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ichard Paul Magary, who was the longtime administrator for the Castro Merchants Association, died December 20 at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, his sister wrote in an Courtesy Magary family email. He was 81.

The cause of death Richard Magary was a lengthy illness, his family said.

Mr. Magary, a gay man, was a major community organizer and volunteer in San Francisco, with 15 years of service with the Castro merchants group. He retired in 2020. He was president of the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association for 25 years, from 1988-2013.

During this time the park was cleaned up and made safer, new plants and new park benches were installed, his sister wrote.

Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the Bay Area Reporter that Mr. Magary will be missed.

“Losing Richard is pretty devastating for a lot of us,” Wiener wrote in text. “He was the ultimate community servant, truly devoting his life to the neighborhood and always doing it with professionalism and integrity. It’s a huge loss.”

In an email to members, the Castro merchants group memorialized Mr. Magary.

“Richard joined Castro merchants right before the turn of the century and stayed involved right up until the end, even after he stepped down from his post in May of 2020,” board President Masood Samereie stated.

“Richard was a master of organization and project management, leading such important programs as our annual membership drive, the printed Castro Guide, fundraising, holiday celebrations, Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag, and so much more,” Samereie stated.

“There is nothing that Richard wouldn’t volunteer to do and his vast love and knowledge of the Castro was immeasurably valuable and appreciated. He was also a vocal member of the community, standing and shouting side by side with neighborhood heroes to protect our little hamlet and move it forward.”

Herb Cohn, who was the merchant group’s longtime treasurer and had served as president of the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District board, was Mr. Magary’s close friend for over 40 years.

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anta and his reindeer are preparing to spread Christmas cheer as they take a break on the rooftop of the building at 18th and Danvers

streets in the Castro, with the sun peeking through on a recent morning. The display also includes a Christmas tree and snowman (not pictured).

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ince moving back to San Francisco in the mid-1990s after relocating to Seattle, David Crow hadn’t felt much connection to the city’s LGBTQ community. The 69-yearsyoung gay man is self-admittedly shy and often feels isolated.

“Even though I live in San Francisco with lots and lots of people here, I still feel very alone sometimes,” said Crow, who used to work in graphic design.

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Two out women to lead BART board

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he Bay Area Rapid Transit District board will be led for the first time by two out women, directors decided at their December 16 meeting.

Rebecca Saltzman, a lesbian, is the new president, while Janice Li, a queer woman of color, is the vice president. Saltzman represents District 3 on the transit agency’s board, which includes part of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Li represents District 8, which includes parts of San Francisco.

The new positions are technically effective immediately, though Saltzman said there won’t be a BART board meeting until January 13, as Thursday’s was the last of the year.

Saltzman, 39, told the Bay Area Reporter that she’s excited to be stepping into the role as board president, which she also served as in 2017.

“It’s awesome,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s great to build our LGBTQ caucus.”

When Saltzman was first elected in 2012, she joined gay former board member Tom Radulovich, who was first elected in 1996 and served for 20 years. He was succeeded in his District 9 seat by gay former San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty, who was elected in 2016 and reelected four years later. Li was elected in 2018 and is up for reelection in 2022.

Dufty congratulated his colleagues.

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complished and talented members are also making queer history with their leadership of BART in 2022,” Dufty wrote in a text to the B.A.R. Li, 34, also talked about the historic nature of the BART board leadership, noting that she’s the first queer woman of color and the first Asian American woman on the board.

She’s also the only Asian elected to a transit board in the country.

“When Bevan was president, he really uplifted the queer community,” Li said in a phone interview, referring to Dufty’s board presidency in 2019. “Representation matters. But we really care about transit and moving our riders.”

In fact, Saltzman and Li both pointed to increasing BART ridership as the top priority. In

the nearly two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, BART saw its passenger numbers plummet and the board had to take the drastic action of reducing service for most of 2020. In August, as more people got vaccinated, BART was able to restore the frequency of trains to near pre-pandemic levels, particularly on weekdays, as the B.A.R. reported.

“Ridership is trending. It’s slow and steady growth,” Saltzman said, adding that during the board’s budget process in June, it was thought that ridership would come back more quickly.

But many offices in the Bay Area remain closed as employees continue to work remotely. In other cases, people have returned to their vehicles instead of public transit, leading to traffic congestion on bridges and freeways.

Saltzman regularly takes to Twitter to update BART ridership figures, touting the steady uptick.

But Sundays still lag with trains running only every 30 minutes and service ending at 9 p.m.

Saltzman said that would be addressed soon.

“There will be a big service increase in February that will focus on Sundays,” she said. “It’s going to get a lot better.”

Those include the return of midnight closure and running five-line service.

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It is to be named after a recently deceased gay couple who left a sizeable donation to the nonprofit.

Their names are not being disclosed publicly as of yet, as Openhouse is planning a dedication ceremony as soon as February to reveal the new name for the center.

“They left a significant amount to Openhouse,” Kathleen Sullivan, Ph.D., the agency’s executive director, recently told the Bay Area Reporter.

Currently known as the Openhouse Community Center at 75 Laguna, it is also home to the Openhouse + On Lok Community Day Services. The nation’s first community-based adult day program codesigned for and with the LGBTQ+ community, it is currently operating three days a week and expects to have enrolled 25 participants by year’s end. (See story, page 1.)

In design since 2018, the program had been expected to launch in 2019 when the new community center was to have opened. But as the B.A.R. previously reported, construction issues pushed back that timeline and then the COVID-19 pandemic further delayed the two agencies being able to utilize the space for public programming.

Openhouse provided sneak peeks of the new building to tours of limited size in September, and its program with On Lok launched September 28. Also opening this fall was Savvy Green Cleaners in the 2,500 square foot corner ground floor retail space of the building at 55 Laguna Street.

It was to have relocated from its longtime storefront at 1890 Market Street in March 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged. Owner Hisun Kang divided the retail space into two, with the one on the corner with Hermann Street set to be a coin-operated laundry that will soon open.

When it does, it will mean Openhouse’s entire campus on Laguna

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Openhouse Executive Director Kathleen Sullivan, Ph.D., stands in front of a mural by David Faulk that is a tribute to long-term HIV/AIDS survivors.

Street is being fully utilized for the first time since the first residential units opened at 55 Laguna in late 2016 in a former academic building that was renovated. The rest of the building’s ground floor spaces, with an address of 65 Laguna, house Openhouse’s Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center, named after the B.A.R.’s founding publisher.

As for the new two-story community center, its staircase features a mural by artist David Faulk, a gay, HIV-positive man selected for the commission. The “living tribute” to long-term HIV and AIDS survivors was funded primarily by a capital grant of $250,000 from Gilead Sciences Inc. Called “The Scenic Route,” the artwork is a largely comedic take on the different journeys people living with HIV or AIDS, depicted as cartoon animals, have taken. Living walls planted with various plant species surround it.

It is the focal point for a lightfilled atrium as a wall of windows behind the staircase lets natural sunlight to filter into the community center. A doorway at the top of the stairs leads into the outdoor courtyard that connects the two buildings of LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing that Openhouse built in partnership with Mercy Housing, a developer of affordable housing throughout California.

“It’s a welcoming space full of light. It is just really beautiful,” said Donna Personna, a transgender woman who lives in one of the senior apartments in the building at 95 Laguna that is connected to the community center.

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The upper entrance to the staircase can be closed off to the public when the day program with On Lok is taking place. It utilizes the main room on the second floor that can be divided into smaller classrooms or resource rooms when needed.

The space is named The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Activity Center, as the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the United States, has been a major donor to Openhouse for years. In 2018, the foundation awarded the nonprofit a capital grant for $1 million, leading to the room being named after the Jewish philanthropists.

“Harry and Jeannette Weinberg cared deeply about older adults, and particularly those who are lowincome and most vulnerable. They set the original vision, which has made the foundation one of the largest funders in the field of aging and older adult services in the United States,” stated Aaron Merki, the foundation’s chief program officer. “Support for organizations like Openhouse, which meet the needs of an aging and at-risk population of LGBT older adults and ensures that they are able to live with maximum independence and quality of life, fits squarely within the mission of the foundation and its founders.”

Other spaces in the community center have also been christened for supporters of the nonprofit.

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Tracy Malak, and the trustee of the latter is Ryan C. Fong.

Shortly after the purchase – in spite of alleged assurances from a prior owner – the LLCs began efforts to evict the tenants through the Ellis Act. The Ellis Act, signed into law by then-Governor George Deukmejian in 1985, prevents municipalities from banning evictions if the property owner decides to go out of business as a landlord. It was one of the few forms of eviction allowed to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

Mooney was served with his eviction notice during a November 15 protest at the site. But he soon realized “it feels weird to be protesting outside your own home,” and decided he wanted to take the cause to the neighborhoods of Pollack and Fong, who live on the Peninsula in Redwood City.

“We wanted to go to their neighborhoods and say, please stop evicting us,” Mooney said.

Accordingly, 11 people “braved the rain and set out in a caravan,” according to Mooney.

“We delivered stockings full of

coal to their doors, with a card asking them to please not evict their tenants.

We rallied in front of their houses, chanting ‘Ho Ho Ho! We Won’t Go!’ and ‘All we want for Christmas is to stay in our homes!’ then spread out to knock on doors and talk to their neighbors,” Mooney stated. “We encouraged everyone we spoke with to please talk to the owners. … We weren’t sure what to expect, because Redwood City isn’t San Francisco – but the response was overwhelmingly positive. We hope that hearing from their neighbors will encourage them to have a change of heart, and let us stay in the homes that we have known for so long.”

Mooney said that Pollack and Fong “did not come out or appear to be home. I don’t know if they were there.”

The group stayed about 10 minutes at each house. Mooney isn’t sure how many neighbors were contacted, but said that some did agree to speak with Pollack and Fong, who did not return requests for comment for this report.

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Bevan Dufty, a gay man who is a former San Francisco supervisor, often worked with Mr. Magary.

“Richard was generous in spirit, giving his time and talent to BVNA and MUMC,” Dufty wrote in a text, referring to the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association and the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro, the former name of the merchants association. “He was so smart, well organized, and gracious that he made sure our neighborhoods and merchants were heard and supported.

“Richard’s wry observations always made me smile,” Dufty added.

Patrick Batt, a gay Castro business owner and a former president of the merchants group, recalled that Mr. Magary helped him as

manager of the Castro Community Meeting Room, a project Batt and the late Lion Barnett spearheaded in 2000 to allow groups to use a room above the Sunglass Hut in the Bank of America building.

“We paid him to do the scheduling, orientation, and group follow through for this community resource utilized by some 30-plus nonprofit groups,” Batt wrote in an email. “While the room has been on hiatus during the pandemic we were in the process of trying to get it up and running again at some point in the future.”

Batt added that he is now running the room himself.

For the park group, Mr. Magary

organized fundraisers, like doughnut sales to raise money for various projects, and would be out there weeding with other volunteers on weekends, his sister, Phyllis Kessel, wrote to the B.A.R. Right after graduating from the University of San Francisco, he went to work for Bank of America, specializing in loans to minority small businesses. Dr. Ernie Bates’ American Shared Hospital Services was one, and Mr. Magary became one of three white members of the board as a financial official, his sister noted.

Bates said that Mr. Magary was part of ASHS’ early team, along with Barbara Nazhid and Jim Brock.

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group of opponents to an eviction at an apartment building in San Francisco went to the Redwood City homes of two owners to deliver them lumps of coal December 12.

Well, not actual coal – plastic “coal.”

“It was symbolic,” said Paul Mooney, a gay 51-year-old resident of a majority-LGBTQ apartment building next to Mission Dolores Park, who said he bought the holiday gift himself. “Eviction is hard enough to go through, but having it during the holidays made me think about what that meant, so I thought it was a symbolic gesture about how we felt about the situation.”

As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the building at 3661 19th Street is a 12-unit, rent-controlled complex that was bought by two limited liability corporations in August 2018: 3661 19th Street LLC (two-thirds) and VR Investments LLC (one-third). These, in turn, are owned by a group of trusts. The trustees of the former are Jeff Pollack, Edith Wong, and Pierre and

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who now lives in Palm Springs, wrote in a Facebook message to the B.A.R. “He was both incredible and challenging, all at once. When he retired from his corporate job, I recruited him to help me out with my neighborhood merchant association. The rest is history with him eventually doing the same for the Castro CBD, Plan C, etc. He was always there to do whatever was needed, and usually roped others into doing it as well. His commitment to the Castro community these last years was unmatched. And he did it all with a smile and usually a crusty comment. I will miss him every day of the rest of my life.”

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Several tenants of a building in San Francisco went to the Redwood City homes of two of their landlords December 12 protesting their Ellis Act evictions.

Obituaries >> Douglas Mackinnon Croy April 21, 1945 – December 1, 2021

Douglas Mackinnon Croy, 76, died of metastatic cancer December 1, 2021 in San Francisco.

The son of Nathan and Janet (Mackinnon) Croy, Doug was born in Akron, Ohio, on April 21, 1945. His passing was peaceful, with family members and friends sharing his final hours.

Doug grew up in Marietta, Ohio, graduating from high school in 1963, where he was especially active in band and was also accomplished on the piano. After receiving a B.A. degree from Ohio University in journalism and English, he taught high school English in Logan, Ohio, where he started the school newspaper. He moved to San Francisco in 1973. There he worked for AT&T Inc. in a national leadership role tasked with training customer-facing account representatives in consumer markets. He was then promoted to the law and government affairs department as a professional development consultant, receiving accolades and the friendship and respect of his colleagues. He retired from AT&T Inc. in 1997.

Doug is survived by a brother, Richard; sister-in-law Joy Riley; a sister, Rebecca (Croy) Bennett; brotherin-law Jerry Bennett; and three nieces and a nephew. He was predeceased by his longtime loving partner, Robert Fernandes, who died in 2005.

For the last 15 years of his life, Doug was a grateful and committed member of a men’s group which shared with one another the joys and vicissitudes of living in San Francisco, a city Doug loved, especially for its museums and symphony orchestra. His life was an intersection of art, culture, love, nature,

and meaning. An aficionado of film, he could talk knowledgeably and enthusiastically for hours about movies.

A memorial service in San Francisco is being planned for January.

Memorial donations may be made to an animal welfare organization, arts organization, or any progressive cause.

Robert (Bob) Mainardi February 2, 1946 – December 11, 2021

Bob Mainardi, a familiar face to customers of The Magazine, the fabled vintage magazine, ephemera, and erotica shop on Larkin Street established and operated alongside his partner and husband, Trent Dunphy, for nearly five decades, died peacefully on December 11, 2021, a tenacious HIV survivor of over 30 years. A font of knowledge of gay visual arts, Bob played a huge role in the revival of interest in gay physique photography, as well as in the preservation of erotic work by forgotten artists, shepherding many projects to publication, including his own “Naked Heartland,” “Hard Boys,” and “Strongman.” A longtime supporter of gay cultural institutions like the GLBT Historical Society and the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library, Bob loved gay illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, bodybuilder shows, a series of cats (grieving the loss of each), his and Trent’s Victorian home, and exercising his singular gift for acquiring and nurturing friendships that lasted all his life. Generous, funny, and kind, endowed with amazing energy, enthusiasm, and zest for life, his death is an irreplaceable loss to gay culture and in the lives of the many who loved him.

ing Clinic, is representing the tenants. He said the case is in litigation.

“It’s still pending,” Collier said.

“Some tenants have been served. We filed a motion and the first group is scheduled to be heard but it may be postponed. For another unit, we have a motion to quash because they were improperly served.”

Collier wasn’t at the recent protest.

Mooney is no stranger to protests.

Longtime B.A.R. readers may remember Mooney as the spokesman for the community group And Castro For All, which was responsible for the boycott of gay landlord and bar owner Les Natali’s Badlands after allegations that he discriminated against Black people seeking to patronize the establishment. A 2004 report by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that Badlands was discriminating against African Americans, but the findings were never official because the HRC executive director at the time did not sign off on the staff report. Natali and the complainants eventually reached a confidential settlement. Badlands closed in 2020, though a new bar is slated to open at its location.t in operational roles and was a valued member of our team and was a significant team member in ASHS being one of the first Black-owned businesses going public,” Bates wrote in a text message.

“He was loyal, smart, kind, and funny,” Bates added.

Mr. Magary was honored for his service by Wiener, the City of San Francisco, and others during his lifetime, his sister stated.

Richard Paul Magary was born November 4, 1940 in Canandaigua, New York.

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s community organizations look ahead to 2022, we’d like to suggest that the two LGBTQ Democratic clubs redouble their efforts to recruit qualified queer people to serve on San Francisco boards and commissions.

This need became starkly apparent last week when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors appointed a straight ally and Mission district activist to the vacant seat on the police commission that had been held for years by Petra DeJesus, a lesbian Latina. While we have confidence in Jesus Gabriel Yanez to serve on the panel that oversees the San Francisco Police Department – and it is great to have a person of color – his appointment means that there is no LGBTQ person on the body for the first time in decades.

Back in May after DeJesus stepped down, we issued a similar call for a queer person to be named to the seat. And we pointed out that the police commission has long had LGBTQ representation: Gwenn Craig; the late Wayne Friday, a former Bay Area Reporter political columnist; Theresa Sparks, who became the first trans person elected president of the body; Jim Hammer; David Campos; and the late Julius Turman.

The Harvey Milk and Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic clubs have long served as cultivators and recruiters for public service.

Many of their members have gone on to serve on boards and commissions, and many have been elected to political office over the years.

It just seems that this year both clubs missed an opportunity to fill this police commission vacancy. The panel’s appointments are split

between the supervisors and the mayor – this was a supervisors’ appointment and anyone could apply. In fact, there were three trans women who sought the appointment, but none apparently had the qualifications that the supervisors were looking for and one lives in the East Bay, meaning that she would have had to receive a residency waiver – an unlikely approval for this panel – and she ended up withdrawing her name. Another of the trans women also withdrew her name prior to the rules committee’s vote to advance Yanez to the full board.

As we reported in May, the police commission has made strides in updating the San Francisco Police Department’s use of force policies, as DeJesus told us in an interview. After last year’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis (a former officer was convicted of murder in that case earlier this year), leaders in cities around the country began conversations about reforming their police departments; San Francisco was no different. Last fall, Mayor London Breed convened a steering committee to examine alternatives to police officers for responding to some 911 and 311 calls for assistance.

Having an LGBTQ member on the panel is critical for a number of reasons, as we have noted. While the police department is far more inclusive than decades ago, recent incidents call attention to the need for a consistent and constant commitment to root out discrimination.

In June 2020, during one of the protests after Floyd’s death, a nonbinary SFPD officer at Mission Station was sent home for insubordination

for wearing earrings. The incident stemmed from the department having an outdated, transphobic dress code that was arbitrarily enforced. By December, the police commission had approved the department’s revised, genderneutral grooming standards policy. The policy change had been in the works for awhile, Police Chief William Scott told us, but the COVID pandemic delayed focus group meetings with officers to discuss the changes.

Nonetheless, as we previously noted, there have been discriminatory incidents in the SFPD against trans police officers, including one that resulted in a $150,000 settlement from the city because he was repeatedly misgendered. The police commission had to sign off on that settlement, along with the Board of Supervisors, part of which states that SFPD will attempt to redress systemic transphobia in the department.

This year, the community had to fight to keep an LGBTQ person on the historic preservation commission, and we have no out members on the planning commission - another important oversight body. Currently, there doesn’t seem to be a pipeline for qualified candidates for these important posts.

During discussion at the board’s rules committee, it was pointed out that there will likely be another vacancy on the police commission in April. Now is the time for the Alice and Milk clubs to work to identify qualified LGBTQ candidates for the position – preferably a person of color and/or a trans person. As discussions continue around reimagining public safety in the city, it is vitally important that an LGBTQ voice is on the panel to recommend and push for police reforms.t

Matt Haney, progressive champion for Assembly

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f you follow San Francisco politics, you know Matt Haney. An effective, progressive leader, Haney has been an advocate and public servant for nearly two decades having worked as a pro bono tenant attorney, state legislative aide, president of the San Francisco Board of Education, and most recently as District 6 supervisor and chair of the board’s Budget and Finance Committee.

Haney has made a significant impact on our most important problems and has repeatedly proved he knows how to lead and deliver. He listens to those most vulnerable to and impacted by systemic inequities. He possesses a relentless work ethic and an impressive ability to connect and communicate with the public.

Since his first day in office as supervisor, Haney has fought against corruption and worked to implement bold, innovative policies to tackle some of San Francisco’s toughest issues.

Haney has tackled homelessness and housing instability on multiple fronts: he fought to open more Navigation Centers; he helped push through 1,000 units of low-income housing for city workers and educators and more than 700 units for the formerly homeless; he made sure residents in permanent supportive housing didn’t have to pay more than 30% of their income toward rent; and he wrote the emergency ordinance opening 8,000 beds in shelter-in-place hotels.

To combat the exploding mental health crises, Haney co-authored Mental Health SF, a plan implementing a bold vision to ensure that homeless or uninsured people diagnosed with a mental illness or substance use disorder can get needed medical treatment. Mental Health SF was drafted alongside frontline workers to overhaul our mental health system and make our city the first in the country to provide universal access to coordinated mental health care and substance use treatment.

As the supervisor of the Tenderloin and South of Market districts, Haney represents neighborhoods that are ground zero for the overdose epidemic. Haney demanded an end to containment zone policies, urged the city to recognize the crisis that exists on our streets, called for a state of emergency around overdose deaths, and worked alongside LGBTQ leaders Laura Thomas of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Gary McCoy of Health-

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RIGHT 360 to advocate for the opening of an overdose prevention site. (McCoy is also a co-chair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club.)

As supervisor, Haney took on one of the city’s largest departments, Public Works, to hold it accountable. He authored a 10-point plan helping to establish San Francisco’s first 24-hour bathroom program, replacing our city’s ineffective trash cans, increasing street cleaning, and improving 311.

Haney worked alongside experts in the field, residents, business owners, and Public Works employees to create a long-term solution for our city’s infamously filthy streets.

He created a new Department of Sanitation and Streets dedicated to street cleaning and repairs that goes live in late 2022, and established a commission to oversee Public Works.

San Francisco’s ever-growing income inequality contributes significantly to many of the city’s most pressing issues. Taking steps to address this, Haney introduced a resolution to have San Francisco formally join the national guaranteed income movement. This led to a guaranteed income task force and established a pilot program where up to 1,000 at-risk transgender residents would receive at least $500 in unrestricted, monthly cash payments. Additionally, Haney worked alongside labor to author and pass the Overpaid Executive Tax, a progressive tax on companies whose CEOs earn 100 times more than their median worker.

Haney is passionate about protecting San Francisco’s arts and culture. Haney authored

an emergency ordinance to stop the destruction of important SOMA nightlife institutions.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Haney created a Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund to help prevent these vital establishments from closing.

When it comes to fighting for the LGBTQ+ community, Haney has been one of our greatest champions. He fought to allocate money to help fund the building of Eagle Plaza, the world’s first LGBTQ leather plaza, and helped ensure the SF Eagle became a legacy business and landmark, making it the first LGBTQ landmark in SOMA and only the second leather LGBTQ landmark in the country.

Haney has been a huge supporter of LGBTQ cultural districts including the Transgender District and the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District. He ensured that the districts were fully funded when funding was under threat during the pandemic. He supported placemaking such as murals, banners, painting poles, leather crosswalks, art installations, and events and programming. Haney worked with the Bears of San Francisco and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to revive the Harrison Street Fair under its new name Bearrison Street Fair.

As budget chair, Haney fought for a budget that puts LGBTQ+ residents first. He ensured that the budget included housing subsidies for trans and HIV-positive people, and $12 million to acquire a home for the country’s first standalone LGBTQ+ museum.

In three very intense years, amidst a pandemic, an overdose epidemic, growing wealth inequality, and a housing crisis, Haney has demonstrated that he’s a fighter for the people. He’s a progressive politician who won’t put politics before his constituents. Haney is a leader with a proven track record, unafraid of bold ideas, and willing to do the work. San Francisco deserves bold, progressive representation in Sacramento, and this February we have the chance to get it with Matt Haney.t Honey Mahogany, a queer transgender person, is chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and a legislative aide to Supervisor Matt Haney. Race Bannon, a gay man, is a community organizer and is a former leather columnist for the Bay Area Reporter. The opinions expressed are their own.

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ith various other potential candidates backing him, and two influential LGBTQ rights groups endorsing him hours after he made his candidacy official, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia is the clear frontrunner to succeed Congressmember Alan Lowenthal (DLong Beach). Elected leaders from around the state have also lined up behind Garcia’s House bid.

Garcia, 44, the first openly gay and first Latino mayor of his city, made his long-speculated run for Congress official December 17, a day after Lowenthal announced he would retire rather than seek reelection next year. As far back as 2011, when the congressional seat was last open, Garcia was said to be interested in it.

This week, Congressmember Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Downey), elected to Congress in 1992 as its first Mexican American female member, also announced she would retire.

Based on the latest maps approved December 20 by the state’s redistricting commission, her House seat will be combined with that of Lowenthal’s district to form a new 42nd Congressional District that is majority Latino.

Having emigrated from Lima, Peru with his mom as a child, Garcia would be the first LGBTQ immigrant elected to Congress. He would also be the second gay big-city mayor and second out Latino person to serve in the House, as the Bay Area Reporter noted in an online story last Friday about Garcia entering the race that morning with an announcement video and launch of his campaign website at https:// robertgarcia.com/ “I’m fighting for every kid to get the same shot that this country gave me,” Garcia says in the nearly 2:50-minute video that honors his mother, who along with his stepfather died from COVID last year, and features Garcia giving his husband, Matthew Mendez, a kiss on the cheek.

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Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced his candidacy for Congress and immediately picked up key endorsements.

ments from Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization, and the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which helps to elect out candidates across the country. State Senator Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) also endorsed Garcia Friday in a Twitter post, as did Lowenthal’s son Josh.

“Following in my dad’s footsteps is a monumental task. Yet there’s nobody better equipped to be the voice of our community and nation than my friend Robert Garcia,” the younger Lowenthal tweeted.

Among the many leaders endorsing Garcia via tweet last Friday was gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), noting his “friend” will “be absolutely fantastic” as a representative in the House.

Another early endorser was California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a former East Bay Assemblymember who will be on the same ballot as Garcia next year as he seeks a full four-year term as the state’s top prosecutor. Governor Gavin Newsom tapped Bonta for the post earlier this year after Xavier Becerra departed to become the Biden administration’s Health and Human Services secretary.

“I’m so excited to see @RobertGarcia in this race and I wholeheartedly endorse his campaign. He is going to make California proud!”

Bonta wrote.

Gay former West Sacramento mayor Christopher Cabaldon also was quick to express his backing for Garcia’s House bid.

“1,000% with @RobertGarcia for Congress. Creative, brave, caring, tireless, authentic, compassionate, beloved, uplifting, and astonishingly effective. LB and SE LA at their finest, and a powerhouse representative in the House,” Cabaldon wrote, referring to Long Beach and southeast Los Angeles.

So, too, did gay San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, a former state Assemblymember, immediately express support for his mayoral counterpart, simply writing in his own tweet about Garcia’s congressional campaign rollout, “Love this video.

Love this announcement.”

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also was quick to come out in support of Garcia’s candidacy, noting in her own tweet, “You have my full support – no one knows how to get s--- done like Mayors!”

Lesbian tennis legend Billie Jean King, a native of Long Beach where a library and tennis center are named in her honor, also took to Twitter to back Garcia, writing, “Thrilled for you. Congress will be so lucky to have you.”

Garcia could become the second gay man from California and only the third LGBTQ person from the state to serve in the House, joining gay Congressmember Mark Takano (D-Riverside), who is expected to win reelection next November. (The second out House member from the Golden State was bisexual congressmember Katie Hill, who resigned from her Los Angeles-area House seat in 2019 to avoid an ethics probe into allegations she had a relationship with a congressional aide after a conservative news site published a story about her alleged affair, which she had denied.)

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Letters >> The Grinch that stole Castro Christmas

Over the period of four days last week Warner Brothers held the Castro hostage for the U.S. premiere of “The Matrix Resurrections” [“Castro businesses sidelined by ‘Matrix’ premiere’s parking impacts,” online, December 17]. (https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//311456) This happened with virtually no notice or outreach to the business or residential communities and had lasting impacts on the livelihoods of both groups. Especially the merchants, who were coming off another lackluster year for sales amid the continuing pandemic. This occurred during the week before Christmas where we merchants expected good sales and many visitors to the Castro to shop and dine.

And where was the mayor during all this upset? There were numerous outreach efforts to her office and others regarding the lack of notice and the negative financial impact on the neighborhood by the Castro merchants group of which I am a member.

Apparently she was too busy picking out a leather frock to wear for her onstage appearance and speech at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night (“How lucky the city was to host this premiere”) to respond or act. To add insult to injury she was whisked away, along with the other VIPs, shortly after the event to the after-party on the Embarcadero. Where, it’s reported, they dined on – among other things – Wagyu beef sushi rolls along with caviar on potato chips.

This left the closed off and heavily policed 400 block of Castro Street to fend for itself amid the aftermath of this senseless disregard for the neighborhood. It appears the city and the powers-that-be at Warner Brothers felt it was OK to bring the Castro nearly to its knees for those many days yet not good enough for any Castro venue to host

the after party. She should be embarrassed and as upset by this turn of events as the neighborhood merchants are. The mayor’s lack of respect and care for the Castro is yet another defining act of her feckless administration.

Patrick Batt San Francisco

Supports EQCA’s tobacco-free pledge

Big Tobacco is known to spend whatever it takes to try to overturn local and state laws that restrict the sale of their deadly products. Congratulations to Equality California and to our elected officials for putting health first [“Political Notes: CA LGBTQ group asks candidates to reject tobacco cash,” December 13].

Know anybody who wants to cut down or quit? A free quit coach is available to support anyone currently in the struggle at Kick It California (https://kickitca.org/).

Bob Gordon San Francisco

Appreciates ballet coverage

San Francisco Ballet is back on stage, but the biggest thrill is to read Paul Parish’s stellar reviews again [“SF Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker;’ Mark Morris Dance Group,’” December 14].

Mr. Parish is the best, and our balletomane group always learns something new with each brilliant review.

Thank you so much to Mr. Parish and to the B.A.R. Burl Willes Berkeley, California

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Several years ago he turned to Openhouse, the LGBTQ senior services provider, to be matched with someone through its Friendly Visitor program in order to have a social connection. He and his male match often got together at the Castro Country Club to talk over coffee.

“I appreciate Openhouse has helped me feel more comfortable as a gay man in San Francisco,” said Crow.

“I am not as uptight as I used to be.”

It was through that connection that Crow first heard of the Openhouse + On Lok Community Day Services. It is the nation’s first community-based adult day program co-designed for and with the LGBTQ+ community.

In design since 2018, the program had been expected to launch in 2019 when the new Openhouse Community Center at 75 Laguna was to have opened. But as the B.A.R. previously reported, construction issues pushed

lin Street in San Francisco.

Tenderloin Tessie board President Michael Gagne said that all are welcome and that there will be indoor and outside dining areas. He said that he’s expecting to get some can-

opies for outside because of possible inclement weather.

All attendees should bring their ID and proof of COVID vaccination if possible, he added.

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back that timeline and then the COVID-19 pandemic further delayed the two agencies being able to utilize the space for public programming.

It finally got off the ground September 28, when the community center soft opened. (See story, page 2.) Currently operating three days a week, the day services program expects to have enrolled 25 participants ages 55 and older by year’s end. Everyone has to get a temperature check and wear a mask.

For about a month Crow has taken part in the program, taking part in exercise classes, watching movies, and painting. Speaking to the Bay Area Reporter recently Crow said he has been recommending the other older gay men in his life to look into signing up for it.

“It’s a great program. I am reaching out to a lot of old queens to come here,” said Crow.

Because of the COVID pandemic, he had been mostly isolated at

home until this past June, when he began to venture out again.

“This is teaching me structure and gives me somewhere to go everyday,” said Crow, who lives in a residential hotel South of Market. “It has been lonely and miserable. I knew that I wanted to get out of that mood.”

A key focus of the day services program is managing participants’ ADLs, short for activities of daily living. It is broken down into five pillars of care, from the transportation and nutrition needs of the participants to their socialization, personal care, and therapeutic activities, explained Gessika Krieger, 38, the program manager hired by On Lok a year ago. A queer femme, she had worked for three years as manager of the adult day program at The Arc of San Francisco, which provides services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

“We are client-centered in our approaches,” said Krieger. “We meet our clients where they are and make sure we are listening to them.”

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“We really allow our community members to take control of how that care is going to be provided,” said Getahun, 31, who is queer and first joined the agency two years ago.

“It is unique because of the trauma our community has experienced in programs like this that rob people of their independence and autonomy.”

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lost multiple friends and partners to AIDS. “This is our family. Our bio families, for many of us, left us out to dry to figure it out on our own,” said Getahun. “Already, we know this is going to be a successful program because the need is so severe. We are answering a call; the community demanded this of us.”

Overseeing the day services program is John Blazek, 55, a gay man who also identifies as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He is executive director of day services for On Lok and its chief development officer.

“This is the greatest thing I have ever worked on with On Lok,” said Blazek, who joined the agency five years ago and for nearly three years has overseen its day services at the On Lok 30th Street Senior Center.

“When we delayed, I was grateful we could do it better.”

The agency worked with Openhouse on a needs assessment and an organizational readiness assessment to ensure it knew what LGBTQ seniors, their partners and caregivers most needed in the day services program and that its own staff was educated on working with older LGBTQ adults. As On Lok is not widely known as a provider of LGBTQ senior services, it wanted to ensure LGBTQ seniors would avail

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themselves of the day services program.

“We had to be more intentional and deliberate about it,” said Blazek.

Surveys of the city’s seniors programs have routinely found LGBTQ seniors are less likely to use them if they are not specifically marketed as being for the LGBTQ community.

For instance, a 2018 Horizons San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ Community Needs Assessment LINK found that 54% of respondents had concerns about their physical or emotional safety when accessing health care, with 22% reporting their providers were only sometimes or never LGBQ sensitive. Such was the case for 34% of transgender and gender queer respondents.

“I don’t blame our community for the lack of trust or suspicion or fear,” said Blazek. “Many seniors fear they will have to go back into the closet or hide who they are, and we are going to break that.”

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need to come five days a week once it adds Fridays and Saturdays to the schedule. At the moment the program is operating Tuesdays through Thursdays.

“COVID has been a pickle,” said Krieger.

Participants are scheduled for either the morning or afternoon sessions, which each run roughly three hours. The cost is based on a sliding scale and covered by most participants’ health insurance, with schol-

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should a vacancy open up in the local congressional delegation once the new district lines are finalized in January.

Gay veteran Joseph C. Rocha is also seeking to be one of the first out Latino members of Congress from the Golden State. The Democrat is aiming to oust Republican

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weekday service, as it is our greatest area of growth,” she stated in a news release.

Li noted that in addition to the expected service changes, she hopes to see some creative ideas to improve ridership.

Saltzman also said riders can look forward to the reopening of underground restrooms at Powell Street station in San Francisco and the 19th Street station in Oakland in 2022. She said BART is committed to reopening restrooms in all underground stations, which have been closed since shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks because of a recommendation from homeland security officials.

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who gave the nonprofit $130,000 about two decades ago, while the Dr. Karyn Skultety Balcony sits outside of the activity center. It has been nicknamed the Bowtie Balcony due to the agency’s former executive director having a penchant for sporting the neckwear.

Nearby the community center’s ground floor lobby area – the Dale S. Bentley Welcome Center – is the Oryx Partners Art Studio, the Zepf-

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arship slots available for others.

Once it is safe to do so, the program will plan excursions to different cultural institutions and events for participants. It will also determine activities based on the seniors’ interests, all with an eye toward alleviating any isolation they may be experiencing.

“We are going to be utilizing all this city has to offer,” promised Getahun.

“To age with dignity includes being able to thrive and not just about getting the bare minimum of care.”

Openhouse Executive Director Kathleen Sullivan, Ph.D., a lesbian

who joined the nonprofit this summer, told the B.A.R. that the success so far with the program is showing the partnership between the two agencies is working.

“We have proven the partnership works, it makes sense, and is very strong,” said Sullivan, 55, who noted an activity therapist that had been volunteering was recently hired on as a staff member to work with the program participants.

A sign to Sullivan of the program’s necessity was running into a man on the street in the Castro LGBTQ district who had brought

his partner, who has Alzheimer’s, for the day program and was able to take time for himself without worrying about his partner’s well-being.

“Now, he drops him off and he has his own life,” said Sullivan.

For Blazek, what touches him the most is seeing the connections the participants have made among themselves and with the program staff in such a short timespan.

“When the seniors are departing for the day having done a project and shared a meal together, and with kindness and gentleness the staff help them back to their home

and family, it touches me. You can’t put that in a plan,” he said. “This is a gentle, kind and caring place. That to me is the most impressive and important thing I can say we have done over the last three months.”

He added that the two agencies “want this to be the gold standard for LGBTQ+ senior care and want people to replicate this. Stay tune for this to be across the country.”

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Congressmember Darrell Issa from his suburban 50th Congressional District seat northeast of San Diego.

Will Rollins, a gay former federal prosecutor, is one of several Democrats planning to run next year against conservative Congressmember Ken Calvert (R-Corona) in California’s 42nd Congressional District. Rollins lives in Canyon Lake with his partner.

And as last week’s Political Notebook reported, there are two out House candidates in Oregon with Bay Area ties. Lesbian former Santa Clara city councilmember Jamie McLeod-Skinner is making her second attempt to win a congressional seat from the Beaver State.

Former San Francisco resident Kevin Easton is the first openly gay man to run for Congress in Oregon.

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online companion. This week’s column reported on a San Diegobased website aiming to educate voters about congressional members and candidates.

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safety, especially for the LGBTQ and Asian and Pacific Islander communities. She noted the violent incidents in which API people were targets, and the biases against APIs that emerged after former President Donald Trump used racist language when talking about the coronavirus. Li praised BART’s ambassador program and the progressive policing bureau within BART’s police department.

The agency’s ambassador program started in 2020. The ambassadors, who are in uniform but unarmed, help people on BART trains and work to connect those in crisis with services. During the pandemic, they have distributed face masks, as those are required on BART and other public transit, according to BART. The ambassador program marked its first anniversary in February. It’s part

of a larger shift within BART Police to find new ways to respond to things such as mental health emergencies.

Li, who used to be advocacy director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, will start a new job January 4 as director of the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice. She will lead the coalition’s programs and AAPI community-based safety initiatives. CCSJ partners with Chinese for Affirmative Action, Chinatown Community Development Center, Chinese Progressive Association, and Community Youth Center.

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Saltzman will also lead the BART board as the agency celebrates 50 years in 2022. She said the agency is still in the early planning stages but hopes to have “a lot of fun things.”

“We will have a great opportunity for a positive focus,” she said, especially after the last two pandemic years that have been hard on everyone, including BART workers.

Saltzman said BART will also continue to focus on building housing on its properties, with a focus on affordable housing. BART has a goal of 20,000 units by 2040, so that will also remain a priority, she said.

Li last month took part in the groundbreaking ceremony for 131 new units of 100 percent affordable housing being built in the upper yard at the transit agency’s Balboa BART Station in San Francisco, which it shares with the city’s Muni subway service.

Writing in a tweet, Li noted she “finally got to check ‘golden shovel pageantry’ off my bucket list,” add-

ing, “still waiting on a chance to hold some big boy scissors at a ribbon cutting.”

In terms of the San Jose BART extension, Saltzman said the board should know more next year. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is building the project to BART standards, then BART will operate it. Saltzman said VTA has gone out with a few of its contracts for the project and will get results next year.

In the meantime, new technology that would see a single-bore tunnel is planned, though Saltzman said there are some unknowns.

“They’ve had peer-reviews that said it could be done, but it’s a construction type we haven’t done so there are unknowns,” she said, adding that the BART board is “very engaged” in the project.t

Payton Staff Room, and the John Paul De Cecco Lifelong Learning Center. The learning center, named after the late gay human sexuality scholar, is a classroom-like space that can also be used for exercise classes, movie showings, and other programs, such as Openhouse’s Halloween party this year.

The learning center utilizes Owl virtual meeting technology so program attendance can be hybrid, with some participants being in-person and others logging on from home.

The space also has special floor ma-

terial that is easier on people’s knees when doing yoga or meditation in the room.

“Some people are not able to be vaccinated because of medical reasons so this way they are still able to take part in our programs,” said Sullivan.

By the check-in desk, where everyone must get their temperature taken due to the ongoing pandemic, is a touch-activated video screen that has various photos and videos about Openhouse as well as a short compilation about the life of the

agency’s founders Marcy Adelman, Ph.D., and her late spouse, Jeanette Gurevitch. A painting of the couple hangs to the left of the entranceway into the community center.

“It’s astounding. Jeanette and Marcy had this vision on creating housing for LGBT seniors. Out of their vision that has been dramatically expanded,” Tim Wolfred, 76, a gay man who is a donor to and program participant of Openhouse, told the B.A.R. while touring the new facility earlier this fall. “This building is a visible manifestation

of their work. It is very well done ... It is a display of how much support they have gotten from various aspects of the community.”

The entire community center space is open to the public Sundays and Mondays when the day program with On Lok is not operating.

The rest of the week the public has access to the main-level areas for various daytime programs.

To learn more about the community engagement programs Openhouse offers, visit www.openhousesf. org/community-engagement.t

on 06/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/24/21.

City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/09/21.

that the name CRAIG JAMES DABNEY be changed to CRAIG DABNEY JAMES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 13 of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AHEARNE AKA LISA MARIE AHEARNE, 2538 17TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MARIA LISA AHEARNE AKA LISA MARIE AHEARNE is requesting that the name MARIA LISA AHEARNE AKA LISA MARIE AHEARNE be changed to MARÍA LÍZA AHEARNE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 18th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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In the matter of the application of CONNOR PAUL FANNING, 1537 10TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CONNOR PAUL FANNING is requesting that the name CONNOR PAUL FANNING be changed to JACK CONNOR CALDERA FANNING. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 30th of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039556500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRENDING SOCIAL, LLC, 4629 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUIS QUIROZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/21.

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039556700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LITTLE FEET DOULA SERVICES, 1256 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANA CELENIA MUELLER MARTINEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/21.

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039559300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as QUEERLY COMPLEX, 2690 20TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON WYMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039432000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as US-CHINA REAL ESTATE; US-CHINA LAW COUNSEL, 425 DIVISADERO ST #209, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YING NATALIE ZHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/08.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/21.

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039560100

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039554500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as QURE HEALTHCARE, 450 PACIFIC AVE #200, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed QURE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/19/21.

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039560200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as POPULATION, 1459 18TH ST #155, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POPULATION LIGHTS, INC. (DE).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/29/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MEDICINE FOR NIGHTMARES, 3036 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VANGUARD LITERARY COLLECTIVE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/29/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039552400

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039560300

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as STUDIO GALLERY; STUDIO, 1641 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed J TERRY & J FARRIS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/12/99. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/17/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAA JANITORIAL SERVICES, 483 MADRID ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SKARLET AMAYA AVILES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/29/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039543800

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556770

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as KOFY TV 20, 900 FRONT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed STRYKER MEDIA 2 LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the

DEC 02, 09, 16, 23, 2021

In the matter of the application of CRAIG DABNEY, 255 DUNCAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CRAIG DABNEY is requesting

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556769

In the matter of the application of MAYA PERELMAN, 255 DUNCAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MAYA PERELMAN is requesting that the name MAYA PERELMAN be changed to MAYA PERELMAN JAMES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 13th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556772

In the matter of the application of FREDDIE RICHARD LINAWEAVER, 296 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner FREDDIE RICHARD LINAWEAVER is requesting that the name FREDDIE RICHARD LINAWEAVER be changed to ATTICUS FREDERIK LINAWEAVER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 13th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556535

In the matter of the application of MARIA LISA

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556783

In the matter of the application of VICTORINE MANGA, 520 41ST AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner VICTORINE MANGA is requesting that the name VICTORINE MANGA be changed to VICTORINE MANDENGUE NGONDE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 1st of FEBRUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COASTALOHA TEAM, 891 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARK WEISBARTH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE G SPA, 490 POST ST #1703, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELISE GRENIER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under

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the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as H&E WHOLESALING, 720 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HARRY LENCZNER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/07/90. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039561600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PURE AQUA, 100 PINE ST #1250, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MIN YOUNG HWANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/30/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PRISCAECOSHINE, 3151 CALIFORNIA ST #3A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LILIA PRISCILA TIRADO SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039566200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KELVIN’S LIGHT SOURCE, 62 MARNE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KEVIN UGAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/03/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039563500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SUTTER NAILS, 539 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed THAOLY THI VU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CARNEY’S PLASTERING, 1325 EVANS AVE #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILBERT T. CARNEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039564900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JAPANESE NAVAL LIAISON, 5 THOMAS MELLON CIRCLE #216, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALPHA ASSOCIATES INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/03/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039556300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HOM KOREAN KITCHEN, 154 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THEOMY EMPIRE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/22/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039563100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MONGOL CAFÉ, 842 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MONGOL CAFE (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039559200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LE REGENCY DELI, 18 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company and is signed NAAZ LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/24/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/24/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 17TH & BALBOA MARKET, 1601 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PAWSON LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/12/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039566700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as INTIVIX, 605 MARKET ST #410, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LANXPERT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/05/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/06/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039532800

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as THE G SPA, 490 POST ST #1703, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by OFFICE MD (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/21.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE

A-037790200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as SUTTER NAILS, 539 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LILY PHAM. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/17.

DEC 09, 16, 23, 30, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF FRANK ALBERT MANDRILE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304993

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of FRANK ALBERT MANDRILE, C/O NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN#320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JOVAHNKA ALVARADO in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JOVAHNKA ALVARADO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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: JANUARY 10, 2022, 9:00 am, Dept. 201, Rm. XX, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN#320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; Ph. (415) 552-X.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-55676600

In the matter of the application of HA KHANH CHANG, 17 HILLVIEW CT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HA KHANH CHANG is requesting that the name HA KHANH CHANG be changed to TIFFANY KHANH HA CHANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 11th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-55677900

In the matter of the application of CLAUDIA JEANNE PENWELL, 229 LEXINGTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CLAUDIA JEANNE PENWELL is requesting that the name CLAUDIA JEANNE PENWELL be changed to CLAUDIA JEANNE PENDLETON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 13th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-55676700

In the matter of the application of KAREN RENEE WAGONER & ROGERIO SA DE SOUSA, 3892 26TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KAREN RENEE WAGONER & ROGERIO SA DE SOUSA is requesting that the name DONOVAN WILLIAM DE SOUSA be changed to DONOVAN WILLIAM WAGONER DE SOUSA, the name COLETTE LANOUE DE SOUSA be changed to COLETTE LANOUE WAGONER DE SOUSA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 11th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556764

In the matter of the application of KA YING TSANG & XINAN LIN, 66 CLEARY CT #1403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KA YING TSANG & XINAN LIN, is requesting that the name YI CHE LIN be changed to ISOLDE LIN, and the name ENZHUO LIN be changed to ENZO LIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 11th of JANUARY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039563300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BLISS ORGANIC SALON, 6209 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN LEE MARTINEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039569300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CLT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, 280 NEWHALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLA TUCKER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/08/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039561900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TBD DANCE, 1221 HARRISON ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TIFFANY BOUQUET. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039566800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OROZCO’S CLEANING, 686 VALENCIA ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVA E PLAMA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/06/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039567600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as REINA IRIAS REAL ESTATE, 1124 NEWHALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed REINA IRIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039572900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OCEAN ACUPUNCTURE & HEALTH CENTER, 1959 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XI ZHI SONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039572500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE BRUNCH SLUT, 124 KIRKWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DONTAYE BALL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039566900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE GINGER LAB, 2283 HEARST AVE #20, BERKELEY, CA 94909. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PAVEL TSERASHKAVETS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/06/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/06/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039551800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BRIS’S CREATIONS, 2782 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KARLA GARCIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/17/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039569600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YUJI, 1700 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed IZAKAYA MAYUMI INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/08/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/08/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039572300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BONITA TAQUERIA Y ROTISSERIE, 2227 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUMAC MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/09/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039571400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TABITA’S CAFÉ, 1101 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TABITA’S CAFÉ, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/08/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039565400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ROSE POINT HERBS AND ACUPUNCTURE, 2529 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ELIZABETH SWARTZ ACUPUNCTURE PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/03/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039567300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MRC BARBER, 1115 POST ST #20, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MACKLAN CLENDENIN CONSULTING INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039573000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANJA LEE & COMPANY, LLC, 2347 UNION ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ANJA LEE WITTELS, ANJA LEE CATERING LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 16, 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 2022

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: RUSLAN MUSLIEV, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S

NAME IS KSENIA JURY CASE NO. FDI-21-795144

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

NOTICE RESTRAINING ORDERS: The restraining orders following are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment entered, or the court makes further orders.

They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: KSENIA JURY, 3010 CLAY ST #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 JULY 01, 2021 Clerk of the Superior Court by JOSHUA MANDAPAT, Deputy.

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

WARNING: California law provides that, for the purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039574800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF REIKI HEALING, 1300 41ST AVE #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANN C. MASSIE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/02/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/10/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039576600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DELUXE LAVENDER NAIL SPA, 113 CARL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PHUONG THI THUY TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/15/21.

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EURO BUILDING MAINTENANCE CO., 555 JOHN MUIR DR #B817, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed UWE R. EMERSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/21/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039577000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as EN VOGUE GROOMING, 3903 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed BERNARD HICKS & DIANDRE NORWOOD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/15/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039573300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TIMELESS AUTO BODY INC., 974 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TIMELESS AUTO BODY INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/08/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039565000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARADISE REAL ESTATE, 891 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PARADISE REAL ESTATE (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/03/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039562900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAGE GREENLIFE, 480 MISSION BAY BLVD N #914, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SMART BIOTILES INCORPORATED (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/01/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039576400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SUBSTRATE ARTS, 600 ELLSWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SUBSTRATE ARTS (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/14/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039576200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OUTTA SIGHT, 3017 22ND ST #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GOT SERVED LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/14/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/14/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039573100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO BREW BOAT, PIER 40, EMBARCADERO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CHROMA PROJECTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039573900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BUDTENDERS, 880 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LUCRATIVE WAYS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/10/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039577600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CITY HOME INSPECTIONS, 70 HERNANDEZ AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRYAN BIRMINGHAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/16/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039566300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WILSON TRAVEL SERVICE, 1341 STOCKTON ST #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIZABETH JADE WONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/03/03. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/03/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039579500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PROBATE AGENT REAL ESTATE SERVICES, 677 PORTOLA DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW DE VRIES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/17/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039579300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as S&H CLEANING, 810 FULTON ST #E, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SOLOMON ETANA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/17/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/17/21.

DEC 23, 30, 2021, JAN 06, 13, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039582400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as

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Holiday Happenings

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hether you’ll be cuddling at home sipping eggnog on Christmas, planning to go out and guzzle champagne on New Year’s Eve, or staying home and ignoring it all with a Netflix binge, we’ve got events for you, both online and away from home.

Spend the holidays with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, or Smuin Ballet. Celebrate New Year’s Eve classy-style with Darren Criss and the San Francisco Symphony, or in full raunch mode with Baloney at Oasis.

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Thom Gunn in 1992

‘The Letters of Thom Gunn’ A road map to SF’s past

by Michael Flanagan

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hom Gunn had a front row seat for the development of what became LGBT San Francisco. The poet graduated from Cambridge, had his first book of poetry published (Fighting Terms) and moved to the United States in 1954. By that time he was already living as openly a gay life as could be lived at the time. When he moved to the United States it was not only to go to Stanford, but to follow Mike Kitay, his lifelong partner.

The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer and published by Faber & Faber in

March, is both an intimate portrait of the poet and a window on the development of what would become gay and leather culture and the rise of the hippies and drug culture.

Along the way we are treated to Gunn’s encounters with well-known literary figures including Paul Bowles, Robert Duncan, William Burroughs, W.H. Auden and many more.

Gunn hit the ground running when he arrived in Palo Alto. A letter from 1954 to the actor Tony White mentions the couple Tom and Charlotte Herbold, and a footnote on them tells us: “Tom and Charlotte Herbold took TG to his first gay bar, the Black Cat, in San Francisco. They went in the company of a woman

called Mary, TG’s ‘date.’ The bar, TG told Robert Prager, ‘was a great revelation to me. Gay bars were enjoyable! Though Mary kept on saying, ‘Those poor men. I feel so sorry for them.’ I wasn’t feeling sorry for them. I could see that they were having fun. And I realized I could have fun there too, so I went back there the next night by myself.’”

White, who Gunn knew from Cambridge, was one of Gunn’s frequent correspondents.

Gunn’s letters are direct, intimate and often quite funny. Describing an early drug experience, he tells White in a 1958 letter written from Oakland: “I forgot to tell you. A couple of weeks ago I met Paul Bowles, a minor (and I think bad) American novelist. He looks like a ponce but doesn’t act like one. And he gave me a mescalin (sic) pill (the results of which are similar to haschisch (sic))” The letters portray gay life in the 1950s and ’60s from Gunn’s international perspective. In a letter from Berlin in 1960 to the British poet and editor John Lehmann, he discusses the difference between European and American gay bars: “I find queer bars outside America very epicene, very girly. I think it must be only in America you get bars exclusively for the butch (as opposed to money-butch). However there are a lot of attractive Germans outside the bars – I don’t mean directly outside I mean all over the place.”

Wolf on the move

That perspective also reveals that what would become known as “sexual tourism” was already present, and sometimes led to lifelong friendships. Two letters to Kitay from 1961 are a good example of this. In the first he tells of a meeting at Jack’s on the Waterfront (111 Embarcadero): “There is a queer, colossally big London Jew called Wolf, a medical student, and friend of Jonathan Miller, who says my poetry changed his life – it caused him to get a bike and wear

leather, and he tears around like a whirlwind – and came out here to be a doctor, because I live here.”

The Wolf in question is Oliver Wolf Sacks.

Gunn’s lifelong influence on him is unquestionable: Sacks entitled his 2015 autobiography On The Move: A Life after Gunn’s 1955 poem, “On The Move,” about leather boys on motorcycles.

In the second letter Gunn reveals that his encounter with Sacks was not merely literary: “Yes, I did make it with Wolf, & it was indefensible, since I find him extremely unatt.

Well, not extremely, and some people go mad crazy about him, but I like something (a) more beautiful and (b) more subtle. But for the first time in my life I did what I consider so wrong, i.e. slept with someone because he was so devoted, which I find immoral, really, the one form of sexual immorality. But he literally came to California because of me, and brought a bike which he still rides all the time because of me.”

Regardless of the failed sexual encounter, Sacks and Gunn formed a lifelong friendship in which Gunn encouraged Sacks’ writing.

Pop & Stud

In a 1963 letter to Kitay he discusses going to a concert with Chuck Arnett, whose mural in the Tool Box would frame the opening pages of Life magazine’s “Homosexuality in America” article the following year: “Yesterday we went to Barbra Streisand at the Hungry Eye, a very lovely singer with a fine manner, whom you have probably heard of. The bartender from the Tool Box, Chuck, we went with, said it was one of her best nights. He has been to see her 4 times.”

Because Gunn was passionately involved in San Francisco’s nightlife, he covers topics not readily found elsewhere. In a 1966 letter See page 10 >>

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Simon Rex

by Brandon Judell

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ow would Simon Rex –thespian (several Scary Movies), rapper (as Dirt Nasty), comedian, former model and ex-MTV VJ– describe his character, Mikey, in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, a role for which he’s just been nominated for Best Actor by the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Indie Spirits Awards? He settles for “a sociopathic, narcissistic, self-involved, unaware douchebag.”

Rex’s portrayal of an aging porn actor heading for Skid Row is the one that will make you most want to immediately shower, at least after the first viewing. After the second, you can just sit back and admire Rex’s perfect comic timing, his bonkers energy, and his no-holds-barred on-screen sexuality. He has more lines than Hamlet here, and he has to say them twice as fast, often with far less clothing.

We first meet Mikey on a bus from Los Angeles. After a lengthy, award-winning career in porn, he’s heading back to the dreary, small Texas town he’d sworn he’d never

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‘Red Rocket’ star on fame and foibles

return to. With just the jeans on his butt, a few dollars, and a banged-up face, Mikey’s only hope to sidestep homelessness is to talk his way back into the good graces of the druggy, ex-porn-star wife he ditched long ago and her ornery mom, who both are far from his biggest fans.

He succeeds in gaining access to their couch by promising to pay rent. Rent? How? Who will hire a chap whose most recent job entries subsist of gangbangs and an occasional ménage a tròis? “I’m famous for fucking,” he shares.

To find out more about Simon Rex, Red Rocket, his career comeback, and his hundreds of Vine offerings (remember Vine?), but not his bare-chested workout videos or extremely brief ‘blue’ period, I Zoomed with the star at the beginning of this month. Of course, we discussed his birthplace first.

Simon Rex: Growing up [in San Francisco] was great. I grew up until I was 11 in the city, and then I moved to East Bay, and I lived in Alameda in the Berkeley area. So I lived in the Bay Area until I was 17, 18 years old.

San Francisco, like New York, has the best and the worst of everything, which is great. You’re just around so many different ethnicities. It’s like a melting pot. You just learn a lot because you’re not in just a one-note suburbia-kind of place, but with a lot of flavors.

Brandon Judell: How do you have such a big LGBTQ following?

You know, that’s a good question. My godfather, growing up, was gay. He was basically almost like a father figure to me. So I think I was surrounded, being from San Francisco and having my godfather who’s the guy who got me my braces in the fifth grade, and took me to my graduation, and got me a suit, and he was actually Marc Jacob’s lover, the clothing designer. So I grew up exposed and around that.

To me, it’s just normal. I don’t think I have any phobias that some people may have about the community for some lame reason. I’m just used to it. So I don’t know. I’m not sure why. Maybe that’s the reason.

The dozens of compilations of your Vine antics, now on YouTube, feature your fictional outrageously gay identical twin brother, Steve. Where did this all come from?

That’s funny because I remember doing that and my mom saying, ‘Honey! You should be careful. You might offend the community,’ and

The original Stud bar

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Thom Gunn

From page 9

to the literary critic and Professor Tony Tanner he discusses the Capri (1326 Grant): “We – all of us – have found a bar that suits all of us, me Mike Don, Bryan, and it would you two as well.

tool sharp if you are not working, and if you are just posting your own stuff and you are getting people to laugh. It just kind of keeps you moving and grooving. Social media’s been actually a good platform because Sean said he’s followed my career since MTV, and he would watch my Vines, he would watch my Instagram videos, and my YouTube videos. So I was in the back of Sean’s head for a long time so in a weird way, this did actually get me the job.

Simon Rex

it was the opposite. More people are coming up to me saying how much they loved it. Gay guys thought it was hilarious because the joke isn’t somehow making fun of gay people. The joke to me was that it was really funny having twin brothers, one’s gay and one’s straight, and the gay twin wants to fuck the straight one, so therefore he loves himself and he’s just a narcissistic brother.

The character you created on Vine is not that distant from what you do with Mikey. Both seem like little boys encased in a hot man’s body with a sixth grader’s sense of self and humor. It’s almost like an audition tape.

Well, that’s the good thing about social media. It basically keeps your

You’re very free with your body.

I guess one of the reasons they hired you was that you are so free with your body. You’re not uptight about sexuality at all?

I think that America is very wound up about nudity, about sex.

They need to relax a little bit more.

You go to Europe and other parts of the world, and people are a lot more comfortable with nudity and sex. We’re just very immature about it. To me, it’s like this film in a small way will help people maybe grow up a little bit. That’s just how I feel. My parents are hippies. I’m from San Francisco; free love, running around. Maybe that’s different from most people, but I don’t really care.t Red Rocket plays locally at Alamo Drafthouse, Embarcadero Center Cinema, and AMC Kabuki 8. www.a24films.com/films/red-rocket Follow Simon Rex at www.instagram.com/SimonRex415

A young Oliver Sacks

We conceal it from Tom Gee and such like. It is the only really bisexual bar I have ever known and is very wild and delightful, as well as being close – on Grant Avenue.”

The Don mentioned in this letter is Don Doody, a bartender at the Tool Box and later at the Stud, where in the late 1960s he famously had LSD parties known as Saturnalia with environments designed by Arnett. He features prominently in the letters, as in this letter to Tanner from 1968: “Don has succeeded magnificently with the Stud. There are now more murals, there is dancing and affability, and it is probably the most packed bar in town. He is moving into those rooms above with Chuck Arnett and a few other nice people. Apparently there are 16 rooms up there!”

In another 1968 letter to Tanner Gunn describes one of the Saturnalia parties: “The Stud closed for a night to give its 150 closest friends a party in the bar. The place was decorated with polythene so as to look like a kind of Venusian Fingal’s Cave, with flexible stalactites, etc. And everybody, including Mike and me, said it was the best party they’d ever been to. One thing that helped was that everyone was offered acid, and so about 70 of us were on a reasonably heavy trip.”

For a time it appears that the

Stud was Gunn’s favorite bar, and he met friends from out of town there. In a 1970 letter to Tanner he recounts: “I met Mark and David Hockney at the Stud. They wanted to go to a bunch of new bars they had heard about. I said, ‘Oh those bars are awful, they’re very plastic.’ David Hockney said, ‘But we like plastic.’”

The content of The Letters of Thom Gunn is far more extensive than space allows a discussion of here. With the window these letters give on pre-Stonewall gay culture in San Francisco alone, this book is a treasure. The Letters of Thom Gunn is a vivid success.t

Thom Gunn friend Chuck Arnett’s art in an early Bay Area Reporter

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Kosher Comedy

December 23-29, 2021 • Bay Area Reporter • 11

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or the past 29 years lesbian comic Lisa Geduldig has celebrated the holiday season by presenting an evening of kosher comedy. The premise of these shows is simple: Geduldig and her guest comedians perform stand-up routines in a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the day after Christmas, because there’s nothing else for Jews to do on Christmas except go to a Chinese restaurant.

This year, due to concerns regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese restaurant will be virtual. The show will be broadJessica Kirson cast live on Zoom and YouTube.

This year’s show offers an all-fegrandmother. She performs as both male line-up. In addition to hosting, male and female characters, includGeduldig will perform, as will her ing characters modeled after her mom, 90-year-old Arline Geduldig. teenage daughter and the daughThe elder Geduldig made her comter’s boyfriend. She even does a sex edy debut during one of Geduldig’s therapist. monthly online shows, and became “Jewish people are able to laugh the surprise hit of the season. Arline at ourselves,” she said. “Which is has been performing in her daughamazing, considering what we’ve ter’s shows ever since. been through. I always say that In addition to the Geduldigs, people who’ve had the most pain the line-up includes funny woman laugh the most.”

Ophira Eisenberg and lesbian comGeduldig said when asked how ic Jessica Kirson, who hails from she felt about reaching her 29th South Orange, New Jersey. Kirson year, “I though the event was going had originally planned to be a therapist, but her life path changed when her grandmother told her that she needed to be a comedian because Kirson always had people laughing.

“That was it,” Kirson tells the Bay Area Reporter. “I just fell into it and got addicted to it. That was in 1999, and I’ve been doing it ever since.”

When she performs, Kirson does a variety of old Jewish Lisa Geduldidg and her mom, Arline characters, such as her Jewish

Holiday spooks

Tristram Kenton

Antony Eden (front) and in Robin Herford in The Woman in Black

by Jim Gladstone he Woman In Black, a ghost story, is now on stage at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater.

My review: Boo! And I’m sticking to it like ectoplasm on a bed sheet.

Undoubtedly, I’ll be cursed by tens of thousands of goosebumploving audience members who have made this play a huge hit in London –where it’s run continuously on the West End since 1989– and in subsequent productions worldwide.

This is a play for haunted house afficionados, a jump scare jamboree. If you’re happily rattled when the darkness is riven by lightning bolts or a tense stretch of silence is pierced by a scream, the deliciously sinister stagecraft of designers Anshuman Bhatia (lighting), Michael Holt (set) and Sebastian Frost (sound) will tickle your spooky bone. And the two-man British cast of Anthony Eden and Robin Herford brings an inarguably impressive balance of playfulness and conviction to their performances.

Let me be clear: I’m no fan of en-

AUTO EROTICA

Going strong after 29 years

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tertainments that require suspension of disbelief in the supernatural. Debunking is more my style.

If a latex mask is ultimately peeled away to reveal a scamming gaslighter behind the ghouls (and perhaps a big pile of Scooby snacks), I’m all in.

I’ll even grumblingly accept the paranormal in a parable (Available down the street from the Strand in A Christmas Carol, at the Golden Gate Theatre, through Sunday). But when the plot’s outcome doesn’t discount the existence of visitors from the afterlife, I feel like I’m the one who’s been gaslit.

For more than half of its length, Stephen Mallatratt’s script (adapted from a novel by Susan Hill) allows Eden to play a sensibly skeptical fellow. He’s a Victorian-era estate lawyer investigating the affairs of a recently deceased client, the grand dame of a dreary heathside town called Crythin Gifford, whose citizenry lives in a fog of morose anxiety given their belief in the titular phantom and her curse: If you’re present at one of her occasional appearances, you will later witness

to be a one-off in 1993. I started doing this event at 31 years old, next year we turn 30 and 60 together.

Kung Pao is my thirty-year-old child. So I’m surprised and I’m proud and I’m kind of blown away that it’s been so many years.”

Having her mother take part in the show came about during the pandemic lockdown, when Geduldig stayed with her mother in Florida for a few months. It was the first time they had spent an extended amount of time together in many years, and Geduldig came to realize how funny her mother was.

“Much to my surprise, she has a thing for firemen,” Geduldig said. “And other young hot bucks that she sees, so she’s talked about that, and she’s talked about getting kicked out of Costco because she returned her hearing aids too many times. She’s just a little pip!”

She wants to assure people that being Jewish isn’t necessary in order to get the jokes. Not all the comedy material is Jewish, but the material that is Jewish goes across cultural and religious backgrounds.

“It’s a community experience,” she said. “If you’re coming to the Zoom show you can be with other people and laugh on the screen with people, you can cruise, that’s what I do half the time when I’m at an event. Half of me is listening, and the other half is checking people out in their little boxes, and what they’re wearing. So there is cruising that can be done on Zoom.”t Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Dec. 24 & 25 at 5pm; Dec. 26 at 2pm. www.koshercomedy.com

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the accidental death of a child.

In fact, the villagers’ glumness and nerves come off as anything but uniform, thanks to a terrifically dexterous performance by Herford, who plays the roles of every townsperson. His naturally tall and skeletal Ichabody slumps, jitters and cranes to bring distinct personalities to characters from a fey pub waiter to a stiff-collared public servant to a carriage driver scared to spasticity.

Alas, the advocate’s investigations of the crumbling mansion that looms over the town don’t lead him to discover any trickery afoot. He encounters the woman in black for himself –Eden admirably seeming as genuinely startled as the audience every time she pops up– and is quickly convinced that she’s real. All suspense then goes slack in a long, prosaic telling of her origin story. It involves despicable 19th-century attitudes toward unwed mothers; truly dramatic material that’s sidelined here in favor of campfire story gotchas!

The evil ghost was indeed an evil ghost. Yawn.

And oh yes, without getting into the details of the distracting meta-narrative huggermugger of the play’s opening minutes, let it be known that at evening’s end, we’re assured that the evil ghost still walks among us. In fact, we’ve just seen her. Which means that upon stepping out of the Strand and into mid-Market Street’s hellscape, the true believers among us can look forward to seeing a kid get killed.

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The Matrix Resurrections @ Castro Theatre

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any cast members of The Matrix Resurrections film attended the Castro Theatre premiere on December 18, including stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff, Jada Pinkett Smith, and director Lana Wachowski.

Despite complaints from local business owners (including no advance notice of the street closure on the busy holiday shopping week; see ‘Castro businesses sidelined by ‘Matrix’ premiere’s parking impacts’ on www.ebar. com) fans of the science fiction film series enjoyed seeing the stars and watching the film.t

Saving Saint-Saëns ‘Carnaval des animaux’ and other works

by Tim Pfaf

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amille Saint-Saëns has gotten a bad rap. Some critics and music historians have decreed his work not just facile but superficial. Allowances have been made for his “serious” works, like the opera Samson et Dalila, offset by the fact that he made his fortune with The Carnival of the Animals, a children’s piece.

December concludes the socalled Saint-Saëns Year, one of those confections of the publicists who in this case celebrate the composer’s death centennial. Warner Classics saluted the Year with a $100, 34-disc Saint-Saëns edition, containing all the major works in historical and modern recordings.

Camille Saint-Saëns

A Saint-Saëns beginner could do far worse.

But on disc, a number of rarely heard but important pieces came

out to play, chief among them the 1872 one-act, two-character opera, La Princesse jaune (Palazetto Bru Zane), not the first of the composer’s dozen-plus worthy operas but the first to have been publicly performed in his lifetime. The recording, nimbly conducted by Leo Hussain, who nails both its verve and its delicacy with the Orchestre National de Capitole de Toulouse, bursts out of the speakers like a star reborn.

The bellwether of seriousness in classical music has long been the

composition of symphonies, which for most of Saint-Saëns’ French counterparts barely constituted a distraction. That makes Warner’s new three-CD release of the composer’s Complete Symphonies, with Christian Macelaru leading the Orchestre National de France, as significant as it is welcome.

The must-have Saint-Saëns recording of the year may well be the newly reissued remaster of a CD pairing the Organ Symphony with the rarely heard Fourth Piano Concerto (Harmonia

Ashes to Ink Moving memoir recalls life with gay dad

Author Lisa Lucca

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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n Ashes to Ink, Lisa Lucca has written a moving memoir in which she recalls coming to terms with her gay dad. Lucca not only learns to accept who her father is, she comes to the realization that, in spite of the problems they had, she and her dad loved each other as best they could.

In addition to sharing memories of life with her dad, Lucca writes about her own search for love, which she sometimes looked for in the wrong places.

She vividly recalls her marriage to a man who did not satisfy her, a man who lived his life on the road and often left her alone with their young son. When she finally made the choice to end that relationship,

she found to her horror that her husband was spiteful and vindictive and didn’t seem to care much for their child. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but Lucca held her head up high and did whatever she could to earn a living and to provide a good life for herself and her son.

In an interview, Lucca said that she’s heard from readers who have gay parents.

“I have heard from others who are younger than I am,” she said.

“One is straight, and the other is gay. In both cases, they were less affected by their parent coming out since there was more social acceptance in the past 15+ years. I talked to one spouse who said she was hit hard by the news, and her sons had a tough time, teenagers, with one rejecting his father for months. A gay reader shared that reading the book made her think more about her family’s acceptance of her.”

The book, she feels, has a universal message that can apply to any parent/child relationship, regardless of whether or not the parent identifies as LGBTQ. The message is one of acceptance.

“Even if they’re different from us, have different beliefs, different ideals, values even, that by accepting who they are and accepting who we are, we can have a much more tolerant relationship

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with our family,” Lucca said. “Even if it doesn’t mean that we’re close, it means that we’re not at odds, because I was at odds so much with

my family over the years by feeling misunderstood that when I finally accepted that they didn’t see the world and vice versa in some ways

Mundi). It establishes its historicalperformance credentials by featuring a stunning 1862 Cavaille-Coll organ in the first and an 1874 Erard piano in the latter. The orchestra, Les Siecles, and their founder and conductor, Francois-Xavier Roth, have since become the toast of the orchestral world.

If mind-blowing Saint-Saëns captures your fancy, look no farther than Bru Zane’s recording, issued just before the Year, of the opera Le Timbre d’argent. It’s a piece the composer revised throughout his long career, every measure warranted.t

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it created this lovely truce.”t

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50 years in 50 weeks:2008’s loved ’shack

by Jim Provenzano

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n the second week of August, 2008, a beloved drag show reached its zenith, as host Heklina hosted the last weekly Trannyshack night at The Stud before exporting it to DNA Lounge and other larger venues.

“There was a real need for Trannyshack,” said Heklina in our interview.

“There was a real void for an alternative venue. When Trannyshack started in 1995, people had just stopped dying of AIDS, because new medications came out,” said Heklina. “It felt like a celebration after all that mourning, which was a dark year for me. I’d planned to go to some people’s funerals, and there they were on stage with me.”

Performances became notorious for a dark, satirical edge. The new drag included artistry, props, staging, and subtextual parodies. Sometimes it rose to the level of transgressive art.

At the second command performance night before its closing, veterans of the show reminisced about Trannyshack’s impact on queer culture.

“There’s just nothing like the energy here,” said Raya Light. “I don’t think you can duplicate it anywhere, anytime.” Read the full article at www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/theater//232447 By 2014, even the limited (tours and an annual contest) show’s name riled some with the use of the word “tranny,” and Heklina rebranded it to T-Shack before later abandoning the term altogether. Read “Tempest in a T-Shack” at www.ebar.com/bartab/nightlife//159766