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CA voters to take on guns, pot

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by Seth Hemmelgarn

District 5 Supervisor London Breed, left, and challenger Dean Preston engage during a September 28 candidate forum at UCSF.

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wo of the propositions that California voters will decide on in November address a couple of the most contentious issues in the country: guns and marijuana.

Rick Gerharter Among other provisions, Proposition 63, Lieutenant known as the Safety for Governor All Act of 2016, would es- Gavin Newsom tablish new procedures for enforcing laws that prohibit felons and violent criminals from possessing firearms, require most ammunition sales be made through licensed vendors and reported to the U.S. Justice Department, and ban the possession of largecapacity ammunition magazines.

Proposition 64 would legalize adult recreational use of marijuana, designate state agencies to license and regulate the marijuana industry, and impose a state excise tax on retail sales equal to 15 percent of the sales price.

SF supes prez fights to win re-election A colorful

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our years ago London Breed defeated bisexual former District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, who had been appointed to fill a vacancy by Mayor Ed Lee, for the seat representing the Haight and Western Addition at City Hall.

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nflatable balls enlivened the scene at the Castro Street Fair Sunday, October 2.

People enjoyed live entertainment, people-watching, dancing, and visiting booths under mostly sunny skies in the afternoon.

B.A.R. election endorsements SAN FRANCISCO RACES GENERAL ELECTION State Senate Dist. 11: Scott Wiener

SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS Dist. 1: Sandra Lee Fewer Dist. 3: Aaron Peskin Dist. 5: London Breed Dist. 7 (ranked): 1: Norman Yee, 2: Joel Engardio Dist. 9 (ranked): 1:Joshua Arce, 2: Hillary Ronen Dist. 11 (ranked): 1: Ahsha Safai, 2: Kimberly Alvarenga CITY COLLEGE BOARD: Rafael Mandelman Alex Randolph Amy Bacharach Shanell Williams SF SCHOOL BOARD Mark Sanchez Matt Haney Rachel Norton Jill Wynns BART Board Dist. 9: Bevan Dufty Judge SF Superior Court Seat 7: Paul Henderson State Assembly Dist. 17: David Chiu Dist. 19: Phil Ting

President: Hillary Clinton U.S. Senate Kamala Harris Congress (Bay Area) Dist. 2: Jared Huffman Dist. 3: John Garamendi Dist. 5: Mike Thompson Dist. 11: Mark DeSaulnier Dist. 12: Nancy Pelosi Dist. 13: Barbara Lee Dist. 14: Jackie Speier Dist. 15: Eric Swalwell Dist. 17: Mike Honda Dist. 18: Anna Eshoo Dist. 19: Zoe Lofgren

State Assembly (Bay Area) Dist. 15: Tony Thurmond Dist. 18: Rob Bonta Dist. 28: Evan Low

EAST BAY

Concord City Council: Pablo Benavente East Bay Regional Parks Ward 4: Ellen Corbett Emeryville City Council: John Bauters Martinez City Council: John Stevens Oakland City Council Dist. 3: Lynette Gibson McElhaney At-large: Rebecca Kaplan Peralta College Board Area 6: Nick Resnick Richmond City Council: Cesar Zepeda State Senate (Bay Area) Dist. 9: Nancy Skinner

CALIFORNIA PROPS

BART Board Dist. 3: Rebecca Saltzman

Yes on 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 67 No on 53, 60, 61, 66, 65

Berkeley City Council Dist. 2: Darryl Moore

REGIONAL

Berkeley Mayor (ranked): 1: Jesse Arreguin, 2: Kriss Worthington

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Berkeley School Board: Judy Appel

BART Bond, Measure RR: Yes

Yes on A, B, C, E, F, G, I, J, K, N, O, S, V, W No on D, H, L, M, P, Q, R, T, U, X

Remember to vote Nov. 8!

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New banners brighten the Castro Rick Gerharter

by Sari Staver

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ore than 150 new rainbow banners have been installed on light poles throughout the Castro, under a program sponsored by the gayborhood’s merchants group.

According to Castro Merchants President Daniel Bergerac, there are approximately 75 light poles with double banners, all installed between late May and late September. The project cost $38,000.

The purpose of the program is “to brighten this unique area, and to mark its unique identity with LGBT history and the LGBT community’s strong presence in our neighborhood,” Bergerac said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter.

New banners are on the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro; the 200 block of Church Street between Market and 15th streets; commercial portions of 16th Street near Market and Noe south of Market; 17th Street around Jane Warner Plaza; 18th Street from Noe to Diamond streets; and 19th Street from Castro to Collingwood.

Single rainbow banners had been up throughout the neighborhood beginning in the late 1990s, but were removed during the neighborhood’s sidewalk widening project several years ago. That banner program was also initiated by Castro Merchants.

According to Patrick Batt, president of the merchants group when the banner program began, it was initially funded through a “neighborhood

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New rainbow banners adorn light poles in the Castro district.

beautification fund” he established by asking companies doing business in the Castro, such as filmmakers, to donate to it. Batt, no longer a member of Castro Merchants, is the owner of the vintage porn shop Auto Erotica, 4077-A 18th Street.

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NCTC debuts new lobby, bar area Rick Gerharter

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ew Conservatory Theatre Center artistic director Ed Decker conducts a tour for NCTC supporters of the theater company’s new lobby, box office, and bar area during a gala Saturday, October 1. The project took place over the summer with the aim of

improving the aesthetic experience for audiences, as well as seeing an uptick in revenue. CoBuild Construction services, based in Castro Valley, handled the build out. It was designed by El Cerrito-based FOG Studio, which donated its services. The project cost $300,000.

LGBTs urge community to vote ‘blue’ at Clinton fundraiser

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emocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was not in the Castro last weekend, but plenty of her LGBT supporters were as they raised money for the campaign and urged people to vote for her next month.

Preserving and expanding LGBT equality was the theme of the fun-

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CABELA’S CALL RECORDING SETTLEMENT A proposed $3,850,000 class action settlement has been reached in the lawsuit Saunders, et al. v. Cabela’s Wholesale, Inc., San Francisco County Superior Court Case No. CGC-14-537095. The lawsuit claims that Cabela’s Wholesale, Inc. recorded telephone calls of persons calling its toll free customer-service lines without telling callers that the calls may be recorded, allegedly in violation of California law.

Defendant has denied the claims. Nonetheless, Defendant and the Class Representatives have agreed to settle the dispute to avoid the uncertainty and costs of further litigation and trial.

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This notice is only a summary. You may obtain more complete information by visiting www.CabelasRecordingSettlement.com and viewing the full class notice, by writing to the address at the bottom of this notice, or by calling the Claims Administrator at 1-844-528-0183.

To receive a settlement payment, eligible class members must submit a timely claim. It is expected that eligible class members who submit a timely and valid Claim Form will receive approximately $100 per qualified call but not more than $5,000 per call. The amount of each individual settlement payment will depend on the total number of claims filed.

Unless you take steps to exclude yourself from the settlement, you will be bound by all of the Court’s orders if the Court approves the settlement, whether or not you submit a claim. This means you will not be able to make any claim that is covered by the settlement against Cabela’s or other Released Parties in the future.

If you wish to submit a claim, visit www.CabelasRecordingSettlement.com or contact the Claims Administrator at 1-844-528-0183 to get a claim form. The deadline to submit claims is December 21, 2016.

If you do not wish to be a member of the settlement class, you must submit a letter to the Claims Administrator at the address below postmarked by December 21, 2016.

If you opt-out you cannot submit a claim form. Visit the settlement website for more information.

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A final hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 305, San Francisco Superior Court, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

The Court will decide whether the settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate. The Court will also determine attorneys’ fees and costs and plaintiffs’ service awards. The motion for attorneys’ fees and costs and plaintiffs’ service awards will be posted on the settlement website after it is filed. You may attend the hearing, but you do not have to.

This is only a summary regarding the settlement. For detailed information including, the full text of the Amended Settlement Agreement, the Class Notice and the Claim Form, visit www.CabelasRecordingSettlement.com, call 1-844-528-0183, or write to: Saunders v. Cabela’s Settlement, c/o Heffler Claims Group, P.O. Box 59239, Philadelphia, PA 19102-9239.

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You are a class member if you are a natural person who: (1) during the period December 12, 2012 through February 18, 2014, inclusive, placed a call while physically located in California to one of Cabela’s toll free telephone numbers and spoke with a representative of Cabela’s; and (2) was either a California resident at the time such call was made or used a phone number with a California area code to place such call regardless of your residency. This settlement covers those calls.

draiser for Clinton, held Saturday, October 1 at the Lookout bar. Just over 100 people, primarily gay men, enjoyed cocktails and appetizers at the five-hour party that commenced at noon. Though the mood of the event was upbeat, organizers and attendees urged each other not to get complacent.

Clinton received a bump in the polls following last week’s presidential debate, but Republican nominee Donald Trump continues to poll at about 40 percent.

The debate was considered a victory for Clinton, who was composed and focused for the 90 minutes during which she and Trump were grilled

by NBC anchor Lester Holt. Trump’s performance has been widely panned after he repeatedly interrupted Clinton and Holt. He also came close to admitting that at least in some years he has not paid federal income taxes.

On Saturday night, the New York Times published its bombshell story based on partial 1995 tax returns filed

by Trump that show he took a $916 million loss, effectively enabling him not to pay taxes for 18 years.

Clinton and Trump meet again Sunday, October 9 for the second debate.

Keith Grenzeback, a 51-year-old gay man, was one of the primary organizers of the fundraiser. He spoke to the Bay Area Reporter about why he felt it was imperative for LGBT people to support Clinton’s candidacy.

“It’s not about the next four years, it’s about the next 40,” he said. “It’s the implications of the nominations for Supreme Court justices – maybe two or three nominations. We want to keep divisiveness and hate out of the White House.”

In fact, if the Senate doesn’t confirm President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and Clinton is elected, she would have a Supreme Court pick immediately.

Grenzeback urged third party voters to think carefully about their choices. Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party nominee; Dr. Jill Stein is the Green Party candidate.

“I would not want to be condescending,” he said. “But this isn’t a typical election cycle. It’s the implica-

tion of the [Supreme Court] nominations – we can’t take that chance.”

While California will likely be in the Clinton column come Election Day, voters in swing states such as Florida and North Carolina could tip the race – and voting for Johnson or Stein in those states and a few others could result in a Clinton defeat.

Grenzeback noted that many of his friends supported Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders during the primaries.

“We are now throwing our support behind Hillary Clinton,” he said, adding that the afternoon was expected to raise $15,000-$20,000 for the Clinton campaign.

Other attendees also talked about the race.

“We have to elect the first woman president,” said John Bare, 54, a gay man who co-hosted the event. “We absolutely must not elect a man who is not only crazy but who has promised to gut all our rights.”

Anthony Garcia, a 50-year-old bisexual man, agreed.

“It’s important to have these kinds of fundraisers, because Trump does not have the temperament to be president,” he said. “Hillary Clinton has always been a strong supporter of the LGBT community. This is important for all communities – I’m shocked that anyone would vote for Trump.”

Gay state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco), spoke to the crowd mid-afternoon.

“I’m really into electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States,” Leno said. “Trump has said he will appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn marriage equality. The differences between the two are stark.”

Leno urged people to speak to millennials (those ages 18-34 in 2015) about Clinton, a demographic she is having trouble connecting with.

“Spread the word,” he said. “Social media is such that we can do this.”

Though they didn’t speak, gay City College board members Alex Randolph and Rafael Mandelman attended the fundraiser. Both spoke to the B.A.R. “I supported Bernie Sanders in the primary,” Mandelman said. “Like Sanders, I think it is absolutely cruSee page 16 >>

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State Senator Mark Leno spoke at an LGBT fundraiser for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

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Gay man takes the helm of SF alt weekly

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gay African-American man with 16 years of editorial experience has been named editor of SF Weekly, a 30-year-old free alternative weekly newspaper owned by the San Francisco Media Company, which also publishes the San Francisco Examiner.

Channing Joseph took over in September, after several years of freelance reporting and editing in the Bay Area. He replaces Chris Roberts, who was fired, according to a source close to the transaction who asked to remain anonymous.

In an email, Roberts wrote, “I love the Weekly and I hope Channing does great.”

Joseph, 35, comes to the job with a strong editorial background. Previously, he managed teams of reporters, editors, and multimedia producers at the New York Times, the New York Sun, and the Associated Press and has edited work that has gone on to win both the Polk Award and Pulitzer Prize, according to Joseph.

In an interview last week with the Bay Area Reporter, Joseph said he “is looking for a new stable of contributors who can write stories about people who are at the margins and who are not necessarily getting the attention in the conversations we are now having.”

Specifically, Joseph said he is interested in stories about class, race, gender, sexuality, mental health, and HIV status.

Working with arts and culture editor Peter Lawrence Kane and music editor Jessie Schiewe, Joseph said he “needs to figure out what will appeal to readers” as well as “what will be profitable” for the paper.

“I’m focused on where those two things intersect and how to make it work,” he said.

“I think it’s about time for the paper to just have a refresh on a lot of the things we’re doing,” Joseph added. “As far as I’m aware, I’m the

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banners promoting its GLBT History Museum, located at 4127 18th Street, between Castro and Collingwood streets.

Three of these banners are near Castro and Market streets and three are in front of the museum.

“We’re proud of the new banners, which illustrate a few of the wonderfully diverse LGBTQ communities that are represented in our museum and archives,” Terry Beswick, executive director of the historical society, said in a Facebook message. “The banners are just the beginning of a rebranding we are embarking on as we work toward building a new museum of LGBTQ history and culture in San Francisco.”

He said that the society needs to do a better job of “collecting our powerful and rich stories and sharing them with young people, with LGBTQ people, and with the world.”

Beswick said the society was appreciative of the merchants’ group.

“We’re grateful to the Castro Merchants for supporting us with this project, and we hope the banners help bring locals and travelers into the many exhibits and programs at our current museum on 18th Street,” he said.

Several more banners will be added in the window at the museum, Beswick added.

According to Bergerac, the banners have new pole hardware and are made of Sunbrella fabric, sewn from separate color strips.

“Based on past experience, we expect the new pole mounting hardware to last at least 10 years and the fabric to stay bright and useable for at least three to five years,” he explained.t

first black gay editor they’ve had so I may be interested in things that we haven’t done before.

“As a gay African-American man, I know what it feels like to have my communities’ stories go untold,” Joseph said.

As he looks for new writers, Joseph said he hopes to find people “across age, ability, ethnic background, and gender identity ... people who may not have thought of themselves as writers” before.

Joseph said he also plans to publish more “hard hitting investigations and glimpses into areas of San Francisco people never knew existed ... the hidden city.” Plans for the publication’s monthly cannabis supplement, Evergreen, have not been finalized, he said.

Rick Gerharter

SF Weekly editor Channing Joseph sits at his desk at the paper’s Market Street offices.

diagnosed with kidney failure. He learned that the average wait for a transplant was seven to eight years, and concluded that he had “very limited time left” to enjoy life.

On a visit to San Francisco, Joseph recalled thinking, “If I’m going to die, do I want to do it in New York or do I want to go somewhere and have another adventure before my last hurrah?

“And I suddenly got in touch with my deep sense of regret at not settling in San Francisco” instead of staying in New York, where he received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

To move to San Francisco, Joseph got a job at AP, packed his bags, “and

Health scare

Already, Channing is somewhat of a celebrity in San Francisco, after billboard pictures of him in a bright yellow tank top appeared on Muni vehicles, as the “poster boy” for UCSF Medical Center, following his successful kidney transplant operation there last year.

Joseph’s failing kidneys were what brought him to San Francisco three years ago, he explained.

While living in Brooklyn and working for the Times, Joseph was

began what I thought was my final adventure,” he said.

But shortly after moving to the city, Joseph learned his time in San Francisco might be longer than he’d anticipated, when his uncle agreed to donate a kidney, and the transplant team at UCSF found a spot for him on the surgery schedule.

In the meantime, said Joseph, he’d “lost his job” at AP, “but gained a new life, which meant I had endless options” on the horizon.

While freelancing, Joseph was contacted by SF Weekly, which asked him if he’d be interested in “taking the wheel,” he said.

“It’s the first time I’d ever been pursued so aggressively and I must admit, it was very flattering,” he said.

Evenings and weekends, Joseph and his partner, Vincent Rowe, 42, the director of diversity at the Marin Country Day School, enjoy karaoke at Club OMG and the meditation group for people of color at the East Bay Meditation Center.

“We can usually be seen in leather and thongs at local street fairs as well,” he said in an email. Hobbies include genealogy, travel, and black and LGBT American history. He is working on a book about the first black drag queens in America.

Joseph lives in an apartment in

the Tenderloin, close to his office at 835 Market Street.

In an email to the B.A.R., he said, “Each day as I walk to work, I get to see our city’s heart-breaking class divide on display. Also, at least for now, I think it’s important to be a member of the community that I am reporting on. That being said, I want the ‘SF’ in SF Weekly to represent the entire Bay Area and to tell the stories of people who live all across our region. But San Francisco is the epicenter of it all.

“The three years since I moved here from Brooklyn, I have fallen in love with the city in all its weirdness, and I am excited to have the opportunity to chronicle the trials and triumphs of its artists and innovators, gadflies and gangsters, homeless folk and hippies,” he said.

According to his September 14 introductory note in SF Weekly, Joseph was named a fellow of the International Center for Journalists and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for international reporting.

Joseph’s LinkedIn profile says he has also been a visiting assistant professor of journalism at the State University of New York. He has written for MTV.com, Time Inc., Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic, U.S. News & World Report, Glamour, and the Washington Post.t

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Brown signs pro-LGBT bathroom, school bills

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alifornia Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law several LGBT-supportive bills, including legislation that requires single-stall restrooms throughout the state to be gender Join us for our Saturday neutral and a bill aimed to combat Happy Hour from 5:30-9pm discrimination at universities. with cocktail, wine and beer Assembly Bill 1732, authored specials in the lounge.

by Assemblyman Phil Ting (DSan Francisco), makes it so that all single-user toilet facilities in any business establishment, place of public accommodation, or state Don’t get left out in the cold or local government agency needs Rick Gerharter to be identified as all-gender toilet this holiday season – call our facilities beginning March 1. Such seasoned events team today Assemblyman Phil Ting, at podium, was joined by San Francisco bathrooms would be for only one Supervisor David Campos, left, and community members last to reserve your One Market occupant at a time unless used by month as they urged Governor Jerry Brown to sign Ting’s Assembly party date: 415.777.2233 parents or guardians with small Bill 1732, which mandates that most bathrooms in California be children or people with disabilities designated all gender. Brown signed the bill last week. who require assistance.

“California is charting a new vate universities that receive public course for equality,” Ting said in a tations of what a woman should funds publicly disclose whether they news release Thursday, September look like. As a queer, black, more discriminate against students based 29, the day Brown signed the bill. masculine-looking woman, I am Live jazz piano Monday on gender expression, gender iden“Restricting access to single-user constantly questioned and harassed through Saturday nights tity, or sexual orientation. restrooms by gender defies comwhen I use the bathroom. AB 1732 from 6:30-9:30pm. Catch If a university has a Title IX exmon sense and disproportionately is a simple but important law that Billy Philadelphia Wednesday emption, it’s required to notify the burdens the LGBT community, would help cut down on the fear state Student Aid Commission and women, and parents or caretakers and harassment I face every day.” through Saturday. share the information with students of dependents of the opposite genThe California National Organiand staff. At the federal level, Title der. Bathroom access is a biological zation for Women also sponsored IX prohibits discrimination based need. This law will ensure more AB 1732.

Mention The B.A.R. and receive a complimentary on sexual orientation and similar safety, fairness, and convenience ac“California NOW is very excited Singular Sensation dessert with dinner entrée purchase. factors, in federally funded educacess for everyone.” that Governor Brown has signed tion programs and activities. ExThe statewide LGBT lobbying AB 1732 into law,” said Jerilyn emptions based on religion may be group Equality California was one Stapleton, the group’s president, in granted. of the bill’s co-sponsors.

1 MARKET STREET EQCA’s news release. “This will proSAN FRANCISCO “No university should have a In a news release, Rick Zbur, EQvide much needed access to facilities 415.777.5577 license to discriminate, especially CA’s executive director, said, “North in public buildings.”

R E S T A U R A N T ONEMARKET.COM those receiving state funds,” Lara Carolina finds itself increasingly Testifying on behalf of the state T O P 1 0 A M E R I C A N R E S TA U R A N T S I N T H E U . S . ~Gayot Guide said in a news release from EQCA, isolated, with its economy losing bill before an Assembly commitwhich sponsored the bill. “Those up to billions of dollars in canceled tee this spring, transgender San that do will now have to inform conferences, sports events and conFrancisco resident Jordan Gwenincoming students of their Title IX certs. Meanwhile, California has, dolyn Davis said she wished it inexemption. This law represents a with a minimum of controversy, cluded the same provision as San critical first step in the ongoing efmoved in a different direction. We Francisco’s law that calls for all new forts to protect students from disnow have a policy that gives everyor renovated public buildings to incrimination for living their truths or one greater privacy and safety in clude gender neutral bathrooms. loving openly.” public restrooms. It, and not hateful “As a transgender woman I often According to EQCA, “Students laws in North Carolina, Mississippi have to fear using gender-based reand staff across the country have and elsewhere, should be the model strooms,” she said. “It is especially reported learning of an exempfor the nation.” true for transgender women of tion only after being expelled from (Tuesday, September 27, Brown color. We are frequently murdered school or fired from their jobs,” and signed into law AB 1887, which for being ourselves.” there’s been a large increase in the bans taxpayer-funded travel to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti number of exemptions. states with anti-LGBT laws, such as also praised Brown’s signing of AB The group said that in 2013, one North Carolina. Gay Assemblyman 1732. school was granted an exemption.

Evan Low, D-Campbell, authored “Transgender people should not Now, approximately 43 schools in the legislation. Additionally, Bruce have to choose between dignity and the U.S. have been exempted, inSpringsteen and other performers safety, but that basic right is too cluding at least six in California. have canceled concerts there, and often denied when they need to use “The public needs to know which the NCAA and other organizations a public restroom that corresponds schools have licenses to discrimihave canceled events in the state.) with their gender identity,” Garcetti nate against LGBT people and to San Francisco’s Board of Supersaid in a statement. “Something so Hybrid/City Kid’s ignore California’s civil rights provisors passed a similar bathroom simple can attract harassment, hate Hybrid/City Kid’s tections,” stated Zbur. “This law ordinance in April. speech, and even violence. That’s will give fair warning to students, Gay Supervisor David Campos, why earlier this year I ordered a staff and faculty members before who authored the local ordinance, change of signage on all single-user they accept enrollment or employsaid in Ting’s news release that the restrooms in City Hall to read ‘genment at a university with a license to new state law “expands the access der neutral’ – and why I’m grateful discriminate.” rights we have in San Francisco to to Governor Brown for signing legThe law takes effect January 1. every county across our state. This islation which requires all California legislation will help ensure that businesses and governments to take Suicide prevention all California residents, including similar action.”

Road Mountain Road Mountain Protecting the lives of school LGBT individuals and people with In a news release from the CaliNow Open Thursday to 7pm! students is the aim of AB 2246, disabilities, can use the bathroom in fornia Endowment, which works to Now Open Thursday to 7pm! authored by Assemblyman Patrick peace- without fear of harassment expand access to quality health care Now Open Thursday to 7pm!

O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), which or discrimination.” for people who are underserved, Every Thursday in April between 4 & 7pm Brown signed into law and requires The Transgender Law Center was Every Thursday in April between 4 & 7pm Daniel Zingale, a gay man who is the take 20% OFF all parts, accessories &7pm clothing.* Thursday in April between & 4& the state’s public schools implement another sponsor of Ting’s bill. group’s senior vice president, stated, take Every 20% OFF all parts, accessories clothing.* Open Thursday to 7pm! take Now 20% OFF all parts, accessories & clothing.* suicide prevention policies that “This law is a simple measure that “This new law demonstrates our *Sales limited to stock on hand. *Sales limited to stock on hand. specifically address LGBTQ youths’ will make everyone’s lives easier,” state’s commitment to creating a *Sales limited to stock on hand. needs. stated TLC Executive Director Kris SPRING more inclusive California.

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1065 & 1077 Valencia (Btwn 21st & 22nd St.) • SF 1065SALES & 1077 Valencia (Btwn 21st415-550-6601 & 22nd St.) • SF 415-550-6600 • REPAIRS Hybrid/City Another bill Brown signed into ers and schools with the tools they Sara Rosenfeld, 44, of Berkeley, SALES 415-550-6600 • REPAIRS 415-550-6601 SALESMon.415-550-6600 • REPAIRS 415-550-6601 Sat. 10-6, Thu. 10-7, Sun. 11-5 law is Senate Bill 1146, authored by need to help save the lives of at-risk added, “For my whole life, public NEWMon.WINTER Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5 Sat.HOURS! 10-6, Thu. Thu. 10-7, Sun. 11-5 gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (Dyouth.” restrooms have been places of fear, Mon.Sat. 10-6, 10-7, Sun. 11-5 Bell Gardens). anxiety, and danger for me – just See page 17 >> 1065 & 1077 Valencia (Btwn 21st & 22nd St.) • SF The legislation requires that pribecause I don’t fit people’s expec-

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Three years later Breed took over the gavel in the board chambers when she was elected board president, marking the first time an African-American had held the post since 1991. Part of the board’s moderate bloc, which since last November’s election has been in the minority on the 11-person body, Breed is now running for re-election to a second four-year term.

But the city’s progressive political camp has made defeating her a top priority as it looks to strengthen its current six-person majority on the board ahead of electing a new board president come January. It has thrown its support behind the candidacy of tenants’ rights lawyer Dean Preston for the seat.

And housing affordability issues have been a major issue in the race, with Preston hammering Breed for favoring policies that he contends benefit developers to the detriment of renters. Breed, in turn, argues that, as a renter who has no housing security, she personally understands the housing crisis the city is facing.

The two recently sparred over their stances regarding affordable housing and other issues at a candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters September 28 on the campus of UCSF. “We have a crisis and I am amazed at how City Hall is unwilling to recognize it,” said Preston, 46, who has lived in the district for 20 years since moving from the East Coast and is a founder and leader of the statewide group Tenants Together.

“I will protect rent controlled housing, it is what I have been doing the last 16 years. The real estate developers committed to the mayor and the moderate supervisors have their sights on rent-controlled housing.”

The child of immigrant refugees, his father and grandparents were kicked out of Germany by the Nazis during World War II, Preston is raising two young daughters near Alamo Square with his wife, Jenckyn, a fifth generation San Franciscan whose grandfather, Dr. Zuretti Goosby, was the first African-American on the city’s school board. The couple met at Bowdoin College and moved to San Francisco after graduating from the liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine.

Among Preston’s top priorities should he be elected in November would be to push for a policy ensuring tenants have a right to counsel in fighting evictions, universal preschool, and a tax on the owners of vacant storefronts.

“Our housing crisis is the result of decisions made at City Hall that favor big-time developers and multi-billionaires,” said Preston, a former co-owner of Cafe du Nord on upper Market Street in the Castro district. “The mayor has been far too accommodating, with assistance from the moderates on the board.”

Breed, 42, grew up in the district in public housing and was raised by her grandmother. A former San Francisco Redevelopment Agency commissioner and member of the San Francisco Fire Commission, Breed for 10 years served as executive director of the African American Art & Culture Complex in the Western Addition prior to becoming a supervisor.

She has argued that during her time in office she has fought to build housing affordable for people at all income levels. At last week’s candidate forum she pointed to her support of Proposition C on the June ballot that upped the set aside of affordable housing in new developments from 12 percent to 25 percent.

“Ten percent of that is for people making $80,000 to $100,000 a year,” said Breed. “I want to try to make sure we look at not just affordable housing and market-rate housing but everything in between.”

She also pointed to her pushing

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the city to adopt a neighborhood preference policy, where 40 percent of the units in new affordable housing developments are to be awarded to people who live in the supervisorial district the projects are located in, or within a half mile of the site.

The policy was used in the selection process for the 55 Laguna senior housing development intended for low-income LGBT seniors.

When the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development objected to the policy this summer, Breed was among the city leaders who pressured the agency to reconsider its position. Last month HUD agreed to allow the city to pilot a policy where low-income seniors living in census tracts that have been identified as having the greatest risk of displacement would be granted priority for 40 percent of the units in the Willie B. Kennedy Senior apartment complex in the Western Addition neighborhood.

“In the past there was no linkage between people who need this housing and the affordable housing we build in the city,” said Breed.

The two candidates have clashed over a re-zoning of the Divisadero commercial corridor Breed pushed forward that allowed for denser buildings within current height limits. She has said the proposal was presented to various neighborhood groups to gather their feedback and would provide much needed hous-

ing to the area.

“I would like to see, of course, 100 percent affordable housing. But the sad reality is market-rate housing helps pay for affordable housing,” said Breed. “There hasn’t been a balance, there has only been a push to build low-income and luxury housing, leaving everyone in between behind.”

Yet Preston contended that her plan was drawn up without community input and didn’t include affordable housing requirements until he and others began criticizing the omission.

“We are in an era of what I call trickle down housing theory,” said Preston. “How the mayor and the moderates view housing is build housing and it will trickle down to low-income people. The progressives are standing up to developers and demanding more affordable housing.”

Preston has hammered away at Breed for being in bed with the mayor and his moderate allies, while Breed argues she is an independent voice on the board.

“I am not a moderate or a progressive,” she said. “I don’t put myself in a box.”

But based on her voting record on the board, Preston said there is no doubt of where Breed’s allegiance lies. And the direction of the city, he added, could be determined by the outcome of their race.

“I am an unapologetic, proud progressive. I do believe if you look at

her voting record and her siding with the mayor, she is a moderate,” he said.

“A key issue in this election is the future of this board, and the moderate majority, I believe, has caused a lot of the problems we have had.”

Board presidency at play

The outcome of the elections this fall for the odd-numbered supervisor districts will determine if the progressives maintain their majority and elect one of their own as president in January, or if the moderates will claw back the majority and maintain a lock on the board presidency for the next two years.

Breed was noncommittal when asked by the B.A.R. if she would seek a second term as president.

“I am not adamantly opposed to having another person be president,” she said. “It is not going to be a nasty fight with me when it comes to who is president.”

One person who plans not to seek the presidency is District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who had held the post from 2005 through 2009. Last fall he returned to the board after defeating Julie Christensen, whom Lee had appointed to fill the vacant seat representing Chinatown, North Beach, and Fisherman’s Wharf at City Hall.

Facing token opposition from residential property manager Tim E. Donnelly this year as he runs for a full four-year term, Peskin is

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widely expected to easily win the race. Yet when asked last week by the B.A.R. if he was interested in again being board president, Peskin reiterated the same response he had recently given to the San Francisco Examiner.

“Been there, done that,” said Peskin.

He added that he has “been working quite well with Supervisor Breed,” who rewarded him with influential committee assignments earlier this year. And unlike three of his progressive colleagues on the board who endorsed Preston – gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, District 3 Supervisor Eric Mar and District 11 Supervisor John Avalos – Peskin is remaining neutral in the District 5 race.

(As for the two other progressive supervisors, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, who is running for reelection next month, has endorsed Breed, while District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who is running for state Senate, has not endorsed in the race.)

Since Breed had endorsed Christensen in his race last year, Peskin said, “It would be a little bit of a leap for me to endorse her.”

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SF City College, soda taxes up for vote

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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upporting City College of San Francisco and raising revenue through soda sales are the aims of two of the measures on the local ballot in November that are meant to bring in money for city needs.

Proposition B, the San Francisco Community College District parcel tax, would renew the existing tax at $99 a parcel for 15 years.

The measure is meant to prevent layoffs, ensure an affordable education for students, and maintain core classes such as math and science, among other goals.

In a document filed with the elections department, the college district’s board said, “Under no circumstances shall any of the proceeds of the local control parcel tax be used for administrators’ salaries, benefits, or pensions.”

City College board President Rafael Mandelman told the Bay Area Reporter, “For City College, it’s a tremendously important measure.

It will give us some financial security going forward at a time when our declining enrollment has created uncertainty, and it will allow us to preserve access to our students that would otherwise be lost.”

Mandelman, a gay man, expressed confidence voters would support Prop B. “People love City College, and they love having a community college that has such a broad array of offerings,” he said.

In recent years, City College has been dealing with the fallout stemming from its accreditation being threatened with revocation by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The college is currently on restoration status, under which it has two years to demonstrate it fully meets all ACCJC standards. This month, the commission is set to send a team to re-evaluate the school’s progress for continued accreditation, according to the college’s website.

No one has submitted an argument against the measure to the elections department.

Prop V

Proposition V, widely known as “the soda tax,” would place a tax of one cent per ounce on the distribution of sugar-sweetened beverages, including some soft drinks, energy drinks, and other beverages.

The measure, which would go into effect January 1, 2018, defines a sugar-sweetened beverage as

one that contains added sugar uses of funds to include loans for and 25 or more calories per 12 the acquisition and rehabilitation ounces. of at-risk multi-unit residential An advisory committee properties. would be formed to evaluate the Supervisor Aaron Peskin, tax’s impact on public health who’s backing the measure, said and other areas. it’s “a very elegant way to repurSan Francisco Controller Ben pose a quarter of a century-old Rosenfield has estimated that the bond which has been largely tax would mean an annual tax unspent to preserve and reharevenue increase to the city of $7.5 bilitate our existing affordable million in the 2017-2018 fiscal housing stock, including small Courtesy CCSF year and $15 million in the 2018sites that are at-risk of Ellis Act 2019 fiscal year. Proceeds would Proposition B, a parcel tax on the evictions and displacement go into the general fund. from the Castro to Polk Gulch to November ballot, would raise money for Opponents of the measure City College of San Francisco. the Tenderloin and Chinatown have dubbed Prop V “the groand beyond.” cery tax” to imply that people The Ellis Act is a state law that result in a property tax” of $9.90 per will have to pay more for grocerallows landlords to evict tenants $100,000 of assessed valuation. ies, but the measure’s summary says, in order to get out of the rental busiIn its ballot argument, the school “The distributors of sugar-sweetness. The landlord must remove all district said, “The bond program ened beverages in San Francisco units from the rental market. Such has been meticulously run by a prowould be responsible for paying the tenants are paid relocation expenses fessional management team and, tax. The tax would not apply to retail to move. since its development, construction sales of sugar-sweetened beverages.”

Rosenfield told the elections dehas stayed on schedule and on budIn the ballot argument supporting partment that about $260 million get. The district kept its promise to the measure, Supervisor Malia Cohen remains “authorized but unissued” manage funding from past bonds and others wrote, “Scientific evidence from the funds approved in 1992. appropriately under the guidance demonstrates that there is a direct link Peskin said the funds would of the independent Citizens’ Bond between sugary drinks and diseases “preserve countless units of rentOversight Committee.” like obesity, diabetes, dental decay and controlled housing stock in San The district added, “Annual aueven liver disease, driving up health Francisco now and forever.” dits found that we have met or excare costs for everyone. San Francisco ceeded all requirements and are in Prop J pays over $87 million for direct and excellent financial standing.”

Proposition J would establish a indirect costs of diabetes.”

Prop A is opposed by the LiberHomeless Housing and Services But opponent Troy Reese, who tarian Party of San Francisco.

Fund, which would provide navigaowns Queen’s Louisiana Po Boy Asked in an email why voters tion and other services to the homeCafe in San Francisco, wrote in his should oppose the measure, Aubrey less, along with other programs ballot argument, “Instead of being Freedman, the group’s chair, remeant to combat homelessness by imposed directly on beverages, this sponded, the school district knows allocating $50 million a year for 24 tax is imposed on ‘distributors,’ in“that school buildings are going to years, adjusted annually. It would cluding small business owners like wear out and need repairs, mainalso create a Transportation Imme. ... Small businesses like mine tenance, and upgrades, so why not provement Fund, which would go are under so much pressure from put aside a certain amount out of toward improving the city’s transrising costs we will be forced to pass each budget period for the needed portation network by allocating this tax on to customers – meaning upgrades and prioritize the schools almost $102 million a year for 24 higher food and grocery prices.” that need the most urgent repairs years, adjusted annually.

A similar measure failed two years and fix those first out of current opago because it didn’t get the twoerating funds, rather than expensive Prop K thirds votes necessary. This time, bonds which end up costing twice With Proposition K, the city proponents did not specify how the as much with interest, bonds costs, would increase its sales tax by money would be spent, so Prop V and legal costs? It doesn’t have to all .75 percent, for a total tax of 9.25 needs only a simple majority. be lumped together in one great big percent. insurmountable amount.”

Prop A Rosenfield estimated that the San Francisco’s Proposition A measure would result in an annual Prop C would allow the San Francisco Unitax revenue increase of $37.5 milLoans to finance the acquisition fied School District to issue bonds lion in the 2016-2017 fiscal year and and rehabilitation of affordable worth up to $744,250,000 in order $155.1 million in the 2017-2018 fishousing is the aim of Proposition C. to rehabilitate facilities to current cal year.

In order to access existing bond health and safety standards, replace Gabriel Metcalf, president of San capacity under the city’s Affordable old plumbing, and improve inforFrancisco Bay Area Planning and Housing Loan and Market Rate Loan mation technology systems, among Urban Research, or SPUR, said, “If programs, the measure would amend other things. you don’t like the transportation Prop A, which voters passed in 1992, Rosenfield reported to the elections system the way it is today, if you just three years after the Loma Prieta department that in the 2017-2018 fiswant better transit options than we earthquake destroyed many buildings cal year, “the year with the lowest tax have today, if you want better biking and killed several people in the city. rate, the best estimate of the tax rethan we have today, then you should Prop C would expand permitted quired to fund this bond issue would be voting for Propositions J and K.”

Metcalf added, “We’re not going to have a better transportation system unless we’re willing to pay for it.”

But the group Save Muni opposes Props J and K. In an email, the organization said Prop J is a “large budget set-aside for 25 years that takes funds from other needs,” and Prop K “disproportionally hurts low-income families” and “Cuts sales at local businesses in amounts that exceed new revenue.”

Prop S

Proposition S would use the money raised by the current 8 percent base tax on hotel room rentals to provide funding for arts programs and family homeless services.

Supervisor Eric Mar said in an email, “I support Prop S because San Francisco artists are facing rapid displacement and we are losing the soul of our communities, our arts organizations.”

Mar added that the measure would “help ensure funding and neighborhood stabilization programs while also supporting homeless children programs.”

No one’s submitted an argument against Prop S, according to the elections department.

Prop W

If Proposition W passes, the city would increase the transfer tax rate for sales of residential and commercial properties from 2 percent to 2.25 percent for sales from $5 million up to $10 million; from 2.5 percent to 2.75 percent for sales from $10 million up to $25 million; and from 2.5 percent to 3 percent for sales of $25 million or more.

Rosenfield said, “While we estimate that the proposed ordinance would have resulted in average additional revenue of $45 million per year based on transactions from the most recent economic cycle, it is important to note that this is the city’s most volatile revenue source, and estimates based on prior years’ activity may not be predictive of future revenues.”

In their ballot argument, Supervisor Jane Kim and others said, “Prop W is very simple: we’re asking those who are doing very well to pay just a little more when they sell luxury properties they own to help improve vital city services and create more opportunity.”

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Out candidates face tests in variety of races

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epublican supporters of a congressional candidate dubbed a “mini-Trump” in Minnesota used a family photo of his lesbian Democratic opponent to draw attention to “her female marriage partner and their 4 teenage sons.”

Democratic opponents of a gay Republican candidate for sheriff in Arizona ran an ad that claimed “we can’t trust him with our kids.”

In Oregon, threats and taunts against bisexual incumbent Governor Kate Brown have escalated in recent months over her calls for tighter gun controls, prompting an increase in her security detail.

And a story in the conservative Des Moines Register characterized Iowa’s gay Republican candidate for the state Senate as a 50-year-old man “living with his mom” and described his Democratic opponent as having a “muscular campaign organization.”

But while anti-LGBT sentiments and tactics might still be in evidence these days, there is much to be appreciated for how matter-of-factly the sexual orientation or gender identity of most LGBT candidates is being regarded. Many LGBT incumbents face no opposition to re-election. And in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are two races in which the competition is between two openly LGBT candidates.

Even in the South, in conservative and solidly red Kentucky, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Gray told the Washington Post his being gay hasn’t been a problem on the campaign trail.

Gray is not the only out person running for a Senate seat; Misty Snow, (D), a transgender woman, is running for Senate from Utah against GOP incumbent Mike Lee. There are a record number of LGBT people running for seats in the House of Representatives this year: 12. Six are incumbents expected to easily win re-election; six are newcomers, only one of whom is said to have a good chance at winning.

Add to that at least 21 openly LGBT people running for state Senate seats, 61 running for state House or Assembly seats, one governor and four other statewide offices, at least 53 local offices and 17 seats on various state and local courts, and the total – 172 – sets a new high (compared to 152 in 2012 and 164 in 2010).

Here’s a look at some of the highprofile races involving LGBT candidates next month:

Oregon

Brown took office in February 2015 when her predecessor resigned in scandal. She’s considered a safe bet to keep that job. A Portlandbased polling firm found her eight points ahead of Republican challenger Bud Pierce in early September. Brown was previously secretary of state; Pierce was an oncologist.

But there have been some troubling moments for Brown this year. Earlier this month, pro-gun demonstrators burned an effigy of her, and the Oregonian reports that Brown’s security detail has been increased. The paper reported that someone posted a message on Twitter, calling Brown a “sexually confused progressive,” and blamed her for the death of a man who joined a group trying to occupy a federal wildlife refuge in the state. Another threatened an “attack” on her house for a ruling by a state labor commissioner who ordered a bakery to pay $135,000 to a same-sex couple for refusing to sell them a wedding cake. But the Oregonian also noted that a previous governor, Barbara Roberts, received death threats in the 1990s over her

publican challenger did in this year’s In Colorado, Misty to unseat Democratic incumbent open primary, Atkins is considered Plowright (D), a transRepresentative Elizabeth Esty, in likely to win November 8. gender woman, is running the 5th Congressional District, who Daniel Hernandez made headfor a congressional seat. earned a perfect score from the Congress lines five years ago as the gay staffer In southern California, Human Rights Campaign for her In addition to Gray who helped save the life of Repregay Garden Grove Mayor voting record. and Snow’s Senate camsentative Gabby Giffords (D) folBao Nguyen (D) pulled And in Kentucky, Gray, a Demopaigns, there are seven lowing a mass shooting in Tucson. out a surprise second crat, has taken on Republican inother new LGBT candiA Democrat, he’s now running for place finish in the primacumbent U.S. Senator Rand Paul.

Courtesy Craig for dates running for seats in a Statehouse seat against a Demory and will face another Gray’s trailing 12 points behind Congress campaign the U.S. House this year. Minnesota cratic incumbent and a Republican Democrat, Lou Correa, a Paul, according to the most recent Most of them are consid- congressional challenger. former state senator. poll. And the Kentucky Heraldered long shots, but Angie candidate Less well-known is television proIn addition to bisexual Leader noted that a significant Craig in Minnesota has Angie Craig ducer and winner of three Emmys incumbent Representanumber of “Business Leaders for the best chance of getting for sports coverage, Beth Tuura. tive Kyrsten Sinema, Jim Gray” have failed to contribute there. Her race is polling as a “toss Tuura, a Democrat, is challenging a there are two new gay candidates for to his campaign coffers. His camup,” according to RealClearPolitics.

Republican incumbent for a House Congress in Arizona – a Republican paign has raised $1.8 million, comcom. seat representing Orlando, Florida. and a Democrat, running in sepapared to Paul’s $2.3 million.

Craig, a vice president of global And another new name is Sam rate districts.

Statewide races: Old and new human resources for a medical dePark, a young attorney born and Former Arizona state RepresentaThere are some familiar names vices manufacturer in St. Paul, left raised in Georgia to immigrants tive Matt Heinz, an emergency room and some new ones among the 87 that position to run for Minnesota’s from Korea. He’s making his first doctor at Tucson Medical Center, known openly LGBT candidates 2nd District seat in the U.S. House. bid for elective office, seeking a seat is running for the state’s 2nd Conrunning for statewide offices next Craig’s website features a photo of her, in the Statehouse. gressional District seat. That seat is month. her wife, and their four boys. She’s the currently held by former Air Force Local races to watch In addition to Brown in Oregon, Democratic Farmer Labor Party canColonel Martha McSally, “the first At least 53 out LGBT candidates there’s Democrat Tina Podlodowsdidate for a seat opened up by retirwoman in our nation’s history to pilot are vying for local elective office, inki, a longtime lesbian politico, runing Republican John Kline, and she’s a fighter plane in combat and comcluding two candidates for mayor – ning to become secretary of state in running against a former talk show mand a fighter squadron.” Heinz is incumbent Alex Morse in Holyoke, Washington state. Podlodowski left host, Jason Lewis, whose provocative the Democrat. An independent poll Massachusetts, and Kriss Worthinga successful career at Microsoft in statements prompted the Atlantic released September 26 shows Repubton in Berkeley.

1995 to win a seat on the Seattle City magazine to dub him “Minnesota’s lican McSally with a 19-point lead.

Meanwhile, Berkeley’s first gay Council. She’s up against an incummini-Trump.”

In Congressional District 1, gay black city councilman, Darryl bent Republican.

Among other things, Sheriff Paul Babeu of Moore, is fending off a challenge Toni Atkins is another wellLewis has characterized Pinal County is the Refrom the LGBT community – Nanci known lesbian politico. She served the “vast majority of publican, running seven Armstrong-Temple, who the Bay as California Assembly speaker, but young single women” as points in the polls behind Area Reporter says identifies as queer. is now running for the seat reprecaring about only “aborthe Democrat for an open Next door, in Oakland, two lesbisenting state Senate District 39 in tion and gay marriage” seat. Babeu’s campaign San Diego. Because she won more and called the idea of alseems hobbled by news See page 17 >> than three times the votes her Relowing transgender stuthat he approved of the dents to use the restroom use of controversial disCourtesy Babeu for that corresponds to their cipline measures against Congress campaign gender identity “an abomstudents at a school he Sheriff Paul ination.” He’s argued, ran for at-risk youth in Babeu is running “Gay couples are no more Massachusetts. An atfor Congress in discriminated against Arizona. tack ad from Democrats than the polygamist, the focuses on that scandal drug user, or the loan shark.” One and says, “We can’t trust him with state GOP official used a photo of our kids. How can we trust him in Craig’s family to solicit attendance to Congress.” Log Cabin Republicans a Lewis fundraiser, noting that Craig criticized the ad as exploiting an is “liberal and this is her family. She anti-gay stereotype. and her female marriage partner and “Attack ads don’t get more homotheir 4 teenage sons.” phobic than this,” said Log Cabin Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund national President Gregory Angelo.

President Aisha C. Moodie-Mills In Connecticut, gay Republican said Craig’s family photo was used Selectman Clay Cope of Sherman “to attack both her and LGBT is running to unseat an incumbent families” and is “more indicative of Democrat. The Texas native and the hate her opponent Jason Lewis supporter of Republican presidenspreads, than it is of politics for tial candidate Donald Trump is out LGBT candidates nationwide.”

“LGBT candidates undoubtedly face additional hurdles because of homophobia and transphobia, but fortunately these attacks are less prevalent than in the past,” said Take advantage of our expertise, Moodie-Mills.

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Our choices for SF supervisor S

an Francisco voters who live in supervisorial Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 have a chance to dramatically change city government when they go to the polls next month. Presently, the board comprises six progressives and five moderates, resulting in some tension between the supervisors and the mayor. The outcome could flip the board’s majority to the moderates. There are also 24 local measures on the ballot, and we’ll be explaining those recommendations later this month.

For now, we recommend the candidates listed below for supervisor.

District 1: Sandra Lee Fewer

Sandra Lee Fewer has served on the San Francisco school board for eight years and, in that time, has spearheaded changes in the school district, some of which have helped LGBT students. The mother of a gay son, Fewer was an impressive candidate in our editorial board meeting, demonstrating a solid understanding of city government and the issues affecting the Richmond district, which has a majority of renters – 60 percent – and many seniors.

Housing is a top concern for Fewer. She pointed to Airbnb regulation, which she maintains needs to be decided by the board and not at the ballot box. While on the school board, Fewer authored a resolution allowing evicted students to remain in their school until the end of the year. “I’ve never seen a wealth gap this large,” she said of the city’s affordability crisis.

She organized the effort to build 115 units of affordable housing on school district surplus property.

Fewer sees her work as a balancing act. And that comes through in her views on police accountability. Significantly, her husband is a retired San Francisco police officer, which gives her a unique dual insight into the complex problems confronting the department over excessive force, shooting deaths, and the other scandals that have plagued SFPD. She supports Proposition G, which would give more power to the Office of Citizen Complaints, including authority over its own budget and performance audits to examine how SFPD handles claims of officer misconduct and use of force. Fewer questions the outsized role of the SF Police Officers Association and why it’s the only bargaining unit. “Let’s hear from other groups,” she said, referring to affiliate police associations for officers of color, LGBTs, and others.

Her husband, she said, was in a police shooting while on the force. “I think it took 10 years off his life,” she said.

She does not approve of the POA’s recent ad campaign and newsletter snafu (in which it made fun of Black Lives Matter by showing a dog with the caption, “Black Labs Matter”).

“Black Lives Matter was born out of death,” she said, accusing the POA of “mocking” serious issues with the dog photo. “It’s completely insensitive.”

Yet Fewer praised beat officers for the tough job they have. “It’s hard to serve the public when they’re hating you,” she said.

Fewer believes in shared governance, taking various positions on local ballot measures.

And she believes that the Board of Supervisors has shirked its responsibilities at times.

Last year’s Proposition F, the Airbnb measure, “should have never been on the ballot,” she said.

On schools, she’s adamant that there be “no two-tiered system,” she said. “Public transparency has to be equitable.”

Overall, Fewer impressed us with her deep understanding of the city and its myriad issues. We think she’ll vote on the issues as she sees them, and not be beholden to special interests, whether moderate or progressive.

We liked her commitment to confront the issues facing our city and her willingness to listen.

District 3: Aaron Peskin

When Aaron Peskin returned to the Board of Supervisors after winning election last year to complete the term of former colleague David Chiu, the board immediately lurched left.

Facing only token opposition for a full fouryear term this year, it’s clear that Peskin will continue to be a force in city politics. Yet he

doesn’t always toe the progressive line, and, in fact, has taken on issues outside of his North Beach district, most notably the sinking and leaning Millennium Tower in the South of Market area. Expect to hear much more as Peskin leads the board’s inquiry into what city planners and inspectors knew during the tower’s construction.

He supports the ballot measures that would rein in the mayor’s power, noting that shared governance has worked on bodies such as the planning and police commissions. Ballot measures this year would allow supervisors to appoint three members of the Municipal Transportation Agency’s board (Prop L) and create a new commission to oversee housing and development (Prop M). The mayor’s housing office, Peskin said, spends billions of dollars yet there is no public access to discuss affordable housing and other projects.

We may not always agree with Peskin, but he has elevated the tone of the board and taken on issues that might not have received adequate attention.

District 5: London Breed

Board of Supervisors President London Breed has demonstrated leadership during her first term. As the supervisor for one of the city’s most progressive districts that includes the Haight and Western Addition, Breed, who grew up in public housing, has not forgotten her roots in the neighborhood.

“I am affected by crime,” she said. “My community wants the police there, but they want respect from the police and that takes time.”

She praised acting police Chief Toney Chaplin, and said that while she doesn’t know him well, she likes what he’s doing around implicit bias training. “He’s changing the conversation,” she said, adding that she had joined with Supervisor Malia Cohen to sponsor Prop G, the police oversight measure.

On housing, Breed has fought to keep people in their homes and in their neighborhoods, worked to prevent rent increases, and developed and supported creative ideas to build more affordable housing. She scored a big win recently when she successfully took on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which had tried to end her legislation prioritizing neighborhood residency preferences in housing projects. Now there will be a pilot program for those preferences.

She wrote the legislation requiring developers to include the highest amount of affordable housing in city history in the Divisadero and Fillmore corridors.

She is a strong ally of the LGBT community, often working with gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. She has secured funding for numerous youth programs, including Larkin Street Youth Services, which serves LGBTQ young people, and the Homeless Youth Alliance.

Breed has also worked on environmental issues, including taking the lead on CleanPowerSF, “the single most important thing San Francisco can do to combat climate change,” her website noted. Going forward, Breed plans to work on source reduction and education to get the city to zero waste, efficiency improvements, and litter and runoff reduction programs. Breed authored and passed legislation – the third in the nation – to provide safe, convenient disposal of unwanted medications, a program that has already kept over 32 tons of pharmaceuticals out of the bay or landfill, according to her website.

“I feel in my heart I’ve done a good job as supervisor,” she told us. “At the end of the day I feel confident of my record.”

We think Breed is an excellent supervisor who has created positive change for her district – and the city.

District 7 (ranked): 1: Norman Yee, 2: Joel Engardio

If Breed is viewed by some as “too moderate” for her district, Norman Yee is the opposite, some view him as too progressive for the more conservative West Side. Nonetheless, he faces few challengers and will likely win re-election.

We haven’t always agreed with his positions, but he does demonstrate concern for neighborhoods. His constituents don’t want clusters

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of medical cannabis dispensaries and they don’t want short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods. They do want safer streets and an equitable share of the city’s budget. Yee has delivered on those issues.

He held the first hearing on pedestrian safety and secured an additional $450,000 in recent years to address safety issues in District 7 and expedite safety measures along Sloat Boulevard, according to his website.

He worked with the SF MTA board to implement the free Muni for seniors and people with disabilities program and joined city officials and residents to help small businesses, including the formation of a community benefit district and the Taste of West Portal event.

Yee’s most viable challenger is Joel Engardio, a columnist and gay man who ran against him four years ago. He is campaigning on a platform of reducing the city’s budget. He’s trying to build a larger coalition this time around, and told us that the district has a lot of same-sex couples. He said that 15 percent of District 7 voters moved there in the last five years.

He is in favor of more housing, particularly along transit corridors. Housing creates demand for retail, he noted. About 70 percent of district residents are homeowners, the opposite of the rest of the city, he said.

On public safety, Engardio wants the police department to continue working on reforms that former Chief Greg Suhr initiated. “We all need each other,” he said.

Engardio says his campaign is about connecting with the community, adding that if elected he would be responsive to his constituents.

Yee seems to have the backing of District 7 residents, but Engardio also represents a sizable number of them who are concerned with runaway spending. Either would be a good choice.

District 9 (ranked): 1: Joshua Arce, 2: Hillary Ronen

District 9, which includes the Mission, will get a new representative as David Campos, a gay man who has served eight years, is termed off the Board of Supervisors. Campos has had a mixed record in office, and we haven’t always agreed with him. Candidates vying to succeed him are distinguishing themselves from his term.

Our first choice is civil rights attorney Joshua Arce, who impressed us with his platform of more affordable housing, increased support for local businesses, and improved public transportation.

Raised with Latino traditions, Arce, who speaks Spanish – along with several other languages – describes himself as a “progressive moderate,” leading some to wonder where he fits in along the city’s famously liberal spectrum. But we think Arce would be a good fit for the district.

He wants to see more housing built in the district, which hasn’t seen significant new residential development – at all levels, he said.

“District 9 has been a political dynasty in many ways,” he told us. “I’m anti-establishment. Our district isn’t for sale.”

He noted the “wave of fires” that occurred in the Mission, and criticized Campos for dragging his feet on an ordinance to require sprinklers in residential buildings. “I’ve already got the ordinance written,” said Arce, adding it would be ready on Day 1.

He raised questions about Campos’ ill-fated moratorium on housing development in the Mission, saying it banned investment in affordable housing and had other problems., though he did support it on the ballot. He bemoaned the fact that there has been no longterm planning in District 9 and the missed opportunities as a result.

Arce is an ally of the LGBT community and has a trans brother-in-law. He said it’s important to appoint qualified LGBTs to the city’s numerous boards and commissions.

We weren’t planning to recommend a second choice in this race, but Hillary Ronen surprised us with her energy and commitment. A longtime aide to Campos, Ronen now has to answer a lot for her boss’ policies. But she knew that would be the case when she decided to run for the seat.

“I do want to say I take very seriously being a white woman in a Latino district and a See page 16 >>

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More on PrEP and STIs

We appreciated the well-reported article on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for human immunodeficiency virus infection, the discussion on the rates of sexually transmitted infections with PrEP use among men who have sex with men, and strongly support the viewpoints provided by Dr. Susan Philip, the director of disease prevention and control at the San Francisco Department of Public Health [“Men at high risk of STIs seek PrEP,” September 22].

In our study among thousands of MSM, we showed much higher rates of new STIs in MSM who use PrEP versus MSM not using PrEP. One outcome of our study has been a renewed public discussion about the strategies we should collectively use to realistically and rationally prevent and halt the spread of new STIs with the tools and medicines currently available.

It is highly possible that the recommended three-month screening and treatment of STIs among PrEP users will decrease STIs in the larger community.

For decades, STI control has focused on core groups – subpopulations of the larger population that have a higher risk for STIs. Numerous models have shown that frequent STI screening and treatment may lead to a decrease in the population level of STIs. As Philip stated, PrEP users are at higher risk for STIs and logically for HIV infection, so engaging PrEP users in high quality STI screening and timely treatment services is critical. Barriers still exist, however, to easily accessible testing and simplified treatment for many in the community.

A second strategy might be the use of anti-STI prophylaxis similar to PrEP for HIV infection, the common oral antibiotic doxycycline. Last year Dr. Robert Bolan and I reported on a pilot study at the Los Angeles LGBT Center where we showed daily doxycycline use reduced the number of new STIs by 73 percent. Doxycycline chemoprophylaxis is currently being studied further in the current French IPERGAY PrEP study. Results are expected early next year.

We should not believe increases in STIs are an acceptable consequence for the reduced risk of HIV infection provided by PrEP. STIs may have serious consequences including pain, infertility, and in the case of syphilis, permanent vision and hearing loss. Additionally, as reported last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, extremely drug resistant gonorrhea – resistant to all current antibiotics – is present in the United States. With similar passion that we have applied to HIV prevention and treatment, we should advocate for increased resources for STI prevention and control services, research, and innovative programs.

In the past legislative year, through the advocacy of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a $5 million onetime supplement was included in the state’s STD Prevention and Control budget. Similar increases in federal support are needed in jurisdictions like San Francisco and Los Angeles, which receive funding from the CDC directly.

STI rates are the highest in more than two decades. STI advocacy can make a difference. We all need to call for better, more comprehensive and easily accessible STI prevention and control services together.

Noah Kojima, Medical Student Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, MPH Professor of Medicine and Public Health UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Los Angeles, California

Vote for anti-trickle-down Jane Kim

I wasn’t surprised reading Matthew S. Bajko’s article “Frank, Polis endorse Wiener’s Senate bid” [September 22] and the convoluted rationales offered by former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank and Colorado Congressman Jared Polis, who appear to be backing Scott Wiener solely because he’s gay.

I was thrilled when Frank was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1972 when I was 21 years old. Five years later, I was more thrilled when Harvey Milk was elected in 1977 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Back then, Frank and Milk were true heroes for queer folk like me.

Bajko wrote that should Supervisor Jane Kim prevail and become state senator in District 11, it will be the first time since 1996 that San Francisco would not have an LGBT representative in Sacramento. Oh, boo-hoo!

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SF taxes

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the sale of both residential and commercial property, and is targeted on larger buildings. In San Francisco, these buildings can be large apartment buildings which house hundreds of rent-controlled tenants, or they can be office and commercial buildings which feed our vibrant neighborhoods and house our small and local businesses.”

If Prop W passes, the group said, “the tax increase will almost certainly be passed along to these current and future residents, and current

We wouldn’t have this problem had the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club – the mouthpiece for, and under the thumb of, Wiener – and the Bay Area Reporter not downplayed the need to elect an LGBT person, and instead endorsed the straight candidate, former Supervisor David Chiu over gay Supervisor David Campos in the 2014 Assembly race. Wiener also endorsed Chiu over Campos.

The B.A.R.’s May 22, 2014 editorial endorsing Chiu noted: “... while the Bay Area Reporter exists to serve the LGBT community and its interests, that doesn’t mean we will always recommend the gay candidate in a race.

This is one of those times, as we urge readers to vote for David Chiu for Assembly.

We are under no illusions that we live in a post-gay society, but we don’t think that being gay should be our sole litmus test either.”

Apparently it’s the sole litmus test for Frank and Polis, but it rang hollow with me in 2014 and I cast my vote for Campos, not because he was the gay candidate, but because Campos was not the shill for Airbnb and other real estate speculators that Chiu clearly is for his billionaire pal Ron Conway (along with Wiener being their shill, too).

The B.A.R.’s editorial went on to say, “It is definitely important to have LGBT representatives at all levels of government, especially outside of San Francisco. However, the community has matured since the days of Harvey Milk when he won a seat on the Board of Supervisors and became the first gay elected officeholder in California.”

Has the LGBT community suddenly unmatured since 2014, and we now need a gay legislator in 2016 that the B.A.R. pooh-poohed just two years ago? I’m way past voting for candidates based on identity politics.

All along, Wiener has repeatedly screeched San Francisco needs to build all kinds of housing, hoping that market-rate development will somehow magically trickle down into affordable housing to stop massive displacement of San Franciscans. Wiener should take a lesson from Hillary Clinton, who said in last Monday’s first presidential debate that “Trumped-up trickle down” hasn’t worked. Are you listening, Scott?

Kim authored legislation creating the Housing Balance Report, which has now documented that marketrate construction has not trickled down into affordable housing, debunking Wiener. This single accomplishment – along with her full record as supervisor – earns Kim my vote.

Wiener opposed placing Proposition M on November’s ballot to create a commission having oversight of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, which has sole discretion for spending allocation decisions involving $3 billion in affordable housing funds. Predictably, the Alice Club, under Wiener’s trickle-down thumb, is opposing Prop M. Kim wisely endorsed both Prop M and Proposition H, creating an elected public advocate, which Wiener also opposes. I’m with Bernie Sanders: Vote Kim for state Senate.

Patrick Monette-Shaw San Francisco

Community should support gay band

If you remember the weekend of September 24-25, you might also recall that the weather was beautiful, not typically foggy, and that, as well as the Folsom Street Fair, brought out huge, happy, frolicking crowds. On Saturday the SF Lesbian/ Gay Freedom Band held a concert at Everett Middle School, very near the Castro, and more than 50 musicians demonstrated their skills in a free (donations happily accepted) concert, highlighted by the performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and newer compositions from 1977 and 2000. The SFLGFB’s artistic director is Peter Nowlen, a talented and dedicated Sacramento-based fixture on the northern California classical music scene since 1989. For those who attended (the audience was smaller in number than the musicians) it was a stirring experience.

The small but appreciative audience is what prompts this letter. Where was the support of the community? The nearly 40-year-old SFLGFB supports prominent and recurring events all year long, every year. It seems a shame, a genuine travesty, that the community it so frequently and strongly supports does not reciprocate in equal measure.

and future small businesses through higher rental and leasing rates.”

Measure RR

The regional Measure RR would allow the Bay Area Rapid Transit District to issue $3.5 billion of bonds for acquisition or improvement of real property subject to independent oversight and annual audits.

In their ballot argument, Offer Grembek, of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, and other proponents said the measure would authorize BART to “replace 90 miles of rails that have been severely worn

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down over 44 years of use” and “modernize BART’s 1960s-era electrical infrastructure,” among other improvements.

David Kersten, director of the Kersten Institute for Governance and Public Policy, and other Prop RR opponents argued that BART should take steps that include starting “hard conversations” to address the system’s “unaffordable” pay and benefits.

Prop I

Proposition I would create the See page 18 >>

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Gay Contra Costa council candidates look to make history

by Matthew S. Bajko

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artinez resident John Stevens and Hercules resident Brian Campbell-Miller are both looking to make history by being elected to their city councils.

The gay men would be the first LGBT council members in their Contra Costa County cities should

they win their races. While they are from different generations, the two candidates are both political newcomers who hope their community ties will give them an edge come Election Day. Stevens, 63, is the former CEO of the Martinez Chamber of Commerce and is believed to have been the first LGBT CEO of a chamber of

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commerce in the county. He and his partner, Raymond Huey, 54, moved to the city, which is the county seat, over four years ago from Berkeley.

There are two seats on the Martinez City Council up for grabs on the fall ballot. Stevens is one of three newcomers running against one incumbent for the seats, which are elected citywide.

“I think I will make a very good representative because of my independence and experience and education,” said Stevens, who left Dallas 14 years ago for the Bay Area after meeting Huey online.

Campbell-Miller, 37, and his husband, Howard Campbell-Miller, who is in his 40s, had been renting a place together in San Francisco’s Park Merced development prior to buying their home in Hercules in 2009. Since moving there, Brian Campbell-Miller has sought out a number of local leadership roles.

An avid reader – after seeing the city’s modern library, he was sold on Hercules and the couple lives nearby – CampbellMiller serves on the Hercules Community and Library Services Commission as well as the Contra Costa County Library Commission.

He is one of five people running for three City Council seats. Two are open as just one of the incumbents is seeking re-election.

“Probably three years ago I began looking at running for city council, that was when I was first appointed to the local commission,” recalled Campbell-Miller, who has served stints as its chair and vice chair. “I didn’t have a lot of experience with the government here, which is why I applied for the commission. I’ve now got a better understanding of the different groups in the city and how the city government works.”

As the Bay Area Reporter noted in an August article, there are five gay men running for city council seats this year in Contra Costa County.

Pleasant Hill City Councilman Ken Carlson is seeking re-election to a second term, while Richmond resident Cesar Zepeda and Concord resident Pablo Benavente are both hoping to become the first gay men elected to their hometowns’ councils.

The quintet represents the LGBT community’s growing political presence in the East Bay, as more LGBT people seek out cheaper housing across the bay from San Francisco.

There are 17 known gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender candidates running in either Contra Costa or Alameda counties this year.

An independent voice for Martinez

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Stevens attended the University of Arkansas, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English. He lived in Washington, D.C., where he ran a political fundraising firm, and later relocated to Texas. He owned his own construction company and served on the Dallas Housing Finance Board. He also served on the board of the Human Rights Campaign, the national LGBT organization, from 1996 to 2000.

After moving to California, Stevens spent a year as the executive director of the Diablo Valley AIDS Center, and later, as executive director of Rebuilding Together East Bay-North, a nonprofit focused on affordable homeownership.

He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Cal State East Bay and a certificate in legislative studies from Georgetown University Institute of Government Affairs.

In December 2012 Stevens went to work for the chamber of com-

Courtesy Stevens for City Council campaign

Howard Campbell-Miller

Martinez City Council candidate John Stevens

Hercules City Council candidate Brian Campbell-Miller

merce, where he remained until May of last year. Although retired, Stevens telecommutes part-time for the Oakland-based Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine as its COO/assistant director.

“I had been in Berkeley working and got tired of the commute,” he recalled about applying for the chamber job. “It seemed like a good opportunity and I had the skills for it. They were looking for someone who knew nonprofit fundraising, the political arena, and business.”

His town’s city council consists of four council members and a mayor, and currently, there is a pro-development majority. Stevens said he is running as an independent candidate with no allegiance to either faction on the council.

“People on the city council always recruit someone who will be their

A fresh face for Hercules

Campbell-Miller grew up in Roscommon, Michigan and earned a B.A. in political science from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He moved to the Bay Area in 2000 to attend the now-closed New College of California, where he earned a law degree. After graduating he worked for large accounting firms in San Francisco such as KPMG and Grant Thornton.

Now working as a real estate agent, Campbell-Miller is also confident of his chances in his race.

He has been endorsed by three of the city’s five council members and also won the backing of the county Democratic Party.

Apart from the one councilman in the race, Dan Romero, who is currently serving as Hercules’ mayor, which is rotated amongst the council members each December, Campbell-Miller believes he is the most qualified of the four nonincumbents running.

“I think I will make a very good representative because of my independence and experience and education.”

–John Stevens, Martinez City Council candidate buddy. I was not recruited by either side or asked for endorsements of either,” said Stevens, who is endorsed by Councilwoman Debbie McKillop, elected in 2014.

In terms of development issues in the city, Stevens said he plans to evaluate projects individually on the merits should he be elected until the city adopts a revised general plan. A main goal of his is to create a master plan to activate the city’s waterfront along the Carquinez Strait, which leads into Suisun Bay. “The waterfront is one of the big draws for why people move to Martinez,” he said. “I would like to see restaurants and shops down there and lighting so people go down there and use it in the evenings.”

He was endorsed by the national Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and has the support of both the county firefighters union and the local police association.

“Safety is something people generally don’t have a problem with,” he said. “There are a couple spots in the city where we need to do a little more work on safety, so I am big on that.”

Since July Stevens has been knocking on doors to meet his neighbors and promote his candidacy. He told the B.A.R. he is confident of his chances in the race.

‘I feel very good about it,” he said.

“For the last three months I have been out there and talked to over 3,000 people.”

He has served as president of the Friends of the Hercules Library, vice president of the Hercules Library Foundation, and was a founding member of the Hercules Democratic Club.

“I think I have more experience and a better familiarity with how the city works,” he said.

A proponent of extending BART service to the city, Campbell-Miller would also like to see more commercial development in Hercules, which straddles the shoreline of San Pablo Bay north of Pinole on the western end of Contra Costa County.

“A lot of people commute for work, we are a bedroom community,” he said. “We need more commercial development, but I want to make sure it is sustainable and doesn’t change the basic feel of Hercules.”

The city, with a population of 25,000 residents, is named after a brand of dynamite that was manufactured there in the 1800s.

“We have a rich history here,” said Campbell-Miller. “We have a lot of great parks and a very rich, vibrant community, and I would like to keep it that way.”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 Equality California endorsing three lesbian Oakland candidates.

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Museum updates its history of Alice Austen

by Cynthia Laird

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ucked away on the shore of Staten Island is a handsome house that was saved from demolition in the 1980s and today is on the National Register of Historic Places. But it’s who lived there and who she lived with that is most interesting to LGBTs. Alice Austen was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. She lived in the house, called Clear Comfort and now formally known as the Alice Austen House, with her mother when she was growing up, and later, with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate. That the women didn’t consider themselves lesbians is not lost on historians, who are now working to reinterpret Austen’s story to more fully include Tate.

“We’re providing a new framework for Alice and Gertrude,” Shiloh Aderhold Holley, a straight ally and acting executive director of the Alice Austen House, told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview last week.

The museum received a $35,000 planning grant last year from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its major initiative, “New Eyes on Alice Austen: Redefining the Museum’s Interpretation.” The project involved convening a team of five prominent scholars who advised the museum on contextualizing, expanding, and updating the museum’s interpretation of the life and early work of Austen.

According to a museum news release, the areas of the scholars’ investigation included: New York City history and urban development; immigration history; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and photographic history.

“Notably, the museum intends to explore the relationship between Alice Austen and her lifelong companion, Gertrude Tate, to align with current approaches to LGBTQ interpretation,” the news release stated.

The work culminated in March with a lecture at the Whitney Museum attended by about 200 people.

It was sponsored by the NEH. And, Aderhold Holley said, the museum is currently working with the New York City LGBT Historic Sites proj-

Courtesy Alice Austen House

Penny photograph of Alice Austen, left, and Gertrude Tate, Pickard’s Penny Studio, Stapleton, Staten Island, 1905.

ect to amend Alice Austen House’s National Register of Historic Places description to become a national LGBT monument.

Alice Austen House is also a designated New York City and National Landmark.

Aderhold Holley said that Alice Austen House has applied for a $400,000 NEH grant to update the interior of the house and other projects.

About 18,000 people visit Alice Austen House each year, Aderhold Holley said.

Professor Lillian Faderman was one of the scholars who participated in the project and panel discussion.

She is thrilled about the project and that the house is being looked at as an LGBT historic site.

It is not known if Austen ever identified as a lesbian, but she lived with Tate for 50 years. The Alice Austen House’s website biography of Austen includes numerous references to Tate, and Austen took many photographs of her.

Faderman, a lesbian, historian, and author who has studied late 19th and early 20th century relationships of women, is retired from California State University, Fresno and now lives in San Diego. She told the B.A.R. that she has given much thought to using the “L” word to describe Austen and Tate.

“It’s sort of analogous to my generation and the word ‘queer,’”

Alice Austen/Courtesy Alice Austen House

Immigrants from a smallpox ship, held in custody for observation, behind wire fence, Hoffman Island, NY, 1901.

Faderman, 76, said in a phone interview. “I’m not queer but that doesn’t mean I don’t love women. I think they’d respond the same way.”

She added that there really wasn’t a word commonly used to describe lesbian couples back then. “’Invert’ was used, but that is saying someone had psychological problems but they didn’t,” Faderman said. “I would say that their relationship was what we would call lesbian today.”

She noted that the most likely term would have been “Boston marriage,” which was used at the time to describe two women who lived together without the financial support of a man.

Faderman said that Austen and Tate wanted to be buried together but that Tate’s family wouldn’t allow it.

“Gertrude’s sister interfered,” Faderman said.

The museum’s website noted that both women’s families denied their wishes.

Austen, who was born in 1866, lived a life of privilege until her later years. After her father left, Austen and her mother moved to Clear Comfort, “where Alice would grow up the center of attention in a household that would eventually contain six adults and no other children,” the museum’s website states. Austen was introduced to photography when her uncle, a Danish sea captain named Oswald Muller, brought home a

camera when she was 10.

Austen’s uncles installed a tiny home-built darkroom where Austen would spend hours developing the glass plates and toning and fixing her prints.

“By the time she was 18 (the earliest year from which any of her photographic plates or prints survive), Alice Austen was an experienced photographer with professional standards,” the website notes.

Austen was active and social, lugging her camera equipment around.

It was also during this time that she took up the new sport of lawn tennis, and the website states that she spent countless summer afternoons on the courts and behind the camera, photographing the players and the crowds.

Austen met Tate at a Catskill hotel during the summer of 1899. Tate moved into Clear Comfort in 1917.

A serious side

Austen later began photographing people and events outside of Staten Island. Her pictures of arriving immigrants held in quarantine – as well as New Yorkers going about their business – provide a visual window on 19th century America, the museum’s website notes.

Austen didn’t sell many of her photographs, living off her inheritance. When the stock market crashed in 1929, Austen, at age 63,

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lost everything.

She and Tate opened a tea room on the lawn of the house, but it never generated enough income.

From there, Austen mortgaged and re-mortgaged Clear Comfort but lost it in 1945.

“In a final desperate act, Alice sold the remaining contents of her home for $600 to a dealer from New Jersey,” the website states. “However, before he arrived, Alice called Loring McMillen, a friend from the Staten Island Historical Society, and asked him to take her glassplate negatives for safekeeping.”

That turned out to be her salvation, although she remained poor and in dire economic straits. Austen and Tate moved to a small apartment, but soon could not afford the rent. Tate’s family offered housing, but only for Tate. In June 1950, Austen took an oath of poverty and was admitted to the local poor house, the Staten Island Farm Colony.

Unknown to Austen, her 3,500 glassplate negatives were discovered, and in 1950, many were published, generating more than $4,000. Austen’s share was enough for her to move out of the poor farm and into a private nursing home.

“On October 9, 1951 Alice Austen was driven to see an exhibition of her pictures and to meet the 300 guests who had been invited to celebrate Alice Austen Day,” the website states. “She is quoted as having said, ‘I am happy that what was once so much pleasure for me turns out now to be a pleasure for other people.’”

Austen lived another eight months, and died in her sleep June 9, 1952.

She was 86. A simple funeral service was conducted at the Austen family plot in the Moravian Cemetery.

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Tuesday through Sunday, MarchDecember. It is open by appointment in January and February.

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HIV cure reports premature, experts say

by Liz Highleyman

mosomes of human cells, where it serves as a blueeports in the media print to produce new virus this week suggesting particles.

Combination that a cure for HIV is near antiretroviral therapy, or are premature, experts say.

ART, can stop HIV from A British study is testing reproducing, but a sowhether a combination called reservoir of latent approach using antiretro- Courtesy Imperial College viral DNA remains in invirals and an HIV vaccine active T-cells, which is why might be able to eliminate Researcher HIV is so hard to elimithe virus in people with Dr. Sarah Fidler nate. Almost always, soon recent infection, but it is after antiretroviral treattoo soon to know if this strategy will ment is discontinued the virus rework. emerges and resumes its replication.

“Current evidence indicates it Researchers have explored a vais extremely unlikely that any trial riety of approaches to either comparticipants will be cured by these pletely eradicate HIV from the body interventions, but the study will or, more likely, keep it under control likely provide important informawithout continuous use of antirettion about how the strategy works roviral drugs – known as a “funcagainst the HIV reservoir in recently tional cure.” These include gene infected people,” Richard Jeffreys of therapy to protect cells from infecthe Treatment Action Group told tion, agents that flush out latent the Bay Area Reporter. virus, and therapies that strengthen The Sunday Times, a major Britthe body’s immune response. Most ish newspaper, reported October experts think a combination ap2 that a participant in the RIVER proach will be needed. study, testing a three-part strategy Starting antiretroviral treatment for reducing levels of HIV-infected early, ideally before the viral resercells in the body, has undetectable voir is fully established, might favirus in his blood. However, he recilitate a cure. In a group of French mains on antiretroviral therapy and patients who started ART within cannot yet be said to be cured. weeks or months after becoming infected, about 15 percent have not Targeting HIV reservoirs seen their virus rebound after stopSoon after infection, HIV inserts ping treatment. But a baby who its genetic material into the chrostarted treatment within hours after

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“This story generated lots of concern in the scientific community as it was clear that no one was cured in this study.”

–Dr. Steven Deeks birth and remained virus free off ART for more than two years eventually did see her virus return.

The RIVER study is looking at people who have had HIV for only a few months. They are being treated with an intensive four-drug antiretroviral regimen (usually treatment involves three drugs), the cancer drug vorinostat, and an experimental two-part vaccine designed to stimulate HIVspecific immune responses. Using the so-called kick and kill strategy, vorinostat is meant to awaken latent cells and reactivate viral DNA, while the antiretrovirals and strengthened immune response stand ready to control new virus as it emerges.

The Times story – which was the basis for reports in other publications worldwide – reported that one study participant now has undetectable HIV in his blood, suggesting that scientists are on the

“brink of an HIV cure.”

But the man is still on antiretroviral therapy and undetectable viral load is the usual outcome of effective treatment. In order to determine if a person is cured, they would have to stop antiretrovirals to see if the virus comes back. But this is a risky strategy that researchers are reluctant to attempt without considerable time on treatment and extensive specialized testing.

RIVER investigator Dr. Sarah Fidler, of Imperial College London, told the Times that researchers will continue doing medical tests for the next five years, and while they are not intending to take the man off ART now, they may explore this in the future depending on the test results.

“I think the crux of the story is that a journalist interviewed a trial participant and didn’t have a clear

understanding of what undetectable viral load meant,” said Jeffreys.

“The writer seems to have thought it meant that the individual may be on the way to being cured, when it’s of course just the normal effect of the antiretroviral therapy they’re taking.

The researchers haven’t done any reservoir measurements yet.”

While the Times claimed the RIVER participant hopes to become “the first in the world” to be cured of HIV, that distinction belongs to former San Francisco resident Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin Patient. After developing leukemia in 2006, Brown underwent bone marrow transplants from a donor with a natural mutation that makes cells resistant to HIV infection. Nearly a decade after stopping ART, he still has no detectable HIV in his blood, lymph nodes, gut, or brain.

For the time being, Brown remains the only person thought to be cured.

“This story generated lots of concern in the scientific community as it was clear that no one was cured in this study,” leading cure researcher Dr. Steven Deeks, of UCSF, who has treated Brown, told the B.A.R. “The lead scientists apparently were misquoted and the original article was inaccurate and overhyped. ... This is not the first time a possible HIV cure was overly sensationalized, and it likely will not be the last.”t

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Cannabis field growing with job seekers, opportunities

by Sari Staver

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espite the low pay and murky future, an increasing number of people are leaving cushy jobs in prestigious industries to study cannabis, launch startups, or take jobs in the Bay Area’s booming medical marijuana industry.

With or without the passage of legalized adult recreational use of cannabis – Proposition 64 on the November ballot – the industry is growing rapidly in response to new government regulations as well as growing demand for the explosion of products available for sale in the medical marijuana market, said industry leaders.

From entry level jobs as bud tenders or flower trimmers to professional positions in engineering and chemistry, most companies in cannabis related industries in the Bay Area have jobs to fill now and expect to increase their rate of hiring in the coming year.

The interest in the cannabis field is evident from the growing enrollment at Oakland’s Oaksterdam University, a private school with a faculty of 200 part-time teachers, mostly industry experts, who teach students how to grow and sell pot.

Since the school opened 10 years ago more than 30,000 people have taken classes at Oaksterdam, 60 percent from out of state, including students from 30 countries, said Dr. Aseem Sappal, dean of the school.

Sappal, 41, who left the medical field to teach at Oaksterdam, said that there are people “of all ages and from all walks of life” taking classes.

The school offers credits in continuing education to physicians, nurses, and attorneys, he said. This year, some 4,000 students are expected to enroll in one of the Oakland programs, and later this year, the school will open a campus in Las Vegas.

Depending on the length of the program selected, the business course costs between $400-$1,000 and the cultivation program $1,500, which “breaks down to approximately $40 per hour,” Sappal said.

Recruiters specializing in the marijuana industry also note the boom. Danielle Schumacher, an activist who had worked for a number of cannabis businesses, started http://www.THCStaffing. com as she saw the growing employment needs of companies in the sector.

According to Schumacher, 32, the firm’s mission is to “encourage diversity” in the industry and to be sure that women, people of color, and people of different ages and backgrounds were helped to get jobs in the industry.

The company has placed engineers, scientists, laboratory managers, and attorneys, she said.

Kara Bradford, co-founder and chief talent officer at Viridian Staffing, has noticed that people in other fields – including technology, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods – are becoming more interested in career opportunities in cannabis.

Bradford, who declined to give her age, was a recruiter in those sectors before she founded a firm specializing in cannabis. She said that although salaries for cannabis related jobs in California “are lagging behind comparable jobs in other industries,”

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the recruiters in her firm are still finding a lot of people “very anxious to get into a new, exciting field.”

Leslie Stern, 51, left a successful career in technology to launch a marketing and pubic relations firm, Communications 420, specializing in the cannabis industry. Stern, with degrees in computer science and business, worked in tech for several decades but was “burned out” by the long hours, she said. Stern first learned about baking with cannabis to help her mom, who had cancer, then used medical cannabis herself to quit smoking cigarettes.

“The first time I walked into a cannabis dispensary, I thought, ‘This is an industry where I could really be of service,’” she said, noting the lack of emphasis on branding and customer loyalty programs.

For Stern, the switch to the cannabis industry has been “just what I needed to keep my career exciting,” she said. She’s gotten involved with the local chapter of WomenGrow, and noticed that there is a “lot more cooperation” between competitors than there was in the tech field. “I call it coopetition,” she said.

Even the uncertainty in the industry hasn’t tempered the enthusiasm of companies that have experienced traumatic intrusions into their business. Last June, for example, local law enforcement raided the

headquarters of a Santa Rosa firm, CannaCraft, confiscating its payroll and shutting it down. “We hope to be back open by November,” said Nick Caston, 34, vice president of public affairs and policy at the company, whose cannabis concentrate products are in 500 dispensaries in California.

According to Caston, government officials discovered “minor infractions” in the building code, which have all been addressed, he said.

“We are still very enthusiastic about our business,” said Caston.

“Once we are back open, we anticipate an expansion and we’ll be looking to hiring new people, in every department.”

The raid and closure has “definitely been stressful,” said Caston.

“But the upside is that this is an industry that was entirely black market until 20 years ago, when it became a gray (medical) market.

With or without Prop 64, the new state regulations will make this a fully legitimate business, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

As jobs continue to grow, employers anticipate strong competition among applicants.

At Oakland’s Magnolia Wellness Center, for example, Executive Director Debby Goldsberry, 49, said that recently, when two jobs were posted, there were over 300 applicants.

“People are enthusiastic about the opportunities,” she said, even for entry-level jobs.

At last year’s cannabis job fair in San Francisco, Goldsberry noted, job seekers waited in line for several hours to get inside. Once inside, people were lined up 12 deep to chat with Magnolia Staff about opportunities there.

Goldsberry said it is possible to “move up rapidly” in the business, speaking from her own experience.

“When I applied at Magnolia three years ago, I told them I wanted to run the place,” said Goldsberry, who had previously founded Berkeley Patients Group, another dispensary. “But they told me I’d have to start at the bottom and work my way up, which I did.”

A passion for pot and for working in the industry is common.

Mario Sosa Guillen, 36, left a career as a butcher to work in the cannabis business. Guillen, who has been gardening for the past two decades, was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer just one month after he began working at Bay Area Safe Alternatives, a San Francisco dispensary.

The comparatively low salaries in the marijuana industry are an ongoing problem, said Emily Paxhia, 36, managing director of Poseidon Asset Management, a fund that invests solely in cannabis companies.

“Egregious tax regulations” make it difficult to pay employees competitive salaries, she said, because they are often unable to write off business expenses.

She added, “We’re seeing a lot of people rushing in to start businesses” but then have a “painful wakeup moment” when they realize “it’s difficult to pay employees competitively and also maintain a good profit margin.”

“These are daily reminders that the cannabis industry has a long way to go,” Paxhia said.t Bay Area Cannasseur runs the first Thursday of the month.

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Bark at the Park takes place Saturday, October 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Duboce Park in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle neighborhood.

People can watch and learn about working K-9s from the I Marine Expeditionary Force, Commander, U.S. Third Fleet, San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco Sheriff ’s Department, San Francisco Fire Department, U.S. Customs Border Protection Agency, Canine Companions for Independents, the California Rescue Dog Association, and others.

Bay Area Reporter society columnist Donna Sachet will emcee the program.

Organizers said the family-friendly event is open to the public.

Bark at the Park is produced by the San Francisco Fleet Week Association and the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management and is sponsored by Lyft and Pet Food Express.

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Shanti to honor Hernandez, Bernal

The Shanti Project will honor two out leaders at its fall benefit Thursday, October 13 in San Francisco.

Dr. Sandra Hernandez, a lesbian who was the former health director for the city, and Dan Bernal, a gay man who’s a top aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), will be recognized at Compassion is Universal, which will be held at the Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street.

Hernandez will receive the Nancy Pelosi Lifetime Achievement Award.

She is currently president and CEO of the California Healthcare Foundation.

Bernal, chief of staff to Pelosi, will receive the James C. Hormel Community Spirit Award.

The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a reception and silent auction, followed by dinner and the program at 7:30. Tickets are $285 and can be purchased online at http://www.shanti. org/pages/tickets_ciu_2016.html.

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straight woman in an LGBT-centric district,” Ronen, who is fluent in Spanish, told us. “I am very committed to having LGBT representation in my office. I’m going to make the LGBT community the forefront.

There’s more to do than ever.”

She pointed to her work on the LGBTQ adult homeless shelter that Campos spearheaded. (One of his best moments as a supervisor was calling a hearing on LGBTs and homeless shelters, which shined a light on the awful homophobia and transphobia that the city has yet to fully address as it seeks to reboot its homeless services.) The shelter project took years, mostly due to permit and construction issues, but now provides beds for 24 people.

Ronen has sought to differentiate herself from her boss. “I love David, but you’re not the same person as your boss. I’m going to the board new. Politics is a long game; there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies,” she said. “I’m a woman – a mother. I’m different.”

She supports the Bryant Street housing project, which Arce opposes, noting that it will create over 200 market rate and 189 affordable units that will be built at the same time. She said the moratorium is a dead issue.

“I don’t want to stop good projects,” she said, adding that there are 750 units in the pipeline in the Mission right now. She said Campos’ office is working on the sprinkler ordinance.

All in all, District 9 residents would be served well by either Arce

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In the late 1970s he moved to California.

In 1981 he went to work at the San Francisco Eagle, where he worked until 1997. He became manager of the Eagle when Terry Thompson died in 1994. He was responsible for the Eagle not having any blender-made drinks; he said we’re not doing them and threw all of the blenders in the trash. After leaving the Eagle, he moved to Long Beach, then back to San Francisco, then to Palm Springs, then to Guerneville, bartending in all these cities.

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or Ronen. We’re giving the nod to Arce because he has some big ideas (BART at 30th and Mission) and a lot of enthusiasm. But Ronen would also be a solid pick.

District 11 (ranked): 1:Ahsha Safai, 2: Kimberly Alvarenga

The Excelsior, Ingleside, Outer Mission and other neighborhoods that make up District 11 will also get a new supervisor as John Avalos is termed out of office. The leading candidates are both union officials: Ahsha Safai, a straight father who ran eight years ago, and Kimberly Alvarenga, a Latina lesbian mom making her first bid at public office.

Both candidates said that getting an equitable share of the city’s budget is a priority. Safai fought to secure $4 million in funding – mostly from a trust – to revitalize Balboa Park and said the project was desperately needed due to the high concentration of kids under 18 who live in the district. He also worked to protect the Mission Child Care Consortium, to secure and rebuild St. Luke’s Hospital, to limit the spread of medical cannabis dispensaries, and to create more affordable housing.

He said that he would be a strong voice for HIV funding, and continuing the city’s Getting to Zero initiative to dramatically decrease HIV transmission, and supports services for LGBT youth.

But mostly, he’s running to be a neighborhood supervisor, and said residents have voiced frustration over the status quo.

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Mandelman also expressed his admiration for Obama, who has been an ally to the LGBT community. “Trump is the anti-Obama,” he said. “All the good work Obama did will be undone if Trump wins.”

Randolph was enthusiastic about Clinton’s stance regarding education. “She wants to make commu-

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World Wide Women has partnered with top business, technology, and entertainment experts for the first-ever Girls’ Festival that will take place Saturday, October 15 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Organizers said the day is to celebrate daughters, nieces, and granddaughters by bringing them to the all-day festival that will be filled with over 100 activities, interactive skillbuilding workshops, and resources.

Alvarenga would be the first lesbian elected to the board in 16 years. She was raised in the Mission but has lived in the Excelsior since 2008. A former aide to gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, Alvarenga has a lot of policy experience that would be put to good use at the board. She, too, bemoaned the state of the district’s parks and wants to see funding increased. Noting that voters passed Prop B in June to put park funding back at prior levels, Alvarenga said the measure “needs teeth.” “We need to start advocating for it,” she said. “We need more Rec and Park clubhouses in the district that has the most kids.”

On public safety, Alvarenga’s a proponent of community policing, and told us that officers need to get out of their cars, get to know residents, and conduct foot patrols.

Describing herself as a “nuts and bolts” supervisor, Alvarenga said she would institute office hours in different neighborhoods to hear residents’ concerns because District 11 is largely made up of working class families, who often can’t afford to take time off from work to attend daytime board meetings.

“I’m not just one thing,” she told us.” I’m a mom, Latina, LGBT. That’s what makes me a unique candidate.”

Either candidate would bring a neighborhood focus to District 11.

Safai is our first choice because he has a track record in the district. But Alvarenga has the experience of working in government, and has worked on issues such as increasing the minimum wage and paid sick days that should resonate with voters.t nity colleges free,” he noted. “When it comes to student loan debt, it’s communities of color who are impacted. I’m very focused on college affordability – I’m very excited that Clinton has made that issue one of her priorities.”

Grenzeback said that he was pleased with the turnout and with the money raised. He said people could continue donating to the Clinton Victory Fund at https:// www.hillaryclinton.com/events/ tickets/LKORJSXWFD63NZRS/?rai ser=3329934.t Special guests include filmmaker and Representation Project CEO Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Olympic soccer player Brandi Chastain, Silicon Valley venture capitalists Tim Draper and Sue Siegel, and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban.

The Girls’ Festival is meant to create a powerful and game-changing day of exploration and empowerment for thousands of Bay Area girls and their families.

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Bills

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EQCA was one of the bill’s sponsors.

“Aside from students’ own families, teachers often spend more time with at-risk kids than anyone else,” Zbur said in a news release. “But it is difficult to help if they don’t recognize the warning signs or have access to resources at their schools.

With the first state law in the nation to require middle and high school suicide prevention education that specifically requires attention to the needs of LGBTQ youth, California can now serve as a model for schools nationally.”

The Trevor Project, which works to prevent LGBTQ youth suicide, was another sponsor of the legislation.

“Nearly 20 percent of young

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ans are squaring off for one seat on that City Council: Former mayoral aide Peggy Moore is challenging incumbent Rebecca Kaplan for the city’s at-large seat.

Kimberly Alvarenga, in San Francisco’s District 11, is running to be the first lesbian in 16 years to serve on the Board of Supervisors. Joel Engardio, a

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tech, engineering, art, and math) and BizWorld will host its own “Girlpreneur” competition.

World Wide Women was founded

by Maureen Broderick and is dedicated to building a global movement for women and girls’ equality through technology, philanthropy, and advocacy.

All-day festival passes are $10.

Kids under 12 are free.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit http://www. worldwidewomenfestival.com.

Herrera to guest host ALRP benefit

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera will be the special guest host at From the Heart, the fall benefit reception for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel that takes place Wednesday, October 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange, 465 California Street.

The reception will honor outstanding attorneys and is expected to draw 300 attendees.

“ALRP is so proud to honor the tremendous contributions of longtime volunteer panel attorney

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Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco’s former mayor, played a key role in crafting both proposals and met with the Bay Area Reporter’s editorial board Friday, September 30 to discuss the measures.

Newsom said he was inspired to act on gun safety after numerous mass shootings in the country.

Even after 20 schoolchildren and six adults were fatally shot at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school in 2012, he noted, tougher restrictions on guns “didn’t happen,” and the country saw similar shootings “over and over again.”

Finally, he said there was a “crescendo” for him after eight people were killed in a mass shooting in Oregon in 2015.

Newsom remembered President Barack Obama saying, “We are all accountable,” and Newsom said, “I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.” He recalled thinking, “I can’t yell and scream at the TV anymore.”

Newsom and Peter Ambler, who works with Gabby Giffords on the gun safety group Americans for Responsible Solutions, examined where the gaps are in current law and focused on several areas. Gif-

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Monday, September 26, Brown signed into law two bills that address HIV prevention.

AB 2640, authored by Assemblyman Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson)

aims to stop the spread of HIV and save the lives of people who are at high risk of being exposed by providing information about PrEP and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) to high-risk patients when HIV test results are negative.

“It is estimated that one in two black gay men and one in four Latino gay men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime if infection rates continue to rise,” Gipson said in a news release. “This is unconscionable.

Women of color and transgender individuals are also among the groups at greatest risk for HIV. We now have effective tools like PrEP and PEP that can help end the HIV epidemic, but that won’t happen unless people know about them. With the passage of AB 2640, we are now doing more to make sure that people know about

the resources available to protect themselves.”

Craig E. Thompson, CEO of AIDS Project Los Angeles, which sponsored the bill, stated, “We are extremely pleased that Governor Brown has signed this bill into law.

This is one of several proposals the governor has supported to increase information about and the availability of PrEP and PEP, and we thank him for his continued leadership on this issue. AB 2640 is a crucial step toward raising awareness about effective HIV prevention tools, reducing new infections, and ending the epidemic in California.”

Finally, AB 2439, authored by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (D-Sherman Oaks), is another HIV-related bill that Brown signed last Monday.

The legislation creates a pilot

project that will be administered by the state health department that will assess and make recommendations about the effectiveness of routinely offering an HIV test in a hospital emergency room.

Four hospitals, or fewer under specified circumstances, are to be selected for the pilot, which will commence March 1 and end February 28, 2019. By December 1, 2019, the health department is to complete a report with findings and recommendations to the Legislature.

Nazarian’s office didn’t provide comment on the bill’s signing.

In a brief call this week, Zbur said, “We haven’t put together our bill package for next year,” but EQCA will continue to work on efforts to “modernize criminal laws related to HIV.”t

gay man, is also running for supervisor in District 7. And according to the B.A.R., if either win they could maintain an important part of LGBT history. Since 1977, when Harvey Milk was first elected to the board, “there has been at least one LGBT supervisor,” noted the paper. But new term limits are jeopardizing that trend. Plus current gay Supervisor Scott Wiener is running for the state Senate.

In Texas, Jenifer Rene Pool made

history as the first out transgender person to win a primary in Texas.

She defeated a fellow Democrat and took 78 percent of the vote for a seat on the Harris County Commissioners Court in Houston. She’s now running against an incumbent Republican.

Not surprisingly, California has the most openly LGBT candidates (43), followed by Texas and Florida (with nine each), Massachusetts and Georgia (with eight each), and Washington

state (with seven). Michigan has four.

“LGBT candidates are running strong races in parts of the country thought unviable just an election cycle or two before,” said the Victory Fund’s Moodie-Mills.

Among the more “unviable” states where LGBT candidates are running this year are the solidly conservative Republican states of West Virginia, Montana, and Wyoming.

Moodie-Mills said candidates in

these more difficult environments “can make an outsized impact on equality if elected in November.”

“Voters are viewing LGBT candidates holistically – so qualified LGBT candidates with the right message can run competitively and win,” she said. “It is rarely easy, but we are making enormous progress, and it upends the narrative that LGBT candidates can only win blue or purple states and districts.”t

Jerome Fishkin with our ALRP 2016 Clint Hockenberry Leadership Award in recognition of his years of work on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS,” said Executive Director Bill Hirsh in a news release.

The agency will also recognize immigration attorney Okan Sengun with the Attorney of the Year Award, and the law firm Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius LLP with the Firm of the Year Award.

The reception is a tribute to the dedication of ALRP board members, staff, and volunteer panel attorneys who contribute their time and energy on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS. Despite a difficult economic climate for fundraising and a 50 percent increase in its caseload over the last decade, ALRP continues to provide free and sliding scale legal services to over 1,500 PWAs each year, the organization stated.

From the Heart will include wine and food, and a silent and live auction. Live auction items include getaway week vacations to Fiji and Italy, a Bay Area restaurants and wineries package, and use of an AT&T Park luxury suite at a San Francisco Giants baseball game.

Individual tickets start at $100 and can be purchased online at

http://www.alrp.org or contact ALRP development director Jim McBride at (415) 701-1200, ext. 301 or jim@alrp.org.

ciety in February. Since coming on board, Beswick has overseen the move of the society’s archives to its new home at 989 Market Street (lower level). The society also operates the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street in the Castro.

Tickets for Living History are $125 and can be purchased through the society’s website at www.glbthistory.org/gala.

HIV/AIDS openly and advocating for more than 20 years. Recently, Chamblee helped develop standards of procedures and training for the Atlanta Police Department specifically around interacting with trans and gender nonconforming people.

TLC will also honor the Porter family with its Family and Youth Award. Zeam Porter is a member of the joint TLC-GSA Network national trans youth advocacy board, TRUTH. He has worked with various groups in Minnesota, including the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition. His father, Louis, is the executive director of the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage and his mother, Ea, is the community liaison manager for the University of St. Thomas College of Education, Leadership, and Counseling.

According to TLC, when Zeam Porter came out as queer and trans, his parents were supportive and became vocal advocates for trans and queer youth.

Slack Technologies will receive the Community Partner Award for being a visible supporter of trans advocacy.

Tickets for Spark are $150 and can be purchased online at www. transgenderlawcenter.org.t

fords is the ex-Democratic congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in a 2011 assassination attempt.

The biggest provision in Prop 63 involves relinquishing guns from people who shouldn’t have them, Newsom said.

He said that when people get out of jail or prison, “all their weapons are at home.” The state may already relinquish weapons from people who are ineligible to possess them, such as those who’ve been convicted of felonies, but there’s “no process” for collecting them, Newsom said.

This would be “a very significant provision,” he said. “No other state in the country does this.”

Prop 63 also addresses ammunition.

“No state has ever treated ammunition like they do guns,” Newsom said. People can buy “unlimited rounds of ammunition online.” Additionally, he said, no data is collected and there’s no licensing.

He said that after Sacramento officials started tracking ammunition sales, they were able to seize guns from people who weren’t supposed to have weapons but were buying ammunition.

“I really believe this is a game changer in the gun safety debate,” Newsom said.

The proposition would also ban large-capacity magazines.

“We already did that in San Francisco,” Newsom said.

He said polling has shown more than 70 percent support Prop 63, and opposition by the National Rifle Association hasn’t diminished his confidence in the measure passing.

The NRA is part of the Coalition for Civil Liberties, which also includes the gay guns group the Pink Pistols and has released at least one ad geared specifically toward LGBTs. “The idea that they give a damn” about LGBTs is “comedic,” Newsom said of the NRA. He predicted the proposition could help take down the group “because the public overwhelmingly supports what we’re doing. They can’t win with direct democracy.”

He sees Prop 63 as a chance “to really take them down.”

“It’s analogous to same-sex marriage,” Newsom said, with proponents going from “the bottom up, state by state.”

“Where California goes, so goes the nation,” he said. “This is raising the bar.”

Newsom should know.

In 2004, when he was San Francisco’s mayor, he launched what’s known as the Winter of Love by

people who reach out to the Trevor Project’s suicide prevention programs are from California,” stated Abbe Land, the Trevor Project’s executive director and CEO. “AB 2246 will provide parents, teachers, and schools the tools they need to recognize students at risk for suicide and understand how to help, which will surely decrease the risk among youth in the state.”

The law, which goes into effect January 1, requires that policies be adopted by the beginning of the 2017-18 school year.

HIV bills

Historical society to honor 3 at gala

The GLBT Historical Society has announced the recipients of its three annual awards for contributions to the advancement of LGBTQ history.

The awards will be presented at the society’s Living History gala, Saturday, October 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Green Room of the War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.

Tamara Ching will receive the History Makers Award in recognition of her contributions on behalf of transgender people, Asian Pacific Islanders, people with HIV, and sex workers.

David Weissman will receive the Clio Award for his contributions promoting understanding of LGBTQ history through film.

Elisabeth Cornu will receive the Willie Walker Award in recognition of her leadership, generosity, and steadfast support of the society’s work in the field of LGBTQ public history.

The evening will also mark the first gala for Executive Director Terry Beswick, who joined the so-

TLC benefit to honor Atlanta organizer

Spark, the Transgender Law Center’s annual benefit, will honor a longtime organizer from Atlanta Thursday, October 20 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street in San Francisco.

Last year TLC began a partnership with an Atlanta-based organization, Southerners on New Ground, as it seeks to become more involved in national issues.

The agency’s Vanguard Award recipient is Dee Dee Ngozi Chamblee, founder and executive director of LaGender Inc., and the co-director of Solutions Not Punishment Coalition. She was the first trans woman to be inducted into the 20/20 Leading Ladies Society, an award given to women who have been living with

ordering city officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

His actions eventually led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in every state.

A spokeswoman for the NRA referred a request for comment to the Coalition on Civil Liberties, which didn’t respond to emails.

Among other findings, the state Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that “the total magnitude” of state and local court and law enforcement costs from Prop 63 “could be in the tens of millions of dollars annually,” but “actual costs would depend on how this measure was implemented.”

Proposition 64

Newsom said the process toward Prop 64, which would allow the recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 and older, started several years ago, when people were asking him about his position on legalizing pot.

“I think I support it,” he recalls saying, but he realized he needed to learn more about it. He put together a task force that included the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Civil Liberties Union, and others. The group held town hall meetings and eventually generated a report with recommendations for how to ad-

dress concerns like driving under the influence and advertising to children (which the measure wouldn’t allow). Medical use of marijuana is already legal in California.

The LAO estimates that “state and local governments could eventually collect net additional revenues ranging from the high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually. However, the revenues are likely to be significantly lower in the first several years following the passage of the measure.”

That’s in part because it would take “a couple of years for the state to issue licenses to marijuana businesses.”

Despite the potential financial benefits, “this is not about generating revenue,” Newsom said, and he doesn’t want another Gold Rush.

Sixty percent of the money would go toward children, youth, and families. Newsom sees “flexibility” in this area “for folks to make the case” that the money could be used to address mental health and HIV/ AIDS needs.

With the rest of the funds, 20 percent would be for law enforcement, and 20 percent would be used for environmental concerns.

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after black and brown kids,” to “go after the cartels” instead, Newsom said.

One challenge to legalizing marijuana is how it would be determined that a person is driving under the influence.

But Newsom noted, “We’re not introducing something that’s not already ubiquitous.”

He also addressed the notion that legalizing marijuana would increase use of the drug by referring to a report issued in September by the Cato Institute.

That report points out that recreational use of marijuana has been legalized in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.

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SF taxes

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Dignity Fund and set aside at least $38 million annually, plus scheduled increases, from the city’s general fund until June 30, 2037 to pay for programs and services to help seniors and adults with disabilities.

Rosenfield said that Prop I “is not in compliance with a non-binding, voter-adopted city policy” that “seeks to limit set-asides which reduce general fund dollars that could otherwise be allocated by the mayor and the Board of Supervisors in the annual budget process.”

In the ballot argument supporting the measure, Supervisor Malia Cohen and others said, “San Francisco has the highest percentage of seniors and adults with disabilities

“Our conclusion is that state marijuana legalizations have had minimal effect on marijuana use and related outcomes,” the report’s executive summary says. “... Insufficient time has elapsed since the four initial legalizations to allow strong inference. On the basis of available data, however, we find little support for the stronger claims made by either opponents or advocates of legalization.”

Andrew Acosta, a spokesman for the No on Prop 64 campaign, said that among other problems, the measure does not “get it right on DUIs.” Although it could “potentially” bring in a lot of money, there could be “unintended consequences.”

“California should wait and make sure the other states ahead of us get it right,” Acosta said.t

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of any urban area in California and this population is rapidly growing. ... Many of our seniors and adults with disabilities, including those living with HIV/AIDS, support themselves on a fixed income. The increased cost of living in San Francisco and other economic pressures are hitting this population hard.”

They add that the Dignity Fund would guarantee investments without an increase in taxes.

In his argument against Prop I, local Republican Terence Faulkner wrote, “This poorly defined fund is outrageous ... . Money of the city should be expended on a yearly defined basis by the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.”

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEST LAID FILMS, 1574 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILLAIM POOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MHS HOSPITALITY, 280 NEWHALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROCHELLE MITCHELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

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In the matter of the application of: GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, 45B WRIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, is requesting that the name GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, be changed to GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN HICKEL SPOR. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 3rd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISANA, 3927 24TH ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TEJINDER GREENHILL. 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 09/07/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOGACI CLEANING, 6248 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VIOLETA VELAZQUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL; SWELL CREAMERY; SWELL COFFEE; 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BENSON Y. CHIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OBA JANITORIAL, 3207 MISSION ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RUDIS E. AMAYA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUN RUN MOVING COMPANY, 1720 15TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZHI JIA JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/16.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-16-300186

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE 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: OCTOBER 18, 2016, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MICHAEL YEE (SBN 258811) MEYER & YEE, LLP, 950 RESERVE DR, SUITE 110, ROSEVILLE, CA 95678; Ph. (916) 599-7297.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552377

In the matter of the application of: LANI NAHLEEN PANG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LANI NAHLEEN PANG, is requesting that the name LANI NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI WAH PANG AKA LANI LAI WAH PANG AKA LAI WAH PANG AKA LANI N. F. PANG AKA L. NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI SEKTA, be changed to LANI NAHLEEN PANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 22nd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037257300

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037282400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELLOOFFICE, 1415 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HELLOOFFICE, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037246000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL CREAM & COFFEE, 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CREAM & COFFEE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037253000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONNIE Y. CHAN ATTORNEY AT LAW; AYNI LAW GROUP, 405 SANSOME ST 2ND FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CONNIE CHAN & ASSOCIATES PC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037233200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BERTI PRODUCE SAN FRANCISCO, 1960 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037266900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BIRD, 115 NEW MONTGOMERY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 115 NEW MONTGOMERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NABE, 2151 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 2HW INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037269700

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037263400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MACH ELECTRIC, 20 PRECITA AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERVIN ROLANDO MACH BOCH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHIPELAGO; LINDSEY MILLER, 115 DUBOCE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DEMETERRA, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/13/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLD STAR CLEANING SERVICE, 75 CAINE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAURICE YAROSLAVA LUCAS VILLAGRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TUBE NUTRITION, 1990 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VEETURN 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 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037243000

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037271400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DRAPERY SERVICE, 4721 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DIANA G. SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MILLER’S REST, 1085 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MILLER’S REST 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 09/20/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037259000

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036684200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAMBINO’S TREATS, 2261 MARKET ST #15, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANNA ORTIZ SELJUK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLAYTRONICA, 1215 VALLEJO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PLAYTRONICA (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/25/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037258400

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036684200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RODEUS, 619 BOSWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROEL DEUSS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVAN KINORI, #4 1530 MCALLISTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ELJI, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/21/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037270200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRANSPACIFIC ARCHITECTS, 888 O’FARRELL ST #W606, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RACHEL ELLE HEGE SORROW ARCHITECTS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037275800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNION STREET JEWELERS, 1850 UNION ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIAMOND BROKERS OF LOS ALTOS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037244900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TASTY POT, 815 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SCOOP CUISINE CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037270600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COSA NOSTRA, 108 RAFAEL DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ALITOUR 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 09/20/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037244400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CEREMONY BEVERAGE CATERING, 2925 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed P&T WEST HOLDINGS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036775500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: BRILLIANTLY STONED JEWELRY, 2229 15TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by DAVID LEON HONE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/15.

SEPT 29, OCT 06, 13, 20, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037274200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CONNIE Y. CHAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW; LAW OFFICES OF CONNIE Y. CHAN. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by CONNIE Y. CHAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/15.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FILM LOCATION SUPPORT; NO STOPPING ZONE; NO STOPPING SF; NO PARKING; NO PARKING SF; NO PARKING ZONE; EVENT LOCATION SUPPORT; NO STOPPING, 1354 POWELL ST #326, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VIBRANT TRADING COMPANY INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/16.

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552432

In the matter of the application of: MONICA POTTER, 185 CHANNEL ST #525, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MONICA MAZZEI POTTER, is requesting that the name MONICA MAZZEI POTTER, be changed to MONICA MAZZEI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 29th of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY ESTATE OF LAFAYETTE JENKINS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 94102 PROBATE DIVISION: FILE PES-15-298554

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RYAN COCHRANE WINES, 2455 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RYAN COCHRANE & CATHERINE COCHRANE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/16.

1. Petitioner LOTTIE STEIB is the personal representative of the estate of the decedent, conservatee, or minor and requests a court order for a. Confirmation of sale of the estate’s interest in the real property described in Attachment 2e; b. Confirmation of sale of the estate’s interest in other property sold as a unit as described in Attachment 2c; c. Approval of commission of 6% of the amount of $650,000.00 is not required.

2. Description of property sold a. Interest sold: 100%; b. Improved; d. Street address and location: 206 Bridgeview Drive, San Francisco, CA 94124; e. Legal description is affixed as Attachment 2e.

3. Appraisal a. Date of death of decedent or appointment of conservator or guardian: August 3, 2014; b. Appraised value at above date: $600,000,00; c. Reappraised value within one year before the hearing: $717,000.00; d. Appraisal or reappraisal by probate referee has been filed.

4. Manner and terms of sale a. Name of purchaser and manner of vesting title: Zhen Lin and Yan Chen; c. Sale was private on August 3, 2016; d. Amount bid: $650,000.00 Deposit: $65,000.00; e. Payment cash; f. Other terms of sale (specify terms on Attachment 4f).

5. Commission b. A written exclusive contract for commission was entered into with RE/MAX ACCORD, Susan Jones – Agent; c. Purchaser was procured by: Prime Metropolis Properties Inc., Qing Lin – Agent, a licensed real estate broker who is not buying for his or her account; d. Commission to be divided as follows: 2.5% RE/MAX; 2.5% Prime Metrop.; 1% R. Howard Robinson.

6. Bond a. Amount before sale: $150,000.00; b. Additional amount needed: none; c. Proceeds are to be deposited in a blocked account. Receipts will be filed. Wells Fargo Bank, Pinole, California.

7. Notice of sale published.

8. Notice of hearing a. Special devisee: (1) None; b. Special notice: (3) Required written notice will be given; c. Personal representative, conservator of the estate, or guardian of the estate: (3) Written notice will be given.

9. Reason for sale a. Necessary to pay (1) debts, (2) devise, (4) expenses of administration, (5) taxes. b. The sale is to the advantage of the estate and in the best interest of the interested persons.

10. Formula for overbids a. Original bid: $650,000; b. 10% of first $10,000 of original bid: $1000; c. 5% of (original bid minus $10,000): $32,000; d. Minimum overbid (a + b + c): $683,000.

11. Overbid. Required amount of first overbid (see item 10): $683,000 12. Petitioner’s efforts to obtain the highest and best price reasonably attainable for the property were as follows: Property was cleaned out/ up; professionally staged; marketed/advertised throughout California on MLS systems and Realtor.com; and open house was held.

13. Number of pages attached: 2; Date: September 15, 2016; Melvin S. Hodges, Esq. Attachment 2e REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY: The land referred to is situated in the County of San Francisco, City of San Francisco, State of California and is described as follows: Part of Lot 3 in Block 5384-C, according to Map of Fernando Nelson’s Subdivision of Silver Terrace, filed January 4, 1940 and Recorded in Book “N” of Maps at Pages 88 to 95 inclusive, in the Office of the Recorder of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the Northwesterly line of Bridgeview Drive, distant thereon 30.00 feet Southwesterly from the Northeasterly corner of said Lot 3; thence North 60° 31’ 49” West parallel with the Northeasterly line of said Lot 3, 124.311 feet to the Westerly line of Lot 3; thence South 10° 15’ 38” East along the Westerly line of said Lot 3, a distance of 37.063 feet; thence Southeasterly in a direct line 113.00 feet, more or less, to a point in the said Westerly line of Bridgeview Drive, distant 25 feet Southwesterly from the point of beginning; thence Northeasterly along said line of Bridgeview Drive 25 feet to the point of beginning.

Assessor’s Lot 003A; Block 5384C Attachment 4f REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY: Other Terms of Sale: All contingencies have been removed; Buyer’s payment of 1% real estate broker commission to R. Howard Robinson is reflected and included in purchase price; Property is being sold in its current as-is condition, including sewer lateral upgrade if required; Buyer to pay for title insurance and escrow fees; Seller to pay county transfer tax; Buyer and Seller to split and pay city transfer tax; Close of escrow shall be within 30 days of entry of order confirming sale.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Dept. 204, October 31, 2016, 9:00 am. Attorney for petitioner: Mr. Melvin S. Hodges, Esq. (SBN 61518) 610 16th Street, Suite 503, Oakland, CA 94612; Ph. (510) 839-7711 melvinhodges@comcast.net

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OCTOBER 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552376

In the matter of the application of: BRANDON WHALE, 8 BUCHANAN #309, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BRANDON WHALE, is requesting that the name BRANDON WHALE, be changed to FAUST WHALE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 3rd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037287900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POST DRY CLEANERS, 1610 POST ST #102, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TSOLMONBAATAR SERGELEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037290000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANTONIO ANGUIANO PAINTING, 2745 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE ANTONIO ANGUIANO HERNANDEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/03/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037289800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VAL S. FRENKEL CONSULTANTS, 300 THIRD ST #1005, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VYACHESLAV FRENKEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/03/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037281300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TINY-MOOSE-DISTRIBUTION; TINY-MOOSEDIST.; 875 LA PLAYA ST #275, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EFRAT LIBKIND. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037286900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRISCO NOVELTIES, 435 LONDON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VENEZIA VALENTINO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037286500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MI LINDO PERU, 3226 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS FRANCISCO MIYAHIRA. 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 09/29/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037282500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PYRAMID RECORDS, 3174 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT MCCOLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/26/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/27/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037266100

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREEN-TECH DEVELOPERS, 22 BITTING AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GOLDEN GATE SOLAR (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/16.

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OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037282700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZITA, 2862 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ALIMENTO, 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 09/27/16.

OCT 06, 13, 20, 27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037289500

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Legal Notices>> City and County of San Francisco Outreach Advertising October 2016 CONCESSION OPPORTUNITY AT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT San Francisco International Airport is accepting proposals for the Terminal 3 Pop-Up Retail Concession Program. Proposals must be received by 2:00:00 pm San Francisco Time, Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

These Agreements are intended for the nonexclusive sale of specialty retail merchandise, are comprised of two Pop-Up retail locations post-security in Terminal 3, Boarding Area E. Space 1 is approximately 304 square feet and Space 2 is approximately 429 square feet.

The Minimum Annual Guarantee for the term of the Agreement is $27,000.00 for Space 1 and $36,000.00 for Space 2. The terms are twelve months for each space, commencing on the first day Permittee is open for business. Annual Rent shall be the higher of the Minimum Annual Guarantee or 8% of Gross Revenues. In addition to the Annual Rent, tenant shall pay a Tenant Improvement Reimbursement Fee over the twelve month term of $20,523.00 for Space 1 or $28,962.00 for Space 2. Small, local and disadvantaged businesses are encouraged to participate.

An informational conference to review the Request for Proposals and to answer questions about the Pop-Up Retail contracts is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at 2:00 pm in the Terminal 2 Partnering Conference Room, at San Francisco International Airport. At this meeting Airport staff will explain the selection process, and discuss the desired concept, minimum qualification requirements, and address any questions relating to this Permit.

Please see http://www.flysfo.com/business-at-sfo/current-opportunities for additional information or should you have questions, please contact Mr. Trevor Brumm, Airport Revenue Development and Management Department, 650.821.4500.

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WIC provides Nutrition Education and Health information, breastfeeding support, checks for healthy foods (like fruits and vegetables), and referrals to medical providers and community services.

You may qualify for WIC if you receive Medi-Cal, CalFresh (Food Stamps), or CalWORKS (TANF) benefits. A family of four can earn up to $3,747 before tax per month and qualify.

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How green was Mill Valley?

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‘ The Soundsuits are my drag’

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he New York Times has opined that the singular creations of Nick Cave “fall squarely under the heading of ‘Must Be Seen to Be Believed,’” a description that certainly applies to the gay Chicagobased artist’s delightfully outrageous, nearly full-body Soundsuits, wearable sculptures named for the racket they produce when worn while performing or generally making a spectacle of oneself. Cave, 57, who once trained with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and is currently director of the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, can do wonders with sock monkeys, old fisherman sweaters, pipe cleaners, insanely brightly colored fabrics and a profusion of buttons, bugle beads, sequins and glitter that would make a disco queen blush.

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Political crimes & misdemeanors

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he season opener at Berkeley Rep, It Can’t Happen Here, is a cautionary tale. Adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel, it’s reviewed in this week’s issue.

The tale of a fascist demagogue who gets elected President, it’s meant to serve as a wake-up call, a stinging satire. But anyone who thinks it can’t happen here is in need of a reality check. Not only can it happen here, it has happened here. In our lifetime, we’ve seen a US president set out to subvert the Constitution (Watergate); a White House cabal sell illegal arms to a sworn enemy, then use the proceeds to fund an illegal insurgency abroad (Iran/Contra); and a national party steal the presidential election from the candidate who won the popular vote and, had the vote count been allowed to proceed, the electoral college (Bush v. Gore). That’s not even to mention invading a sovereign nation under false pretenses (Poland, whoops we mean Iraq).

The common denominator for all these high crimes? Why, the GOP, the same party enabling the latest demagogue. So fie on them and their candidate! As editorial columnist Gail Collins wrote in The New York Times this week, voting for Donald Trump as an instrument of change is “the kind of change you get if you decide to remove the trash by driving a bulldozer through the kitchen.”

Therefore our vote for most ingenious magazine cover design of the year is this new issue of Adbusters, a self-described “not-for-profit magazine fighting back against the hostile takeover of our psychological, physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.” It packs a visual wallop.

We’re usually not such a big fan of Nazi analogies because it cheapens the brand, but what Adbusters does with the Universal Product Code is pure genius, worthy of a John Heartfield (anti-Nazi photomontage artist) for the digital age.

As an antidote to the chaos of this year’s presidential campaign, we’ve been listening to some of our favorite classic Broadway cast recordings. Isn’t that just like a queen?

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by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, is based on the life of the reformer Republican (!) mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia. Its classic “Little Tin Box” is an effective indictment of the corruption of Tammany Hall, and by extension, of all political machines. Candide, the Leonard Bernstein operetta based on the Voltaire novel, is an effective indictment of Pollyanna-ish innocence, and by extension, of cynicism. After all, if we don’t live in “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” who does?

It always feels like political theatre during presidential election years, but this year is more Theatre of the Absurd than it is Camelot.

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Friends visiting San Francisco from points beyond are always wanting to get high – we mean, somewhere far above the ground to get a bird’s-eye view of the city and the Bay, preferably while drinking alcohol. We take them to all the usual places. Now that includes the Cityscape San Francisco Lounge, way high on the 46th floor of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.

The hotel took us for a press date up to the Lounge the other night.

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His prototype suit was born in the early 1990s when he retrieved a passel of twigs from the woods and fashioned a cross between a woolly mammoth and “The Thing,” a hybrid creature with thick, fuzzy legs and padded feet resembling brownish shag-rug samples. Once Cave put it on and noticed that it rustled like wind gusting through the trees, he had met his medium. Since then, he has made hundreds of the suits, which can sell for upwards of $180K. Dan Cameron, writing about Cave’s eclectic references in a catalogue essay for a YBCA show of the artist’s work a few years ago, cites “the social sculpture of the artist Joseph Beuys, the legacy of the drag queen Leigh Bowery in the London underground performance scene and the ornate costumes of AfricanAmerican Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans.” Add to that a dash of Andy Warhol, the kinky punk of

quite a cheap date.

Cityscape has a 360-degree panoramic view of the Bay Area, and our hosts apologized profusely the night we were there, for our fair city’s famous pea-soup fog had completely socked in the immediate visual environment. But that was OK, because while we’re sure the view is spectacular on clear nights, we also love the feeling of floating above the clouds. True SF lifers that we are, Karl the Fog is our friend.

The city lights twinkled underfoot.

Go here for cocktails and appetizers, as there isn’t a full menu, but instead some very tempting nibbles.

The big hit on our bites tray was the ahi-salmon-hamachi poke with sweet onion, inamona jus, wasabi and lotus root crisps. But everything on offer was good, including a spiced cucumber salad, yum, charcuterie and cheese. We’ll be returning to the 46th floor with friends (open 5 p.m.Midnight) and getting them high.t Vivienne Westwood, the wildness of the late Alexander McQueen, African tribal regalia and a component of irrepressible joy.

Cave and I spoke recently while he was in the midst of preparing for Until, an immense new installation, opening Oct. 15, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, noteworthy for its focus on the pressing topic of race and gun violence and the absence of his signature Soundsuits, except for one, a full-on chicken mask worn by Cave in a short video. Closer to home, an assortment of the suits and performance videos are on display at the Anderson Collection on the Stanford University campus through Aug. 14, 2017. What follows are edited excerpts of our conversation.

Sura Wood: I think of your Soundsuits as great equalizers, erasing traces of class, race and gender. It’s a concept that seems especially relevant right now.

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Bringing the spirit of opera buffa

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he San Francisco Opera’s third offering of the fall season, Donizetti’s melodic bit of fluff Don Pasquale opened last week at the War Memorial in an amusing staging that also showed a rather cynical viewpoint from director Laurent Pelly.

A cheerful mood is set from the moment we see a picture of the luscious Gina Lollobrigida in 1958, staring provocatively from the cover of the luxurious program magazine.

The cast is promising, and the orchestra sounds delightfully buoyant as veteran conductor Giuseppe Finzi starts the Overture. The sets

by Chantal Thomas and costumes by the director, intentionally recalling Italian cinema of the 1950s and 60s, are witty and attractive. So far, so very good.

The updating doesn’t upset the trajectory of Giovanni Ruffini and the composer’s paper-thin albeit intricate libretto, and the spirit of opera buffa fills the air with every note.

The excellent musical aspects of the performance take the production to a necessary higher level of fun.

Ironically, the equally first-rate acting abilities of the quartet of principal singers expose a mean streak in the story that Pelly only encourages with bits of business that take some sparkle out of the Prosecco.

Miserly Don Pasquale is seeking a bride and determined to defer his layabout nephew Ernesto’s marriage plans. The spoiled youth risks being disinherited, and he and his betrothed Norina, a young widow, are obviously vexed by the old man’s stubbornness. Dr. Malatesta, Pasquale’s confidante and a friend

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Nick Cave: Does it ever! There’s this sublime undercurrent in the work that’s always been there, built around identity, race and class, emanating from compassion. How do I lead you into these strong political issues? With the Soundsuits, before you know it, you’re engaged.

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Heidi Stober as Norina and Maurizio Muraro in the title role of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale for San Francisco Opera.

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Lawrence Brownlee as Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale for San Francisco Opera.

helpmate, and it darkens the part.

He still fills the auditorium with a big, rich sound, even as we ponder his murky intentions. His rapid patter-singing provides a welcome and breathtaking comic contrast.

Analysis and too serious interpretation of a basically balmy farce filled with exceptionally pretty tunes gratefully stops whenever Italian bass-baritone Maurizio Muraro is onstage in the title role. To everyone’s delight, that’s most of the time. How can he sing so well, mugging hilariously while performing the physical comedy like a man half his age? In an evening filled with grins, Muraro gets laugh-outloud results. His lovability quotient makes the old misanthrope understandable and switches the audience’s sympathies.

It may not be what the director is going for. The top of Act II, with a haunting trumpet solo by Adam Luftman presaging Nino Rota’s The Godfather, has Muraro sitting in the half-dark in his lonely armchair.

Another clever touch, but this Don is nowhere near as coldhearted.

Ian Robertson’s SFO Chorus is deployed as the raft of servants Norina hires to spite her cheapskate ersatz husband. As usual, they fill the stage with full-throated singing and humorous individual personalities.

At the final reveal, the schemers throw the moral of their punking in Don Pasquale’s face: marriage isn’t meant for the old. We can’t help feeling this old geezer still has a shot.t

to the aggrieved couple, concocts an elaborate prank to shake him from his selfishness and unite the more suitably matched youngsters.

Hijinks ensue, but in this imagining the knockabout humor and funny sight gags can sometimes turn sour as the trio of conspirators often seems more venal than their target.

From her first appearance, soprano Heidi Stober as Norina, looking great as a brunette, betrays a certain world-weariness as she casts a jaundiced eye on romance singing her opening aria. She is already a bit of a minx, even before she fakes a marriage to Don Pasquale and turns

into a real Bridezilla. Stober has the right voice and pleasing edge to her sound to perfectly fit the characterization. We get her motivation but lose sympathy when Pelly has her slap Pasquale way too realistically in a fit of pique. It may be in the script, but the gasp from the audience on opening night signaled a serious directorial misstep. A smack on the back of the head or a shake of the shoulders, okay; this just looked cruel.

Likewise, charming as tenor Lawrence Brownlee is in his SFO debut as Ernesto (lovin’ the pompadour), even his puppy-dog antics can’t hide

his character’s essentially petulant nature and lazy greediness. We forgive him simply because he sounds so good and appears relatively innocent. Brownlee has built a reputation for his brilliant and liquid ease with bel canto, and his comic timing is instinctive. Stober’s Norina may be too much woman for his Ernesto, but when they sing together they make a lovely pair.

Baritone Lucas Meachem has proven his credibility in opera buffa with his outstanding SFO Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia 2015. Pelly shapes his portrayal of Dr. Malatesta as more of an imposer than a wise

Do you think of the Soundsuits as moving collages?

I see them as sculptures that are assemblages. My work sits between fashion, design and art, but whether it’s through video, performance or installation, the body is the central core. What inspires me is what’s currently going on in the world, be it political or what’s coming down the runway.

What’s an example of an image or idea that sparked one of your creations?

I discovered a round, woodenframed sifter with a mesh screen at a flea market. I took that object, moved it around the body and then did a loose sketch. The mesh become wire and bugle beads, and the rest of the suit was covered in buttons. I found the shape for it by looking at the ductwork in the ceiling.

Garcons, Issey Miyake. I like to mix it up. I may put on a Comme des Garcons short that looks like a skirt, a McQueen sneaker with a Miyake tank top, and that’s for a casual day in the studio. Even in the closet, I’m collaging and building a piece.

go out and buy materials, so I had to create art from my surroundings.

I would make my mother macramé purses, sandals and haltertops; even then, the macramé bag was the ultimate bag. But I was also doing football, basketball, baseball, all of it.

How does someone raised with seven brothers in a small town in Missouri by a single mother find their way into art and fashion?

My aunts were amazing seamstresses. I had uncles that were painters. There are musicians in the family. My grandfather made furniture in addition to doing construction. Both grandmothers were quilters. I watched all of this happening around me. I wasn’t privileged to

And crocheting at home? You were leading a double life?

Yes, and I’m glad I had all those options so I could choose what interested me later in life.

You’ve said the impetus for the Soundsuits emerged in the aftermath of the Rodney King incident in 1992.

It was a time when I was questioning my own identity as a black man and disturbed by being profiled whenever I’d leave the privacy of my home. When I was in the park and saw this twig on the ground, the first thoughts that came to mind were of being discarded, dismissed, viewed as “less than.” I collected the twigs and started to build what I thought was a sculpture, but the moment I put it on and moved in it, the Soundsuit was born. It was like armor. I was able to protect and disguise my identity, while presenting something bigger, disturbing yet seductive.

What role has your gay identity played in your art?

I think it’s expressed through adornment and embellishment and the opulence of the work, in my interest in how we dress and decorate ourselves in a celebratory way, the grandeur of presentation. It’s about accepting oneself, being bold and strong, standing up for what’s right without boundaries. The Soundsuits are my drag.

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Soundsuit (2011) by Nick Cave. Mixed media including beaded baskets, pipe cleaners, bugle beads, upholstery, metal, and mannequin.

If we were peeking inside your clothes closet, what might we see?

You’d see pretty much all black. I like timeless things that aren’t trendbased, but timeless doesn’t mean classic. I’m interested in amazing fabrics, and I love great shoes. I have an amazing collection of sneakers, a lot of Rick Owens, Comme des

Through Oct. 15. Second-year SFO Adler Fellow baritone Edward Nelson sings the role of Dr. Malatesta on Oct. 7.

You’re most readily identified with the Soundsuits, but are you tired of them?

I think the project at MASS MoCA is going to set a different stage for me. There are other things I want to do, but I’ll always make some. A chapter never closes.t

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Tough & tender sibling tensions

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ou’re unlikely to encounter another cast anytime soon with the consuming fearsomeness on view in Theatre Rhino’s production of The Brothers Size. Memories of the Magic Theatre’s staging of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play from several years back remain strong, but the trio of actors now embodying the play at the Eureka Theatre makes the experience feel entirely fresh.

The Brothers Size is part of McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy that three area theaters coordinated efforts to present in 2010, plays that not only introduced the gay African-American playwright to local audiences but also launched his career on the national stage.

There are carryover characters and circumstances in each play, but the plays are standalone affairs that require no knowledge of the companion pieces to communicate their own stories.

The setting for all the plays is southern Louisiana in bayou territory, and in The Brothers Size it is mostly suggested by the swampy heat. The action takes place at or near an auto repair shop sketched out in Margaret Adair MacCormack’s scenic design, a seemingly prosaic setting that is anything but, as McCraney’s dialogue takes on poetic flights in a rough streetwise vernacular that can singe, confuse, and pleasure the ear. At times, stage directions are spoken, helping

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LaKeidrick Wimberly plays an older brother who tries to convince his younger sibling (Gabriel Christian) to straighten up after a prison stretch in Theatre Rhino’s The Brothers Size.

establish scenes or offering humor in their obvious descriptions of what we are watching. The play also incorporates expansive soliloquies as the characters express privately what they withhold when together.

The brothers of the title are having an uneasy reunion as the play begins. It’s a tense situation made worse with the arrival of

the younger brother’s buddy from prison with an array of temptations.

This undermines the older brother’s efforts to bring his wayward sibling into the tightly prescribed straightand-narrow of his own life.

The time frame is the “distant present,” a designation layering a vast history onto the contemporary proceedings. In director Darryl V.

Jones’ tightly wound production, an opening tableau choreographed by Laura Elaine Ellis features the three actors performing in a piece incorporating both West African dance and contemporary movements, and foreshadows what is to come.

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The cast is a potent force both as an ensemble and at establishing fully differentiated personalities. As Ogun, the older brother burying past sorrows in his work, LaKeidrick S. Wimberly is a steely presence whose deeply rooted attachments to his brother are sorely tested. Gabriel Christian brings infectious but self-destructive energies to younger brother Oshoosi, who dreams of a carefree life on the road. Julian Green is seductively charismatic as Elegba, who offers not only shaky promises to help Oshoosi escape the constrained life that Ogun has offered, but also sexual pleasures that they found together as fellow prisoners.

While the play takes place in a cloistered garage in a cloistered town, the world expands in the characters’ imaginations and remembered dreams. Oshoosi was enchanted by a book with photos of Madagascar he read in prison, marveling at the country’s “fucking fecundity.” And when Elegba produces a car for Oshoosi, to Ogun’s displeasure, the younger brother sees it as a magic carpet to escape.

But the escape the vehicle offers becomes one of desperation rather than adventure, rivening the brothers in a final act of fraternal love.t The Brothers Size will run at the Eureka Theatre through Oct. 15 Tickets are $15-$40. Call (800) 8383006 or go to www.therhino.org.

New world order

by Richard Dodds

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he wry, understated humor that Sinclair Lewis weaved through his novels comes along regularly like tart morsels in the work-a-day lives he described in such satires as Babbitt and Main Street, and it also can be found in the lesser-known It Can’t Happen Here, which can deal in far darker matters. Early on, the narrator reflects on the central character’s affections for his wife: “He had lived with Emma for 34 years,

and not oftener than once or twice a year had he wanted to murder her.”

This kind of trademark backhanded satire – usually thought but unspoken – is a mighty challenge to render on the stage, and a new adaptation at Berkeley Rep conjures it fitfully in the first act and loses most of it in the second.

Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen’s adaptation of the 1935 novel is more flavorfully layered in the earlier scenes, but when the stakes are raised to life-or-death levels, the

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dramatizing turns to action-thriller mechanics. In the novel, however, Lewis was able to maintain his distinctive tone even as a totalitarian is elected president and civil war is about to erupt. In the new fascistic order, individual states have been eliminated: “San Franciscans who had considered Los Angelinos even worse than denizens of Miami now wailed with agony when California was sundered and the northern portion lumped in with Oregon, Nevada, and others as the ‘Mountain and Pacific Province.’”

But Berkeley Rep probably didn’t have these distinctive essences in mind when Taccone and Cohen set out to bring It Can’t Happen Here to the stage. The catalyst was surely a fellow named Donald John Trump, whose rise to political exaltation has often-uncanny antecedents in the book’s Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, both of whom appeal on a gut level to populaces discouraged by business-as-usual and who don’t care if the candidate’s windbag pronouncements make no practical sense. Both our real-life candidate and Lewis’ fictional creation deal in fear-mongering, often directed at various racial, religious, and xenophobic targets.

The story’s central character is typical Sinclair. Doremus Jessup, a small-town New England newspaperman, is perfectly happy that his life doesn’t often require him to stray far from home. Family picnics are to be endured, children tolerated, and national politics worthy of the occasional tut-tut editorial. That abruptly changes when Windrip is elected president, punishes dissent, and turns Doremus and his family into crossborder fugitives. A literal presentation of the book on stage is impossible, and Taccone and Cohen, along with director Lisa Peterson, have taken a stylized approach to the text that, even though streamlined for the stage, can become a dizzying pageant of action, characters, and locales.

The production’s non-realistic intentions are announced even before the story has begun, with the

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A New England newspaperman played by Tom Nelis contemplates writing a politically dangerous editorial as his daughter (Caroline Sanchez) and a close friend (Deidre Henry) look on in the Berkeley Rep adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here.

cast presenting itself as an informal gathering to advise of various aspects of the production, including the use of racially blind casting and cue cards that get the audience to applaud, cheer, and boo at appropriate times during a huge campaign rally at Madison Square Garden.

A cast of 14 plays many more characters than that, and there are times when keeping track of who is who is a challenge. But the steadying presence of Tom Nelis holds focus as the gently charismatic Doremus, whose easy-held beliefs are upended and his courage tested. Most of the other performers make memorable contributions in at least one of their roles: David Kelly as the dangerously buffoonish Windrip, Charles Shaw Robinson as the sinister official who enjoys toying with Doremus, Sharon Lockwood as Doremus’ nattering wife, Caroline Sanchez and Anna Ishida as their resourceful daughters,

Deirdre Henry as the local liberal gadfly, and Scott Coopwood as the bad-tempered family handyman who turns the tables on his boss when the new order takes charge.

Lewis was moved to write It Can’t Happen Here during an alarming rise of dictatorial populism already seen in Europe and exemplified at home

by Huey Long of Louisiana, then contemplating a possible third-party run for the presidency that could have Franklin Roosevelt sent out of office. But when Long was soon assassinated and FDR was reelected in a rout, the specific urgencies of the book were undercut. That won’t be a problem during this run of It Can’t Happen Here. The run ends two days before the election.t It Can’t Happen Here will run at Berkeley Rep through Nov. 6.

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Movies in an art museum

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oes a movie feel different in a museum? The movie itself can’t feel, of course, it’s just celluloid on a reel, or increasingly, pixels on a screen. Whatever the means of projection, movies have always been shadows dancing in a darkened room, or parking lot. Movies are images of people moving through time, and increasingly, the actual people involved are dead, and the places they seem to move through no longer exist. Even the studios have been torn down and their back lots converted to other, seemingly less ephemeral uses. Movies are ghosts that distract us from the living world, and for the next three weekends you can watch some haunting examples of Modern Cinema at the SF Museum of Modern Art. Hard to say what constitutes Modern Cinema in the sense of what’s mission-appropriate for SFMOMA’s sober, cavernous, silverpinstripe-walled, 270-seat theater, which has recently been refurbished with new seats and even that nod towards bodily fluids, cup-holders.

They’re still debating popcorn,

which I find pretty shocking, as it would inaugurate a decidedly slippery slope. But even in a museum, the feeling seems to be, these are movies, ergo, the pleasure principal is at play perhaps in equal measure to the death drive, not to mention dreams of resurrection and the afterlife. Why not popcorn? And since it’s a museum, why not Big Hunk, Abba Zabba, Good-n-Plenty, Jujubes?

Of the 26 programs running Fri.Sun., Oct. 7-23, eight are devoted to Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose work is currently on view upstairs. His films span the year 2000 to the present. Working backwards, there are six films from the 1970s, nine from the 1960s, four of which are from 1962, and four from the 1950s. None of them are Hollywood product, so don’t get your hopes up for Topper or The Unseen, Rebecca or Laura. Those literal ghosts might be too obvious for this crowd. The only U.S. product is Grey Gardens (Sat., Oct. 22, 6 p.m.).

The usual foreign suspects are here: Antonioni, Bergman, Buñuel, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Marker, Polanski, Renoir, and a few mild surprises, nothing too outré.

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It goes without saying the films are made by men. Except of course the one by Chantal Ackerman (Sun., Oct. 9, 7:15 p.m.) and the ones by

Gay comic plays it straight

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hose who are used to seeing Jason Stuart performing gay stand-up comedy or appearing in edgy independent films are in for a big surprise. In the new film The Birth of a Nation, Stuart, an openly gay, Jewish supporter of LGBT equality and civil rights, will portray Joseph Randall, a white, Christian slave-owner.

“Joseph is not a racist,” Stuart tells the B.A.R., speaking by phone from his Los Angeles home. “He’s a product of his time. A married man with children, with a black child on the side.”

The Birth of a Nation tells the true story of Nat Turner (Nate Parker, who also directed), a slave who led a rebellion in 1831 that resulted in a number of white deaths. White militias retaliated by killing scores of slaves. Turner died in November of that year at age 31. The film’s trailer, now posted at YouTube, features a number of disturbing images, including Turner being whipped, and a white girl leading her black friend on a leash.

“It’s important to show these things,” Stuart said. “To learn from history. ‘Never forget,’ say the Jews about the Holocaust. ‘Silence = Death,’ said ACT UP. Yet we tell the

black community to ‘get over it.’ We have never given the appropriate grieving time to those who have been treated horrifically.”

Though he performed in scenes which viewers might find shocking, Stuart said that the Birth of a Nation set was a harmonious one. “The black actors were so supportive of me,” he recalls. “People are glad that this story is being told.”

Stuart explained how he could find a character so unlike himself. “Armie Hammer plays a younger plantation owner,” Stuart said. “I used all my techniques as an actor. I played an older man mentoring a younger man.

I did not judge my character.”

Some people have asked the actor if The Birth of a Nation draws comparisons to the Civil War epic of the same name directed by DW Griffith a century ago. Stuart assured us that the title is the only thing the two films have in common. “Griffith’s film was propaganda,” he said. “It brought back the KKK and caused murders.

It was very similar to what Trump is now doing.” The new film, according to Stuart, shows oppressed people beginning to think for themselves.

The role was a long time coming for Stuart, a talented performer with

a wide range who’s had to deal with being labeled a gay actor. “It’s the limitations people put on you,” he said. “People thought I was limited, I never thought I was limited. This will show that I can play something different. It shows that I have range.”

Stuart won’t be abandoning his roots. His stand-up shows will continue, and he can also be seen in Hush Up Sweet Charlotte, gay director Billy Clift’s homage to the classic Bette Davis chiller Hush Hush Sweet

Agnès Varda (Sat., Oct. 8, 1 p.m.), filmmakers I always confuse because they’re often the only women included and they both work mainly

Charlotte (1965). San Francisco drag icons Matthew Martin, Heklina and J. Conrad Frank co-star in that film.

“I play a British journalist, played

by Cecil Kellaway in the original,” Stuart said. “I look like a cross between Hercules Poirot and Pee Wee Herman. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, it’s got wonderful kitsch value. I loved working on it, and that comes across.”

Stuart will continue performing his monthly stand-up gig at The Purple Room in Palm Springs, where

in French. Rule of thumb, Ackerman is edgier, and Varda, bourgeois.

Perhaps coincidentally, the three programmers were men, just as the three marketing people were women, at the press conference.

Just saying. There are other female directors to choose from, but maybe they’re not all in the bosom of the Criterion Collection, to which the Museum has limited its choices.

This intriguing exercise in branding means you can opt to simply buy the DVD, stay home, and read the companion booklet.

Please note, however, 12 of the 26 films will be shown in 35mm, marked in the program in all caps and an exclamation point. I hope I am free the night of Antonioni’s L’Avventura (Sat., Oct. 8, 8 p.m.) because the last time I saw it was a long time ago and one of my abiding sorrows is that the Italian cinema of my youth has fallen into oblivion. You might say it haunts me, every time I have to sit through long patches of vague, meandering, perhaps fuzzy shots of people without emotion, who don’t move their hands when they speak, don’t sound like cellos, aren’t willing to kill for love. I’m simple that way, a peasant, really.t

his show is called I’m Only Gay on the Weekends. He explained the title.

“It’s too much to have to be gay every day. You have to worry about your clothes, about being witty, it’s exhausting!” He’d rather spend the week finding Mr. Right – he’s accepting boyfriend applications now!

To apply, check out Stuart’s website: jasonstuart.com.t The Birth of a Nation opens Friday.

We are the future of the LGBT community.

“My girlfriend and I want to get married next year. We met in school, and we’re determined to be together.

The problem is that I live here and she doesn’t. She can’t visit me for long periods of time because of harsh immigration laws. And our future together in this country depends on how our country rewrites those laws. So it’s important to us that we understand how this year’s elections could impact LGBT citizenship.

Courtesy the subjects

Actors Jason Stuart (right) and Allen Phoenix in director Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation.

We keep up with EDGE’s political coverage on our mobile devices. Because we know that’s where our future will be.”

The people depicted here are models. Their image is being used for illustrative purposes only.

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Baruch Porras-Hernandez at Dia de los Muertos @ SOMArts Cultural Center

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Thu 6 Alan Lessik @ Dog Eared Books The local author of the gay & mythology-themed novel The Troubleseeker reads from and discusses his debut novel. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

The Brothers Size @ Eureka Theatre Tarell Alvin McCraney’s musicfilled gay-themed drama about African American brothers and their unbreakable bonds. $15-$40. WedSat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 15.

215 Jackson St. at Battery. www.TheRhino.org

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Our favorite Russian exiled countesssongstress (actor J. Conrad Frank) returns to the swanky nightclub with A Bittersweet ‘90s Symphony, a comedic all-90s & grunge cabaret show about her life in Seattle (See interview in this issue). $30-$50. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

King Charles III @ Geary Theater American Conservatory Theatre’s season premiere is Mike Bartlett’s multiple-Tony-nominated royal drama about Britain’s current remaining family troubles after Queen Elizabeth’s death. $20-$105. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 9. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Little Shop of Horrors @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre Company’s new production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s long-running Off-Broadway hit based on the ‘50s B-movie about the nerdy owner of a man-eating alien plant. $15-$40.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 8 (Oct. 8, 2pm w ASL interpreter). 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

Mincing Words @ The Marsh Tom Ammiano returns to the stage with his comic solo show about his life in politics. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 25. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Oct. 6: Waiting for Guffman (7:15) and A Mightly Wind (5:30-9pm). Oct. 7: Arab Film festival opening night (7:30 www.arabfilmfestival.org). Oct. 8: Return to Grey Gardens, Peaches Christ’s live show (8pm; see Sat). Oct. 9: Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (3:15, 7pm) and The Producers (5:10, 8:55). Oct, 10: Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles (3pm, 7pm) and Stir Crazy (4:50, 8:50). Oct, 12: Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (7pm) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (8:45).

Oct. 13: Hitchcock’s Vertigo (7pm) and the documentary De Palma (9:30; more De Palma films thru 10/16). $11$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Queer Trailblazer @ GLBT History Musuem Scholars Mel Gordon, Gayle Rubin, Susan Stryker and moderator Gerard Koskovich (also the Hirschfeld exhibit curator) discuss the life and work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the homosexual studies & rights pioneer. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Seared @ SF Playhouse World premiere of Theresa Reback’s play about a Brooklyn chef who deals with the pressures of sudden success. $35-$75. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sat 3pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 12. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Varla Jean Merman @ Oasis The powerhouse drag star performs her new, hilarious musical parody show A Little White Music. See interview in this issue. $25, $35, and VIP champagne tables $225. 7:30pm.

Thru Oct. 8. 298 11th St. at Folsom.

795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

The Way You Look (at me) Tonight @ CounterPulse Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis’ multimedia dance-performance duet explores who people see and interact with each other. $20-$35.

ASL interpretation Oct. 7. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Oct. 9. 80 Turk st. www.counterpulse.org

Fri 7 19th & Lexington @ Qulture Collective, Oakland Photos from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015, an exhibit of photos and comics from the popular and much-missed Mission bar. Thru Oct. 7 (closing celebration 6pm-9pm).

Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 12pm-4pm.

1714 Franklin St., Oakland. www.qulturecollective.com

Casa Valentina @ New Conservatory Theatre Center West Coast premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s play about straight men in the 1960s who privately crossdressed at Catskills parties. $20-$65. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 6. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Damon McLay @ Strut Tubular Insights: Reflections from the Rabbit Hole, an exhibit of the local artist’s photos. Opening reception 8pm-10pm. Thru Oct. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Dance Theatre of San Francisco @ Vogue Theatre Unspoken, the company’s dance-film collaboration with photographer RJ Muna. $15-$20. Nightly at 8pm thru Oct. 13. 3290 Sacramento St. www.dancetheatresf.org

Ed Hardy @ 111 Minna Gallery Opening party for Marks, Scars or Tattoos, an exhibit of tattoo design work by the artist and fashion designer. 5pm-1am. Thru Oct. 29. 111 Minna St. www.111minnagallery.com

Dia de los Muertos @ SOMArts Cultural Center Opening party for A Promise Not To Forget, the annual exhibit of installations inspired by traditional Mexican tributes to deceased family; curated by René and Rio Yañez.

Special art includes tributes to Cynthia Wallis, Silvia Parra and Martha Rodriguez, and a mini-nightclub tribute to the victims of the Pulse gay nightclub mass murder. Event DJ Simona Duque. $12-$15. 6pm-9pm.

Thru Nov. 5. 934 Brannan St. www.somarts.org

The Real Americans @ The Marsh

Ed Ruscha @ de Young Museum

Dan Hoyle returns with his hit solo show about the polarized sides of right and leftwing America. $25-$100.

Fri 8pm & Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 15. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, an exhibit of the artist’s landscape/text paintings; thru Oct. 9. Also, exhibits of Bruce Davidson photos, Printed Stories, The Sumatran Ship cloth, and works by Kay Sekimachi. Free/$25. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.famsf.org

Sat 8 Ani DiFranco @ The Fillmore The indie folk-rock music icon singersongwriter performs with Chastity Brown. $33.50. 9pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. www.thefillmore.com

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Golden Gate Theatre Darren Criss and Tony Award winner Lena Hall reprise their acclaimed Broadway roles in the national tour of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular rock musical about a down and out German transgender singer (Hall plays Hedwig on most Wed. shows). $45-$212. Tue-Sat 8pm.

Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 30. 1 Taylor St. www.hedwigbroadway.com www.shnsf.com

Holding the Edge @ The Marsh Berkeley Elaine Magree’s insightful and funny solo show returns to the AIDS wards of the mid-1980s, and how an outraged lesbian fought to save lives. $20-$100. Thu 7:30pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 15. 2120 Allsont Way, Berkeley.

282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Litquake Event @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza The Women’s National Book Association event with authors Cara Black ( Murder on the Quai ) Jessica Chiarella (And Again ), Patricia V. Davis ( Cooking for Ghosts), and Mary Mackey ( The Village of Bones). 2pm.

601 Van Ness Ave. www.booksinc.net

Return to Grey Gardens @ Castro Theatre Peaches Christ’s drag parody of the documentary film about the (posthumously) famous reclusive mother-daughter includes Jinkx Monsoon, Mike Stole and others. $35$80. 8pm. 429 Castro St. peacheschrist.com castrotheatre.com

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, a multimedia exhibit about the prolific filmmaker (thru Oct. 30). 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

Sun 9 Abrazo, Queer Tango @ Finnish Brotherhood Hall, Berkeley Enjoy weekly same-sex tango dancing and a potluck, with lessons early in the day. $7-$15. 3:30-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley. (510) 8455352. www.finnishhall.com

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 @ Oakland Museum New multimedia exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Oaklandbased civil rights and community group; thru Feb. 12. Other exhibits include Oakland, I want you to know..., an exhibit of Oakland resident portraits and reflections on gentrification. Free/$15.

Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). 1000 Oak St., Oakland. (510) 3188400. www.museumca.org

B-Boy Blues @ The Flight Deck, Oakland Scenes from the stage adaptation of Jame Earl Hardy’s groundbreaking gay Black novel are performed

by Sampson McCormick, and a discussion of the book with author/ playwright Hardy and host Marvin K. White. $20-$100. 5pm-7pm. 1540 Broadway, Oakland. eventbrite.com

Michelle Tea, Daniel Handler @ American Bookbinders Museum The two local bestselling authors read from their new works. $15-$20. 355 Clementina St. www.litquake.org

Mon 10 Perfectly Queer @ Dog Eared Books Novelists Laura J. Merrell, Kate Jessica Raphael, and Hilary A. Zaid read from new fiction. 7pm.489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Porchlight Readings @ Verdi Club Litquake co-presents a night of “Life During Wartmine” stories, with Jack Boulware, Greg Milner, Laurie Notaro, Bucky Sinister, Eric Spitznagel, D. Watkins and Pamela Alma Weymouth. $25-$30. 8pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.litquake.org www.verdiclub.net

A Tough Act to Follow @ Club BnB, Oakland The documentary about gay Black Bay Area comic Sampson McCormick, and the struggle of non-diversity in the profession, with several notable stage, TV and film stars, is screened at the East Bay nightclub. $10. 6pm.

2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.sampsoncomedy.com

Tue 11 Mission Bookstores: United We Stand @ Make Out Room A words-and-music celebration hosted by the independent bookstore coalition working to preserve and serve the longstanding community and creative interests of the historic Latino Cultural District, to honor the authors, poets, musicians, and activists who make their culturally diverse spaces hum; hosted by Denise Sullivan and Kate Rosenberger. Music

by Preston Swirnoff and readings by special guests. $5-10 sliding scale.

7pm-9pm. 3225 22nd St. www.mtbs.com makeoutroom.com

Queer Jitterbugs @ The Verdi Club Enjoy weekly same-sex (and other) swing dancing, with lessons, social dancing, ASL interpreters and live music. $15. 9pm-11:45pm. 2424 Mariposa St. at Potrero. www.queerjitterbugs.com

Queer Reading @ SF Public Library Radar Productions’ Litquake event includes writers Natalia Vigil, S. Kay, Shedeh Etaat, Ramona Garcia, and host Juliana Delgado Lopera. 6pm.

100 Larkin St, lower level. www.radarproductions.com

Tofu Art @ Glamarama Time Travel Photos, a new exhibit of San Francisco-themed collages by the local artist, at the Mission hair salon.

Opening reception Oct. 15, 7:30pm9:30pm. Thru Nov. 27. 304 Valencia St. www.tofuart.com www.glamarama.com

Tom Jones @ Masonic Hall The pop music legend, still going strong, performs his classic hits. $50$150. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.sfmasonic.com

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

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Wed 12 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s online and cable interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. 7pm. Thu-Tue 11 & 11:30am & 10:30pm. www.ComcastHometown.com

Brian Wilson @ Masonic Hall The Beach Boys legend performs the classic album Pet Sounds with Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin and his new band. $40-$125. 8pm. Also Oct. 13.

1111 California St. sfmasonic.com

Donovan @ Regency Ballroom The British pop singer performs his classic hits and new music. Also Oct. 13. $32-$55. 8pm. 1300 van Ness Ave. www.theregencyballroom.com

Positive Resource Center Gala @ City Club Windows of Opportunity, the HIV/ AIDS nonprofit’s benefit includes a silent auction, cocktails, appetizers, desserts, music. $125-$1000. 6pm9pm. 155 Sansome St., 10th floor. www.positiveresource.org

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players perform Edward Albee’s classic drama about disgruntled married college town couples. $25-$40. Wed-Sun thru Nov. 20. In repertpry Nov. 27-Jan. 22. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Thu 13 Buffy Live! @ Oasis D’Arcy Drollinger’s new drag parody of the popular scifi vampire TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. $25-$35.

8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Also Oct. 26 & 31 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

A History of the 14th Street House @ Episcopal Church of St. John Calamus Fellowship presents Rory Cecil’s audiovisual history of the Castro home that became a gathering space for gay men for 25 years. 7pm9pm. 1661 15th St. at Julian. www.saintjohnsf.org

Home Land Security @ Presidio Trust Park Site-specific multi-artist installation in and around the historic gun turrets overlooking the bay and Golden Gate Bridge; curated by Cheryl Haines with the For Site Foundation. Thru Dec. 18. www.for-site.org

Jason Mecier @ Dog Eared Books The world-famous gay collage artist, known for celebrity portraits made of objects, unveils his latest collection, Real Housewives of Macaroni. Reception 7pm-9pm. Daily 10am-10pm thru Dec. 489 Castro St. https://twitter.com/JasonMecier www.dogearedbooks.com

Shocktober 17 @ Hypnodrome The 17th annual theatrical scarefest of four one-acts will shiver your timbers with terror and titillation. $30-$35.

Thu-Sat 8pm (no show Oct. 8), plus special 8pm Halloween shows Oct. 30 & 31. Thru Nov. 19. 575 10th S.t at Bryant. 377-4202. www.hypnodrome.org

Teaching LGBTQ History to Kids @ GLBT History Museum Don Romesburg, chair of women’s and gender studies at Sonoma State University and program curator for the GLBT Historical Society, discusses queer-inclusive curriculum in california. $5. Also, exhibits Through Knowledge to Justice: The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (18681935), about the early gay rights pioneer and scholar (thru Nov. 23); also, Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall (thru Oct. 16). $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

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Forbidden love from Mark Morris

by Paul Parish

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ritics came from all over for the world premiere in Berkeley last Friday of Layla and Majnun, a new danced cantata by Mark Morris, who has put some strange things on the stage before, but never anything quite this odd. At first, it seemed this was going to flop, but it quickly took hold, and by the end I was moved to tears, but so sad I could barely applaud.

The project was filled with obstacles: the stage itself is an obstacle course, since it is filled with the musicians around whom the dancers must flit and float like djinns never obstructed by material reality.

Which, in fact, through their own amazing abilities, and the genius of Morris’ choreography, they do, and leave the musicians and their instruments miraculously unendangered.

All those difficulties surmounted stand in for the obstacles to the love of Layla and Majnun.

It is a very strange work. Morris is treating a story few of us know. The word Layla suggests Eric Clapton’s intoxicating Beatles-era rock song, with its obsessive melody that loops back on itself like a passion that won’t burn out. That song was once top of the charts, and once heard, it’s never forgotten. But, though it is the same story, that mood is hardly timely. In hippie days, when Clapton fell in love with George Harrison’s wife and wrote “Layla” to describe his passion for her, every hippie knew who Siddhartha was, and many knew of the mad passion of Majnun, who went out of his mind with love for Layla and lived in the desert writing heart-breaking poems in her praise.

These are new times, and now if we think of the deserts of Arabia, the mountains of the Caucasus, of Persia or Afghanistan, it’s because of the

wars there. It’s no longer cool to go climb a mountain and speak to a guru and bring back a jacket made of yakhide. Nevertheless, Morris is telling that kind of story all over again.

Morris dramatizes 10 episodes in the tale, and in each one a different couple represents the lovers.

A dance of love is noticed by the community, among whom Layla’s hot-headed brother (Aaron Loux) begins a whispering campaign against them, which strikes me as the gay element in this heterosexual story. They are noticed as being “too much,” they are “exciting comment,” there’s something queer about that boy. “I think we’d better put a stop to this.”

Morris builds the story, deploying his encyclopedic vocabulary of fold-dance steps. Since this tale belongs to the Turkic realms of Asia centering around the Caucasus, whose dance lore Morris studied in his youth with the Koleda folk dance ensemble and later with the dervishbased dances of Laura Dean, the dancers speak his language as if to the manner born.

The roles of the leads pass to a new pair in each movement of the music. Domingo Estrada, Jr. expresses love graphically in the second danced section, leading with his pelvis. Loux carries it much further in the third. Sam Black protests violently when Layla’s family marries her against her will to a shallow young man, in a brilliant scene that perfectly captures the nightmare of having to marry the wrong man. This is followed by an elegiac ensemble piece for all four women who’ve danced Layla so far, each entering and dancing a solo in lamentation, each in succession letting their heads fall back as if their necks were broken, and advancing across the platform at the back of the stage, so they stand like columns

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The Mark Morris Dance Group gave the world premiere of Layla and Majnun with the Silk Road Ensemble in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley.

in a temple dedicated to Arranged Marriage.

Each episode intensifies the mood of formalized doom, though each has its own mood. As in Swan Lake, you know this is going to turn out badly, but there are many gay episodes along the way; the nightmarish wedding is particularly thrilling in this respect, but Morris’ invention is at genius level all the way through.

As with Romeo and Juliet, it is a tragedy not only for the principals but for their benighted families, who did not bet on their children committing suicide. Short-sighted, the families only saw disgrace and danger, but in the aftermath the sadness is universal and immeasurable.

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Taking the long ‘View’

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The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg took on Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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he best part of the new fall season begins Nov. 9. That’s when we won’t have to see Donald Trump on our TVs or live-streaming, maybe ever again.

We wouldn’t mention the Sept.

26 debate except Trump himself is still talking about it, and it seems he will still be talking about it until the next debate takes place on Oct. 9. On Sept. 30, Trump went on yet another rampage against queerfriendly former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who has been doing the morning talk-show circuit and looking every bit the beautiful, soignee and oh-so-wholesome new American immigrant she is as she talks about how she was bullied by Trump. For his part, Trump’s been on Morning Joe, Sean Hannity and Fox and Friends talking about how fat, awful and slutty Machado is, asserting she has done porn (she hasn’t) and gained “55, 60 lbs.” when she was Miss Universe (she didn’t).

On the Sept. 30 ABC Nightly News, senior White House correspondent Jonathan Karl previewed the tape of a deposition in a lawsuit Trump brought against a celebrity chef who refused to work for Trump’s new D.C. restaurant after Trump’s comments about Mexicans.

At the debate itself, Trump chose to use the national stage to once again attack lesbian comedian and talk show doyenne Rosie O’Donnell, his sole commentary on anything LGBTQ. Whether you love or hate or don’t have an opinion on Rosie, attacking lesbians is a regular sport among str8 white men, but from a presidential candidate it’s a new low. Rosie was a longtime cohost of ABC’s The View, where her feud with Trump began. The View’s longest-serving hosts, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, took on Trump’s latest campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, on Sept. 29, and was it ever fun to watch. Conway was grilled about why Trump refused to appear on The View, which has hosted John McCain, Mitt Romney, Pres. Obama, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Paul Ryan, Sen. Ted Cruz and VP Joe Biden, among other politicians.

The women of The View wanted to know why Trump body-shames women and why he refuses to share any policy plans. Whoopi zeroed in on Trump’s tax returns. Conway tried to deflect, by touting Trump’s ludicrous line about Clinton having “no stamina.” (Have any of Trump’s people re-watched the debate? Clinton wasn’t the showing the wear of the 90 minutes on stage.) Conway also side-stepped Behar’s questions about Trump’s sniffles during the debate. When Whoopi repeated her question about Trump’s tax returns, Conway tried to shift focus to Clinton’s emails.

Whoopi blew up. “Here’s the problem, Kelly. Once you open that can of worms, we have to then open your can of worms. He said he’ll release the tax returns when her emails are released. Where are his damn tax returns, and why don’t we know what he spent? Because I know what size Hillary Clinton’s bra cup is, I know how much she spent on her bra: the transparency is insane.”

Conway faltered briefly, then said, “I don’t want to know that about her. What I want to know is what she was hiding in those 33,000 emails she deleted.”

Whoopi continued to press Conway, who gave Trump’s line that he’s under audit by the IRS. “It’s bull,” Whoopi said. “What is he hiding?”

Conway said, “He’s not hiding anything.”

Whoopi also noted that Trump goes to all the shows “where the guys are,” but not The View. Conway said Trump was rarely in New York (where he lives), where The View is taped. Whoopi said, “Honey, I’m a New Yorker. Don’t bs a bs-er.” Slay, queen, slay.

B.A.R. goes to press the same as the vice-presidential debate Oct. 4, but we expect Sen. Tim Kaine (DVA) to squash Gov. Mike Pence (RIN) like the misogynist homophobe he is, and do it in both English and fluent Spanish. Pence is first-term governor of Indiana who previously served over a decade in Congress and has managed to pass anti-gay legislation and also create a small HIV epidemic in the state by closing Planned Parenthood clinics where testing was being conducted. Kaine is a former Democratic National Committee chairman who served as governor of Virginia and mayor of Richmond. Kaine has a long history of support for diverse communities, including our own.

The VP debate is also a first in that it will be anchored by a woman of color. CBS News political correspondent and CBSN anchor Elaine Quijano will be the debate’s sole moderator. Quijano covered 2016 debates and both the Republican and Democratic national conventions for CBS. Quijano is a Chicagoarea native of Filipino descent and the first Asian American moderator for a general election debate. The VP debate is expected to be a record-breaker. Previously, the 2008 debate between then-Sen. Joe Biden and then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was the most watched VP debate, with 69.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The previous record was the other VP debate including a woman: Rep. Geraldine Ferraro debating then-VP George H.W. Bush in 1984, with a viewership of 56.7 million viewers.

The Sept. 26 debate between Clinton and Trump was the mostwatched debate in the history of televised debates, which began

with Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Nielsen recorded 84 million viewers, although that number does not include C-SPAN, PBS or streaming. The previous most-watched debate was in 1980 between then-Pres. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

For the Oct. 9 debate, Trump has “promised” he will not “hold back,” as he asserts he did Sept. 26.

He intends to attack Clinton about her husband’s 25-year-old affair with Monica Lewinsky and 40-yearold affair with Gennifer Flowers.

When asked by CNN’s Dan Merica on Sept. 29 if she had any response to this planned attack by Trump, Clinton responded, “No,” reprising the succinct response she gave in the very first Democratic primary debate to contender Lincoln Chaffee.

and we look forward to this show running parallels through the end of the year.

We’re actually not that keen on watching political TV drama this season, since there’s so much else to watch, from the sublime (Fox’s brilliant, homoerotic The Exorcist) to the fluffy (Lance Bass hosts Logo’s dating show Finding Prince Charming). Since there’s not a lot of gay out there this season, this show is one to watch if only because there’s some embedded controversy and it’s about time we had a gay version of The Bachelor. On FPC, bachelor Robert Sepulveda Jr., a former escort, seeks a partner among a plethora of gay men. Bass says he wants his show to get gay men talking in the community about issues like fem-phobia, HIV and other pressing concerns. Worth a look.

There are several new shows streaming on Amazon this season in addition to Transparent that you will want to see. Among them is One Mississippi, which just began streaming. The new comedy series stars lesbian comedian Tig Notaro, who was nominated for an Emmy this year for her comedy special.

One Mississippi is based on Notaro’s own life. She dealt with cancer and the sudden death of her mother in a very short space of time. OM begins when Notaro returns to her hometown in Mississippi after her mother’s sudden death. The series was executive produced by Louis C.K. and Diablo Cody, and co-stars the fabulous Casey Wilson among others. Notaro is one of the funniest

“Where are his damn tax returns, and why don’t we know what he spent? Because I know what size Hillary Clinton’s bra cup is, I know how much she spent on her bra: the transparency is insane.”

– Whoopi Goldberg Clinton has also told CNN, MSNBC and ABC her opponent will run his campaign as he sees fit, but she intends to focus on issues.

Having seen Trump’s two lead surrogates, Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich, on TV venues since the first debate pushing this theme, we can only imagine the second debate will be even more of a train wreck for Trump than the first. Re-litigating Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades of the late 70s-early 90s seems a mistake, given it’s 2016 and Trump, Giuliani and Gingrich have nine marriages between them. But who are we to counsel Trump to take the high road? Trump’s son Eric, who was a toddler when Trump began his affair with Marla Maples while still married to Eric’s mother Ivana, told MSNBC on Sept. 29 that his father showed “great courage” in not mentioning Bill Clinton’s affairs at the first debate. To which we can only counter, what then did Hillary show in not mentioning Trump’s affairs at the same debate?

Shadow play

Last season CBS’ Madam Secretary played as a shadow story of what Clinton was doing as Secretary of State while she was the key figure in the Obama Cabinet. The new season returned Oct. 2 just in time to remind viewers of all the things at stake in the upcoming election, and just how huge a role the Sec. of State plays in American government. Téa Leoni is better than ever in the role,

women in comedy, so this is definitely a show worth checking out.

So, about CBS’ new series Bull: We always liked Michael Weatherly on the reliable, nothing-else-is-onand-I’m-falling-asleep-anyway NCIS. He’s handsome, some might say old-school debonair. He has an easy manner. He’s likable. CBS must have thought he was a natural for a lead in a legal series. Except the series is perhaps too-aptly named Bull. Weatherly is the eponymous Dr. Bull, a psychologist who chooses juries for wealthy clients who seem guilty and who are utterly unlikable, like everyone else on this show, which is now one of the toprated new series, inexplicably, in our opinion. So why are we talking about it? Because two out of two episodes have been gay-themed, and CBS is notorious for not having any gay characters on any of its longrunning series.

But the premiere episode used some of the worst tropes to get there, including making the first murder victim a young Asian woman and the person on trial a young rich white guy who could have been a Trump relation who turns out to be gay and to have had an affair with the married father of the other girl he was dating. Ugh. We want as many LGBTQ characters and storylines as possible on the tube, but do we want to embrace two characters who would use/abuse women in this way? The presumed killer had slept with the young Asian

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woman and the daughter of the man he was also having sex with.

And final spoiler because you aren’t going to ever watch this ugliness, the real killer turned out to be the wife of the bisexual husband who killed the girl not because of her husband but because her daughter was so in love with the Trumpian boy. Yeesh: that’s a plot right out of the Dick Wolf playbook. Steer clear of Bull.

The title tells you everything you need to know about it.

Fox’s Empire: it’s season three.

If you aren’t watching and haven’t been watching, insert that gif with Mariah Carey saying, “I don’t know her.” It’s created by a gay man, it’s produced by a lesbian, it’s directed and written (often, not always) by gay people, it has a main gay storyline and has had lesbian and bisexual storylines, and it has Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Taraji P. Henson as its over-the-top star, Cookie Lyon, so again: Why aren’t you watching?

Art imitated life on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit when VP Joe Biden was in the opener of the Sept. 28 episode. Biden has long been a champion of victims of violence against women, and so has the show’s star, Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson on what is now the longest-running prime-time series on TV. Hargitay has been working to get untested rape kits tested, and Biden has been promoting that cause as well. So he cameo’d with Olivia to discuss the issue. It was surprisingly moving to have him there talking about the importance of rape victims getting justice. What a counterpoint to Trump’s nonstop attacks on women, eh?

We were shocked that Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a bill ending the statute of limitations on the prosecution of rape cases didn’t make the national news except for PBS. Speaking as a victim/survivor who was nearly killed by a serial rapist a few years ago, a man who has yet to be caught, this bill will change lives.

Not just for women, as men are also victims of rape. Alas, the law is not retroactive, but it will protect women, men, kids, all victims after Jan. 1, 2017. Bravo, Brown.

Speaking of heroes, two of Greg Berlanti’s series are back starting Oct. 4 & 5: The Flash and Arrow on the CW. If you like superheroes (and really, in this political climate, who doesn’t?) these shows are for you.

What’s more, Berlanti (when we have gays behind the camera, we have gay characters in front of the camera) has teased some new LGBTQ character to come on The Flash, and another for Arrow, which introduced a new gay character last season. Arrow’s gay techie, Curtis (Echo Kellum), was recurring last season. But in season five he becomes his own man – superman, that is: Mr. Terrific.

Finally, Ryan Murphy. We love your shows, but what is happening on Scream Queens? How did we get from the college campus to a hospital of horrors? We may have to pass on this season, much as we love the characters, this feels borrowed from Gotham, and not in a good way. The Chanels as naughty nurses? Maybe not.

If you want horror, really fabulous, gut-churning, everything you could want in a scarefest horror, the show to watch is The Exorcist, which is likely the best new show this season. Even if horror isn’t your scene, this show has depth and fine acting and supersaturated color at all the right times and is absolutely mesmerizing.

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f there is one topic in LGBT films where there would seem nothing left to say it would be coming out.

Yet due to his skill, ingenuity, and courage, 20something filmmaker Alden Peters has reinvigorated this tired topic, making it a celebration of LGBT personhood in his new documentary Coming Out, just released on DVD by Wolfe Video.

Peters, a graduate of the NYU School of Arts, wanted to create a film that he would have wanted to have seen before he came out. Peters observed that every coming out story was told in hindsight and almost never showed what happened after coming out. Despite characterizing himself as shy and quiet, he decided to film his coming out to his family and friends on camera, capturing their reactions instantaneously and then a year later. He complements his own story with crowd-sourced videos from LGBT youth around the world. His family had recorded home movies from his birth, so his unfolding as a gay person from childhood to adulthood could be documented. Several talking

heads provide some practical social science.

Peters was inspired to make his movie after the Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge in 2010, his roommate having filmed him having sex with a man then posted it online. Peters decides it’s time to reveal his sexuality to his family and friends. He observes that people long out “forget that in that moment of coming out of the closet, there is nothing more terrifying.” He focuses not just on the pivotal coming out to yourself moment, then coming out to others, but seeks to capture all the uncertain times when you are investigating anonymously online for answers. Journalist Zack Stafford of The Guardian opines that most youth today use the Internet to explore their identities, to playpractice their sexuality before trying it out in real life. Developmental psychologist Ritch Savin-Williams from Cornell tells Peters there are no universal stages of coming out because it’s different for everyone.

Some eight-year-olds know they are gay, while some 25-year-olds

Stormy weather

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just gave a lousy performance,” wrote Joan Crawford (1906-77) in her memoirs, referring to her Sadie Thompson in Rain (1932), recently issued in DVD by TCM. Her assessment echoed most contemporary critics. The film was a rare flop for Crawford, and she went to her grave apologizing for it. Her fans preferred to see her as a rich prostitute, not a poor one.

She had been flattered that United Artists asked to borrow her from MGM to play such a famous part.

Her high expectations made its failure that much more painful. Time, however, has changed those judgments.

Adapted by Maxwell Anderson from gay author W. Somerset Maugham’s short story, directed by Lewis Milestone, Rain is a compelling drama about a cheerful, vulgar prostitute (Crawford), stuck on Pago Pago, who becomes the obsession of a pious clergyman, the Rev. Davidson (Walter Huston).

soon determined to “save” Sadie by any means. Passions are heightened by the claustrophobic living conditions and the nonstop rain.

Sadie attracts men with her beauty and coarse vitality. Her youth and sex appeal are her only

“Your god and me could never be shipmates. Tell your god that Sadie Thompson’s going straight to hell.”

–Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson in Rain

When Davidson first makes eye contact with Sadie, he stares her down. He makes her nervous, as though he can see into her soul.

Her popularity with soldiers, especially Tim O’Hara (William Gargan), worries Davidson, whose wife (Beulah Bondi) urges him to take action for the good of all concerned.

Sadie’s been an outsider all her life. Mrs. Davidson and the other “good” women cannot hide their disapproval of her. Davidson is

assets. She’s willing to trade them for a man’s “protection.” O’Hara, however, sees another side of Sadie.

He wants to protect her, but not exploit her. She thinks he’s sweet, calls him “handsome,” but doesn’t see much of a future for them.

Davidson’s reproaches are initially couched as concern for her well-being. Sadie is touched by his interest and grateful to him.

But later she senses his coldness.

She has little difficulty in rejecting his moral arguments. The more

have no idea. Peters’ film is a stark reminder that with all the progress made in LGBT rights and acceptance, coming out can still be an ordeal for many young people depending on where they live, their cultural and religious background.

Only Peters’ younger sister initially expresses slight reservations, though she becomes incredibly supportive. Many suspected he was gay, but a few others, like his older brother, were clueless.

Ironically his friends and family had fewer issues with his coming out than he did.

Peters spent years trying to act straight and explain away his gayness. An early family memory of mocking an effeminate man added to his sense that being gay was abnormal. Peters’ most traumatic moment is coming out publicly on Facebook (“You’re not official until you’re Facebook official”) when he changes his personal relationship status from interested in woman to interested in men. He

she refuses, the greater his efforts. His dogmatic certainty taps into her anger, stemming from her Dickensian past and lack of social standing.

Relentless, Davidson persuades the governor to prevent Sadie from leaving the island except to return to San Francisco, a prospect that terrifies her. She was convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, fled, and would be sent to jail if she went back. Frightened, she pleads with Davidson, who is unshakeable. Desperate, she asks others to intercede for her with the governor, without success.

Then Sadie becomes penitent. She dresses simply. She no longer uses heavy make-up or plays raucous music. She’s convinced that the reverend is right. The thought of jail still scares her, but he assures her that she will be better for having served her sentence, even if it is unjust.

Her martyrdom will be rewarded.

He will always be watching over her. When she is released, her faith in him will permit her successful re-entry into society as a “respectable” woman.

Sadie’s “salvation” is Davidson’s destruction. On the eve of Sadie’s departure, his long-suppressed sexual desire overcomes him. The camera shows him entering her room, and his face makes it clear what he has in mind.

After the ensuing off-screen struggle, Sadie emerges triumphant: cheaply dressed, overly made-up, but free. O’Hara is on hand to promise her a better life, in Sydney.

Her future doesn’t seem so bleak.

Davidson’s fate is tragic, however.

Crawford’s characteristic bluntness in defending herself from Davidson’s sadistic attacks is riveting. “You probably pulled wings off flies as a boy,” she sneers, nailing his cruelty. “Your god and me could never be shipmates. Tell your god that Sadie Thompson’s going straight to hell.” Crawford’s huge, beautiful, heavily made-up eyes unforgettably convey Sadie’s pain, fury, and courage.

Huston subtly reveals Davidson’s inner torment, his fear of his feelings. He is simultaneously moving

concludes that coming out is a personal process. You have to make your own decisions about when is the right time and circumstances.

His final step is to settle on an out identity and lifestyle. He attends

Seattle’s Pride festivities and visits gay clubs, seeing gay people that are different from him. Ultimately he will be gay in his own way.

This riveting film is an ideal resource for anyone struggling with their sexuality, or for families/allies wanting to know more about the gay experience. This movie is perfect for high school human sexuality courses (a two-part high school version is a bonus feature) as it is accessible and fast-paced for a young audience, with its intimate, even awkward moments, such as Peters’ mother asking whether anal sex hurts. Almost everyone in Peters’ life feels closer to him now that he has revealed the truth about himself. “Pride starts here and starts now.

When people come together they realize it is bigger than me or you. I feel more positive about things than I did a year ago.”

Such testimony so candidly conveyed makes Coming Out a charming standout among this year’s LGBT independent films.t

and frightening, repulsive and tormented. Gargan, Bondi, Guy Kibbee as the owner of the “hotel” in which the principals are housed, are all good.

Milestone, who had won the Best Director Oscar for his memorable All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), gets fine work from his actors and keeps the action moving. The sultry, stifling cabin fever of a small, rainy tropical island is beautifully rendered, helped by the Santa Catalina locations. Anderson’s dialogue makes the confrontations between Sadie and Davidson intense and compelling. Milo

Anderson designed Crawford’s costumes, far less flattering to her figure than those Adrian created for her at MGM. Crawford recovered from this failure. In 1930, she had been ranked #1 actress at the box office, remaining in the Top 10 for seven years. She had another flop opposite Gary Cooper in Today We Live (1933), but Dancing Lady that same year, billed above Clark Cable, was a smash. In it, she danced with Fred Astaire, his first screen partner.

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Julieta (Spain) In Pedro Almodovar’s holiday treat, our heroine (Emma Suarez) is sharing a Madrid flat with a boyfriend. The couple is about to move to Portugal when by chance Julieta reconnects with the best friend of her long-absent daughter Antia. Heartbroken that her child, now married and living in Switzerland with three kids, has not been in touch for 12 years, Julieta cancels her trip and returns to her old apartment hoping that Anita will know where to find her.

She starts a memoir and recalls her first lover, a fisherman from Galicia.

A fatal accident changes their lives.

(Larkspur, 10/11; Sequoia, 10/15) American Pastoral (US) is based on Philip Roth’s 1997 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Ewan McGregor (directorial debut) seems to have all that a man could want: a former beauty queen as his wife (Jennifer Connelly), a 16-year-old daughter (Dakota Fanning) in an America bursting with purpose and energy. What could go wrong? It’s 1968, and the daughter inexplicably veers from the path and bombs the local post office, killing a bystander. McGregor will do a postfilm Q&A. (Rafael, 10/9) The Eagle Huntress (Mongolia) Director Otto Bell introduces us to a coming-of-age ritual in the story of the first young woman to hunt with

eagles. This odd mix of doc and fable transpires over still-wild landscapes.

(Sequoia, 10/9; Rafael, 10/10) Elle (France-Germany-Belgium) Director Paul Verhoeven returns.

Isabelle Huppert sizzles as a middleaged designer of computer games who lives in the shadow of a sexually charged childhood trauma. (Sequoia, 10/7, 12) You’re Killing Me, Susana (Mexico) Gael Garcia Bernal headlines this romantic comedy-drama about a philandering husband who runs after his wife after she abandons him for the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Roberto Sneider directs. (Rafael, 10/7; Lark, 10/8; Sequoia, 10/12) Neruda (Chile-France-SpainArgentina) Gael again, this time as a policeman who hounds Chile’s famous rebel poet Pablo Neruda. This blend of fact and fiction from director Pablo Larrain mixes politics, poetry and high-spirited hedonism.

Spanish and French with English subtitles. (Rafael, 10/10) A Man Called Ove (Sweden) This comedy about an odd-couple friendship begins when Parvaneh, pregnant, moves into the neighborhood and backs into Ove’s mailbox.

Ove is a jobless widower who likes to think he runs the condo association and everybody’s lives. Directed

by Hannes Holm. (Larkspur, 10/10) Manchester by the Sea (US) Casey Affleck appears as a Boston guy shocked into maturity when his

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Scene from director Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta.

older brother (Kyle Chandler) dies and makes him the guardian of his teenage son. Written and directed by theater veteran Kenneth Lonergan.

(Rafael, 10/12; Sequoia, 10/15) Company Town (US) Locally produced doc from Jewish Film Festival co-founder Deborah Kaufman and co-director Alan Snitow connects the dots on Silicon Valley tech moguls who are exercising an increasing role in shaping the future of San Francisco and the once-diverse communities within.

(Sequoia, 10/9; Larkspur, 10/15) Paterson (US) Jim Jarmusch paints a fictional portrait of a poet/ bus driver (Adam Driver) who

struggles to keep his soul intact.

(Lark, 10/7; Sequoia, 10/11) The Nine (US) Katy Grannan turns her camera on the bedraggled residents of Modesto’s South Ninth Street skid row. (Sequoia, 10/11; Lark, 10/12) Oddball (Australia) Aussie director Stuart McDonald tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who helps her grandfather save the penguins of Australia’s Middle Island. (Rafael, 10/8; Lark, 10/16) One Week and a Day (Israel) Following the seven days of mourning or shiva, Eyal walks off with his dead son’s remaining supply of medical pot, resulting in wacky and moving misadventures. Hebrew with English subtitles. (Sequoia, 10/8; Rafael, 10/10) Paint It Black (US) Amber Tamblyn shoots her first feature around the story of an LA punk, Josie (Alia Shawkat), and a pianist, Meredith (Janet McTeer), who struggle over how to honor the memory of a young man who killed himself. (Sequoia, 10/7; Rafael, 10/8) Moonlight (US) Filmmaker Barry Jenkins returns with the tale of an African American youth who grows up in Reagan-era Miami, slammed by the crack cocaine epidemic. He struggles to survive despite bullying at school and parental neglect at home.

(Sequoia, 10/10; Rafael, 10/13) Land of Mine (DenmarkGermany) A Danish military man

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spends 100 minutes in Martin Zandvliet’s drama instructing 14 German teen POWs on how to defuse thousands of still-active landmines.

(Larkspur, 10/12; Rafael, 10/13) Frantz (Germany-France) Francois Ozon returns with a WWI-era drama featuring Pierre Niney as an attractive young Frenchman who infiltrates a German family mourning the death of their son Frantz.

(Rafael, 10/7; Larkspur, 10/14) Denial (US-UK) Director Mick Jackson pits American historian Deborah E. Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) against Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) in a film that probes the limits of freedom of speech. (Rafael, 10/6) Certain Women (US) In Kelly Reichardt’s drama, four women (Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone) illustrate three Maile Meloy stories.

(Rafael, 10/8; Sequoia, 10/16) California Typewriter (US) Director Doug Nichol’s three stories about the old-fashioned typewriter, with three famous writers (Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, David McCullough). (Sequoia, 10/7; Rafael, 10/10) Burden (US) Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey co-direct this provocative bio-doc of punk artist Chris Burden. (Lark, 10/10; Rafael, 10/12)t Info: mvff.com.

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DTF Fridays @ Port Bar, Oakland

St. Lucia @ Fox Theater, Oakland

DJ Pacifico plays house music at the new gay bar’s weekly event. 9pm2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

The uniquely fun pop-synth band performs. Baio opens. $27.50. 8pm.

1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.apeconcerts.com

Gogo Fridays @ Toad Hall

Stank @ Powerhouse

Hot dancers grind it at the Castro bar with a dance floor and patio. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Sexy, cruisy scent and sweat-filled night with gogo studs and a sweaty pit contest. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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Thu 6

After Dark @ Exploratorium The hands-on science museum’s adult cocktail party takes on Superpowers, with displays and exhibits about superpowered creatures in nature. Oct. 13: Great Pumpkin night w/craft cocktails, ales and pumpkiny treats. $10-$15.

6pm-10pm. Pier 1, Embarcadero at Green St. www.exploratorium.edu

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

Heyyy, Sailor! @ Lookout BrokeAss Stuart, the Go Bang! crew (DJs Steve Fabus, Joe Prince Wolfe, Sergio Fedasz) and Lookout team up to welcome LGBT military peeps (in uniform, we hope!), their pals and fans to an epic Fleet Week party. $5. 9pm2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Our favorite Russian exiled countesssongstress (actor J. Conrad Frank) returns to the swanky nightclub with A Bittersweet ‘90s Symphony, a comedic all-90s and grunge cabaret show about her life in Seattle. $30-$50. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences

Shonen Knife @ DNA Lounge

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Oct. 6: Gems and Minerals, with DJ Bobby McCole, geology chats and displays. Oct. 13: music with Dan Deaco, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and DJ BFF.fm. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park.

379-8000. www.calacademy.org

The super fun Japanese pop-rock trio performs. $15 and up. 8pm. 375 11th St. www.shonenknife.net www.dnalounge.com

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Viewings @ Several Venues Enjoy weekly screenings of the fun drag show at several bars and cafes, at 8pm: NoMan Coffee, 55 Duboce St. www.nomancoffee.com; at Oasis (followed by Lip-Synch For Your Life with Kylie Minono), 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com; Port Bar, Oakland2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Rush vs. Yes @ Slim’s Fred Barchetta’s band performs Rush and Shine Delirious performs Yes at the classic art rock tribute night. $20$25 ($45 with dinner). 8pm. 333 11th St. www.Rush-vs-Yes.com www.slimspresents.com

Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes’ weekly drag show. $5. 10:30pm show.

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

Jim Brickman @ Feinstein’s

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. No cell phones on the dance floor, please! $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com

Jim Brickman @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

The indie folk-rock music icon singersongwriter performs with Chastity Brown. $33.50. 9pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. www.thefillmore.com

Ani DiFranco @ The Fillmore

Varla Jean Merman @ Oasis

The Grateful Dead cofounder performs his Campfire Tour with a new band. $58-$78. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.apeconcerts.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

Bowie & Prince Night @ Cat Club

Enjoy Latin, hip hop and electro, plus hot gogos galore, and a big dance floor. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Enjoy Club Gossip’s music and video tribute the two late pop-rock icons. $5-$8. 9pm-2:30am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland

Litquake Opening Night Gala @ War Memorial Performing Arts Center

The weekly hip hop and R&B night celebrates Oakland Pride, with a live performance by Netta B. $15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

The sprawling multi-event annual literary festival’s opening night gala features the SF Shakespeare Festival performers, musicians Shelley Phillips and poet Gary Soto. $30-$35. 8pm10:30pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. Festival thru Oct. 15. www.litquake.org

Dance Party @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy relaxed happy hour cocktails early (open at 5pm) and later dancing in the cozy back room at the newest LGBT bar. Daily 5pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Drag Me to Brunch @ Lookout

The powerhouse drag star performs her new, hilarious musical parody show A Little White Music. $25, $35, and VIP champagne tables $225.

7:30pm. Thru Oct. 8. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

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Ain’t Mama’s Drag @ Balancoire

Bakermat & Sam Feldt @ 1015

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Bob Weir @ Fox Theater, Oakland

Varla Jean Merman @ Oasis

The dark metal rock band performs hits and new music. $39-$75. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.sfmasonic.com

The gay Jewish guys’ (and their pals & admirers) social party, themed High Homo Days, with hostess Kylie Minono. No cover. 9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Fri 7

Music night with local and touring bands. $8. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Alice in Chains @ Masonic Hall

Mazel Top @ Oasis

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

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted

by Cruzin d’Loo. 8pm10pm. No cover. 2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com

Mary Go Round @ Lookout

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Sat 8

The Dutch DJ duo perform as part of their Amesterdam with Love tour. $18-$27.

10pm-3am. 1015 Folsom St. www.1015.com

Boy Bar @ The Cafe Gus Presents’ weekly dance night, with DJ Kid Sysko, cute gogos and $2 beer (before 10pm). 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Bruno Bernal, Jimmy Durano @ The Nob Hill Theatre Two porn studs; Bruno does solo shows (8pm) and sex shows with Jimmy (10pm). $25. Also Oct. 8. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Curtain Call @ Hotel Rex Barry Lloyd MCs and accompanies the open mic cabaret music night. $25.

7pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

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The award-winning pianist and composer performs his new show, Pure Piano: The Greatest Hits, at the elegant cabaret nightclub. $50-$70.

8pm. Also Oct. 8, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.jimbrickman.com www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

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Ani DiFranco @ The Fillmore

Manimal @ Beaux Gogo-tastic dance night starts off your weekend. $5. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. beauxsf.com

Fri 7 Glamamore’s birthday at Some Thing @ The Stud

Planet Booty @ The Independent The groovy funk band from Oakland brings another rousing night of music. Diego’s Umbrella opens. $14-$16. 9pm. 628 Divisadero. apeconcerts.com/ events/planet-booty/

Polyglamorous @ Oasis The groovy “Burner faerie cubs & queers” dance night, with resident DJs M*J*R and Mark O’Brien. $7-$10.

10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom.

795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved, with new acts. $10. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat themed drag performance night. Oct. 7 is Mr. david Glamamore’s birthday celebration. $7. 10pm-3am.

399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Frolic @ The Stud The monthly furry party features DJs NeonBunny, Phoxwit, Blue, LycanCatt, and lots of fun. $5 (with costume) $10 (without). 8pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.frolicparty.com www.studsf.com

Gwen Stefani @ Shoreline Ampitheatre No Doubt’s lead singer brings her solo concert show to the Bay Area.

Eve opens. $47 and up. 7pm. One Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. www.gwenstefani.com www.livenation.com

House Party @ Powerhouse Groovy house music with DJ Mohammad. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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If the rocket-like trajectory of her still-young career continues apace, that ought to happen any minute now.

Haven’t heard of Miller yet? If you consider yourself part of the theatrical cognoscenti, you’ll want to catch up with the curve and check out the South Carolina-born dynamo’s first-ever San Francisco appearances Feinstein’s at the Nikko next weekend.

In 2006, just out of college at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied under Billy Porter – Kinky Boots’ original Broadway Lola, –Miller’s first professional gig was understudying the lead role of Deloris Van Carter in the Pasadena and Atlanta development runs of

Sister Act: The Musical, a part played in the original movie version by Whoopi Goldberg.

And while Miller only got to play the lead for a few nights during those tryout months, she made a powerful enough impression to be offered the starring role for the show’s 2010 opening in London’s West End, where she was eventually joined by Goldberg in a stint as the Mother Superior. Then –remarkably for an essentially unknown performer– she was invited to helm the 2011 Broadway transfer.

Above Left: Patina Miller accepts her Tony for Pippin in 2013.

Above Right: Patina Miller in Pippin.

Below: Patina Miller with Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act.

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Nun too shabby, Miller scored nominations for both an Olivier and a Tony in her debut role on the main stems.

Bowing out of her habitual role in 2012, Miller slipped into another lead, in the Broadway-bound American Repertory Theater revival of Pippin. Having excelled in a role indelibly associated with Whoopi Goldberg, Miller now found herself stepping into the soft shoes of another iconic entertainer. Her emcee-like character in Pippin, known only as Leading Player, was originally portrayed on Broadway by Ben Vereen.

Miller not only put her own successful slant on the Bob Fosse choreograpy Vereen so expressively danced in the role, she took home her own version –Best Lead Performance by an Actress– of the Tony he won (Best Performance by a Leading Actor).

Miller also earned the 2013 Astaire Award for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway show for that role.

Meanwhile, she booked her first film role: Commander Paylor in the concluding two installments of the blockbuster Hunger Games series.

The hits seem to just keep coming.

Miller’s opening number in Pippin was “Magic To Do” and it’s hard not to wonder if, along with plenty of hard work, there’s a mite of magic in the actress’ lightning-fast ascent from student to star.

Even Miller herself points out a bit of kismet in her early career.

“After Sister Act in Atlanta, before I got called for the London production,” she recalls, “I moved to New York for the first time, and the first thing I booked was a 30-episode role on All My Children, which was my mother’s favorite program when I was growing up. Susan Lucci was one of the first actresses I was aware of.”

Miller’s mother, a Baptist minister in the small town of Pageland, South Carolina, strongly encouraged her daughter to sing in church.

“I was actually a little shy as a girl,” Miller reflects, acknowledging that singing for God was presented to her as an offer she couldn’t refuse.

Watching the movie version of Annie on television at age 10, Miller felt whatever sense of performance anxiety she had left drop away.

“What those kids are doing on the screen,” she remembers telling her mother, “That’s what I want to do!

“There wasn’t really any theater in our town,” said Miller, “but I went to summer camps at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts.”

For her last two years of high school, Miller boarded at the school, and graduated to a full scholarship.

“We trained like athletes at CMU,” she says, praising her education as readying her for both the fast pace of her career and the ability to work in a range of media.

Last year, Miller filmed a PBS American Songbook special. Since 2014, she has played press coordinator Daisy Grant on the CBS series Madam Secretary.

“I started in theater and will always go back,” Miller says. “But I also love the challenge of working in a different realm, that smaller scale and space where you have to pull it back and let the camera stare into your soul. Playing to the camera is so internal. It’s as if you have to show that you have a secret, but not show the secret itself.

“Working on a series, it’s also interesting to keep learning more about my character as new episodes

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Patina Miller performing at the Jazz at Lincoln Center series in New York.

are written,” she added. “I might have played an earlier scene differently if I’d known something I found out later. But I have to keep it all believable as part of the same character.”

Less appealing, Miller says, is the stop and start nature of filming.

“You have to keep jumping in and out of character,” she said. “On stage you get to be the character without interruption, and you also know that character inside and out. Your character can deepen over time, but you know what she is going to do over the arc of the show.”

In seeking her opportunity to

originate a stage lead rather than taking on a role strongly linked to another actor like Goldberg or Vereen, Miller nonetheless points to Deloris and the Leading Player as models.

“I think it’s great to take on parts with such power. I love giving young women these strong characters to see.”t Patina Miller performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Saturday Oct. 15 (7pm) and Sunday Oct. 16 (3pm). Tickets $60-80.

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A Tough Act to Follow @ Club BnB, Oakland

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

The documentary about gay Black Bay Area comic Sampson McCormick, and the struggle of non-diversity in the profession, with several notable stage, TV and film stars, is screened at the East Bay nightclub. $10. 6pm.

2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.sampsoncomedy.com

Strip down as the strippers also take it all off. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Sun 9

Tue 11

Big Top @ Beaux

Bandit @ Lone Star Saloon

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Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. Oct. 8 is a new Bjork tribute night! $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Knox and Jorge T. $4.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Saturgay @ Qbar Stanley Frank spins house dance remixes at the intimate Castro dance bar. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Shane Kroll @ Hotel Rex Reflections From a Demented Mind, the actor-singer’s cabaret show, with pianist Stephanie Lynne Smith and guest vocalist Joe Rosenmeyer. $30$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

Sugar @ The Cafe Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club.

9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Enjoy daytime partying with bears and cubs, plus fundraisers for the SF Fog Rugby team. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (Check the website for a list of recipients). 3pm6pm. Now also on Saturdays. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Big Top @ Beaux The fun Castro nightclub, with hot local DJs and sexy gogo guys and gals. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.Beauxsf.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

In the Spirit of Lennon @ Great American Music Hall The Sun Kings’ Drew Harrison performs an acoustic evening of John Lennon songs; Johnny Steele opens. $18-$22 ($43 with dinner). 8pm. 859 O’Farrell St. www.slimspresents.com

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm.

3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Soulovely @ The New Parish, Oakland

Sat 8 Gwen Stefani @ Shoreline Ampitheatre

Writers With Drinks @ The Make Out Room Host Charlie Jane Anders welcomes Colin Dickey, Jiz Lee, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Wonder Dave and Micah Perks to the boozy literary event. $5$20. 7:30pm. 3225 22nd St. www.writerswithdrinks.com

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Al Stewart, Gary Wright @ Yoshi’s Oakland The two 80s pop music singers perform at the nightclub/restaurant. $33-$65. 6:30pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

BeBe Sweetbriar’s Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st.

920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

David Harness DJs the season finale of the daytime soul dance patio party, with Lady Ryan, Emancipacion and Aima. $5-$10.

3pm-8pm. 1743 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. www.thenewparish.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet often hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm.

450 Powell St. in Union Square. 3958595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Sunsation Sundays @ Oasis Enjoy the roof deck party with DJs Bugie and Philip Grasso. $7. 4pm10pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com

Vanessa Bousay @ Martuni’s

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm.

2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with guest host Nick Radford. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

LQQKS @ Powerhouse Shelix and Abominatrix’ drag runway show. $5. 10pm-2am.

1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

New weekly queer event with resident DJ Justime; electro, soul, funk, house.

No cover. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.facebook.com/BanditPartySF www.lonestarsf.com

Gaymer Night @ Eagle Gay gaming fun on the bar’s big screen TVs. Have a nerdgasm and a beer with your pals. 8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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Vanessa Bousay @ Martuni’s

Mule Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland

Weekly dance night, with Jocques, DJs Tori, Twistmix and Andre. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht.

9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Porchlight Readings @ Verdi Club Litquake co-presents a night of “Life During Wartmine” stories, with Jack Boulware, Greg Milner, Laurie Notaro, Bucky Sinister, Eric Spitznagel, D. Watkins and Pamela Alma Weymouth. $25-$30. 8pm.

2424 Mariposa St. www.litquake.org www.verdiclub.net

Tom Jones @ Masonic Hall The pop music legend, still going strong, performs his classic hits. $50$150. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.sfmasonic.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. portbaroakland.com

Bedlam @ Beaux

Weekly event with DJ Haute Toddy, hosts Mercedez Munro and Abominatrix. Wet T-shirt/jock contest at 11pm. $5-$10. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge

Opulence @ Beaux

Bartender Steve Dalton’s beer night happy hour. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Enjoy frosty Moscow Mule cocktails in a brassy mug, specials before 8pm. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Tap That Ass @ SF Eagle

Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials. $4. 10pm-2am. Preceded

by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Honey Mahogany’s weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. midnightsunsf.com

No No Bingo @ Virgil’s Sea Room

Enjoy weekly same-sex (and other) swing dancing, with lessons, social dancing, ASL interpreters and live music. $15. 9pm-11:45pm. 2424 Mariposa St. at Potrero. www.queerjitterbugs.com

Underwear Night @ Club OMG

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun

Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays.

7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing.

4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Queer Jitterbugs @ The Verdi Club

Bone @ Powerhouse High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Hysteria @ Martuni’s Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 6pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents with MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7. Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Mr. International Freedom @ Beaux Contest of hunks raises funds for the LGBT Asylum Project. Win dinner at Fogo de Chao with one of the candidates in a special auction; hosted

by Adam Sandel and Donna Sachet, with DJ Bhad Bays. $20 8pm-10pm.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Weekly punk-alternative music night hosted by Uel Renteria and Johnny Rockitt. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Brian Wilson @ Masonic Hall The Beach Boys legend performs the classic album Pet Sounds with Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin and his new band. $40-$125. 8pm. Also Oct. 13.

1111 California St. sfmasonic.com

Donovan @ Regency Ballroom The British pop singer performs his classic hits and new music. Also Oct. 13. $32-$55. 8pm. 1300 van Ness Ave. theregencyballroom.com

Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge San Francisco’s classic drag show takes a final bow, ending after a 10-year run.

Say farewell with performers Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre. No cover.

9:30pm-11:15pm. 133 Turk St. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

The local drag songstress premieres her Halloween-themed “Bewitched” cabaret concert, with guest witches Keta Bill & Steven Satyricon. $15.

7pm. 4 Valencia St. www.vanessabousay.com

Mon 10

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe 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.

8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. whitehorsebar.com

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Ducal dignitaries, dashing diversions

by Donna Sachet

animals. You’ll see demonstrations by the US Marines, SF ongratulations to the new Fire Department, SF Sheriff ’s Grand Duke Peter Euphoria Office, California Highway Griggs and Grand Duchess Migitte Patrol, SF Department of Nielsen who were crowned at last Emergency Management, and Saturday’s Grand Ducal Coronamore, including dog trailing tion at Hotel Whitcomb. And it is and tracking, explosive detecgood to see Colby Michaels, after a tion, patrolling, and compandiligent campaign for Grand Duke, ion services with music, prizstill out and about contributing to es, and giveaways for everyone. his community and demonstrating You’ll leave as a dog-lover for his ongoing commitment. We also sure! salute outgoing Grand Duke Aja Then, from 6-11PM, head Monet Ashton and Grand Duchto The Café for the first Fleet ess Olivia Hart for a job well done, Week military sanctioned LGespecially for raising nearly $50,000 BTQ party with dancing, perfor charity during their reign, one formers, and a short program, community fund-raiser at a time. all sponsored by our friends Last Wednesday’s party and funat Stoli. Beyond the roaring draiser at Beaux for Scott Wiener’s planes above and the imposGareth Gooch campaign for State Senate filled the ing ships in the Bay, Fleet New Grand Duchess Migitte Nielsen place to capacity as Scott welcomed Week keeps expanding to emand Grand Duke Peter Euphoria the crowd of supporters and five brace more fully the entire San Griggs were crowned at last Saturday’s drag queens performed, including Francisco population. Join us Grand Ducal Coronation at BeBe Sweetbriar, Pat N Leathfor this historic first event.

Hotel Whitcomb. er, Au Jus, and Bionka Simone.

Also on Saturday night, Everyone cheered to new music San Francisco Night Minisvideo starring Carne Asada, Au Jus, try hosts its annual Fall Gala, Mariah Hansen. The program and Miz Palou. this year titled 1001 Nights Around started with a colorful musical inConvinced that birthday celthe World, an International Extroduction enlivened by costumed ebrations deserve our attention, we travaganza, at St. Mark’s Lutheran dancers. Her daughter Nubian headed to Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Church, 111 O’Farrell Street startFlunder presented the Visonary last Saturday to party with Empress ing at 5:30PM. For 52 years, they Award to Yvetter Flunder with great China Silk, joined by a bevy of have been offering telephone counemotional power and to wonderful Imperial, Ducals, and other friends seling and personal crisis intervenaudience response. both local and from out of town. tion for those most in need and ofThen Executive Director of the Not surprisingly, China designated ten overlooked; they deserve your National Center for Lesbian Rights her birthday party a benefit for the attention and support.

Kate Kendell gave a very personal annual Pilgrimage to Colma The following Tuesday, October introduction to Mark and the Jose Julio Sar11, Adam Sandel announces the Leno before presentria Charitable Giving first Mr. International Freedom ing him with the Fund. Tons of raffle Contest at Beaux from 8-10PM, Leadership Award. prizes encouraged benefiting the new LGBT Asylum Leno accepted with his ticket sales and a parade Project. You are promised a riveting usual grace, diplomacy, of talent performed, competition and a chance to bid on and humor, remindemceed by Emperor Stea dinner date with one of the coming us all of the genuphen Dorsey and Empetitors. ine significance of this press Galilea.

Wednesday, October 12, is Posiman’s contributions to During the afternoon, tive Resource Center’s Windows of the LGBTQ Community we joined Empress Tiger Lily in Opportunity, at The City Club, 155 and beyond. hanging posters created by the InterSansome Street, celebrating the President of Horizons Foundanational Court System and the Namerging of this organization withUntitled-6 tion Roger Doughty then reviewed tional LGBTQ Task Force encouragAIDS Emergency Fund and Baker the history of the organization and ing everyone to vote on November 8 Places. As our loyal readers surely outlined some specific goals for the in what may be the most important know, we go way back with PRC future and Board members Rachel election of our lifetimes. Without and AEF and we are anxious to hear Robasciotti, Olga Talamante, and endorsing any party or candidate, more details of the merger and to Richard Davis-Lowell challenged these organizations are committed receive information about future attendees to join or to increase their to increasing LGBTQ voter turn-out plans. And don’t worry, it won’t be support for the incredible work of so that the important legal strides of all serious; where this crowd gathHorizons Foundation. To say that the last few years can be preserved ers, fun happens. this was a generous crowd would be and advanced. Hint to all our readThen on Thursday, October 13, a tremendous understatement. ers: register and vote! join Chair Bahya Oumlil-Murad We than ambled back into the Then it was on to the main event and Honorary Co-Chairs James Crystal Ballroom where a casino where Horizons Foundation approHormel & Michael Nguyen for setting awaited and spirited gampriately honored two community Compassion is Universal, Shanti’s bling ensued. The highlight of our pioneers and leaders, Bishop Yvette 42nd anniversary dinner, at the Palace evening was the chance to steal a Flunder and State Senator Mark Hotel starting at 6PM. Sandra Herfew private moments with Mark Leno, at the Fairmont Hotel. We atnandez will receive the Nancy Pelosi Leno in the Laurel Court Bar. All in tended as the grateful companion of Lifetime Achievement Award and all, a stellar San Francisco night!

Chris Carnes, another community Dan Bernal will receive the James This Saturday, October 8, we are pioneer, who continues to keep our Hormel Community Spirit Award. excited about two events associfriends aware of events, causes, and Friday, October 14, Mark Leno ated with Fleet Week. First, we’ll breaking news through her on-line will once again be rightfully honbe joining Anne Kronenberg to service chriscarneslist.com. ored, this time by UC Hastings Colemcee Bark at the Park in Duboce Well-known doorman William lege at the Tenderloin Museum, 398 Park from 11AM-1PM, showcasMay met us at the porte cochere with Eddy, from 5-7PM. ing the incredible talents of service his never-failing smile and personal From there it is on to the Tendergreeting. As we promloin Neighborhood Development enaded through the luxuCorporation’s Celebrity Pool Toss at riously decorated lobby, the Phoenix Hotel on Tuesday, Ocwho did we encounter but tober 18; AIDS Legal Referral Panhonoree Mark Leno, who el’s 33rd annual Reception and Aucaccompanied us into a tion at the Julia Morgan Ballroom lively cocktail hour and sion Wednesday, October 19; The lent auction in the elegant Arc SF Breakfast at the Julia MorCrystal Ballroom, where gan Ballroom on Thursday, October we chatted with Deb Stall20; and Breast Cancer Emergency ings, Audrey Koh, Al Fund’s This Old Bag at the Bentley Baum & Robert Holgate, Reserve on Friday, October 21.

Dan Joraanstad & Bob Yes, like every year, October is Hermann, Jeff Lewy & Ed packed with benefits, all greatly deEishen, and many others. serving your support, so gird your We then settled into loins and get out there!

Trish Tunney our table in the Grand And if you can’t be everywhere Ballroom, seated with Bishop Yvette Flunder (left) was honored (who can?), choose one or two Mark Leno, his sister at the Horizons Foundation gala at the events that really resonate with you Jamie Leno & Tamar Fairmont Hotel. and throw your full support behind Lavi, Jim Wright, and them. You’ll be glad you did!t

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Buffy Live! @ Oasis

Fitz & The Tantrums @ Fox Theater, Oakland R&B-pop LA band performs; Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn opens. $35. 8pm.

1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.apeconcerts.com

Floor 21 @ Starlight Room Juanita More! presents the weekly scenic happy hour event, with host Rudy Valdez, and guest DJs. No cover, and a fantastic panoramic city view. 5pm-9pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Girl Scout @ Port Bar, Oakland The new weekly women’s happy hour and dance night with DJ Becky Knox.

6pm-10pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

D’Arcy Drollinger’s new drag parody of the popular scifi vampire TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Michael Phillis, Kim Burly, Melanie Marshall, Flynn DeMarco, Adam Roy, and many other talents. $25-$35. 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Also Oct. 26 & 31 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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Kembra Pfahler @ Oasis

Karaoke Night @ The Stud Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle

Warpaint @ The Fillmore

Kollin Holts hosts the weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm-8pm.

398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

The pop group performs music from their new album, Heads Up. Facial and Goldensuns open. $27.50. 8pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. www.thefillmore.com

Latin Drag Night @ Club OMG

Positive Resource Center Gala @ City Club

Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez. 9pm-2am.

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Windows of Opportunity, the HIV/ AIDS nonprofit’s benefit includes a silent auction, cocktails, appetizers, desserts, music. $125-$1000. 6pm9pm. 155 Sansome St., 10th floor. www.positiveresource.org

Weekly screenings of vintage music videos, and retro drink prices. 9pm2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Pussy Party @ Beaux

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

Ladies night at the Castro dance club.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440

Sing along and sing out, Louise, with hostess Sister Flora Goodthyme. 8pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Kembra Pfahler @ Oasis The very unusual performer, filmmaker, and leader of the glampunk band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black performs at the SoMa nightclub. $10. 11pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Kick It @ DNA Lounge Kandi Love, Northcore Collective and Plus Alliance’s weekly EDM, flow arts dance night, with DJs; glow drag encouraged. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

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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

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol.

8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.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

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Music night with local and touring bands. Sept. 22: Homobiles kick off Folsom weekend. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night; 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com Want your nightlife event listed?

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Ass: you like it.

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Ryan Rose and Micah Brandt, just getting going, in Hot House’s Ass Fiends.

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he collective of formerly individual companies officially known as the Falcon Studio Group, and which I’ve named Raging Hot Falcon (RHF) is an efficient enterprise. It attaches its “Exclusives” in any and all of its branches, and where directors were once upon a time purveyors of a brand linked to their proclivities, in an any-director-fits-allsizes format, attaches its creatives variously throughout the kingdom. So, when I read that Nick Foxx had been named the sole director of Hot House films, replacing Christopher Owens, I checked out two of his movies to see what he could bring to the brand.

Twenty-nine year old Foxx has been in the industry for eight years, but I have no idea what his pedigree might be. For all I know, he started out as somebody’s boyfriend. That’s not intrinsically a bad place to start.

If I remember correctly, that’s how Steven Scarborough entered the industry, and look what he accomplished.

Most recently, Foxx’s co-directorship with Steve Cruz for Raging Stallion’s twopart Total Exposure project was covered with awards. Congrats, guys. I’d sure like to see that movie. What I did see were Foxx’ Hot House titles, Ass Fiends and Ride It. Both Ass Fiends (AF) and Ride It (RI) have similar setups. Someone’s in a room, someone else walks in,

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Tegan Zayne launches an appreciation course in Austin Wolf, in a screengrab from Hot House’s Ride It.

and they have sex. In AF, the And that’s the trouble when the room is a sex club environgoal is nothing more than high ment, while in RI it’s mechanenergy. ic shops. Both are simulated, In a recent interview, that and lack atmosphere, being fine but former Hot House dirather obviously contrived in rector Christopher Owens said, the large, echoey and inher“I know that no love emotions ently sterile warehouse that’s go into the making of a porn the RHF base camp in Las scene.” And performer Jimmy Vegas. A few words helpfully Durano is just one of many launch the action in RI, while who has said that porn “is pure AS leans on a back room’s de work, just like any other job.” rigueur cruise mode of butch So, while everything about silence. Lots of staring while Foxx’s product for Hot House crotch-rubbing. looks fine, can play excitingly, I took note of the matching and will most likely get you jocks and socks on the peroff, it’s missing that intangible formers in AF. Cute is not what quality that could transform it I expect in a Hot House film. and which its producers don’t Falcon Studio Groups But the movie also features releven seem to be aiming for: ished touches of fetish gear, like Studly-looking Armond Rizzo opens all emotion. Without that, ya got a jock strap, wrist- and arm- apertures wide, in Hot House’s Ride It. acrobatics. Performed, albeit, bands, and the chrome cock under Foxx’ guidance in this ring seen on the oh-so-meaty current pair of flicks, by some cock of Josh Connors. mighty able acrobats. lets stand when editing. I also like The movie’s specialty, along with But really, I get overheated on that advocacy of Reverse Cowboy some pubes clipped nearly unto the subject. So don’t lets ask for the fucking. oblivion, is its extended and delimoon when we have the stars. Reach On the distaff side, Foxx scenes ciously slurpy rimming sequences. high, Nick, reach high.t are more efficient than exciting.

Ass fiends, indeed. Also on hand, of course, is ample and exhilarated fucking. My favorite double-cock view of the Reverse Cowboy is greatly indulged, while missionary positioned pistoning is complemented by the fine videography of multi-tasker Foxx, who gazes down from above in extended delectation.

Micah Brandt looks more fiercely handsome than ever before, with a rockin’ body, lush lips, and hair and beard that are close-cropped and ink-black. Remember how loud Jessie Colter was? My, how he carried on. Well, Brandt’s sex-sounds in both his scenes are right in that league.

Brandt is especially pleasing in his exuberant outing with Ryan Rose, a pronging specialist having a real good day with a receptive partner. Was it my imagination, or did Brandt actually whisper Carmen’s provocation: Frappe-moi donc!

“Stab me with it!”

Other estimable performers in Ass Fiends include Sean Zevran, Bravo Delta, and ever-ready Chris Bines. They got gusto!

Both movies feature multiple dildo episodes, in three scenes of AF, and two in RI. The tops mostly deliver basic plumbing, but some show expertise.

Top man Chris Bines opens the movie, rough-riding Armond Rizzo. Super-sexy, I thought, was that tip of nipple popping through a cunning pinpoint hole in Bine’s distressed wife beater (the smart Thrillpeddlers have renamed these as wife pleasers). And relish how Bines inserts several fingers alongside a chrome anal probe when playing with Rizzo’s ass.

Sebastian Kross is next, doing his now standard thing, but also including a ribbed vibrator and a delicious oral cum shot, to Brendan Phillips, a clean-cut fellow with short brown hair and trimmed beard. There’s a generic scene with Colton Grey and Bryden Allen, and then the film’s best, with huge hunk Austin Wolf topping the beguiling Tegan Zayne.

This guy’s thick eyelashes and dark chocolate eyes get me, as does his melting personality.

Some serious cocksucking goes down when he gloms onto Wolf ’s stout cock. And though Wolf can be a mechanical bull when fucking, I think I drooled on myself when he flipped Zayne on his back and pounded his ass while simultaneously caressing his cock. Well done, Mr. Wolf, and what a spectacular orgasm it elicits from teaser Tegan.

The positives for Foxx’ directing include the high energy he elicits, his expert videography, with a steady and well-positioned camera, and the long takes he records and

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Photos by Steven UnderhiLL Dial It Up! @ The Starlight Room

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olitics and cocktails, along with a foggy yet panoramic view, blended together at Juanita More!’s Dial It Up: Celebrating the Future of SF Politics. Candidates Jane Kim, Bevan Dufty, Rafael Mandelman, Tom Temprano, Alex Randolph, Aaron Peskin, David Campos, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen, Sandra Lee Fewer and other LGBT and queer-friendly politicians schmoozed with supporters at the elegant nightclub with a fabulous view (450 Powell St., 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel www.starlightroomsf.com), also the space for More!’s weekly Wednesday Floor 21, and the popular Sunday’s a Drag.

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