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Int’l AIDS confab highlights human rights, prevention

CA Dems neutral on Prop 19

by Liz Highleyman ore than 20,000 researchers, public health and policy experts, clinicians, activists, and world leaders gathered in Vienna, Austria, this week for the 18th International AIDS Conference, the world’s largest meeting devoted to the epidemic. Human rights of people living with and at risk for HIV have been a key theme this year, along with the need for more funding to expand prevention and treatment.

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Shrinking budgets We are “nowhere near delivery” on the 2005 commitment by the G8 countries to adequately fund treatment by 2010, said conference co-chair and International AIDS Society President Julio Montaner. The number of people with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) worldwide increased by 25 percent last year, to just over 5 million, but 10 million require treatment, according to the latest epidemiological figures.

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any California Democrats are supportive of a November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana even as state party leaders voted to remain neutral on the measure. Proposition 19 San Francisco – the Regulate, Democratic Party Control and Tax Chair Aaron Peskin Cannabis Act of 2010 – would regulate marijuana in a way similar to alcohol, allowing people 21 and over to pos-

Activists take over the stage during the opening ceremonies of the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna Sunday, July 18.

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ollowing a grueling last-minute push, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission won consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council on July 19. After three years of opposition at the committee level, IGLHRC, with a strong assist from the U.S. government, managed to circumvent the obstructionist committee by moving the decision on its status Cary Alan Johnson directly to the full ECOSOC, where the vote was 23-13. There were 13 abstentions and five absences. IGLHRC becomes the 10th LGBT organization to have successfully outgunned U.N. homophobes and achieved consultative status. “Today’s decision is an affirmation that the voices of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people have a place at the United Nations as a part of a vital civil society community,” Cary Alan Johnson, IGLHRC’s executive director, said in a statement hailing the vote. Of its long-running battle at the committee level, IGLHRC said: “Despite full compliance with all procedures, IGLHRC faced deferrals, homophobic questioning, and procedural roadblocks in the

t has been years since gay men cruised Ringold Alley in San Francisco’s South of Market District for sex late at night. But that infamous past for the short stretch of street could be recalled under a project being pursued by transit and city planners. The San Francisco County Transportation Authority is seeking the public’s input on what types of small-scale street modifications they would like to see made to the alley, which runs between 8th and 9th streets half a block from Harrison Street. It is part of a push to reanimate SOMA’s forgotten, seedy alleyways into vibrant, safe corridors for residents. In conjunction with the streetscape changes, backers of designating parts of western SOMA as an LGBTQ social heritage district would like to see Ringold Alley’s historical role in the city’s gay community be incorporated into the project. Ideas stem from laying historical markers along the street to referencing the leather lifestyle, which is centered in SOMA, in the designs for new streetlamps and paving. “One of the things already proposed was a historical walking path with a series of plaques recognizing historic sites. Ringold would be included in that,” said Jim Meko, a gay man who chairs the Western SOMA Citizens Planning Task Force, which is overseeing development of the new zoning changes for the area. Meko also is running for supervisor in District 6, which includes SOMA. Prior to the AIDS crisis, the out-of-the-way alley served as the go-to place to have sex after the numerous gay bars along Folsom Street – then known as the “Miracle Mile” – closed for the night. Most major cities had an area dubbed a “merry-go-round,” a sort of outdoor sexual market where gay and closeted men would gather to engage in public sex. “When you would go to a new city the thing to do is get on the highest parcel of ground and

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look down. When you would see an area that had car lights forming a circular path at two in the morning, you had found the gay area of the city,” said Meko. “In San Francisco it was Ringold Alley.” Up until the 1990s the alley continued to play a major role in San Francisco’s leather and gay SOMA scenes. Sunday’s (July 25) outdoor fetish festival known as the Up Your Alley Fair began 25 years ago in 1985 as the Ringold Alley Fair. “Nocturnal bliss was transformed into a daytime celebration – a community coming out fully into the open and taking over a public space to demonstrate not only its erotic pleasures but also its united strength (and sense of humor) in helping each other in face of a crisis,” states a written history about the event posted to the Folsom Street Events website. Following its second year, though, the fair’s

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growing popularity forced organizers to relocate it. The event moved to Dore Alley and Folsom in 1987. “Ringold is a residential ally, and the neighbors, while tolerating dead-in-the-night activity, did not take kindly to this sudden explosion of leather and fetish men and women on their street. They successfully petitioned the city and the SFPD to rescind the granting of a license for a third year,” states the fair’s online history. The advent of the Internet, and with it, men’s ability to find anonymous sex partners online, made Ringold Alley obsolete. Today the one-way street is hardly a site to behold. Its buildings are a mix of residential and light industrial spaces. Its sidewalks are often pockmarked with dog poop, and the only routine traffic it receives is from people patronizing a car

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AIDS Walk raises $3M eturning participants of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s AIDS Walk and San Bruno Target employees Leticia Banatao, Lourdas Hill, and Ligaya Gregorio start their 6.2 miles in celebration at Golden Gate Park Sunday, July 18. The walk raised just over $3 million this year. Of that, 59 Bay Area HIV/AIDS organizations received grants ranging between $1,000 and $7,000. SFAF interim CEO Barbara Kimport said in a statement that since 2008, every penny raised has been spent in the Bay Area.

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PR man, activist Robert Polzoni dies by Cynthia Laird ongtime public relations professional and equal rights activist Robert Polzoni died unexpectedly on Sunday, July 18 in his San Francisco home. He was 60. Friends said that Mr. Polzoni died from a bronchial infection caused by emphysema. Mr. Polzoni was a proud native San Franciscan. He graduated from San Jose State University in the early 1970s with a major in marketing communications. In his professional life, Mr. Polzoni worked in public relations capacities at large companies and PR firms. He was director of corporate communications for Catholic Healthcare West, and was instrumental in connecting CHW with the San Francisco Giants, which resulted in the building of a sports medicine clinic inside AT&T Park. One of his favorite annual activities was to go to the Giants spring training in Arizona with his friends from CHW. But Mr. Polzoni will mostly be remembered for his activism, which began in the early 1970s. He served as a Gary Hart delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. His political passion, LGBT activism, and professional life came together during the AIDS crisis, where he served on the communications committee for the Names Project’s first national tour of the quilt in 1988. His national LGBT advocacy work continued for the next 20 years, culminating in 2009 when he served as

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co-communications director for the National Equality March in Washington, D.C., where he was inspired by, and was an inspiration to, a new generation of young activists. Cleve Jones, who founded the AIDS memorial quilt and called for last year’s National Equality March, said Mr. Polzoni would be missed. “He was a great help to me with the Names Project and more recently with the National Equality March,” Jones said Monday as news of Mr. Polzoni’s death spread via Facebook. At the time of his death he ran his own PR company EQ Squared. Earlier this year, Mr. Polzoni offered his assistance to the new grassroots group GetEqual. Activist Robin McGehee, one of the leaders of that group, tweeted that GetEqual’s demonstration in Las Vegas Tuesday was dedicated to Mr. Polzoni. The group briefly shut down major streets during the afternoon protest, held to urge Senate Majority Leader Reid (DNevada) to call for a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. “Today is for Bob Polzoni – a man who just wanted to GetEqual,” McGehee tweeted. Nine people, including McGehee and Lieutenant Dan Choi, were arrested during the protest. Most recently, Mr. Polzoni was working on Rafael Mandelman’s District 8 supervisor campaign. He saw Mandelman as the candidate who most embodies the politics of the late Harvey Milk. “Bob Polzoni was an inspiration to

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generations of LGBT activists,” Mandelman said in an e-mail. “He was fully committed to a vision of a queer movement that stood up for all people, and he was relentless in his opposition to queer passivity. We were honored to have him as an integral part of our campaign, and we will miss him terribly.” Passionate and opinionated, complicated and crusty, Mr. Polzoni leaves behind throngs of friends who he deeply touched, and who are proud to have known him. Mr. Polzoni is survived by his mother, Evelyn Polzoni of Daly City, and his San Francisco family including Bobby Meadows and Gene Davis, and Ron Chraft and Aaron Percefull. Mandelman said people could meet at 18th and Castro Friday, July 23 at 7 p.m. for an impromptu memorial. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date. People can be updated on the date and time by becoming a friend on his memorial Facebook page, Honoring Bob Polzoni. Please send any donations in his name to any progressive charity of your choice.▼

HIV/AIDS funding restored in SF budget by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday, July 20 to pass a $6.5 billion budget that includes a total of more than $1 million to restore funding related to HIV/AIDS and youth. Supervisor Bevan Dufty said that the full amount of funding for HIV/AIDS housing rent subsidies was restored at about $560,000. People living with HIV had lobbied City Hall to restore the funding. Mission Bay resident Arye Bender, who is in his 60s, has been HIV-positive since 1992 without being diagnosed with AIDS. The discipline of sticking to his medications has been crucial, and Bender, whose income is the $812 a month he gets from Social Security, indicated the rental subsidies have helped him be successful. “A large part of that discipline is having stable, clean housing, because without housing, if you don’t have a roof over your head or don’t know where you’re going to be sleeping, it would be impossible, at least for me ... ,” said Ben-

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der in a phone interview before the restorations were certain. The subsidy covers more than $600 of his rent each month. He said he believes his rent is $875. There was also a restoration of about $500,000 for core services related to youth. Dufty said supervisors aren’t permitted to add back money for specific agencies, but groups in the city that work with LGBT youths and young adults “probably have one of the strongest partnerships in the city.” One of the agencies in that partnership is the San Francisco LGBT

Community Center. People at the center had been concerned in recent weeks about the assistance they provide, such as meals for youths and links to employment services, being at risk. Executive Director Rebecca Rolfe said Wednesday morning that she and others didn’t yet know what the exact impact on each agency would be. However, said Rolfe, “We are so thrilled at the leadership provided by the Board of Supervisors in making this happen. It certainly looked for a long time like services for not just LGBT youth, but the entire city, were going to be drastically reduced.” Dufty noted that many youth had come to City Hall to testify during the budget process, and said there was “a lot of frustration, but we want these young people to feel empowered.” Supervisor Chris Daly voted against passing the budget. He indicated that he supported the restorations but he said there’s been vote trading with the mayor’s office over charter amendments “and I’m not down with that.” The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment. The final budget vote is set for next week.▼

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SFPD still needs help in Pink Saturday shooting ith apparently no new leads and no arrest in the murder of a young San Francisco man, police are continuing to seek the public’s help as the investigation into the Pink Saturday shooting goes on. Pink Saturday, held June 26 the night before the Pride Parade, had otherwise gone relatively smoothly this year. But at 11:30 p.m., shots were fired near the Chevron at Castro and Market, killing 19-year-old Stephen Powell and injuring two bystanders. Lieutenant Lyn Tomioka, a San Francisco police spokeswoman, said this week the case is “still very active,” although police aren’t releasing any updates. But she indicated more help is needed. “Homicide is always the top priority, and so they will continue to investigate this very aggressively,” she said. “We do understand it was probably an isolated incident, but there’s still a lot of work, and we’re still encouraging the public to come forward, because we did not get a very positive response.” She said, “We do believe there are several witnesses” to the shooting, which occurred amid thousands of people. San Francisco Police Sergeant Troy Dangerfield previously confirmed that Ed Perkins, 20, of San Francisco, was apprehended minutes after the shooting. Initially, Perkins was charged with murder; but those charges were changed to weapons possession when it was discovered that none of the shots fired matched the concealed and loaded .357 caliber revolver that the district attorney’s office says Perkins brought to Pink Saturday.

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According to the DA’s office, Perkins has pleaded guilty to one count related to being in possession of a loaded handgun not registered to him. He will be sentenced on August 4 to nine months in county jail and five years probation. As of Monday, July 19, he remained in custody pending sentencing, Erica Derryck, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Kamala Harris, said in an e-mail. A vigil was held June 28 for Powell at 3rd and Quesada, just a few blocks from an area covered by a city attorney’s office injunction against a gang that operates around a Bayview housing development. The vigil was interrupted by a drive-by shooting that injured two mourners. Tomioka said this week that the investigation into that case also remains active.

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Greg Corrales, who oversees Mission Station, which includes the Castro, remains supportive of Pink Saturday. The event is organized by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and is not an official Pride event. Asked if he was concerned about Pink Saturday continuing, Corrales said, “No, I think the shooting was an aberration.” He said with the exception of the shooting, it was “a very successful event.” However, Corrales said he is concerned “we’re starting to get outsiders. We don’t want this to become another Halloween.” Corrales was referring to the annual celebration in the Castro. Ten

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It’s time for an openly gay justice not take away any rights from same-sex couast week California Supreme Court Chief ples, but rather, it restricts usage of the word Justice Ronald George announced that “marriage” from being applied to committed he is stepping down from the bench, givLGBT relationships. ing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger an opHowever, the court also found that the portunity to appoint a new chief justice. On measure was not retroactive, and therefore, Wednesday morning, the Sacramento unanimously ruled that the 18,000 sameBee reported that the governor will sex marriages that took place in 2008 nominate Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a were valid. Republican appellate court justice with a reputation as a moderate. Changing times Cantil-Sakauye is from Sacramento and previously worked as a In the years since George was approsecutor and superior court judge. She pointed, many more women and miwould be the state’s first Filipina American norities have been named to courts chief justice. The Los Angeles Times across the state. The reality, however, is that there aren’t many reported that she is married to a E DITORIAL (any?) openly LGBT judges at the Sacramento police lieutenant. The state appeal court level or federal paper also noted that the state’s appeal court level – traditional avenues to the highest court would have a female majority for state’s highest court. the first time in its history. In an article in the legal newspaper the The governor’s nomination becomes effective when the candidate is confirmed by the Recorder last week about possible high court Commission on Judicial Appointments, which nominees, San Diego County District Attorhappens to include state Attorney General ney Bonnie Dumanis was mentioned. She is an Jerry Brown, the Democratic nominee for govout lesbian (though the Recorder neglected to ernor. If confirmed (which is expected) Cantilmention that) who served as a municipal court Sakauye will then stand for election on November 2; and if she receives a majority vote, she will serve a 12-year term, beginning in January. While we have no doubt that CantilSakauye is qualified – George named her to head a Judicial Council committee charged with overseeing the operations of the Administrative Office of the Courts, which runs the court system – we’re disappointed that an openly LGBT person wasn’t nominated. It’s long past time for an out LGBT person to be named to the state’s highest court. George has had a long and distinguished career. A judge for 38 years, he was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Governor Pete Wilson in 1991. George will be remembered as the author of the May 2008 decision that briefly legalized same-sex marriage in California. That 4-3 decision stated, “... an individual’s sexual orientation – like a person’s race or gender – does not constitute a legitimate basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights.” Of course, George is also known for his decision a year later that upheld Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban. In that 6-1 ruling, the court determined that Prop 8 does

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judge for four years before being elected to superior court. She was elected district attorney in 2002 and re-elected four years later. We can change the dearth of out LGBT judges by electing more of them to superior courts. Starting out at the local level, it would only be a matter of time before some of these judges are appointed to higher courts. In the Bay Area this November, voters in San Francisco and Alameda counties have a chance to elect two qualified candidates whom the Bay Area Reporter has already endorsed – Michael Nava in San Francisco and Victoria Kolakowski in Alameda. Out lesbian Linda Colfax won her San Francisco judicial race in June and will take office in January. Brown made history when he appointed the late Herb Donaldson to San Francisco Municipal Court in 1983. Donaldson was believed to be the first openly gay male judge named to the bench. If Brown is elected governor again, he would have the opportunity to appoint more qualified out LGBT judges. Schwarzenegger has a dismal record in that regard, having appointed only two out gay judges during his tenure.▼

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Help end anti-gay discrimination sexual jokes and lewd remarks. Some even reportedly viewed straight pornography at work. Alcatraz Cruises’ management either looked the other way or participated directly in the he movement for LGBTIQQ equality is sexual banter. Atos also occasionally chimed in making real progress. Congress is finalwith his own gay jokes. The company inexly set to pass an Employment Non-Displicably characterized Atos’s remarks as sexucrimination Act inclusive of gender identity, al harassment, while ignoring the crude and and the House of Representatives recently lewd conduct of straight workers and manvoted to phase out “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Deagers. This disparate treatment amounts to spite this progress, many LGBTIQQ people anti-gay discrimination. continue to experience discrimination and A coalition of LGBT groups are backing hostility in the workplace, even in San FranAtos and demanding justice from Hornblowcisco. Such discrimination is often er/Alcatraz Cruises, including Pride at Work masked by innuendo and subterfuge. and the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. A good example is the problem at San Francisco’s Human Rights ComAlcatraz Cruises, which fired one of its mission is now investigating Atos’s most popular deckhands, Vincent case, but it will take a while and its Atos, for alleged sexual harassment. powers are limited. The HRC is an Atos is a gay, Filipino union important body that deserves supporter. After working as a our support, but we can’t depend deckhand for three years in an G UEST O PINION on it alone. environment known for salty The same is true for the Nalanguage, Atos was summarily tional Labor Relations Board, the dismissed. He was fired after he began talking federal agency that’s also investigating Atos’s to his co-workers not about sex – but about orcase. However, the NLRB is notoriously slow ganizing a union to improve their working and often ineffective when it comes to holding conditions. employers accountable for violating workers’ Alcatraz Cruises – a subsidiary of Hornrights. The NLRB previously investigated blower – fired Atos even though his co-workcharges that Hornblower/Alcatraz Cruises had ers voted him “Employee of the Year” in 2007. violated workers’ rights, but the company got The company says Atos was harassing the same off with a settlement that amounted to little co-workers who previously had honored him. more than a slap on the wrist. What really happened, according to Atos, is San Francisco’s Democratic County Central that he dared to speak up for the majority of Committee and the San Francisco Labor his co-workers who want a union at Alcatraz Council has gone on record supporting Atos, Cruises. Because it is illegal to retaliate against and every member of San Francisco’s Board of an employee for union activity, the company Supervisors has urged that Hornblowneeded a pretext to fire Atos. er/Alcatraz Cruises respect the right of emThe company found its pretext in Atos’s ployees to form a union. Our state legislators, other “sin”: being openly gay. He didn’t flaunt Tom Ammiano, Mark Leno, and Fiona Ma it, but he didn’t hide it either. In the waterfront have done the same, and Mayor Gavin Newworld where Atos was employed, his heterosom’s office has been monitoring Atos’s case. sexual co-workers weren’t shy about sharing Hornblower’s contracts with the National

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Meg’s bucks buying ad time

Pride brunch a success

I’m watching the morning news last week, and the broken record of Meg Whitman’s smear ad against Jerry Brown came on. This ad disgusts me so much that I immediately changed the channel. But there she was again on channels 2, 5, 7, and 11. All at the same time: every local channel. Well here’s news for you Queen Meg: If you buy the state of California like Arnold Schwarzenegger did; your approval ratings will surely match his. And you’ll never take San Francisco. The Terminator is dead. What now? “Long live the Queen?” God save us.

SF Pride 2010 is behind us and we’d like to extend sincere thanks to everyone who helped raise more than $17,000 at the 12th annual Pride brunch for Positive Resource Center. Our 300 guests were delighted with the heartfelt words by Lifetime Achievement grand marshal James Hormel and celebrity grand marshal Andy Bell of Erasure, as well as the gravity-defying performance by organizational grand marshal Cheer SF! Special thanks to our lead sponsors: Sterling Bank and Trust/The Seligman Family Foundation, and the Bob Ross Foundation. And cheers to our Color Guard sponsors: 440 Castro, the Edge, Community Thrift Store, Kent Roger, and Mark Irwin Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP. San Francisco We’re indebted to the loyal support of the M AILSTROM many Editorial misses point hosts and volunteers, elected officials in attendance, the Hotel Whitcomb staff, the Dix“We lose If Whitman wins” [Editorial, ieland Dykes + 3 band, Ingu Yun/Sundance Association, July 18] sets a new (low) standard of unsupported opinion Barefoot Winery, Michael Daniels/Stolichnaya, Tommy Taypieces – it doesn’t contain any direct evidence that Whitlor, Terry and Ben Penn, Ixia, Michael Loftis, Clubcard Printman holds anti-LGBT views. “We all know that Whitman ing, and the generous donors to our raffle and auction. is not an ally of the LGBT community” is stated without Photographer Rick Camargo captured the color and spirany supporting quotations from Whitman or her camit of the benefit beautifully and photos may be viewed or paign. Implying that her libertarian views on environpurchased at www.camargophoto.com (click “view your mental laws and laying off state workers automatically photos” and search for Pride Brunch). means she’s anti-LGBT strains logic and reason. Half the Forty years of SF Pride, 12 years of Pride brunches, and editorial instead criticizes Jerry Brown who by the way, acimmeasurable dedication by the Positive Resource Center cording to sfgate.com, agrees with Whitman on her imstaff providing benefits counseling and employment services migration stances (for which Whitman is taking some for people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area – a winGOP heat). Next time, please provide anti-LGBT facts in ning combination! your anti-Whitman editorials rather than just bemoaning Thanks again and we’ll see you next year. Brown’s lackluster campaign. David Ochroch San Francisco

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Exposé at Oakland Pride dance benefit Oakland Pride organizers are gearing up for the return of the Labor Day LGBT festival and in an effort to raise funds for the event, a “Club ‘80s Party” is taking place Friday, July 30 featuring a live performance by 1980s hit-maker Exposé. This live performance, taking place at Club 21, 2111 Franklin

daylong street festival returns after an absence of several years. On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council passed a resolution designating September 5 as “Oakland Pride Day.” Pride Co-Chair Amber Todd said that despite recent media portrayals of Oakland as a violent city, “it still rings true that Oakland is a beautiful place to live and arguably, the most

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Reportback from Cuba The Freedom Socialist Party will hear a reportback on Cuba at its meeting Saturday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m. Multicultural educator and Marxist theoretician Bob Price will give a talk entitled, “Cuba: Balanced on a Razor’s Edge. “While Cuba has free quality education and health care, and the lowest illiteracy and infant mortality rates in Latin America, Price will discuss whether the revolution can endure. The event takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202 in San Francisco. There will be a roast pork dinner (with vegetarian option) available at 6 p.m. for $9 per person (work exchanges and a sliding scale are available). For more information or child care, contact (415) 864-1278 or bafsp@earthlink.net.

Homebuying seminar for LGBTs One Hawthorne, San Francisco’s newest luxury condominium tower, will host a free LGBT homebuying seminar and reception Wednesday, July 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the One Hawthorne sales and design center, 645 Howard Street (at Hawthorne) in San Francisco. One of those presenting will be Alma Soongi Beck, a Bay Area attorney specializing in property taxes and titling issues that affect co-ownership of property for unmarried and same-sex couples. Lender representatives from First Republic and Met Life also will be on hand. Topics to be addressed include new tax laws impacting domestic and same-sex married partners, and unmarried co-owners; practical hints for navigating property co-ownership issues; importance of agreements and revocable trusts for samesex and unmarried co-owners; and the benefits of home ownership. Space is limited. Reservations are suggested and can be made by calling (415) 227-0888.

HPPC seeking new members The membership committee of the HIV Prevention Planning Council has started its annual effort to recruit new council members. This year’s recruitment effort dif-

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onstance McMillen, the Mississippi teenager who sued after her high school canceled its prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend, will be paid $35,000 from the Itawamba County School District as part of a judgment entered against it, the American Civil Liberties Union LGBT Project announced this week. The agreement ends a precedentsetting lawsuit brought by the ACLU on McMillen’s behalf. The young woman suffered humiliation and harassment after parents, students, and Constance McMillen school officials executed a plan to put on a “decoy” prom for her while the rest of her classmates were at a priStreet, will feature members of the vate prom 30 miles away. original group, Ann Curless, Jeanette As set forth in court documents, Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, performing school officials also agreed to impletheir hits like “Come Go With Me,” ment a policy banning discrimina“Point of No Return,” and “Let Me tion or harassment on the basis of Be the One.” sexual orientation and gender identiDoors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are ty, the first policy to do so at a public on sale now for $30 ($35 at the school in the state of Mississippi. In door). VIP passes are available for addition to the money awarded to $100 and include a meet and greet McMillen, the school also agreed to with Expose and the chance to take a pay her attorneys’ fees. photo and get an autograph. For VIP An earlier ruling in the case set an tickets, e-mail rosadopedro@aol.com important precedent that will help and write “VIP Expose” in the subprevent other students from sufject line. General admission tickets fering the kind of disare on sale at crimination McMillen www.brownpapertickets.com experienced. In (search for “Expose Live PerMarch, the U.S. Disformance”). trict Court for the No one under 21 years Northern District of Misold will be admitted. sissippi issued a ruling In other Oakland in McMillen’s case Pride news, organizers N EWS B RIEFS that school officials have announced that violated her First base prices of exhibitor Amendment rights when it canceled booth space categories have been rethe prom. duced 20 percent to 25 percent. For her part, McMillen said she is There are also discounts for busiglad the case is over. nesses and organizations located in “I won’t ever get my prom back, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. but it’s worth it if it changes things at For more information, contact exmy school,” she said in a statement. hibitor@oaklandpride.org or (415) The case is Constance McMillen v. 389-1515. Itawamba County School District, et Oakland Pride takes place Sunal. More information is available at day, September 5 in the city’s bustling www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights/fulton-msUptown District, on Franklin Street prom-discrimination. between 19th and 20th streets. The

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Former AIDS czar pulls support of Walker in D6 by Matthew S. Bajko ormer San Francisco AIDS czar Jeff Sheehy has pulled his support from Debra Walker in the District 6 supervisor race due to her answers on a questionnaire for candidates taking part in an HIV forum this week. Sheehy told the Bay Area Reporter that he was “totally disappointed” in seeing Walker demonstrate a lack of knowledge about HIV issues and the disease itself in the responses she gave to the questions posed by various AIDS agencies hosting the meeting Friday, July 23. “It just is really disappointing to see someone endorsed from our community who doesn’t have the foggiest idea about HIV or AIDS,” said Sheehy, who is HIV-positive and once served as Mayor Gavin Newsom’s adviser on HIV and AIDS policy. “I was just stunned.” In particular, Sheehy pointed to Walker referring to HIV as a communicable disease rather than a lifethreatening illness and her not mentioning anything about the transgender community, which has been hit particularly hard by the AIDS epidemic, in her responses. “She doesn’t know the difference between HIV and tuberculosis. TB is a communicable disease,” said Sheehy. “We P OLITICAL quarantine people for TB because it is an airborne disease. You can be sitting on the bus and be exposed to TB from someone who has it. HIV is very hard to catch.” According to a copy of her questionnaire provided to the B.A.R. by the forum organizers, when asked if HIV is “a life-threatening chronic manageable illness or a communicable disease such as tuberculosis,” Walker chose the latter. “HIV/AIDS is a communicable disease and until we find a cure, it is critical that we dedicate the necessary funding to preventive efforts to limit the spread,” Walker initially wrote. In a second questionnaire marked “final,” Walker revised her answer somewhat. “TB is an airborne communicable disease that generally requires quarantine and is curable with treatment. HIV/AIDS is a communicable disease that is spread via body fluids, and does not require quarantine,” wrote Walker, an out lesbian who is an artist. “At this time there is not a cure for AIDS but the symptoms of the disease can be mitigated with treatment.” Sheehy, who had not formally endorsed Walker but was supporting her campaign, was also critical of her other responses on the questionnaire, saying that there is “nothing in there.” When asked to list her three top priorities, Walker wrote that her number one concern is public safety followed by sustainable development and tenants. Asked specifically where HIV issues are on her list of priorities, Walker responded that it would be “a key priority.” Asked about Sheehy’s criticism of her responses, Walker said she was surprised to hear that he was upset with her answers. “It is a communicable disease that is spread from person to person. I don’t know why he doesn’t think that is true,” said Walker, adding that she has long been an advocate of HIV issues. “If that isn’t true, I am not aware of it. Are you?” Last summer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV from the list of communicable diseases that would prevent people entry to the United States. In the rule change posted to the

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Federal Register July 2, 2009, the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services wrote, “While HIV infection is a serious health condition, it does not represent a communicable disease that is a significant threat for introduction, transmission, and spread to the U.S. population through casual contact.” The other leading candidates in the District 6 race – school board president Jane Kim, Human Rights Commission Executive Director Theresa Sparks, gay businessman Jim Meko, and Glendon Hyde, also known as drag queen Anna Conda – either called HIV a chronic illness or N OTEBOOK both a communicable disease and a manageable life-threatening illness.

AIDS agencies look to sway supe races Billed as a listening session, Friday’s AIDSVoteSF forum is being hosted by a variety of AIDS agencies and advocates, as well as openly gay state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). It is believed to be the first time that HIV-positive individuals have hosted a forum about their needs and concerns with candidates running for supervisor in San Francisco. “Everybody votes with their pocketbooks. This is a chance for HIV folks to learn what is in the best interest of them and for the city,” said Brian Basinger, the AIDS Housing Alliance’s executive director and an organizer of the forum. “This is also an opportunity for the candidates to explore our issues and to know what our issues are and find out how they are going to prioritize them among the things they work on.” The forum is also a way for the city’s AIDS groups to have some influence on the even-numbered supervisor races this fall. The current board’s biggest defenders of HIV services and AIDS funding – District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly and District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty – are both termed out of office this year. “We need to know who is going to be our champion for HIV and AIDS on the Board of Supervisors. Who is going to put our needs first?” asked Basinger. According to the health department’s 2010 San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan, there are 15,757 people estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS in the city. The majority of those residents, says the plan, live in the Castro, Mission, Western Addition, and Tenderloin. When looked at by supervisorial districts, District 8 has the highest concentration of people living with HIV and AIDS. With the city’s AIDS epidemic still primarily among gay and bisexual men, the Castro continues to be the hardest hit neighborhood when it comes to HIV, with more than 2,000 cases of people with HIV or AIDS. Were HIV-positive voters and people living with AIDS in San Francisco

to vote as one bloc in the coming fall supervisor races, they likely could determine the winner not only in the District 8 race but also District 6, which includes the Tenderloin and South of Market, two other neighborhoods hard hit by AIDS. And somewhat surprisingly, they likely could influence the District 2 race in Pacific Heights and the Marina, which has sizable HIV and AIDS populations. They would be less likely to impact the District 10 race in the Bayview, which has one of the lowest concentrations of people living with HIV and AIDS of any San Francisco neighborhood. “This hopefully sets a precedent to really remind candidates that HIV positive voters are not to be ignored. We need to be really mindful who our constituents are,” said Cecilia Chung, who is HIV-positive and serves as president of the city’s Human Rights Commission. The races in District 6 and District 10 also provide voters a chance to elect the city’s first openly HIV-positive supervisor. Bill Barnes, who was former Mayor Willie Brown’s AIDS czar, is seeking the D10 seat, while Hyde is running in D6. Yet the mere fact they are HIV-positive does not mean HIV voters will automatically vote for them. Chung, in fact, is backing Sparks in the D6 race. Basinger said he has not made any endorsements in the supervisor races. Nor does he see tomorrow’s forum as a platform to secure votes for Barnes or Hyde. “One would hope that an HIVpositive person would understand the issues more but that doesn’t mean just because they are HIV-positive they get it and can be strong and effective leaders on our needs,” he said. “The point of this is not to just have a forum to elect HIV-positive folks. Really it is about engaging the HIV positive community to elect leaders that are going to do the best for them.” If anything does come out of the forum, said Basinger, he hopes it ensures that HIV and AIDS is a top concern for all of the candidates. “I don’t see the needs of the HIV community on people’s websites or as part of their campaign materials. From my perspective we need to elevate what is going on with us in the conversation; this is one way of doing that,” said Basinger. The HIV forum will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday in the State Building’s Milton Marks Auditorium, 455 Golden Gate Avenue.

Wiener signs Castro HQ lease District 8 supervisor candidate Scott Wiener announced this week that he had signed a lease for his campaign headquarters in a vacant storefront in the heart of the Castro. The openly gay Wiener plans to open his offices at 538 Castro Street, the site of a former underwear and bathing suit store, by August 14. He will be sharing the space with the Fix Muni Now campaign, which is a local ballot measure being pushed by District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. Wiener, a deputy city attorney, is the third gay D8 candidate to land a spot in the city’s LGBT neighborhood. Attorney Rafael Mandelman and businessman Bill Hemenger both have campaign offices on Market Street. Out lesbian Rebecca Prozan, an assistant district attorney, is the sole candidate to open an HQ in a different part of D8; her office is in Noe Valley on Church Street.▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column profiles a gay Republican running for Congress in Michigan.

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Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage by Rex Wockner fter a lengthy debate last week, Argentina legalized same-sex marriage. The July 15 vote in the Senate at

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4:05 a.m. was 33-27 with three abstentions. The lower house previously passed the bill and, at press time, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was planning to sign it in a July 21 ceremony at the Casa Rosada. Argentinean President Cristina “The bill has passed. It is law. The Fernández de Kirchner executive power will be notified,” the Senate president said as the vote was displayed on an electronic board in they tried to marry three years ago. the chamber. Same-sex marriage is legal in ArThe debate lasted nearly 15 hours. gentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, “The result sparked euphoria the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, among the [LGBT] activists who, deSouth Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico spite the polar wave that grips the city, City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachuheld a vigil in the Plaza of the Two setts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Congresses,” said Buenos Aires’ Clarín Washington, D.C. newspaper. The website of Argentina’s main First Europride gay political group, la Federación Arin Eastern Europe gentina LGBT, was booted from the Europride, which has roamed Internet and replaced with a “Bandfrom country to country since 1992, width Limit Exceeded” notice. was staged in Eastern Europe for the Marriage equality advocates in the first time this year, culminating with United States hailed the vote. the July 17 parade through the streets “Today’s historic vote shows how of Warsaw, Poland. far Catholic Argentina has come, from Around 8,000 people took part in dictatorship to true democratic valthe march despite temperatures near ues, and how far the freedom to 40 C (above 100 F). Some previous marry movement has come as 12 Europrides in Western Europe have countries on four continents now emattracted up to 1 million celebrants. brace marriage equality,” said Evan The Warsaw parade’s main deWolfson, head of the U.S. group Freemand was that Poland pass a civildom to Marry. partnership law for same-sex couples. “Key to Argentina’s human rights Around 2,000 police officers proachievement was strong leadership tected the marchers from more than from legislators and the president. It is 200 anti-gay protesters, who threw time we see more of our own elected bottles of water, rocks, eggs, and Bibles officials standing up for the Constituat the parade, participants said. At tion and all families here in the United least eight counterdemonstrators States,” Wolfson said. “America should were arrested for throwing things, lead, not lag, when it comes to treating damaging flags or, in at least one case, everyone equally under the law.” assaulting a cop. The International Lesbian and Gay “The protesters were numerous and Association called the bill’s passage a incredibly violent,” said American gay “triumph.” activist and Milk screenwriter Dustin “Today, there is definitely more Lance Black, in an e-mail to California freedom and equality in the world gay leader Rick Jacobs, founder and thanks to Argentina: an exchair of the Courage Camample for the many paign. “The worst was when countries in Southern a mob threw two large, and Northern hemihomemade percussionspheres which still style bombs over the police consider lesbian, gay, line and onto our float. bisexual, trans and inWhen the second exploded, tersex people as secpieces of it struck both (my ond-class citizens,” boyfriend) and I and said ILGA Co-SecreW OCKNER’ S left me deafFrank in one ear for tary General Renato W ORLD about an hour. ” Sabbadini. Black said police charged City officials said into the group from which the explothe first wedding would take place Ausives emerged and restrained and beat gust 13 in Buenos Aires’ trendy Palerthe counterprotesters. mo area. A longtime gay couple in Other participants praised the their 60s will tie the knot at the office event’s policing, said they did not feel where they were turned away when threatened, and hailed the parade’s arrival behind the former Iron Curtain. “It’s incredibly positive that this pan-European event is now taking place in a former Communist country,” said Ulrike Lunacek, co-president of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights. “Not only does it constitute a very important signal for Eastern Europe that mentalities do slowly change, but it also shows how membership of the European Union can facilitate this change.” Moscow Pride founder Nikolai Alekseev said: “The police did an incredible job. ... We felt very safe at all times, even when we left the parade at the end.” Other events included ILGA-Europe’s “LGBT Family Exhibition – Different Families, Same Love” at the National Library from July 8-18 and an LGBT film festival, “Celluloid Ars Homo Erotica.” The EP Intergroup said that although Poland joined the EU in 2004, it “still fails to provide LGBT people with adequate legal protection or address omnipresent homophobia.” “Polish authorities also refuse to recognize same-sex unions registered abroad, and prevent their citizens from entering a same-sex union abroad,” the group said. ▼ Bill Kelley contributed to this report.

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Lutherans receive LGBT pastors by Matthew S. Bajko wenty years ago two San Francisco Lutheran congregations ordained a lesbian couple and a gay man as pastors in defiance of their denomination’s ban against non-celibate LGBT people becoming clergy. The two churches’ decision in 1990 set off a two-decade fight over the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s anti-gay policy. While the congregations were ultimately ejected from the ELCA for their decisions, 15 additional LGBT people became Lutheran pastors in the ensuing years through an extraordinary ordination process. Although their local congregations considered them to be pastors, in the eyes of the national Lutheran Church they were deemed unofficial clergy. Church leaders subsequently disciplined many of the churches that ordained them. Last year the national Lutheran Church revised its policies and dropped the requirement that LGBT pastors need to be celibate. This weekend six LGBT pastors ordained extraordinarily and two pastors who had been dismissed from the ELCA clergy roster will be received as full-fledged pastors in the church at a ceremony Sunday, July 25 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco. “I think this is a very significant step for the church, which has been in this two-decade process of studying gay and lesbian people and talking about finding ways to include us. That process has now come to an end and the church has decided that LGBT people are to be welcomed fully as leaders and members of the church, so it is a huge step that the church has taken,” said the Reverend Jeff Johnson, whose ordination 20 years ago as an assistant pastor at the city’s First United Lutheran Church sparked the internal dialogue within the national Lutheran Church. Johnson, 48, now lives in Oakland and is the pastor at University Lutheran Chapel in Berkeley. He will be taking part in the formal Rite of Reception service this weekend presided over by the Reverend Mark Holmerud, fourth bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, which covers northern California and northern Nevada. “I am deeply grateful to the [extraordinary] pastors, and the two pastors who were removed from the ELCA roster, for their grace and good will in being a part of this process,” Holmerud said in a statement about the ceremony. He added that the actions of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly “have brought us to a new day.” At the Sierra Pacific Synod assembly in May, Holmerud lifted a public censure and admonition placed on the Berkeley church in 2000 after it called Johnson as its pastor even though he was not on the ELCA clergy roster. At the meeting Johnson was also elected to serve on the regional synod’s council pending his participation in this weekend’s rite. The other extraordinary Lutheran pastors taking part in the service are the Reverends Craig Minich, pastor of youth ministries at the OaklandBerkeley Lutheran Youth Program; Dawn Roginski, pastor of parish programs at St. Francis Lutheran Church; Megan Rohrer, executive director of Welcome, which feeds the homeless in San Francisco; Paul R. Brenner at St. Francis Lutheran Church; and Sharon Stalkfleet with Lutheran Ministry to Nursing Homes in Oakland. “I think you can’t go through this kind of wilderness walking in the church and not be stronger because of it,” said Rohrer, 30, who identifies as a transgender dyke and was extraordinarily ordained in 2006 by four San Francisco Lutheran churches. “It feels

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like coming out to your parents and having them react really poorly for a long time and then one day they change their mind.” The two pastors being reinstated this weekend are the Reverends Ross D. Merkel, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Oakland, and Steven P. Sabin, pastor of Christ Church Lutheran in San Francisco. In 1998 the ELCA removed Sabin from its clergy roster after he admitted to being in a committed, same-sex relationship while serving as pastor at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Ames, Iowa. “For two decades, many have been grieved and alienated by the ELCA’s exclusion of gay and lesbian pastors blessed with loving spouses. I hope and pray that they can, like me, lay aside the hurts and take hope from the gracious power of God to renew and direct the church into evermore faithful and effective proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” stated Sabin. Retired Revered James DeLange, who was the senior pastor at St. Francis Lutheran Church in 1990, called this weekend’s service a “vindication” for those who fought against the church’s discriminatory policies and the beginning of the healing process for many Lutherans impacted by that struggle. “For those of us who have been just staying with the struggle and have tried to work to try to change the policy this is a vindication of our efforts,” said DeLange, who is straight and chairs the San Francisco Interfaith Council. “I am just glad I lived long enough to see the change of policy.” As for the lesbian couple his church ordained the same day as Johnson, the Reverends Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, DeLange said they now live in Minneapolis and are expected to have their own rite of reception sometime this fall. Also this Sunday St. Francis will vote on whether to return to the ELCA. In a nearly unanimous vote, the 300 delegates at the Sierra Pacific Synod assembly this spring adopted a resolution inviting both First United and St. Francis to rejoin the national church. First United has yet to schedule a similar vote. Johnson expressed mixed emotions about how long it has taken the Lutheran Church to fully embrace LGBT pastors. “I think that the church’s taking this step does not change the difficult things the church has done over the past two decades, so it is very important for people to tell the truth about the discrimination they have taken part in as we celebrate this momentous, wonderful happening,” he said. The formal Rite of Reception for the pastors is open to the public. It will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 25 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, the corner of Franklin and O’Farrell Streets in San Francisco..▼

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AIDS confab While there has been some good news about drops in mother-to-child HIV transmission and decreased incidence among young people in several countries, said Yves Souteyrand of the World Health Organization, an estimated 2.7 million more people are infected each year. Hundreds of AIDS activists kicked off the conference by marching through the Messe Wien Center and conducted a die-in in the main hall outside the opening plenary Sunday evening. Carrying signs proclaiming “Broken Promises Kill,” they accused President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and other leaders of reneging on their AIDS funding commitment. Obama came in for criticism for his plan to shift resources away from AIDS toward maternal and child health. To help shrinking budgets go further, activists also highlighted international trade and intellectual property laws that limit access to cheaper generic drugs. “People with AIDS in poor countries cannot afford regular [brand name] medications at prices charged by big pharmaceutical companies,” Johnny Guaylupo told the Bay Area Reporter. “They need generic drugs to keep them alive.” In contrast with some prior AIDS confabs, meeting organizers, official conference speakers, and protesters often sounded the same note with regard to HIV funding. World leaders “had absolutely no problem finding money on a moment’s notice to bail out their corporate friends, the greedy Wall Street bankers,” Montaner said during his opening address, “yet when it comes to global health the purse is always empty.” “The issue is not that HIV is overfunded, but that health is underfunded,” concurred Paula Akugizbwe of the AIDS and Rights Alliance for South Africa. “We can afford politicians’ luxury vehicles, military expenditures, leaders’ pay, and World Cup stadiums, but when it comes to health, we have to beg, borrow, and steal.” Congresswoman Barbara Lee (DOakland), who attended the conference, suggested that the U.S. defense budgeted tax breaks for the wealthy could be trimmed to pay for HIV/AIDS support. “In too many countries, too much money pays for too many people to go to too many meetings and get on too many airplanes to do too much technical assistance,” said former President Bill Clinton at Monday’s plenary. “Every dollar we waste today puts a life at risk.”

Vulnerable populations Keeping with the conference theme “Rights Here, Rights Now,” numerous presenters addressed the discrimination and human rights abuses that fuel the spread of HIV among vulnerable groups including men who have sex with men, transgender people, drug users, sex workers, prisoners, immigrants, and women and girls. Vienna was chosen as the confer-

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Approximately 30 protesters gathered in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) office in San Francisco Tuesday to advocate for increased funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, the demonstration by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation included protesters wearing skeleton masks and carrying a coffin filled with 428 letters signed by individuals across the country calling for improved action by Pelosi. The letters were delivered to Pelosi’s office.

ence venue for its position as a bridge between east and west, spotlighting the burgeoning HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia largely driven by injection drug use. The war on drugs and punitive laws contribute to the HIV transmission and keep people from getting treatment, experts said. The Vienna Declaration – the official conference statement endorsed by more than 11,000 signatories – stresses the importance of science-based drug policy reform. As highlighted at the all-day “Be Heard” meeting on Saturday preceding the conference, gay and bisexual men continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic in North America and Europe, while men who have sex with men in low-income regions face discrimination, inadequate services, violence, and growing persecution due to harsh laws criminalizing homosexuality. Criminalization of HIV transmission – both between sexual partners and from mothers to babies – has also been highlighted, with advocates and public health experts worldwide agreeing that such policies hamper rather than help efforts to control the spread of AIDS. Sex worker activists were highly visible at AIDS 2010. On Tuesday, a group targeted U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby to demand repeal of the Bush-era “loyalty oath” that requires recipients of PEPFAR funding to affirm that they oppose prostitution. Finally, Everjoice Win of ActionAid International, speaking at Tuesday’s plenary, decried violence against women and girls, emphasizing that gender equality must be a cornerstone of efforts to fight AIDS. “Culture, religion, and tradition should not be used as excuses for violation of women’s human rights,” she stated. “Culture is defined by those in power to reinforce or maintain their status.”

Prevention, treatment, and cure HIV prevention was highlighted this year, with a focus on biomedical prevention strategies.

The big news coming out of the conference was data from the CAPRISA microbicide trial of nearly 900 women in South Africa, showing that a vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral drug tenofovir – an ingredient in the popular Atripla, Truvada, and Viread pills – reduced HIV transmission to women by 39 percent, or from 9.1 to 5.6 infections per 100 people. “We now have evidence that a vaginal gel can help prevent HIV,” said Global Campaign for Microbicides director Yasmin Halima. “This is good news for women, good news for the field, and a good day for science.” While the study received extensive media coverage and won applause for demonstrating for the first time that a microbicide has the ability to reduce infection in humans, the gel is still in early development and it is not expected to be widely available for at least a few years until larger studies have been completed. It has not yet been tested as a potential rectal microbicide for use during anal sex. With no new HIV drugs nearing the end of the development pipeline, news on the treatment front has focused on use of antiretroviral therapy for prevention and how this influences the ongoing debate about when to start treatment. HIV-positive people on effective ART typically have very low or undetectable viral load, which dramatically reduces the likelihood of transmission of the virus. A new study by conference co-chair Montaner and colleagues, published this week in the Lancet, adds to the evidence that treatment – by lowering “community viral load” – can significantly decrease HIV incidence. Their study in British Columbia, where the epidemic is largely driven by needlesharing, found that widespread early ART cut new infections by about half. A growing body of data also suggest that starting treatment earlier can help minimize damage related to inflammation triggered by HIV infection, which starts to happen long before a person’s CD4 T-cell count falls into the danger zone. Current U.S. treatment guidelines call for starting ART when the CD4 count falls to 500, and the International AIDS Society-USA released new guidelines at the conference confirming this threshold. But this approach remains controversial. San Francisco General Hospital recently instituted a new policy to offer ART to everyone diagnosed with HIV, but others oppose earlier treatment due to concerns about side effects, drug resistance, and not having enough resources to go around. Advances in treatment that have kept HIV people alive longer, coupled with recognition that providing lifelong ART to everyone who needs it worldwide is unsustainable, has led to renewed discussion about the prospects of a cure for HIV.

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Gil Block, ‘Sister Sadie,’ dies By Cynthia Laird il Block, a gay man who was perhaps best known as Sister Sadie, Sadie, the Rabbi Lady as a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, has died. He was 65. Mr. Block’s sister, Susan Lynge, said that he died May 22 in Denver, where he had lived for the past year. The cause of death was suicide, she said. Jerry Block, a cousin of Mr. Block’s who lives in the East Bay, said that he will be missed. “He was a unique and special human being,” Block said. “He was always there.” Block said that when Mr. Block came from Montreal to San Francisco in the early 1980s, he lived with Block and his wife for awhile. “He was so thrilled to be in San Francisco,” Block said. In his 2000 book, Confessions of a Jewish Nun, (Fog City Press), Mr. Block recounted his days in San Francisco as the gay community was becoming more visible and starting to fight for equal rights. The Sisters started in 1979, on Easter weekend. Over the years the group of drag nuns (mostly gay men) showed up at all sorts of events, spreading joy and cheer according to their website, and raising funds for community groups. They were also involved in numerous protests and street actions. Early Sisters included Gilbert Baker as Sister Chanel 2001 and Mr. Block as Sadie. At some point, there was a falling out with Mr. Block and the other Sisters. Mr. Block wrote that Sadie, Sadie,

Glen Reed Millar October 18, 1946 – July 13, 2010

Glen Reed Millar was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 18, 1946 and was raised in Levittown, the fifth of six children born to William and Esther Millar. On January 3, 1966 Glen was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps at the height of the war in Vietnam. During his service, he earned the M14 rifle Marksman Badge and the National Defense Service Medal. After his honorable discharge, Glen returned to Pennsylvania and attended Temple University where he received is B.A. in Business and Accounting. Glen moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s and was temporarily employed by Wells Fargo Bank. He was soon hired by King-American Ambulance Company and in 1981 began a long and successful tenure as the company’s accountant and eventually as Controller. A popular team player, coach, and manager in San Francisco’s Gay Softball League for many years, he was loved and admired as a skilled and competitive player. Glen is survived by his mother, Esther Millar, six siblings; and his beloved dog, Spike. Glen was diagnosed with cancer in May and died peacefully at his home in Daly City

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the Rabbi Lady was “born” in 1982. Mr. Block’s book recounts his disputes with Baker and longtime AIDS activist Cleve Jones, though Baker said in an e-mail tribute he distributed that he and Mr. Block had reconnected several years ago. “Ultimately we drifted apart, creative differences,” Baker wrote. “I had not seen or spoken to him in more than 10 years. When we finally reconnected in 2003 at the Ft. Lauderdale Gay Pride it was all water under the bridge. Estranged yet forgiving brothers.” Jones, who created the AIDS memorial quilt, declined to comment on Mr. Block. Block said that his cousin “spent hundreds of hours at the Names Project supporting his community.”

on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at approximately 7:00 p.m. Spike was by his side. Memorial services are scheduled for Friday, July 23, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at the Evergreen Mortuary located on Geary Boulevard at 10th Avenue in San Francisco. 668-0077.

Bernard Venter July 19, 1947 – July 11, 2010

Bernard Venter passed peacefully in his sleep on July 11, 2010 in San Francisco. Born July 19, 1947 in Benoni, South Africa, Bernard’s family includes Mr. & Mrs. O.T. Venter, a twin sister, three sisters, and four brothers. During his life, he touched the lives of many people with his unconditional love. Bernard studied costume and set design at the Johannesburg School of art in 1968 and designed and choreographed all sets, costumes, and dance routines for Les Girls in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia. He was well known in the funeral industry and inspired many people with his extraordinary talents. Bernard is survived by his friends, Marrianne Holder, Ronald Brown and family, Robert Isely II, Joseph McCue, the staff of the Duggan Welch Family, and many more special friends. We love you, Bernard.

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“He was very involved,” Block said. Mr. Block’s activism led him to seek public office in Concord in 1991, an experience he detailed in his book. One of the problems with his race, however, was that he didn’t actually live in the city. His rationale for running for a seat on the Concord City Council was that one of the other council members, Lloyd Mashore, didn’t live in the city either and there was a lawsuit to remove him from office. “Well, thought I, if Lloyd could do that, why couldn’t I?” Mr. Block wrote. Mr. Block “pulled a Lloyd,” as he put it, and “used the address of a local gay guy.” But it appeared that Mr. Block knew he had overreached. “Even though I voted in Concord instead of San Francisco, I was still technically guilty of voter fraud, wasn’t I?” he wrote. Mr. Block’s candidacy garnered media attention, though, as one of the big issues was Concord’s human rights ordinance. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article at the time, Mashore was leading the drive for a November ballot initiative eliminating sexual orientation from the recently passed anti-discrimination ordinance. Mr. Block wrote that additionally, the ordinance also restated an anti-AIDS discrimination law that was repealed by voters in 1989. But Mr. Block only received 1,000 votes in the election. Afterwards, misdemeanor election fraud charges were brought against him by the state and he pleaded no contest. He paid a fine and did community ser-

You will live in our hearts forever. Friends are invited to attend a celebration of life on Sunday, July 25 at 2 p.m. at Duggan’s Funeral Service, 3434 17th Street, near Valencia. 431-4900.

vice work, he wrote. “He saw it as a political protest,” Block said of his cousin. “I think he was a little naive.” Mr. Block was born in Chicago on November 17, 1944. Lynge, his sister, said that the family moved to Montreal in 1961 and that Mr. Block moved to San Francisco around 1981. He had attended law school in Chicago and did some work for law

firms here, she said. He eventually left San Francisco and went to Florida in 2002-03. In Florida, his sister said, he met Monte Guthrie, and the two became business partners in an advertising sales venture. Guthrie and Mr. Block moved to Springfield, Missouri and later to Denver. Mr. Block is survived by his cousin Jerry Block, his sister Susan Lynge of Toronto; brother Michael Stern of Montreal; a niece and other cousins. At his request there was no memorial; his ashes were taken by Guthrie to Florida, Lynge said.▼

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Senate panel OKs Kagan nomination by Lisa Keen oth “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and same-sex marriage continued to be a prominent focus of the confirmation proceedings for Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday recommended the confirmation. The vote and debate in committee was – with one exception – strictly partisan. Democrats spoke in favor and Republicans against her nomination. The vote was 13-6, with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) voting in favor. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said Kagan has “shown a strong commandment to far left ideological beliefs” and that “her liberal convictions, rather than the law, seemed to guide her recommendations.” Among his specific concerns, he said, were her actions that “actively defied federal law by banning military recruiters from campus while the nation was at war.” Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) criticized her for “evading” a question about whether she could find a constitutional right that would enable same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses. But Senator Dianne Feinstein (DCalifornia) said Kagan would “clearly” move today’s conservative Supreme Court back toward the ideological center. And Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) said Kagan’s opposition to DADT could not be construed as a statement against the military but, rather, a statement against the policy that prohibits gay and lesbian service members from serving openly.

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As he did during Kagan’s confirmation hearing, Jeff Sessions (Alabama), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, led the attack against her Tuesday. He reiterated, at length, his deep concern over Kagan’s actions opposing DADT. He accused Kagan and Harvard, where she was dean of the law school, of “playing games” with Air Force recruiters and having “stonewalled” their efforts to recruit attorneys from among the college students. He said her answers to questions about her opposition were either “inaccurate,” “not true,” or “intellectually dishonest.” “The bottom line is this,” said Sessions, “when Miss Kagan chose to block military recruiting, the law was crystal clear. She knew she was defying the law.” Sessions said he was even more disturbed by Kagan’s actions, as solicitor general in the Obama administration, in regards to a challenge of the DADT law in federal court. The case in question was Margaret Witt v. Air Force, in which a highly decorated military nurse was discharged, apparently after a third party told military officials she was gay. In 2008, Witt, represented by the ACLU, won a preliminary court victory when the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled she had a right to a trial. Kagan recommended the federal government not appeal that preliminary victory to the U.S. Supreme Court but to wait instead for the trial and its appeal to be completed. Sessions said this amounted to Kagan having “abdicated” her duty as solicitor general by “refusing to effectively appeal the Witt decision.” “The Witt decision,” said Sessions, “placed the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law – a law that she has stated repeatedly that she personally abhors – in serious jeopardy and has made it unworkable.” During her confirmation hearing, Kagan had said that the Obama administration declined to appeal at that time in order to build a factual record that would demonstrate to the Supreme Court the burden the Witt ruling would place on the military, by requiring that each person discharged under DADT have a trial. “The government would have to show in each particular case,” said Kagan, “that a particular separation caused the military harm, rather than view it in general across the statute.” Such individual inquiries, she said, “would disrupt military operations.” Her response seemed to take the wind out of Sessions’s attack during the confirmation hearing, and he said he’d take another look at it. But on Tuesday, Sessions said her response “left a false impression that the government had to choose between appealing a decision then or later, after

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fers from last year’s. In addition to prioritizing gaps in membership, the committee is considering various factors such as the current membership composition and gaps in membership concerning demographics, areas of experience and expertise that can inform and contribute to HIV prevention in San Francisco. Anyone who meets the minimum requirement is encouraged to apply for council membership. For 2010, the membership committee would like to recruit new members representing the following categories: gay males or men who have sex with men; people living with HIV; Asian and Pacific Islanders; Native Americans; injection drug users; men who have sex with men intravenous drug

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trial, but again that is not true.” Sessions said the government could appeal at both points “and should.” “Her decision not to appeal pushed the government into a disruptive trial process with full knowledge that it would damage the military’s interest,” said Sessions. “She knew that letting [the preliminary ruling in Witt] stand would do damage to the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law. ... Her personal policy objection [to DADT] played a role in this decision ... [It was] a failure to do her duty.” Kyl and Senator John Cornyn (RTexas) also focused on Kagan’s actions around military recruiters while dean of Harvard Law School and her decision not to appeal the Witt case. On the latter, Kyl said there “was no need to develop a fuller record” in the Witt case. Cornyn reiterated his concern that Kagan’s opposition to recruiters on campus “stigmatized” the military. Arlen Specter, the Republicanturned-Democrat member of the committee, lamented the partisan nature of the vote on Kagan, saying it reflected the ideological split on the high court, as well. The exception to the partisan line in committee was Graham, who voted to support the nominee. Graham supported the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the high court, as well, last year. He said Kagan’s challenge of the DADT law was a legitimate exercise of democracy and he said he does not believe Kagan to be anti-military. Graham did not focus on any particular quality in Kagan that affected his vote and said he wouldn’t expect a nominee to say, in front of the committee, specifically how she would vote on same-sex marriage. But he was moved, he said, by the support of conservative former appeal court nominee Miguel Estrada for Kagan’s nomination. Although a specific date for the Kagan nomination to reach the Senate floor has not yet been set, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada) has made clear he plans to take up the matter before the August 9 recess.▼

users; and youth under the age of 25. Additionally, the membership committee recommends that persons with either experience or expertise (either lived or professional) in one or more of the following areas apply for HPPC membership: biomedical interventions; behavioral interventions; collaborations within other health fields or disease prevention activities; research, data, analysis, and/or evaluation; hepatitis C; epidemiologist; faith community. The minimum requirements for HPPC membership are that interested individuals live or work in San Francisco and can commit up to 10 hours a month to HPPC business. For more information about the HPPC, you can visit sfhiv.org/community.php or contact Betty Chan Lew at (415) 554-9494. The application deadline is August 12.▼

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rental company’s offices on the corner with 8th Street whose garage exits onto the alley.

Gentrification concerns Not everyone is happy to see the planned gentrification of the street. Carlton Paul, an assistant manager at the Powerhouse, a gay bar not far from Ringold Alley, expressed mixed feelings about the city’s proposals. “I think they should probably leave it alone. What they are going to do with it is going to contradict its historical significance,” said Paul, who does favor seeing the alley’s role in facilitating gay sexual dalliances retold with signage. “We had to fuck behind corners in the dark because society put us there. Historically, it is really important to remember these things.” At the same time, Paul noted that gay men have numerous options nowadays when it comes to finding one another. “Maybe it is good we don’t have to have sex on the street anymore,” said Paul. “It is a sign of how far we have come as a community.” No matter what the city decides to do with Ringold Alley, changes are coming to the street. Residential developer Archstone has plans to build a 400-unit housing development on the lot running along Ringold Alley that now houses a Golden Gate Tran-

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Eradication of HIV may be more scientifically feasible than ever, researchers suggested at the pre-conference “Toward a Cure” meeting sponsored by the International AIDS Society. Keynoting at Sunday’s AIDS 2010 opening plenary, Sharon Lewin from Monash University in Melbourne emphasized the cost of providing standard-of-care treatment according to current guidelines. Treating 40 percent of HIV-positive people in low- and middle-income countries (the current level of coverage) would cost $25 billion by 2030, she noted. Expanding coverage to 80 percent would increase the cost to $35 billion – equal to half the U.S. foreign aid budget by 2016. “I don’t think we should accept that HIV is a chronic illness requir-

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people were injured during a 2006 shooting. In 2007 the city canceled the party and bars were asked to close. Since then, there has been no official party but bars and restaurants have remained open. Pink Saturday “is supposed to be a community event,” said Corrales. Corrales also said people who are known to be gang members have been seen at the event, but they can’t be filtered out as long as they’re not committing crime. “We can’t discriminate against them,” he said.

City touts new crime data Corrales spoke to the Bay Area Reporter after a July 16 City Hall news conference where Police Chief George Gascón and Mayor Gavin Newsom talked about new crime figures. The two announced that from January through June of 2010, the city’s total violent crime rate has dropped 20 percent from 2008, and 10 percent from 2009. One topic that came up was foot patrols. Gascón said the patrols can enhance community policing, but they’re “one tool, not the only tool.” Data obtained from the police department’s website indicate there

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sit bus yard. The project would include a public park and community center at the corner of 8th Street and Ringold, and townhouses are set to be built along the length of the alley. The development is part of a larger planning process that is working to adopt a Western SOMA Community Plan. The plan, which calls for the creation of the LGBT historical district as well as various zoning changes in the area, is expected to go before city officials for adoption in 2011. Construction on the Archstone project likely wouldn’t start, at the earliest, until 2013. The company did not respond to a request for an interview this week. The developer will be required to pay for capital improvements, and the planning department would like to see some of the funds be used to implement any redesign of Ringold Alley. “Archstone will have to pay community benefit fees for things like street improvements. We think applying them in the immediate proximity to their project would be very appropriate,” said city planner Paul Lord. “Why not invite the community in and come to talk about it and talk about what their ideas are?”▼ A community meeting will be held tonight (Thursday, July 22) to discuss ideas for Ringold Alley. It will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 403 at the Planning Department’s offices at 1650 Mission Street near South Van Ness Avenue.

ing lifelong treatment,” she said. “In the absence of an effective vaccine, we must seriously pursue the possibility of a cure.” Researchers described a variety of potential approaches, from ART intensification, to driving latent HIV out of its hiding place in resting cells, to altering resting cells using gene therapy to be resistant to HIV infection. “The international conference in Vienna will not be the conference where we announce a cure for AIDS,” Lewin concluded. But just as the 2006 International AIDS Conference marked the start of the ART era, she expressed hope that Vienna “will mark the beginning of a future where we seriously prioritize finding a cure.”▼ The Stop AIDS Project will hold a forum on emerging HIV research Wednesday, August 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Bank of America Community Space, 18th and Castro streets.

were several robberies in the half mile of 18th and Castro around the time of Pink Saturday, along with assaults and other crimes. Greg Carey, chair of Castro Community on Patrol, a volunteer organization, expressed concern that there generally are more crimes in the neighborhood than what’s being reported. “It appears that a number of serious crimes that people have told us about have never been reported to the police,” Carey said in a phone interview. He said incidents they’ve heard about secondhand recently have included people being mugged after they leave clubs, including cases where people were injured. Anyone with information on the Pink Saturday shooting can call SFPD’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or the homicide unit at (415) 553-1145. To send a text message to police, type tip411, then SFPD, followed by the message.▼

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: X Officers Group, 101 California Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Ronald Ward. 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 06/11/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dr. Minh Vo Chiropratic, 129 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Minh Vo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/28/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/10.

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JULY 8,15,22,29, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032874400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Manaomakani, 1310 Minnesota Street, Unit 310, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jamie M. Aldaya. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/05/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/10.

JULY 8,15,22,29, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032830100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Viorum Capital LLC, 50 California Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Gerald Noemdoe. 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 06/08/10.

JULY 8,15,22,29, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032882100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bureau, 498 Waller Street,#9, San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Lawrence Li. 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 07/01/10.

JULY 8,15,22,29, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032874500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mix & Match, 168 Hyde Street,#208, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Olga Salakhutdinova. 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 06/29/10.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as 1.The Guillen Company,2.Fuente de Juventud, 20 Alton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Bayardo Guillen. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/07.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #0305182-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as 1.The Guillen Company,2.Fuente de Juventud, 20 Alton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Bayardo Guillen. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/07.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032887000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Winks Handmade Creations, 380 Eddy Street, #202, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Amanda Wang. 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 07/06/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032891000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RF.com, 584 Castro Street, #850, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Eric Chamberlain. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032869800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Maria’s Cleaning Services, 2087 Palou Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Maria C. Rojas de Mis. 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 06/28/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Natural - Max, 1341 Stockton Street,#J, San Francisco, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kenny Cheung. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/02/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032868500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:1.Off The Grid Services LLC,2.Off The Grid: Fort Mason Center, 3.Off The Grid: San Francisco, 4.San Francisco Cart Project, 625 Villanova Drive, Davis, CA 95616. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Matthew Cohen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032844700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:So Fresh Services, 1338 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sanu Dhillon. 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 06/16/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032905900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:GoPhoto, 932 Broderick, Street, #3, San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Stephan Blendstrup. 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 07/14/10.

JULY 22,29, AUG. 5,12, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032889600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:ACER CAB LIMO, 1230 Market Street, #244, San Francisco,CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual , signed Jose Luiz Dopradofilho. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/07/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/10.

JULY 22,29, AUG. 5,12, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032896000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:American Cafe, 995 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Prativa Sahu. 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 07/09/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032895500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Psychotherapy in Motion, 3769 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kathi Grace Barg. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/09/10.

JULY 15,22,29, AUG. 5, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032902300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Guest House, 3535 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Dong Young Lee. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/13/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-032903300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Pillar6 Benefits & Insurance Services, 2737 Polk Street,A, SF,CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual , signed Roman Polnar. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/13/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/10.

JULY 22,29, AUG. 5,12, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032902700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Plumbing Supply Warehouse, 5835 3rd Street, San Francisco,CA 94124.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Riad Khano. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/13/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/ 13/10.

JULY 22,29, AUG. 5,12, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032878000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Jacobson Door and Hardware, 165 13th Street, San Francisco,CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed William J. Jacobson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/ 30/10

JULY 22,29, AUG. 5,12, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-032849300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:Ming Yuet Stylist, 1920 B Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Annie Mac. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/17/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/17/10.

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sess and consume small amounts. At state Democratic Party’s executive board meeting in San Jose last weekend, the resolutions committee had recommended that the party take a neutral position on Prop 19. Out gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) had proposed that the state party’s executive board overturn that decision. But on Sunday, July 18, in a vote of 101-85, the board came out against that motion and in favor of remaining neutral. Aaron Peskin, chair of San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee, told the Bay Area Reporter that Prop 19 would come before his group, because when the state party doesn’t take a position, “then it falls to all 58 local parties to do what they want.” Peskin said he wasn’t speaking on behalf of other DCCC members, but “I would hope we would follow Assemblyman Ammiano’s lead and endorse Prop 19.”

“I think the easy way out was to take no position,” said Peskin. “ ... I’m hopeful the local Democratic Party in San Francisco will be yes on 19.” The Alameda County Democratic County Central Committee already voted to endorse Prop 19. Peskin explained there are “a whole host of reasons” why he supports the measure. “Frankly, the scare over marijuana has long lost its luster in California and across the country and decriminalizing marijuana is going to, I think, have a positive impact on the judicial system and the criminal justice system,” said Peskin. “I think it’s time for California to move into the 21st century,” he said. He didn’t know when the San Francisco DCCC would vote on whether to endorse the measure. John Burton, the state Democratic Party chair, recently suggested in the San Francisco Chronicle that Prop 19 could help draw young voters to the polls in November. Peskin acknowledged one of the arguments in favor of endorsing the ballot measure is that it would help draw young voters to the polls.

But the state party is wary of any potential harm supporting Prop 19 could cause to the major statewide Democratic candidates running for election in November. All are opposed to Prop 19. Among other provisions included in the measure, people 21 and older could possess, cultivate, or transport pot for personal use, while local governments could regulate and tax commercial production and sales. Smoking pot in public would still be prohibited. Statewide Democratic candidates include Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is running for governor against Republican former eBay CEO Meg Whitman; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who’s up against incumbent Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, a Republican, for that job; San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, who’s facing off against Republican Steve Cooley, the district attorney in Los Angeles; and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-San Francisco), who’s in a tough race against former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a Republican, to hold on to her job.

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chair of the state Democratic Party, said he doesn’t yet have a stance on Prop 19, but “typically my stance is that of the party.” Bauman is also chair of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. As far as how that group would vote, he said, “I imagine the vast majority of our members will be supportive,” but it’s “hard to tell” after watching what happened in San Jose. Bauman said most Democratic activists, at least those in Los Angeles, believe adults ought to have the right to smoke marijuana and the state should have the revenue source, among other things. He said he’s not convinced that if the Democrats take a position in favor of Prop 19 that hurts Brown. “Whitman’s people are going to say Brown is for pot anyway,” said Bauman. Also, said Bauman, Prop 19 will draw young voters to the polls in November regardless of whether the Democratic Party supports it. However, Bauman said, in places that are more progressive, “local Democratic parties will support it and use it as a tool to turn out young voters.” In more conservative places, “those Democratic parties will not support it, and that’s probably sensible politically.” California already has a more liberal stance on marijuana than most states. In 1996, voters passed Proposition 215, which exempts patients who possess or grow marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician from state criminal laws. Since Prop 215’s passage, the movement to legalize pot for adult recreational use has steadily grown, as more states moved to pass medicinal measures and the drug lost some of its stigma.▼

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ues of inclusion and equality to which the United States is deeply committed.” With its new status, IGLHRC will be able to attend meetings, submit statements, and collaborate with the U.N. and national governments on human rights issues. “We celebrate this decision,” said Toni Reis, president of Brazil’s Associação Brasileira de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais, which, in 2009, achieved ECOSOC consultative status. “It is crucial that LGBT NGOs have the opportunity to participate in the U.N. human rights debate – though in the future, organizations should receive full and fair reviews before the NGO Committee itself,” he said. Voting for IGLHRC were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Malta, Norway, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay. Voting against the group were Bangladesh, China, Comoros, Egypt, Malaysia, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Zambia. Abstaining were Bahamas, Ivory Coast, Ghana, India, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Philippines, Rwanda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Turkey and Ukraine. Not present were Cameroon, Congo, GuineaBissau, Iraq, and St. Lucia.▼

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Peskin said he thinks that, in large part, the state party deferred to Brown and the other statewide candidates, but he said, “Certainly, I think having Prop 19 endorsed by the Democrats can’t hurt voter turnout.” Ammiano said he suggests the major statewide Democratic candidates “revisit their position” and if they can’t endorse Prop 19, “at least leave the door open.” Ammiano is the author of Assembly Bill 2554, which would also legalize marijuana. Richard Lee, a main backer of Prop 19, has previously said that among the differences between his measure and Ammiano’s proposal is that Ammiano’s bill sets up a statewide system of sales and distribution by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, while the ballot measure starts out by giving cities and counties the ability to tax and regulate sales and commercial cultivation how – and if – they want to. That opt-out provision may result in “dry” parts of the state when it comes to obtaining marijuana should the initiative pass. Ammiano said he’s put his bill on hold for now, but he expressed confidence that both items would succeed. “The decriminalization of marijuana is inevitable,” said Ammiano. Lee could not be reached for comment this week. Mike Kim, communications director for the California Young Democrats, said the executive committee of that group voted last Saturday to support Prop 19. Kim, who said the group represents voters 18-35, said the measure is something that excites those voters. It “will also get them to vote on big ticket items from governor on down,” he said. Eric Bauman, the openly gay vice

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ECOSOC NGO Committee. ... Today’s decision overturned a ‘no-action’ vote in the NGO [non-governmental organizations] Committee that threatened to establish a dangerous precedent and the possibility of organizations deemed controversial being continuously denied the opportunity to have their application put to a vote even after undergoing the required review.” Ambassador Susan Rice, the United States’ permanent U.N. representative, publicly supported IGLHRC’s application, along with 14 members of the House of Representatives and four senators, including John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Howard Berman (D-California), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama welcomed the news, calling it an “important step forward for human rights.” “The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission will take its rightful seat at the table of the United Nations,” Obama said. “The U.N. was founded on the premise that only through mutual respect, diversity, and dialogue can the international community effectively pursue justice and equality. Today, with the more full inclusion of [IGLHRC], the United Nations is closer to the ideals on which it was founded, and to val-

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f it doesn’t come from here,” Enrico Labayen says, pointing to his head and his heart, “it doesn’t mean a thing. All of this movement, just the arm, the leg – what is that? Dancing isn’t moving from point one to point two. It’s everything in-between, everything you are feeling and creating.” This holistic perspective informs every aspect of Labayen’s work, to create dance that is Filipino in essence but universal in appeal and experience.

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evening-length concert piece on view at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco this weekend. The early inspiration for Carmina was the ritual of the Tadtarin, a three-day festival between the summer solstice and the feast of St. John, based on a matriarchal ceremony in the preCatholic Philippines. The name means “to chop up” or “mince” in Tagalog, and is thought to refer to Salome’s demand for the head of John the Baptist, a time-honored story of dangerous female seduction. Depicting the youth, maturity, death, and rebirth of an archetypal woman, the Tadtarin was formerly a wild Dionysian orgy celebrating victorious female power that has evolved under Spanish Catholicism into a docile ritual in which women pray for a spouse or a child. Though sup-

pressed after WWII, the rite was revived in the 1980s and embraced by women and queers, populations that were oppressed and marginalized under Spanish Catholicism. But in the piece’s four-month development, the concept of the Tadtarin began to cede to the authority of the dancers themselves. “I noticed their strengths and weaknesses, physically, mentally, spiritually, and politically, and succumbed to the Muses,” explains Labayen. The piece matured into a meditation on the complexity of female experience, and all the ritual that remains is in the dance. In costumes reminiscent of the spare, flowing dresses favored by Martha Graham, and a set de-

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he 30th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival offers a fascinating array of films on Jews and the Holocaust, including the West Coast Premiere of John-Keith Wasson’s romantic doc Surviving Hitler: A Love Story; a Jews in Shorts program highlighting Israeli narrative shorts; Nancy K. Fishman’s archival series Tough Guys: Images of Jewish Gangsters in Film; and a real treat for the athletically minded, Peter Miller’s sensationally entertaining doc Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. The Festival plays at multiple Bay Area venues, from our beloved Castro Theatre (July 24-29) to the Roda Theatre in Berkeley (July 31-Aug. 3), the Cinearts in Palo Alto (July 31-Aug. 3), the San Francis-

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Bruce Vilanch, in town for Richmond/Ermet’s One Night Only with the casts of Young Frankenstein and Wicked, took in a performance of Pearls Over Shanghai, running at the Hypnodrome thru Dec. 19. Vilanch loved the show and posed for countless photos with the adoring cast. He related his recollections of seeing Pearls at the Palace Theatre, and the Cockettes in 1971, when Bette Midler was in SF doing her Divine Miss M show. Vilanch has written for Midler for over 40 years. “Bette was playing the Boarding House (960 Bush St.), touring behind her first album, The Divine Miss M. We noticed some exotic types in the audience, not unusual for her crowds and certainly not unusual for San Francisco, but they struck us as people who didn’t just dress up to go out. One of them, Pristine Condition, a.k.a. Keith Lyle, a slightly built but heavily endowed boy from rural O UT Texas, kept coming back, and soon he was part of Bette’s entourage. They told us they were Cockettes, and soon we knew Tomato Du Plenty, Goldie Glitters and Fayetta, a.k.a. Fayette Hauser, who became Bette’s dresser. “Some of the Cockettes wound up doing odd jobs for us, sewing, fluffing up drag, item-shopping. We carried a trunk full of things like Lucy and Desi salt-and-pepper shakers to pep up a drab dressing room. “When Bette opened for Johnny Carson at the Sahara in Vegas, Fayette was arrested for getting off the plane wearing six dresses, with eight joints braided in her hair. Her brother is Tim Hauser, creator of Manhattan Transfer, which Bette brought to Ahmet Ertegun for their first record deal.”

Chairman dances The worlds of ballet and politics collide in the elegantly filmed Mao’s Last Dancer, which will be shown in a free screening on July 24, 11 a.m. at the Vogue Theater in SF. Director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) tells the true

story of one of China’s top ballet dancers who, after coming to the United States as an exchange student, refuses to return to China. The dancers are played by Chi Cao and Amanda Schull, formerly with the San Francisco Ballet. Co-star Joan Chen will be at the screening, and will answer questions. For free tickets, e-mail voguersvp@gmail.com and put Mao’s Last Dancer in the subject line. There is a limit of two tickets per person.

Laramie revisited The Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco [JCCSF] has announced its programming for 2010/11. Among the offerings, the Tectonic Theater Project will present The Laramie Residency – A decade in the life of an American town. Let’s go to the release: “In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely T HERE beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Headlines swept the country about this hate crime directed at a gay teen. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theatre Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people in the town. From the interviews came The Laramie Project, a play chronicling the life of the town in the year after the murder. “The work became one of the most performed plays in America. The production energized an awareness of attitudes about violence against gay people. Tectonic collaborators revisited Laramie on the 10th anniversary of Shepard’s death to examine how the town, its attitudes, laws and people had changed. The result is The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue.” For tickets ($25-$55) to The Laramie Project (Fri., Oct. 22) and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue (Sat., Oct. 23), call the JCCSF Box Office at (415) 292-1233. For information, visit www.jccsf.org /arts. ▼

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Punch-drunk love by Richard Dodds he unaware character who accidentally ingests an intoxicant – misdirected marijuana brownies are a sitcom staple – can be a gimmicky way to garner easy laughs. And there are easy laughs in Morgan Ludlow’s Nymph O’ Mania, which involves a punchbowl spiked with puree of psilocybin mushrooms. Characters get comically lost in their own backyard and start ripping off pieces of each other’s clothes, and their hallucinations turn a party crasher into various real and mythic beings. But interwoven into the ’shroom shenanigans, Ludlow gives his characters the chance to use their altered states to recall, and deal with, suppressed memories, and to confront contemporary conflicts that have been simmering beneath the surface. Surprisingly enough, the confessionals don’t become heavy-handed interlopers in the lighthearted capering, and in the end, the fantastic dovetails into the realistic with plausibility only slightly twisted in David Stein’s lively direction for Wily West Productions. The setting is the family home of Harriet (Kat Kneisel) nestled in the midst of old-growth redwoods in Northern California, soon to be the site of her wedding to the entrepreneurial Jack (Ben Ortega). His plan to sell off the home to big-business loggers is stressing the couple’s pre-

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Lance Fuller and Kat Kneisel are among the partygoers who have an unexpected adventure in Nymph O’ Mania at StageWerx.

nuptial bliss, but their arguments must be put aside as guests start to arrive. There’s Jack’s goofy younger brother Stanley (Lance Fuller), and a married couple (Andrew Calabrese and Linda-Ruth Cardoza) in which dom-sub roles are reversed from their expected order. A few swigs of Stanley’s enchanted punch turn the bickering partygoers into deranged foresters for finding new sexual permutations in their numbers, including what might be a tree nymph (Linda Wang, outfitted in several of Elise Barley’s evocative costumes). Nymph O’ Mania claims connections to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and while parallels do occa-

sionally sprout, they’re gossamer at best. This is its own story, and while Luldow is not above using obvious punchlines to grab a laugh, much of the humor is more nuanced than that. The various characters’ epiphanies, which can go to some awfully dark places, are compellingly written and performed. But the play is intended mainly as a lark, albeit a lark with a pie-eye, and the result is a happy diversion for a midsummer’s night.▼ Nymph O’ Mania will run at StageWerx through April 14. Tickets are $24. Tickets are available at www.nymphplay.com.

Coward’s hour by Richard Dodds ast year, the 110th anniversary of Noel Coward’s birthday, created flurries of tributes around town, but these are arbitrary whoop-de-doos based on a zero or a five as the concluding digit of the year at hand. But is Noel Coward no more interesting on the 111th anniversary of his birth than the 110th? Cindy Goldfield and Scrumbly Koldewyn, occasional cabaret partners for the past 16 years, make a good case for ongoing salutes in Cowardly Things at New Conservatory Theatre Center. This two-act show is not exactly a revue, nor is it exclusively Coward. With a framing device of an occasionally seen vaudeville production, the action mostly takes place backstage in which the two ever-so-slightly world-weary performers gossip and chat and reminisce and amuse each other through a stream-of-consciousness collection of songs that occasionally veer from the Coward

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canon. Cole Porter makes a couple of appearances, and there are several music-hall chestnuts, such as Billy Bennett’s “My Mother Doesn’t Know I’m on Stage,” that fit right into the proceedings. A lot of the best-known Coward songs are here – “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” and “Made About the Boy,” for example – but there are more than dozen of his songs that usually get scant hearing, but find new life in this casual setting. Goldfield and Koldewyn are playing characters, veteran bygone troupers with a long history together, and they use their own familiarity to occasionally rib one another, throw a dangling cue, or make light of a wayward lyric. It’s a friendly, comfortable way of doing business that puts an audience at ease as well. While Coward himself didn’t believe in publicly acknowledging his gayness, and had harsh words for Oscar Wilde’s behavior, he certainly wasn’t bent on hiding it either. Many of the songs in this particular repertoire are teasingly coy or ambiguous, and if there were a less loaded word than “camp” available, several could certainly earn that label. A song like

“(Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage) Mrs. Worthington” is a comic gem with no gay comment, but is inconceivable for a straight man to have written. Koldewyn and Goldfield loosen the facade a bit, as Koldewyn’s character, mostly seated at the piano, outs himself on several occasions, and for Goldfield’s character, it is old news. These characters may even be married, in some lavender sense, but the provided shreds of biography leave it to the viewer to imagine a fuller text. Set designer Kuo-Hao Lo has created the look of a slightly tattered, slightly decadent dressing room. Director Michael Phillis moves the production comfortably within the space. Goldfield and Koldewyn aren’t the strongest singers around, but they’re good company, and their version of a stroll down memory lane is a little louche, a little loverly, and a good deal of fun.▼ Cowardly Things will run at New Conservatory Theatre Center through July 31. Tickets are $20-$28. Call 8618972 or go to www.nctcsf.org.

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Heart to heart with Nancy Wilson by Gregg Shapiro lmost 35 years after the release of their classic debut album Dreamboat Annie, the Wilson sisters (Ann and Nancy) of Heart show no signs of slowing down. Their new album Red Velvet Car (Legacy) follows not only their previous studio recording, 2004’s Jupiter’s Darling, but also Ann’s firstever solo release, 2007’s Hope & Glory, on which she performed duets with Rufus Wainwright and Sir Elton John, among others. The good news is that the timeless Red Velvet Car has everything Heart fans have come to expect from the band, including razor-sharp rockers and mellow acoustic tracks. I spoke with Nancy shortly before the release of the disc.

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Nancy Wilson: This time out, we’d done a whole lot of touring inbetween [albums], which has galvanized our singing and playing live together on live stages. That always sharpens your focus as a writer, when you have the various thrills of songs on a live stage. You want to pull that into the aspect of writing new songs. There’s stuff about playing live that’s melded into the writing, as well as the fact that we romanced our producer Ben Mink for a couple of years before we could get into a studio with him. We also co-wrote some stuff with him for Red Velvet Car, as well as Craig Bartok, with whom we wrote everything for Jupiter’s Darling. Instead of self-producing this album, having this producer and having the Ben Mink style involved with our songwriting style, as well as Ben’s songwriting and playing style, was exactly what we were trying to get to. And it really worked! Our instincts were spot-on. It’s great when that happens.

It doesn’t always happen. I’m just really excited about this one. It’s always fun to have new material out there. In the case of Red Velvet Car, it’s sort of a topper. One of those things that comes along that you feel represents the arc of your career in the way you want it to. The disc has a nice balance of acoustic and electric tunes. Do you have a preference for one over the other?

No. That’s the thing about Heart. We’ve always been a dualistic dichotomy of a band! We rock really hard, and half the people used to say, “Why can’t you just rock, and get rid of all of those sappy ballads?” And the other half of the people would say, “Why do you have to do those rock songs? Why can’t you stick with your strengths, which is the beautiful, romantic side?” We just wouldn’t be Heart without both. I love the pumping beat of “Wheels.” Are there any plans for a club mix for your gay fans?

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Nancy Wilson of Heart: ‘Our instincts were spot-on.’

bit of Elton John in there, too. Speaking of gay fans, I was thinking about the song “Little Queen,” and the song “Queen City” had me wondering if you were aware of your following in the gay community?

We’ve always had a gay following that we’re really close with. Initially, because Ann’s a diva, just starting out with that fact, it’s automatic that we have gay boy and gay girl fans. There’s the diva thing that a lot of hetero males have a hard time getting behind, it’s so powerful. I think our gay audience is one of our biggest audiences. It’s been said that being impersonated by a drag queen is one of the highest forms of flattery. Have you come across any doing Heart?

I haven’t seen it myself, but I know they’re there. I would imagine that of all of the many singers to imitate, she would be one of the hardest. Even though there’s a lot of range represented in singers like Streisand and other high-range singers, there’s more of a rock thing that’s harder to

achieve, I think. I’d love to see somebody nail the Ann Wilson thing. Heart is performing in the newly revived Lilith Fair this summer.

It’s going to be amazing. We’ve never done Lilith Fair. I’m really curious to see how the human democracy is going to balance out with so many women doing most of the work. I don’t how many guys are going to be in the bands that are playing. It’s going to be totally cool to check it out. I’m just so proud that we could be an influence for so many women just to get out there and be ready to rock.▼

Well, “Wheels” would be ridiculously fun to remix! That bass-line was something that I had sitting around in my back-pocket, and it finally found a perfect home. It’s so dance! It reminds me a little bit of the Heart tune “Straight On.”

Yeah! Sort of barrelhouse. A little

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Loving, drinking & fighting by Tavo Amador ight biographies have been written about Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1932). She has published four memoirs, and figured prominently in fourth husband Eddie Fisher’s autobiography. Two-time husband Richard Burton chronicled his impressions of her, and they were the subject of another book. Countless magazine and newspaper articles have described her life and career. Now comes Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger (Harper, $27.99), written with her cooperation. Does it add anything new? Surprisingly, yes. She helped the authors because younger people thought the Burton she had married and divorced was director Tim, not actor Richard. Concerned about his posthumous reputation, Taylor gave them access to approximately 40 love letters written by Burton to her, from the beginning of their adulterous romance while filming Cleopatra (1963) to one sent shortly before his death in 1984, aged 58. The book underscores how Elizabeth and Richard, the individuals, got trapped by “Liz and Dick,” the mega-stars. Repeatedly, their films reflected their lives. In Cleopatra, The Sandpiper, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedians and the television movie Divorce His, Divorce Hers, they were either passionate, adulterous lovers or fighting spouses. Burton felt guilty about acting – an “unmanly” profession for the son and brother of Welsh coal miners. He was obsessed with the Faust legend – did he, the most promising stage actor of his generation, the successor to Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier, sell out to Hollywood for fame and unimaginable money? Yes. He also admitted to early homosexual dalliances – the authors suggest both Gielgud (possibly) and Olivier (unlikely) as men he experimented with. Burton said he didn’t like it, but seemed troubled by his feelings. Taylor, who had been close to gay men like Roddy McDowell, Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, and her longtime private secretary Richard Hanley, dismissed his concerns. The intensity of their love overwhelmed them. His letters extol Taylor’s beauty, her breasts, her entire body. He recalls meeting her in the early 1950s, when she was married to actor Michael Wilding, and laughing at such improbable beauty. She ignored him – he talked too much. It was more than physical. She adored his command of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Dylan Thomas, among other writers. He marveled at her intelligence and bawdy wit. Yet in many ways they were incompatible. She loved partying, had been used to fame since age 13, enjoyed being the most celebrated member of the jet set. Despite two Oscars and extraordinary box-office success, she wasn’t wild about acting. She wanted the benefits of stardom, including a lavish lifestyle. She separated her public and private personas. He showered her with incredible jewels and bought a huge yacht that became their home for years. Their celebrity mesmerized Burton, but he was essentially a private, scholarly man, or so he claimed. Sadly, alcohol and other drugs fueled their relationship. Heavy drinking didn’t interfere with her work. After giving up alcohol, she realized she had “a hol-

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low leg.” It affected him professionally. It often made him belligerent or morose or both. Yet the authors don’t question Burton’s legendary sexual prowess. Men, when drunk, rarely perform well in bed. He earned seven Best Actor Oscar nominations, but never

won. He could be spectacular: The Night of the Iguana, Virginia Woolf, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Often, however, he simply declaimed, relying on his beautiful voice, but showing little emotion. He correctly felt her acting was underrated – at her best, she was excellent. But when, after their second divorce, they exploited their fame by starring in a revival of Noel Coward’s Private

Lives on Broadway and on tour, critics lambasted them. Yet SRO audiences flocked to it. As she shrewdly said, the public wanted to see “Liz and Dick camp it up,” and that’s what they got. Only one other marriage of the 20th century provided such notoriety: that of Edward VIII, who abdicated the English throne to wed a twice-divorced American, Wallis

Warfield Simpson. As the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, they ruled a café society duchy. The two couples socialized, although Burton claimed a dinner at the Windsors’ Paris home was dull. At a ball given by Prince Ranier and Princess Grace (former American movie star Grace Kelly), Taylor giggled while a slightly dotty Duchess kept dipping the feather in her hair into the soup. Burton insisted most of the famous people they socialized with were boors, and remained close to his family, for whom he provided generously.

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Jack Curtis Dubowski Ensemble at Café DuNord, Wed.

5pm. Thru Sept. 25. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

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Alicia Ohs @ Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory New York dance-theatre artist performs When I Die I will Be Dead, and New York, I Love You, I Hate You, Now Dance!, works with frantic comic insight about the world of performing arts. $20. Thu-Sat thru July 24. 1519 Mission St. at 11th. www.mcvf.org

Another Hole in the Head @ Roxie, Viz Theaters Three weeks of new and cult classic horror, science fiction and fantasy movies, including the controversial Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives. $10 each- $150 full pass. Thru July 29. Roxie: 3117 16th St. Viz Cinema: New People World, 1746 Post St. 820-3907. www.sfindiefest.com

Blackout @ Lookout Sister Roma and local porn dude Samuel Colt cohost a lights-out night with DJs Jeff Johnson and Guy Ruben, plus leathery gogos and Folsom St. Events ticket giveaways. 9pm-2am. 3600 16th st. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

his week, we dive snout-first into the sleaziest, most fun parties surrounding Up Your Alley, and a few nearby exhibits of sexy art that embody the curious and sometimes comic elements of SoMa kink. Friday July 23 is the opening reception for the first US solo show of Ulli Richter at Mark I. Chester Gallery. The German artist’s formal, stately and poetically symbolic portraits of men in extreme kink situations are for adults only. 7pm-11pm. Donations. Get your portrait taken during Dore Alley Street Fair by Mark I. Chester. Also July 24, 1pm-6pm; July 25, 12pm6pm. thru Aug. by appointment. July 29, Hot Draw, also at Mark I. Chester Studio, hosts group drawing session with a hot nude male model doing erotic poses. Donations. 6:30pm-9:30pm. Reservations requested: 6216294. 1229 Folsom St. 621-6294. www.markichester .com To study a studly cartoon master of gayrotica, Al “A. Jay” Shapiro original sketches are in a cloistered upstairs room at James Snidle Fine Art. See original drawings by the late gay erotic cartoonist and creator of Harry Chess and other muscular comic characters. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Sat 9am-2pm. 1190 Bryant St. 552-0500. www.jamessnidlefinearts .com Friday, July 23, get your kink on at Full Throttle. The official Up Your Alley Weekend event invades The Endup with a special fetish dress-only evening of Ulli Richter at Mark dancing and cruising all night long, with beer I. Chester Studio specials, a cruisy backroom maze, strip-down (clothes check), throw-down (par-terre hump sessions?) and rub-down (massages!) tents, and music until 11am with DJs include Craig Gaibler, Frank Wild, Hawthorne, James Torres and Don Tix. Mandatory fetish gear 8pm-2am (uniforms, leather, rubber, sports, spandex, furry, etc.). Meet some porn dudes of Raging Stallion from 8pm-10pm. $25. 401 6th St. at Harrison. Limited tickets available at Body on Castro (450 Castro St.) www.cruzlinerteassf.com www.FolsomStreetEvents.com Saturday night Bay of Pigs at Factory 525 will be the event for slutty buddies. The highlight of the Up Your Alley weekend will include innovative demos, sweaty action, backroom thrills, an ample dance space, a cutting edge light show, lounges, a dark room, play spaces and fan favorite DJ Ted Eiel (Chicago) spinning chunkhouse grooves in the main room. $30$45. 10pm-4am. 525 Harrison St. www.folsomstreetevents.org. Bearracuda had to move from the Deco Lounge, but never fear. The special Dore Alley Underwear edition of the beartastic dance night, with DJs Matt Effect from Australia, and Matt Consola, will be at Paradise Lounge. $5-$8. 9pm-3am. 308 11th St. www.bearracuda.com Pornstar at Club 8, Andre Shannon’s sexy night, returns with a Fire Island theme, without the hassle of an eighth half-share, and a lot less attitude. Raging Stallion stud Austin Wilde performs a sexy solo show, DJ Bay of Pigs at Factory 525. Alex Funk spins, and hostess Locoya Hill greets. $10. Saturday, July 24. 9pm-3am. 1151 Folsom St. 431-1151. www.eightsf.com Sunday, July 25, stroll down to Up Your Alley at Dore Alley and Folsom Street. The annual sexy street fair celebrates leather and kink of all kinds. Enjoy beer, beverages and food, plus booths selling sexy products galore. But mostly it’s about the man-watching and occasional kinky showoffs. $5 donations. 11am-6pm. Dore Alley at Folsom Street. www.folsomstreetevents.org After Up Your Alley, it’s Dirty Alley at DNA Lounge, where Play, the Up Your Alley T-dance and closing party, includes music spun by DJ Joe Gauthreaux, a fruit and snack table, chill room and more. The dress code is blue-collar grunge, so get out the macho working-class clothes. $20-$35. July 25, 5pm-12am. 375 11th St. www.playtdance.com ▼

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Carmina Burana: Revisited, Rebuked @ Dance Mission Theatre Labayen Dance presents Enrico Labayen’s intense dance, a rethinking of women’s status and relationships, Filipino traditions and role reversals, set to the modern classic Carl Orff music. $25-$30. 8pm. Also July 24, 8pm; July 25, 7pm. 3316 24th st. 8264441. www.enricolabayen.com

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Actors Theatre Tennessee Williams’ acclaimed Southern family drama gets a local production. $26$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 4. 855 Bush St. at Mason. 345-1287. www.actorstheatresf.org

Chuck Drees @ Magnet Exhibit of haunting landscape paintings. Exhibit thru July. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Cowardly Things @ New Conservatory Theatre Cindy Goldfield and Scrumbly Koldewyn’s duo cabaret show inspired and including songs by Noel Coward. $20-$28. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru July 31. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Duniya Dancehall @ Blue Macaw Monthly live music and dance showcase, with Duniya Dance and Drum Company (voted among the best performers at this year’s LGBT Pride Parade), Bongo Sidibe and DJ DubSnakr playing Afrobeat, Bhangra, Bollywood and Hip Hop music; every 4th Friday. $5-$10. 2565 Mission St. at 22nd. www.duniyadance.com

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Old Mint Bldg. The acclaimed site-specific dance-theatre work Traveling Light returns by popular demand. With four stories in separate interconnected rooms inside the historic building, it’s worthy of multiple viewings. $34-$44. Wed-Sun 8pm. Fri & Sat 10pm. Thru Aug. 1. 88 Fifth St. at Mission. www.joegoode.org

The Kids are All Right @ Century 9 Cinema Two teenaged children conceived by artificial insemination get the notion to seek out their birth father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) have built for them. Once the donor (Mark Ruffalo) is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re-defined, and re-re-defined. 835 Market St. www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/the _kids_are_all_right

Piaf: Love Conquers All @ Eureka Theatre Naomi Emmerson stars as French chanteuse Edith Piaf in the Off-Broadway musical hit. $25-$36. Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm 215 Jackson St. Thru Aug. 7. (800) 838-3006. www.tonepoetproductions.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle (Tings Dey Happen) premieres a new multiple-character solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat

TechnoCraft @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts New exhibit of work subtitled Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality, which includes works in many media by dozens of technicians, artists and designers who remake and revision technology, art and culture. Special evening shows with Charming Hostess, The Bowls Project, Watcha Clan and other music groups, on various Thursday, Friday eves and Sunday afternoons. $12-$15 Exhibit Thu-Sat 12pm-8pm. Sun 12pm-6pm. 700 Mission St. 978-ARTS. www.ybca.org

Trannyshack Siouxsie Tribute @ DNA Lounge Ooh, peekaboo! You’ll be spellbound by the wild and hilarious acts in the latest Trannyshack tribute night, this time in honor of the Queen of Goth, Siouxsie (and the Banshees). The night features performances by Trixxie Carr, Heklina, Putanesca, Anna Conda, Jordan L’Moore, Syphilis Diller, Suppositori Spelling, Valentine, Fauxnique, and Jason El Diablo. DJ Omar (Sixxteen) will be spinning before and after the show. Get tickets in advance. $12. July 23, DNA Lounge, 375 11th St. 10pm-3am. Show at Midnight. www.dnalounge.com www.trannyshack.com

Travesties @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare’s outdoor theatre production of Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning spoof of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. $20-$35. Fri-Sun 4pm & 8pm. Sun 5pm. 1475 Grand Ave. Dominican University campus. 499-4488. www.marinshakespeare.org

Sat 24 >> African Continuum @ Museum of the African Diaspora

New exhibit of prints by Bay Area historian Bryan Wiley documenting altars and ritual practices of U.S. African descendants of other countries. $5-$10. Wed-Sat 11am6pm. Thru Aug. 28. 685 Mission St. at 3rd. www.moadsf.org

Anna Conda Campaign Benefit @ Catherine Clark Gallery Fundraiser for the drag queen Supervisor candidate. Exhibit of works by Scott Greene and Marina Zurkow. Hosted bar, music by Sick Wolf. Donations. 7pm-10pm. 150 Minna St. www.cclarkgallery.com

The Art of Dr. Seuss @ Dennis Rae Fine Art Fascinating exhibit of rarely seen prints, paintings, sculptures and a few of the more known drawings by Theodor Geisel, the author/illustrator of the immensely popular children’s books. Ongoing, with updates and new items. 351A Geary St. 391-1948. www.dennisraefineart.com

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Birth of Impressionism @ de Young Museum Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay includes approximately 100 paintings from the Musee d’Orsay’s permanent collection. Thru Sept. 6. Free-$25. Thru Sept 2, Orsay Soirée every Thursday evening, features reduced admission fees for extended viewing hours through 8:45 pm. $10-$25 (free/members). Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.deyoungmuseum.org

Blithe Spirit @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley

owners), with some pivotal works by Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Chuck Close and others. Other exhibits include visually striking contemporary works. Free-$18. Thru Sept. 19. Fri-Tue 10am5:45pm. Thu til 8:45pm. 151 Third St. at Mission. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org

Dancetime @ Café Flore Garza hosts a fundraiser for Dance Through Time, with DJ Ken Vulsion (Honey Soundsystem), plus performances by Mamadora, Farrokh, Taty Flash and others. Donations. 10pm-2am. Market St. at Noe & 16th. www.cafeflore.com

Enrique Chagoya @ Galeria de la Raza YTREBIL, an exhibit of politically satirical prints and drawings. Exhibit thru Aug. 28. Tue 1pm-7pm. Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. 8268009. 2857 24th St. www.galeriadelaraza.org

The Fantastiks @ SF Playhouse Local production of the classic Off-Broadway musical about young love and interfering parents. $30-$50. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru Sept. 4. 533 Sutter St. at Powell. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove 15th annual day of fun in the sun, celebrating life through flow arts with DJed music by Craig Gaibler. Flaggers, fan dancers poi dancers and their fans welcome. Bring a blanket, picnics, etc. Free. 1pm-5pm. Middle Dr E & Bowling Green Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.aef-sf.org

Hayes Valley Follies @ Marlena’s Weekly old-school drag show, hosted by Miss Galilea. 10pm. No cover. 488 Hayes St. 864-6672. www.marlenasbarsf.com

Jewish Film Festival @ Castro Theatre Annual festival of films made in Israel and around the world, all with Jewish themes. Thru July 29. www.sfjff.org www.castrotheatre.com

Local Wonder @ Tenderloin Community Gallery Art by Tenderloin artists challenging stereotypes about local residents. Fri-Sat 12pm3pm. Thru Aug. 31. 134A Golden Gate Ave. at Jones. www.nom-tlcbd.org

Mango @ El Rio The fun “dance, eat, drink and enjoy” party for women. Mango happens the 4th Saturday of every month from 3pm-8:30pm. 3158 Mission Street. www.elriosf.com

New Exhibits @ Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum re-opens after major renovations. Exhibits include Bay Area figurative art, Dorothea Lange archive, Early landscape paintings, Gold Rush Era works, California ceramics. Gallery of California Natural Sciences focuses on California’s unique status as a region of extreme biological and geological diversity. $5-$15. 1000 Oak St. Oakland. (510) 238-2200. www.museumca.org

Pastor Tom Show @ KUSF Dr. Tom Polcari’s LGBT music and talk show. 4pm. Weekly on 90.3 FM.

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only! Extended, Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Perverts Put Out @ Center for Sex and Culture

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley’s production of the Noel Coward comedy about a man and his two wives, one of them a ghost. $12$15. Thu-Fri-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 21. 1301 Shattuck Ave. at Berryman. (510) 6495999. www.aeofberkeley.org

Special Dore Alley kink-themed readings by Tori Adams, Gina De Vries, Daphne Gottleib, Philip Huang, Steven Schwartz, horehound stillpoint, Hew Wolff, and hosts Dr. Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard. $10$15. 7:30pm. 1519 Mission St. www.simonsheppard.com www.sexandculture.org

Calder to Warhol @ SF MOMA

Point Break Live @ Metreon Action Theater

The first public exhibit of some of the works collected by the Fishers (The GAP empire

Ridiculous live staged version of the surferbank robber movie, where a chosen audience

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Thunder From Down Under at The Rrazz Room, Mon. that commented on the Nazi uprising. Also, Miroslav Tichy vintage photos. Tue-Sat. 10:30-5:30pm. Thru Aug. 21. 49 Geary St. 421-0122. www.kochgallery.com

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One-drink minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Meditation Class @ LGBT Center Animate your authentic non-stress self in this educational encouraging environment. $10-$20. 7pm-8:45pm. 1800 Market St., #308. www.Insighttransformation.com

Yoga Classes @ LGBT Center Fun, friendly weekly classes for beginners or experienced with Bill Mohler. $10-$20. 6:30pm. Also Wednesdays. Room 302, 1800 Market St. at Octavia. www.billmohleryoga.com member plays Keanu Reeves’ role with cue cards. Warning; wear cheap clothes. Rain tarps provided, but you will get wet and/or fake-bloody. $25. 9pm. Fri & Sat. Thru July 31. (866) 811-4111. www.pointbreaklivesf.com

Robyn, Kelis, Dan Black @ Mezzanine Trio of vocalists perform their dance music songs as part of their All Hearts tour. $25-$40. 7pm-2am. 21+. 444 Jessie St. www.mezzaninesf.com

SF Gold Rush Pageant @ Triple Crown

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 Country-Western dancing with lessons. $5. Free clothes check. Beginner lessons at 5:30pm, dancing til 10:30. 550 Barneveld Ave. 820-1403. www.sundancesaloon.org

Grand Ducal Council of SF fundraiser for the Castro Country Club, the only clean and sobor social space in the Castro. Prizes, drag shows, and fun, hosted by Pollo Del Mar. $10. 6pm-10pm. 1760 Market St. www.triplecrownsf.com

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Weekly beginners same-sex dance classes in salsa and other styles. Also swing classes on Wednesdays, Standard ballroom Thursdays, $10 each, $35 for series. 151 Potrero Ave. 305-8242. www.QueerBallroom.com

Join GLBT hikers for a 12-mile hike on the north side of Mt. Tam by lakes, streams, and very hidden trails. Bring lunch, snacks, lots of water, sunscreen, hat, etc. Carpool meets 9am under the Safeway sign at Market St. at Dolores. Also, July 27, a 3-mile hike to Claremont Canyon in Berkeley. 279-5570. www.sfhiking.com

SF Symphony @ Davies Hall Actor Chris Noth (Sex and the City, Law & Order) narrates Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait in a concert of works by John Adams, Charles Ives, George Gershwin and others. $15-$90. 8pm. 8646000. Grove St. at Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphony.org

Smack @ Underground SF Juanita More! presents a Detroit-style funk night with DJ Chuck Hampton, aka Gay Marvine and Jason Kendig of Honey Soundsystem. More! and Nathan Rapport cohost and spin, too. $5. 10pm-2am. 424 Haight St. www.juanitamore.com

Taming of the Shrew @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Shakespeare’s feistiest lovers pair off in a swashbuckling version of the classic sexist comedy. $20-$35. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 4pm/5pm. 1475 Grand Ave., Dominican University. 499-4488. www.marinshakespeare.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 Hearts on Fire is the current show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with new guest chanteuse Liliane Montevecchi, comic Frank Ferrante, twin acrobats Ming and Rui, Vertical Tango rope dance, plus magic, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Queer Ballroom @ Live Art Gallery

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. New times: Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Thunder From Down Under @ The Rrazz Room Australian male stripper troupe performs (no frontal nudity; men welcome). $35-$45. 8pm. 21+. Thru July 29. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.thunderfromdownunder.com www.TheRrazzRoom.com

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Meditation Classes @ Kadampa Buddhist Temple Tessa Logan teaches drop-in meditation classes. $10. 7-8:45pm. 3324 17th St. 503-1187. www.meditationin northerncalifornia.org

The Drag Show @ Channel 29/76 New weekly talk show with local drag performers; Zachary Davenport and Stu Smith cohost. Free (with cable). 7:30pm.

Foto Ada @ Robert Koch Gallery Exhibit of 1930s German photomontages

Chris Schiavo @ ArtHaus The Backyard, an exhibit of darkly witty photos of cluttered Queens, New York back yards. Also a garden installation by Deanna Glory. Thru Sept. 30. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. 977-0223. www.arthaussf.com

Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene @ Robert Tat Gallery Exhibit of high fashion, art, and nude prints by the two gay iconic photographers of the 20th century. Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm, by appointment, and first Thursdays til 7:30pm. Thru July 31. 49 Geary St. Suite 211. www.roberttat.com

In Country @ SF CameraWork Soldiers Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, photographer Jennifer Karady’s compelling story portraits of American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan create images that tell their individual stories and make visible the psychological impact of war— the nightmares and memories that soldiers continue to experience after returning home. Also, Roll Call, an SF Camerawork members’ exhibition. Thru Aug. 7. Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm. 657 Mission St. 512-2020. www.sfcamerawork.org

Jack Curtis Dubowski Ensemble @ Café DuNord The innovative local music trio in an encore performance of their live version of the entire classic Depeche Mode album, Violator. (“Personal Jesus,” “Enjoy the Silence”). A must-see for music fans. $10. 8pm. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.destijlmusic.com www.cafedunord.com

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Bear Market @ Russian River Resort Bearracuda guys and pals’ bear weekend getaway includes days of outdoor and nightclub fun, with pool parties, bonfire, hiking, river float and more. Special party buses from the Castro 10am-12pm. $55-$70 for a weekend pass or $10-$20 for single events. Thru Aug. 2. 16390 Fourth St., Guerneville. (707) 869-0691. www.beargetaway.com

Marriage Equality USA Reception @ Good Vibrations Mixer and info night including updates on marriage equality efforts, with a multimedia art retrospective of the ecosexual works by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, with wine and nibbly things. 6pm-8pm. 1620 Polk St. at Sacramento. 3450400. www.events.goodvibes.com

Wicked @ Orpheum Theatre

Passionate Struggle @ GLBT Historical Society

Mega-hit musical based on the book about the two famous Oz witches as young college roommates. $30-$99. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Sept. 1192 Market St. at 8th. $30. 512- 7770. www.shnsf.com

Exhibit about Bay Area LGBT historical events and people. Also, Man-I-Fest, an exhibit of letters and documents by FTM transgender pioneer Lou Harrison and friends. Free/donations. Wed-Sat 1pm-5pm. 657 Mission St. #300. 777-5455. www.glbthistory.org

Sun 25 >> Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio

Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Shanghai @ Asian Art Museum New exhibit about Asian artists from Shanghai, 130 works exploring and visualizing the city’s vibrant and turbulent history. $7-$17. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

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Flagging in the Park at the AIDS Memorial Grove, Sat.

For more bar and nightclub listings, go to our new website and monthly print nightlife guide www.bartabsf.com To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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The show must go on! by Donna Sachet ast Monday’s Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s cabaret show featured the touring casts of Wicked and Young Frankenstein, joined by Hollywood funnyman Bruce Vilanch and sensational vocalist Sharon McNight, in the home of Beach Blanket Babylon, Club Fugazi. These one-night-only events are a rare opportunity to hear these Broadway voices singing music of their own choosing, not from their touring hit shows, while raising needed funds for AIDS-related service organizations. The participants deserve kudos for giving up their one night off to participate in a show of this kind. In addition to some remarkable singing, we were treated to several moving dance numbers and lots of humor along the way. Juanita Ramirez’s psychic reading had the crowd in stitches, especially when she struggled to see the future of REAF’s own Gary Thackeray. Vilanch proved the perfect emcee, often seeming to shock the audience with his no-holds-barred comedy and celebrity skewering. The highlight of the evening, however, was McNight as she compressed the first half-hour of The Wizard of Oz into a sidesplitting 7minute musical O N T HE medley, complete with startling character impersonations. Seen in the audience and at the reception afterwards were Larry Horowitz, Don Berger, Richard Sablatura, Beth Schnitzer, Patrik Gallineaux, Sister Dana, and Lawrence Helman. Speaking of REAF, whatever you do, don’t miss their 16th annual Help is on the Way, That’s Entertainment,

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Young Frankenstein actor Preston Truman Boyd, in the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s cabaret show at Club Fugazi.

on Sun., Aug. 15, at Herbst Theatre. The dazzling cast of performers includes Carol Channing, Melissa Manchester, Kimberley Locke, La Toya London, Carole Cook, Lisa Vroman, David Gaines, and Paula West. Start in the lobby with the 5 p.m. VIP Reception, attend the show at 7:30, and mingle with the perT OWN formers afterwards in the Green Room. This event always receives our highest recommendation! While we love so many of the annual fundraisers and regular events which our LGBT community hosts, we also enjoy wandering a bit farther, especially when guided by trusted friends. Eric Forbes recently informed us of a group called The Cru-

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cible, a nonprofit educational facility which encourages collaborations between artists and industry, promoting creative reuse of materials and innovative design. That brief description hardly gives you any idea of what awaited us in Oakland last Friday night. Heat: A Fire Cabaret featured theatrical demonstrations, fire twirlers, acrobatic acts, exotic dancers, and incredible vocal performances by Kim Nalley, all housed within a high-ceilinged industrial space filled with guests bedecked in 1920s speakeasy garb. One of the most intriguing scenes was a darkly lit foundry where hot metal fresh from the furnace was pounded on anvils, closely coordinated with beating drums, as a lithe female mounted a worktable in tribal dance. Check

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Coming up in leather & kink >> There are many events surrounding the Up Your Alley Street Fair this Sunday (www.folsomstreetevents.org). Check out your favorite leather/fetish bars’ websites for details of events not listed here.

Thur., Jul. 22-Sun., Jul. 25: International Leather Sir/boy and Community Bootblack Weekend, SF. Titles International Leather Sir, International Leather boy, and Community Bootblack 2010 awarded. Theme: “Honoring the Past, Playing in the Present, Building the Future.” Contest is held on Fri. and Sat. nights, Hotel Whitcomb (1231 Market St.). Details: www.leathersir.com/weekend /Events.html. Thur., Jul. 22: International Leather Sir/boy Meet & Greet at Mr. S Leather (385 8th St.), 6-8 p.m. Go to: www.leathersir.com/weekend/Events.html or www.mr-sleather.com. Thur., Jul. 22: International Leather Sir/boy Contest Welcome/Kick-off Party at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Thur., Jul. 22-Sun., Jul. 25: Camp Perv by The Group in Fresno. Contact Romeo@TGIFresno.org or go to: www.theexiles.org. Fri., Jul. 23: Big Muscle Party! at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Come meet the men in person from BigMuscle.com, BigMuscleLeather.com, BigMuscleBears.com and Big MuscleCollege.com. Starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Fri., Jul. 23: Men of Discipline Dore Alley 2010 Play Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission) 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Play structures, safer sex supplies, music and munchies will be provided. You provide the energy, wear your hottest fetish gear, bring your toys. $25/person in advance, $35 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m., close at Midnight, play continues until 2 a.m. Go to: www.menofdiscipline.com. Fri., Jul. 23: SF Leather Daddy XXVIII Contest at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). 9 p.m.-Midnight. Find out who will be the new SF Leather Daddy! Go to: www.sfldadsandboys.com or www.sfeagle.com. Fri., Jul. 23: Opening party for Men: photographs by German photographer Ulli Richter at the Mark I. Chester studio (1229 Folsom). Runs through Aug. 22. Viewing hours 1-6 p.m. Sat., Noon-6 p.m. Sun. Go to: http://markichester.com. Chester is offering a free digital pic to anyone who visits his studio on Dore Alley Weekend. Each additional image is $10. Fri., Jul. 23: Up Your Alley Kick-Off with the 2011 Bare Chest Calendar men at the Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). 10 p.m. www.powerhouse-sf.com and www.barechest.org.

Sat., Jul. 24: SF Men’s Spanking Party at the Power Exchange (220 Jones St.). 1-6 p.m. This is a male-only event. You must be 18+ with a valid photo ID. This is not an S&M leather group. For guys into Spanking & Spanking Fantasies like Old-Fashioned Spanking over Daddy’s Knee or a Fraternity-style Pledge Initiation Paddling. This is a safe place for beginners to explore their Spanking Fantasies, or just a good place to meet and talk to other guys into this fetish. Info: Call (415) 864-2766, SanFranParty@yahoo.com or check www.voy.com/201188. Sat., Jul. 24: Durrty Jockstrap Party! at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Strip down to your dirty jocks and get bar specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Sat., Jul. 24: Hell Hole Fisting Party, 7 p.m.-4 a.m. Door closes at Midnight. $25, free clothes check. This party is not open to the general public. For an invitation, visit www.HellHoleSF.com. Volunteers, contact larry@hellholesf.com. Sat., Jul. 24: Boot Lickin’ at the Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). 10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Sat., Jul. 24: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Sat., Jul. 24: Bluf Men in the Back Bar Action at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back-patio bar open to all gear/fetish/leather, special edition with the men of Bluf (Breaches & Leather Uniform Fanclub). 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.bluf.com or www.sfeagle.com. Sat., Jul. 24: Bay Area Cigar Buddies presents their annual Dore Alley get-together for men who enjoy smoking cigars and pipes, including a Beverage Bust ($12), raffle, cigars, and food. Proceeds to benefit Project Open Hand. 3-6 p.m. at the Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Sun., Jul. 25: Up Your Alley Street Fair on and around Folsom & Dore. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Go to: www.folsomstreetevents.org/alley/. Sun., Jul. 25: Treasure Island DVD release party for Breeding Season 2 at Chaps Bar. Chaps opens at 11 a.m. for the street fair, DVD party 4-11 p.m. Meet the stars! Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Mon., Jul. 26: Whip Works, monthly Singletail peer group facilitated by Daddy Darin at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8-10 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. $10. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Tue., Jul. 27: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

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Built for Speedo by John F. Karr t’s a fact that watching porn and masturbating all day leaves one with a clouded consciousness. So, in one of my rare moments of lucidity, I was catching up on the news in some porn blogs. What, to my horror, did I find? The exact week in April that I wrote about Aden and Jordan Jaric’s Best of compilation for Falcon, they broke up! That led to Aden being arrested in Portland on July 15 and charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault. Seems he and Jordan engaged in a bit of public fisticuffs. Aden spent the night in jail. I’m so truly disappointed – at the crash of their marriage, oh yes, and at the (allegedly) boozed-up brawl it begat. But what of their contract with Falcon? Stay tuned in, and I’ll report what I can. There’s another lad who’s been on a collision course. But Corbett Harper’s was with porn, not his boyfriend, and all came out well in his end. A little over two years ago, a series of jack-off videos began appearing online. They were self-made savories from the self-named SpeedoStudent, and in them the 19-year-old cutie modeled the swell boner inside his favorite Speedos, and jacked off in all sorts of places (like, classrooms) that the University of Hawaii recognized as their property. The postings brought notoriety, opprobrium, and the expected resolution. SpeedoStudent is now attending school in San Diego. Like June busting out all over, Corbett was splitting his Speedos with a need to make porn. Much travail later (read his blog and see juicy jpgs at www.SpeedoStudent.blogspot.com), he finally connected with Dirty Bird Pictures, got his new name, and at 22 made his first professional video. And so his ebullient personality, swimmer’s body, blond beauty, and big ol’ ready-to-blast bone have burst upon the world.

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The Crucible out online, and don’t miss another of their special events. This weekend is full of opportunities to get out of the house and get involved. On Friday and Saturday, Special Olympics Northern California is hosting Over the Edge, a unique fundraiser where individuals rappel down the side of the 36-story Grand Hyatt on Stockton St. Believe it or not, this intrepid reporter will be descending at 1 p.m. on Friday. Yes, you read that right. We are currently consulting with our hairstylist, our

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The difference in these marriages is that Taylor courageously ended theirs, twice, although they never stopped loving each other. They simply couldn’t live together sanely. The Windsors, in contrast, were trapped by the myth of their romance. Preserving Burton’s legacy may have motivated Taylor, but Furious Love augments her legend. Although now best known for her remarkable AIDS work, this book reminds readers that she was once the world’s most famous woman, acclaimed for her beauty, talent, and hailed as the last movie star. The book is poorly edited, repetitious and inaccurate: the date of Taylor’s star-making movie, National Velvet (1945), is wrong; she earned five Best Actress Oscar nominations, not four. The photographs, however, are terrific.▼

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gooey and cloying more often than it becomes acceptable electronica. And finally, there’s a blooper of the director’s audible instruction to his performers that should have been cleaned off the soundtrack. The movie’s first half features Corbett with Active Duty regular Kaden Saylor. Corbett first jacks off while dreaming of Kaden jacking off. Then they get together, for some prettified but – despite Corbett’s best efforts – impersonal sex. It’s Kaden. He’s gotten more muscled recently, less boyish. He’s sturdy, handsome, nicely cocked. But he’s bland. Kaden forgets that between suck em and stick em, there’s supposed to be a slathering of tongue in groove. Perhaps the erstwhile straight boy won’t rim. None too suavely, he jams it in a yelping Corbett, whose ultimate manually-induced orgasm follows Kaden’s dutiful ministrations. Maybe Kaden just The movie is called SpeedoBoys. Its wasn’t enough of a fantasy. Their engreatest novelty is that unlike the macounter is pleasant enough, but hardjority of movies that promise Speedoly the star’s entrance that should have clad sweeties, only to ditch the suits off been accorded Corbett. ASAP, this one delivers. There’s an enWe get that in the second half of tire scene devoted to our arousal via SpeedoBoys, when Shawn, a deeply Speedo-shrouded sweet-meats. And tanned, buzz-cut blond with an oththe other scenes linger amidst swimerwise entirely shaven body, takes suited scepters. over. Here’s that posing SpeedoBoys was directed scene I mentioned that by Dink Flamingo, best luxuriates at length in the known as the Marinefabulosities of robust monger who runs Active rousers with really big Duty. Yet despite this rods inside skintight movie’s solid videograskivvies. When they pull phy, sensible POVs and down the waistbands, the unobtrusive editing, taut fabric cups their Dink’s roots in amaballs and makes their teur video are revealed K ARRNAL cocks stand straight up, in several ways. His K NOWLEDGE and they spend lush time movie lacks both rubbing together their opening and closing lush cocks, grinding credits, and is saddled with narration them up upon each other, and in that’s insipid and needless (“The many ways being tumescently picphone rang,” Corbett tells us, as – turesque. whataya know – the phone rings; Then they move from backyard to Corbett even wrote in his blog, “I’m bed, and have a thorough fuck. First, still shaking my head over my Shawn savors sucking upon Corbett’s voiceover bits, they sound cheesy to cock, and then, he rims. Gets his me.”) There’s music that’s new-age tongue way in there. Then he fingers wardrobe assistant, and our acrophobia therapist. Later on Friday, from 2-5 p.m., come to the Milton Marks Auditorium of the Federal Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave., for an HIV Listening Session with many of the candidates for the Board of Supervisors in Districts 6, 8, and 10, moderated by Yours Truly. Panelists include Cecilia Chung, Tim Durning, Randy Allgaier, Jason Riggs, Curtis Moore, and Brian Basinger. HIV/AIDS is far from over, and here is a chance to hear directly from our future leaders and to make sure our concerns are at the top of their agenda. Saturday night starts a weekend of

Leather and Fetish events with the Bay of Pigs party, featuring DJ Ted Eiel, from 10 p.m.-4 a.m. at 525 Harrison, followed by the Up Your Alley Street Fair from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday. Get ready for fun in the sun! The following weekend, the Imperial Council hosts the last in a long line of Mr. Cowboy & Miss Cowgirl titles with The Final Cattle Call at the LGBT Community Center, Sat., July 31, starting at 7 p.m. Mr. Cowboy Brent Olivier & Miss Cowgirl Saybeline have a great night of country fun planned to finish off their active year of fundraising and party-hosting. Get out your best cowboy boots, hats, and belt buckles!▼

the lovely, hairless hole, and plugs it well, going from kind to killer with mounting intensity. And then, and then – he delivers his load – O Sacramental Moment! – right in Corbett’s mouth. Quel finale! The difference between Shawn and Kaden is that Shawn fingers his own butthole while he sucks Corbett, and

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or those who believe the spirit of the 1960s wasn’t conjured until Jack Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (or Out of Breath) put a rakish, brazenly insolent French petty hoodlum on a crime spree that, in a breezy 90 minutes, overthrew every stuffy rule holding back the new cinema. To paraphrase a contemporary critic, it’s “where pretentious youth overthrow an even more pretentious establishment.” We know nothing about this young thug Michel Poiccard (JeanPaul Belmondo, who, at 27, had made virtually no impression in his first nine pictures) apart from his cheeky grin, the cigarette dangling from his lower lip, and his ability to hot-wire American cars. In a brisk 10 minutes, Michel steals a car, kills a cop and propositions his girl (or is

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signed and constructed by Labayen, Carmina spans the realms of dance and theater, drawing on global issues of female inequality and the individual stories of female figures in the dancers’ lives. The similarities to Graham do not end on the surface. Like Graham’s, Labayen’s movement is firmly grounded in the impulse of the torso, and his choreography draws inspiration from history, myth, and personal experience. Backed by Carl Orff’s iconic score Carmina Burana, the dancers stand in formation, an army of Amazons fixed with a single intention, a pack of wolves on the hunt. They flick their dresses like the slice of a blade, flourish them with the gusto of a matador, then retreat into the folds of the fabric like children cowering in the dark. In minutes, they transition from the wild pulsations of beasts in a jungle to the solitude and introspection of sinners in a confessional, to the self-conscious preening of adolescents in a dressing room. They grasp each other‘s heads softly, huddle conspiratorially, then dart out at one another, ready to slap the daylights out of anyone who

she?) on the Champs-Elysees. That girl, Patricia Franchini (the cornbread All-American Jean Seberg, fresh off two critically lambasted films for her cinema daddy Otto Preminger), is wearing a flesh-tight T-shirt with the logo of her employer, The New York Herald Tribune, girdling her chest. Michel rudely quips, “Why don’t you wear a bra?” Famous for breaking all the rules of filmmaking at that precious moment (Aug./Sept., 1959) with his furious jump cuts and handheld camera, Godard actually took more calculated risks with extremely long takes and, for a “crime flick,” an audacious mid-film chapter where Belmondo and Seberg hop in and out of bed philosophizing about the future of their relationship. Will she jump into his latest stolen car and flee to Italy, or would she rather sleep her way up the ranks of Paris freelance journalism? A droll episode has Pa-

comes too close. Rivals, friends, comrades, lovers: Labayen’s choreography ruminates over the diversity of female identities and relationships. Above all, it is noble. “The carriage of the body is very important to me,” he instructs, demonstrating a stately walk with sinuous elegance. “No matter what you are doing, you maintain an internal dignity.” As with all great dance masters, his lessons extend beyond the dance. The architecture of the set displays the broad horizontal lines reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie design. Handcrafted and painted scarlet by Labayen, the stylized table and benches become a shifting landscape as the dancers climb over, under, and around them, rearranging them to form risers for a church choir, a dining table in the home, a bawdy saloon, a boxing ring, a crucifix, all delineated in clean geometry. These configurations – domestic, social, historical, abstract – form a series of arenas for emotions to unfold. Carmina marks the return of Labayen Dance/SF to the stage after a five-year hiatus, during which Labayen returned to Southeast Asia on research fellowships to study traditional dance. With dancers from Brazil, China, Korea, and Russia as well as the US, Labayen has assembled a

Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.

tricia tossing brilliantly pretentious questions at a heavyweight male novelist who flirts back, employing every hoary cliché of the language of love. Fifty years later, the attitudes may seem absurdly precious, but the images endure: Belmondo staring up at a cinema poster of Bogey in his last feature (The Harder They Fall), rub-

Labayen’s movement is firmly grounded in the impulse of the torso. His choreography draws inspiration from myth. Dancer/choreographer Enrico Labayen.

company that reflects a multicultural sensibility and a diverse set of talents. As with much dance currently being made in America, the dancers work a variety of jobs, study, support families. Labayen himself has worked as a chef and an accountant. Art in America is always connected to a life of labor – of desk jobs in advertising agencies, of teaching and learning, of serving food and tending children. The lives of women in particular exemplify this multiplicity of

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(Castro, 7/24; Cinearts, 8/2; Roda, 8/4; Rafael, 8/8) Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story “I understood what it meant to be a Jew. I understood that people thought you were different. It was an era when there were wooden signs on apartment buildings and homes for rent and stuff: ‘No Jews or dogs allowed.’” Growing up asthmatic and Jewish in a tough section of Miami during the Great Depression, Al Rosen learned how to defend himself (his nose broken innumerable times as an amateur boxer), and how to hit a curveball. Rosen, a slugging third baseman on two Cleveland Indians pennant-winning teams, enjoyed a stellar playing career that was followed by equally impressive stints in the front office. In 1978, he directed George Steinbrenner’s Yankees to a

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draw me anymore.” (Jews in Shorts program; Roda, Aug. 2) Te Extrano (I Miss You) In this deliciously moody, semi-autobiographical drama, Argentina’s mid70s “Dirty Little War” forces a gangly, red-haired adolescent to put aside childish ways following the politically-inspired disappearance of his beloved older brother. Javier (the subtly emotive Fermin Volcoff) longs to be allowed to play some of the radical political games favored by his athletic bro, Adrian (darkly handsome Martin Slipak). Following a military coup, the Junta dispatches thugs to suppress dissent at the brothers’ high school. Adrian, refusing to abandon his friends in the growing underground, disappears one night, and the parents decide to send Javier away to sit out the hostilities with relatives in Mexico. Volcoff is especially strong at portraying an adolescent forced to make impossible choices, and to face the unbearable grief of a grandmother whose mental breakdown causes her to mistake him for the now-dead Adrian. Director Fabian Hoffman (with writer Diana Cardozo) neatly explores the tensions affecting this middle-class Jewish family whose plans for a secure life after leaving Nazi-occupied Poland are rudely upended. Plays with the Mill Valleybased short Escape from Suburbia.

bing his thumb across his lips in a symbolic kiss to the freshly dead icon, whose image he would appropriate for the next couple of decades; Belmondo and Seberg smoking up a storm – at one point, she literally disappears into a cloud of cigarette smoke – as they flirt with a future she’s already preparing to betray.

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World Series trophy, then was the brains behind the SF Giants’ appearance in the 1989 earthquake series. Rosen is perhaps most proud of sticking up for a pioneering African American teammate, Larry Doby. “I knocked out a taxi driver because he wouldn’t take Larry in the same cab we were going in.” Rosen is certain that talented gay players deserve their shot at playing America’s great game. “I think it’s going to happen, and it should happen. If I were a teammate, I’d welcome him with open arms. There have been openly gay players in baseball. It’s not for me to judge what a man is, it’s what he does, his composure under action, what he brings to a group. I would never stand in judgment of gay, black, blue.” Rosen is one of several dynamic Jewish ball-players whose exploits are celebrated in Peter Miller’s Jews and

roles – to nurture and support, to carry and create, to defend the home and open it to others – and to Labayen, the laboring body is the dancing body, entirely rooted in the human, in the aching specificity of individual hunger, sadness, and triumph. As Labayen terms it, the dancers come to the studio to “play.” But it is a highly spiritual play, with far more than technique at stake.

Baseball. Featuring a rare interview with Hall of Fame legend Sandy Koufax, Miller’s rigorously researched script (narrated by Dustin Hoffman) uncovers many historical gems about the contributions of Jewish players. The filmmakers trace the first Jewish ballplayer back to the game’s emergence in the Civil War era; document the reluctance of many early players to sport obviously Jewish surnames; and show the role of the NY Giants’ irascible manager John J. McGraw in recruiting Jewish players to the Polo Grounds to counteract the Yankees giant Babe Ruth. Then there’s the inspirational saga of the first great Jewish star, Hank Greenberg, in almost matching the Bambino’s home-run record in 1935; the decision of Greenberg and LA Dodger ace Koufax to sit out important games on Yom Kippur; and the continuing cavalcade of successful Jewish players, including the So. Cal.born Milwaukee Brewers slugging leftfielder Ryan Braun. (Castro, 7/25; Cinearts, 7/31; Roda, 8/1; Rafael, 8/8) Grace Paley: Collected Stories Fans of this justly celebrated feminist writer will devour this personally crafted memory doc fashioned shortly before her death in 2007. Lilly Rivlin assembles snippets of Paley at several ages explaining how her politics fueled her fiction, how she found happiness in two marriages, and her big moment at a writers conference when she confronted the sexism of “storming” Norman Mailer. (Castro, 7/25; Roda, 8/1)

With its beautifully restored images reminding us what it was like to be alive at the dawn of the French New Wave, Breathless is a rush, both an unimaginably romantic peek at hetero love on the run and a fantastic document of life in the early days of the Fifth Republic. At one point, Godard’s camera flirts along the edge of a huge Parisian parade in honor of the American and French presidents. Then he madly follows our couple on the lam as they flee the cops: one funny moment has Seberg escaping a police tail by ducking into a cinema ladies’ room stall. As always, the debate continues about Michel’s famous dying words: does he call her a “bitch,” a “scumbag,” or is this merely one final gratuitous curse by a prankish boy at his cruel if preordained fate? Breathless is a lovely reminder of a more innocent time when the term pretentious youth could still be a badge of honor.▼ “Dance for me is a religion. Dancing is praying. Dance is meditation. Dance is a labyrinthine path that helps me to discover myself and better understand others,” explains company member Daiane Lopes. “Rico truly looks at all his dancers as individuals, and knows how to bring out the best in them,” says founding LD/SF dancer Diane Mateo. Lisa Lincoln, new to the company, agrees. “He pushes us within the frames of discipline, passion, and musicality to bring forth our power.” Labayen, who has danced with American Ballet Theater II, Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King’s LINES Contemporary Ballet, and who has been decorated with a constellation of accolades, including an Isadora Duncan award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography, speaks with great humility about his dancers and his work. “I make dances for them to bare their souls,” he says. “When they are onstage, they are alone. I’m not there anymore.”▼ Enrico Labayen’s Carmina Burana: Revisited, July 23-24 at 8 p.m., July 25 at 7 p.m. at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St., SF. Tickets: $25, at www.enricolabayen.com or (415) 273-4633; $30 at the door/without reservation.

Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams Beginning with Oz’s incisive description of the two-states solution to the Israeli/Palestine conflict as a painful if necessary “amputation,” Masha Zur Glozman’s nimbly edited doc on the famous Israeli author covers Oz’s traditional subjects, from the dire state of contemporary Zionism to the ongoing struggle of European Jews to adapt to a Middle Eastern society after their violent expulsion from Europe. (Roda, 8/3; JCCSF, 8/7) Stalin Thought of You The saga of Soviet-era political cartoonist Boris Efimov, told while the stillspirited artist was marking his 104th birthday (he died at 108 in 2008) is the Stalin-the-butcher story to end all Stalin-the-butcher stories. As Boris tells it, Uncle Joe was not fond of Russians with their own agendas. The film pivots on his poignant description of how brother Mikhail became a victim of the 1930s purge trials. Boris makes as good a case as anyone can for saving one’s skin when confronted by a monstrous evil. Plays with the short Patriot. (Roda, 8/5; JCCSF, 8/7) Surrogate A damaged man gets help reestablishing emotional ties with his family from a female sex surrogate. This short feature offers partial nudity, beautiful images and a sensitive exploration of issues confronting many war-torn societies; plays with short Guided Tour. (Cinearts, 8/2; JCCSF, 8/8)▼ Information: www.sfjff.org

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