worcester, Massachusetts “at the top his class,” and in 2010, he received a degree in computer science from Stanford University. There, he was co-president of his senior class and had been on the founding team for StartX, the university’s startup accelerator. “Dan has always been pretty ambitious,” Mark Ha said. He’d always been “very smart, even brilliant. He’s been pretty successful at whatever he finds passion in, whatever he puts his mind to.” Lee said, “Dan is a brilliant IOS developer. He’s at the top of his field.” Ha had returned to his job at Metromile, a car-related startup, October 15 after leaving the company, Mark Ha said. “He was planning to join a startup some time in August, but then things didn’t work out,” Ha said. “... Metromile was very gracious and they took him back after that.” He said he didn’t “have all the details” of why the startup hadn’t worked out for his brother. Lee said, “When you’re that good,” there are “tons” of options available. She said Ha, who’d started two companies in StartX, is “a very, very strong engineer who can build a company off his own coding.” His leaving the startup wasn’t

“anything unusual” and when engineers of his caliber find “something is not working out, they go,” she said. “They don’t need to stay.” Mark Ha said he didn’t think his brother had been depressed. “Sometimes he’s, I guess, down, or not as upbeat as normal,” but he “definitely” hadn’t been depressed “or anything like that,” he said. Around Christmas 2013, “he might have had a hard time,” Ha said. “I wouldn’t describe it as depression, just a little bit of toned down Daniel.” He said his brother had been living in Los Angeles at the time “and didn’t have a stable job.” Mark Ha also said he didn’t know of his brother ever using drugs. Lee said Ha was “dedicated to keeping his body in top shape. He was a very disciplined gym guy. … You could tell he worked out.” She added, “He was very health conscious, so the question about drugs, I would never think of that associated with him.” Sergeant Monica MacDonald, a San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday morning the case is “still an open investigation,” and she wasn’t aware of any new developments. Police investigating the case didn’t respond to requests for comment. Anyone with information about Ha may contact the San Francisco Police Department at 415-558-5508. The case number is 140 937 521. More information is available at http://www.FindDanHa.com or the Find Dan Ha Facebook page.t

chair, said his organization, which is marking its 50th anniversary next year, has been working with the ministry “probably since its inception.” That includes years where AIDS was decimating the city’s gay population. “Night Ministry is out in the street administering to the most vulnerable and disenfranchised members of our society,” Weber said. He said it “speaks volumes” that for the last 20 years, each of the court’s emperors and empresses has picked the ministry “as one of their charity funds.” There have been people who haven’t been sure what to make of the Night Ministry. “Sometimes,” Beckman said, people “might think we represent a more right wing section in the Christian church, that we’re out there to change people, or to judge people and to make their lives difficult, and that’s not what we do at all.”

Sustaining the ministry

As it works to help other people who are struggling, the Night Ministry has recently been dealing with some paperwork issues itself. Online records from organizations that track nonprofits indicate the ministry hasn’t filed tax documents with the IRS since 2010. As of Tuesday, the government agency’s website says the nonprofit’s taxexempt status was automatically revoked effective May 15. “The federal tax exemption of this organization was automatically revoked for its failure to file a Form 990-series return or notice for three consecutive years,” the site says. “The information ... is historical; it is current as of the organization’s

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effective date of automatic revocation” and the data isn’t necessarily “current as of today’s date. Nor does this automatic revocation necessarily reflect the organization’s taxexempt or non-exempt status.” A recording at an IRS number Tuesday said the agency was closed for Veterans Day. Beckman said, “We are in the process of working with the IRS, so technically” it’s not accurate to say the group’s lost its tax-exempt status. “We’ve filed all of our paperwork with them,” and the agency has said the Night Ministry is still tax-exempt and donations are taxdeductible, he said. The problem is that the Night Ministry has not being able to reach its previous accountants. Beckman declined to name the people, because there may be “some litigation that comes up with them.” “We have new accountants, and we’re putting ourselves through some rigorous scrutiny right now,” Beckman said. The audit report “should be ready” in a week, he said. The Night Ministry is on the California Secretary of State’s list of tax-exempt entities in the state. The secretary of state’s data shows the nonprofit is “active” with that agency. The nonprofit will hold a banquet Sunday, November 16 at Delancey Street Foundation, 600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco. The event is sold out. For more information about the Night Ministry, visit www.sfnightministry.org. The crisis line, which operates every night of the year, is 415-441-0123.t

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550676

In the matter of the application of: JEONG JA CHO, C/O KATHERINE M. LEWIS #247258, VAN DER HOUT, BRIGAGLIANO & NIGHTINGALE LLP, 180 SUTTER ST #500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JEONG JA CHO, is requesting that the name JEONG JA CHO, be changed to JEONG TOBIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 30th of December 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550606

OCT 23, 30, NOV 06, 13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036095700

In the matter of the application of: ELIZABETH HANLEY, 330 VIRGINIA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELIZABETH HANLEY, is requesting that the name ROSEMUND WREN DOUGLASS, be changed to ROSEMUND WREN HANLEY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 2nd of December 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 23, 30, NOV 06, 13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036093700

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036108300

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE LITTLE JUNGLE, 113 PRECITA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NELLY VARGAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/14.

OCT 23, 30 NOV 06, 13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036090900

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OCT 23, 30, NOV 06, 13, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036092200

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OCT 23, 30, NOV 06, 13, 2014 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF WILLIAM S. ROBINSON IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES14-298188

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIAM S. ROBINSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JEFF ALTMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JEFF ALTMAN 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: Nov 19, 2014, 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 latter 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: PATRICIA A. MAYER, #133171, LAW OFFICES OF JULIA P. WALD, 1108 FIFTH AVE #202, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; Ph. (415) 482-7555.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 2014

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOOD EARTH CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, 801 HOWARD ST #811, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed REGINA MARIE REGAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/10/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036116400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PURPLE MAROON, 1167 CAYUGA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPHINE TCHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036075600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 201AM, 40 RICH ST #C, GREENBRAE, CA 94904. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILLIAM D. MELVIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/11/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/14.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036115700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WALKING ORANGE, 19 NORTHGATE AVE #1, DALY CITY, CA 94015. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed GUO CHEN & KEER CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036107000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AL’S PLACE, 1499 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TATR LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/14.

OCT 30, NOV 06, 13, 20, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036127200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DETAIL GARDENING, 2141 GEARY BLVD., #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIK ING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/13/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/31/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036115800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AN EYE FOR ART, 621 BANKS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTINA MARIA MADRID MILLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

NOV 06,13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036128900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACORN COFFEE CO., 448 VICKSBURG ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS JAMES DOMBROWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LESLIE KARAS DESIGN, 1745 PACIFIC AVE, #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LESLIE KARAS DESIGN, 1745 PACIFIC AVE, #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/30/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036115400

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NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036125700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NATIONAL SOCIAL ANXIETY CENTER-SF, 1801 BUSH ST, #18, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN R. MONTOPOLI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036109500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOME CAFE, 1222 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 1ST, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036109600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE UP, 1232 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUNSET DRIFT IN LOUNGE, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036133600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEW UPPER TERRACE MARKET, 4499 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a trust, and is signed MAUREEN MELENDYSALMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/04/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/04/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036097400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEST IN CLASS EDUCATION CENTER, 4451 MISSION ST, #101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUPER & SIMPLE LEARNING, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036131300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLESH AND SPIRIT COMMUNITY, 924 PRESIDIO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JOURNEYS THAT EMPOWER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/03/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036124200

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550693

In the matter of the application of: LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑA-ORNELAS, 529 LAIDLEY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑA-ORNELAS, is requesting that the name LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑA-ORNELAS, be changed to LUIS FERNANDO AVINA-ORNELAS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 13th of January 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF LORRAINE K. MANNERING IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES14-298237

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LORRAINE KATHERINE MANNERING, LORRAINE MANNERING. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JERRY MANNERING in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JERRY MANNERING 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: December 03, 2014, 9 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 latter 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: Patricia A. Mayer, Law Offices of Julia P. Wald, 1108 Fifth Avenue, Suite 202, San Rafael, CA 94901; Ph. (415) 482-7555.

NOVEMBER 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036125000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOCK MAN PRESS, 654 5TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON BRADLEY THOMPSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036105800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC FINANCIAL GROUP, ONE EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMUEL A. SHUMMON. 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 10/22/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036111500

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036133300

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036097600

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NVI INVESTMENTS, 1215 FILBERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EUGENE R. HENRY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY AREA TENANT REPRESENTATIVES, 60 WASHBURN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LESLIE JEAN BURNLEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/17/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DESIGN DECOROUS, 267 A COLLINGWOOD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIFER KING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/04/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/04/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036116600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARGAIN OUTLET 88, 201 WAYLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KIN CHOY LOW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/17/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOBILE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY, 1058 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DARIEN DE LORENZO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

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Master of 20th-century hieroglyphics by Sura Wood

hat Keith Haring led a brief but fully engaged life is borne out bigtime by Keith Haring: The Political Line, a sprawling career retrospective of the openly gay artist that lifted off at the de Young last week. An unabashed populist and ardent advocate for social justice in his life and art, Haring promoted safe sex and economic equality, while railing against AIDS and homophobia, racism in general and apartheid in particular, the excesses of capitalism and dangers of technology, the crack epidemic, and the perils of global warming. Haring believed that art was for everybody, and made good on that theory before he died from AIDS in 1990. He was 31. “Untitled” (1982) by See page 27 >>

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Keith Haring. Baked enamel on steel. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection, Los Angeles.

Dancing the human condition by Paul Parish

razy!” is the first thing every dancer said about Batsheva, the Israeli dance troupe that San Francisco Performances presented at Yerba Buena last weekend. The things those dancers can do outdo the weird and wonderful moves of every contemporary dance company in the known world. They’ve got spines like snakes, legs like octopus tentacles, and they can jump like frogs. And yet, these moves are not just weird, they’re expressive. They actually mean something. See page 26 >>

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Batsheva Dance Company in Sadeh 21, choreographed by Ohad Naharin.

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Days of wine & poses by Roberto Friedman

s we were saying last week, life may not be a bowl of cherries, but for Out There, it’s at least a press feed and a bottle of vino. We’ve never subscribed to the new/old American puritanism. We think there are a lot worse things to be addicted to than a nice bottle of Pinot Noir. Greed, money, and power, for instance – everything that late capitalism is built on. But the fruit of the grape? That’s just an example of Mother Earth’s merciful blessings. The night of the historic World Series Game 7, we had accepted a press dinner invitation at Trace in the W San Francisco hotel, and to our everlasting credit, we honored our commitment. “I’m afraid we won’t have the game on in the bar or at table,” apologized our press escort, but that was okay. It was on everybody’s phone, and the San Francisco Giants would go on to victory with or without us. Lead mixologist Erik Tennyson whipped up delicious seasonal cocktails such as the Smoky Paloma for us in the Upstairs bar. Then we progressed with a posse of pres-

sies to dinner downstairs at the refreshed Trace restaurant, a meal prepared with panache by executive chef Jason Rea. We were joined at table by charming W-SF general manager Roger Huldi. Fried Brussels sprouts (Most Valuable Vegetable), crispy fried quail, and herb and potato stew with roasted octopus served to whet our appetite. Then came our entrée of roasted chicken leg confit, pickled summer peppers, acorn squash and green lentils. For dessert we enjoyed huckleberry glacé with toasted meringue, lemon and mint. Such culinary delights successfully took our mind off baseball. When we took our leave and ducked into the Muni Metro, the station attendant was just announcing, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Giants have won the World Series!” A perfect night in downtown San Francisco, a dream of a night.

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Herb and Potato Stew, with roasted octopus, smoked bacon, paprika and lemons, created by executive chef Jason Rea for Trace restaurant.

the press in Chrissy Field, one of the most spectacular settings imaginable. The Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Lights, and a bright moon waxing to full: quite a spread. We love Chrissy Field. We love bars (none too wisely, but too well). And we love Airstream trailers. The Bar Car was created by entrepreneur Greg Medow, and it comes complete with a full bar serving artisanal cocktails and local brews on tap. Medow described his trials of Hercules in getting the Airstream across country and set up with all the necessary permits. Mid-century modern design aficionados will love it. Interior design details include stainless steel cabinets, a brushed aluminum interior, a mahogany bar, and LED floor lighting. The Bar Car is available for private parties and events. Medow and staff were headed next to booze up a party at the Googleplex. Pricing begins at $25 per person and a minimum of $1,000. For more information or to book Bar Car, visit barcarsf.com.

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Then last Tuesday evening, we were invited to experience Bar Car, the Bay Area’s first mobile bar, which brings the party to any doorstep in a retrofitted 1965 Airstream trailer. Bar Car hosted a party for

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The handsome gentleman in the accompanying photo is baritone Zachary Gordin. He’s the guest soloist in a concert of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony [BARS] guest conducted by Michael Morgan on Nov. 22 at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore St. at Jackson, S.F.

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Baritone Zachary Gordin will appear in a concert of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony.

Polish liberation by Brian Bromberger

efore the picture emerges in the opening of Floating Skyscrapers, the new DVD released by TLA/ Canteen Outlaws, we hear moaning, heavy breathing, and grunts from behind closed doors. As we discover, these sounds are the main character having oral sex with an anonymous man inside a changing room. Billed as Poland’s first gay-themed movie, the film, directed by Tomasz Wasilewski, takes place in 2012 Warsaw, but feels like a time capsule of a U.S. gay film from the 1970s, the coming out of a repressed homosexual doomed to unhappiness. Poland is a conservative country still dominated by traditional Catholicism, and, judging by FS, quite homophobic. The plot centers on Kuba, in his late 20s, who for 15 years has been training as a champion swimmer. He lives in his overbearing mother’s cramped apartment with his girlfriend Sylwia, with whom he has good sex, and who supports him as a waitress. At an art opening, he meets Mikal, a handsome university student. They share a cigarette and become friends. FS charts Kuba’s journey towards self-liberation as he grapples with conflicting emotions to explore who he is and discover what he wants. Though this is his last chance to become a top-tier athlete, he drops his training program (all the drinking, drugs, and smoking probably did not help) as his relationship with Mikal starts to consume him. Initially remote, he can become violent, then horny, and finally tender as he realizes he has never experienced such deep feelings. But Sylwia, sensing his diminishing interest, fights for the relationship, and her mother-in-law will help her use an old trick to keep Kuba home and “straight.” Meanwhile, Mikal is trying to convince his intermittingly supportive mother he will remain gay for life, and to come out to his distant architect father, who unwittingly provides the film’s title. During dinner, Mikal announces he is gay, and the other family

members ignore him, an analogy perhaps for how LGBT people are treated in Poland. Kuba is well-acted by an earnest Mateusz Banasiuk. The problem is that the film has sparse dialogue and, enslaved to a formulaic plot, conveys its emotions through nuance. It’s difficult to empathize with characters you never really get to know, as style trumps substance here. Banasiuk spends most of FS naked or in his swimsuit, and there are many tasteful sex scenes. The film’s greatest strength is its sophisticated cinematography, which details through pallid blues and grays the oppressive city landscape. Kuba seems happiest when he is in water, which becomes the film’s primary image. The best sequence is when Kuba, Mikal, and Sylwia escape on a train trip to the countryside, where they cleanse themselves of the concrete jungle and its attitudes. Is FS a plea for tolerance, a call to come out despite a restrictive society, a struggle to resolve sexual identity, a negotiation of conflicting familial expectations, or a meditation on the complexities of sexual gratification? I suspect Wasilewski would say it is all these. I don’t doubt FS is a groundbreaking movie in Poland as it registers its bleak assessment of LGBT life. But its slow pace, open-ended conclusion, and retro gay-victimhood slant render it a tough emotional sell. Still, Wasilewski is a talent to be watched.t

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John Fisher’s armed theatricals by Richard Dodds

ar, huh, what is it good for? Absolutely something if you are a playwright with John Fisher’s sense of familial glow and a camp preference geared more toward a swaggering John Wayne or bombastic Charlton Heston than Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. Theatre Rhino’s artistic director has written plays to bookend its new season with a battlefield rapture born of a rare common denominator in his family. The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage! begins the season on Nov. 14 at ACT’s Costume Shop, and Timon! The Musical!, a battleenhanced loose interpretation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, will conclude the season in May in an outdoor production at Yerba Buena Gardens. These productions follow such other wartime Fisher originals as Combat!, Special Forces, and Fighting Mac! Why this attraction to armed theatricals? “I grew up in a very fractious family,” Fisher said. “I don’t think we always heard each other, but there was one point of common interest, and that was old World War II movies. We enjoyed the excitement of them together, and my father would enjoy talking about what it was like to live at that time. I’ve grown up to be a pacifist, but I’m sort of stuck with this warm glow around something I shouldn’t like.” Fisher wrote, directs, and has a prominent role in The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage!, which contains nine songs by composer Don Seaver set to Fisher’s lyrics. Despite the camp and satire that the production will bring to the story, Fisher said, “It’s all there, the actual history, even if we’re telling the story in our own thoroughly obnoxious way.” While the game of battleship plays out with one eye toward history, Fisher has more in mind than the strategic maneuverings of both sides in combat. “The play’s also about queer theory, arts funding in

San Francisco, and the battle for audiences in the changing contemporary landscape,” Fisher said. “I think you know from my work that I feel hamstrung if I’m stuck in just one historical period.” The nine-member cast is also a mash-up of gender and race. “In this production, it’s men versus women, so it’s a battle of the sexes, and the women play the Japanese, and the men play the Americans. The Americans do win the battle, but in the show I think you see that nobody really wins in war.” Fisher began writing Midway after seeing Peter and the Starcatcher, a play that created an elaborate backstory for the character Peter Pan. “I was, like, wow, they really decided to do something they were obsessed with, and I thought, ‘What am I obsessed with to that extent, and how would that manifest itself?’ In a way, it’s a show about my obsessions, some old obsessions and a lot of them new ones.” Following a New Year’s Eve performance of Shopping: The Musical, Rhino’s season will continue with The Anarchist, David Mamet’s most recent Broadway play, which begins performances at the Eureka Theatre on Jan. 2. The play took a critical drubbing when it opened in

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Justin Lucas, left, Donald Currie, and John Fisher play naval commanders in The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage!, a campy riff on the famous World War II operation that opens Theatre Rhino’s new season.

New York two years ago, and closed in short order. Fisher thinks that Mamet may be out of fashion now because of his noisy rightward political shift, and Fisher wonders if Mamet’s decision to direct his own play may have been a mistake. “I think we’re kind of lucky that it got such a stinky response,” Fisher said, “otherwise ACT or one of the other big theaters might have grabbed it.” The two-woman play is about a war-of-wills between a convict and the warden who has the power to free her after 35 years for killing two police officers while a member of a radical movement. “I think it’s a challenging play about strong personalities,” Fisher said. “The woman who has been incarcerated her

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Patti LuPone, left, and Debra Winger played prisoner and warden on Broadway in David Mamet’s The Anarchist, part of Theatre Rhino’s season.

whole life has found that she can express herself as a lesbian in jail, whereas her warden has been sexually repressed all her life. It’s sort of like, who’s really in prison?” Opening in March, Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code looks at the illustrious career of British mathematician, cryptologist, and computer pioneer Alan Turing, who helped turn the course of WWII when he broke the Nazi’s Enigma code. When he was in arrested in 1952 for homosexual behavior under Britain’s “gross indecency” laws, he accepted chemical castration over prison, and died a probable suicide two years later. Whitemore’s play hasn’t been seen in San Francisco since a 1988 pro-

duction at the Magic Theatre, two years after its London debut. “It’s a beautifully constructed play,” Fisher said, “but for a long time I don’t think people understood what Turing had accomplished and what would happen to him, and now he’s getting the recognition.” That recognition includes the television docudrama Codebreaker, the upcoming feature film The Imitation Game, and even a sidewalk plaque on Castro’s new Rainbow Honor Walk. The Rhino season concludes in May with Timon! The Musical! at Yerba Buena Gardens, where Fisher’s Titus! had a sprawling production in 1998. As with Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens is one of the lesser-regarded plays in Shakespeare’s canon, which makes it ripe for toss-the-script reinvention. “I see it as a play about arts patronage, and what that does to people,” Fisher said. “Timon helps a lot of what today would be non-profits and artists, but they betray him, and he ends up alone. I think the play has a lot of similarities to what’s going on in San Francisco right now, but it’s really a jumping-off point for what I’ll just call my usual kind of shenanigans.” t

Breaking the Code, another part of Rhino’s season, looks at the real-life tragedy of Alan Turing, who went from wartime hero to social outcast.

The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage! will run Nov. 14-30 at ACT’s Costume Shop. Tickets are $15-$20. Season tickets are also on sale. Call 552-4100 or go to therhino.org.

Post-war French affairs by Erin Blackwell

bunch of vintage post-war French films have tumbled into the Roxie Theater. It’s easier these days. They’re on DVD. According to the guys organizing this sudden influx of charm and savoir vivre (life skills), these movies were secretly sourced from arcane websites. I didn’t quite catch the provenance, and maybe I wasn’t meant to. Suffice to say, the 12 films in this whirlwind four-day festival are bijoux maudits (scandalous jewels). So pack your baguette and a bottle of rouge (red) and meet me sur the trottoir (on the street) outside the Roxie on Fri., Nov. 14. This soi-disant (so-called) French Noir mini-fest gets off to an exuberant start with a Bardot film. Bardot, like Brando, is a life force. She’s still going, a right-wing (sigh) animalrights advocate. Brando died long ago of his own excesses. Bardot had the good luck to live in a saner country, in which fame need not equal ruin. Bardot is improbably gorgeous, spirited, naïve, awkward, elegant, irresistible, impossible. A precise cultural expression of France’s most treasured possession, la joie de vivre (the joy of living). Bardot is the center of attention in both La Verité (The Truth), Fri. at 7:45 p.m., and En Cas de Malheur (In Case of Trouble), Sun. at 3:15

p.m. In both films, she’s blonde, sexy, a wild child on the streets of Paris exciting young men to use and abuse her. Incroyable mais vrai! (Unbelievable but true!) Men are salops (bastards), but you knew that. La Verité (1960) is framed by her trial for murder, which means we get a glimpse of the French justice system, so very different from our own. You’ll see two hardened lawyers parse the integrity of a young woman’s heart. This is why we love the French. Too bad we’re not more like them. The truth is rarely pleasant, though, even or especially for Bardot’s characters, as we learn through flashbacks of her disastrous affair with a young classical conductor. Of course it’s a ménage à trois (love triangle) with her uptight brunette sister, who’s clearly wife material. Bardot’s effervescence threatens to explode the intricate clockwork mechanism of the plot, but she’s a disciplined performer who attacks the emotional highs and lows with equal honesty. She doesn’t cheat. She dies at the end because, well, she’s simply impossible. Kinda like a unicorn. En Cas de Malheur (1958) is a majestic film, based on a Simenon, who was France’s answer to Agatha Christie. Again, Bardot’s in trouble with the law, this time for a numbskull robbery attempt. Her case, in

Don’t be surprised if saucisse is every sense of the word, is taken up she’ll never tell. This 1948 film by translated as if it were sourcil. So by rich, respected, bourgeois lawdirector Yves Allegret is like nothing sausage comes out as eyebrow. The yer Jean Gabin. Gabin is the face of I’ve ever seen. It drifts in at you like a genius of French cinema is hard French cinema of a previous genharbor fog. Nothing is obvious, meenough for us poor, dumbed-down eration. To see the two in the same chanical, cliché. It’s that thing rarisYanks to grasp without having wildframe is like owning a set of encyclosime (rarer than rare): a masterpiece. cat translators complicating our pedias. Add to the mix – because of A word of warning: Don’t believe cultural exchange.t course it’s a triangle – unbelievably everything you read on the screen. subtle stage diva Edwige Feuillière The subtitles are sometimes okay, as his long-suffering sophisticate sometimes so wildly inventive they The French Have a Name for It, wife, and oolàlà, you’ve got a master could only have been written by Roxie Cinema, Fri.-Mon., Nov. 14-17. $12 double bills. class in marriage and infidelity as a computerized voice transcriber. defined and designed by the French over centuries of hard work on the question. Actually, it’s a quadrangle. That’s how thorough it is. Again, Bardot dies. For the same reason. Simone Signoret ultimately went blonde, but in Dédé d’Anvers (Dédé of Antwerp), she’s a redhead. Mostly, though, what fascinates are the planes of her face. It’s so big and boney. She’s another kind of Brando. She looks like him, and like him, she knows how to speak without moving her lips. Something’s going on inside that Cro-Magnon skull of hers, behind those sleepy eyes, sad secrets The legs have it: Bardot & Gabin in Love Is My Profession (1958).

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Matter-of-fact Mary by Richard Dodds

ven if you accept the Bible as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, Mary had pretty much fallen off the radar by the time Jesus was making a name for himself. In the Gospels, only one terse conversation between mother and son is quoted. How different religions incorporated her post-nativity essence into their theologies are basically back-filled scenarios that artists would later help cement into a collective consciousness. The notion of Mary as a blank slate is rooted in authenticity, and it’s intriguing to imagine how a mother of recognizable dimensions in a real-world scenario would deal with a driven son on a dangerous path, a cult of followers pushing him on, and the pressures to follow a deifying script after his death. Irish playwright Colm Toibin has done just that in Testament, now at ACT, but the dramatic rewards are more limited than the possibilities might suggest. On a set of little more than a table and some chairs, Mary addresses the audience as if we are just another in a succession of nascent Christians claiming interest in her story, but who are often more interested in steering her toward their version of the story. This time, she tells us,

she is determined to give an honest account of her actions and reactions before, during, and after Jesus’ crucifixion. It is an arid, bitter tale from an unextraordinary woman determined not to let emotions roil her, at least not while there are any witnesses. That’s not an easy world for an audience to enter. Director Carey Perloff has stripped away the elaborate production gewgaws that marked the play’s New York run (then known as The Testament of Mary), and the simplicity on the Geary stage seems a better mirror of Toibin’s withholding style. There is integrity in the playwright’s approach, forgoing Biblical ornamentation and rendering the dialogue in everyday language that doesn’t seem interested even in vulgate poetry. Canadian actress Seana McKenna, alone on stage for the play’s 80 minutes, presents a steely, stoic figure who doesn’t so much command attention as she has come to wearily expect it. There aren’t many tugs for sympathy in McKenna’s performance, and it would be unbearable for both the character and the audience if the physical realities of slow death by crucifixion were offered with anything more than matter-offact concentration. Mary has guardians, or handlers

as we would call them today, but she resists and resents the talking points being thrust at her. “What is being written now will change the world,” says one of her guardians, and she can either help write the official version or leave it to others to fill in. “The earnestness of those young men repelled me,” she says early in the play of Jesus’ followers, and she intends to preserve his memory privately, in her own fashion. And in the end, she reveals the divinity from which she seeks solace, and it is not what you might expect. She earns our respect for her strength of character, and the play for its chilly convictions. But Testament is a play that explicitly does not want our love.t Testament will run at the Geary Theater through Nov. 23. Tickets are $20-$120. Call 7492228 or go to act-sf.org.

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Seana McKenna plays Mary in ACT’s Testament, a play delivered from an unusual behind-the-scenes look at the mother of Jesus.

Bach goes back to Golgotha by Tim Pfaff

hen the composer is Bach, the orchestra the Berlin Philharmonic and the singers the world’s best soloists, it might seem a stretch to call a show Peter Sellars’. But at its Philharmonie premiere in 2010, the gay director’s “ritualization” of the St. Matthew Passion was pronounced the most important and moving thing the orchestra had ever done – by musicians who had played in the august ensemble for years. That moveable Festspiel recently set a New York audience on its collective head in two performances at the cavernous Armory. The orchestra took that opportunity to rerelease repackaged DVD/Blue-ray sets of the Berlin St. Matthew in its deluxe new house-recording format – alongside another first release at least as consequential, of its Sellarsdirected Bach St. John Passion from Berlin earlier this year. If instead the orchestra had brought its arresting new St. John to New York, with the scent of blood already in the air over the imminent Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, with what its detractors deemed its anti-Semitism, perhaps the IDL could have come after John Bach, too. In the most mystical of the Christian gospels, the Jews come off as real Christ-killers, a trouble-making rabble maliciously goading on their altogether more sympathetic territorial occupier, Pilate. But as he had with the St. Matthew, Sellars delivers an involving, cathartic, healing Passion for our sacrament-starved times. The acting style ranges from the highly stylized to the shockingly literal, yet it’s all of a piece. And even the instrumentalists, moving though a range of positions on the bare stage, participate in the drama. No one directs a chorus with greater specific gravity than Sellars. Singers don’t get more “together” than in his choruses, but the choristers, to a one, know precisely who they are, both collectively and individually. Simon Halsey’s matchless choristers in the St. John have a broad range of musical assignments

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From the staging of director Peter Sellars’ staging of Bach’s St. John Passion.

and dramatic roles. When, for the span of a short chorus shortly before the crucifixion, they become the soldiers who wager for the prize of Jesus’ coat, a beautiful garment woven in a single piece, each shakes the dice in her own manner, adding to the feeling of the menace and mounting frenzy. Similarly with the soloists, only

some of whom play actual characters in the passion drama, largescale movements and demeanors that realize deep psychological states sometimes – and tellingly when they do – give way to incisive strokes of action. At the moment when a largely symbolic crown of thorns is planted on Jesus’ head, the wonderful baritone Roderick Williams

registers the pain soundlessly in a grinding of his jaw. The movement toward Golgotha and the inevitable execution – each of its elements prophesized by Scripture – is fleet in John’s gospel and Bach’s astonishing score. Sellars’ spare dramatizations of the stages on the way is so compelling you may forget that

Bach’s “soundtrack” is a discreet element, or even that you know how the story is going to come out. While there’s the intensity of ritual throughout, it’s not for an instant generic or ever applied with a broad brush. Without a hint of tearing the scenery (which isn’t there in the first place; this is Bach staged as you imagine Wieland Wagner might have), the singers deliver their music as if it’s the last sounds they will make on Earth. In the work’s final solo, soprano Camilla Tilling registers the particular pain, the deep desolation, of every syllable of her text without riling the long-breathed line of the music – seeming borne by it, rather. The long line of the whole work is sustained, achingly, urgently, sometimes sub-verbally and note-free by the Evangelist as sung by Mark Padmore, who has lots of competition but no equal in the role today. He never leaves the stage, rarely strays beyond center stage, and grounds the performance in lines whose occasional high-flying melisma explores both the extra-human and the human-all-too-human. Williams’ vocally virile Jesus suffers the pain of the cross with a palpable sense of the transport to a world not of this one. As Peter, with his crabbed, terse denials, Christian Gerhaher sounds so choked you fear for the long baritone solos to come, but he’s both alarmingly present and yearningly otherworldly in them. Had Magdalena Kozena not sung anything but “Es is vollbracht,” it would be the makings of a career, but she’s penetrating with all her music and can sing while actually crying. Topi Lehtipuu, who for much of the performance is Jesus’ tormentor, often whirling the supine body around the stage, sings like an angel in all respects, including never seeming to need a breath. The Berlin Philharmonic musicians are no strangers to this music, but only under Simon Rattle have they performed it so potently and with the “right” instruments. There may be slightly more stylistically correct ways around the St. John Passion, but none more complete, satisfying or unforgettable as Rattle’s.t

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The dead parade by John F. Karr

t wasn’t until Barry Manilow became a grave-robber that I paid him any attention. Sure, I’ve been aware of his career, and heard various cabaret artists sing lovely songs I’d never heard before and which turned out to be by Barry. But I’d never bought a Manilow album. Not even a greatest hits. My loss? Somehow, I wasn’t in a rush to find out. I did get in a rush, however, to get his latest album, My Dream Duets. It was an instant hit, becoming Barry’s 15th Top 10 album when it entered the charts upon its debut a week ago, high up at #4. Why? Perhaps it’s because every one of Barry’s 11 singing partners on the album is dead. Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Mama Cass, Dusty Springfield, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, Frankie Lymon and more. Though stylistically strange bedfellows, Barry’s tribute unites them – coffin cronies. Barry’s had an extensive history of duets, scattering 15 of them amongst his albums. They were finally collected in 2011, as Duets. He was chummy and slightly campy with Bette, charming with Barbara Cook, funny on a disco parody with Lily Tomlin (with Ernestine making a guest snort), and sufficiently jazzy with Mel Tormé and Sarah Vaughn (when both were still alive). So how does Barry honor the deceased? Barry lets Jimmy Durante open the set cleverly, laying down the law: “The Song’s Gotta Come from the Heart.” Sage counsel, although Barry takes it as permission to shoot the chutes right into sentimentality, with John Denver on “Sunshine on My Shoulders,” and with Whitney Houston on “I Believe in You and Me,” a cliché list of all the ways a lover will “be there” for her man (and on which Barry just can’t keep up with Whitney). As the album’s finale, there’s yet another slog through Louis Armstrong’s heardtoo-many-times “What a Wonderful World.” Barry is mostly relegated to har-

mony. Perhaps that’s why he announces himself by frequently singing a song’s verse or chorus before relinquishing the spotlight to his Dead Partner. Oops, I forgot, it’s supposed to be a Barry Manilow album! Well, of course, there’s some cherce stuff, in the instrumentation of Barry’s updated arrangements, and sometimes, since he’s a showman, in his vaudeville flash. I go for Durante’s inimitable joy and the thriller moment when his solo piano blossoms into a full, contemporary band (thank you, Barry). Similarly, Lymon’s jubilant “Goody Goody” swings hard, with a Manilow-supplied rhythm section that really cooks. But Barry’s mighty busy filling in every nook and cranny with ornaments, jaunty singalongs, spry enjoinders and vocal secondings. His contributions often obscure, instead of complement, the unique qualities that made hits of the originals. Lots of the song choices are also disappointing. Garland’s “Zing! Went the Strings” isn’t her snappiest version, and though Sammy Davis was an incredibly gifted singer with hot hits (“I’ve Gotta Be Me,” “There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’”), Barry chooses the horrifying schlock of “The Candy Man.” Monroe’s “I Wanna Be Loved OFF by You” is a limp choice. How much hotter WITH this album could have been if the choices had been Garland’s “By Myself,” Monroe’s “Kiss” (from the film Niagara) and Armstrong’s “C’est Si Bon.” And I’m so disappointed with the technical treatment of Ms. Monroe, Judy Garland, and Mama Cass (“Dream a Little Dream,” of course), whose cuts sound canned. They’re thin and tinny, robbed of their original warmth. Finally, the album’s 11 songs take up only 37 minutes. That’s an extremely short time for a CD, even one like this, with a low list price. I was led into the album by its novelty and my fondness for several of Barry’s partners. With the exception of the Durante and Lymon cuts, I will not be led unto repeat listening.t

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land development, busty saloon singers and, ultimately, the decadent delight of wasting one’s life at the movies, beginning at the candy counter. Carol Burnett Show vet Korman steals everything not nailed down while Brooks spoofs the third-rail touchy topic of race as his Indian Chief greets a black couple, set adrift from their wagon train, with a decidedly nonPC bit of Yiddish.

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here’s a distinctly British, darkly horrific, and darkly funny tone to the Castro Theatre’s fare in the second half of November. It’s a cinema banquet that allows us to pick our poison. For the Nov. 24 & 25 programs, consult the theatre’s website, castrotheatre.com. There Will Be Blood (2007) Shooting in a desolate slice of Texas (around Marfa) just before our recent “mini-depression/financial markets hiccup,” Paul Thomas Anderson uses the springboard of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel Oil to give us a riveting battle-tothe-death between two unseemly protagonists. A ruthless oilman, Daniel Plainview (Oscar-winning Daniel Day-Lewis), meets his match in an earnest if slyly duplicitous young preacher (career-defining Paul Dano). Plainview has an almost saintly visage as he attends to the upbringing of a youngster orphaned in a drilling accident. It’s only after Blood’s dramatic turning point, the fiery explosion of an uncapped well, that his dark, predatory side emerges. Dano once again demonstrates a talent for walking his characters to the extremities of their traits. His Eli morphs from sad-eyed idealist to maniacally spooky faith-healer, ultimately becoming a smooth-talking schemer who fulfills Sinclair’s and Anderson’s worst fears about Biblethumping politics. Anderson makes deft use of Dano playing twins, leading to a slapstick-style violent ending that nearly always throws first-time viewers for a loop. Citizen Kane (1941) This towering work from then-25-yearold prodigy actor/writer/director Orson Welles is a perfect companion piece to Blood’s populist themes. Welles – with genius-level collaborations from screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, cinematographer Gregg Toland and composer Bernard Herrmann – exposes the feet of clay of a newspaper baron plutocrat (based on William Randolph Hearst) pretending to be the people’s tribune. (both 11/23) Blazing Saddles (1974) Mel Brooks demonstrates why the wide-screen Technicolor Western was such a glorious device for capturing America, warts and all. Holding nothing sacred, Brooks and his gifted gang – Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Cleavon Little, Slim Pickens and Gene Wilder – hilariously mock America’s “nothing exceeds like excess” credo via belly-laugh funny skits on cross-dressing, cattle-rustling,

What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Thirties Hollywood buffs will recognize Peter Bogdanovich’s pitch-perfect homage to screwball hijinks as Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neil stretch their comedy chops with this loving almost-remake of Howard Hawks’ 1938 howler Bringing Up Baby. Just as Hawk created the madcap, leopardowning heiress to humanize Katharine Hepburn, perceived to be haughty, Bogdanovich gives Streisand a vehicle that transcends her cross-eyed-diva cult following. Shot on and about Nob Hill, with a stellar ensemble including Madeline Kahn and the lovely Austin Pendleton. (both 11/26) Don’t Look Now (1973) When a middle-class couple (the early70s art-house “it” couple Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) arrive in Venice, they think that the sinking city’s art treasures will cushion the grief prompted by the sudden death of their child. They’re so wrong! Tipped off by a medium that their dead daughter is trying to speak to them from the beyond, the couple is soon confronted with a mysterious red-cloaked figure. Nicolas Roeg deftly turns a Daphne du Maurier story into a nifty piece of cinema horror with an ending you’ll not soon forget. Daughters of Darkness (1971) Delphine Seyrig, an international icon (Last Year at Marienbad), stars here as elderly countess with a young female lover to satisfy. The duo seduce a pair of newlyweds, whereupon all hell breaks loose. A seldom-seen mix of horror and erotic perversion. (both 11/20) Sing-Along Sound of Music (1965) I used to consider myself a “Hills are alive” virgin, but alas, I succumbed, and now you’re on your own as to whether to attend this sing-along extravaganza, complete with door prizes. (11/28-30; 12/5-7) Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang’s dystopian classic was long missing a crucial 25 minutes of the Berlinshot original footage. This fully restored 148-minute version is pure cinema magic best appreciated in our movie palace. Robocop (1987) Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven put himself on the world-film map with this savage adventure seen from the perspective of a murdered cop (Peter Weller), brought back to his beat in semirobotic form. (both 11/15) Get Carter (1971) Five years following his debut as the philandering cockney playboy Alfie, Michael Caine achieved a different sort of buzz as a depressed hit man who returns to his North Country home to avenge the death of his brother. Pulp (2014) This Sheffield cult band is the focus of a hometown staged concert that includes dreamlike images intercut with man-onthe-street footage. (both 11/21)t

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familiar orchestrations of James’ legendary “At Last” are enough to whisk you away to another time and place. As soon as Franklin’s thunderous vocals are heard, you’ll be jarred back to our time. Few singers can belt or hold a note as powerfully as Aretha Franklin. Her take on “At Last” is chilling, true to the James version, but still imbued with Franklin’s unique style. Franklin puts her own stamp on classics like Gladys Knight’s “Midnight Train to Georgia” and Barbra Streisand’s “People.” It’s called soul music for a reason, and the Queen of the Genre doesn’t sing these numbers, she feels them. She makes the listener feel them as well. When she performs Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” you know that she’s a survivor. She takes no prisoners. “I’m saving all my loving for someone who’s loving me,” Franklin sings. Then she speaks: “Me! Me!” Don’t mess with the Diva.t

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Always able to move effortlessly from the campily comedic to the serious, Bette’s voice takes on a heartfelt tone with a lovely rendition of the Shirelles’ “Baby It’s You.” Bette has always been able to show her serious side. Her take on TLC’s “Waterfall,” a sad ballad about a young life lost, is a heartbreaker. Four decades after her appearances at the Continental Baths in New York, where she first cultivated her gay audience, the Divine Miss M shows her audience that she still has it. As Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics begins, listeners might think that they’re hearing an old Etta James album on vinyl. The

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he Divine Miss M and the Queen of Soul have got gay music-lovers all worked up into a lather with the simultaneous release of their identically themed yet decidedly different new CDs. In Bette Midler’s It’s the Girls, she tips her hat to the girl groups who inspired her unique style. In Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, the great diva belts out tunes made famous by other divas, past and present. Sony’s press release for the CD refers to Gloria Gaynor’s classic anthem “I Will Survive” as “The Aretha Version,” which says it all. Franklin’s powerful pipes are like no one else’s. Both ladies are now of a “certain age” – somewhere between 40 and death, as was said in Mame. They look amazing, and sound even better. The passing of the years has not in any way diminished the power in their iconic voices. Miss M has fun with It’s the Girls. In promo videos now posted at YouTube, she appears with a massive head of flipped hair, and is clad in colorful, tight, knee-length skirts with fabulous high heels. Bette is ready to go out for an evening of dinner and dancing, circa 1962. For much of the CD, Midler channels the showgirl we know and love. On lively renditions of the Chordettes’ “Mr. Sandman” or the Andrews Sisters’ “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon,” a Yiddish pop classic that dates back to the 1930s, Bette sings with that familiar, gleeful twinkle in her voice.

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ow can you choose from among the ripe harvest of arts events? Throw a dart? Close your eyes and point a finger? Word of mouth? Well, take it from me, there are plenty more than I can make room for, but do engage, particularly with this week’s dancerly choices. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, when asked by an aspiring actor how best he could help the arts, she replied, “Be an audience.”

Thu 13 Live stage versions of three episodes (one each night) of Jennifer Saunder's BBC comedy show. $15-$25. Thu 8pm. Fri 11pm. Also Nov. 14; Dec. 4 & 5, 11 & 12. 446 Valencia St. www.stagewerx.org

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Nov. 13, 7pm: Martha Shelley on her novel The Stars in Their Courses. Nov. 14, 7pm: Don Skiles discusses his novel Football. Nov.19, 7pm: EZLN birthday and Chiapas Support Committee. Nov. 20, 7pm: Jennifer Friedenach and guests speak at a state of the city forum. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. www.mtbs.com

Betty Buckley @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Tony Award-winning Broadway film and TV singer-actress perform new music from her album Ghostlight, as well as a few classics and favorites. $65-$80. 8pm. Also Nov. 14, 8pm. Nov. 15 & 16 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketweb.com

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I Love Lucy @ Curran Theatre Live recreation of two episodes from the Lucille Ball and Ricky Ricardo studio tapings, including bloopers and vintage advertising breaks (95 minutes; no intermission). $45-$115. Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Thru Nov. 23. 445 Geary St. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

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Shocktoberfest @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers' 15th annual Halloween season shock theatre presents the new horror, song and puppet-filled show, The Bloody Denutante, Isabel's Zombie Holocaust and other acts. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 575 10th St. at Bryant. 377-4202. www.thrillpeddlers.com

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Juanita More!, Rob Evans and Terry Michaeu and the SF Human Rights Commision are honored at this LGBT awards ceremony and reception. $35$250. 6pm-10pm. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

The Boy Friend @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon's new production of Sandy Wilson's send-up of 1920s musical comedies, with three girls on the Riviera in search of love and adventure. $25-$75. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Nov. 16. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndStMoon.org

Fred Lyon @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Exhibit of the local photographer's evocative images in San Francisco: Portrait of a City (1940-1960); book available for sale. Tue-Thu 4pm8:30pm. Sat 10am-4:30pm. Sun 12pm-5:30pm. Thru Jan. 10. 50 Scott St. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Gay Tourism, Urban Development @ GLBT History Museum John Ballesteros (SF Travel Assoc.) and Brian Basinger (AIDS Housing Alliance) discuss how tourism has shaped the gay community and gentrification's effects. 7pm. Nov. 20: arts panel with Raquel Gutiérrez, Eric Stanley, and Constance Hockaday. Also, 1964: The Year San Francisco Came Out, an exhibit focusing on San Francisco's emerging gay culture. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm5pm. ($5/free for members). 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Nov. 13: 20,000 Days on Earth (7pm) and Tracks (8:50). Nov. 14: No Turning Back (8pm). Nov. 15: the complete restored Metropolis (2pm, 6:45) and Robocop (4:45, 9:30). Nov. 18: An Evening with Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg; screening of The Interview (7:30pm). Nov. 19: InForum presents Andy Cohen: The Star-Studded Life (talk with the gay Bravo CEO). Nov. 20: Don't Look Now (7pm) and Daughters of Darkness (9pm). $12-$15. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Puppet Up! Uncensored @ Marines' Memorial Theatre Henson Alternative's adults-only puppet show with a comic improvised edge. $40-$50. Thru Nov. 23. 609 Sutter St. (888) 746-1799. www.puppetup.com www.shnsf.com

Pussy @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Maura Holleran's acclaimed solo show is about the cat owned by a lesbian couple, and their pet's whimsical interpretations of their lives. $20-$25. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 30. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 8618972. www.nctcsf.org

S. Chris Shirley @ Books Inc. Castro Award-winning writer-director reads from and discusses his debut novel Playing by the Book, his acclaimed college student gay coming-of-age novel. 7pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. www.schrisshirley.com www.booksinc.net

SF Olympians Festival @ Exit Theatre The Monster Compendium, a marathon of staged readings of new works dealing with mythological creatures in a variety of settings. $10. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 156 Eddy St. 673-3847. www.theexit.org

American Conservatory Theatre presents Seana McKenna in Colm Tóibín’s lyrical solo play about a mother whose son's been taken by fanatics. $20-$120. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun matinees. Thru Nov. 23. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Fri 14 77% @ Tides Theater Rinne Groff's drama about a highpowered businesswoman, her stayat-home dad husband who fight over whether to have another child. $20. Thu 7pm, Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru Nov. 22. 533 Sutter St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Alonzo King Lines Ballet @ YBCA Fall home season for the dazzling local dance company includes Rasa, with musicians Zakir Hussain and Kala Ramnath, plus a world premiere set to music by Shostokovich. $25-$100. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Wed & Thu 7:30pm. Thru Nov. 23. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. 978-2787. linesballet.org

The Battle of Midway @ Costume Shop Theatre Rhinoceros' production of John Fisher's comic musical retelling of the epic World War II battle, with a queer edge. $15-$20. Wed-Sat 8pm (no show Nov. 27). Sat 3pm, Nov 30, 3pm. Thru Nov. 30. 1117 Market St. at 7th. (800) 838-3006. TheRhino.org

Blood Wedding @ Exit Stage Left Bigger Than a Breadbox Theatre Company's staging of Federico Garcia Lorca's tragic drama about conflicts when a groom runs off with another woman. $15-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 156 Eddy St. www.btabtheatreco.org

Breakfast With Mugabe @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley West Coast premiere of Fraser Grace's provocative drama about the Zimbabwe president's MacBeth-ish haunts and therapy sessions. $35$50. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Dec. 7. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Chicago @ Orpheum Theatre John Hurley and Bianca Marroquin star in the dazzlingly fun touring production of the Tony Awardwinning musical about jazz-era Chicago criminals. $60-$210. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Thru Nov. 16. 1192 Market St. www.shnsf.com

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park Lot The Montreal acrobatic circus returns with their new show, Kurious: Cabinet of Curiosities, a steampunk-themed spectacle. $53-$135. Tue-Sat 8pm. Fri & Sat 4:30pm. Sun 1:30pm & 5pm. Thru Jan. 18. Third Street at Terry A. Francis Blvd. (800) 450-1480. www.cirquedusoleil.com

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Benjamin Britten's haunting opera, subtitled A Parable for Church Performance, about a mother tortured by the loss of her child, blends Christian and traditional Japanese gagaku drumming, is staged by Cal Performances and New York, London and Carolina arts groups. $30-$90. 8pm. Also Nov. 15, 2pm. UC Berkeley campus, Bancroft Way at Dana St., Berkeley. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

Magical Technology and Performance Installation, Footloose's unusual outdoor performance art and science event. Free Nov 14 (6pm). Also Nov 15 (8pm) & 16 (7pm) $10-$20. 1 Grove St. www.ftloose.org

Hip Hop DanceFest @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre 17 ensembles from the Bay Area, LA, Paris, London and Brazil perform in the 16th annual rousing two-program concert series. $40-$75. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. 3301 Lyon St. 392-4400. www.cityboxoffice.com

Muisi-kongo Malonga @ CounterPulse The African dance-theatre ensemble performs Kimpa Vita!, the story of martyred mothers in Kongolese culture. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Nov. 16. 1310 Mission St. at 9th. www.counterpulse.org

Party People @ Berkeley Repertory Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, and William Ruiz's music and theatre stage adaptation of Black Panthers and Young Lords veterans who reunite at a young activist art opening. (special panel Nov. 17, 7pm, with Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale.) $29$79. Tue-Sat 8pm (Wed & Sun 7pm). Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 30. 2025 Addison st. (510) 647-2900. www.berkeleyrep.org

The Practice Show @ Z Space Experimental performance with a dozen artists developing work simultaneously. $10-$20. 8pm. 450 Florida St. www.web.ovationtix.com/ trs/pr/940828

SF City Chorus @ Mission Dolores The choral ensemble performs Haydn’s Insanae et Vanae Curae, English Part Songs, and Mass in Time of War. $12-$20. 8pm. 3321 16th St. www.sfcitychorus.org

Shakespeare's R&J @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Joe Calarco's hit gay retake on Romeo and Juliet returns, this time set in dangerously antigay modern-day Egypt; staged by Ben Randle. $25$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 14. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Shock and Awww @ Shelton Theatre Left Coast Theatre Company's minifestival of six LGBT-themed one-act plays about love, dating and sex, by Chris Maltby, Ron Burch, Joseph Frank, Jami Brandli, Dave Carley and Kristian O'Hare. $19-$38. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 533 Sutter St. www.LCTC-SF.org

Alien She @ YBCA

Fascinating new exhibit of underwater gardens that resemble miniature outdoor English, Asian and classic gardens (thru April 12). Permanent floral exhibits as well. Free-$8. TueSun 10am-4pm. Golden Gate Park, 831-2090. conservatoryofflowers.org

Dark Desires @ Center for Sex & Culture Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and curator Crystal Am Nelson discuss the group exhibition subtitled The Erotic Lives of Black Women. 7pm. 1349 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org

Faulted @ Thick House

Nightlife events at the museum take on different themes. Nov. 14: Keith Haring exhibit party, with MC Marga Gomez, DJ Bus Station John, film screenings about Keith Haring, gallery performances by Davend and Chica Boom. Free/reduced admission. 6pm8:45pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoung.famsf.org

Aquascapes @ Conservatory of Flowers

The 80s pop band, led by the irrepressible Boy George, performs their hits (Nov. 17 Fox Theatre Oakland show is sold out). $65-$350. 7:30pm. 1111 California St. www.cultureclub.co.uk

The hair salon hosts the opening reception for the artist's exhibit of works, Bitter Waitresses, Hair-Brained Hairdressers & Whirling Dervishes. 7pm-109pm. Thru Jan. 4. 304 Valencia St. www.glamarama.com

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Angela Santillo's new play about an empath and a seismologist graduate student, California's impending tectonic dangers, and cultural clashes in the Golden State. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 7. 1695 18th St. (800) 838-3006. foolsfury.org

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Sat 15 24-Hour Telethon @ The Lab Enjoy unusual performances by dozens of artists, for an entire day or part of it, at the art gallery/performance space's fundraiser. 12pm- Nov 16 12pm. 2948 16th St. www.thelab.org

Arnold Newman: Masterclass @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit of prints by the influential photographer. Other exhibits, lectures and gallery talks as well. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. beachblanketbabylon.com

Keith Haring: The Political Line @ de Young Museum New exhibit of 130 large-scale paintings, sculptures and retrieved subway drawings by the late great gay graffiti artist who came to global fame. Free-$26-$41. Also, Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay, an exhibit of photos, and an audiovisual installation, by the Los Angeles artist who focused on gay underground culture of the late 1960s and early '70s in SF and LA. Thru Jan. 11, 2015. Lines on the Horizon : Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection, thru Jan. 4, 2015. Free/$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru Feb. 16. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Mary Poppins @ Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley Berkeley Playhouse's lighthearted production of Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and Julian Fellowes' musical adaptation of P.L. Travers' book and the Disney film. $17-$60. Fri 7pm. Sat 1pm & 6pm. Sun 12pm & 5pm. Thru Dec. 7. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 8458542. www.BerkeleyPlayhouse.org

Project Nunway @ SOMArts Cultural Center The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's sixth annual alternative fashion show; MCs Peaches Christ and Sister Roma, Carletta Sue Kay, Grace Towers and the Devil-ettes performing, with amazing outfits made from recycled materials, plus celebrity judges and a fun after-party. $20-$100. 7pm doors, show at 8pm. 934 Brannan St. at 9th. www.tinyurl.com/nunway666

Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English House @ Legion of Honor Exhibition drawn from the collections of a quintessential English country house. $10-$18. Tue-Sat 9:30am5:115pm. 34th Ave. at Clement. www.legionofhonor.org

Roads of Arabia @ Asian Art Museum Roads of Arabia: Archeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (thru Jan. 18); Dual Natures in Ceramics: Eight Contemporary Artists from Korea (thru Feb. 22). Other fascinating exhibits as well. Free (members, kids 12 and under)-$15. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. asianart.org

SF Night Ministry 50th @ Grace Cathedral Author Anne Lamott is a guest speaker at this celebration fo the crisi intervention counseling organization, with a reception and book-signing., and choral ensemble Volti, plus dance group Wing It. 3pm. 1100 California St. www.sfnightministry.org

Tours and Exhibits @ The Old Mint New Sunday program offers tours and exhibits about San Francisco's history. Explore the fascinating building's grand halls and vaults. $5-$10. Weekly, 1pm-4pm. 88 5th St. 5371105. www.SFhistory.org

Genderally Speaking @ Ridley Gallery, Rocklin

The first exhibition to showcase the impact and ephemera of the Roit Grrrl movement and culture. Free-$15. Exhibit Tue-Sun 12pm-6pm. Thru Jan. 25. 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

Carl Linkhart @ Glamarama, Oakland Dreamscape: The Night Vision of Carl Linkhart, a new exhibit of unusual surreal paintings, with a live performance by the artist as Carl With Records. Thru Jan. 11. 6399 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.carllinkhart.com www.glamarama.com

DanceFAR @ YBCA Enjoy performances by nearly a dozen local and visiting dance companies (SF Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, ODC/Dance and others) at the third annual Dance for a Reason benefit, the nonprofit that donates to various charities; this time the Cancer Prevention Institute of California and the UCSF Melanoma Center. VIP cocktails before, and general admission afterparty. $50-$250. 7pm. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Howard St. 978-ARTS. www.dancefar.org www.ybca.org

Meditation Group @ LGBT Center Weekly non-sectarian meditation group; part of the Let's Kick ASS AIDS Survivor Syndrome support group. Tuesdays, 5pm, 1800 Market St. www.letskickASS.org www.sfcenter.org

Norma I. Quintana, Najib Joe Hakim @ RayKo Photo Center Dual exhibit of Hakim's photos of Little Palestine by the Bay, and Quintana's Circus: A Traveling Life. Tue-Thu 10am-10pm. Fri-Sun 10am8pm. Thru Nov. 29. 428 Third St. 4953773. www.raykophoto.com

Tig Notaro @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre The lesbian comic performs her personal show, Boyish Girl Interrupted. $25. 8pm. 3301 Lyon st. 567-6642. www.apeconcerts.com

Writeous Writing @ Books Inc. Summer Dawn Lairie hosts a workshop and critique session for aspiring children's literature authors. 6pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Mon 17 All Aboard @ Walt Disney Museum A Celebration of Walt Disney's Trains, thru Feb. 9, plus classic art work and ephemera from the park and animated films. Free/$20. Open daily 10am-6pm. 104 Montgomery St., the Presidio. 345-6800. waltdisney.org

Woods to Wildflowers @ SF Botanical Gardens See blooming floral displays, trees and exhibits. Also, daily walking tours and more, at outdoor exhibits of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free-$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 661-1316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

Cartoonist Tyler Cohen is the featured artist at the eclectic reading and talent show cohosted by Larry-bob Roberts and Dana Hopkins. 8pm. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

The Totalitarians @ Z Below Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's dark comedy about modern politics and relationships. $20-$50. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Dec. 14. 470 Florida St. (866) 8114111. www.zspace.org

Thu 20 20th Century Salon Photography: A Tribute @ Robert Tat Gallery Group exhibit of vintage photography by famous artists like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and others. Thru Nov. 29. 49 Geary St. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Aguilas 20th @ Roccapulco The Latino/a LGBT HIV/AIDs prevention nonprofit celebrates two decades, with awards to notable local community members, with entertainment by Juanita More!, reception, music by Fuego Latino and DJ Pablo. $20 and up. 6pm-10pm. 3140 Mission St. www.sfaguilas.org

Clockwork @ ODC Theater Choreographer Katharine Hawthroen's evening of dances about the ephemeral nature of time. $20-$35. 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 3153 17th St. www.odcdance.org

Comedy Returns @ El Rio Bernadette Luckett, Andrea Carla Michaels, Nathan Habib, Ash Fisher and host Lisa Geduldig perform at the monthly comedy night. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. (800) 838-3006. www.elriosf.com

Dan Pashman @ Books Inc. Books Inc presents Sporkful, The Cooking Channel and NPR contributor, who discusses Eat More Better, his witty guide to enhancing your meals. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net The energetic local dance company performs Hi-5, their season of new and recent works choreographed by Robert Dekkers and Christian Squires, with live and recorded accompaniment. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 22. 450 Florida St. www.postballet.org

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Skulls @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth, including the new popular exhibit of animal and human skulls (thru Nov. 30). Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties most Thursday nights. $20-$35. MonSat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. calacademy.org

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Butch @ Austin Gallery Butch: Not Like Other Girls, the local installation of Los Angeles-based SD Holman's touring photo exhibit of butch women. By appointment thru Nov. 18. 799 Castro St. 282-4511. www.austinlawgroup.com

Exhibit of Ron Williams' photographs of historic California LGBT community moments. Mon-Thu-11am-6pm. Thru Nov. 20. Sierra College, 5000 Rocklin Road, Rocklin. www.sierracollege.edu

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Wed 19 Art/Act: Maya Lin @ David Brower Center Exhibit of new works by the sculptor/ designer (Vietnam Memorial). Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Sun 10am-1pm. Thru Feb 4, 2015. 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.browercenter.org

At Large: Ai Weiwei @ Alcatraz Island The internationally acclaimed Chinese sculpture's exhibit of seven sitespecific multimedia installations; the largest art exhibit ever hosted by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. $18-$30. Daily except major holidays thru April 26, 2015. www.AiWeiWeiAlcatraz.org

Science Exhibits @ The Exploratorium Visit the fascinating science museum in its new Embarcadero location. Free$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu

Stranger Than Life @ Cartoon Art Museum The Cartoons and Comics of M.K. Brown (thru Feb 15). Other exhibits and events. Free-$8. Tue-Sun 11am5pm. 655 Mission St. 227-8666. www.cartoonart.org To submit event listings, email jim@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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Last roundup with Glen Campbell by David Lamble

he new bio-documentary Glen Campbell – I’ll Be Me takes on the singer’s 2011 Alzheimer’s diagnosis right out of the box, with heartbreaking snippets of the Top 10 TV star unable to grasp moments or individuals from his personal or professional life. It’s sad to observe how a disease can practically assume a personality, an almost human-like presence, when its sufferers are People magazine-level celebrities, or even more poignantly, when the afflicted is a dear friend whose new incapacity represents a cruel blow to his core identity. Many of us may recall an Alzheimer’s horror story: former president Ronald Reagan fetching a tiny plastic White House from his office aquarium, and displaying this odd keepsake to wife Nancy, with the muttered aside, “I think this has something to do with me.” Or in my case, my dear friend Howard, after watching a new film on my home TV, referring to the lovely young male star as “your boyfriend.” The old Howard might have picked up on my liking for some boyish actor, but he would never have come right out with it. It meant that my dear friend had not only lost brain cells, but also the inhibitions that govern our adventures in the real world. Director James Keach opens his portrait of Campbell with ominous backstage moments as the singer’s

Batsheva Dance

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This is true even if the dancer is sitting on her butt cheeks, shaped like a hairpin, with her legs in the air six inches in front of her shoulders – i.e., she’s got a hair-pin curve at her butt, and she’s like a jackknife with her legs in the air and her back upright, and she’s scuffling forwards on her butt cheeks an inch at a time as if her life depended on it. You believe that she’s got to make contact with the sweet idiot she’s moving towards – yes, he’s speaking in gibberish, he’s the idea of Babel, but she’s got to attach her clitoris to his ankle, and she accomplishes this, and we’re – in spite of ourselves – glad she made it, and she wraps her legs around him like a seventh-grader, and makes him drag her offstage. Batsheva are true to their expressionist forebears, Martha Graham from the USA, and Mary Wigman from central Europe. The company,

grown kids, several of them talented performers in their own right, and his new wife cope with the anxieties surrounding “the Rhinestone Cowboy’s” swansong multi-city concert tour. Suddenly, the larger-than-life country-boy mega-star dissolves into a frail, aging celebrity, a prisoner of now-unrealistic expectations, with a large entourage of employees and kin determined to prevent him from a public meltdown and the ensuing tabloid humiliation. This doc benefits from a life that has been routinely recorded and examined, for friends and strangers alike for close to half-a-century. A tragedy befalling such a person feels, at least in America, like it’s happened to a dear friend or relative. But it’s not just anybody whose “home movies” include numerous chats with Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. My memories of Campbell extend to my college radio DJ days as his hits were turning platinum, to his late-60s breakout summer replacement CBS variety show, and of course, to the handful of mega-hits such as “Rhinestone Cowboy” that were so hummable that at times they threatened to take over my brain like musical chewing gum. For better or worse, Glen Campbell – I’ll Be Me is a tad short on the fuzzy, Solid Gold nostalgia, and perhaps a little too fixated on the singer’s all-too-high-profile disease. Sprinkled in-between Mayo Clinic medical briefings and endless mishaps, which was founded in Tel Aviv 50 years ago by Graham’s patroness the Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, with Graham as artistic advisor, gave me a visceral response to the truth of their expression, for the first time in a long time. I felt the moves the dancers were making actually corresponded to aspects of the human condition, and that they were killing themselves to realize a vision that really corresponds to the way human beings live now. I kept feeling that I had to imagine myself as an Israeli, where both men and women are subject to military service as 21-year-olds, which no American has to do nowadays. At the end of the piece, which was called Sadeh 21 [21 Fields], when the dancers began to fall backwards over the low rampart that hemmed in the stage, I heard myself think, “They’re not coming back,” and I lost it completely, doubled over in my chair, put my head in my hands, and felt my body wracked with weeping.t

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Glen Campbell on the tour bus during the Goodbye Tour.

mostly averted, are entertaining concert appearances and asides from his performer children. The kids have to endure sharing the “Goodbye Tour” with fans across a 151-stop North American concert schedule, and also the growing realization that dad’s death may cut short the magnitude of their own careers. The film opens on a collage of home movies that recall a beautiful young man who seduced a nation with chart-busters, TV visits, and an elegiac 1969 movie-turn with the

old Western lion, John Wayne. Saddest of all is the sight of a befuddled great man, nestled on the couch beside his third wife, trying to recall just whose life is celebrated in the yellowing 16mm film clips. “Who is that?” “It’s you, Honey, its a movie about you.” “Who is that?” “That’s your second wife. You were married for 16 years. Then you met me.” Finally, the film salutes and commiserates with a new generation of performing Campbells. Sporting

a haircut befitting a member of the Rolling Stones, musician son Shannon describes the bittersweet pleasures of accompanying his dad on this musical last roundup. “It’s not all bad, necessarily. It’s kind of like we get to celebrate his life while he’s still around. With some people, you don’t really get to see a full picture of what their life’s been until they’re gone. With this film, we know the end is kind of near, at least for his career, and we can celebrate it.”t

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Batsheva Dance Company in Sadeh 21, choreographed by Ohad Naharin.

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lmost two decades after pianist/ radio personality Sarah Cahill first encountered Mamoru Fujieda’s still-growing collection of exquisite miniatures, she has recorded a two-CD set of his Patterns of Plants (Pinna Records). Given how beautifully she plays them, and how wonderfully they bud and unfold, the long wait has been worth it. In the too-brief liner notes to the recording, Fujieda explains that he became fascinated with intertwined patterns that, as they are repeated and transformed, “present an image continuously and infinitely extending outward, as if exceeding the frame of a painting.” The inspiration for his exploration came from meeting Yüji Dögane, professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, who since 1992 has been working with a bioelectric interface called a “Plantron” that analyzes variations in the electrical potential of plants, and converts them into sound.

Fujieda, in turn, has interpreted the sounds of these electrical fluctuations as the “voices” of plants, and attempted to render them audible via melodic patterns. His process of deep listening, inspired in no small part by his studies with the late Morton Feldman and collaborations with lesbian composer Pauline Oliveros, has led him to mold the patterns he hears into musical compositions for various instruments, including piano, clavichord, violin, koto, sho, and instrumental ensembles that employ different tunings. As much as the 32 patterns that Cahill has recorded may initially sound like simple minimalist repetitions, they contain a wealth of subtle shadings and hidden meanings. These Cahill renders with a uniquely inquisitive touch that suggests an ever-evolving exploration filled with respect and wonder. It is almost as if, each time she plays a note, you can hear her questioning what its meaning is,

and what deeper mysteries plants share with us. As one of Fujieda’s great champions in both the U.S. and Japan, Cahill commissioned one his newest pieces, Patterns of Plants, the Nineteenth Collection: The Olive Branch Speaks for her own peace-envisioning project, A Sweeter Music. To last year’s CD of half those pieces she now adds the premiere recording of Fujieda’s commission. Given the quiet eloquence of her artistry, one can only hope for more.t

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Keith Haring

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A fraction of the voluminous body of work he left behind fills this new exhibition, which looks at his output from a political perspective. The art bursts with infectious vitality, much like the teeming brain of the man in overdrive who produced it. But, when assembled en masse, the sculptures and largescale paintings on canvas and tarpaulin, whose surfaces are almost completely covered or tagged with drawn symbols, signs and imagery, can feel repetitive and busy, despite the museum’s clean, meticulous installation. Forged by the political turmoil of the 1960s and the fallout of the Vietnam War, and driven by a distrust of institutional power and an abhorrence Keith Haring Foundation of repression in all its insidious forms, Haring was “Andy Mouse” (1985) by Keith Haring. Acrylic and oil on canvas. inspired by graffiti and Private collection. Pop Art, club music, hiphop culture and Disney jump to gallery and museum venmore erect phalluses than you can cartoons. He was at the center of ues without losing his street cred. hang a hat on. His subway drawings, New York’s thriving downtown artThe museum is betting, perhaps which represent his work at its purscene in the 1980s, where he rubbed justifiably, that it has a certifiable est, line a corridor of a gallery. (What shoulders with writers, musicians, hit on its hands. survived, in many cases, was stolen and artists such as Roy LichtenThere’s delight to be found in from stations.) Akin to 20th-century stein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny small-scale, cartoonish, Day-Glo hieroglyphics that beg to be deciScharf, Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, neon pieces from the early 1980s, phered, their simplicity and mysteriMadonna and Warhol, who beand a pair of eye-popping masks ous origins piqued the curiosity of came a friend and role model. In with fearsome protruding features ordinarily oblivious New York City an homage, Haring combined the and tribal markings (“Hollywood commuters. The politically-themed, older artist’s likeness with Mickey African Mask,” “Burning Skull”) overtly sexual imagery also attracted Mouse in his “Andy Mouse” paintthat possess the menace and magthe media, a lucky turn of events that ings; envision repeated portraits of netism of their primitive African catapulted Haring to stardom, while a bespectacled Warhol in mousekeforebears – but Haring clearly enabling him to circumvent the art teer ears and you get the idea. gravitated toward the gigantic. establishment. A color photograph When he arrived in New York City That appetite is exemplified by capturing a paint-spattered, shirtless at 20, Haring was blown away by the “The Great White Way” (1988), a artist putting his imprint on a public public street art he encountered, a 14-foot-tall, pink phallus painted space, with an audience of kids bemovement he embraced and for with a profusion of orgiastic imaghind him, testifies to his “man of the which he became an ersatz godfather. ery, crucifixes, piglets and weapons people” appeal. Although he hit the art world like a of war and torture. (He evidently With his accessible forms, antilightening bolt in the 1980s and his disdained leaving even an inch of elitist message and upbeat sponsuccess was meteoric, he first made space blank.) An indictment of the taneity – high on adrenaline, he his mark (literally) as a graffiti artviolent repression of other cultures started and finished a composition ist in the city’s subway system, apby Caucasians and organized rein a single marathon sitting – it’s propriating empty black advertising ligion, this was Haring’s preferred no wonder he’s a hero to loners panels that lined station walls. Using tool for sticking it to the colonial and young artists trying to break white chalk, he dashed off thouoppressors. A similar inclinainto the field. The show itself is a sands of brash drawings, deploying tion is expressed in a large yellow, bid for that sought-after younger the jazzy style and visual vocabulary orange-and-black tarpaulin piece audience, which includes the unthat would populate his works for (“Untitled,” 1983) featuring fasderground constituencies who turn the ensuing decade: infants emitcists with crocodile or dog masks out for Mission School artist Barry ting beams of light, spaceships zapand zippered mouths stomping McGee, an obvious Haring inheriping earthlings, barking dogs, pulsand crushing the sea of humanity tor. Like McGee, Haring adapted ing TV sets, multi-limbed creatures beneath their feet. In sections with his improvisational ethos to more of unknown origin, gorgons, and cheery titles like Ecocide and Apoctraditional forms and made the alypse, one can’t miss “Untitled” (1985), a visceral Sodom-andGomorrah nightmare with a maze of black and blood-red pathways that lead nowhere. This purgatory or outright hell worthy of Hieronymus Bosch is inhabited by mythical beasts, devils and demons and a bevy of snakes slithering out of a headless torso with an erect penis. On the local front, Haring loved San Francisco, where he visited many times and left an artistic legacy. He created a 1985 mural for the South of Market Childcare Center (St. Patrick’s Daycare Center) and another at Club DV-8, which are now in private hands, as well as “The Life of Christ” (1990), a moving triptych sculpture installed in the AIDS chapel at Grace Cathedral. “Untitled (Three Dancing Figures)” (1989), a colorful outdoor sculpture whose playfulness and child-like optimism is especially poignant given it was created a year before his death, is displayed in front of the museum’s main entrance, while its permanent location, Moscone Center, undergoes renovation. A sidewalk tribute honoring Haring’s contributions to the LBGT community is part of the Rainbow Keith Haring Foundation Honor Walk in the Castro.t Keith Haring, self-portrait (1980-81). Polaroid. Collection of the Keith Haring Foundation.

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Through his graffiti-inspired drawings, paintings, sculptures, and murals, Keith Haring created an immediately recognizable iconography that speaks to a diverse population. Making its US premiere at the de Young with more than 130 works of art, The Political Line lends gravitas to the artist’s career by focusing on his political activism. Exuberant, profane, witty, and provocative, the works in this exhibition trace Haring’s creative development and his historical significance as an advocate for social justice.

November 8, 2014–February 16, 2015 This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Director’s Circle: Penny and James George Coulter. Curator’s Circle: Sloan and Roger Barnett, Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, Holly Johnson Harris and Parker Harris, and the Shimmon Family. Conservator’s Circle: The Buena Vista Fund of Horizons Foundation. Supporter’s Circle: Nancy and Joachim Bechtle, Juliet de Baubigny, and Richard and Peggy Greenfield. Community Partner: WEBCOR Builders. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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ne of Broadway’s brightest young stars, Telly Leung will perform an intimate concert of classic pop songs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, November 22 and 23. Our conversation took on more than just cabaret singing, including the cultural impact of Broadway classics, television’s instant fame, and even World War II internment camps. Thankfully, the 32-year-old Brooklyn-born talent is also a fast talker. Our discussion started with his early beginnings, as a physics student born to a traditional Chinese family. When did performing upstage science? “I think the arts were always in my head,” said Leung in a phone interview from New York City. “I’d like to think it’s in all of our heads, that we are all innately born with a love of the arts. It just takes the right opportunity and a little bit of insanity to create it.” See page 31 >>

Project Nunway What The Well-Dressed Nun Will Wear by David-Elijah Nahmod

ith so many community events to attend, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence often have to worry about what they’re wearing. As community leaders and spokespeople, they simply must set the fashion trends. On November 15, Project Nunway 666: Heretics of Fashion, their sixth annual charity fashion show, will commence. As before, talented designers will team up with various Sisters in order to come up with a high fashion couture look which denotes what the 21st-century queer nun is wearing. See page 30 >>

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Project Nunway

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First time co-hostess Peaches Christ couldn’t be more thrilled about her participation. “I’ve seen pictures of past shows and am always blown away by the fashions and creativity,” she said. “I’ll be co-hosting with Sister Roma and am exciting to be debuting an entirely new Peaches look by designer D’affney Deluxe.” And what might that look entail, we wondered? “Sexy and furry,” was all Peaches

would say. A documentary film crew will be present, interviewing guests on the red carpet for Stilettos to Shanghai, an upcoming documentary about the Sisters, according to event producer Sister ZsaZsa Glamour (aka Mark Kleim). ZsaZsa has been a nun since 1991; she’s Sister Roma’s only daughter. “We have a suggested budget of about $100 and recommend using recycled, reused and unconventional materials,” Kleim explained. “However, the budget is just a suggestion. We want to give the Sisters

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and their designers a chance to be creative any way they like.” One of Nunway’s designers is a mere lad of 16. Matt Sarafa is featured on Threads, Project Runway’s spin-off show for kids. “Being a drag queen fanatic and an avid LGBTQ activist, I try my best to engage in the community the best I can,” Sarafa said. “When I heard about Project Nunway, I instantly knew this was something I needed to participate in. When I found out about the 666 theme, I was like: yaasssss! My creative juices started flowing. I’m super excited to Steven Underhill show off what I come Wren Coe up with.” The winning design at 2013’s Sarafa has just been A crescent moon chapeau worn Project Nunway at the Yerba booked to appear on at a recent Project Nunway. Buena Center for the Arts. the Queen Latifah Show. His airdate is November 13, the same day the busy young man will be seen on Threads. Project Unlike Runway, Nunway will be a kinder, gentler competition. “It is a competition with celebrity judges, but it’s not at all as cutthroat as on TV,” Kleim/Zsa Zsa explained. “At our show, you don’t have to sit through the design process, we jump right to the runway show itself, although VIPs get a peek backstage.” courtesy The Sisters The event, according to Zsa Zsa, has its An expansive design at the fourth Project Nunway roots in Fellini’s clas- held at the AIDS Memorial Grove in 2012. sic film Roma. solicits grant proposals from any “Sister Barbara Ganesh took a non-profit arts organization. We reDVD copy of Roma to Sister Mary view the proposals and issue grants Juanita Higher Power and Sister based on what they plan to do with Tuna Noodle Cocktail’s pad in Oakthe money.” land,” explained Zsa Zsa. “The three This year’s celebrity judges inof them watched it and got excited clude Jane Wiedlin of The GoGos, about restaging the dreamy Roman and Sergio Quintana of Channel 7 Catholic Runway show. Sister Mary news, among others. The evening’s felt strongly about Nunway being aclive entertainment includes go-go cessible and affordable to all Sisters, dancing by The Devil-Ettes and perand not just those who have money, formances by Grace Towers.t and thus the recycled aspect came into being. She especially advocated Project Nunway 666: for exhibition and not competition.” Heretics of Fashion, Saturday As with any Sisters event, monies November 15, 8pm (VIP 7pm). $20raised will go to a good cause. $100. SOMArts Cultural Center, courtesy The Sisters “The money goes to the San 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. Francisco Sisters Grant Fund,” www.tinyurl.com/nunway666 Teen designer Matt Sarafa. ZsaZsa said. “Twice a year the Fund

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Telly Leung

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Leung’s high school leap from calculus to performing arts led to his college studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But his parents at first didn’t appreciate his goals. Having escaped the Maoist “cultural revolution” in South Canton province, they immigrated via Hong Kong, and settled in Brooklyn before the birth of Telly, their only child, where they worked hard to make a living. “To my parents, being immigrants, ‘success’ was always something that was linked to money,” said Leung. “They know the idea that to leave Communism in China, you get to keep every dollar you earn. But nowhere in there was the idea of getting to choose what you want to do. It was my choice and freedom; those were new ideas to them. I feel like I’m the other part of the American Dream that they learned from me.” Despite his success in hit Broadway shows Wicked, Rent, and the acclaimed revivals of Flower Drum Song, Pacific Overtures, and Godspell, Leung said his parents still don’t exactly understand why a show closes, that “they then ask me if I’m done with show business.” Done? Not by a long shot. Along with being a featured member of the Dalton Warblers in the TV show Glee, Leung has delved into indie film production, he’s recorded two CDs, and he teaches performing arts students around the country. In part, Leung credits his training at Carnegie Mellon University, which he described as “the ultimate trade school.” Switching majors was not easy, but ultimately he performed in several featured and lead roles while studying acting, singing and dance. One of the difficulties he mentioned was how students in different majors don’t cross paths on campus. “It’s a very intense program, very specific, yet so concentrated that you rarely interact with others,” he said. “I only got to experience the small drama field.” Because of that training, however, fans describe the actor-singerdancer as a triple threat, but Leung is more modest, calling himself “an actor who does other things.” Those ‘other things’ include his cabaret show, which sold out its run at Manhattan’s Below 54. I’ll Cover You includes American songbook classics and even some pop favorites. “My first love was always singing, the storytelling part,” said Leung. “It’s when I get to interpret a show outside of a musical character; it’s me interpreting a song, reshaping a piece of music.”

Telly Leung in Godspell

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All for the Best

One of the Broadway roles he played, however, became more personal. For the 2011 Godspell revival, the actors (including Hunter Parrish as Jesus) received scripts with the roles simply named after the original actors. “We play ourselves, basically,” said Leung. “The show is meant to change every night, and bring in current events. We came up with our own bits. For example, the old script had a Mae West impression. By the time we did our production, it was the presidential election, right during primaries, and the Republican Party was looking for a candidate, so we had a wealth of topical material. The script is based on our talents and personalities. I’m Chinese-American, I play the piano and I do impressions. That was how I interpreted the text and the parables.” Equally intense, but more character-driven, was Leung’s role as Boq in the first Chicago production of Wicked, which starred Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba. “The entire six-week run sold out in a day,” said Leung. “So the producers decided to leave the show in Chicago to meet the demands of the Midwest market. It was kind of a risk at the time. They’d never sat a show down in Chicago. The closest was a production of Joseph [and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat].” Leung said the cast was half New York imports and half Chicago performers, including Steppenwolf Theatre veterans. He recalled how Ana Gasteyer, in “redefining herself,” post-Saturday Night Live, took one of the most difficult roles in musical theatre, and, he said, “She made it her own.” Leung had auditioned in New York for his role, and even composer Stephen Schwarz, a fellow Carnegie Mellon alumnus, spoke up specifically for Leung’s casting. But the actor says that something else helped him snag the role. “I talked to [director] Joe Mantello,” who had not chosen him at the audition. “He said, ‘I saw you in Pacific Overtures.

Telly Lueng’s new CD I’ll Cover You

Telly Leung (upper left) with Darren Criss (center) and some cast members from Glee’s Dalton Academy Warblers.

That’s why you got the job.’” From that experience, Leung offers a bit of knowledge in his student workshops. “You never know when you’re really auditioning.” When he’s not teaching as an adjunct professor at the faculty of New York University’s New Studio, Leung’s also producing a few other performers’ multi-city tours.

The Other Generation

As one of few prominently out gay male Asian actors, Leung has performed in the hit revivals of iconic musicals, and one new show about the life of another gay Asian actor. Leung’s Broadway debut in the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song was performed with a revised book by David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly, Chinglish). The award-winning playwright, with the permission of the Rodgers & Hammerstein estate, was able to update the musical and make it more relevant. “The original kind of skirted around the racist ideas,” said Leung, “particularly about what it was like to become Americanized. That’s something I absolutely relate to. I feel like I have one foot in my traditional and American upbringing. I embrace my hyphenated identity, because I’m also just an American kid. That’s what Henry wanted to address head on. I think it’s very important that every kind of generation is represented in that show. The revival took those stereotypes and owned them, using them in a new way. I was also proud to be in a show with an all-Asian cast.” Leung later costarred in the 2005 revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, adding to his resume of classic Asian-themed shows. And, in 2012, he performed in a sold-out San Diego run of a new drama, George Takei’s autobiographical Allegiance, which tells of his experience during World War II as a family among thousands of U.S. citizens placed in internment camps simply for being Asian. That show may be headed to Broadway soon.

Telly Leung in Pacific Overtures

Leung spoke highly of Takei and actor BD Wong, both of whom are openly gay, as role models. “They have unique careers and their personal journeys,” said Leung. “I don’t know if I would have a career without people like that. Now that I know them on a personal level, it’s just so amazing.” Of Takei and his 1960s role in Star Trek, Leung said, “He was the only recurring Asian character on TV. It was so groundbreaking; the alien story lines were made to address issues of race, but the cast was just also so diverse. It was kind of subversive.” Leung made parallels between Takei’s youthful experience and his own living in New York City in 2001. “Had we not learned a lesson from the egregious rounding up of Japanese Americans, things might have become worse after 9/11,” he said. “We took away their basic civil liberties. If we had not done that to Asian Americans, it could have been much worse today.” Dealing with issues of race, racism, and racially-blind casting are aspects of Leung’s life and career, who said that he’s proud to play specific roles, but also those where producers are more open, as with Godspell, and in Wicked, which deals with prejudice against a person’s skin color (green). “It wasn’t the token thing, either,” said Leung. “It was one of those things that there is a sense of not tokening. I felt like show like Godspell was great for that as well.” Another actor Leung mentioned was John Cho, who played Takei’s character Sulu in the remakes of Star Trek. With his role on the TV

show Selfie, “He’s sort of playing Professor Higgins from Pygmalion. Nothing is race-specific and there’s finally a leading man in a network sitcom.”

Gleeful

Speaking of TV, did you know that Leung was originally called to audition for the role of Blaine Anderson in the Fox musical comedy Glee? Although the role went to Darren Criss, Leung was asked back for a role as Wes Montgomery, a senior member of the Dalton Academy Warblers. “Darren plays it perfectly, so it’s all good,” said Leung who performed in eight episodes of the show from 2010-2011. Asked about that now mega-famous first scene where Criss leads the Warblers in a choral cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” and its impact, Leung said he was both aware and surprised. “I did know, when I got the job and got to hear Darren’s version of the song, that I liked it as a fan. I’m not surprised that it took off. But I don’t think anybody expected the response.” The song sold more than 200,000 downloads in its first week, and remains the bestselling single from the show’s many soundtracks. As for Leung’s participation as the stern –and straight– chorus senior, “The producers told me I would be in one or two episodes, then I’d be done,” he said. “But America kind of fell in love with this group of preppy school boys,” and more episodes with scenes at Dalton Academy (actually a

Telly Leung backstage in costume as Boq in Wicked

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Betty Buckley The Broadway star returns to Feinstein’s

by Jim Gladstone

t’s a busy long weekend ahead for Betty Buckley. From tonight through Sunday, the Texas-based Tony winner brings her latest program of intimate song interpretations to Feinstein’s at the Nikko, with her distinctive idiosyncratic spins on standards and show tunes. Sunday night also brings the premiere of Buckley’s vanity-eschewing guest gig on acclaimed HBO series, Getting On, in which she plays a lonely alcoholic patient in the show’s geriatric ward (Her character shares an impromptu same-sex kiss with Laurie Metcalf’s Doctor Jenna James). And then, after a cross-continental flight, Buckley will take to the stage of the Al Hirschfield Theater in Manhattan as part of Everybody, Rise! a one-time memorial tribute to the late Broadway doyenne, Elaine Stritch. From the cabaret stage, to national television, to the Great White Way, Buckley, at 67, continues to nimbly move between media in what she describes as a deeply fulfilling personal path that has carried her from a childhood in Fort Worth, Texas to a 1969 Broadway debut in 1776 to television stardom as stepmother Abby on the 1977-81 television drama Eight is Enough, to indelible turns as the original Grizabella in Cats and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. “You have to love what you do,” said Buckley in a phone conversation last week, sharing some of the advice she offers to the students in multi-day master classes she regularly teaches around the country. She also reflecting on the vicissitudes of

Betty Buckley at a premiere screening of the HBO series Getting On

Telly Leung

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private estate in Pasadena) continued. Thus began Leung’s frequent flying from New York to Los Angeles. “That’s the wonderful thing about TV shows like this; they write it as they go,” said Leung. “I remember the day after the first Warblers episode aired. We were already shooting another episode and Darren said, “Katy Perry just tweeted me!” Although his character is straight, Leung remains proud of his partici-

Betty Buckley’s new album Ghostlight

Betty Buckley with longtime friend and music producer T Bone Burnett

Betty Buckley

a career that has not brought her back to a Broadway musical since The Triumph of Love in 1987. “You have to really love the craft of storytelling, singing, and acting.” “That’s what keeps you buffered from the winds of show business, because those are things you can always go back to, engage with, and keep working on. If you really love

Betty Buckley as Norma Desmond in the musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard

pation in on of TV’s more prominent gay storylines. “Overnight, it was what everyone was talking about,” said Leung. “This teenage gay relationship was treated with so much love and respect. I’m part of something that’s not just a great job.” Of his hyper-enthused fan base, who make animated gifs of shots from the show, including Leung’s best moments, he remains humble. “Doing Glee, I realized that I’m part of something bigger than the job, that will effect generations,” he said. Leung said he feels the same

Telly Leung with Lea Salonga, George Takei and Paul Nakauchi in Allegiance.

the work, that can save you from all the rejection.” “Begin by knowing that everyone’s a star,” Buckley tells her students, “and then dedicate yourself to being an artist, a necessary artist.” Buckley’s latest artistic necessity is Ghostlight, an elegantly poignant album of songs that she’s performed in concert over the years, but never included on any of her 15 prior solo records. An air of self-confident resignation infuses the album’s mix of hauntingly reimagined show tunes (“This Nearly Was Mine,” from South Pacific, is a standout), sinewy pared-down standards (“Bewitched,” “Body and Soul”), and ingeniously re-arranged contemporary pop (Tom Waits’ “Take It With Me When I Go,” Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “Where Time Stands Still”). On the recording, produced by legendary soundsmith T Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, O Brother Where Art Thou, Roy Orbison, Counting Crows), Buckley’s intriway about such now-iconic shows as Rent, which, he noted, “changed the way everyone thought about theatre.” Leung’s fandom overseas surpasses his Glee co-stardom. He described the hundreds of fans who waited outside the theatre after each night of a month-long run of Rent in Tokyo (Leung played the character Angel). He and his costars were met after each show by hundreds of adoring fans, many of whom presented handmade gifts. “As a young theatre fan, I would stage-door all the time,” said Leung. “As an actor, I know now to take the time. I never miss meeting fans. It’s part of the job, especially if they’ve waited for you.”

cately phrased, delicately understated vocals are pretty much the antithesis of the belt-for-the-rafters singing style in vogue with the American Idol and The Voice contestants who have lately been riding their momentary fame into stints on Broadway. The album’s beckoning first cut—which Buckley has included on her set-list for Feinstein’s—is an achingly beautiful version of Lerner and Loew’s “Come to Me, Bend to Me” from Brigadoon. Buckley doesn’t thrust songs out at her listeners, but rather invites listeners to join her inside of the songs, closely exploring the nuances of their lyrics and the elasticity of their melodies. “We really wanted to create a feeling and a sort of an environment throughout the record,” says Buckley, “a sense of life in the city after dark. When we first got together with some of the musicians in the recording studio, T Bone played us a clip of Lauren Bacall singing in a bar from To Have and Have Not, and it just clicked, this tone we were going for.” Ghostlight is a long-in-the-making musical reunion for Buckley and Burnett, who knew each other as

The Producer

Another of Leung’s accomplishments is producing the short film Grind, a gay-themed tale of hookups gone awry. “Actors are always at the bottom of the totem pole in creating,” said Leung. “I finally decided I wanted to do the hiring. The fact that I started talking about the film, the more people said yes, because they believed in it. What I got out of it is learning how to produce and sit on the other side.” The idea for Leung’s show stemmed from a lull in performing when New York City was struck by both a musicians’ strike and a bliz-

Allegiance stars George Takei, Lea Salonga and Telly Leung

Betty Buckley’s 1967

teenagers in Fort Worth. When they were both just 19, the pair collaborated on a recording in Burnett’s home studio, which was finally released—as Betty Buckley 1967— four decades later. Even when 19-year-old Buckley turns the occasional sophisticated phrase on that early album, there’s a youthful exuberance at play. The first Buckley-Burnett collaboration captures the sound of a bright young singer working to make her presence known. Now, nearly fifty years later, in the seasoned subtleties of Ghostlight, Betty Buckley seems free of any need to grab hold of the folks in the balcony or knock anyone’s socks off. It’s an album that alchemizes the learnings of a long and storied career into musical wisdom for those who are willing to lean in and listen closely.t Betty Buckley performs new music from her album Ghostlight, as well as a few classics and favorites. $65-$80. 8pm. Nov. 13 & 14, 8pm. Nov. 15 & 16, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketweb.com

zard, which forced Flower Drum Song to close after only four months. “I didn’t feel done, and I needed an artistic outlet,” said Leung, who, aided by Gary Adler, assembled a multi-talented three-piece ensemble. “I basically stole the band from Avenue Q.” Leung’s regular drummer can’t tour now. His Feinstein’s band includes local Grammy-nominated drummer Jim Zimmerman. Leung’s repertoire ranges from pop hits to classics. “To me it’s scary to do this, kind of frightening,” Leung said of the intimacy of a cabaret show. “It’s not me behind anybody or a character. The biggest lesson I learned is that ‘you are enough,’ you can trust yourself. And if I can tell a story through music and make that connection in an intimate room, it’s so special. Singing songs that people know but hear in a different way; I feel like that’s really important. They can learn something about me that they can’t find elsewhere, they can let me share that kind of fearless generosity.”t Telly Leung performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, November 22 & 23, 7pm. $35-$50. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.tellyleung.com www.ticketweb.com

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The Age Discussion by Race Bannon

n a local Facebook group comprised mostly of Bay Area kinky gay men, a discussion took place as the result of someone posting about the formation of a group for guys under age 40. This immediately sparked a long and passionate debate about whether the event was ageist and exclusionary or simply an attempt by younger kinky guys to find their own space. It made me wonder if this dynamic might not be playing out throughout the gay men’s leather and kink scene everywhere. Based on my chats with guys from around the country, I think it is. At the core of many of the discussion thread’s comments, as well as other similar discussions I’ve seen take place, are a few points I’d like to address here about younger kinksters and how they align and interact with the older among us (myself included). I know some of these same issues arise throughout all sectors of the orientation and gender spectrum of our scene, but I’m going to focus specifically on gay men because I’ve seen this happening up close mostly in that realm lately. However, I do think much of this applies to everyone.

Younger kinksters wanting their own groups, events and play parties is exclusionary and ageist.

You’re too young to be a Dom, Master, Sir, Boss or some variation of a power dynamic top.

I think one of the downsides of the hyper-inclusion that influences much of our scene (and yes, there are certainly upsides too) is that anytime someone requests their own space it somehow gets labeled as exclusionary, elitist, separatist, or some other such negative. Most of the time it’s none of those things. Sometimes certain groups of people need their own space. As but just one example, there’s are good reasons that ONYX (www. onyxmen.com) formed as a place for leathermen of color to gather, commune and bond. They didn’t always see themselves or their issues reflected in other venues. They have commonalities others might not share. ONYX is a very successful attempt to give some guys who feel they need their own space a place where they can feel safe and understood. As it is with people of color, women, trans folks, and others, who also sometimes need their own space, why should it be any different for younger kinksters.

In a word, bullshit. This particular refrain bugs me personally because my first incarnations as a leatherman were entirely from the Dom perspective starting at the age of 19. To discount young guys identifying or playing from a Domleaning mindset is simply insulting. I have seen younger guys who are brilliant Doms and I have seen long-time leathermen with decades of supposed experience who are, frankly, terrible Doms. I have seen relatively little correlation between length of time in the scene or age and whether someone is a good power dynamic top or not. Younger kinksters must pattern their kinky lives and identities based on the leather past. The collision that sometimes takes place between older leathermen who have been around the scene for a while and younger newcomers is now legendary. I often joke that some of us older guys come off like grumpy old men screaming at some kids to “get off my lawn.” The default assumption for many older guys seems to be that See page 37 >>

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Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

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Women's happy hour, with all-women music and live performances, 2 for 1 drinks, and no cover. 5pm-9am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Celebrate eleven years of the weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. Nov. 15: The Monster Drag Show with Cookie Dough. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time's assured. $8$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th St. at Harrison. www.BootieSF.com www.DNAlounge.com

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Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. 12pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge Culture Club @ Masonic Hall

Sun 16

arty at a museum while enjoying art, shop for bikes while partying with cyclists, snap and clap along with a returning ‘80s band, or hoist a cocktail with a big drag queen.

Thu 13 Beats Reality @ Trax Resident DJs Jim Hopkins and Justime welcome guest DJs and play groovy tunes. Weekly, 9pm-2am. 1437 Haight St. 864-4213.

Bold Awards @ GLBT Center Juanita More!, Rob Evans and Terry Michaeu and the SF Human Rights Commision are honored at this LGBT awards ceremony and reception. $35$250. 6pm-10pm. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the weekly gogotastic night of sexy dudes shakin' their bulges and getting wet in their undies for $100 prize (contest at midnight), and dance beats spun by DJ DAMnation. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Billy Santoro leads the highly interactive sex session in the famed strip joint's downstairs arcade (before his onstage shows Nov 14 & 15) 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, halfoff locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men's bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. Nov 13: The Little Miss Monster contest, with $150 grand prize! $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Heklina hosts a new weekly '90s-themed video, dancin', drinkin' night, with VJs Jorge Terez and Becky Knox. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90-cent drinks! '90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 8292233. www.virgilssf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Nov. 13: Elemental, with DJ Omarand California College of the Arts displays and workshops, plus gems and mineral displays. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Out 4 Social @ Virgil’s Sea Room Out for Sustainability’s networking social event that focuses on environmental action and community building among LGBT folks. 5:30pm7:30pm. 3152 Mission St. 829-2233. www.out4s.org/bay-social/

Mary Go Round @ Lookout Suppositori Spelling, Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes host the weekly night with DJ Philip Grasso, gogo guys, drink specials, and drag acts. 10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Sun 16 Dulce de Leche @ Katya Presents

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays! 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Billy Santoro @ Nob Hill Theatre The burly muscled porn star performs solo shows (8pm) and live sex shows with JR Matthews (10pm). $25. Also Nov. 15. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 3976758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Digital Wildlife @ Café Flore Justime, CBass and Miles Cooper DJ groovy tunes at the new weekly intimate night at the café, with door proceeds going to local causes (Nov. 14: GLBT Historical Society). 9pm-2am. 2298 Market St. www.cafeflore.com

Friday Night @ de Young Museum Nightlife events at the museum take on different themes. Nov. 14: Keith Haring exhibit party, with MC Marga Gomez, DJ Bus Station John, film screenings about Keith Haring, gallery performances by Davend and Chica Boom. Free/reduced admission. 6pm8:45pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoung.famsf.org

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Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun The popular video bar ends each work week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. Check out the new expanded front lounge, with a window view. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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The pop group performs new music from Little Machines. Wild Party opens. $20-$23. 8pm. 1300 Van Ness Ave. 673-5716. www.iamlights.com www.theregencyballroom.com

The ursine crowd converges for beer and fun. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

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Mica Sigourney and pals' weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jock-strapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Sun 16

The weekly live rock shows feature local and touring bands. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Sirens & Femme Fatales, the vocalist's film noir-style concert, features songs from classic B-movies, with pianist G. Scott Lacy. $25-$45. 562 Sutter St. 857-1896. www.societycabaret.com

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Gogo-tastic night starts off your weekend. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

New weekly LGBT and straight comedy night hosted by Dan Mires. $10. 8pm. 2111 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland's premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10-$15. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

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The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Get groovin' at the weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

Posh @ Factory Locoya Hill's dance party and birthday celebration features DJs Bradley P, Billy Lace, and Nacho Chapado. $25-$45. 9pm-6am. 525 Harrison St. www.locoyahill.com

Beer Bust @ SF Mix The popular Castro bar hosts its weekly softball team beer bust fundraiser. 3pm-7pm. 4086 18th St. 431-8616. www.sfmixbar.com

Big Top @ Beaux Joshua J.'s homo disco circus night returns, now weekly, with guest DJs and performers, hotty gogo guys and drink specials. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.BeauxSF.com

Brunch @ Hi Tops Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Brunch Sundays @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch, mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. 920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

The 80s pop band, led by the irrepressible Boy George, performs their hits (Nov. 17 Fox Theatre Oakland show is sold out). $65-$350. 7:30pm. 1111 California St. www.cultureclub.co.uk

Los Straitjackets & Deke Dickerson @ The Chapel The wacky band performs retro vocal versions of famous instrumental classic tunes. $20-$23. 7:30pm. 777 Valencia St. www.dekedickerson.com www.thechapelsf.com

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle DJ Bus Station John's popular disco T-dance follows the beer bust. 7pm12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Watch newbies get nude, or compete yourself for a $200 prize. Audience picks the winner. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Winterfest @ City View at Metreon The SF Bicycle Coalition's 19th annual member party, art show, fundraiser and holiday funfest, with food, music (DJs Shooey, Aaron Pope, Sinned), beer and beverages, bike auctions and bike-themed items galore. $20-$60. 6pm-10:30pm. 135 4th St. 431-2453. www.sfbike.org

So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall Irish Dance Night @ Starry Plough, Berkeley Weekly dance lessons and live music at the pub-restaurant, hosted by John Slaymaker. $5. 7pm. 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.thestarryplough.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany's weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge The casts of local and visiting musicals often pop in to perform at the popular Castro bar's musical theatre night. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pmclosing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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Name That Beat @ Toad Hall BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly musical trivia challenge and drag show. 8:30-11:30pm. 4146 18th St. at Castro. www.toadhallbar.com

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

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 popular men's night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. www.the440.com

Tue 18 Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Bombshell Betty & Her Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room

Mon 17 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon

The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers. 3pm-7pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Specials on drinks made with Cock and Bull ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pmclosing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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Katya Smirnoff-Skyy welcome Dulche de Leche for an evening of singing, glamour and cocktails; with Tom Shaw at the piano. $11. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Liquid Brunch @ Beaux No cover, no food, just drinks (Mimosas, Bloody Marys, etc.) and music. 2pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko's weekly drag and dance night. 9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 6523820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Weekly LGBT and friends skate night, with groovy disco music and themed events. $9. 8pm-10:30pm. 1303 Main Street, Redwood City. www.rainbowskate.net www.facebook.com/rainbowskating/

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Paul K hosts the amateur singing night. 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Pollo del Mar's weekly drag shows takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Winterfest @ City View/Metreon

Sunday's a Drag @ Starlight Room

Karaoke @ The Lookout

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Sun 16

Rainbow Skate @ Redwood Roller Rink

The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 552-7788. www.elbo.com

DanceFAR @ YBCA Enjoy performances by nearly a dozen local and visiting dance companies (SF Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, ODC/Dance and others) at the third annual Dance for a Reason benefit, the nonprofit that donates to various charities; this time the Cancer Prevention Institute of California and the UCSF Melanoma Center. VIP cocktails before, and general admission after-party. $50-$250. 7pm. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Howard St. 978-ARTS. www.dancefar.org www.ybca.org

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey's Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. Nov. 4: Jason Stuart headlines. one-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Gay Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels LGBT night at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the "Godfather of Skate." Actually, every night is gay-friendly, including Saturday's Black Rock night (Burning Man garb encouraged). Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

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

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down at the strip joint while onstage strippers entertain. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Piano Bar @ Beaux Singer extraordinaire Jason Brock hosts the weekly night, with your talented host –and even you– singing. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Showdown @ Folsom Foundry Weekly game night for board and electronic gamers at the warehouse multi-purpose nightclub. 21+. 6pm12am. 1425 Folsom St. www.showdownesports.com

Switch @ Q Bar Weekly women's night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Wed 19 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Bromance @ Beaux DJ Kidd Sysko spins tunes for the bro-tastic midweek night, with $2 beer pitchers, beer pong, $1 shots served by undie-clad guys. It's like a frat house without the closet cases. 8:30-10pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey's BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. Oct. 8 is a special birthday party for gay rights activist Cleve Jones. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 4314278. www.harveyssf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos and retro drink prices. Check out the new expanded front window lounge. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440 Buy a drink and get a wooden nickle good for another. 12pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. www.the440.com

Thu 20 Aguilas 20th @ Roccapulco The Latino/a LGBT HIV/AIDS prevention nonprofit celebrates two decades, with awards to notable local community members, with entertainment by Juanita More!, reception, music by Fuego Latino and DJ Pablo. $20 and up. 6pm-10pm. 3140 Mission St. www.sfaguilas.org

Curtis McMurtry @ Hotel Utah The Austin singer-songwriter with a dark lyric edge performs songs from his new folk-Americana album Respectable Enemy ; Hook & Anchor headlines. $8-$10. 9pm. 500 4th St. www.curtismcmurtrymusic.com www.hotelutah.com

Fauxgirls @ Infusion Lounge The monthly dinner and drag show features Victoria Secret, Alexandria, Chanel, Mini Minerva, Kipper, Ruby LeBrowne, Lulu Ramirez, and Felicia LaMar and other talents. Dinner 7pm, show 8pm. Reservations: 421-8700. 124 Ellis St. www.fauxgirls.com

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Good Times @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay's weekly queer women and men's R&B hip hop and soul night. No cover. 8pm-2am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

Miss Kitty's Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

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Freddy Cole @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The jazz legend performs with his band. $40-$55. 8pm. Also Nov. 21. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketweb.com

Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle Kollin Holts hosts the new weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm-8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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Billy Santoro by Cornelius Washington

illy Santoro is the porn version of the mysteriously sexy, happygo-lucky, hot stud you see sauntering down the street, working out at the gym, buying at the grocery store and grooving in the club, who’s always alone. He’s secure enough to not be preoccupied with getting the “right” jeans and/or hairstyle, nor does he care to know how to twerk. But, you know that if you could just get him into a secluded spot for an hour, he’d give you the sexperience of your life, and you’d also become happy-go-lucky. The Nob Hill Theater has him this weekend, and they’re willing to share. Cornelius Washington: Is this your first experience dancing at The Nob Hill Theater? If so, what are your expectations? Are you aware of its rich history? Billy Santoro: Yes, this is my first experience at the Nob Hill Theater. As any first appearance at a venue, I hope I don’t break any rules. I am aware of the history and it’s an honor to have this opportunity to be a part of it. What influenced your decision to dance nude? I actually hit it big in the porn industry before I ever stepped foot on a stage nude. I think porn made me comfortable with nudity. I am a very gregarious person! I enjoy being out and about and meeting all within our community.

Is dancing nude a more sensual or sexual experience for you? I am not going to lie, I do not care so much for ‘dancing.’ I put on a sexual show. I love the tease and seduction. How do you prepare (mentally, physically, emotionally, etc.) to dance nude and film scenes, and is there a difference in the preparation? A huge difference. On set, you don’t need to bring your social A

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game. A live show is more nerve-wracking, because you feed off the energy of the crowd. What influenced your decision to become a porn model? I was always curious about it since my teen years. Chi Chi LaRue planted the seed in my head in the early ‘90s, but I wanted to finish my degree and get some career time in before I made the jump. What, if any, song or type of music do you prefer to dance and/or have sex to? ‘Dance’ it really depends what I am doing. If it is BDSM-oriented, I like some Nine Inch Nails. If I am having sensual sex, then I like the first Enigma album. With whom would you next like to work, as a scene partner, and why? I really want to film a three- Billy Santoro in a publicity photo for way with my husband, or Falcon Studio’s Stunners. something that mimics reality. Maybe have Rocco Steele come over for afternoon tea and then he What’s your favorite body part? decides to teabag Seth while I suck On yourself? On other men? his dick. Yes, that’s it! I like my chest and arms. I love What’s your favorite sexual position? As a top, I love standing doggie. As a bottom, I love laying flat on my stomach and getting railed. What do you do, sexually, onscreen, that you don’t do privately, and vice-versa? I have very few limits on screen. I get caught up in the ‘Do what you need to do to entertain.’ At home, I rarely eat cum. At home, there is definitely more of a ‘pig’ exhibited that you don’t see on camera ... except for a very few of my films. What sexual act that first repulsed you, now intrigues you? Electro-play.

those ‘fuck-me’ dimples on a man’s lower back, and of course, ass and thighs. Who’s your fantasy celebrity sex partner, and what would you do with him and/or her? I want a rape scene with Justin Bieber. I just want to lay into him. I have no idea why! Where do you see gay porn going in the 21st century? I feel like gay porn is going to be all cam-focused. Live cams on set. The DVD and staged content will become a thing of the past. Barebacking. Pro or con? Personally, I bareback. Professional, I have done some bareback scenes, but I am primarily booked by pro-condom studios. Do you think that porn can be art? Absolutely. It is. Any fetishes (non-sexual)? Ok. If you want me to precum like crazy, wear a soccer short without underwear. How fitting that the San Francisco Gay Soccer team will be hosting my November 15 event at Nob Hill. I definitely plan on fetishizing them! What turns you on when you watch porn? Creampies and gangbang creampies.

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Billy Santoro tops Shawn Wolfe.

Finally and, perhaps, most importantly, your onscreen versatility is amazing, and very modern. How do you feel about the stigmatization of top versus bottom? It’s real. It’s annoying, but I understand it. When I do the hook-up apps, I never say I am versatile. I usually find out what they are, then say I am the opposite. Billy will always get his man!t

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just because their erotic identities, ways of playing and social constructs looked and operated a certain way means that younger guys should abide by those same things. No, they should not. History and the past are something to be learned from, but rarely something to be copied verbatim. Time moves on. Everything changes, and that includes our scene. Therefore, it’s quite natural that younger kinksters would configure their identities, relationships, play styles and social interactions somewhat differently than their older counterparts.

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To my fellow older kinksters who are annoyed by this, I have but one bit of advice – get over it. Time moves on. Let the younger kinky guys create their own networks and communities much as we did decades ago. Your kink looks different than my kink. So you must be doing it wrong. This is related to the previous issue, but is somewhat different. As the scene has changed, the popularity of certain kinks and sexual proclivities have emerged, particularly among younger players. When I first came out into the scene there weren’t many pups, rubbermen (at least not in the U.S.), sports gear guys, and so on.

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Older and younger leathermen at The Eagle.

But guess what? They are part of our scene now and that genie is not going back in the bottle. Every generation wants to imprint their own special flavor on what they do. Why should their sexuality be any different? I think the diversity of sexual expression is a plus, not a minus. Clubs, organizations and groups should be led by the older and more experienced. While there is some wisdom in leveraging people who have some mileage in terms of running such things, it can be just as much of a drawback. I’ve seen older kinksters display entrenched and rigid thinking, often simply replicating old ways of doing things rather than coming up with something new and innovative. Sometimes groups need some fresh air when it comes to who is running those groups and younger people can bring in that new perspective. Younger people often take more chances, think in different ways, and reference a more contemporary culture to inform their decisions. Adding younger people to the running of things will likely add to their effectiveness and better serve the entire range of their constituency. I could offer many other negatives I’ve heard thrown at younger kinksters, but ultimately I’ve yet to see any arguments that hold up to scrutiny that bolsters claims that younger guys are any less capable, kinky or authentic than their older brethren. I am one older leatherman who is incredibly happy to see younger kinksters morphing and changing the scene into something that certainly looks a bit different than it used to, but I believe has more breadth and depth in terms of the variations of kink and identities it embraces. And I think that’s a good thing.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him on his website www.bannon.com

Leather Events, November 13 – 26, 2014 Thu 13

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Wed 19

NBKQ/Northbay GLBTQ Leather Munch @ Sam’s for Play Cafe

SF Sober Leather 2015 Contest @ SF Citadel

Red Hanky Nite @ Powerhouse

This contest is aimed toward people who have a desire to live a sober life and is not a recovery title, and doesn’t have any affiliation with any 12 step fellowship. 181 Eddy St., 7pm. www.sfbasil.org

Bar night for men into fisting. 1347 Folsom St., 9:30pm. http://hellholesf.com/

GearUp Men’s Play Party @ Alchemy

The 15 Association Men’s Play Party @ SF Citadel

Casual gathering for North Bay kinksters. All welcome. 2630 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa, 7pm.

Crafty and Kinky @ Wicked Grounds Crafty and Kinky is your DIY paradise were you can bring kinky and vanilla projects alike, and hang out with some other crafty people. 289 8th St., 7pm. www.wickedgrounds.com

Fri 14 Bay Area boys of Leather: Boy Friday @ SF Eagle Join the Bay Area boys of Leather for Boy Friday, their monthly cocktail social. 398 12th St., 7pm. www.bayareaboysofleather.org

Friendly erotic space where kinky men can socialize with, learn from and play with other men. 1060 Folsom St., $20, 9pm. www.gearupweekend.com

A men’s BDSM play party. 181 Eddy St., 8pm. www.the15sf.org

Sun 16

A motorcycle rider and leathermen night at Eros, bring your helmet, AMA card, MC club card or club colors and get $3 off entry or massage. 2051 Market St. www.erossf.com

KUF Inaugural Play Party @ SF Citadel

SF Sober Leather 2015 Meet and Greet @ Mr. S Leather

KUF (Kinky Under Forty) is a group of men aged 18-39 of all types, shapes, and sizes who are attracted to experiencing or exploring kink with other men. 181 Eddy St., 6pm, $20 admission; $15 with student or military ID.

Meet and greet for the SF Sober Leather 2015 contest. 385 8th St., 7pm. www.sfbasil.org

Mon 17

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 4058 18th St., 9:30pm.

Sat 22

Ride Mondays @ Eros A motorcycle rider and leathermen night at Eros, bring your helmet, AMA card, MC club card or club colors and get $3 off entry or massage. 2051 Market St. www.erossf.com

Mon 24 Ride Mondays @ Eros

Wed 26 Leather/Gear Buddies @ Blow Buddies Erotic fun for leather and gear guys, $15, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

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