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Sunset lesbian says tyrannical master tenant using chicanery to steal mail by Meg Elison

senior lesbian living in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood alleges that her neighbor, who’s the master tenant in her apartment building, may have compromised her mailbox. Raquel Guillen said that she had the usual suspicions when her mail and parcels went missing. She assumed simple theft, posting a sign for the U.S. Postal Service not to leave packages outside her building’s locked entrance. However, when certified mail addressed to another tenant in the building mysteriously landed in her mailbox, she realized her problem was much more complicated. She believes someone has access to her mailbox. Six months ago, Guillen, 63, began to experience disruptions in her services and benefits, only to find out that she had been notified by mail but had never received the

CA creates $17.5M health fund for lesbian, bi women by Matthew S. Bajko

n what advocates say is a national first, California lawmakers have established a $17.5 million Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women’s Health Equity Fund. The money was included in the state’s 20192020 $214.8 billion budget that Governor Gavin Newsom signed June 27. According to the Los Angeles LGBT Center, it marks the first time a state has earmarked specific funds for LBQ women’s health programs. “After months of advocating for this funding, we are thrilled that California lawmakers recognized the tremendous health needs of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women,” stated Lorri L. Jean, the center’s CEO, in a news release announcing the creation of the fund. “These women have been invisible in health care conversations for far too long, and the consequences have been deadly.” Past Golden State budgets have earmarked funds for health programs addressing the needs of gay men and transgender individuals but never for lesbian and bisexual women, noted Terra RussellSlavin, the center’s director of policy and community building. She told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview that center staff had talked about correcting that omission in recent years and decided to make a concerted push to seek funding for LBQ women’s health needs last year. Service providers will now be able to apply for funding under the program through the California Department of Public Health, said RussellSlavin. The programs must serve cisgender and transgender women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer, she explained, adding that some services for transgender men also would qualify. According to the agency, the money can go toward health and mental health care, domestic violence programs, and treatment referrals for smoking, alcohol, and substance abuse. It can also cover the cost of trainings about LBQ women’s health needs for health care providers. “The idea is to create a funding stream within the California Department of Public Health to focus on addressing health disparities for LBQ women, including transgender women. People can be transgender and lesbians,” said Russell-Slavin. See page 14 >>

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Raquel Guillen checks the mail at her Sunset district apartment.

letters warning her of deadlines. Her suspicions grew, thinking there had to be a reason. “Letters from my doctors went missing,” Guillen told the Bay Area Reporter by phone. “I asked my doctor to never again send me mail. My banking statement didn’t arrive punctually. I’m not techie, so I don’t use digital statements. Sometimes it arrived, sometimes it didn’t. But I didn’t connect the dots

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until those pieces of certified mail arrived.” Guillen discovered three pieces of certified mail that had been received and signed for, the receipt stubs removed from the back. They were all addressed to the master tenant in her building, and sent by their landlord. Confused, Guillen contacted her landlord. The mystery only deepened from there. See page 14 >>

More queer people than ever living on the street in SF

by Meg Elison

ccording to the Point-in-Time Count released over the holiday weekend by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, more queer people than ever – 1,054 – are living without safe, permanent housing on the streets of San Francisco. The general street count was conducted on January 24. Two years ago, the number of queer people found living on the streets during the count was 1,014. These figures are of course part of a larger one: more people of all kinds are living on these streets than ever before, with the number coming in at 8,011, a 19% increase over the same count in 2017. Twenty-seven percent of these people are LGBTQ, roughly the same percentage as were counted in the previous report two years ago. Yet even though percentages stayed the same, the hard number is larger this year. For homeless youth, the executive summary states that there were 1,145 in the 2019 count, down slightly from the 1,274 reported in 2017. This year, 46% of youth age 24 and under identified as LGBTQ+. Queer respondents to this survey were more likely to report first experiencing homelessness as a teen or young adult than their straight counterparts (58% vs. 40%). More transgender people were reported in this

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A man slept on Market Street near Collingwood Street last month.

year’s survey, as well. In 2017, 9% of the LGBTQ homeless respondents were transgender people, and in 2019 the proportion had jumped to 13%. The 2017 survey did not specifically offer a nonbinary option, but included those respondents in a larger category marked “other.” This year, 3% of the LGBTQ homeless identified themselves as genderqueer or nonbinary. An estimated 12% of San Francisco’s general

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Stop the flip-flopping, Kamala

ast week in this space we praised Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ debate performance for confronting former Vice President Joe Biden on his opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. Biden was flummoxed and was unable to adequately respond. Imagine our surprise – and many others were caught off guard too – when two days after our editorial was published, Harris sounded like she agreed with Biden during a July 4 appearance in Iowa, a key early voting state. Now, as media outlets report, she said she would support federally mandated busing in situations like those in the 1970s when Harris was bused to school in Berkeley, where integration efforts by states or school districts met resistance or were not effective. The Washington Post reported that she also said she does not believe current circumstances require that kind of intervention. Days earlier, Harris said that busing should be “considered” by local school districts, but she did not go so far as to say she would support the federal government mandating it. In the end, the main point of her argument on that debate stage was muddled. She took Biden to task because he believed that city councils, not the federal government, should be making decisions on busing; now Harris herself apparently believes basically the same thing. She only undercut her debate gains. This isn’t a new problem for Harris. Since

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Kamala Harris took part in last month’s San Francisco Pride parade.

launching her presidential bid in January, California’s junior senator has repeatedly had to “clarify” her statements. What that really means is that she said something bold that got people’s attention, then later backtracked to a safer position. The problem with that approach, however, is obvious: voters become confused and don’t know what to believe – or more crucially, where Harris stands on the issues. Take health care, one of the signature issues in the Democratic primary. President Donald Trump has said he wants to scrap the Affordable Care Act. There will be “insurance for everybody,” he said before he was sworn in. Well, when the House and Senate were both controlled by Republicans, they never could pass a plan, even as they chipped away at the ACA. Now, progressive

Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want Medicare for All, which would do away with private insurers. During the recent debates, Harris and Sanders raised their hands when asked if they supported that policy. (Warren raised her hand at her debate the night before.) Afterward, Harris said that she “misunderstood” the question and disagreed with ending private insurance. Harris also said that a bill Sanders introduced in the Senate, which she supports, doesn’t get rid of private insurance. In fact, as NBC News reported, Sanders’ bill would “outright ban private insurance that provides similar coverage to Medicare for All plans after a short transition period.” Asked to explain this, Harris maintains that she supports eliminating the “bureaucracy” in the health insurance industry, which she says the Sanders bill calls for, but not private insurance. This distinction is important because polls consistently find that Americans who have health insurance (usually through their employer) want to keep it. They support expanding public insurance so that everyone has coverage, only if they don’t lose their private insurance. That’s the needle that Democratic candidates have to thread. Harris’ penchant for taking a daring stand only to back down later underscores a recurring problem that will come back to haunt her. She needs to stake out a position and stick to it. It takes a lot to stand out in a crowded field of 23 candidates; Harris has demonstrated she can do that, but she sabotages herself if she flip flops days later. t

Jose Sarria’s history is important

by Nathan Page

ose Sarria, who died in 2013, has been called the “Rosa Parks of the gay rights movement” of the 1960s. His history is important and now there’s an effort underway to induct him posthumously into the California Hall of Fame. In 1961, Sarria declared himself a candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Remember that at the time he had to find registered voters to sign the petition allowing him to run, and he was running as an openly gay man. The day before the deadline, city officials realized that they had fewer applicants than open positions, which would have guaranteed Sarria a win. The city bosses kicked into gear and had a near-record 34 candidates on the ballot a day later. Sarria ran his campaign from the Black Cat bar and spent many a speech talking to the gay community about accepting the power they had if they worked together. Even though he lost that November, placing ninth of almost 30 candidates and garnering about 6,000 votes, it is recognized as the beginning of the gay community showing its personal and political clout. As Sarria said, “From that day on nobody ran for anything in San Francisco without knocking on the door of the gay community.” In 1977 the first openly gay man to win an election in California, Harvey Milk, was elected to that same position. Sarria became Empress I almost by accident. He left the Army in 1945 and returned to his beloved San Francisco intent on becoming a teacher. He enrolled in college and was eventually hired as a part-time cocktail waiter at the Black Cat bar when one of the waiters called in sick. A short time later, Sarria was arrested in a police entrapment sting – he was using the restroom at a local hotel that the police claimed was notorious for homosexual activity. His attorney urged him to plead guilty so that his name would not be in the paper and he did, also paying a small fine. It was only later that he was told the plea also meant that he could never become a teacher. With that, his lifetime goal was crushed. One weekend Sarria was invited to be in a female impersonator contest at Pearls in Oakland – the winner got a two-week stint at $50 per week. He won and found both the money and the attention enjoyable. The win gave him some notoriety and, as important, earned him a few small singing jobs – another life passion. That singing came in handy a few months later when, working as a waiter at the Black Cat one night he recognized the tune being played by the pianist as part of the opera “Carmen” and started singing along. Sarria was an instant hit, and as the popularity (and tips) grew Sarria and the pianist decided to plan the music and even do special shows that featured the music. “The Nightingale of Montgomery Street” was born. Soon his abbreviated operas (45 minutes to an hour in-

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Jose Sarria, the Widow Norton, visited the grave of the Emperor Joshua Norton, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma, during her annual pilgrimage to the gravesite in 2011.

stead of three, one character instead of 20) were running two shows every weekend to packed houses – drawing more business (and tips) and ever-increasing law enforcement attention. Sarria ended every show reminding the patrons to be open and honest about who they are, quit living double lives and allowing persecution. He then followed with a rousing “sing-along” chorus of “God Save Us Nelly Queens” to the tune of “God Save the Queen.” The police were attempting to shut any bar that attracted gay patrons, including the Black Cat. While the California Supreme Court eventually decided that a bar could not be closed “due to the clients it attracted,” the police and liquor authority harassment continued for another decade and a half – eventually closing almost half of the city’s gay bars. Drag performers and the trans community received special enforcement, with the police storming bars and arresting everyone in sight. At one point the arrests were averaging 400 per week, despite police assurances that it had nothing to do with the $50 bail and $50 fine that all were required to pay for their “lewd behaviors” such as holding hands, kissing or even (gasp) wearing clothes that were “inappropriate for their gender.” As Sarria saw more and more discrimination he got angrier and angrier – and started to lead the patrons out into the street to sing the closing song to the men who were in the city jail directly across the street. Sarria and other unofficial community leaders finally started to encourage the men not to plead guilty. As more men pleaded not guilty the result was a huge backlog in the court, and the court started requiring that police provide proof of the alleged behavior. Hundreds of cases were dismissed. One favored harassment technique, employed especially on Halloween after midnight, was to arrest drag queens under an old city ordinance that made it illegal for a man to dress in women’s clothing with the “intent to deceive.” Sarria countered this tactic by distributing labels to his fellow drag queens (hand-made, in the shape of a black

cat’s head) that read, “I am a boy.” If confronted, the queen would simply display the tag to prove that there was no intent to deceive. Sarria’s actions helped bring an end to Halloween police raids. The SF Tavern Guild was an association of gay bar owners and liquor wholesalers that formed in 1962 in San Francisco, California. The Guild formed in response to police harassment of gay bars and gay people that had resulted in the closing of several bars. The Guild was the first gay business association in the United States, and lasted until 1995. In 1963, the Black Cat finally succumbed to ongoing enforcement assaults by law enforcement and the powerful (and anti-gay) Alcohol Beverage Association. For the next two years Sarria hosted the “Opera” at the Backstage on Bay Street and entertained brunches at Salinas Parlour until his election at the Halloween 1964 Beaux Arts Ball as queen. A few months later, Sarria declared that he was already a queen and named himself Her Royal Majesty, Empress de San Francisco, Jose I The Widow Norton. This 1965 date is accepted as the start of the Court of San Francisco and the International Court System as an entity. Sarria, known as Empress I of the Americas, later added “Protector of the United States and Mexico.” It is important to note that several groups were already in existence on the West Coast that had balls and queens. They were social organizations, and as Sarria saw the political and organizational potential he worked with those groups to craft a loose union of the groups. It was with the agreement of groups in Portland, Vancouver British Columbia, Seattle, and other cities that Sarria was affirmed the Queen Mother and the Court of San Francisco given its place as the Mother Court. Known for her theatrical performances, fancy dinners and fun outings, by the time Sarria completed her year as empress he had established himself as the leader of a fun and dedicated group of volunteers. Other cities expressed interest in similar “Royal” organizations and Sarria began blessing other groups who promised to remain charitable, have fun, and obey any and all of her royal proclamations. To submit a letter in support of Sarria’s induction, write to Governor Gavin Newsom, California State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814. Nicole Ramirez, who was elected an empress of the Imperial Court in 1973 and currently holds the title of Queen Mother I of the Americas, Canada, United States, and Mexico, asked that people also email a copy of their letter directly to him at nicolemrsd1@gmail.com.t Nathan Page is working to induct Jose Sarria into the California Hall of Fame.

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Pink triangle installation a success

Thank you to the 150-plus volunteers who helped set up the 24th annual pink triangle in record time by installing 175 bright pink tarps and 5,000 foot-long steel spikes atop Twin Peaks in less than an hour on the foggy morning of Saturday, June 29. Also, thank you to the 25 people who helped dismantle the one-acre display Sunday after the Pride parade. The pink triangle is a community-building project and it really does take a village. Shortly after the installation was completed, the sun came out for the ceremony. Thank you to the dignitaries who spoke during the commemoration ceremony, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed; German Consul General HansUlrich Suedbeck, who gave the “History of the Pink Triangle” at the beginning of the ceremony (it was an honor to have an official representative of Germany, the nation where the pink triangle was invented, tell the history for the first time on Twin Peaks); French Consul General Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens; Honorary Consul General of Monaco Thomas E. Horn; state Senator Scott Wiener; Assemblyman David Chiu and his toddler son, Lucas; San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros; Supervisor Rafael Mandelman; Clair Farley, from the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives; and SF City College Trustees Alex Randolph and Tom Temprano. Also, San Francisco Pride board President Jacquelene Bishop spoke and then introduced community grand marshals and honorees, Vince Crisostomo; Mrs. Vera, along with Michael Johnstone of Verasphere; and comedian Sampson McCormack, all of whom spoke and inspired the attendees. The first pink triangle went up in the dark of night so our small group wouldn’t be arrested, now it is installed, celebrated, and christened by many, including elected officials. It went from renegade to an important and colorful backdrop that makes San Francisco’s Pride visually unique. It also offers a valuable history lesson. The pink triangle is one of history’s reminders of hatred and inequality, while reminding us that even though LGBTQ+ citizens have made much progress in recent decades, we still face significant challenges. A huge thank you to our 2019 sponsors: SF Pride, the Bob Ross Foundation (overseen by Horn, it sponsored the 2019 pink triangle T-shirts), the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Badlands, Toad Hall, Paul Pendergast Consulting Group, Lazy Bear Weekend Fund, Rick Stokes (owner of Steamworks), Brian Gerritsen, Hodgkins Jewelers; and Starbucks for the coffee, tea, and pastries. Thanks to Barefoot & Bubbly for the champagne used during the christening portion of the program. Media sponsors: the Bay Area Reporter and Betty’s List/SF Bay Times. The SF mayor’s office and SF Department of Real Estate for their ongoing support, SF Public Works for sending a crew to clear much of the hillside site of poison oak and non-native thorny plants several days before the volunteers arrived; officers of the San Francisco Police Department’s Park Station, who watched over the ceremony and for giving 24-hour coverage; and Katie Hickox

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Patrick Carney, left, and his sister, Colleen Hodgkins, stand near the completed pink triangle June 29.

for maintaining the pink triangle website (http://www. thepinktriangle.com). This event could not have continued all these decades without the ongoing dedication of Colleen Hodgkins and Hossein Carney, who have been the main helpers for many years. Thank you also to the extraordinary and talented official band of San Francisco, the SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, conducted by Michael J. Wong. The band has participated since 2000 and always adds a great deal of fun to the ceremony. Thank you to all of those who helped in any way to make the 2019 pink triangle a successful event. 2020 will bring the 25th annual pink triangle; that year will also bring San Francisco its 50th Pride. Next year will be a milestone for San Francisco’s Pride weekend celebrations.

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Common sense missing in Castro

It was quite embarrassing to walk through the Castro the night of Saturday, June 29. The sidewalks were overwhelmed, and the lines for the local bars all extended hundreds of feet. No doubt many of those people never got into the bars before they closed. The simple and obvious solution was to keep Castro Street closed between Market and 18th. There is no great need for traffic to dominate the space (it’s not a major thoroughfare), and it would have been less dangerous (than way over-crowded sidewalks). Even worse was the dominance of police. There were so many cops and they had nothing to do. It was also quite intimidating, which gave the neighborhood a “police state” feeling. What a waste of money. Can you imagine being guests to our area and seeing this spectacle on Pride weekend? How horrible a look is this for a gay scene with a known big event? I heard so many people express their dismay at how this whole thing was handled by our city. Are we trying to keep people away from the city on this weekend? How did this happen? Why did Supervisor Rafael Mandelman allow this to happen? What happened to common sense? Tony Jasinski San Francisco

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continuum of care for young people, including queer youth with drop-in centers, medical services, and housing. “We at Larkin Street Youth Services are appreciative of the support from the San Francisco Police Department, whose Pride Patch program generated thousands of dollars to fund muchneeded housing, education, health, and employment services for young people experiencing homelessness in our city, a population in which LGBTQ youth are vastly over-represented,” Sheri-

lyn Adams, Larkin Street executive director, said in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter. SFPD officials said that approximately 1,800 Pride patches were sold. The patches were also sent to and worn by law enforcement members and military members in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. According to the release, 10 other law enforcement agencies have reached out to the SFPO Pride Alliance for suggestions on how to launch similar projects. The Pride patches were somewhat controversial when they were announced. Gay Shame claimed responSee page 15 >>

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The Board of Supervisors gave final approval this week to the creation of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District.

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as well as the surrounding residential area. The district’s boundary also stretches down the neighborhood’s commercial corridor along Market Street to Octavia Boulevard where the LGBT community center is located. It also includes the blocks of Laguna Street where the LGBT senior services agency Openhouse has its offices and affordable senior housing development. Also incorporated into the district is the stretch of Valencia Street where the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus recently purchased a permanent home. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was the lead sponsor for the Castro cultural district, while the GLBT Historical Society has been one of the main community groups advocating for its creation. As Mandelman stated last month following the board’s first vote to establish the district, “I am proud that this ordinance will allow the Castro to access critical resources to support the small businesses, non-profits, cultural institutions and people that make the neighborhood the heart of our city’s LGBTQ community.”

Pointing to a report released in March by the city’s budget and legislative analyst that found it takes a year for most businesses in the commercial corridor to secure their permits from the planning department, Mandelman said that “overly restrictive zoning is partly responsible for this growing problem.” In light of people’s changing retail habits and the high cost of doing business in the city, Mandelman said there is a “dire need” to update the zoning along upper Market Street. “We ought to be doing everything we can to help attract businesses and help them open as quickly as possible,” he said. Tom Radulovich, a gay man who is executive director of the nonprofit Livable Cities, praised Mandelman at the hearing for the zoning update he and his office had created following months of meetings with Castro business leaders and residents. “It is beautifully crafted legislation that perfectly fits the upper Market zoning,” said Radulovich. Once the land use committee votes on the proposal, the full Board of Supervisors will need to vote on it twice before it is sent to Breed for her sign off, likely in early August.

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Jason P. Clark, the first openly gay person to be named chair of the San Francisco Republican Party, has resigned from the political post due to accepting a position with the U.S. Department of Commerce. Clark, who is moving to Washington, D.C. for the job, also resigned as the Bay Area regional vice chairman at the California Republican Party. A longtime leader in the Log Cabin Republicans political group for LGBT GOPers, Clark in 2012 unsuccessfully ran against gay former state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) for his legislative seat. Clark took over as chair of the San Francisco Republican Party in June 2016, having served on the local GOP central committee since 2011. “It has been an honor and privilege to work with so many Republicans here in San Francisco,” Clark wrote in a recent email sent out by the local party. “Living in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, it can be hard to get up, get out, and advocate for what’s right and ideas to make our city work. I know our next chair will be excited to continue our work through 2020.”t

The supervisors this month are also set to approve a series of zoning changes along Market Street aimed at helping to fill ground floor retail spaces between Octavia and Castro streets. Mandelman has spearheaded the proposal since taking office last July. As the Bay Area Reporter has previously noted, the changes would pave the way for arts uses and community-serving nonprofits to lease out sidewalk-facing storefronts without the need for a conditional use permit. Stores and restaurants selling only beer and wine would also benefit from a relaxation of the permits they would need to receive prior to opening along upper Market Street. At the same time, for-profit health care clinics would face tougher hurdles to opening along the corridor and throughout the city. Whereas now they do not need to seek approval from the city’s planning commission in order to open, such businesses would be added to the city’s list of formula retailers who are required to seek a conditional use permit prior to opening their doors. Due to a number of amendments Mandelman made to the proposal, the supervisors’ land use and transportation committee voted only to accept the changes at its meeting July 11. It postponed taking a vote on recommending that the full board adopt the changes to its July 15 meeting. “Retail vacancies are a problem in upper Market,” Mandelman noted at the hearing.

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8 • Bay Area Reporter • July 11-17, 2019

Filmmakers turn lens on historic SF gay bar by Matthew S. Bajko

iving mere blocks from the Twin Peaks Tavern, Pond Street residents Bret Parker and Petey Barma consider the historic gay bar their neighborhood watering hole. Over the years the couple have befriended many of the longtime gay male patrons and employees of the local landmark situated on the corner of Castro, Market and 17th streets. The 84-year-old business at 401 Castro Street has a storied place in LGBT history. When lesbian business partners Margaret Ann “Peggy” Forster and Mary Ellen Cunha, who are both now deceased, bought it in 1972, they scraped off the black paint covering the windows so their patrons could be seen by passersby. It was the first known gay bar to do so and coincided with the Castro’s transformation from a working-class Italian and Irish Catholic enclave into a gay mecca. Known more as a bar for socializing with friends than as a pickup spot, its gay patrons have long seen it as their own living room. From their perches on their designated bar stools or tables situated near the windows, they have had a front row view to the history taking place outside over the last five decades. Now in their 70s and 80s, many of the men are passing away, taking with them their memories of witnessing the birth of the modern gay rights movement, surviving the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, and seeing the Castro come full circle to again be attractive to straight families. Wanting to capture those stories for posterity, Parker and Barma set out to interview the bar’s longtime customers and staff about their experiences. The women turned the footage they captured into the documentary “Through the Windows,” which had its premiere last month during Frameline, the city’s LGBTQ international film festival. “When history is taught in school, you get glimpses of the superstars in history. You don’t get glimpses of everyday people,” said Parker, an animator at Pixar Animation Studios who also does voice work, providing the voices for Kari, the babysitter in “The Incredibles,” and the ball of yarn Purl in the short film of the same name. “A lot of these men have remarkable stories that are going to be lost.” Those stories have relevance not only for younger LGBT people but also straight people of any age who weren’t taught about LGBT history, added Barma, a local educator.

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“The straight community, young and old, has no idea about all the events happening around us right here,” said Barma while seated at a table in the bar’s small balcony area. Parker, 50, and Barma, 53, who both identify as queer, have been together 16 years and married in 2008. They revived Parker’s Artfarm Productions in November 2016 when they began work on their first film. In November they plan to travel to Nassau, Delaware where their documentary will screen at the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival. They have also submitted it to film festivals around the world and are awaiting word on if it will be selected in any. In the meantime, they are focused on raising $9,000 by August in order to secure the rights for the archival footage they used in the film. They licensed the rights for a year so it could screen at Frameline. It is part of a $30,000 fundraising campaign the couple is undertaking not only to support the costs associated with their film but also to continue documenting the stories of the patrons at Twin Peaks. They intend to post short features online about the people at the bar and other LGBT elders they know as part of a project the couple has dubbed “mapping queer history.” “We want to keep this project going,” said Parker. Tax-deductible donations can be made online via the film’s website at https://www.throughthewindows. com/. As of this week they had netted just $525 toward their goal. “We aren’t good at fundraising,” acknowledged Barma. Outside of screening the film at fes-

tivals, the couple have yet to strike a distribution deal. They have applied to be accepted into Frameline’s distribution program in order to get their film in front of audiences and into classrooms. Jeffrey Green and George Roehm, gay men who worked as bartenders at Twin Peaks and became its co-owners 16 years ago, are among those whose stories are included in the film. They are delighted with how the documentary came out. “We trusted them with telling our story respectfully,” said Green. “And they did. We are proud of them and how they pieced it together.” One request they made of the filmmakers was that they not refer to the bar by one of its nicknames, “The Glass Coffin,” as they view it as an ageist and derogatory descriptor. Barma said it is “not a phrase we like, to be honest, and it is not used in the film.” Parker added that it is “misused,” as originally it didn’t refer to the ages of the patrons of the bar but came about during the AIDS crisis when so many of the neighborhood’s gay residents were dying. “It is not about the story of the bar but about the story of what was happening outside the bar,” she explained. While that history of how AIDS impacted patrons and employees of the bar is discussed in the film, a different nickname for the Twin Peaks is cited, that of it being a gay “Cheers.” Just like the title of the theme song for the TV sitcom centered on a Boston pub, the Castro bar is a place “where everybody knows your name,” several of its patrons remark in the film. Today, Twin Peaks is also a bar where the patrons are no longer just gay men. Sitting next to the longtime customers are younger LGBT people and straight European tourists. “Even though we identify as a gay bar, our customers have changed as the neighborhood has changed,” said Green. “We have straight customers, gay customers of all ages,” added Roehm. Twin Peaks Tavern opens at noon Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays; at 10 a.m. Thursdays and Sundays; and at 9 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. It closes nightly at 2 a.m. and is cash only. As for the filmmakers, they are already at work on their second film, an animated short based on Barma being the first girl to play on a boy’s baseball team in 1975 where she grew up in central Florida. Later in life she

learned from her mother the significance of her breaking through that gender barrier. “I knew I was the first girl to play. I didn’t know at the time about the controversy it was causing in the stands,” said Barma.

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Four years ago Santiago Pazos started doing yoga as a way to improve his mental and physical health. The 34-year-old gay Los Angeles resident now practices yoga an hour daily. Unsatisfied with the yoga clothes available for men, Pazos decided to design his own line. Called Coroa, the Galician word for “crown,” it launched July 5. The clothing, made in L.A., is inspired by Pazos’ hometown of Galicia, Spain. As he explains on the line’s website – https://www.coroayoga. com – he drew inspiration from the Celts, early inhabitants of the region, for the look of the garments. “The designs are very geometrical. When you are wearing them and practicing yoga, you see the lines moving with you,” said Pazos, who moved to southern California in 2009 and owns his own PR firm. “The pieces inspire you to move. As you move with them, you are generating these beautiful feelings.” He is selling a variety of muscle shirts ($80), shorts ($110), a calflength pant ($140), and a hoodie ($160) in black fabric with white and copper color accents. Available only online at the moment, Pazos is looking to have established stores in gay neighborhoods carry his line. Eventually, he would like to open his own yoga studio. For the moment, he hopes his yoga clothing line will

inspire more men to take up the practice. To do so, he is promoting a yearlong #moremenonthemat campaign via social media. “We hope by us putting out this yoga line it will bring more men to the mat. People think yoga is for women, but yoga is gender neutral,” he said. “I think society would be a better place if we all did yoga.” Pazos also hopes his being a foreign born entrepreneur can serve as a counterweight against the xenophobia and anti-immigration rhetoric that is on the rise in America. A green card holder, he expects to become a U.S. citizen in August. “I am an immigrant and want to showcase not all immigrants are bad,” Pazos said. “I am committed to this country.”

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The 30-year-old lesbian-owned Cruisin’ the Castro Walking Tours has become the first tour company in San Francisco to be declared a legacy business. The city’s Small Business Commission approved the designation in late June. Trevor Hailey, who died in 2007, started the business and then sold it to Kathy Amendola when she retired in 2005. The popular two-hour tours, which cost $25 a person, trace the development of the city’s LGBT community from the Gold Rush era up to the modern day. “As the most comprehensive LGBTQ tour in the world and now a proud San Francisco legacy business, we will continue to educate and empower diversity and civil rights,” stated Amendola. “Making a difference is such an honor!” To book a tour, visit https://www. cruisinthecastro.com/. t

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10 • Bay Area Reporter • July 11-17, 2019

Safety coordinator named for District 8 by Meg Elison

hanks to funding secured by gay former District 8 supervisor Jeff Sheehy, there is a new safety coordinator for the area. In a June 11 newsletter, gay current District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s office announced the appointment of Jessica Closson to the position of San Francisco Police Department community liaison for District 8. The email described her position as “focused on crime prevention

and safety” with the responsibility to “facilitate communication and collaboration among D8 residents and businesses, the police department, and the District 8 supervisor’s office.” Closson, a 48-year-old straight ally, spoke to the Bay Area Reporter via email to clarify this general description of her position, and to express her eagerness to serve the community in District 8. With previous job experience listed on her LinkedIn profile as being in film licensing and web development,

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ment,” Lazar said. “It’s someone who can represent the department to the community. We’re looking forward to seeing the results of this position. It’s the first of its kind.” Sheehy did not respond to a request for comment. When asked about her position’s responsibility to coordinate efforts and share information between Mandelman’s office, the health department, SFPD, the district attorney’s office, and neighborhood groups on ongoing issues, especially the problems facing the homeless, Closson admitted that there is hard work ahead. “It is a daunting list, but I’ve always been civic-minded, I’m passionate about our community, and excited for the impactful opportunity the role affords,” she wrote. That list includes serious issues facing Mission Dolores Park, such as reported gang activity, drug use, struggles to keep the park clean, and a shooting earlier this year. Closson said there was no meeting set to discuss plans yet, citing tight timelines and budgets this time of year. “Dolores Park is such an amazing resource for our city – as evidenced by the crowds on any given sunny weekend,” she wrote. “Unfortunately that occasionally includes gang activity,

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CA hate crime statistics down in 2018

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n a rare bit of good news, the California Department of Justice’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center reported this month that hate crimes decreased, in a general sense, throughout the state between 2017 and 2018. However, a detailed look at these statistics paints a more complicated picture. Attorney General Xavier Becerra released the hate crime report, along with several others, July 2. “Good policy is rooted in the facts,” Becerra said in a news release. “With the reports released today, legislators, academics, journalists, and other members of the public will now have the most recent data on our criminal justice system to inform their work.” The total number of hate crime events in the state decreased 2.5% over the year from 1,093 in 2017 to 1,066 in 2018. The total number of people who were victims of hate crimes decreased, as well, though not by much, dropping from 1,270 in 2017 to 1,237 in 2018. The report separates different motivational categories for hate crimes, including race, gender, and religion, as these are the determinant factors for prosecutors and juries to evaluate the severity and impact of these crimes. Each of these categories saw a modest decrease. Hate crimes against LGBTQ people also saw a modest decrease of 3.3%, according to the report. This sets California’s numbers apart from

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federally reported hate crimes against queer people in the same year, which have increased every year since 2014, and rose by roughly 17% from 2017 to 2018. Hate crimes committed on the general basis of race declined 1.3%, but smaller individual categories complicate that decrease significantly. Drilling down into specific racial categories, that includes larger percentage decrease for anti-black hate crimes with a decline of 8.6%, but a major increase in crimes against Hispanic or Latino people with a startling gain of 18.3% from year to year. In a phone interview, Jacqueline Martinez, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, expressed con-

cern over this sharp uptick in incidents against her community. “One hate crime is one too many. But the attack on immigrant and Latino communities is awful right now,” she said. “People think we’re in a bubble in California, but we’re not. People in Walnut Creek are just as vulnerable as they are in the South. Incidents of hate speech and intimidation are happening in our schools and in our local businesses, and it’s terrible.” Martinez said there continues to be animosity toward Latinos. “There’s a growing resentment against immigrants and asylum seekers that pushes people to assume that Hispanic people are always undocumented and it’s hurtful and dangerous,” she said. “We are often invisible, with many Latino people working in industries like hospitality, and that makes us even more vulnerable to attack.” With national reporting showing that violent incidents against Jewish people in the last year doubled, hate crime events are an anxious focal point for many. In California, all hate crimes involving a bias against a particular religion decreased 2.9% from 207 in 2017 to 201 in 2018. However, in line with the national increase, this state’s anti-Jewish bias events rose from 104 to 126 in that year, showing an alarming uptick of 21.2%. Conversely, antiMuslim hate crimes fell by almost the same margin, from 46 in 2017 to 28 in See page 14 >>

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Concerns raised about Pompeo’s human rights panel by Heather Cassell

nited States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week named a conservative law professor to chair a new autonomous human rights commission, which sparked concerns from LGBT organizations, congressional leaders, and human rights experts. GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis called the commission a “farce,” in a statement in response to the July 8 announcement. “This ‘Commission’ is a farce and further illustrates the bold-faced anti-LGBTQ agenda of this administration,” said Ellis. “The Trump administration is knowingly appointing activists who have made careers out of fighting against LGBTQ progress and is now providing them an opportunity to export their anti-LGBTQ activism around the world through the U.S. State Department.” Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the New York Times that the Trump administration “has taken a wrecking ball to America’s global leadership on promoting fundamental rights across the world.” Pompeo announced the Commission on Unalienable Rights hours after United Nations High Commis-

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, unveils the creation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, headed by Mary Ann Glendon, left, during an announcement at the U.S. State Department in Washington.

sioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed “shock” and condemned the U.S. for its treatment of migrant children at the Mexican border in a statement from Geneva. The Trump administration has increasingly been called out by foreign governments and human rights organizations for violating human rights, particularly for women, LGBTs, and immigrants. During a news conference, Pompeo derided the state of human rights more than 70 years after the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights

and said “gross violations continue throughout the world, sometimes even in the name of human rights.” He claimed that institutions designed to protect human rights have drifted from their original purpose. “Every once in a while, we need to step back and reflect seriously on where we are, where we’ve been, and whether we’re headed in the right direction,” Pompeo said. “The time is right for an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy.”

He introduced Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon as chair of the new panel. “Thank you, especially, for giving a priority to human rights at this moment when basic human rights are being misunderstood by many, manipulated by many, and ignored by the world’s worst human rights violators,” said Glendon at the conference. Glendon was the former ambassador to the Vatican during the George W. Bush administration. Pompeo was her research assistant while he was a law student at Harvard. A conservative, she is a prominent anti-abortion advocate. She was instrumental in keeping abortion from being listed as a human right at the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing. Commission members include Russell Berman, Peter Berkowitz, Paolo Carozza, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Jacqueline Rivers, Meir Soloveichik, Katrina Lantos Swett, Christopher Tollefsen, and David Tse-Chien Pan. Kiron Skinner, State Department director of policy planning, will serve as executive secretary of the panel and department speechwriter Frank Cart-

wright Weiland will serve as rapporteur, Pompeo told reporters. The commission’s goal is to review and refine the agency’s definition of human rights and to ensure it is grounded in the “nation’s founding principles” and the human rights declaration. According to the Washington Post, the commission will operate independently, in addition to the department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. The bureau already works on human rights within the State Department. The bureau will not oversee the panel, but will be tapped to provide input. An unidentified State Department official told the Post that the commission will not discuss abortion or same-sex marriage.

Crying foul

Democratic lawmakers and government and human rights experts and advocates, particularly organizations working on behalf of women and LGBTs, cried foul. In a June 12 letter, Menendez and See page 13 >>

Contributing B.A.R. photog Dale Godfrey dies by Cynthia Laird

ale Godfrey, who contributed photos to the Bay Area Reporter, died Sunday, June 30, after suffering a heart attack in Santa Rosa, his wife, Nancy Godfrey, said. He was 72. Mr. Godfrey spent his career working in advertising sales for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, where he started in 1974. He took an early retirement in 2006, his wife said. In addition to the B.A.R., Mr. Godfrey took photos for other publications, as he grew into his hobby. “He was always inquisitive and looking for things to do,” Nancy Godfrey said. Specifically, Mr. Godfrey took many photos over the years of members of the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. He found community with the group, his wife said, and had

Courtesy Nancy Godfrey

Dale Godfrey

Plenty said that Mr. Godfrey attended many Sisters events. “He was photographing a fundraiser for a gay Pride event in Cotati the night before his passing,” Plenty wrote. “Our community is heartbroken at his sudden passing, he was loved and respected by all.” Mr. Godfrey was born June 21, 1947 in Eureka, California, where he grew up. His wife said that he graduated from College of the

Redwoods in Eureka in 1968 with an associate of arts degree. He moved to Santa Rosa in 1974. Mr. Godfrey and his wife were married for almost 51 years. In addition to his wife, Mr. Godfrey is survived by two sons, Jeff and Justin, and five grandsons. Funeral arrangements have not been announced, though his wife said a service would likely be held later this summer. t

Christopher Colorado Jones

the beginning of the film “The Boys Who Said NO!” He served six years as its producer, but did not live to see its release, expected within six to eight months. Christopher was a visionary who loved projects large and small, particularly home remodeling or garden design. He had a great zest for life and exquisite taste, was a great cook, loved disco dancing, and adored playing with little children. He had a fierce dedication to social justice and our film is his legacy. To learn more, go to www.boyswhosaidno.com. A memorial service is planned for later this month.

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friends who were Sisters. “He was documenting one becoming a Sister,” Nancy Godfrey said, referring to the many steps necessary to become a fullfledged Sister. Sister Sparkle Plenty, the Saints Chairnun of the Russian River chapter, said Mr. Godfrey would be missed. “Dale Godfrey was a good man,

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a good friend, a good heart with a gentle sense of humor,” Plenty, also known as Jim Longacre, wrote in an email. “He was a talented, adventurous photographer.” Plenty said that Mr. Godfrey was made a saint by the Russian River Sisters, and given the name Saint F-Stop, a reference to a component that controls the size of the opening that allows light into the camera.

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Lion Barnett April 22, 1949 – December 23, 2018

January 12, 1949 – June 29, 2019

Lion was raised by loving parents in Wantagh, New York. After attending college in Chicago – which included study with the architect Mies Van Der Rohe – he worked at the Village Voice in Manhattan before settling in San Francisco. In the 1970s, Lion volunteered with Bay Area Gay Liberation and Lavender University. Later, as president of the Eureka Valley Promotion Association, his activities included helping broker a deal to create the Castro Community Meeting Room. His endeavors at his condominium complex prompted his neighbors to nickname him “The Mayor.” For virtually his entire career, Lion was an indispensable employee at San Francisco Department of Public Health. Dedicated and compassionate, he assisted countless individuals obtain entitlements and health care benefits and shared his extensive knowledge with his co-workers. An intellectual with a keen imagination and killer sense of humor, Lion conversed about many subjects. He was a great dancer, an avid reader, and loved film. His drag was spectacular – full of concept and parody. He adored animals and gave generously to SF Animal Care and Control. Lion died at home from natural causes and is survived by his aunt, cousins, and loving friends.

Antiwar activist, foundation director, health systems designer and administrator, and documentary film producer Christopher Colorado Jones died June 29 in San Francisco of injuries suffered in a fall. He was 70. Christopher was a proud fifthgeneration Californian, the oldest of four, his mother a nurse, and his dad a contractor. He decided on his own at 17 to refuse to register for the draft as the law required, to protest the Vietnam War. In the antiwar resistance groups he later worked with, which included folksinger and activist Joan Baez and her husband, resistance leader David Harris, Christopher was often the youngest in the room. He was tried three times, finally convicted, and served nine months in a minimum-security prison in Arizona in 1971 at age 22. After his discharge, he spent seven years as the director of the Agape Foundation, got a double master’s degree in social work and public health at UC Berkeley, and moved to Seattle 1987 to work in HIV/AIDS. He was particularly proud of being part of the (Washington) Governor’s Task Force on HIV/AIDS, which designed Washington’s first large-scale HIV treatment programs. In Seattle he met the love of his life, Bill Prince. Partners for 20 years, they moved together to San Francisco in 2012 and married in 2014. Christopher organized the reunion of 70 draft resisters – Baez and Harris were among those who attended – that was

William John Whitehead June 12, 1947 – June 26, 2019

William John Whitehead passed away June 26, 2019, in his beloved San Francisco, after a brief illness. Passionate about family and friends, music, art and nature, he was a dear brother, friend, and partner who touched and changed everyone who knew him with his kindness, generosity, and enthusiasm for life. He was a gifted graphic artist who worked for many years to promote the vital missions of many nonprofits in the Bay Area and nationally. We will always remember his warm smile and infectious laughter, and forever treasure the time we were able to spend with him in this life. Bill had a passion for the arts and public broadcasting. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to the San Francisco Symphony or your local PBS station.

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Time to pay up by Roger Brigham

ow that the women’s World Cup is over and the United States has successfully defended its title, please tell me you weren’t one of the pearl-clutching ninnies who was so distraught a month ago when the American women were exuberantly celebrating every goal they scored in their 13-0 beatdown of Thailand that you had to go on Facebook to mark yourself “safe from USWNT celebration.” Sure, I’m a dead serious guy whether I am playing, coaching, or watching sports, and I dislike big celebration productions. I’ve never booed anyone while I was in the stands and I’ve never publicly celebrated with my athletes or teammates while a contest is still going on. I always take the teams I coach to a secluded area after a tournament and there we grieve, analyze, or celebrate among ourselves. What we don’t do is try to upstage or humiliate an opponent. But that’s just me. We have routinely seen elite male athletes make celebratory fools of themselves during games with pantomimes, props, and choreography that are anything but spontaneous. The fans of those athletes applaud the antics, their opponents condemn them as unsportsmanlike jerks, and television cameras capture every bit of it as part of the total entertainment package. But never have we seen such a negative reaction from so many people. And not just from chauvinistic get-off-the-lawners: former women’s team goalkeeper Hope Solo, who publicly called the Swedish team “a bunch of cowards” after the U.S. lost in the 2016 Rio Olympics, criticized the American squad last month on national television, saying the world’s best team should show more class and “it was unnecessary to have planned-out goal celebrations.” Kimberly Hadley is a women’s soccer official, a sports officer for the Federation of Gay Games, a Canadian – and a good friend of mine. I thought her comments regarding the US-Thailand match were spot on. “Men aren’t normally criticized for poor behavior,” Hadley said. “Women always seem to be held at a higher standard – and we always have to work harder to prove our worth. Over-celebratory antics were unnecessary, but I will say that if it were a men’s World Cup match, the reaction from most would have been different.” And perhaps the fact that there were so many out lesbians playing in the tournament, especially on the American squad, made some culturally squeamish sorts über sensitive to what they thought was unladylike behavior. The U.S. team alone had a lesbian coach (Jillian Ellis) and at least five lesbian players: Tierna Davidson, Adrianna Franch, Ashlyn Harris, Ali Krieger, and Megan Rapinoe. Viewed in a vacuum, the “optics,” as talking heads say these days, did look bad. Bad enough the team ran

Out in the World

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other Democratic senators cited major problems with Pompeo’s formation of the commission in a letter to the secretary of state. Their concerns built upon those expressed by human rights advocates in May when the creation of the commission was announced in the Federal Register.

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Megan Rapinoe celebrates after the U.S. women’s team won the World Cup final Sunday.

up the score, critics said, they should not have rubbed salt in the wounds with all the yahooing. Taken in context, however, all that scoring and all that yahooing makes more sense. First, they weren’t running up the score. That’s a concept from sports such as football and basketball, where there are no limits on substitutions and scoring differentials matter only to gamblers. In soccer, most starters must remain on the field for the entire game and scoring differentials are used at the end of roundrobin play to determine seedings for the elimination matches. It was the opening match not just for the United States, which would face a particularly stiff challenge from nemesis Sweden; but for Thailand, which as far as anyone knew at that point might lose every match by more than a dozen points. So especially early in a tournament, when you don’t know how much will be needed later, you grab as much as you can when you can. Second, any unsportsmanlike spirit of those celebrations pales compared with what happens in other (men’s) sports. Ever watch news conferences from boxing, pro wrestling or ultimate fighting championships? No one gripes about that; indeed, they tune in their televisions to hear the sound bites. Again, it’s entertainment. Which brings us to our third point: the match was pretty unentertaining after the first few minutes, the outcome a foregone conclusion. Think about baseball, when there’s a long rain delay, or the late innings of a blowout game. In both cases, the networks don’t want viewers at home to be saying, “Siri, turn on ‘Judge Judy.’” So the announcers start talking about what some guy in the stands is scarfing down and getting all over his shirt, or about the time Babe Ruth flew fighter planes during the Revolutionary War. Anything to distract from the lack of drama in the game. Essentially that’s just what the American players did. They provided a distraction that provoked discussion and kept viewers engaged. Not just for that game, but for the rest of the series when many tuned in to see what further malfeasance the team would do or when it would get its comeuppance from a better Terms such as “natural law” and “natural rights” – used by conservatives against more progressive positions on abortion and LGBT rights – mentioned in the announcement raised red flags for human rights advocates. Daniel Philpott, a University of Notre Dame professor, who was on the short list for a seat on the commission, defined the terms to the Post. See page 14 >>

team. This was the most watched women’s World Cup ever, and more Americans were exposed to more coverage of it than ever before. I’d say that’s worth a bit of hot-dogging.

So instead of twisting ourselves into knots because a group of great female athletes celebrated pretty much the way groups of great male athletes do, why don’t we think about some of the things that really are problematic in the world of soccer. (And no, they have nothing to do with White House invitations, whether they are made or snubbed.) Sexism runs throughout the sports world, but nowhere is it more blindingly obvious than in soccer. Teams and countries pay women players a fraction of what they pay their men, spend a hella lot more promoting men’s teams than women’s teams, then use that enhanced market awareness as the justification for giving more money to the men. International organizers have never made the men’s team play World Cup matches on artificial turf, which causes more injuries than natural grass, but has thought nothing in the past of making the women make do

with the harder surface. That’s the context in which the women were celebrating – the overcoming of every barrier, prejudice, and slight to excel on the biggest global stage. The chance to strike a symbolic blow for every little girl on a soccer field nursing a ball and a dream. “If anyone can convince a national program that they’re worth equal pay, the USA women’s team can,” Hadley said. “I’ve never been a huge fan of the U.S. women’s team because I feel they have a certain level of ‘something’ that I don’t particularly care for, but I’ll tell you one thing: I love how they play as a team, how they finish, how they play endto-end, and how they are standing up for the women’s game globally. Equal pay for women athletes: it shouldn’t even be a conversation anymore.” t

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants. Case No. CGC-19-574377 SUMMONS ON SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT [CCP § 751.05] The people of the State of California, to All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, defendants, greeting (See Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] attached.): You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, plaintiff, filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court and county, within three months after the first publication of this summons, and to set forth what interest or lien, if any, you have in or upon that certain real property or any part thereof, situated in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, particularly described as follows: REAL PROPERTY, SITUATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COMPRISED OF SIX (6) PARCELS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING A PORTION OF PARCEL A, AS SAID PARCEL A IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN GRANT DEED RECORDED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2016-K334613 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE BEING ALL OF MARYLAND STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO BEING ALL OF LOUISIANA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE BEING A PORTION OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 406.42 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 3, AS SAID PARCEL 3 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 18.79 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 125.39 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 63.85 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 271.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FOUR BEING A PORTION OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MICHIGAN STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 157.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 4, AS SAID PARCEL 4 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 2 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 9.01 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 11.12 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596); THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 6 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON SAID WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 143.4 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 18.62 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. 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PARCEL SIX BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID GEORGIA STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PARCEL 1 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 33 FEET TO THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF HUMBOLDT STREET, EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 33 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. 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Sunset mail

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The landlord of the property, Shiu Cho, had resorted to attempting to contact the master tenant through certified mail because she had stopped answering her phone or her door. A long, messy history unfolded to the B.A.R. via email, phone call, and interviews. The master tenant had formerly kept an incontinent, off-leash pit bull in the stairwell and common areas of the building. Guillen and other tenants, including former tenant James Kauffman, 59, banded together to get someone to intervene. According to the other tenants, Cho did not respond to efforts to care for or remove the animal. Guillen and Kauffman reached out to Animal Care and Control and the health department, citing both the unsafe conditions for the dog and the health risk of living in a building filled with dog urine and feces. Posters currently displayed inside the building placed by multiple parties and agencies forbid the keeping

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The L.A. center, which runs the Audre Lorde Health Program for lesbian and bisexual women, worked with providers across the state to advocate for the funding, including holding the first-ever LBQ Women’s Lobby Day in Sacramento. The Legislative LGBT Caucus backed the funding request, which the health advocates hope will now be replicated in other states. “With this funding, we hope to not only improve health care for LBQ women across this state, but to pave

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violence and HIV/AIDS infection rates. Compared to homeless people surveyed who did not identify as LGBTQ+, queer respondents were more likely to report having experienced domestic violence (48% compared to 27%). Sixteen percent of transgender people and 25% of nonbinary folks surveyed had also experienced domestic violence, as compared to 5% of cis men and 8% of cis women. LGBTQ homeless people also reported a higher incidence of HIV- or AIDSrelated illness (14% compared to 4%). Jeremy, a 22-year-old gay man who declined to give his last name, spoke to the Bay Area Reporter about his experiences in United Nations Plaza, near where he usually sleeps. “Yeah, there’s a lot of us who’s gay,” he said Tuesday morning, noting that there is a tendency for LGBTQ homeless people to stick together. “And a lot of us who’s positive. People think that’s all

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2018: an 18% decrease. Gordon Gladstone, executive director of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, spoke of his concerns about these numbers and his own experience in the Bay Area Jewish community.

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“The idea is these claims of human rights are not based upon natural law or the truth of the human person,” said Philpott. “In a sense, these are false claims to human rights. It brings down the cause of human rights in general. Why should we pursue other human rights if human rights can be anything one faction or party advocates them to be?” The position is the opposite of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2011 proclamation to the U.N. in

of animals in common areas, as well as outline the health risks of leaving feces in place. Guillen showed the B.A.R. the marks of repairs made to stairwell walls ruined by dog excreta, and scratch marks on the master tenant’s door, where a dog might beg for entry. The B.A.R. spoke to Cho by phone. When asked whether the master tenant has a key to the entire mailbox, he responded, “Nobody should have a master key except the post office.” When pressed for further details about the ongoing dispute, Cho shut down, claiming that he has received no complaints related to the mailbox at that address, and denied making repairs to dog-related damage. He added, “Anybody who is talking to reporters and causing a lot of problems should talk to the landlord first.” Current and former tenants of the building insist that they have asked their landlord to address these problems many times, among other requests for repairs to the building, to little or no response.

Guillen believes the master tenant is upset with her because of these past issues, but also because Guillen is a lesbian. “I pray God never to have a chance to cross paths with her. She says awful things to my face. If we run into each other by accident, like I am coming in with my groceries and she’s exiting. I say ‘good morning.’ She says ‘bitch.’ She says ‘lesbian,’ she says ‘ugly.’ She spits on the floor as I pass by,” Guillen said in an interview. Guillen worries that if this same individual is stealing her mail, their homophobia may be one reason why. The B.A.R. knocked on the master tenant’s door, but received no response. The master tenant identified herself by phone to this reporter, but quickly said that she spoke no English in response to questions. The B.A.R. is not identifying her because she has not been charged by any agency in relation to these alleged incidents. Kauffman corroborated what Guillen had to say about the mail is-

sue, and offered stories of his own. “I felt trapped because I had to meet the mailman to get my packages,” he said. “I was collecting coins and I came home a few times to find the coin packages were left for me, slit corner to corner with a razorblade and then sealed with tape, the contents shoved back inside. Some were just stolen.” Kauffman said other mail had gone missing, and he finally moved out of the building to find better conditions, citing both the mail theft and generally poor upkeep of the property. Guillen and Kauffman both believe the master tenant has obtained a copy of the master key to the mailbox, or has somehow picked it. They can’t prove this, but they can find no other explanation for these events. When asked about the master tenant’s seeming lack of boundaries, Kauffman was at a loss. “The landlord told me he’s been trying to get rid of her for 12 years. She just does whatever she wants. She built a wall in the basement, and he had to come tear it down.”

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the way for similar efforts across the nation,” stated Jean. Newsom’s office did not respond to the B.A.R.’s request for comment about the funding. It was not highlighted by his press office in the news release it sent out to reporters about his first budget he signed as governor. While winning praise for the LBQ women’s health funding, Newsom did come under criticism from HIV service providers for what they called his “limited investment” in curbing cases of HIV, hepatitis C, and other sexu-

ally transmitted diseases in the state. As the B.A.R. has previously reported, a coalition of 150-plus organizations had sought a $60 million allocation from lawmakers in Sacramento to fund a statewide initiative aimed at ending all three of the health epidemics. Yet lawmakers failed to allocate any money toward developing a coordinated statewide strategy to end the HIV, HCV, and STD epidemics, noted the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in a news release. The budget, according to the agency, does include $5 million annually for comprehen-

sive HIV prevention services, $5 million annually for STD prevention and treatment, and $5 million annually for HCV testing and linkage to care. But much more is needed, argued HIV advocates. “California has the ability to end the HIV, HCV and STD epidemics, but our success is contingent upon significantly more funding and the political will of the governor and the legislature. Unfortunately, the budget comes up short on both,” stated SFAF CEO Joe Hollendoner. “Until elected officials make the necessary investments, our communities will con-

tinue to experience an unjust public health crisis.” Craig E. Thompson, CEO of APLA Health, praised lawmakers for the $15 million in the budget to address the trio of epidemics but argued it is not enough. “California is falling behind other states in reducing new transmissions and that is something Governor Newsom and the legislature have the ability to change,” stated Thompson. “We have the data, knowledge, and tools needed to end these epidemics. Now we just need the political will.” t

over, and there’s medicine and now, and that’s true. For some people.” The overwhelming majority (70%) of homeless people in San Francisco lived in the city before losing their housing. Twenty-two percent came from elsewhere in California, while only 8% moved to the state after becoming homeless. One of the most important metrics collected by HSH is whether individuals are experiencing their first bout of homelessness, or whether this has happened to them before. This statistic helps measure whether programs and available assistance are adequate to addressing the need for permanent, stable housing for people to get off the street. This year’s number of people for whom this was a first time occurrence increased, from 25% in 2017 to 31% in 2019. In addition, the percentage of respondents who indicated that they had been without housing for a year or more increased in 2019 from a previous 59% to a current 65%. This number shows a consistent rise in

these reports dating back to 2005. The Point-in-Time report also breaks down the data by supervisorial districts, showing the largest concentrations of homeless people in District 6 (3,659) as well as (1,863) in District 10, despite few shelter services in that part of San Francisco. In District 8, which includes the Castro, the report counted 370 people, a decrease from 2017’s 405 people counted. The B.A.R. reached out to District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the board’s lone gay member, but he did not respond to a request for comment. District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney spoke with the B.A.R. via text message Monday night, noting that the population is clustered where there are services and urging an emergency view of this situation. “I want to see our response to homelessness reflective of the citywide crisis that it is. That’s not happening now. For example we still see nearly all of our shelters, supportive

housing, and services concentrated in one small part of our city. We need shared responsibility across San Francisco if we are going to address this challenge,” he wrote. Haney added that he has proposed an ordinance to require Navigation Centers to be built in every district. (LINK https://www.sfchronicle.com/ politics/article/Forget-the-excusesnew-proposal-requires-13760947. php) Gwendolyn Westbrook, CEO of United Council of Human Services in Bayview Hunter’s Point, in District 10, told the B.A.R. by phone that the area is perennially underserved despite the number of homeless people counted in the report. “We are an underserved group of people doing the best we can to help. The only help we’re getting is because of the mayor,” she said, referring to London Breed. “She’s the only one who has realized the way this problem affects this part of the city.” Westbrook’s organization is one of

the few offering services for unhoused people in District 10, with 250 beds that she says are always full. Breed’s office responded to a request for comment by referring the B.A.R. to a news release from May issued in anticipation of these reports. “Specific to the LGBT community, the mayor has committed $2 million in this year’s two-year budget to provide housing subsidies for transgender residents, who are 18 times more likely than the general population to be homeless,” the statement read. “She’s also continuing to focus on our transitional age youth population, a large percentage of which are LGBT. The mayor’s Rising Up Initiative provides housing subsidies and employment opportunities for TAY, with a goal of cutting youth homelessness in half by 2022.” t

“This spike is something that anyone in the community is familiar with,” he said in a phone interview. “It’s obviously quite worrying. For any group subject to discrimination when there is a rise in incidents that are animated by that bias, you can’t help but be worried about that.” Gladstone said he’s worked in the Jewish community since the early 1990s.

“We’ve always spent a fair amount of time and money on security. But tragedies like Pittsburgh and Poway have pushed us to take a long hard look at what we’re doing, and wondering if we’re doing as much as we can. And we have to balance that against our desire to be a welcoming place to the community,” Gladstone said, referring to mass shooting inci-

dents at synagogues in 2018 and 2019. Statewide statistics are also at odds with those specific to San Francisco, in which the Cal State San Bernardino Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism said hate crime incidence increased by 61% between 2017 and 2018. t

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Geneva, “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” A day after the senators’ letter was sent to Pompeo, Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-New York) amended H.R. 2740 to block any funding for the commission. The bill is currently in the Senate.

to the ballot for Tunisia’s November 10 presidential election and made the announcement June 25 in a Facebook post. The 48-year-old lawyer is head of the small opposition Liberal Party. Incumbent president Beji Caid Essebsi, 92, is not seeking re-election. “After long years in the fight for minority right, I have understood that no one can do the job better than me,” he said, reported Pink News. Baatour pledged to uphold a progressive and modern platform for Tunisia, from fighting corruption

to abolishing Article 230, the North African country’s anti-sodomy law. Currently, homosexuality is illegal in the country. LGBT people face up to three years in jail. Authorities often enforce the law. According to a recent survey by Arab Barometer for the BBC only 7% of citizens consider homosexuality acceptable, reported Reuters. Last year, convictions for same-sex relations rose by 60% to 127 from 79 in 2017, according to Association Shams. It recorded more than 25 convictions in the first quarter of 2019. “Tunisia needs a democratic pro-

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Guillen and Kauffman reached out to their local postal inspectors to ask that the master lock on the box be replaced. Bounced back and forth between USPS and the police about who is responsible for this matter, the tenants were told that the USPS will not replace the lock unless it is broken. The local Sunset post office confirmed that a postal investigator is looking into the matter, and said that only the postal carrier should have a key that can open the master cylinder in the lock, which was installed by USPS. A representative of USPS told the B.A.R. by phone that the lock does not have to be broken to warrant replacement, but that there would have to be proof of manipulation for them to take action. Lieutenant Christopher Beauchamp of the San Francisco Police Department’s Taraval Station also confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation into the matter via email to the B.A.R., but would say no more. t

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gram that can include the different identities, cultures, beliefs and languages of this country. Our program aims to democratize power, strengthen the Parliament and give more weight to local institutions,” Baatour wrote in his Facebook post . Baatour’s bid for the presidency would make him the first openly gay president in the Arab world, but he faces a steep climb. t

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sibility for stenciling “Police out of Pride” graffiti in the Castro this spring. During the parade, a group halted the parade for 50 minutes in part because of their dissatisfaction with the SFPD contingent in the march.

SF library hosts TAY exhibit

Clients of the aforementioned Larkin Street Youth Services are in an exhibit, “Creating Resilience,” that looks through the lens of transitional age youth, or TAY, and will be hosted by the San Francisco Public Library’s TAY(k) Care program. It opens Saturday, July 13, at the main library, 100 Larkin Street, on the third floor. According to a news release, the works demonstrate the dedication, leadership, and self-determined artistry of some of Larkin Street’s most advanced participating artists, who take part in the program as a means for self-expression and toward careertrack employment. The library’s TAY(k) Care program was created through a Friends of the SF Public Library Innovation Grant that seeks to tackle how the urban library can better serve TAY who are experiencing homelessness, are at risk of experiencing homelessness, or are marginalized in some other way. There will be an exhibit celebration Thursday, August 8, at 5 p.m. at the main library at the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center on the third floor. The exhibit itself runs through September 19.

Inaugural cannabis Pride celebration

Organizers are excited to hold the first Bay Area Cannabis Pride Celebration Thursday (July 11) from 7 to 11 p.m. in Oakland. Tali Eisenberg with Geter Done Productions, in partnership with Brian Applegarth of the Cannabis Trail, organized the event, which is being held to draw attention to the groundbreaking activism of the LGBTQ community in the development of the modern cannabis industry. The event includes a screening of Applegarth’s 16-minute documentary, “The Secret Story: How Medical Cannabis was Re-Legalized in the U.S.,” which is based on conversations he had with the late Dennis Peron, a gay man who helped lead the medical marijuana legalization effort in California. Sherry Glaser, an actor, comedian, cannabis activist, and founder of the Love In It Cooperative, will emcee the evening. Programming includes storytelling by Terrance Alan, coowner of Flore cafe in San Francisco; John Entwistle, Peron’s surviving partner; Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center; and other leaders. Topping off the evening will be a dance party with special guests from the LGBT community. Organizers said that 5% of the proceeds will be donated to TLC. People must be 21 or older to attend; organizers said it is a non-consumption gathering. Tickets are $25; the address will be provided with ticket purchase. For tickets and more information, visit www.cannabispridecelebration.com.

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In other cannabis-related news, PUFF, the queer cannabis social group in San Francisco, will hold its first beer bust Sunday, July 14, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Pilsner Inn, 225 Church Street. Organizers said that DJ Dank will be on the patio for a fun afternoon with music by DJ Prince Wolf, a kooky drag show, and the stoner raffle. Good Vibrations will bring its “wheel of pleasure” for people to spin for sexy prizes. The cost is $10.

AIDS Walk SF Sunday

Thousands of people are expected to gather in Golden Gate Park for the 33rd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco Sunday, July 14. Opening ceremonies begin at 9:45 a.m. and the walk commences at 10:30. This year’s 10K fundraising walk benefits PRC, Project Open Hand, the POP-UP clinic at Ward 86, and dozens of other local HIV/AIDS service organizations. Many participants walk as part of a team, and people can sign up to walk individually, as part of a team, or as a virtual walker. There is no fee to register; participants are asked to raise money from sponsors or donate to an HIV/AIDS organization. ABC7 anchor Dan Ashley will host the opening ceremonies in Robin Williams Meadow. Celebrities scheduled to attend include Barrett Foa (“NCIS Los Angeles,”) Tony winner John Lloyd Young (“Jersey Boys,”) Ryan Jamaal Swain (“Pose,”) and actress and activist Meredith Baxter (“Family Ties.”) There will be a post-walk show, also in Robin Williams Meadow, for all participants after the event. Those who have raised $300 will get access to the VIP lounge for themselves and a guest. Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised more than $90 million for a variety of Bay Area HIV/ AIDS care, prevention services, and advocacy organizations. To register, visit sf.aidswalk.net/.

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The trans employment program at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center invites people to its Job Ready 101 event Thursday, July 18, where they can work on their resume or interviewing skills with recruiters from UCSF. The workshop takes place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the center, 1800 Market Street. For questions, contact Ashley Latham at (415) 865-5660 or ashleyl@ sfcenter.org.

HRC recognizes S. Bay child advocacy group

Child Advocates of Silicon Valley has announced that it is one of 70 organizations across the country that was recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for its work with LGBTQ foster youth. The HRC Foundation is the 501(c)3 arm of the national political LGBT rights organization. Child Advocates recruits, trains, and supports court-appointed special advocates, or CASAs, to work one-on-one with children in foster care, ensuring that each child’s needs are met and their voice is heard while navigating the court dependency system. According to a news release, Child Advocates is included in HRC’s “Celebrating Everyday Change-Makers in Child Welfare,” a first-of-its-kind report highlighting child welfare agencies in the U.S. that partnered with HRC’s All Children – All Families project to improve services they provide to the LGBTQ community, including children in foster and protective care and adoptive parents. “We are honored to be recognized as a leader serving LGBTQ foster youth, especially at a time when LGBTQ youth are over-represented in the foster care system,” Frederick J. Ferrer, CEO of Child Advocates, said in the release. The agency is actively looking for volunteers. Those interested in becoming a CASA volunteer can visit www.bemyadvocate.org/volunteer for more information. t

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARE YOU EXPERIENCED S.F. CITY TOURS, 537 JONES ST #3439, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PAUL Y. ROBERTSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J.M.F. CLEANING SERVICES, 545 O’FARRELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GENY G. CAUICH VILLARREAL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/10/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATHINA VALENTINA, 1471 WASHINGTON ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHELLE DEMETRIADES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADDIS AMERICA TOURS, 160 PORTOLA DR #106, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BERHANESELASE ASSEFA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMILING SALON, 738 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XIAOZHEN WEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/03/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038687100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOWN LAND CONSTRUCTION, 1962 42ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAVID FRANCIS FLYNN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/13/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/19.

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Legal Notices>> SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: KAM FUNG WONG YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS WEINAN XU, CASE NO. FDI-19-791743

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call 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 Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE: 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. These orders 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. The name and address of the court are: SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: WEINAN XU, 1755 39TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122 June 4, 2019 Clerk, by Dennis Toyama, Deputy. 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. NOTICE-ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506. WARNING: IMPORTANT INFORMATION 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.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038672200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VEIL CLOTHING, 2427 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICK VAN WAGONER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/29/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038682800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHAH’S HALAL FOOD, 532 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed MOHAMMAD NADER & SHOAIB RAHMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038678800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FINANCIAL DISTRICT DENTISTRY, 220 MONTGOMERY ST #120, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EVANGELINE AMORES DDS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/04/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038675900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OLIVER SPACE, 430 9TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PETRA LIVING, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038671400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWERV STUDIOS, 410 BRANNAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed J BODYWORKS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/29/19.

JUNE 20, 27, JULY 04, 11, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038673600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION, 3450 GEARY BLVD #212, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DOLORES PEREZ HEILBRON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: TIAN TIAN WU YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS: WEI OUYANG CASE NO. FDI-19-791794

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call 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.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE: 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. These orders 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. The name and address SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: WEI OUYANG, 1113D KEEPLER CT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130 June 12, 2019 Clerk, by DENNIS TOYAMA, Deputy. 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. NOTICE-ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506. WARNING: IMPORTANT INFORMATION 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.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554941 In the matter of the application of: HAMZA BOUCHAFRA, 425 1ST ST #2306, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HAMZA BOUCHAFRA, is requesting that the name HAMZA BOUCHAFRA AKA HAMZA BEN BADOUR, be changed to HAMZA BEN BADOUR. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 1st of August 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554836 In the matter of the application of: AMBER ROSE ORANTES, 1238 SHAFTER AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner AMBER ROSE ORANTES is requesting that the name AMBER ROSE ORANTES AKA AMBER R. ORANTES AKA AMBER ORANTES be changed to IYANA MARLI DEPALMA, and EVAN CHARLES ORANTESCROWDER be changed to EVAN ANTOINE DEPALMA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 25th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038685900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CARE 24/365, 1160 MISSION ST #1709, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD S. FORHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038693300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARYANNE HAIRSTYLING, 1327 9TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed THI NGOC ANH CAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

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JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038692500

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038701400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAYDE MARK DESIGNS, 1112 DE HARO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HEATHER A. FORBES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/07/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IPHONE ANDROID REPAIR SF, 552 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MUHAMMAD IMTIAZ AHMAD KHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADAME PAT’S FANTASTIC PET ESCORT SERVICES, 830 BUSH ST #306, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PATRICIA A. BOYD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/26/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038674900

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038695000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON ONE THIRTEEN, 1538 PACIFIC AVE #113, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SELINA LEE FOWLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038693600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STRADA PIZZA, 1115 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KOUROSH RAZINEJAD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038691400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITY BUILDING MAINTENANCE, 138 HYDE ST #19, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed GAMAL ALGAHIM & RAFIK ALGAHIM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038694100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THREE STAR RESTAURANT, 2515 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SHARON HC INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038693800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GKP MARKET, 995 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AMRIT SINGH, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038694900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HONEYCOMB THERAPY, 815 HYDE ST #317, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HONEYCOMB THERAPY A MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038684500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURRITO PROJECT SF; BURRITO PROJECT SAN FRANCISCO; SAN FRANCISCO BURRITO PROJECT, 225 POTRERO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MDP FOUNDATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038691500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NELS BEAUTY CLUB, 960 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed NAC MERMAID LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/19.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036665000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: YUKOL PLACE THAI CUISINE, 2380 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by YUKOL NIELTAWEEPHONG. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/04/15.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033213100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: GIANT GNOME DESIGN, 43 MIRAMAR AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by STEVEN CLARK LOSCUTOFF. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/17/10.

JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554973

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GLADSTONE & ASSOCIATES, 46 DIVISADERO ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRETT M. GLADSTONE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

In the matter of the application of: ROBERT STEPHEN MINNICH, 90 HAZELWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ROBERT STEPHEN MINNICH, is requesting that the name ROBERT STEPHEN MINNICH AKA ROBERT STEPHEN DIOHEP, be changed to ROBERT STEPHEN DIOHEP. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, on the 13th of August 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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JUNE 27, JULY 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038693200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRUDYS TATTOO PARLOUR, 2275 MARKET ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GAUGE STRONGARM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY, 1091 BUSH ST #109, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PASCUAL ARRECHEA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038700000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRAMEWORK COMMUNICATIONS, 29 POWERS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIELLE GRANT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038703800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INFINITY PLUMBING & ROOTER, 403 34TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JUAN A. PEREZ ANDRES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038702600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BALBOA PSYCHIC, 2533 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SABRINA LISA GREEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/27/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038704000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARRIS CLAY ST, 1855 CLAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KATSUKO SHIMAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038703600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAPPY FARM TRADING, 1995 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUB MARKET INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/27/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038700500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE OF THE PACIFIC, 2100 WEBSTER ST #416, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BRUCE BORNFLETH, MD - A PROFESSIONAL CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038702900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1212 MARKET STREET TENANCY IN COMMON, 1212 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a joint venture, and is signed YULLY COMPANY, LLC (CA) & ESTATE OF YULLY MOK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038701000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUTHERLANDGOLD, 315 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SUTHERLANDGOLD GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/23/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/26/19.

JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038693100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DECCAN HOUSE, 1142 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed M&M FOODS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/19.

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JULY 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554990

In the matter of the application of: LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN AKA LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN LOUIS C/O LAW OFFICE OF JAMES A. MCELROY, JAMES A. MCELROY #154050, 605 MARKET ST #605, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN AKA LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN LOUIS, is requesting that the name LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN AKA LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN LOUIS, be changed to LENORIS ANDRE LARKIN LOUIS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 15th of August 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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JULY 11, 18, 25, AUG 01, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038704900

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JULY 11, 18, 25, AUG 01, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038707100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEE AUTOMOTIVE, 33 HARRIET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual and is signed IMMENSON LIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/02/19.

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18 • Bay Area Reporter • July 11-17, 2019

Come to this ‘Cabaret’ by Roberto Friedman

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abaret” is one of those shows that just won’t go away. Nor should it. It’s a classic, Tonywinning Broadway musical, it has a great score, and it’s relevant to our day and age. In fact, it’s frightening how relevant it still is in our time. To close out its season, San Francisco Playhouse is presenting a new production of “Cabaret” (book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood; music by John Kander; lyrics by Fred Ebb) directed by Susi Damilano, music direction by Dave Dobrusky, choreography by Nicole Helfer, through Sept. 14. Out There attended the Press Opening last week. The show starts off with one of the all-time great opening numbers, “Wilkommen,” as the Master of Ceremonies welcomes us multilingually to the Kit Kat Klub in wild, open, pre-WWII Berlin. As the MC, John Paul Gonzalez effectively banishes audience memories of Joel Grey (original cast) and Alan

Cumming (1998 Broadway revival) in the role. He’s fully committed to the polymorphously perverse character; indeed, the whole company is game for some vamping, as we are assured, “The girls are beautiful, the boys are beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!” All correct. Bay Area musical treasure Dave Dobrusky (music director) and his band bring the necessary energy, precision and razzamatazz to the score. In the pivotal role of nightclub chirp Sally Bowles, Marinborn Cate Hayman is a revelation, singing with heart and soul, and really selling “Maybe This Time” and the title song. Again, cherished memories of Liza Minnelli in the role recede. Atticus Shaindlin ably plays American ingénue Clifford Bradshaw against Sally’s jaded party girl in satisfying counterpoint. Abby Haug makes for a strong and believable Fraulein Kost. Under Susi Damilano’s sharp direction, even the subplot courting scenes between Fraulein Schneider (Jennie Brick) and Herr Schultz (Louis Parnell) stand out. Often pushed to the background in the

Marius Petipa

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the great 19th-century choreographer who brought “Swan Lake” back from oblivion by creating a new production in 1895 that has gone on to conquer the world. The Swan Queen is iconic, like the Mona Lisa. If you had only seen the Ballets Trockadero’s brilliant parody of it (they’re dancing it in drag), you’d still understand the style, the mystique, so powerful is the after-image the ballet leaves in your mind. So it’s a great thing that finally a full-scale biography of Petipa has arrived, the first to appear in English, published by Oxford University Press in solid, beautifully written text by the British journalistscholar Nadine Meisner. It fits that a Brit should write this, since the Vic/Wells [later Royal] Ballet’s aesthetic was explicitly based on Petipa’s “Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake.” Petipa’s style, as filtered through Margot Fonteyn, is

what Meisner was raised on. She has written an affectionate, thoughtful life. Fresh research on Petipa has burgeoned in Russia, with international conferences based in the archives of the Maryinsky and the Bolshoi Theaters, which

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mild-mannered salarymen turning rhinoceri in Ionesco. The cute geriatric love story falls victim to Kristallnacht. In fact, add an onstage beating and an offstage abortion, and “Cabaret” turns out to put us in a very dark world. The week of our Orange Imbecile exulting in military hardware in our nation’s capitol, and humanitarian nightmares continuing on our southern borders, the show felt very much in (goose) step with our present American moment. That’s not a night at the cabaret, old friend, it’s a day of reckoning. As usual with Playhouse, production values are high, and a simple but clever set design by scenic designer Jacquelyn Scott functions well as the Kit Kat Klub (with a few audience members seated stageside), Fraulein Schneider’s boarding house and a few backstage or fruitstore scenes. Its utilitarian design becomes another chilling reminder of the Holocaust in a directorial gambit revealed only at the play’s very end.t

show’s decadent whirlwind, in this production the secondary characters are fully present and accounted for in these actors’ strong, committed performances. The cabaret scenes are what we most remember from this musical, of course. The sexual freedom, the cross-gender role-playing and the apocalyptic decadence are all given full vent and portrayal in songs like “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Money.” Choreographer Nicole Helfer’s sexy,

salacious dance moves effectively upstage Bob Fosse’s famous poses and postures. In fact, all the miming of oral sex and mimicry of shtupping might be a little overdetermined; trust us, we get it, with the very first Kit Kat kick and caboodle. But underlying all the trysts in the sexual playground is the dark and foreboding coming of the Third Reich, as otherwise anodyne characters show their true Nazi colors and begin goose-stepping like

were long closed “behind the Iron Curtain.” Reconstructions of Petipa’s choreography for “Sleeping Beauty,” “Raymonda,” “Swan Lake” and many other ballets in Russia, Europe, New York, and Seattle, based on original notations, have sparked interest. Meisner has surveyed all this and brought it together in 350 pages (plus 150 pages of endnotes) that touch on most everything and provide the general reader and the scholar with a reliable reference. It’s not a definitive biography, but it should be the beginning of a lot of new work. Petipa lived a long life; there’s much ground to cover. Born in France just after the fall of Napoleon, he lived til just before the Bolshevik Revolution, 60 years of it spent in St. Petersburg as principal dancer, ballet master, occasional choreographer under other chiefs, producing hit ballets along the way and uncovering new talent all the time. His last protégée, Anna Pavlova, like his first (Maria Surovitskaya, his first wife), united a weak technique with great flair for projection, so the music became visible. He could also choreograph for dancers whose only charm was a strong technique, and make them look interesting. To that he added fertility in creating huge spectacles, moving large masses of dancers in interesting patterns, and building climaxes with surprises inside. In his first big hit, “The Pharaoh’s Daughter,” he created a ballet five hours long, with so much drama, a sandstorm that collapsed the scenery and terrified the audience, that noone was surprised when the protagonists took refuge in a pyramid and smoked a lot of opium, then entered a dream of Ancient Egypt that allowed for fantastic scenes where desperate rivals for the heroine’s love duel. She dives into the Nile, which of course requires a whole underwater vision scene with Naiads, etc. In a later scene, statues with baskets on their heads come to life and dance, and at the end, children pop out of the baskets, 72 dancers in that scene alone. Petipa could do with ballet technique, theatrical machinery, costumes, and music the kind of thing that challenges computer animators today. Both Petipa and Pixar want to make you see things that are only

imaginable move with unique style, Petipa could be sharp as a teacher, energy, rhythm, attack that make and in rehearsal. After his wife, he you believe in them. So the God of worked more closely with dancers the Nile, or the Swan Queen, or the whose defects he did not have to Diamond Fairy, each needs a kind conceal. The first Swan Queen, Pieof energy that shows up in moves rina Legnani, had both plastique and that fit who they are. Petipa excelled technical power, as did his Aurora, at this. He made a dance for a monCarlotta Brianza. key in a tree that made the young Petipa emerges as someone you’d George Balanchine sitting in the like to work with. Under Perrot and audience want to dance that role. St. Leon, he seems to have been an Petipa married a student with a able assistant who could take some great talent for folk-dance rhythms, of the burden of producing ballets for acting, and made her his star. for four theaters in both Moscow Exactly what the “Me too” moveand St. Petersburg off the boss’ ment would predict came to pass: she shoulders, create a five-hour ballet eventually petitioned the tsar for a in seven weeks, then be a decent separation, which was granted. Meisboss for L. Ivanov, his more-thanner notes that one of the first ballets able assistant who choreographed Petipa made for her, “The Blue Dahlhalf of “Swan Lake,” and a delightful ia,” was a Pygmalion story: a gardener collaborator with Tchaikovsky, who breeds a flower so beautiful he falls in thrived under Petipa’s direction. love with it, but wants more control The chapters on the last great over the dahlia than reality allows. ballets summarized will not tell Meisner is charitable toward Petipa, scholars much new, but for the genmore than many will be comfortable eral public they will illuminate a lot. with. Alastair Macaulay in The New This is a book I will return to again York Times pointed to a dark sexand again.t ism in all Petipa’s ballet, which seems to glorify women but makes them dependent on men for support. It’s obvious that nobody could balance on pointe for the duration of the Rose Adagio, hold such a refined position while rotating slowly, without support. This was understood to be a triumph for the ballerina, and an image of sovereign power in the queen who is to be, which unquestionably formed part of the character of young Queen Elizabeth, who granted the charter to Sadler’s Wells that turned it into the Royal Ballet. Lacking a queen, in this country we have no countervailing pressures to oppose the caustic effect of our president’s misogyny, and the current climate of opinion is scathingly Oxford University Press hostile to apologists for an artistic direc- Caricature of ballet master Marius Petipa. tor crossing the line.

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • July 11-17, 2019

‘Hairspray’: Uplift, San Francisco-style

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Cassie Grilley (“Tracy Turnblad”) and company members in Bay Area Musicals’ production of “Hairspray.”

by Jim Gladstone

’d already been grinning for a good 10 minutes when the cast of Bay Area Musicals’ joyful production of “Hairspray” launched into the civic swoon of their opening anthem, “Good Morning Baltimore.” From the moment I arrived at the Mission District’s Victoria Theater, I’d been thinking “Hellooo, San Francisco!” A crowd that ranged from tweens to seniors in a wide spectrum of skin tones and wardrobe choices gathered under the marquee and filed into

the auditorium, chatting in accents and lingos as varied as their looks. For the first time I can recall, a San Francisco theater audience seemed to genuinely reflect our local citizenry. So did the cast and crew, their harmony of surnames including Cabrillo, Kanaski and Patibanda, ElTayeb, Gutierrez and Wong. Between its open-minded approach to casting, modest ticket-pricing, commitment to community outreach, and, with this production, a canny choice of name-brand material that’s also smart and topical, Bay Area Musicals

had set the stage for success before the first note was sung. They followed through with flying colors. The vibrant pinks, yellows, reds and greens of Brooke Jennings’ outstanding exaggerated 60s mod costumes immediately established a gumball-bright mood for the evening that was matched by high-spirited and well-calibrated performances across the board. Perhaps the most challenging aspect of “Hairspray” for actors is establishing and maintaining a delicate balance between the humane and the cartoon. “Hairspray” is much more “Grease” than “West Side Story,” but its subject matter demands the kind of deft handling provided here under the direction of Matthew McCoy. The show’s script, adapted by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan from John Waters’ 1988 screenplay, is built around a drive to end racial segregation among the teenage dancers on an “American Bandstand”-like local television program in 1962. A parallel storyline focuses on plussized dancer Tracy Turnblad (Cassie Grilley) and her truck-sized mother Edna (Scott DiLorenzo) as they struggle with issues of social and self-acceptance. The script astutely suggests that racism and fat-shaming have a common denominator, in the judgment of character based on

physical appearance. On opening night, it took Grilley a few scenes to fully snap into character. But by the time Tracy falls into a romantic reverie after accidentally being touched by high school heartthrob Link Larkin (Kamren Mahaney) and sings the swelling “I Can Hear the Bells,” she’d found just the right mix of baby-faced romance and blue-collar moxie the character calls for, and zipped through the rest of the show like a shiny pinball. John Waters’ twisted wholesomeness is delightfully evoked when Grilley, in a metallic dress and stripey Bride of Frankenstein bouffant, and Mahaney, with a toothy grin of psychokiller intensity, officially couple up in the finale to sing “You Can’t Stop the Beat.” The bubbly score by Marc Shaiman, music and lyrics, and Scott Wittman, lyrics, evokes period girl groups and R&B without ever sounding too derivative of existing hit songs. As Tracy’s best friend Penny Pingleton, Melissa Momboisse is a lanky comic delight. All pointy elbows, orange pigtails and boundless enthusiasm, she’s like a neurotic Pippi Longstocking. As her black beau Seaweed, Dave Abrams brought the house to its feet for a standing ovation with the strongest singing and dancing in the entire

cast. Abrams’ booty-rotating, highjumping turn in “Run and Tell That” is electrifying. Paul Plain manages to find a real depth of emotion in what can be the one-dimensional role of Tracy’s father. And as Seaweed’s mom, the DJ Motormouth Maybelle, Elizabeth Jones hits gospel heights in the rousing (if slightly out of left field) 11 o’clock number “I Know Where I’ve Been.” Curiously, the character for which “Hairspray” is most famous, Edna Turnblad (Scott DiLorenzo), is the weakest link here. Tradition has the part played by a man – Divine, Harvey Fierstein and John Travolta among them. Back in 1988 or even 2007, when the movie remake came out, this may have seemed funny or transgressive in its own right. But the part has never been played for gender-bending laughs, and DiLorenzo isn’t great at playing nurturing or matriarchal. At this time, in this city, a bolder casting move might have been to cast a woman as the mother. Here’s wishing San Franciscans even more of the engaged community theater they deserve.t Hairspray, through Aug. 11 at the Victoria Theater, 2961 16th St., SF. Tickets, $50-$85: (415) 320-2207, www.bamsf.org

Terrence McNally, a life in the theatre by Brian Bromberger

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’m of the school ‘Write what you know.’ You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart,” says playwright Terrence McNally. Whatever criticisms one might have of his work, a lack of authenticity and passion cannot be part of them. He revealed openly gay characters to a broad mainstream audience. Filmmaker Jeff Kaufman made the biographical documentary “Every Act of Life,” detailing McNally’s career successes, disappointments and influence. Featured as part of PBS’ “American Masters” series, it remains streamable free for a month. Opening with McNally receiving the first of four Tony awards, McNally and his celebrity admirers concur that no one loves the theater as he does. Few have been as dedicated practitioners to its art. Growing up in Corpus Christi, Texas, his early life was hellish, with both his parents constantly drunk, and his father, a Schlitz beer distributor, physically abusive. Mc-

Nally says, “They never got me” or accepted his gayness. A high school English teacher, Mrs. McElroy, encouraged his talent, and he attended Columbia University. He met his first lover, playwright Edward Albee, beginning a four-year tempestuous, often alcohol-sodden relationship, with Albee non-supportive of McNally’s career. He was hired by writer John Steinbeck to tutor his son while he and his wife toured Europe. Steinbeck advised McNally not to write for the theater, “as it will break your heart.” McNally’s 1964 Broadway debut, “And Things That Go Bump in the Night,” featuring an out gay character, was a fiasco, though his 1975 comedy “The Ritz,” a farce set in a gay bathhouse starring Rita Moreno, was a smash. But it would be over a decade before McNally wrote another hit, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.” His more successful, gay-oriented plays began in 1989: “The Lisbon Traviata,” “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” and the AIDS-focused “Love! Valour! Compassion!,” as well as two popu-

lar heterosexual-oriented plays, “A Perfect Ganesh” (based on his travels to India) and “Master Class” (about his idol Maria Callas). In addition to his 36 plays, McNally has written four opera librettos, and 10 books for musicals, including “The Rink,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Ragtime” and “The Full Monty.” The film chronicles McNally’s roller coaster personal relationships, including a volatile period with the closeted actor Robert Drivas, who later died of AIDS; with playwright Gary Bonasorte, who founded the Rattlesnake Theater Company and an AIDS research clinic, also dying of HIV; a secret affair with playwright Wendy Wasserstein; and his current partner, civil rights attorney Thomas Kirdahy, whom he married in 2010 after they saw McNally through his victorious fight over lung cancer together. Angela Lansbury intervened in the mid-80s, telling McNally he was destroying himself and his potential as a writer with alcohol, which led him to stop drinking and revitalized his career.

McNally gets to the core of the human condition in his plays, which he feels is a yearning for connection. “An artist responds to the world and tries to make sense of it, even the bad things, like AIDS.” While openly gay and an LGBTQ activist, he rejects the moniker of “gay playwright,” feeling it marginalizes him.

Maintaining “all theater people are building surrogate families,” he has had deep rapport with most of his actors. Audra McDonald, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham, Christine Baranski, John Slattery, and Patrick Wilson (all talking heads in the film, along with director Joe Mantello, Larry Kramer, Chita Rivera, and Rita Moreno) attribute the launching of their careers to him. The documentary borders on hero worship, with little scrutiny of the plays themselves nor much analysis of his strengths and weaknesses as a dramatist, often critiqued as being too crowd-pleasing and sentimental. His track record is spotty, with one winner followed by multiple failures. His most controversial play, “Corpus Christi” (1998), about a gay Jesus, which received death threats and almost destroyed the Manhattan Theater Club, is only sketchily mentioned. The question whether his work will survive long-term isn’t considered. But there is little doubt that McNally is a key figure in ending the invisibility of gay men in the American theater.t

debut album in 1980, followed by “Imitation Life” in 1981. Those albums contained the regional hit songs “When Things Go Wrong” and “Solid Rock.” The triple-disc compilation “Many Years Ago: The Complete Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Collection” (Blixa Sounds) celebrates Lane as a bandleader and

solo act in an enlightening musical history lesson. Members of grunge pioneers Green River would go on to form influential Seattle bands Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog and Mother Love Bone. Now in expanded reissues, Green River’s 1986 EP “Dry as a Bone” and 1988 “Rehab Doll” (Sub Pop) are showcases for the band’s blending of punk and heavy metal, laying the groundwork for the grunge revolution to come. The SF-based record label 415 Records was home to an impressive array of musical acts during the 80s, including Romeo Void, Translator and groundbreaking queer band Until December, and benefited from a partnership with Columbia Records. “In a Chamber” (Columbia), the debut album from the label’s Wire Train, has been reissued and expanded. Combining

jangle pop with modern rock, the band was a perfect fit for burgeoning college-rock radio. The best of the band’s releases, the album featured standout tunes “Chamber of Hellos” and “I’ll Do You.” Among the six bonus tracks, you’ll find a cover of Neil Young’s “Mr. Soul.” It’s surprising how few Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers compilations were released. The excellent 38track “The Best of Everything: The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016” (Geffen), featuring solo work and songs by Petty’s first band Mudcrutch, begs two questions. Why not arrange the songs chronologically? Early songs “American Girl” and “Breakdown” established Petty and the H’s before the breakthrough of 1979’s “Damn the Torpedoes.” They deserve to be front and center. Also, why not toss in a couple of Petty’s Traveling Wilburys contributions?t

Relevant reissues by Gregg Shapiro

he early-to-mid-1990s was a good time to be a female R&B artist. Just ask the members of TLC, SWV and En Vogue, or solo acts Mary J. Blige, Brandy, Deborah Cox and Toni Braxton. The female duo known as Zhané, whose moniker was a combo of their first names Renée Neufville and Jean Norris, had a hit with their debut disc “Pronounced Jah-Nay” (Motown/UMe), newly reissued in a double-LP vinyl set. The pair’s biggest hit, the funky, fresh “Hey Mr. DJ,” kicks off the record and reappears in a remixed version. Even though the album is 25 years old, songs “Changes,” “Off My Mind” and “For a Reason” are timeless. Bands in the Boston music scene of the early 1980s experienced firsthand the kind of major-label feeding frenzy that would come to Se-

attle and Chicago in the 90s. Bands Til Tuesday, Face to Face, Jonzun Crew, Berlin Airlift, Jon Butcher Axis, Nervous Eaters, Rubber Rodeo and Human Sexual Response were all snapped up by record labels. Robin Lane & The Chartbusters had a similar experience, with Warner Bros. releasing the band’s self-titled

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Pride in the Deep South by David-Elijah Nahmod

wo lesbians decide to organize Pride celebrations in the Deep South in “Southern Pride,” a new documentary by filmmaker Malcolm Ingram. Lynn owns and operates Just Us, the oldest gay bar in Mississippi, while Shawn, a black woman, runs Club Exclusive, a bar for the black LGBT community. It’s 2016, and Trump has just been elected president. Lynn sits in her bar watching his inauguration on a giant television screen as she laments the state of the country. It’s Trump’s ascension to the presidency and all the hate he inspires that inspire her to organize the community celebration. Ingram’s camera follows Lynn as she faces the monumental task she has taken on. For many years her bar has not only been the gathering place for LGBT nightlife, it’s also been the local community center. Lynn is generous to a fault. If one of her patrons needs $60 to fill a prescription, they’re going to get $60 even if Lynn has an unpaid bill of her own sitting in front of her. The community doesn’t always return her support. The film does not shy away from the hardships that can come from being LGBT in the rural south. One of Lynn’s bartenders is Danielle, a trans woman who is wondering whether or not she should stay in the area after several local trans

“Southern Pride” is an engaging film that effectively underscores the difficulties of being LGBT in the rural south. In a place like San Francisco, where LGBT rights are taken for granted, the film reminds us that there’s still a lot of work to be done. If the film has a fault, it’s that the Pride celebration Lynn has worked so hard to achieve is finally seen at the end of the film, briefly. The sequence is too brief, and seems tagged on almost as an afterthought. After all the hard work Lynn put into getting the event off the ground, more footage would have been welcome. Still, Ingram does a good job at sharing the stories of Lynn and Shawn, both of whom emerge as strong women who uplift their communities.t

women are murdered. “I am a woman,” Danielle says, “no matter how people view me or how science deems me.” The community is also dealing with the passage of HB 1523, a “religious freedom” law that allows businesses to deny service to LGBT people. One lesbian fights back tears as she speaks of how unfair and hurtful the law is. Being queer in Mississippi is no walk in the park. The community needs the celebration that Lynn is struggling to put together. “No hate in our state!” chants a group of protesters as they gather in front of the state capital. Shawn’s customers, meanwhile, face struggles in their own day-today lives. Shawn herself is an excon, unjustly sentenced to prison for a minor marijuana offense. She speaks eloquently of the need to bring people in the black LGBT community together as she works on organizing a separate Black Pride event. But the film focuses mainly on Lynn as she keeps her eye on the prize, going through the ups and downs of making the celebration happen. At one point she faces the disappointment of a fundraising effort that fizzles out. The film also briefly revisits Rumors, a Mississippi gay bar that was featured in Ingram’s previous film “Small Town Gay Bar.” Rumors has since closed, and is now a church.

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Experience counts in the theatre

by Tavo Amador

ovies set in the world of the theatre are a fascinating genre. “Stage Door” (1937), starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Gail Patrick, Eve Arden, and Ann Miller as aspiring Broadway stars, is an uneven but enjoyable mix of comedy and melodrama. Fred Astaire and Rogers’s final pairing, “The Barkeleys of Broadway” (1949), is a delight. The brilliant “All About Eve” (1950), with Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, remains the gold standard. On the other hand, “Torch Song” (1953), starring Joan

Crawford as a great, tough Broadway singer-dancer, is dreadful but morbidly compelling – try not to watch. “Imitation of Life” (1959) hypnotically asks viewers to believe that Lana Turner could become a Great White Way legend as a light comedienne, then shed her soignee wardrobe and high heels, don a drab sweater, skirt, and flats, and triumph in drama. The theatrical world was wellknown to gay novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist W. Somerset Maugham. His 1937 novel “Theatre” has been adapted several times for pictures. It’s the basis for the dazzling 2004 film “Being Julia,”

starring an incandescent Annette Bening as Julia Lambert, the West End’s leading actress. Set in 1938 London, it’s an irresistible portrayal of an era seemingly long gone, yet in many ways still relevant. Julia is starring in a hit drama, but she’s worn out. She tearfully, hysterically demands that her actor-producer-husband Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons) close the show. She needs a holiday. He’s sympathetic but has to consult with the show’s backer, Dolly de Vries (Miriam Margolyes), then find a tenant for the theatre. He calms Julia down and introduces her to young, starstruck admirer Tom Fennel (hunky Shaun Evans), suggesting they invite him to lunch. Julia is flattered by Tom’s adoration. They soon begin an affair, even though Tom’s about the same age as her son by Michael. She’s thrilled by his attentions and their sex life. She’s convinced they’re in love. Suddenly, she no longer needs a holiday, and is acting better than ever. She and Tom go out to dinner and dancing. Dolly warns Michael that Julia is making a fool of herself, but he dismisses the idea of an affair, believing that Julia doesn’t even like sex. Julia buys Tom gifts from Cartier. When he can’t reciprocate, she happily gives him money. Michael takes a house in the country for the summer. Julia and his son Roger (Tom Sturridge); Tom; and a young, blonde, aspiring actress, Avice Chricton (Lucy Punch), are among the regular guests. Tom doesn’t pay much attention to Julia, and she shrewishly confronts him, They quarrel. She apologizes, but it’s clear he’s tiring of her. In fact, he’s having an affair with the ambitious Avice. She wants a part in Julia’s next play, and urges Roger and Tom to help her get an audition. Julia is suspicious, but gracious. Avice lands the role, im-

pressing Michael, Dolly, and the author (Maury Chaykin). During rehearsals, Julia is generous, making Avice look good at every opportunity, even at her own expense. Julia’s old friend, Lord Charles (Bruce Greenwood), tells her that gossips are hailing Avice as the “next Julia Lambert.” He also comes out as gay, surprised that she had not understood that. She laughs at her naivete, and they are closer than ever. She also sees Tom in a new, more accurate light. On opening night, Michael, convinced that Avice is destined for stardom, signs her to a personal contract before the curtain rises. She’s delighted, confident that she will be sensational. She hasn’t, however, reckoned with Julia’s plans, which materialize onstage. Those scenes are among the funniest ever filmed. Director Istvan Szabo gets glorious performances from his large cast. Bening, using a flawless English accent, is richly nuanced as Julia: self-centered, vain, generous, tough, vulnerable, angry, gentle. She moves easily from high comedy to tender heartbreak. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, but inexplicably lost to Hilary Swank in “Million Dollar Baby,” one of the Academy’s most embarrassing decisions. Punch is memorable as the unsympathetic Avice, thinking that stardom awaits, only to discover that Julia’s experience and maturity will triumph over her youth and beauty. Irons is engaging as Michael, loving Julia even if he doesn’t

understand her. Michael Gambon is outstanding as the ghost of Julia’s theatrical mentor for whom the only reality was the theatre. Evans is terrific as Tom, smoothly going from innocent fan to ardent lover to betrayer. Margolyes is marvelous as Dolly, suggesting her own sexual attraction to Julia. Evie, Julia’s maid, is splendidly played by Juliet Stevenson. Her prescient cynicism is reminiscent of Thelma Ritter’s Birdie in “All About Eve.” Chaykin is exceptionally good as the playwright, appalled at what Julia does to his dialogue, but ecstatic that the audience loves it. Greenwood is a low-key delight as Lord Charles. Sturridge’s Roger is charming – his scenes with Julia are moving. Rosemary Harris and Rita Tushingham make brief appearances as Julia’s mother and aunt, respectively. Ronald Harwood penned the crackerjack screenplay, worthy of Noel Coward and Maugham. John Bloomfeld designed the memorable costumes. Lajos Koltai’s cinematography is beautifully fluid. Luciana Arrighi’s production design is glorious, as are the art decoration by Paul Ghirardini and Lorant Javor and the set decoration by Zoltan Horvath, Attila Koves, and Ian Whittaker. The evocative score includes renditions of Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” Ray Henderson and Les Brown’s “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” and Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You.”t

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‘The Flight Portfolio’: Art for life’s sake by Tim Pfaff

very now and then a living writer comes forth with what gets labeled “a 19th-century novel.” When that’s not an outright slur, what is meant is that it tells its story beginning to end, has chapter titles and sections within chapters, uses paragraphs with indentations, and puts punctuation marks around direct quotations. I’m speculating here, but I suspect that if there is a reason Julie Orringer has chosen this style for her new novel “The Flight Portfolio” (Knopf), it’s to eliminate barriers to a story of lasting urgency – genuinely momentous, not just of the moment. Her historical novel re-enacts the doings of the US-fostered Emergency Rescue Commission, sanctioned by Eleanor Roosevelt, one of many organizations dedicated to getting the persecuted out of the clutches of the Nazis and to safe ground, particularly in the U.S. (whose record of accepting refugees, particularly Jews, is tarnished at best). What distinguished the Commission was its mission to get the finest minds and most fertile imaginations of the Continent out of Europe and the concentration camps. The moral quandary – are geniuses more worth saving than “your tired, your poor and your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” – is patent, and Orringer addresses it directly. Doing so repeatedly, she takes hold of her role as a historical novelist not to plead one case against another. Plot-driven and suspenseful as her chosen story is, she makes it her task to probe the conflicted emotions of the characters swept up in an enterprise by its nature beyond good and evil, most of them wrenchingly sympathetic but even the most morally compromised,

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“The Flight Portfolio” author Julie Orringer.

boorish and unsympathetically malicious of them as credible as they are cynical. In war, compromises abound. Orringer’s genius is in bringing characters off the page, and she snares her readers into the conundrum of who is to make lifeand-death decisions about people who are knowable, then known. Her central character is Varian Fry, a historical personage who, like Orringer’s so-named character, leaves Harvard for Europe, encounters first-hand the Nazis’ barbaric pogrom against the Jews, and goes to Marseilles to head the Commission, qualified principally by his wiles and tireless courage. Constitutionally high-strung, Fry rou-

tinely endangers his own physical constitution while making himself daily vulnerable, including as a gay man, to the Gestapo-leaning Vichy government. Married to an open-minded American woman, Eileen, whom he keeps safe in their New York home, Fry is nevertheless tormented by his homosexuality, a personal specter that rears its head in all the usual ways but self-ignites at an unforeseen reunion with a Harvard classmate, the wholly fictional Elliott Grant, with whom he’d had a torrid undergraduate affair. After a 12-year separation premised on the myriad misunderstandings their secretive liaison has engendered,

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Grant turns up in Marseilles on a salvation mission of his own – and with a secret of his own: that his fair skin has kept Harvard, now his employer, from knowing he was a “Negro,” which would have been position- if not career-ending. Their passion is rekindled to the point of recklessness. Ingenious as they are, especially at subterfuge, neither has the kind of genius it is Fry’s remit to save. Orringer gives us Marc Chagall, Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel and their wives, Werfel’s none other than the formidable former Alma Mahler – among many others of comparable distinction – as wholly credible, living, breathing, fearful, hesitant,

temperamental, erratic and in some cases old people, faced with the prospect of hikes over the Pyrenees and passage on shipboards no one would mistake for luxury cruises. Oddly, among the rescued, Hannah Arendt is a walk-on, though her personal and moral authority set her few paragraphs alight. The titular “Flight Portfolio” is a physically crude binder of art and literary work made by the celebrities in retreat, both as a unique record of their experience and as a potential source of income to sustain the enterprise, once it makes it to New York’s auction block. Instead, it is lost, its baffling disappearance making the symbol the more stingingly pertinent. The Fry-Grant relationship is central if cauterized of sentimentality. Orringer captures the complications their individual foibles and flaws add to their dangerous love, brilliantly if subtly making it clear that their deepest problems are those that obtain in all romantic relationships. The best and worst that can be said of them is that they are all-too-human, at war with their own dishonesties and cruelties, both unwilled and deliberate. A novel as suspense-driven as “The Flight Portfolio” might fly like a stealth bomber. The wonder of Orringer’s is that it is hardly leisurely or prolix but nevertheless rich with telling details – not plush but deep. We’re told every move of a chess game in a war zone. Orringer lavishes on the reader the sights, sounds, smells and weather of her locales, her characters’ clothes (most particularly as they are serially removed at a surrealist party) and, most remarkably, their innermost thoughts and feelings, all without instructing you about them. The immersive reader is richly rewarded.t

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Justify My Sins: A Hollywood Novel in Three Acts by Felice Picano; Beautiful Dreamer Press, $19.95

ny writer who has attempted to get their work adapted into a Hollywood film will empathize with the two-decades-plus struggle of Victor Regina, the protagonist in Felice Picano’s new roman a clef, to accomplish that goal. Though “Justify My Sins” is a novel, it’s based on Picano’s own experiences of living in mid1970s Hollywood working for actor Cary Grant, who wanted Picano to adapt one of his own books into a screenplay vehicle for him. Picano has cleverly revamped his observations and the stories told to him by mostly closeted personalities into his new novel, alluding to well-known stars through references any movie fan will decipher. His novel is about the perils for artists in Hollywood. How much integrity are they are willing to sacrifice for fame and money? It also comments on the shifts of being gay from the 1970s to the century’s end. Divided into three acts, the novel depicts different periods in gay novelist Victor Regina’s life. He starts out living in New York, his books selling well. He is popular and eager to attend the upcoming circuit Black Party. But it’s winter and Regina is

lonely, looking for a lover. So when he gets a phone call from his agent saying a celebrated director wants him to write a screenplay based on his latest novel, Victor seizes the opportunity and moves to “El Lay.” He loves the weather, the cuisine, and the men, but Victor wonders whether Hollywood is serious about wanting to make his novel into a film. He misses New York. In Act II, “Notes on a Revisited ReWrite,” it’s 1986, and Victor is trying to get his screenplay produced in LA, complicated by a relationship back in New York. He’s juggling movie producers, prima donna actresses and the sexual temptations of Hollywood, not to mention the threat of AIDS. Act III jumps forward to 1999. Devastated by the effects of AIDS, Victor decides to leave New York and relocate permanently to LA. Once again the Holy Grail of filming “Justify My Sins” might become reality. Underneath the witty dialogue, Picano is questioning the shallowness of Hollywood and its soulcrushing impact on artists. Is fulfillment possible when you can never trust people at their word? Picano is adept in contrasting East and West Coast attitudes and social mores, seeing their virtues and flaws. What is the meaning of authenticity in a city that prides itself on manufacturing make-believe, both on and off screen?t

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<< Film

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The summer program of two dozen films at SFMOMA includes adaptations of literary works by authors ranging from the Bronte sisters, Mary Shelley, Harper Lee and Daphne du Maurier to Toni Morrison, whose “Beloved,” a Southern Gothic drama about a bedeviled former slave, was turned into a film by the late Jonathan Demme, starring a hard-to-miss Oprah. The vampire lore of successful novelist Anne Rice was fodder for Neil Jordan, who helmed “Interview with a Vampire,” an acquired taste with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as exceedingly pale, 18th-century bloodsuckers. (Rice wrote the screenplay.) In Farsi and packing a super soundtrack, Ana Lily Amirpour’s stylish, selfassured debut feature “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” represents a contemporary feminist take on the horror genre with a romance and a few Spaghetti Western tropes thrown in. Shot for a pittance in moody, high-contrast black & white in Kern County, it stalks a lonesome, hijab-wearing vampire and sometime skateboard enthusiast bent on vengeance in Bad City, a dead-end,

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“Double Indemnity” (1944) The film that forever altered nice guy Fred MacMurray’s clean-cut image: Fred is a cynical but hardworking insurance salesman who’s talked by a tough blonde (hot but devious Barbara Stanwyck) into the murder of her grumpy and over-insured hubby. Adapted by director Billy Wilder and toughguy writer Raymond Chandler

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Iranian ghost town. Most of the stories here impart a reminder that civilization hangs by a thread. They also come with a subtext of repressed desire and forbidden impulses that, once triggered, wreak havoc and are impossible to control. Blink your eyes and that sounds like a metaphor for society’s fear and loathing of female sexuality. Themes often center on human frailty, the grotesque, buried secrets or trauma, the fear of strangers and the unknown – especially in cellars, pitch-black hallways and behind creaky doors – and of course, the perils of hubris. The latter is exemplified by the series’ opener, “Frankenstein,” James Whale’s 1931 classic about the consequences of playing god like the young Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who, in a mad laboratory experiment, reanimates a corpse (a great Boris Karloff in lurching mode). It flees into the night, terrorizing a Bavarian town; hunted by a boisterous mob carrying torches, the monster doesn’t fare too well, either. Mary Shelley, who wrote the novel on which the film is based during a succession of stormy nights in Lord Byron’s mansion on Lake Geneva, published the from James M. Cain’s short novel, many claim this wicked classic marks the birth of an American film noir movement that’s still alive and kicking. Wilder and Chandler gleefully subvert the existing film code to allow crime to pay handsomely, until character flaws and a persistent claims manager (outstanding Edward G. Robinson) bring the nasty enterprise to a screeching halt, producing a wildly entertaining case of “blonde justice.” “There’s Always Tomorrow” (1956) In this neglected Douglas Sirk gem, MacMurray is a frazzled toy company owner who seeks playtime relief from a comatose marriage (to Joan Bennett). The temptress is again a pitch-perfect Stanwyck, in a film that’s ahead of its time about the dangers of marital bliss. (both 7/11) “The Doors: The Final Cut” (1991) Nearly three decades after the debut of this over-the-top, Oliver Stone-directed tribute to the excesses of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, the tragic rise and fall of The Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison (sublime Val Kilmer) seems perfectly in sync with our decadent times. Stone, a filmmaker whose best work (“Salvador”) is diabolically accurate about America’s colonial wars, here shows that the sins of The Doors were as much inspired by government persecution as by any flaw

book anonymously in 1818, when she was 20. Her authorship wasn’t revealed until 1823, though outliers claim she didn’t write it. Among other classics on tap is Jean Cocteau’s masterpiece “Beauty and the Beast” (1949). The beguiling fantasy, drawn from a 1757 fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, melds magic spells, Greek gods, greedy siblings and the belief that love conquers all into a whimsical, truly divine package that evokes the illustrations of Gustave Dore and the paintings of Vermeer. In the mythical tale, a

young woman sacrifices herself to save her father, who has been condemned to death, by surrendering to the Beast (the incomparable Jean Marais, under layers of makeup). To her surprise, she grows fond of the kind-hearted creature, and he falls in love with her, proclaiming he’ll die of a broken heart should she ever abandon him. Note the ingenious special effects achieved without benefit of CGI, and the talking candelabras in the Beast’s enchanted castle. I’d trade all the subsequent versions put together for 95 minutes with Cocteau’s haunting creation. Once seen, it’s not easily forgotten. Second wives have a hard enough time without the specter of Rebecca, whose presence looms as large in death as it did in life in Daphne Du Maurier’s best-selling 1938 Gothic novel of the same name. Hitchcock took the book and ran with it, casting Joan Fontaine as the naïve young woman who’s brought like a lamb to slaughter to Manderley, the grand seaside estate of the aristocratic, much older Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier), who marries her after the mysterious death of his perfect first wife. From the get-go, the new Mrs. de Winter must contend with the imperious Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), a specialist in the sinister art of psychological torment. Dressed in the black of perpetual mourning,

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in Morrison’s character. Featuring over two dozen musical cuts and a terrific supporting cast: Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Kevin Dillon, Frank Whaley, Billy Idol and Kathleen Quinlan. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998) Fans of Hunter S. Thompson’s Rolling Stone magazine character will appreciate that this drug-fueled voyage violates the maxim that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” With Johnny Depp as Thompson alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio Del Toro as his crazed assistant Dr. Gonzo, and look for a sweet-mannered Tobey Maguire as a naive kid thumbing a ride. Plus an amazing ensemble anxious to play for director Terry Gilliam. (both 7/12) “Long Day’s Journey Into

Night” (2019) Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s road drama about a man searching rural China for a woman from his past. “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961) Alain Resnais’ challenging surreal drama helped define the French New Wave’s assault on traditional filmmaking tropes. (both 7/14) “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) Walt Disney’s first full-length animation (produced by Walt, directed by David Hand) was a spirit-lifting game-changer for Depression-challenged America. The songs remained popular for decades. (7/14 matinee) “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2001) John Cameron Mitchell’s innovative musical became an instant LGBTQ classic when Mitchell

her devotion to the dead Rebecca having long ago crossed over into obsession – some have speculated her feelings for her mistress were sexual in nature – Danvers reviles the usurper and sabotages her at every turn. Olivier is in seething, feral form as Heathcliff, the brooding romantic hero of William Wyler’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights.” His windswept period film (1939), chilled by the Yorkshire moors and mental cruelty, shares an all-Bronte triple bill with Andrea Arnold’s brutal 2011 interpretation. With hand-held camera work, spare dialog and a barely suppressed savagery only hinted at in Wyler’s movie, it’s an unflinching depiction of racial violence, socio-sexual politics and thwarted desire. Cary Fukunaga’s superb, exceptionally moving version of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” (2011) features simmering chemistry between a tortured Rochester worthy of romantic obsession (a taunting, sexy Michael Fassbender in one of his best performances) and the orphaned, independentminded Jane. She’s played with spine, vulnerability and a combination of tenderness and wariness by the phenomenal Mia Wasikowska, who radiates the character’s emotional intelligence in every frame. It seems I’ve saved the scariest for last: “The Babadook,” the story of a widow trying to restart her life and assuage her six-year-old son’s crippling fear of monsters. No such luck. A terrifying demon in a top hat emerges from the pages of an evil pop-up children’s book, and confirms his worst fears and then some. Aussie writer-director Jennifer Kent delivers us into thrills-andchills territory and leaves us there, helpless and unable to escape. Don’t watch it by yourself late at night. I had to sleep in the living room with the lights on after this one.t July 18-Aug. 31. www.sfmoma. org/moderncinema

reprised his New York stage role onscreen. Touches of German culture make it feel at times like a lost film from post-war queer director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Music by Stephen Trask; co-stars Michael Pitt. “The Cockettes” (2002) David Weissman & Bill Weber brilliantly recall the heady days of the early 70s when a crazed band of druggies were SF counterculture sensations. Later the same troupe bombed in Gotham. (both 7/1617) San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 39 See our coverage next issue. (7/18-28) “Halston” (2019) Gay fashion designer Halston gets a long overdue bio-pic. A product of very white and very straight Midwest suburbia, Halston would ignite the world of women’s fashion. His own words give a sense of what gave him the most pleasure in life. Oscar night, 1975: “This is glamor! The stars, the palm trees, the weather, the glitter. I came with a dream of what the Academy Awards were like, and I’m going home with a full stomach.” “Nureyev” (2018) Directors Jacqui and David Morris offer a nuanced and moving portrait of openly gay Russian dance star Rudolf Nureyev, which dramatically soars in its depiction of his defection to the West. (both 7/30-31)t

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Arts Events

July 11-18, 2019

Catch up on summer musicals, comedy nights and cool art exhibits in or out of the summer sun … or fog.

Thu 11 Suzanne Ramsey at Flower Piano @ SF Botanical Garden

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Fri 12 Cubcake @ Lone Star Saloon Grab a friend, new or old, enjoy a drink or three; it’s midSummer.

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Baloney @ Oasis

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Rice Rockettes @ Lookout Local and visiting Asian drag queens’ weekly show with DJ Philip Grasso. $5. 10:30pm show. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Thu 11 After Dark @ Exploratorium

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550

Enjoy cocktails and science demos at the hands-on museum (Tactile dome evening hours Fri & Sat, weekly 6:15 and 7:30pm.) July 11: Made for Space, with lunar exhibits. $20. Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St). www.exploratorium.edu/

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Comedy Night @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

DJ Boyshapedbox spins at the popular cubs, chubs, treats and grooves night. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Bear Happy Hour @ Midnight Sun

Weekly live piano and open mic night with Dee Spencer. 4pm-8pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Hairy men and their pals enjoy 2-for-1 drinks and no cover. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG

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

Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Parties at the fascinating spacious nature and science exhibits; July 11 includes a live show with Men I Trust, DJ Popscene, art installation by Maggie West, craft workshops and more. $12-$15. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; third is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Creature @ The Stud Moonchild theme at the dance party with DJ Tr4Vi3z. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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Dee’s Keys @ Beaux

The Queer Wave 80s synth pop night features guest-DJ Dangerous Dan, plus Xander and Tomas Diablo. Partial proceeds benefit the AIDS Walk. $8-$15. 9:30pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

The popular two-stepping line-dancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons. $5. 6:30pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays 5pm-10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Rock bands play at the famed leather bar. July 11: War Bison and Old Grandad. July 18: Latitude, sarah bethe Nelson and Jon Bernson. $8. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Mary Carouba and Regina Stoops share comedic insight in their “Better Than Therapy” tour, with host Lisa Geduldig. $15-$20. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. www.koshercomedy.com www.ashkenaz.com

Boy Division @ Cat Club

Cubcake @ Lone Star Saloon

Culture @ El Rio DJs Olga T, La Niche and M.C. YB play Hip Hop, Salsa, Cumbia and retro grooves. $5. 9pm-1am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Fleetwood Macramé @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley The Fleetwood Mac tribute band performs. $15-$18. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley. www.ashkenaz.com

Friday Nights @ Oakland Museum Early evening weekly parties coordinated with Queer California: Untold Stories, a multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, rare historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11. Free/$15. 5pm-9pm. 1000 Oak St. museumca.org/

Gaymer Night @ SF Eagle

Thu 11 Mary Carouba and Regina Stoops at Comedy Night @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley

Video and board games galore at the famed leather bar. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Hard Fridays @ Qbar DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

John Lloyd Young @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Tony-winning actor-singer (Jersey Boys) returns after five sold-out engagements at the elegant nightclub. $85-$125. 8pm. Also July 13. ($20 food/ drink min.). Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21

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John Lloyd Young @ Feinstein’s

The popular Latin club with gogo guys galore and Latin music. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. club21oakland.com

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Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-along @ Oracle Park

Lips and Lashes Brunch @ Lookout

Petty Theft, Fleetwood Macramé @ Slim’s

The popular Queen biopic is screened at the baseball stadium. $15-$75 (VIP). Cover band Killer Queens play live at 6:30pm; film at 7:30pm. 24 Willie Mays Plaza. www.sfgiants.com/movienight

Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac tribute bands perform classic rock hits. $20. 9pm. 333 11th St. www.slimspresents.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland Banda Los Shakas performs live at the LGBT Latinx night. $10. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. club21oakland.com

Bring It On, Queen! @ Castro Theatre Peaches Christ presents a live drag parody of the hit cheerleader movie, with guest-stars Monét X Change and Bob the Drag Queen, plus Meredeath, Nicki Jiz, Roxy Cotton-Candy, Chaka Corn and more. $20-$140 (VIP meet & greet). 4pm & 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.peacheschrist.com

Sun 14

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley

Lick It @ Powerhouse Enjoy DJ Blackstone’s grooves at host Lance Holman’s tasty relaxed cruisy night. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com

Manimal @ Beaux Gogo-tastic dance night starts off your weekend. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Pete Escovedo @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley Enjoy a Latin Jazz birthday celebration for the veteran musician, with the Minor F Quartet. $40-$44. 8pm. Also July 13. 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. www.thefreight.org

Piano Bar @ Martuni’s Musician extraordinaire Joe Wicht leads tasteful sing-along selections. 5:30-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Safada @ Oasis DJs Kahtuaba, Black Unicorn and guest Pavani, with drag acts Frida Mont, Persia, and Paju Munro. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Uhaul @ Jolene’s The popular women’s dance party returns at the new nightclub, now weekly. 10pm-2am. 2700 16th St. at Harrison. http://jolenessf.com/

Sat 13 Laura Benitez and the Heartache, Timothy O’Neil and Secret Emchy Society. 9pm. 853 Valencia St. https://amnesiathebar.com/

Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, with special guests and great music themes. July 13 is a Janelle Monae tribute, with CoCo Buttah, Amoura Teese, Sassi Fran, Kai Kai Bee Michaels, Frida K-Hole, Piranha, Cassidy LeBlanc, and more! $10-$15. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Furniture, rugs lava lamps and a homey House groove and Ky and Juan Martinez’ monthly event. $5. 9pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Stanley Frank spins. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Sat 13

Dance Party @ White Horse Bar, Oakland

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Groove on wheels at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the “Godfather of Skate.” 7pm-11pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St. at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

(Sub)Mission: Cocktails & Comedy @ The Armory Club Weekly stand-up comedy show in the basement of the SF Armory Club; grab a craft cocktail from the bar upstairs and prepare for a night of laughter with the right amount of kink. Doors open at 6:30. $15, 1799 Mission St., Shows start at 7pm and 9pm. (not wheelchair accessible) https://bit.ly/2IdEVj8.

Monét X Change in Bring It On, Queen! @ Castro Theatre

Saturgay @ Qbar

DJed grooves at the historic East Bay gay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels

Sat 13

Dance night at the popular hip hop and Latin club. $5-$15. 9pm to 3am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Dance Party @ White Horse Bar, Oakland

House Party @ Powerhouse

Bluegrass Night @ Amnesia Bar

Mother @ Oasis

The Playground @ Club BNB, Oakland

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Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

La Vent du Nord @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley Celebrate Bastille Day with the Francophonic folk band. $22-$26. 8pm. 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. www.thefreight.org

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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Mon 15

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland

International Mondays @ Qbar

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Shake It Up @ Port Bar, Oakland DJ Lady Char spins dance grooves; gogo studs, and drink specials, too. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 8232099. www.portbaroakland.com

Stallion @ Midnight Sun DJ Bill Dupp, intimate dance floor, gogo cuties, all in the heart of the Castro. 8pm-2am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Writers With Drinks @ The Makeout Room Host Charlie Jane Anders welcomes storytelling writers Gabby Rivera, Helen Phillips, Sarah Gailey, Troy Jollimore, Natasha Dennerstein and Grace Lavery. $5-$20. 7:30pm. 3225 22nd St. www.makeoutroom.com

Sun 14 Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The popular daytime party, where $10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes. 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Enjoy beer, bears, food and DJed beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities. $15. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beverage Benefit @ The Edge Fundraiser and fun, with proceeds going to local nonprofits. $10. 4pm7pm. 4149 18th St. www.edgesf.com

Big Gay Beer Bust @ The Cinch Benefits and plenty of beer at the historic neighborhood bar. 3pm-7pm. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com

Big Show @ Oasis

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun

Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Carlitos. (Comedy Open Mic 5:30pm). 7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Gigante @ Qbar

Glamamore’s crafts and drag night. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Frisco Robbie spins Latin and Hip-Hop grooves. $5. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Puff Beer Bust @ Pilsner Inn Queer cannabis social with DJ Prince Wolf, a drag show, stoner raffle and Wheel of Pleasure prizes from Good Vibrations. $10. 3pm-6pm. 225 Church St. www.pilsnerinn.com

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Renegade @ Atlas The weekly cruisy semi-private party. 6pm-10pm. $5-$10. Now also Thursdays, 9pm-2am. 415 10th St. www.atlas-sf.com

Top Shelf Classics @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko A muscial tribute to Nat King Cole with the vocal group and their band. ($20 food/drink min.). $35-$65. 5pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Mon 15 International Mondays @ Qbar Enjoy world grooves all night. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Pillows @ Powerhouse

Cabaret Karaoke @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Dick Bright MCs the new karaoke night at the elegant nightclub. $12$15. ($20 food/drink min.). Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Thu 18 Baloney @ Oasis The studly gay male revue returns with SPF 69, new and favorite male burlesque dances and sketches that’ll make you laugh and turn you on, with “Roryography” by Rory Davis, and host Michael Phillis. $35-$70. Thu-Sat 7pm thru July 27. 298 11th St. www.sfbaloney.com

Clint Holmes & Billy Stritch @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The singing duo performs ‘Straighten Up and Fly Right—The Music of Nat “King” Cole’. $50-$70. 8pm. Also July 19 ($20 food/drink min.). Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Flower Piano at Night @ SF Botanical Garden Fifth anniversary series of scheduled and impromptu concerts on a dozen pianos placed outdoors throughout the Garden. Night-time concerts and parties with beer, wine and food trucks July 18-20 ($55), (Daytime events include art exhibits and gift shop; free entry with SF proof of residency. $5-$10 for others. 7:30am-closing.) 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way. www.sfbg.org/

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 Latin beats, Lulu and Jacqueline’s drag show, gogo hotties and a packed crowd. $10-$15. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. www.club21oakland.com

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Vamp @ Beaux

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The popular back patio @ Wild Side West

Women’s night with a sultry vampire theme; goth, red & black, lingerie attire welcome but not required; bondage and BDSM demos, too. DJs Olga T and Jayne Grey. $5-$15. 8pm2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Tue 16 Cock Shot @ Beaux The weeknight party gets going with DJ Chad Bays. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun Weekly fun night of games and cocktails. 8pm-12am. 4067 18th St. midnightsunsf.com

Karaoke Night @ The Stud Sing For Your Life with LaLa and Remi; no cover, plus raffle prize drawings. 8pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Karaoke Cocktails @ Ginger’s The new basement tribute to the old Ginger’s Trois hosts weekly singing fun. 8pm-12am. 86 Hardie Place. https://www.gingers.bar/

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. $5. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Rice Rockettes tenth anniversary show celebrates Asian-Pacific Islander community with drag and performance; hosted by Tita Aida. $15-$50. 4pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Cocktail Time @ Ginger’s Enjoy drinks at the intimate downstairs tribute to the original dive bar. Tue & Wed 6pm-9pm. Thu-Sat 5pm-2am. 86 Hardie Place.

Follies & Dollies @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Weekly drag show at the historic gay bar. 9:30pm-11:30pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Hugh Jackman @ SAP Center, San Jose The film and Broadway actor-singer brings his world tour of songs and stories to the arena. $30-$225. 7pm. 525 W. Santa Clara St.San Jose. www.axs.com

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West

Big Top @ Beaux Enjoy an extra weekend night at the fun Castro nightclub, plus hot local DJs and sexy gogo guys and gals. $8. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.Beauxsf.com

The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

Chest @ Powerhouse

Pan Dulce @ Beaux

Nipple play and bare chest appreciation happy hour 5pm-9pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks at the Hump Day fiesta 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Dirty Musical Sundays @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night, with a bawdy edge; also Mondays and Wednesdays (but not as dirty). 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.bench-and-bar.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio

Thu 18

Clint Holmes & Billy Stritch @ Feinstein’s

Midweek drag rave and vocal open mic, with Dulce de Leche, Rahni Nothingmore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and guests. 10pm. 3158 Mission St. http://www.elriosf.com

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

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Ricky Lee Jones @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley The folk pop fave performs two shows. $44-$55. 8pm. Also July 19. 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. www.thefreight.org

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

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.comt Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

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Cabaret @ SF Playhouse New local production of Kander & Ebb and Masteroff’s classic musical based on the John Van Druten play and stories by Christopher Isherwood, set in Weimar Germany. $35-$125. Tue-Thu & Sun 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 14. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre July 12: The Doors: The Final Cut (7pm) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (9:30). Peaches Christ’s Bring It On, Queen! a drag parody, no movie screening (4pm & 8pm, www.PeachesChrist.com) July 14: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (12pm); Last Year at Marienbad (2:20, 6:45) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2019 Chinese, not the play 4:10, 8:30). July 16 & 17: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (7pm) and The Cockettes (5pm, 8:45). July 18-28: 39th SF Jewish Film Festival. $8-$15. 429 Castro St. http://www.castrotheatre.com/

Hairspray @ Victoria Theatre

Fri 12

Jim James’ photo exhibit @ Strut

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Thu 11 Aunt Charlie’s @ Tenderloin Museum Multimedia exhibit about the historic Tenderloin drag bar; thru Dec 1. July 11, 6pm-9pm, opening reception for Tim Snyder’s Ducal Court portraiture paintings, with drag performances. July 18: screening of Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, the documentary about about Vicki Marlane (7pm). 398 Eddy St. tenderloinmuseum.org

Events @ Manny’s July 11: Farming Hope celebration dinner (6:30pm). July 12: Flipping the table (podcast about food and farming (6:30). 3092 16th St. http:// welcometomannys.com/

Flower Piano @ SF Botanical Garden Fifth anniversary series of scheduled and impromptu concerts on a dozen pianos placed outdoors throughout the Garden. Night-time concerts and parties with beer, wine and food trucks July 18-20 ($55), plus art exhibits and gift shop; free entry with SF proof of residency. $5-$10 for others. 7:30am-closing. 9th Ave at Lincoln Way. www.sfbg.org

Michelle Meow Show @ Commonwealth Club Meow and cohost John Zipperer discuss LGBT issues with different guests. Weekly, 12pm. July 11, Sammie Ablaza Wills, Director of APIENC. 110 Embarcadero. www.commonwealthclub.org

Oddball Films @ Balboa Theater 25th anniversary celebration of the funky film show, with a screening of the documentary, Oddball about founder Stephen Parr. $20. 8pm. 3630 Balboa St. oddballfilms.com

San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Bay Area Parks The company celebrates its 60th anniversary and performs Treasure Island, an update on the classic tale, with a development/greed scandal as the story. Free/$20 donations; at Bay Area locales thru Sept 8. www.sfmt.org

Fri 12 Border People @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle’s new solo show embodies multiple characters based around the U.S./Mexico border wall controversies. $25-$100. Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Bay Area Musicals’ new production of Mark Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan’s toe-tapping Tony-winning musical based on the John Waters film. $35-$100. 8pm. Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm, thru Aug. 11. 2961 16th St. bamsf.org

Jim James @ Strut Opening reception for the photographer’s exhibit of ‘Black and White Nostalgia: Vintage Gay SF” photos from the 1970s – 1990s. 8pm-10pm. Thru July. 470 Castro St. https://photojimsf.com

Kill Move Paradise @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of James Ijames’ modern choral tone poem that imagines an afterlife where the spirits of young Black men try to comprehend how and why they died. $7-$45. Thru Aug. 4. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. www.shotgunplayers.org

Patti LuPone @ Davies Symphony Hall The celebrated Broadway singeractress performs’Don’t Monkey With Broadway,’ a concert of classic musical theatre songs. $40-$200. 7:30pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphony.org

Queer California: Untold Stories @ Oakland Museum Multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11. Friday 5pm LGBT film screenings. July 13, 2pm: Celebrating Stories: Two-Spirits Art and Performance. Also, Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, Ray Troll’s illustrations paired with paleontologist Kirk Johnson’s research. Also, Take Root: Oakland Grows Food and more. Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org/

Shortlived VIII @ PianoFight PianoFight and A.C.T. present the nation’s largest audience-judged theater competition, with multiple short plays performed over several weeks. $20; thru Aug. 10 (Finals at the Strand Theater Sept 7 & 8). 144 Taylor St. www.PianoFight.com

Sat 13 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

Fri 12

Patti LuPone @ Davies Symphony Hall

The musical comedy revue with fun lineup of political/pop culture icons in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/ wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. Wed-Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm & 9pm. Sun 2pm & 5pm. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. (Green St.). 421-4222. beachblanketbabylon.com

Big, The Musical @ Berkeley Playhouse

That Don Reed Show @ The Marsh Berkeley

Local production of John Weidman, David Shire and Richard Maltby’s musical adpatation of the hit Tom Hanks film about a kid who magically becomes an adult (on the outside). $20-$40. Thu-Sun thru July 28. Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Avenue, Berkeley. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

The local actor-playwright’s solo show combines autobiographical storytelling, improv and comedy. $20-$100. 8:30pm. Also 5:30pm Sundays, thru July 21. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org

Comic Exhibits @ Cartoon Art Museum

AIDS Walk @ Golden Gate Park

Surfside Girls, original work from book illustrator Kim Dwinell; other ongoing exhibits. Free-$10. 11am5pm, except Wed. 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.org

Ethnic Dance Festival @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley 41st annual series of dance concerts performed by 28 local and international ethnic dance and music companies. $28-$78. Sat & Sun 3pm thru July 14. UC Berkeley campus. www.sfethnicedancefestival.org

Living History Discussion @ American Bookbinders Museum SF LGBTQ+ Journalism in the Early Days of HIV/AIDS, a talk with veteran journalist Randy Alfred. $10. 1pm. 355 Clementina St. www.bookbindersmuseum.com

Kiss My Aztec! @ Berkeley Rep John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone’s hilarious multi-genre musical comedy about woke Aztecs taking on Spanish invaders. $35-$115. Thru July 14. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

LGBTQ Histories from the WWII Home Front @ Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center, Richmond Park indoor exhibit that showcases the lives of historic LGBT people. Open daily 10am-5pm. 1414 Harbour Way South, Suite 3000, Richmond. www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm

Sun 14 Annual fundraiser for various AIDS/ HIV nonprofits. Enter at JFK Drive at Oak/Fell. 8pm-2pm. sf.aidswalk.net

Expedition Reef @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth; Skin, a multi-species hands-on exhibit; Deep Reefs, Giants of Land and Sea, Gems and Minerals, and more. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. calacademy.org

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Stringquake @ Old First Church The harp, cello and percussion trio performs traditionla and classical chamber works, plus jazz, Latin and Indian music. $5-$25. 4pm. 1751 Sacramento St. oldfirstconcerts.org

Tattoos in Japanese Prints @ Asian Art Museum Tattoos in Japanese Prints and The Bold Brush of Au Ho-Nein, both thru Aug. 18; also, Contemporary works by Kim Heecheon and Liu Jianhua; exhibits of sculpture and antiquities. Free-$20. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. http://www.asianart.org/

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Sat 13 Ethnic Dance Festival @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Arts Events

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Then They Came For Me @ Futures Without Violence Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties, a touring multimedia exhibit documenting the terrifying period in U.S. history when the government imprisoned thousands of people of Japanese ancestry, including photographs by Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Free. WedSun 10am-6pm. 100 Montgomery St. https://thentheycame.org/

Mon 15 Chosen Familias @ GLBT History Museum Chosen Familias: Bay Area LGBTQ Latinx Stories. Also, The Mayor of Folsom Street: Alan Selby’s Legacy.$5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Queer as German Folk @ SF Public Library Exhibit of ephemera and artifacts about Stonewall rebellion commemorations in Germany and worldwide; films series Thursdays in August; additional exhibit also at Eureka Valley branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th; both thru Sept 26. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Show Me as I Want to Be Seen @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist, Surrealist, and activist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892–1972), thru July 7; In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Oxossi Ayofemi and Risa Wechsler, thru July. Free/$17. 736 Mission St. https://thecjm.org/

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Andy Warhol @ SF MOMA Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, a new exhibition of the iconic pop artist’s works, the first retrospective in 25 years; thru Sept 2. Also, The Chronicles of San Francisco, photo-muralist JR’s interactive community giant group portrait; other exhibits of Modern art. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-5pm; Thu 10am-9pm. 151 3rd St. sfmoma.org

Perfectly Queer @ Dog Eared Books The B Stands for Bi, with awardwinning author Meg Elison and poets Jan Steckel and Michael Harris; with cohosts Wayne Goodman and Richard May. 7pm. 489 Castro St. dogearedbooks.com

Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez @ Sanchez Contemporary Gallery, Oakland Exhibit of the artist’s portraits of Puerto Rican Resilience. 1951 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.sanchezcontemporary.com

Sketch 9: Perspective @ ODC Theater New dance works by eight dancers of Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. $10-$30. 8pm. Thru July 20. 3153 17th St. www.asimagery.org

Stonewall: 50 Years @ Harvey Milk Photo Center

Coffee, Rhum, Sugar and Gold: A Post-Colonial Paradox @ MOAD Exhibit of works that explore the legacy of European colonialism in the Caribbean through the work of 10 contemporary artists. Free/$10. Wed-Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm5pm. Thru Aug 11. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

Exclusion @ Presidio Officers Club Exhibit documenting the Presidio’s Japanese-American incarceration during World War II; other exhibits show the history of the former military base and the SF peninsula. Free, Tue-Sun 10am-5pm; extended thru June 2020. 50 Maraga Ave. www.presidio.gov/officers-club/ exhibitions/

Fifth anniversary series of scheduled and impromptu concerts on a dozen pianos placed outdoors throughout the Garden. Night-time concerts and parties with beer, wine and food trucks July 18-20 ($55), (Daytime events include art exhibits and gift shop; free entry with SF proof of residency. $5-$10 for others. 7:30am-closing.) 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way. www.sfbg.org/

A Great Ride: Adventures in Lesbian Aging @ GLBT History Museum Screening of Deborah Craig’s documentary, part of the Chosen Familias exhibit. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Group exhibit of LGBT photography focusing on Pride events. Thru July 21. Reg. hours Tue-Thu 3pm9:30pm. Sat 10am-5:300pm, Sun 11am-5:30pm. 50 Scott St. http://harveymilkphotocenter.org

Wed 17

Flower Piano at Night @ SF Botanical Garden

The Matthew Shepard Story @ SF Main Library

Thu 18 A Great Ride: Adventures in Lesbian Aging @ GLBT History Museum

Thu 18 Early Rubens @ Legion of Honor Exhibit of epic massive paintings of biblical and mythical subjects by Peter Paul Rubens; Thru Sept. 8. Also, Small Inventions: Artist’s Books by Charles Hobson (thru July 14) and other exhibits of classical and modern art. Free/$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. www.legionofhonor.famsf.org

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Staged dramatic reading adapted by Out West producer Gregory Hinton from a Wyoming State Archives oral history project for the University of Wyoming Matthew Shepard 20th Anniversary Remembrance. 6pm. James C. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Various Events @ Oakland LGBTQ Center Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops, including Bruthas Rising, trans men of color meetings, 4th Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Film screenings, 4th Saturdays, 7:30pm. Game nights, Fridays 7:30pm-11pm. Vogue sessions, first Saturdays. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. https:// www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/t To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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July 11-17, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 31

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GameBoi SF @ Rickshaw Stop G

ameBoi SF’s monthly party, held at The Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell St.), drew fewer attendees than usual on July 6, due to the holiday weekend. But the Asian gays and pals night still brought K-pop and other genres played by DJ Larock. The dance party is now twice monthly: first Saturdays at Rickshaw Stop and third Saturdays at Origin Nightclub (1538 Fillmore St). www.facebook.com/GAMeBoiSF/ www.rickshawstop.com https://originsf.com/ See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.

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