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Vol. 48 • No. 27 • July 5-11, 2018

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Justice Anthony Kennedy

5 seen on short list to replace Kennedy

by Lisa Keen

ust two days after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump told reporters that he had already narrowed his choice for Kennedy’s replacement to “about five” people, two of whom are women. He said he would interview “six or seven” candidates, all from among the 25 candidates he had previously identified as likely nominees. Trump said he would announce his choice July 9. Court observers have been parsing the potential nominees, looking at where they stand on LGBT-related and other issues. National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg called them “far right” conservatives. Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst for CNN, said on Anderson Cooper’s “360” program June 27 that there is “not a hint of moderation” in the candidates Trump is most likely to nominate. “They are stone-cold conservatives,” said Toobin. They are “definitely not Anthony Kennedy’s tradition.” Kennedy’s tradition, when it came to laws regarding LGBT people, was one that provided the fifth critical vote and an eloquent voice in support of equality and dignity. Kennedy penned the court’s major pro-LGBT decisions on marriage, sodomy laws, anti-gay initiatives, and federal benefits. With the voting records of the remaining eight justices evenly split between those who vote mostly pro-LGBT and those who vote mostly anti-LGBT, Kennedy had become the reliable saving grace. And, being a Reagan appointee, he bucked the expectation that only a justice appointed by a Democratic president would understand and defend the rights of such a stigmatized minority.

The likely short list

The following are five candidates from the list of 25 who are most often identified by major media analysts as the judges Trump is most likely interviewing for the current Supreme Court vacancy. Among the men are: Brett M. Kavanaugh, 53, a former clerk to Kennedy and a George W. Bush appointee to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Kavanaugh also clerked for progressive 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (retired). He married a woman who worked as Bush’s personal secretary at the same time Kavanaugh worked in the White House as staff secretary. He was a key player in choosing U.S. Supreme Court See page 11 >>

Twelve Days, Twelve Pianos, One Garden & You!

Mayor Mark Farrell, and his wife, Liz, wave to spectators as they ride in the San Francisco Pride parade June 24.

by Matthew S. Bajko

espite his brief tenure in Room 200 at City Hall, Mayor Mark Farrell leaves behind a lasting LGBT mark on San Francisco. During his 168-day mayoralty, Farrell enacted first-of-its kind legislation protecting transgender residents of single-room-occupancy

hotels in San Francisco and renamed a terminal at San Francisco International Airport after gay icon Harvey Milk. He also further cemented the city’s role as a supporter of LGBT rights on the global stage during a visit by a delegation from Cork, Ireland. “As a native San Franciscan, I am very proud to maintain the city’s leading role in fighting for LGBT rights and moving that legacy

forward as mayor,” Farrell told the Bay Area Reporter last week during the dedication of a signpost heralding San Francisco’s 19 sister cities around the world. All three of the LGBT initiatives were begun during the administration of the late mayor Ed Lee, whose sudden death on December 12 led to Farrell’s becoming the city’s mayor See page 10 >>

Oasis helps LGBTs seek asylum

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by Alex Madison

en years ago, Jessy D’Santos made the decision to come to a place where she could be herself, a transgender woman. She fled Mexico City, where she faced daily persecution for then being a gay man. With one reference to visit Oasis Legal Services in Oakland, her life changed forever. Today, D’Santos is a United States citizen and a proud transgender woman living openly and freely in San Francisco. “It was impossible for me to be a trans woman in Mexico,” D’Santos, 42, said. “It was something I really wanted, but I was afraid to do.” She crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2000, landing in San Francisco. She lived in the United States for eight years, everyday fearing she would be discovered and deported back to a country that has one of the highest rates of murder of trans people in the world. That day came. D’Santos was visiting relatives in Los Angeles in 2008 when her ex-boyfriend’s family called police, people she said were homophobic. She went to jail for a few days before being moved to what she called an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) cube: a freezing, small room where she was held in solitary confinement due to her gender identity and the increased chance of violence against her by other detainees. “I had a really hard time in that place,” she said. After two weeks there, she was deported back to Mexico City. She decided to take the chance and travel back to the U.S. only two months later in a friend’s car.

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Staff and supporters of Oasis Legal Services continue to help LGBTs seek asylum.

She made it. It was then she had the courage to transition. During this time, a friend referred her to Oasis Legal Services, a nonprofit that provides legal services to low-income LGBTs seeking asylum in the U.S. “Everything changed for me then,” she said. “This meant I wouldn’t have to live in the shadows any longer. I could go to school. It opened my world.”

Today, D’Santos has two associate degrees from Canada College in Redwood City, in interior design and art, and is a board member at Oasis Legal Services. She also is a program director at San Francisco’s El/La Para TransLatinas, an organization offering resources for trans Latina women. This was all made possible by Oasis Legal Services, D’Santos said. The Oakland-based See page 10 >>

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Thursday night or Friday morning. “If it is a homicide, we will try and seek witnesses and get as much information from people as we can,” Carey told the B.A.R. in a phone interview. Aside from this incident, which could possibly be determined a nonviolent crime, Carey explained that violent crimes in the Castro have recently been far and few between. “Violent crimes have been virtually non-existent in the past few years,” he said, though he added that car breakins and petty theft are still a significant problem. CCOP has recently partnered with SFPD and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to launch a new campaign called “Safe Clubbing,” that aims to remind clubgoers to be safe while enjoying nightlife. The volunteer group is asking bars and clubs in the Castro to hang posters that warn people about pickpockets, assaults and hate crimes, car break-ins, street robberies, and “roofied,” or spiked drinks. SFPD is asking anyone with information regarding Ahrens’ death to call (415) 575-4444 or Text-a-Tip to TIP411. t

Man not charged in Pride stabbing by Alex Madison

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n 18-year-old Hispanic man who was arrested in connection to a stabbing over Pride weekend has not been charged in the incident, according to a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. He is no longer in custody. The case is still under investigation, authorities said. The man, whom the Bay Area Reporter is not identifying because he was not charged, was arrested Sunday, June 24, on charges of aggravated assault, battery, robbery, and conspiracy, according to Officer Robert Rueca, spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department. He was initially charged by SFPD in one of two separate stabbings that occurred during the same incident on June 24 on Pride festival grounds. Both victims, men in their early 20s, were hospitalized. One of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries. The other faces non-life-threatening injuries, said SFPD spokesman Officer Michael Andraychak. Police did not respond to a request for comment regarding the victims’ health status. As previously reported by the B.A.R., the two men were stabbed

around 5:15 p.m. near Golden Gate Avenue and Hyde Street during the festival. Earlier in the day, around 4:30 p.m., the two victims were near portable toilets on Pride festival grounds, the location of which is unknown. They were approached by a group of six or seven Hispanic men. The men then allegedly stole property from both victims that included a backpack, cellphone, and wallet. The suspects then fled the scene. About 45 minutes later, the group of men and the two victims ran into one another near the 200 block of Golden Gate Avenue. The victims attempted to get their stolen property back from the suspects and a physical fight ensued that ended in both victims being stabbed. Police officers nearby, who were on duty for the festival, heard people yelling and approached the scene, at which point a suspect was arrested and taken into custody, Tomlinson said. One victim, 19, suffered a stab wound to his abdomen and two stab wounds to his leg. The other victim, 20, was stabbed twice in the back, according to the SFPD daily log. “We don’t believe this is gang related, and it is not being looked at

as a hate crime,” Tomlinson told the B.A.R. at the time. It is not known if the two victims are members of the LGBT community. Tomlinson could not confirm if either the suspects or victims were festivalgoers or had gone through security, although the scene of the alleged attack was on festival grounds. In order to gain entry into the festival, all attendees were required to go through safety screenings, which included a bag check and a walk through a metal detector or screenings with handheld wands. San Francisco Pride officials did not respond to a request for comment. Formal safety screenings were instituted at the SF Pride celebration two years ago following the June 12, 2016 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 49 mostly LGBT people of color died in one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings. SFPD is asking anyone with information, and anyone who may have cell phone video taken in the area of the “Hip Hop Stage” at Pride on Sunday, June 24, around 5:15 p.m. to contact gang task force investigators by calling the SFPD tip line at 415575-4444 or text Tip to TIP411. t

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Justice Kennedy got played U

.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy got played. When he announced his retirement last week, he gifted President Donald Trump the opportunity to tilt the court rightward for generations. Kennedy apparently felt “comfortable” retiring now, and reporting shows that he was reassured it was a good time by his son, who also happens to be one of Trump’s most important bankers. Deutsche Bank, where Justin Kennedy rose to global head of real estate capital markets, lent Trump over $1 billion in loans when no other financial institution would take the risk. Kennedy fell for the praise heaped upon him by Trump. Whomever Trump nominates will be confirmed, and the future of significant precedents, like a woman’s right to an abortion and possibly same-sex marriage, are in jeopardy. Trump wanted more than anything to shift the court solidly to conservatives, now he’ll get his way, given Kennedy’s role as a swing vote on many cases. When the president nominated Neil Gorsuch to the high court last year, he replaced fellow conservative the late Antonin Scalia, so the court’s ideological balance was maintained. At the forefront of the confirmation fight is abortion. The court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is in danger of being further weakened, or overturned altogether. CBS News tweeted last Friday that Trump “said he ‘probably’ won’t ask his next Supreme Court nominee about Roe v. Wade,” but he doesn’t have to. All of the men and women who are on Trump’s list are against abortion rights. The list was compiled during the presidential campaign with the help of two rabidly right-wing groups, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, and you can bet that they thoroughly vetted the candidates’ views on abortion. Maine Senator Susan Collins, one of the last moderate Republicans in Congress, made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows and said a candidate who demonstrated “hostility” to Roe v. Wade would not have her support. Either she is naïve (unlikely), or is trying to have it both ways by supporting women’s rights and the GOP agenda at the same time. That’s not possible given this situation. Supreme Court nominees will not divulge their opinions in meetings with senators or at their confirmation hearing – that precedent of not revealing one’s views on hot-button issues was set decades ago by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Collins has never voted against a Supreme Court nominee. As for Senate Democrats, they can shout from the rooftops about the need to delay holding

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

hearings until after the midterm elections. But they are in the minority and have no power. (Elections have consequences, remember?) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) doesn’t give a rat’s ass about his hypocrisy to schedule hearings this summer – after he had said in 2016 that President Barack Obama’s nominee couldn’t be confirmed until a new Congress was seated. The nominee will be confirmed, barring some unforeseen scandal, and we’re going to get a far worse justice than Kennedy. A Supreme Court appointment is for life. Kennedy, by all public accounts, is healthy. We wish he hadn’t fallen for the faux charm of the president and would have stayed on the court. His legacy will not be respected by his replacement.

GLAAD’s head-scratching move

GLAAD, the national LGBT organization that used to be named the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, now known only by its initials, issues a couple of reports a year on the state of out actors in film and television and holds glitzy “media awards” fundraisers in New York and Los Angeles. (Its San Francisco event was long ago relegated to mere “event” status, with no media awards to speak of.) In a case of exceptionally bad timing, its president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, had an opinion piece published in the Advocate last Wednesday morning calling for the LGBTQ community to support a constitutional amendment for equality – basically an Equal Rights Amendment like the one that failed back in the 1970s, except

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this one would include sexual orientation and gender identity. GLAAD would, Ellis wrote, embark on a multi-year public education campaign to increase support for federal LGBTQ protections, which would seem especially urgent under President Donald Trump, whose administration keeps rescinding what few federal protections we have. The goal may be laudable, but the likelihood that a constitutional amendment will pass is zero. Not only would it need two-thirds approval in both the Senate and House of Representatives, it would need affirmative votes by legislatures in three-fourths of the states (that would be 38) in a specified time period. Many states are currently controlled by Republican governors and/or legislatures; even if Democrats retake control of the Senate and House in the November elections (unlikely) there is zero chance. Of course, within hours of the article’s appearance online, the community had a much more immediate and crucial piece of news to absorb: Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court. As we detailed above, Kennedy’s replacement will almost certainly shift the court further to the right than it is already, and that will guarantee a challenge to substantial pro-LGBT rulings. Some settled law, like a woman’s right to an abortion, could be overturned. We’re not falling for GLAAD’s constitutional amendment ploy, and you shouldn’t either. While there’s nothing wrong with educating the public about the need for strong federal protections for LGBTQs, it’s a blatant money-grab from donors at the expense of other LGBT civil rights organizations that really need the funds. Groups that are helping LGBTQs seek asylum, particularly in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling affirming Trump’s travel ban, need resources far more urgently than GLAAD does. Legal groups representing undocumented immigrants and migrants at the border, including LGBTs, are in the fight of their lives – and need financial support. Agencies serving the transgender community are facing an uphill climb getting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applied to trans people in prohibiting discrimination in court cases. They will receive little, if any, help from the Supreme Court. GLAAD should immediately drop its misguided effort for a constitutional amendment. Instead of raising money for itself, it should go all-in for fundraising to help queer organizations that are doing the hard work on the ground in this time of resistance. t

Expanding tax benefits for same-sex partners by Carmen Chu

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arlier this year, I partnered with assessors across the state to draft and introduce Assembly Bill 2663. AB 2663, by Democratic Assemblywoman Laura Friedman of Burbank and gay Assemblyman Evan Low of Campbell, ensures that local registered domestic partners who did not have the option to marry can share the same property tax benefits available to married couples. Under state law, a property’s taxable value is first set to market value when there is a new owner – in other words, when you buy your home. That taxable value cannot grow by more than 2 percent every year even if the value of your home skyrockets. (This is due to Proposition 13.) Over time this cap creates a tax benefit for those who’ve owned their homes for a long time. In general, the lower tax benefit carries on to surviving spouses when their partners pass away. The state tried to make this benefit available to same-sex couples initially by extending the benefit to registered domestic partners with the state of California. Unfortunately, many couples inadvertently registered as domestic partners with their local counties rather than with the state, unaware that their unions would not be recognized the same way for this benefit. AB 2663 fixes this by ensuring locally registered domestic partners qualify. This means that same-sex couples who were historically

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Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu, far right, joined with friends at last month’s San Francisco Pride parade.

denied the right to marry will be treated equally under property tax laws.

What is Prop 13?

Property owners in California pay property tax annually based on their property’s assessed value. It is usually calculated by applying the county’s tax rate to the assessed value. It is important to know that assessed value may not reflect the market value of your property because of Prop 13.

Prop 13 is a law passed by California voters in 1978 to cap yearly assessment increase at 2 percent, or the inflation rate of the California Consumer Price Index, whichever is less. In other words, as time goes on, a property’s assessed value is typically below its market value. However, when there is a change in ownership, the property will typically be reassessed to market value, which means, a potential increase in property tax. Under current law, married spouses and state registered domestic partners are excluded from reassessment when they pass on property to each other, but not for locallyregistered domestic partners. AB 2663 is about expanding this tax benefit to domestic partners registered with local counties. Now, AB 2663 needs your help. Email the assessor’s office at Carmen.Chu@sfgov.org to add your name in support. The proposal is scheduled to be heard before the State Senate Policy Committee August 8. AB 2663 is endorsed by Equality California, and the California Assessors’ Association, and passed in the state Assembly with bipartisan support in May. Los Angeles Assessor Jeffrey Prang, a gay man, co-authored AB 2663. t Carmen Chu is the elected assessor-recorder for San Francisco. Her office brings in $2.7 billion in annual revenues to fund public education and services. In 2013, Chu kept her office open through the first weekend same-sex marriages were able to resume in California and became the only county to do so in the entire state. Close to 500 couples married that weekend.

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Thanks for another great pink triangle

Thank you to the 250-plus volunteers who made the 23rd annual pink triangle possible by installing 175 bright pink tarps atop Twin Peaks on the beautiful warm Saturday morning of June 23. Also, thank you to the 50 people who helped take the one-acre display down after the Pride parade. The hard work and commitment of the volunteers made the display’s installation and de-installation possible. The pink triangle truly is a “community-building” project, and, for me personally, getting to know so many dedicated, hardworking people is a real treasure. Thank you to the dignitaries who spoke during the commemoration ceremony, including San Francisco Mayor-elect London Breed, Cleve Jones, German Consul General HansUlrich Suedbeck, French Minister of Gender Equality Marlène Schiappa (who is also in charge of LGBTQ issues for the French government), French Consul General Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, Honorary Consul General of Monaco Thomas E. Horn, state Senator Scott Wiener, Assemblymen Phil Ting and David Chiu, city Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Supervisor-elect Rafael Mandelman, and City College Trustee Tom Temprano. Also speaking were SF Pride grand marshals and honorees, Kin Folkz, Shaun Haines, and Michael J. Wong, who spoke on behalf of organizational grand marshal the SF Lesbian/ Gay Freedom Band. The pink triangle ceremony remembers the hatred of the past, while reminding us that LGBTQ people aren’t out of the woods yet. The ceremony began with a very moving and informative “History of the Pink Triangle” which was told in four parts. First up was Jones, the AIDS Memorial Quilt creator, who gave the formal reading of the “History of the Pink Triangle” and then related it to current happenings, such as the detainment of immigrant children currently underway in this country. Then, an international perspective was given in three parts.

Suedbeck spoke of Germany’s role in the Holocaust; he was joined at the podium by his husband and two children to illustrate very clearly how far Germany has come since the dark days of the Holocaust. Schiappa told of efforts to keep France at the forefront of nations regarding LGBTQ rights. Lebrun-Damiens joined her at the podium. Also, speaking briefly was Horn, who oversees the Bob Ross Foundation (which sponsored the 2018 pink triangle T-shirts.) A big thank you to our 2018 sponsors: SF Pride, the Bob Ross Foundation, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Hamburger Mary’s, Hodgkins Jewelers; and Starbucks, for the coffee, tea, pastries, and cookies and for many volunteers. For help inspiring volunteers with “media sponsorship”: the Bay Area Reporter, and Betty’s List/SF Bay Times. The SF mayor’s office and SF Department of Real Estate for their ongoing support and help; SF Public Works, for sending a crew to clear much of the hillside site of poison oak and non-native thorny plants before the installation; Sargent Bailey and other members at Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department, who watched over the ceremony and for giving 24-hour coverage; and Katie Hickox for keeping up the pink triangle website (http://www.thepinktriangle.com). This event could not have lasted all these decades without the ongoing dedication of Colleen Hodgkins and Hossein Carney, my husband, who have been the main helpers for over two decades. Thank you also to extraordinary and generous musical theater star Leanne Borghesi, who sang many spirited tunes. Thank you to all who helped make the 2018 pink triangle a successful event. Patrick Carney San Francisco

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Lesbians, gay man to lead Breed policy panel by Matthew S. Bajko

ayor-elect London Breed has chosen several lesbian leaders, and one gay man, to lead a panel tasked with formulating ideas her administration can implement to address a host of issues vexing the city. Leading the Policy Transition Team as its director will be Joyce Newstat, who served as finance chair of Breed’s mayoral campaign. She and her wife, Susan Lowenberg, were prominent backers of seeing Breed move into Room 200 at City Hall. Newstat, the founder and CEO of Rocket Science Associates, was former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s director of public policy. In 2012, she served as the director of former Attorney General Kamala Harris’ transition team. Newsom, the state’s lieutenant governor, is favored to win this fall’s gubernatorial race, while Harris is now the state’s junior U.S. senator. Former supervisor Roberta Achtenberg, who unsuccessfully vied in 1995 to be the city’s first LGBT mayor, will serve as one of four chairs of Breed’s policy panel. Vice chair of the board of directors of the Bank of San Francisco, Achtenberg served as an assistant secretary for fair housing in the Clinton administration and was an Obama appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She also served as a trustee overseeing the California State University system. Among the 16 co-chairs of the policy team are former city health commissioner Roma Guy, former supervisor and state lawmaker Carole Migden, and artist Debra Walker, vice president of the San Francisco Building Inspection Commission. Matthew Rothschild, a gay man who works for the city attorney’s office, is also a co-chair. The San Francisco native is a former chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club.

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There will be a dozen committees focused on different policy arenas, with LGBT people serving on each, according to Breed’s transition team. One focused on health issues will include HIV and AIDS policies, while an equity and equality committee will cover LGBT concerns. Residents of the city can submit their own policy ideas via the website http://www.londonformayor.com/your-policy-ideas/. The panel is scheduled to present its report to Breed at a policy summit to be held Saturday, July 14. While it will be open to the media, it is not expected to be open to the public, though it likely will be livestreamed via social media. “I believe great ideas come from the people of San Francisco who have had different life experiences and perspectives,” stated Breed. “I am looking forward to working with the Policy Transition Team to discuss best practices and innovative ideas as we work together to move San Francisco forward.” Breed will take her oath of office as the city’s 45th mayor on the Polk Street steps of City Hall Wednesday, July 11. Her inauguration will run from 11 a.m. to noon. She is the city’s first AfricanAmerican woman elected mayor,

and only the second woman to hold the position. Last month, Breed announced she had hired as her chief of staff Sean Elsbernd; the former supervisor currently works for former San Francisco mayor and current U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and will join the mayor’s office later this year. Having won the special election in the June 5 primary following the unexpected death in December of the late mayor Ed Lee, Breed will serve out the remainder of Lee’s term through January 2020. She will need to run for a full four-year term on the November 2019 ballot.

Baker memoir finds a publisher

An independent publishing house will release the memoir of Gilbert Baker, titled “Rainbow Warrior,” in June 2019. It is being timed to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the uprising at a New York City gay bar considered to be the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement. Baker, who turned the rainbow flag into a global symbol for LGBT rights, died last year at the age of 65. This week his estate announced that Chicago Review Press had bought the rights to publish Baker’s autobiography for an undisclosed amount. According to the announcement, the memoir will track Baker’s childhood in Kansas and later move to San Francisco in the 1970s, where he became an artist and vocal LGBT rights and AIDS activist. He was long known as the creator of the rainbow flag, which debuted at San Francisco Pride 40 years ago. But earlier this year his friend and former roommate Lynn Segerblom came forward to claim the first rainbow flags were collaboratively designed and made by herself, Baker and their friend James McNamara, who died of AIDS in 1999. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in a story last month, Baker’s estate has refuted Segerblom’s claims. t

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Allow me a moment of “Transgender 101.” While the exact causes are still unclear, it appears that a lot of transgender people have disunion between their mind and their physical body, potentially caused during early development while still in the womb. Our brains go one way while our bodies go quite another. I should add here that in spite of people shouting about deities “not making mistakes,” there is actually a lot of wiggle room in how the human body comes together, and a lot of opportunity for variety. This is not only why we even have transgender people, but also why not all transgender people may exhibit the same elements to their identities. Regardless, this pathologization that has been present all these years may be a part of why society views transgender people as having a mental problem. It was, literally, what we had to accept for care in the first place. I’m sure that years of popular culture representation of transgender people as either goofballs, like Corporal Klinger in “MASH,” or monsters, like James ‘Buffalo Bill’ Gumb in “Silence of the Lambs,” haven’t helped either. Regardless, the ICD – and by extension, health care professionals who use it – may now view transgender people in a new light. Indeed, part of the reason behind the change was specifically to “reduce stigma” that transgender people face in accessing care. It’s not a perfect move, however. After all, having gender identity stuff listed under “sexual health” in ICD-11 is still a bit of a misnomer and doesn’t

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really fit well in the category. You see, that’s also where you find, oh, sexually transmitted infections and paraphilia. The latter is a concern. While these remain two very separate branches, bad actors could use this to say that the World Health Organization lists transgender people with pedophiles and those involved in bestiality. It would even be technically true, but as close as saying that corn chips and tampons are identical because you can get both out of a vending machine. In my opinion, not being seen as “disordered” at all would, in its own way, be preferable. Transgender people are no more disordered than, say, a left-handed person or a ginger: we’re a deviation from a supposed norm thanks to biological variation. Yet, that brings us full circle. What would happen to transgender care if there were no “place” for us in the manual? Would a medical professional offer care if there wasn’t a code a clinician could point to in a book? Further, especially in a time when transgender rights are facing a dire threat from an openly hostile administration that is controlled by the fringes of religious conservatism, could we be so sure that we would not end up seeing such a move be used to further erode our rights, or even recriminalize transgender expression? Right now, we are able to claim our ground ,in no small part, due to transgender identities having a scientific explanation. What happens if that weren’t there? That said, I would not wish to go back to having to jump through arbitrary hoops and accept a mental disorder evaluation simply to access the care I can get today under modern informed consent methods. Likewise, I do think we need to continue to press for better care for our community. Part of that, too, may be in understanding the innate variances in transgender identities and expressions, and understanding that we truly are not a one size fits all community, but panoply of possibilities, each with their own needs and desires. So this is a step, and likely a good one – but there’s a whole lot of walking left to do. t Gwen Smith still recalls the DSM code for gender identity disorder. You’ll find her at gwensmith.com.

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he Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County will hold its annual drag brunch Sunday, July 8, from noon to 3 p.m. at Club 1220, 1220 Pine Street in Walnut Creek. Drag queen Bella Aldama will serve as hostess. Proceeds from the event will benefit the center’s AIDS Walk San Francisco team, which is raising funds to support people living with HIV/ AIDS in Contra Costa County. “Come, have a fabulous time,” Aldama told the Bay Area Reporter in a Facebook message. “Enter raffles, enjoy great food, and watch an amazing show.” Tickets, which include brunch and the show, are $25 and can be purchased online at https:// conta.cc/2rDrAqL.

Frida Kahlo look-alike contest in Sacto; exhibit in Walnut Creek

The Latino Center of Art and Culture will hold its fifth annual Frida Kahlo Look-Alike contest Sunday, July 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 2700 Front Street in Sacramento.

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Drag queen Bella Aldama

Kahlo, the late bisexual artist, will be celebrated at the Fiesta de Frida, which includes the contest, a “little Frida” children’s parade, art workshops, local craft vendors, authentic Mexican food and drinks, and cumbia performers. The festival is free. To sign up for the look-alike contest, visit http://www.thelatinocenter.com/fiesta-defrida.html. In Walnut Creek, “The World of Frida” exhibit opens this weekend at the Bedford Gallery, 1601 Civic Drive. Through September 16, people can enjoy the culture, style, and persona of Kahlo.

Public programs include the opening reception July 8, from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission is $10, or $5 for youth age 13-17, and includes a fashion show, look-alike contest, crafts, and a Mariachi band. For more information, visit http:// www.bedfordgallery.org/. Kahlo, who was married to influential Mexican artist Diego Rivera, died in 1954. Last month the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to rename Phelan Avenue, a three-block street that runs through City College of San Francisco, after Kahlo.

Horizons Foundation Q Series looks at queer art

Horizons Foundation will hold its next Q Series program on queer art Tuesday, July 10, at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. The evening begins with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the program from 6:30 to 8. Organizers noted that queer art has always been part of a deep narrative of the LGBTQ community, telling tales of struggles, resistance, and healing. “Today, queer art and artists play a prominent role in our larger culture, but in the process, has it lost its identity?” organizers asked. See page 11 >>

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ity College of San Francisco will offer a series of workshops on cannabis this summer and is studying the possibility of offering courses that will prepare students for jobs in this rapidly growing industry. The workshops, entitled “Curious About Cannabis,” will be taught by Sara Payan, the public education officer at the Apothecarium in San Francisco and a nationally-recognized cannabis educator, policy advocate, writer, and consultant, and Jamie Lavender, adjunct faculty in the Health Education Department at CCSF and a licensed psychotherapist who works in the harm reduction and dual diagnosis fields. The workshops focus on three topics: cannabis 101; historical and ethical/legal aspects of cannabis; and cannabis as medicine. According to the college catalog, cannabis “has a rich history that touches on health care, science, politics, and social justice. As we’ve entered the age of legalization of cannabis for adult use in California, it’s also important to get accurate, nonjudgmental information about cannabis, including how it works in the body. This set of workshops offered by CCSF provides participants with a quality orientation and practical foundation to inform personal and/or professional curiosity.” In an email to the Bay Area Reporter, City College Trustee Tom Temprano, a gay man, said the school “recently convened a forum between our faculty and a range of cannabis industry experts. We are engaging the industry directly and getting feedback on the skillsets they need and the jobs they are looking to fill.” Temprano added that there is a broad array of needs, such as retail, manufacturing, cannabis food products, medicinal applications, marketing, and financing. “City College is committed to providing access for our students to meaningful employment in this growing industry,” he added. Temprano is a longtime community activist who was elected to the

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City College board in 2016. He will soon join the office of gay District 8 Supervisor-elect Rafael Mandelman as a legislative aide. Emphasizing the college’s ambitious plans to offer additional cannabis education, Theresa Rowland, associate vice chancellor, said in a news release that the classes “mark the college’s first venture into offering cannabis-related coursework, and will help inform the development of similar types of innovative and relevant programming moving forward.” In an interview with the B.A.R., Payan said her own education began seven years ago as a Stage 3 cancer patient seeking information about using cannabis. “Back then,” said Payan, “dispensaries had few, if any, resources for patients to learn and empower themselves.” Most of the dispensary employees “weren’t getting the right training,” she said. After Payan joined the Apothecarium, she launched a series of cannabis workshops, which now include cannabis and cancer, the noneuphoric cannabis strains, cannabis for seniors, cannabis 10, anxiety and depression, and cannabis and terpenes. Other dispensaries offering cannabis education include Harvest in San Francisco and Magnolia in Oakland. “For critically ill patients, empowerment is especially important,” said Payan.

Payan, who has been co-chair of San Francisco’s cannabis legislation task force on cannabis for the past two years, hopes the new workshops at City College will “spark an interest” in those who want a career in the cannabis industry to broaden their knowledge on the subject. While the workshops, per se, won’t be adequate preparation for a job in the industry, Payan noted that employers typically seek people who have been “proactive” in learning about the field. The Apothecarium “is always looking for good people,” she said, urging potential applicants to check its website for openings. For more information, visit http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/continuing-education/Summer20181.html.

Backlash against ‘Permit Patty’

At least four Bay Area cannabis dispensaries (Barbary Coast, SPARC, Magnolia, and the Apothecarium) have announced that they will no longer sell products made by the California cannabis tincture company TreatWell Health, after its founder, San Franciscan Alison Ettel, was captured on video reportedly calling authorities on an 8-year-old African-American girl for selling bottled water on a sidewalk without a permit. The video went viral on social media last week – where she was dubbed “Permit Patty” – as another example of a white person calling the police on a black person for enjoying an innocuous everyday activity. (Ettel did call 911, according to a released tape that KTVU broadcast June 29. Ettel first told the San Francisco Chronicle that she only pretended to call the cops.) Ettel, who could not be reached at press time, admitted to the Huffington Post that her actions were “stupid.” “I completely regret that I handled that so poorly,” she said. “It was completely stress-related, and I should have never confronted her. That was a mistake, a complete mistake.” t Bay Area Cannasseur runs the first Thursday of the month. To send column ideas or tips, email Sari Staver at sari@bayareacannasseur.com.

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Wayne Henderson was called home by his mother at the age of 91. He graduated from Vallejo Senior High School in 1943. Realizing that he was gay, Wayne moved to San Francisco, where he spent his adult life as an educator. He received his M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1974. He founded Bradford Hall Preparatory School in San Francisco and taught for the San Francisco Community College District from 1966-1985. Although he formally retired in the 1970s, he was a teacher his entire life, teaching English as a second language and sharing his love and his knowledge with everyone who was lucky enough to pass through his orbit. He was predeceased by his roommate and best friend, Garth Lee Geary, a local water colorist. He is survived by his best friends, Caesar and Dave of San Francisco, and Roger and Miguel of Palm Springs, and Bill of Sacramento. In lieu of flowers, please consider any random act of kindness to a complete stranger in Wayne’s memory.

After a long illness, Dean R. Polton passed away quietly in hospice care in Alameda, California June 13, 2018. His undergraduate school was the University of Iowa, and his graduate work was done at the University of Minnesota and the University of Denver. He was a teacher of extraordinary abilities in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, and served in the Minneapolis Public Schools as a speech specialist, helping students with speech impediments. Through the years, he kept in touch with many of his former students. The hundreds of students whose lives he touched and influenced will remember him fondly. The elegance of his hospitality was legendary, both for his living style, interest in architecture and design, and the fine cuisine that he served to his many friends on special occasions. We will miss you, Dean. He was pre-deceased by his parents, sister, and partners, Carl Jenkins and Bob Swan. His survivors include his brother, Jack Polton, and wife, Chris; niece Erin Fairbarin; Guy Polton; John Grisinger; cousin Jim Dorr; and his many loving friends here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John E. Voyles passed away July 7, 2017 at his home in Palm Springs, California. John was born in Detroit July 18, 1947. He grew up in Detroit and moved to California in 1974. He was campus minister at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland and co-owned and worked at Just Your Type in San Francisco and Santa Rosa. From the onset of the AIDS pandemic, John gave countless hours to organizations in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo. He was president of the Sonoma County Ad Club for two years, and a lifetime member of Sunrise Rotary. John was ordained into the priesthood in 2002 and retired to Palm Springs in 2012. He is survived by his husband of 31 years, Joseph Kelly; his mother Jackie Voyles; brother Donald; three sisters, Annie, Marge, and Kathy; and many nieces and nephews. A celebration of life will be held Saturday, July 7. For information, call John at (760) 969-8103.

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New ad campaign promotes PrEP use by Liz Highleyman

oster City-based Gilead Sciences last month launched a new multimedia ad campaign to promote the use of Truvada PrEP for HIV prevention for a range of communities at elevated risk for infection. The ads will appear on broadcast and on-demand TV, digital platforms, and print media. Given that only a small number of people who could benefit from PrEP are actually using it, some advocates have been pushing Gilead to widely advertise its prevention pill, rather than relying on communitybased organizations to promote it. Others, however, have criticized the company for profiting off PrEP. “I hope this campaign continues to raise awareness, encourages people to consider healthy options, and improves uptake, especially in communities where it’s most needed,” Alan McCord of Project Inform told

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Zephyr commercial Realtor Steven “Stu” Gerry, the listing agent. The buyer’s real estate agent would not comment about the property’s next use, said Gerry. It consists of a 50-seat theater, 20 video booths (including two suites) a maze area, two private dancer rooms, a private pole dance lounge, and a one-bedroom apartment, featured in the January 1982 issue of Architectural Digest, where the owners live. Hoover and Luce put the business on the market last October ( h t t p : / / w w w. e b a r. co m / n e w s / news//250180), hoping someone would want to continue the tradition of live adult entertainment combined with a movie house and

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video arcade. But the property was also listed for sale, and the buyer for the building has another use in mind, said Luce. While the property took nine months to sell, Gerry said the timeframe is typical for commercial properties in San Francisco. “This is nothing like the residential market,” said Gerry, where properties often sell in a week. The theater is planning to go out with a bang. “We have lots of great events” during July and August, said Luce. Those include a circle jerk with the boys of Nob Hill Theater July 12, a circle jerk with Dante Martin and Santos July 26, and a performance by the pair July 27-28. On August 17, customers are invited to watch a film shoot by Naked Sword.

An estate sale will be held over Labor Day weekend, September 1-2, where “everything goes,” said Hoover. In addition to four-seat rows of theater seats and color photographs of guest performers that line the walls, the owners will also be selling the furnishings of their apartment. Before the sale, the owners plan to donate some memorabilia to the GLBT Historical Society. “They are welcome to whatever they can use,” said Hoover. Six years ago, when the previous owner decided to sell the club, Hoover and Luce were living in Palm Springs, enjoying a laid back lifestyle following long careers in the hospitality industry. The couple purchased the theater from Shan Sayles, who died in 2016.

group of young people representing communities that have a disproportionately high risk of HIV infection, including young black and Latino/ Latina gay and bisexual men and transgender women. “I am excited to see HIV prevention messaging specifically directed to black and Latinx gay, bisexual, same-gender loving men and transgender women,” Ace Robinson, HIV commissioner for South Los Angeles, told the B.A.R. “The sole reason why blacks make up such a large percentage of new infections and deaths is because we have been excluded from timely and culturally-competent education, programming, and access to the necessary tools that will save our lives.” But McCord also expressed some concerns about the Gilead campaign. “It’s important that we reject

“Shan said if we didn’t buy it he was just going to close,” said Hoover. So the couple, longtime customers of the theater, decided to give it a try. “We asked for a three-month trial period” running the business, said Hoover. From day one, it was profitable, he said. Several friends of the couple said they envied the new owners’ ability “to watch porn all day long,” said Hoover. “I don’t have to tell anyone who’s ever owned a small business that is not how we spend the day,” he added, laughing. “Our backgrounds in hospitality prepared us for the most important factor in running a successful busines – customer service,” said Hoover. When they get back to Palm

Springs this fall, the men plan to get involved with volunteer work. Opening up a similar business in Palm Springs is “out of the question,” said Hoover. “Most of all we will miss our wonderful customers,” said Hoover. “People come here from all over the world and tell us they haven’t seen anything like this anywhere.” One of the club’s former dancers, Matt Converse, a 59-year-old gay man who worked there during the 1990s, said the closure is “an end of an era.” Converse, a full-time writer whose third novel, “Obsexion,” will be published by Encompass Ink in July, said working at the Nob Hill Theatre “was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.” t

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nonprofit was founded by four women in May 2017. It has helped over 700 LGBT immigrants obtain asylum in the United States with a 99 percent success rate. The four women: Maria Elena Paniagua, Rachel Kafele, Caroline Kornfield Roberts, and Anna Lijphart worked at East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, a nonprofit in Berkeley that offers sanctuary support and law services to individuals fleeing persecution. But after seeing a swell of LGBT immigrants seeking asylum, they decided to start their own organization that exclusively aided LGBT immigrants.

Many challenges

Oasis Legal Service’s first year has seen many challenges. Lijphart, a straight ally who’s executive director, said under President Donald Trump’s administration, immigrants have faced constant attacks, including under his travel ban that bars travelers from several majority-Muslim countries. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the travel ban, which imposes restrictions from people from mostly majority-Muslim countries. “We are allowing xenophobia, homophobia, and Islamophobia to prevent us from fulfilling our legal and moral obligation to provide a safe haven to persecuted members of the international LGBTQ community,” said Lijphart, who also added that seven of the eight countries that have been targeted under the ban explicitly criminalize same-sex relations. Some even have the death penalty for being

Farrell

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on an interim basis January 23. That Tuesday a majority of the Board of Supervisors opted to replace District 5 Supervisor London Breed, who had been acting mayor due to being president of the board, with Farrell, who had been the District 2 supervisor. He had opted not to run for mayor in the June 5 special election to serve out the remainder of Lee’s term through early January 2020. Breed won the race and will be sworn in as the city’s 45th mayor the morning of July 11. Because Farrell was viewed as the

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gender nonconforming. Lijphart said her career has undergone quite a change since Trump has taken office. “It feels like everything is under attack from the [Trump] administration, starting with the trans ban,” she said, referring to the Trump administration’s plan to implement a transgender military ban, first announced a year ago. “It’s been nonstop assault on refugees and immigrants. It’s broader than just asylum seekers.” Trump’s zero tolerance policy at the U.S.-Mexico border has resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents, and has also hit the LGBT community particularly hard, Lijphart said. “LGBTQ parents who are separated from their children are likely to have even more difficulties in reclaiming

their children, given the mountain of proof the government is requiring and the fact that most countries aren’t good about issuing documents for, or even recognizing, non-heterosexual parent couples.” Detention for LGBT immigrants in general is especially harmful, Lijphart said, citing the fact that LGBT immigrants who are detained are 15 times more likely to be sexually assaulted while in detention than other immigrants. And for transgender women, that figure is even higher. They are likely to face violence from guards, placed in men’s detention facilities, or solitary confinement. Every day, Lijphart and her peers listen to horrific stories of LGBT people’s struggles in their home countries, from not being accepted by their family to being raped by police to not

most conservative member on the board, it had raised questions on if he would sign the two LGBT ordinances into law as mayor. The bathroom policy requires SROs to designate singlestall restrooms and shower facilities as gender neutral. The airport must now rename Terminal 1 after Milk, the city’s first gay elected leader. Yet, Farrell’s decisions not only to support the local policies as mayor but also to hold public signing ceremonies for each came as hardly a surprise, said District 8 Supervisorelect Rafael Mandelman. “I think I would be surprised to look at his record as a supervisor and didn’t find he was pretty consistently

a friend to the LGBT community. His conservatism by San Francisco standards was not in that area,” said Mandelman. “In part, it had to do with him being in the right place at the right time. But I do think Farrell had long been someone who reached out to the LGBT community.” Jordan Davis, a transgender woman who serves on the San Francisco SRO Task Force and worked with District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen to introduce the bathroom policy legislation, told the B.A.R. that while Farrell backed the LGBT policies, he also oversaw sweeps against homeless encampments and failed to properly fund transgender services. “Oh sure, he did a few nice things, like give us a signing ceremony for the gender neutral restrooms in SRO legislation that I worked on with Hillary,” wrote Davis in an emailed reply, adding that, “He only cares about trans and queer people when we are watching, and even though he signed the Milk Terminal legislation, he goes against everything Harvey believed in.” As mayor, Farrell faced criticism for opting not to reappoint Leslie Katz, a lesbian and former supervisor, to her seat on the port commission. His decision left the powerful oversight body without LGBT representation on it. But Farrell also received praise for back-filling federal budget cuts to local HIV services, continuing a precedent set by his predecessors, and for allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars toward LGBT

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stigmatizing language, like ‘high risk,’ which some may not identify with,” McCord said. “The characteristic ad disclaimers that highlight risks may also backfire with those who already worry about the risks of PrEP, even the small ones.” One barrier to access is the cost of Truvada, about $1,500 per month. Gilead offers patient assistance for low-income people and a co-pay program for those with insurance,

having any protection from their governments to facing the threat of death. “If I had a dollar for every time someone’s father has said they would rather have a dead son than a gay son,” she said. “The emotional damage that does and the constant abuse takes a toll on someone.” Almost 99 percent of her clients tell their stories for the first time when they sit down with Lijphart. She works one-on-one with them for months to get them an interview with the asylum office, which today, due to new policies, she said takes about three months in San Francisco. Before, Lijphart said it took almost two and a half years. But when that day finally comes, when her clients are awarded asylum, it’s a beautiful moment. “It’s thrilling,” she said. “We know the difference it makes in someone’s life when someone gets a positive decision. It’s really moving, very moving to be there.” This day is becoming increasingly harder for the 10,000 LGBT immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. today. Currently, Oasis Legal Services has about 600 clients it’s working to achieve asylum for, none of which are turned away for an inability to pay. Most clients are from Mexico, Brazil, and Central America. Lijphart said, recently, asylum rates have decreased significantly, and while the federal government is claiming fraudulent cases of asylum, Lijphart said it’s because the government is cracking down on who is eligible for asylum as well as the low number of asylum offices and workers. Right now, there are only 10 asylum offices

in the U.S. Last weekend, tens of thousands of people protested in the Bay Area and beyond, criticizing Trump’s immigration policies such as childhood separations. While Trump issued an executive order halting the process, there are thousands of children scattered about the country who have yet to be reunited with their parents. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently decided that asylum seekers who are fleeing domestic violence or gang violence in their home countries are no longer eligible for asylum, a decision Lijphart called “dangerous.” Domestic violence is something that strongly affects the LGBT international community, she said. Despite the struggles they are facing, the people at Oasis Legal Services persist. Recently, Horizons Foundation established the Asylee, Immigrant, and Refugee Emergency Action Fund (AIREAF), which will distribute contributions to nine Bay Area organizations that are fighting for the human rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylees, including Oasis Legal Services. At Oasis the money will be used to bring awareness to the services the agency offers and provide legal representation at the asylum hearings of its clients, among other things. “Funding like this is so important because there is a huge demand for our services that we strive to meet,” Lijphart said.t For more information, visit www. oasislegalservices.org/home.

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homeless youth programs. His administration also increased the number of states with anti-LGBT laws that San Francisco will no longer pay for non-emergency travel to by city employees, or contract with businesses located there, when it quietly added Oklahoma to the banned list last month. During the April visit by the Cork sister city delegation, led by Lord Mayor Tony Fitzgerald, Farrell committed San Francisco to working with its Irish counterparts on jointly seeking membership in the Rainbow Cities Network. They are seeking to be the first cities in their countries to join the global network of municipalities committed to protecting the

rights of their LGBT citizens. Siobhán O’Dowd, chair of the Cork City LGBT Inter-Agency Group, told the B.A.R. that Farrell’s comments at the signing ceremony on the memorandum of understanding between the sister cities made clear he understands that LGBTQ rights are a critical civil rights issue. “Cooperating together on LGBTQ issues and on our joint application for membership of the International Rainbow Cities Network brings a whole new social justice and inclusion element to our sister city relationship which is very exciting,” wrote O’Dowd in an emailed reply. t

but some advocates say the coverage is too low. Another barrier is lack of awareness, which “I’m on the Pill” aims to address. A recent poll by Whitman Insight Strategies and BuzzFeed News found that one-third of U.S. gay men and more than half of bisexual men had never heard of PrEP. “By pairing education with scientific advances in HIV prevention, we hope to empower people with information and tools to have an informed discussion with their healthcare provider about their

individual health,” said Douglas Brooks, Gilead’s senior director for community engagement. Last month, San Francisco-based Instituto Familiar de la Raza unveiled a new Spanish-language PrEP campaign to raise awareness about the HIV prevention pill in Latino communities. Locally, Viva PrEP features street and public transportation ads and a Spanish-language website, http://www.vivaprep.org.t For more on Gilead’s ad campaign, visit www.truvada.com/.

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nominees for Bush, most of whom were very right-wing. At his own confirmation hearing, then-Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) asked Kavanaugh if he was aware that one of Bush’s nominees had made repeated statements hinting that he would not follow precedent. Kavanaugh said he did not personally work on that nomination. In response to a written question from Kennedy, Kavanaugh stated, “Roe v. Wade is binding Supreme Court precedent. If confirmed, I would fairly and faithfully follow and apply all binding Supreme Court precedent, including Roe v. Wade.” There are no known LGBT-related decisions in his record. Thomas M. Hardiman, 52, a Bush appointee to the 3rd Circuit, voted to allow a student to express religious views in school. But in a 2007 case, Prowel v. Wise, he ruled in favor of a gay man who said his boss took adverse action against him because the employee was effeminate. Hardiman said that, just because Congress has declined to explicitly bar discrimination based on sexual orientation, “This does not mean ... that a homosexual individual is barred from bringing a sex discrimination claim under Title VII.”

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To help answer that question, panelists will discuss how queer art fuels the resistance and whether, by taking up space in nontraditional areas, it still yields the same effects that it has in the past. Scheduled panelists include Ed Decker, artistic director of NCTC; Ani Rivera, executive director of Galeria de la Raza; and Shawna Virago, artistic director of the Transgender Film Festival. There is no cost to attend. To RSVP, visit https://bit.ly/2yYe5bQ.

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Court observers have mentioned two women on the list.

Amy Coney Barrett, 46, is a former clerk of Scalia’s and a Trump appointee to the 7th Circuit. On Monday, the American Family Association and two other “conservative” groups issued a news release urging Trump to nominate Barrett. During her confirmation, in response to a written question from Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Barrett said she thinks every judge has an ideological conviction but that “no judge should allow those ideological convictions to dictate the outcome of a case.” Senator Dianne Feinstein (DCalifornia) asked Barrett, in a written question, about Obergefell and “If a state or local government official refused to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple because that official said that doing so would violate their religious liberty, whose rights should prevail? How would you go about evaluating that issue?” Barrett dodged, saying only that she would resolve the issue the same as any other, using standard “judicial process.” Feinstein also asked Barrett if she knew about the anti-LGBT sponsorship of a program she gave a speech for. Barrett said she knew the program “supported a traditional view of marriage” but “did not know” that the sponsor, the Alliance Defending Freedom, was working “to end same-sex marriage or recriminalize homosexuality.” If confirmed to the

7th Circuit, asked Feinstein, “what will you do to ensure that LGBT litigants appearing before you can have confidence that you will treat them impartially?” Barrett responded that she would “treat all litigants impartially,” as required by the judge’s oath of office. Joan L. Larsen, 50, a Trump appointee to the 6th Circuit, is also a former clerk of Scalia’s. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which is made up of more than 200 groups, including the Human Rights Campaign, opposed her confirmation to the appeals court. The coalition noted that, as a member of the Michigan Supreme Court, Larsen voted against hearing a lesbian mother’s appeal concerning custody and questioned “whether Obergefell v. Hodges compels us to apply our equitable-parent doctrine to custody disputes between same-sex couples who were unconstitutionally prohibited from becoming legally married” before the 2015 Obergefell decision. The coalition noted she also wrote an article criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas, striking down sodomy laws. Whoever is Trump’s next nominee, he or she has a Republican majority Senate waiting to vote on the confirmation. With Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) out sick, the nominee

will need only 50 votes. There was news of a potential slip Sunday in the prospects for those 50 Republican votes: Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she will not support a nominee who seeks to ignore the Supreme Court’s precedent in Roe v. Wade, upholding the right of a woman to seek an abortion. Specifically, she said (on CNN’s “State of the Union”): “I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law.” Collins’ expressed concern for “established decisions” suggests she might be averse to a nominee who seemed poised to reverse any of the landmark pro-LGBT decisions that Kennedy led. Collins said that, in her meeting with Trump about his upcoming nominee, the president told her he would not ask a potential nominee about abortion. But not everyone thinks that means anything. As Georgetown civil rights law professor Paul Butler said on MSNBC Monday, “It doesn’t really matter that he now says that he won’t ask [potential nominees] how they feel about Roe v. Wade or LGBT rights because he already knows.” t

Action (AIREA) Fund to support organizations working to resist current policies that are separating families and turning back people escaping violence and persecution in their home countries. Horizons officials said that the Trump administration’s “inhumane separation and detention of families at the United States border and the blatantly discriminatory ban on Muslim immigrants are affronts to the values for which America stands.” AIREA Fund is designed to support organizations that are fighting for the human rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylees. Horizons President Roger Doughty, and AIREA Fund co-founder and board co-chair Olga Talamante, pointed out that immigration is an

LGBTQ issue. More than 70 countries around the world criminalize the existence of LGBTQ people. Immigration to the U.S. and other relatively LGBTQ-friendly countries through asylum has often been the only recourse LGBTQ people have to avoid persecution, violence, and even death. Tax-deductible donations to AIREA Fund will be divided equally between the following national and Bay Area organizations: CARECEN SF, Kids in Need of Defense, Mujeres Activas y Unidas, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Oasis Legal Services, Refugee Transitions, SF Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative, and Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. To donate, visit http://www.horizonsfoundation.org and click on the “AIREA Fund” button.

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9, from noon to 1 p.m.; Wednesday, July 11, from 3 to 4 p.m.; and Monday, July 16, from 6 to 7 p.m. Last year, Horizons awarded more than $2.25 million in grants to numerous nonprofits. Grantees are chosen by a panel of professionals who have roots in the community and are experts in at least one of the categories the foundation funds: advocacy and civil rights, arts and culture, community building and leadership, health and human services, and/or scholarships and fellowships. The deadline to submit a grant application is August 8. For more information, the application, and to register for the webinars, visit http://www.horizonsfoundation.org and click on the “Apply for a Grant” button.t

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Hardiman was reportedly a Trump finalist for the seat made vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia. Amul R. Thapar, 49, was appointed last year to the 6th Circuit by Trump. During the confirmation process, Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) submitted written questions to Thapar, including whether the 14th Amendment requires equal treatment of same-sex couples and transgender people. Thapar said the Supreme Court has consistently held that the amendment applies “beyond race,” and he cited the court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, striking bans against same-sex marriages. But he said that its scope beyond that was the subject of “several live cases” before the federal courts, and he declined to comment further. Thapar then concluded, “If an equal-protection case came before me, I would apply the relevant precedent of the Supreme Court and 6th Circuit.” When Coons asked him about the “right to privacy” for “two consenting adults, regardless of their sexes or genders,” Thapar cited the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas and said, “I will faithfully apply all Supreme Court precedent.”

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In yet more news from Horizons, the agency has issued a request for proposals for its upcoming community issues grant cycle. The annual grants support organizations or projects serving LGBTQ people in the nine Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Most of the grants support nonprofits working on a wide array of issues with multiple populations within the LGBTQ community. To help organizations maximize their opportunity, Horizons will be offering a series of webinars for groups interested in applying. The workshops will be held Monday, July

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: 18/8 FINE MEN’S SALON SAN FRANCISCO, 1 EMBARCADERO CENTER, LOBBY LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by JB DESTINY PARTNERS LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/17.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: T HAYNES LIGHTING, 1322 47TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LUIS H. PINE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/16.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038184400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMERICAN CHINESE HERBAL COLLEGE, 4651 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XUSHI LIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038176000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALTERNATIVE MORTGAGE SOURCES, 2358 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BETH MARCIA HOFFMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/01/86. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/05/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038174300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KELLY’S JANITORIAL, 3600 SIERRA RIDGE ROAD #4106, RICHMOND, CA 94806. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SONIA RAQUEL HERNANDEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/23/13. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/04/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KONG LAI CONSTRUCTION CO, 2242 22ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALLEN KWONG SETO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/02/89. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038179900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAVEN GROUP, 1400 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN SOLAEGUI. 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 06/08/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038179000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BABY & MOM NUTRITION, 4992 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed GUIMEI WU & LIFENG WU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/07/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038161200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOURMET NOODLE HOUSE INC, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GOURMET NOODLE HOUSE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/25/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038174800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENIORES PIZZA, 320 11TH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 11TH STREET PIZZA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/04/18.

JUN 14, 21, 28, JULY 05, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038176800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BWG PARTNERS, 1699 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PACIFIC UNION INTERNATIONAL INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/05/18.

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In the matter of the application of HONG Y. SING, 121 ELLINGTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112: for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HONG Y. SING, is requesting that the name HONG Y. SING, be changed to HONG Y. KAMTALONG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 24th of July 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038190900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APRETTYDAI BOUTIQUE; SASS MINKS, BLINKS & WINKS, 165 PRAGUE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLE WILLIAMS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/18/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038186000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ABM CONSULTING, 601 VAN NESS AVE #47, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AARON MCDANIEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038188300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRIANNA’S JEWELRY, 2757 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWIN ALBERTO GONZALEZ MENDEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/15/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038172900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KGWMEDIA; SHEEPDOG’S APPAREL, 60 VAN NESS AVE #704, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KYLE WARREN. 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 06/01/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038185000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMPOWER TOGETHER CONSULTING, 530 DIVISADERO ST #178, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JULIE ROBERTSPHUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/13. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/18.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038185900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MJD ELECTRIC, 228 DEL MONTE AVE, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94080. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BILL MICHAEL BESKALIS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/13/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038185300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRJ CONSTRUCTION 415 DELANO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RICHARD L. JOHNS & WILLIAM JOHNS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/03/08. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/18

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038189900

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038182900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUPERCLEAN BUILDING SERVICES, LLC, 1385 FAIRFAX AVE, #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SUPERCLEAN BUILDING SERVICES, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/01/05. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038187300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COW MARLOWE, 3154 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed COW MARLOWE SF LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038181000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE GIFTED BASKET, 1201 MINNESOTA ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THE GIFTED BASKET INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/18/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D. MUELLER CONSULTING, 3484 19TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAVID MUELLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05,12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038188700

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038198300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MCBAKERS MARKET, 1800 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JADA & SONS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038183500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STUDIO PARADISO, 308 JESSIE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MOSSER VICTORIAN HOTEL INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/12/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038181400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON REYES, 166 GEARY ST #400, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TODD REYES.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/02/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038194600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN PHOENIX ALTERATION, 824 STOCKTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FENGQIU CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/05/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/21/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038193600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZUNI CAFE, 1658 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CUCAGNA, LTD. (CA).The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/15/79.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHEZ SHIVY, 350 LAWTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIOBHAN K. CUNNINGHAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-0381800-00

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038167300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STUDIO MUNROE, INC, 1427 DOLORES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed STUDIO MUNROE, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/28/13. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038181700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PICNIC, 1808 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POLKAPICNIC LLC (CA).The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/11/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/18.

JUN 21, 28, JULY 05, 12, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038178400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RICHARD CLARK REDBACK BOOTS USA, 145 CORTE MADERA #143, CORTE MADERA, CA 94920. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD CLARK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 08/04/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038191400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOCKINGBIRD WELLNESS, 3197 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARCIA SEGURA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038191500

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038192100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIKE & OLIVER, 4040 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed OLIVER BURGELMAN & MIKE ACKERMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/19/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038193200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUTZ BATH AND KITCHEN; LUTZ PLUMBING SHOWROOM, 3123 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUTZ PLUMBING, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 07/31/13. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038191700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAKKA RESTAURANT, 4401 CABRILLO ST, UNIT A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TIN SING INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/11/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038190200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POLARIS INSIGHT CENTER, 4257 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POLARIS INSIGHT CENTER-A PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038198400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GE DMV REGISTRATION SERVICE; GE TOWING & AUTO REPAIR BODY SHOP; GE TOWING & AUTO REPAIR UNIT A; GE TOWING SERVICE, 5550 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed JUAN G. ESCOBAR & ROSARIO ESCOBAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/25/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038198500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GE TOWING&AUTO REPAIR BODY SHOP, 1390 WALLACE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed JUAN G. ESCOBAR & ROSARIO ESCOBAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/25/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038191900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE EMPRESS; EMPRESS RESTAURANT; EMPRESS; 3145 GEARY BLVD #238, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company JL REALTY PARTNERS LLC (CA), and is signed 06/19/18. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/19/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/18.

JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037752300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EUROPA, 647, 647 CLAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SURYA 647 LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/06/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/06/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EIGHTEA, 91 6TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YONGHENG FENG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/21/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/18.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: EIGHTEA, 91 6TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by BRIAN ZHAO. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/17.

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JUN 28, JULY 05, 12, 19, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554019

In the matter of the application of: SYDNEY KHOO, 591 25TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SYDNEY KHOO, is requesting that the name SYDNEY KHOO, be changed to HANSWE KHOO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 14th of August 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038201200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TADASHI WOOD COMPANY, 2045 CABRILLO ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RYAN TADASHI HONDA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/20/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 27, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038188200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DUE DATES, 912 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHALINI SHAH.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038203800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACHIEVERS BOOKS, 730 MADRID ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ART G. MADLAING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/28/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038201700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SNIDER IMMIGRATION SERVICE, 1438 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRETT SNIDER. 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 6/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038203300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOVE GREEK LIFE, 27 SEARS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHELLE EMELIA.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038201600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LK KERR BOOKS, 41 MERCED AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAURA KERR.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038195300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DYNAMO; DYNAMO DONUTS; DYNAMO DONUT & COFFEE, 2760 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THREE DOGS AND A CAT INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038204100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 2040 BUILDERS, 2345 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 2040 SERVICES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038200500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIX AUTO SAN FRANCISCO - SOMA, 785 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a trust, and is signed MARIVIC VILA, TRUSTEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/26/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/26/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038201300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO PROFESSIONAL MOVERS; EASY MOVE; FOSTER CITY MOVERS; MOVERS BURLINGAME; SAN RAFAEL MOVERS; SIMPLE MOVE, 383 KING ST #1712, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SPECTRUM MOVERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/27/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038200400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: H2 DISTRO; DISRUPTIVE DOSES; TOWN BUDS; HONEY HIVE, 36 SHOTWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed H4L 2 LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 06/26/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/26/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RAFF DISTILLERIE, 1615 INNES AVE #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed RAFF BEVERAGE, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038202100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TROOP BEVERAGE CO., 849 AVENUE D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TREEHOUSE CRAFT DISTILLERY, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced` to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/18.

JULY 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038205400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAPHICUSER LLC, 4789 19TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GRAPHICUSER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 08/18/16. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/18.

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The registration forms will be available on the Department of Elections’ website, sfelections.org, and at the Department’s office in City Hall, Room 48. Eligible non-citizen residents who wish to register to vote in the School Board election will need to complete a registration form and return it to the Department by mail or in person. The Department’s website will provide other information related to non-citizen voting, including a notice regarding the federal agencies obtaining non-citizens’ personal information, frequently asked questions, and a list of nonprofit organizations that specialize in protecting the rights of immigrants.

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above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/29/08. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/21/18.

On July 16, 2018, the Department of Elections will provide voter registration forms for noncitizens who are eligible to vote for members of the Board of Education in the November 6, 2018, election.

Notices >> Sealed bids will be received by Golden State ADHC/CBAS at 738 La Playa Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 until of 12:00 p.m. 07.31.18 for meals to be served in the center. At 4:00 p.m. 07.31.18 and promptly thereafter, all bids that have been duly received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Description of Product for Bid: Bulk type for meal inclusive milk will be used based on a 6 weeks menu cycle with delivery of hot meals to the center daily. The contract will be for meals, inclusive milk ( breakfast, lunch and supplement ) for 1 year period beginning 10.01.18. The contract will be awarded to Responsible bidder whose bid is responsive to this invitation and is most advantageous to the Golden State ADHC price and other factors considered. All meals of each type must meet the minimum standards set by the USDA for meals according to the current CACFP Meal Pattern for Adults. Any questions regarding this proposed contract may be referred to Dmitry Margusov at 415-387-2750.

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xcuse me,” says Alan Cumming, through the jangle of Manhattan traffic noise. “I’m hailing a taxi. It’s a bit frantic right now.” When, one wonders, is it not? If idle minds are the devil’s workshop, the superficially satyrical Cumming may actually be a candidate for sainthood. He’s calling to chat about “Legal Immigrant,” his latest solo concert, which he’ll bring to the Palace of Fine Arts Theater for a single performance next Wednesday, July 11. See page 20 >>

Alan Cumming will bring his solo concert “Legal Immigrant” to the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in SF.

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eauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats. After decades of minimalism, canvases brimming with a profusion of textures, birds, apples, extravagant fabrics, the occasional musical instrument and gorgeous women with pounds of cascading, lustrous hair are a shock to the system. Though the cumulative effect of the Legion of Honor’s scholarly exhibition “Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters” can be overwhelming, seeing the thick paint and shimmering peacock blues and other hues of its assembled paintings at close range is a natural high. See page 20 >>

Six paintings by Sandro Botticelli, including “Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph)” (ca. 1475), are included in the Legion of Honor’s exhibit “Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters.”

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he touring production of “School of Rock” now playing the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco through July 22 is the perfect opportunity to bring your secret air-guitar moves out of the closet. In busting out some scene-stealing, arena-rock guitar ballet, you’d only be joining the many talented cast members, ages 9-12, who register classic rock riffs on their electric guitars and other rock instruments in this show. Out There never saw the 2003 Richard Linklater-directed film of the same name, starring Jack Black, that the 2015 Broadway musical uses as source material. So we had nothing to compare it to, and came to the touring show’s opening night with mild if any expectations. But we were blown away by the sheer energy of the show’s dynamic, youthful cast, all of whom play their own instruments as well as act, sing and dance. They play a public schoolroom full of kids who are taken along for the wild ride when phony “substitute teacher” Dewey Finn puts together an all-kid rock band to compete against the inner-child adults in a “Battle of the Bands” contest. In the J. Black role as Dewey, actor Rob Colletti is a beefy bundle of wannabe-rock-star energy, a walking case-study of arrested development, and a classic-rock man-child. Standout child stars in his pick-up rock band include Vincent Molden on lead guitar, Theodora Silverman on bass, and Theo Mitchell-Penner on keyboards. They rock out on “Teacher’s Pet” and other, more generic songs. It’s heartening and a little eerie to hear a chorus of children singing, “If you want to be a teacher’s pet, there’s something that you can’t forget!” It’s also initially jarring but then more than a bit charming to hear pre-pubescent musicians giving their all to the anthem, “Stick it to The Man!” As Dewey concedes in wonderment when he first hears his charges rocking out, “You guys aren’t douchebags!” The children’s rock band takes on the name “School of Rock,” which, just for the record, is a lousy name for a rock band. We’d go with “Afterschool Special” or even “Children’s Crusade” over “School of Rock,” but it’s OK for the name of this musical. For gay fans, there’s the “I’m Too Hot for You” number performed by rival rock band No Vacancy, led by Hernando Umana as Theo, in absrevealing leather rocker outfit. With his rotund form and full lumberjack beard, Colletti is a prime candidate for bearhood. But this is a family show, and the first two elements in

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Theo Mitchell-Penner performs in “School of Rock.”

the classic formulation “sex, drugs and rock-n-roll” are not even hinted at. Instead we are in composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Land of Rebel Lite. Still, in the right mood, we can rock along with that. www.shnsf.com.

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When we first stumbled across the initial installment of Flower Piano in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, we thought we were hallucinating. Twelve pianos – 12 tuned pianos – were lurking in unexpected nooks and crannies of the garden, available for any and all, from concert musicians to amateur ivory-tinklers, to sit down and play on: What a concept! We returned with our dogeared copy of Chopin Mazurkas, and piano-benched ourselves in the Moon Garden to work our way through a few old favorites. Flower Piano is back for a fourth year, July 5-16, and free with regular admission to the Garden (SF residents get in free, with ID). Our source says, “Lots of new performers scheduled for this year by event partner Sunset Piano, including Latin jazz master Chuchito Valdés. This year also we feature more fourhand performances on dual pianos,

including one of Saint-Saëns’ ‘Carnival of the Animals’ by critically acclaimed pianist Allison Lovejoy, together with Kymry Esainko and members of the Classical Revolution Orchestra. “And due to popular demand, NightGarden Piano, a special evening version of Flower Piano that sold out last year, is back and expanded to three nights, July 1214. Beautifully lit pathways guide visitors to pianos aglow with performances by Sunset Piano all-stars and open pianos to play. Not to be missed this year are Jill Tracy’s ‘Sonic Séance,’ Sarah Cahill performing music by Terry Riley and Meredith Monk, and the a cappella men’s choir Conspiracy of Beards singing the songs of Leonard Cohen. Food and drink are also available for purchase. Tickets are $45 each, with proceeds helping to fund Flower Piano.” A full schedule of performances and programs, with links for ticket purchase to select events, is available at sfbg.org. Endnote: The “Truth & Beauty” presser was Max Hollein’s last as Director of the Fine Arts Museums/SF. He has left for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Observers are sorry to see him go. He brought panache, class and continental charm to the museums during his brief tenure.t

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Mahler’s world in all of its splendor by Philip Campbell

t’s 23 years and counting as Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas wrapped another memorable season with the San Francisco Symphony last week in concerts devoted entirely to Gustav Mahler’s glorious Symphony No. 3. The maestro has promised us two more seasons before stepping down in 2019-20, intentionally overlapping celebrations of his 75th birthday with 25 years on the podium at Davies Symphony Hall. San Francisco’s musical pied piper has said he likes the consonance of round numbers, but I’m still grappling with the jarring significance of his decision. We have been processing slowly since the announcement in 2017, and keeping calm, knowing he will remain in the newly created post of music director laureate and conduct at least four weeks each year. More of his trademark special programming projects are also on the horizon.

Behind-the-scenes transition work and recruitment is left to the SFS and Executive Director Mark C. Hanson (appointed one year ago). MTT will surely lend a hand; it is the sort of challenge he has faced himself triumphantly. The entire back-story lent special poignancy to the maestro’s entrance last week for the matinee first performance of the season-closing Mahler Third. MTT’s life-long association with the composer has famously yielded interpretations that reflect his emotional and intellectual attachment. After basking in the glow of the audience’s prolonged welcome, he turned to his colleagues and led all of us through the composer’s joyous expression of the world and its entire chaotic splendor. Even after listening to MTT and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 repeatedly, on disc and also live and in person, there was a special sense of wonder and appreciation in his latest illumination. An awesome communion between performers and audience

helped make the season finale a moving experience that is certain to remain in memory all summer. Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke was a radiant standout in the settings of Nietzsche’s “O Mensch Gib Acht!” (“Take heed, humanity!”) and the enchanting “Three angels sang a sweet song” from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” (“The Boy’s Magic Horn”). Her partnering with MTT

in Mahler has always been remarkable, and I share his admiration for her purely beautiful voice. Pacific Boychoir (Andrew Brown, director) has been appearing at DSH a lot lately, and they returned to stand beside Women of the SFS Chorus (Ragnar Bohlin, director) to complete the magnificent ensemble onstage. Horns, strings, and of course,

ace trumpeter Mark Inouye raised the roof with the powerful force of their intense involvement, and the exhilarated audience rose in unison. Standing ovations are ubiquitous these days, but seldom are they so sincere and deserved. The previous week of subscription concerts showed MTT’s range, and also his support of visiting soloists. The performance of the two final symphonies in the canon of seven by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius proved a bracing and affectionate reminder of the composer’s expansive appeal and his unique melodic landscape. Smartly programmed for the second half of the bill, the appearance of Daniil Trifonov in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 prompted a raucous standing ovation that was both predictable and well-earned. I directed a lot of my energy and appreciation towards MTT as well, as he stood at the side of the young virtuoso, graciously allowing him a solo moment in the spotlight.t

tions, Bedouine takes her place among contemporary SoCal singer-songwriters. Enjoy the atmospherics on “Back to You” (with the Joniesque line, “California city parks/they talk in exclamation marks”), the romantic lullaby “Dusty Eyes,” and the spoken-sung “Solitary Daughter.” The dark “Summer Cold” may have been written about an attack on her native Syria, but it could also apply to gun-crazy America. Album closer

“Skyline” soars to thrilling heights. If you dig Mitski, you’re sure to appreciate EMA’s (aka Erika M. Anderson) sonic booms and breaths on “Exile in the Outer Ring” (City Slang). Alternating currents (“Down and Out” followed by “Fire Water Air LSD”) give the album its unpredictability. The audio assault of “33 Nihilistic and Female,” coming after “Aryan Nation,” raises the stakes. A hopeful resolution isn’t found on “Receive Love” or “Always Bleed.” The outer ring isn’t just, in EMA’s words, “where the darkness began,” it’s where it resides. The first thing you should know

is not to be distracted by the infectious funk and dance beats on “M.A.H.,” “Rosebud” and “Poem” from “In a Poem Unlimited” (4AD) by U.S. Girls (aka Meg Remy). Sure, feel free to shake your groove thing. But listen closely while you do, because U.S. Girls wants you to think on your feet. “M.A.H.” (mad as hell) is about calling out a lying lover. “Rosebud” (co-written by gay musician Rich Morel) has a message of encouragement, while “Poem” (co-written by Morel) has something to say to everyone glued to their phones, as it floats along on a Moroder-style keyboard beat.t

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ne of the early contenders for best debut album of 2018, “Hollow Ground” (Jagjaguwar), the first full-length album by Cut Worms (aka Max Clarke), will make some listeners nostalgic for a time they’re not old enough to remember. With a vintage twang to make Dwight Yoakam envious, Cut Worms opens the album with “How It Can Be,” as good on a country radio station as it is for college radio, a perfect example of Cut Worms’ versatility. The baritone sax on “Coward’s Confidence” conjures visions of poodle skirts and saddle

shoes, while “Don’t Want to Say Goodbye” could be a lost Everly Brothers number. “Like Going Down Sideways” has the emotional power of classic Gene Pitney. There’s more retro country-pop to be found on “Cash for Gold” and “Think I Might Be in Love.” Azniv Korkejian records as Bedouine on her gorgeous eponymous Spacebomb Records debut. Singing, playing guitar, and backed on several tracks by string and horn sec-

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Once upon a time in America by Jim Gladstone

he world premiere of Oakland resident Jonathan Spector’s “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” – a co-production of Custom Made Theatre and Just Theater – is messy and black-humored, repulsive yet compelling. It may be an ideal theatrical reflection of our current national moment. Set on the Las Vegas strip, Ground Zero of Ugly America, this loose-jointed series of vignettes pours a potent mix of the trivial and the apocalyptic. It’s an umbrellagarnished Molotov cocktail. In a single night under the Nevada neon, we meet a motley crew of our countrymen, intent on fiddling around at Caesar’s Palace as the metaphorical Rome of American Empire burns. The bachelorettes, the feuding families, the sidewalk Spiderman, and the hooker with a heart of gold we meet in an intermissionless 90-minute rush of scenes are grotesque funhouse mirror-images of ourselves, all misguided priorities and an inability to grasp the big picture. A nervous businessman brings that prostitute to his hotel room where, too timid to initiate physical contact, he reads aloud Yelp reviews of her services, then gets sucked down an internet hole, checking news and emails. The hooker checks her watch. Her client snaps back into consciousness after being jolted by an

onscreen headline – nuclear war has broken out in India. Then he asks if she’ll give him a blow job. A hopped-up local teenager on a custody date with his father explains that high-stakes poker gambling is his “means to find purpose” in life. Divorced Dad, meanwhile, is unemployed and needs to borrow from his son to cover their evening out, which is soon interrupted by rolling blackouts, suggesting that the night’s disaster may not remain limited to other continents. We meet tipsy Midwesterners eager to believe in flim-flam card tricks, U.S. soldiers who no longer believe in the efficacy of battle, and amped-up crowds whose only political impulse is to “fight for the right to party.” Endless selfies are taken. Novelty drinks are sipped from plastic Eiffel Towers. And as India burns, Spector gives us characters whose familiarity with the Taj Mahal ends with Donald Trump’s Atlantic City bankruptcy. Spector’s influences seem more cinematic than theatrical. As a large number of characters (cast members play multiple roles) weave in and out of each other’s evenings across many locations, “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” recalls the collagelike narratives and moral rot of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” and “Boogie Nights.” This unfortunately creates an insurmountable hurdle for director Lauren English. It’s impossible

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Lauren Garcia, Jessica Lea Risco, David Sinaiko (in Spiderman costume), Mick Mize (center), Gabriel Montoya, Tim Garcia, and Millie Brooks in “Good. Better. Best. Bested.”

to simultaneously deliver both the sweep and the specificity of Spector’s vision on a stage. His scenes are too short and rapid-fire to convey depth-of-character through stage acting techniques; they beg for the intense close-ups and the subtle facial expressions allowed by film.

And because each member of the ensemble plays multiple parts, the dialogue’s humor comes across broader and flatter than it deserves to be. Mick Mize, Tim Garcia, and Lauren Andrei Garcia stand out among the cast for the differentiating nuances they bring

to their roles. In the end, as theater, “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” is merely good. Could it be better? Perhaps. Could we be? Absolutely. Playwright Spector reminds us that in a relentlessly self-centered society, the center will not hold.t

Sophisticated comedy of manners by Brian Bromberger

lluring and luminous are not words usually associated with Katharine Hepburn, who for much of the 1930s projected a tomboyish image complete with her at-the-time scandalous insistence on wearing pants. After a series of box office flops (including two films now considered classics, “Holiday” and “Bringing Up Baby”), she was declared “box office poison” in 1938. Licking her wounds, she retreated to Broadway and triumphed in Philip Barry’s play “The Philadelphia Story.” Hepburn, assisted by her beau at the time, Howard Hughes, bought the screen rights. She cast herself in the lead, and hired her favorite director, the gay George Cukor. Cukor was also in somewhat of a career slump, having just been fired from “Gone With the Wind.” Hepburn had wanted Clark Gable and Gary Cooper for the male leads, but they were unavailable, so she settled for Cary Grant (the fourth and final time they teamed together) and James Stewart. She had noted author Donald Ogden Stewart pen the witty screenplay. “Philadelphia Story” is a sophisticated comedy of manners featuring a subset favorite genre of the period, divorced couples possibly reuniting. The film was a huge popular and critical hit, revitalizing Hepburn’s career as Hollywood’s chief leading lady. She never looked lovelier, an implied rebuke to David Selznick’s assertion that she couldn’t play Scarlett O’Hara because she lacked sex appeal. “Philadelphia Story” has just been released on Blu-ray by Criterion in a glorious new 4K digital restoration, and with some minor criticisms retains its

quirky charm almost eight decades later. Tracy Lord (Hepburn), from a wealthy Philadelphia Main Line family, is set to marry nouveau riche George Kittredge (John Howard) in the wedding of the year. Two years previously she had divorced C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), a yacht designer, because he drank too much. He went to work for Spy magazine in Argentina. He returns

for the wedding a recovered alcoholic and cedes to Spy publisher Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell)’s request to help smuggle in two Spy reporters, Macauley “Mike” Connor (Stewart) and photographer Liz Imbrie (Ruth Hussey), to cover the nuptials by introducing them as friends of Junius, Tracy’s diplomatic brother. Tracy sees through the ruse, but because Kidd has proof of her father’s affair with a

dancer, to avoid scandal, she allows Mike and Liz to stay. After reading Mike’s book of short stories, Tracy becomes friendlier towards him. The night before the wedding in a famous episode, both Tracy and Mike get drunk, resulting in an innocent midnight swim. With Dexter scheming behind the scene, George assumes they are having an affair and breaks off the engagement minutes before the wedding. Tracy decides she must go through with it, but whom will she marry, Mike or Dexter? For all its comic hijinks, “Philadelphia Story” also exhibits biting social commentary, skewering snobbery of every kind, whether it be poor against rich, rich against poor, highbrow vs. popular taste, and self-righteousness opposing human imperfection, while dealing with such controversial topics of the day as infidelity, class conflicts, and tabloid journalism. The film was nominated for six Oscars and won two: Stewart’s screenplay and Best Actor James Stewart. Stewart was very good, but not as great as fellow nominees Henry Fonda in “The Grapes of Wrath” or Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator.” Stewart’s victory was seen as a consolation prize for not winning the year before, as the idealistic Senator in Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” a brilliant performance, losing to Robert Donat in “Goodbye Mr. Chips.” Hepburn was nominated, but lost to Ginger Rogers in “Kitty Foyle.” The acting is impressive all around, and Hussey’s poignant unrequited love for Stewart netted her a Supporting Actress Oscar nod. But Hepburn shines with both Grant and Stewart, which is not to dismiss the subtle homoerotic chemistry between Grant and Stewart.

As we’ve come to expect, Criterion has added some excellent special edition features, including a new 22-minute documentary, “In Search of Tracy Lord,” about the real-life origins of the character and her social milieu, with Barry scholar Donald Anderson, and Barry granddaughter Miranda Barry arguing that she was based on a composite of popular socialite Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, Barry’s wife Ellen, and Hepburn herself. Another new 19-minute piece analyzes Hepburn’s role in the development of the film with filmmakers David Heeley and Joan Kramer, who produced several documentaries and books on her. Another supplement, almost worth the price alone, are two full episodes of “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1973 featuring rare TV interviews with Hepburn. In “The Philadelphia Story,” the judgmental Tracy (her mother in the film says, “She sets exceptionally high standards for herself, and other people aren’t apt to live up to them”) is cut down to size as she realizes her own weaknesses. Perhaps that is why the less haughty Tracy Lord remains many people’s favorite Hepburn performance, though a feminist analysis might not be so laudatory. In the initial flashback scene, Grant pushes Hepburn to the floor after she breaks his favorite golf club. Then her philandering Uncle Willy goes around pinching women’s asses. Both of these actions will rightfully raise #MeToo eyebrows, though Hepburn seems more than capable of handling herself in a patriarchal world on her own terms. While remaining the exemplar independent woman from 1940 on, Hepburn seems less abrasive. “Philadelphia Story” was rated #51 on the list of greatest 20th Century American films by the American Film Institute. This movie, in spite of its gender-role shortcomings, deserves to be remembered as one of the high marks in Hollywood’s Golden studio era.t

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The Lavender Tube in the End Times by Victoria A. Brownworth

e thought we would be writing about new, neo-noir summer series, like HBO’s “Sharp Objects” or FX’s “The Sinner,” debuting in July. We thought we’d be writing about breezy summer fare like the incalculably gay “Wedding Cake Championship” (why do we even need straight people baking our cakes when we have so many great gay bakers?) and “America’s Got Talent” and that in-your-face lesbian on “Master Chef.” We thought we’d be writing about how with each successive episode, we fall more deeply in love with the characters on “Pose,” that this show has elevated our community to a new level with its depth and emotion, its historical perspective, its peeling back the layers of trans life and telling tales out of school, and its brutal honesty. If we had forgotten what it was like to watch our friends seroconvert, sicken and die with their dinner trays left out in the hall of the hospital, if we had forgotten those gauzy yellow gowns we were supposed to wear, if we had forgotten climbing into the hospital beds of our dying friends, holding them, singing softly and murmuring whatever they needed to hear, “Pose” is there to re-fire that pain, rage and loss. If we had forgotten what it was like to get that first HIV test with our friends, waiting to get the results, “Pose” told that story with a gut-punch. If we had forgotten the risks our trans women friends had to take just to live as themselves in the world, “Pose” is telling that story, reminding us how hard it is to live in two worlds. We thought we’d be writing about the surreal, bittersweet beauty in the final two episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown,” with the amazing commentary of his mask in the Acadian Louisiana Mardi Gras, or the chilling coda of him participating in a death ritual in Bhutan. We thought we’d be writing about Jon Stewart’s surprise visit on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where he literally popped up out of the floor to give a well-placed rant against Trump on June 28 that we so needed to hear. To wild audience applause, Stewart spoke to Trump

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directly. “Hello, Donald. It’s me, the guy you made sure everyone knew was Jewish on Twitter,” Stewart said, referencing Trump’s anti-Semitic comments about Stewart in the past. “I know you’re upset about all the criticism you’ve been taking in the ‘fake news’ and the ‘fake latenight shows.’ It’s just that we’re all still having a little trouble adjusting to your presidency as it goes into its 500th year.” The applause was fierce. Stewart continued, “One hallmark to your presidency we’re finding the most difficult is that no matter what you do it always comes with an extra layer of gleeful cruelty and dickishness. It’s not just that you don’t want people taking a knee, it’s that they’re sons of bitches if they do. It’s not just denying women who accuse you of sexual assault, it’s saying they were too ugly anyway. You can’t just be against the media, they’re ‘enemies of the people.’” About the immigration crisis Trump created, Stewart said, “You could have absolutely made a more stringent border policy that would have made your point about enforcement. But I guess it wouldn’t have felt right without a Dickensian level of villainy. You casually separated people seeking asylum from their children, from babies.” Stewart ended with a call to the audience: “What Donald Trump wants is for us to stop calling his cruelty and fear and divisiveness wrong, but to join him in calling it right. And this we cannot do. And I say, by not yielding, we will prevail!” That was a moment. Watch the entire segment at CBS.com or on YouTube. We thought that Pride would end gracefully, with the big parades on either coast and the beauty we never fail to appreciate of our community out there, in all its multi-cultural, multi-generational glory, showing America we are indeed here and queer and if you aren’t used to it by now, well, sad for you. We thought it would be TV as usual, TV with some gay highs, not TV for the end times. We were wrong. As we write this, we have been crying for close to 24 hours. Crying what Oprah rightly calls the “ugly cry.” For at least 12 hours we had our TV on straight news (don’t do this, it’s too emotionally overwhelming) watching all there was to watch about the murders of five journalists in Maryland at the Capital Gazette, sister paper to The Baltimore Sun, for which we wrote for 17 years until 2008. All we could think about was every time Trump called the press the “enemy of the people,” claimed we were “fake news,” or put the press in cattle cages at his rallies. All we could think about was Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling the press liars from her podium at press briefings. Just a day before, CNN’s Jim Acosta, who has been a frequent target of both Trump and Sanders, and whose Latinx heritage has been raised at more than one press briefing, had been attacked while covering Trump’s South Carolina rally on June 27. One woman even came up to him yelling in his face, “Get the fuck out of here. Out of here. Out. Out. Out. Out.” All we could think about was disgraced gay neo-Nazi Milo Yiannopoulos telling Observer reporters just two days earlier, “I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight.” After the murders at the Capital Gazette, Milo waved a hand and claimed of his incendiary threat, “It was just a troll.” Those of us who report news have been under threat since Trump took

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Jon Stewart took over “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” when he arrived to give a well-placed rant against Trump.

office. And for LGBT reporters like us, that threat has ratcheted up with violent comments online, via email, and even calls to our homes. It was hard to witness what happened at the Capital Gazette, a paper not unlike the B.A.R., and not think of how at risk we all are now. Those of us who report stories that no one else will – like LGBT stories, stories of undocumented workers, of women in hiding from abuse, of queer homeless – are most under threat. Particularly without the backing of a big newspaper behind us as protection. We didn’t know the folks who were killed at Capital Gazette, but some of our former colleagues at The Sun did, and had nothing but praise for them. Their loss is a loss to our journalistic community. It is also a red flag, because the suspect in the killings was angry about a story the paper had written about him. All of us who write news have angered someone at some point who didn’t like the way we wrote that story, or that we wrote that story. Watching TV news from the time the shots rang out through the wee hours of the morning, we saw how shaken reporters were by what had happened. TV is always at its best in real time: taking us to the scenes we don’t want to visit but must, be it the awfulness of the Pulse massacre in 2016, or the Las Vegas massacre on Oct. 1, 2017, or the Parkland shooting on Valentine’s Day. This was different. We have had some dicey experiences as a reporter. A gun held to our head in Newark. A shotgun pulled on us in the Central Valley. A car trying to run us down in North Philadelphia. Being punched in the face in Los Angeles. Death threats for different series exposing public officials. We survived. We wrote the stories anyway. But no journalist expects to be killed sitting at their desk on a Thursday afternoon in peaceful Anne Arundel County, Maryland on a hot, sunny June day. The news cycle will shift soon, it always does. The story of five journalists killed at work will be revised to be about yet another white male malcontent lone shooter with a history of violence against women, and not about a president who attacks the press nearly every day, either on Twitter or at a rally televised to every single American household, with the full weight of its vitriolic message going out to similar malcontents with guns. The Capital Gazette killings were a local story, not a terrorist or even political act. But that isn’t the whole story. And we can’t dare to let it be. Every night Trump is on our TV screens with some new authoritarian action. We don’t need to be conspiracy theorists to see

the road America is on because of 77 votes in the electoral college in 2016. We can watch Don Lemon instead of Rachel Maddow. We can listen to the earnest pleading of Chris Cuomo in prime time as he calls for civility from “both sides” – because sure, it’s both sides refusing service to gays and lesbians, it’s both sides instituting a ban against trans men and women in the military, it’s both sides marching with Tiki torches yelling, “Jews will not replace us!,” it’s both sides trying to end repro rights and keep LGBT people from taking discrimination cases to the federal courts in America. It is not both sides. Those of us living it know it is not both sides. Those of us watching TV news every night know it is not both sides. The Capital Gazette killings might be a local TV news story that made it onto our national newscasts because it was the 154th mass shooting in America since January 1, but it is also true that the president has created an atmosphere where violence against the press, our free press protected by the Constitution, is a goal. Before the Capital Gazette murders, the news cycle was the end of the U.S. Supreme Court term, as the SCOTUS delivered its final rulings. The evening news was rife with stories about each decision. CNN and MSNBC went deep. These rulings were juxtaposed against the looming crisis at our Southern border: immigrants desperate to save their lives and the lives of their children being taken away in handcuffs, children as young as three months pulled from their breastfeeding mothers and taken to detention centers. SCOTUS and Baby Jails. That’s how we’ve ended the most bittersweet Pride month in years: with the high court saying we not only don’t get cake, we don’t get flowers, either. Oh, and btw, if you want to vote in states with repressive gerrymandering and redistricting? Rethink that, too. The pièce de résistance, though, was Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing on June 27 (our actual Pride day, the night the Stonewall riots began in 1969) that he was retiring. Back in the mid-late 80s, the SCOTUS was our newspaper beat for three years. It’s a daunting job, but amazing. Because cameras and TV are not allowed in the SCOTUS, the role of reporters is huge. There is no video. There is only us, sitting in a velvet-draped box to the left of the dais on which the justices sit. There are the icons of SCOTUS reporting, like NPR’s Nina Totenberg and Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, then there is everyone else. For three years, we were there. Our tenure at SCOTUS began the

year of Bowers v. Hardwick. So we got to report on the court ruling against us. We got to speak with Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the incendiary dissent in that case and who stood in the blazing sun in front of the court yelling about how wrong the decision was, how it contravened the Constitution and created a second-class citizenship for lesbians and gay men. It was an unplanned moment, so the cameras weren’t there. A handful of us reporters were lagging when he came out. And then it was over for us until 2003 and Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Lawrence v. Texas in which he vitiated Bowers v. Hardwick, said the court had been wrong, and granted us the right to legally have consensual sex with each other. It was an extraordinary moment. The late Antonin Scalia was outraged, saying Kennedy’s ruling paved the way for same-sex marriage. Scalia was right. In 2015 Kennedy again made history with his beautifully written opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. It was now legal for us to marry. So the news on June 27 was devastating on several fronts. Not only were LGBT people losing an ally on whom we had come to depend, despite his swing votes on other issues, but now Trump would get to appoint yet another justice, and create a Trump SCOTUS for at least another 25 years. We listened to legal scholar after legal scholar on CNN, MSNBC, ABC and PBS explaining how the opinions that would be most under threat with a second Trump justice would be Roe v. Wade, which Blackmun had authored back in 1973, and the cases Kennedy had ruled on for us: Lawrence and Obergefell. And now the news breaks that Kennedy’s retirement may be part of yet another Trump corruption scam, and the man who gave us the two most important rulings in gay history may be responsible for them being taken away. As you read this, Independence Day is over. The fireworks, the musical tributes, the celebration of the land of the free and home of the brave, it’s over for this year, just like Pride. We don’t know what to tell you to watch to soothe you: our stories writ lushly in “Pose,” our frolicsome moments in “Wedding Cake Championship,” or our DVD’d episodes of “Drag Race.” If you want rage, “Dietland” works. If you want to be taken out of yourself, PBS’ “Poldark” and “Endeavor” will do it. If you need fewer white people, “Queen Sugar,” “Snowfall,” “Queen of the South” and “Claws” all work. Just remember that in a democracy on the skids or an autocracy in the making, you really must stay tuned.t

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On the road to discover Elvis Presley by David Lamble

film is the sight of Elvis with a GI haircut singing for American and German civilians just before the rise of the Berlin Wall. There’s an amusing account of German Presley fans describing their country’s cultural submersion in an onslaught of American rock, led by Presley over American Armed Forces Radio. “The King” also documents the passing of the rock torch when, in 1963, a certain “Fab Four” from Liv-

erpool began competing for popchart positions and radio airtime. “The King” is at its best and most disturbing when the filmmakers demonstrate the weird competition that broke out among TV powerhouses for the ratings jolt that a Presley appearance could generate. At first, CBS “Sunday Night” host Ed Sullivan sniffed that he wouldn’t think of booking Presley’s immoral hip gyrations

on his popular variety hour; then Sullivan rival Steven Allen grabbed Elvis, and Sullivan had to do an embarrassing about-face. The movie makes claims that Presley developed his drug habits while standing guard for the Army in Germany. Whatever the explanation, Presley’s weight and skin tone went through some sad changes in the last decade of his life. Before the drug binge, a 20-something Elvis was gay male pin-up material. “The King” also documents Presley’s Col. Parkerinitiated Hollywood period, when the King churned out a series of mediocre beach-blanket movies that can still be caught from time to time on Turner Classics Movies (TCM). While African American critics such as Chuck D accuse Presley of cultural appropriation for getting chartbusters out of black music, hits denied black singers like Big Mama Thornton and Little Richard, Chuck D concedes that Sam Phillips had little choice but to give Elvis a shot at songs the American public wasn’t buying from black artists. “The King” comes to a sad end, a drug-fueled demise made all the more poignant by Elvis’ final rendition of “Unchained Melody” on TV. Still, “The King” is a fabulous bit of cultural history that is as entertaining as any piece of Americana on the screen. Some weekend screenings of the film will feature Q&A sessions with director Jarecki and famed pop-music critic Greil Marcus, whose pioneering writings on Presley are must-reading.t

is a bright teen with teenage concerns: friendships, music, social status, academics. When Ava’s overprotective mother questions her relationship with a boy, Ava rebels against the strictures imposed by her parents, her school, and the society at large. (starts 7/13) “Milk” This Greek tragedy made in San Francisco, nimbly staged by Gus Van Sant from Dustin Lance Black’s passionate screenplay, is a humane political thriller with a grasp of the nuts-and-bolts of government intrigue, and its crushing impact on real lives. Sean Penn drops the macho posturing to give us a gentle Harvey who can still suggest a prickly Courtesy Roxie edge. Scene from directors Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi’s “Fireworks.” “Mala Noche” In the opening frames of one of the most influential if (Gholamhossein Nami) and a poet by David Lamble least-seen works in the New Queer (Reza Baraheni). In “Light and Cinema, two Mexican teens, the an Francisco’s Roxie cinema, in Sound,” Soli, a well-known Iranian slender conman/Lothario Johnny business since 1909, offers an musician, was forced to leave Iran (Doug Cooyate) and his shy, slightly eclectic array of summer fare rangafter the 1979 revolution, when older “chaperone” Pepper (Ray ing from indie master Hal Ashby’s music was banned by the regime. Monge), are riding a slow freight best to classics from queer auteur He makes his music in exile. In train headed for Portland, Oregon, Gus Van Sant. Call the theater for “Frame & Wall,” Master Gholamand the heart of the horniest, most info on whether the film you’re seehossein Nami, an important Iranian ravenously addicted to cute teening is playing at the 275-seat “big” visual artist, leaves Iran and ends up age boys convenience-store clerk, Roxie or the 50-seat “little” Roxie. in Canada. In “Alchemy & Dust,” Walt Curtis (Tim Streeter). Van Sant “Fireworks” Producer Genki Reza Baraheni, one of the greatest trains his camera on the skittish balKawamura follows up his mega-hit Iranian poets, was forced to leave let between Walt, Johnny and Pep“Your Name” with another tale of Iran when he was blacklisted after per. Johnny slip-slides away from star-crossed adolescent lovers with signing a letter about censorship. bedding down with Walt, and Pepa sci-fi fantasy twist. English-subtiThis poetic docudrama was shot by per imposes his own rules for their tled. (starts 7/6) Baraheni’s son, who suffered exile hauntingly photographed coupling. “Exilic Trilogy” consists of with him. (all 3, 7/10) Van Sant loosely adapted a novella three arthouse docudrama films “Ava” Based on her teenage by the real Walt Curtis, a Skid Row from Arsalan Baraheni, the exiled memories, Sadaf Foroughi’s film is poet. It’s a gay version of a Charles Iranian-Canadian filmmaker based a commanding debut about a young Bukowski-like universe where honin Toronto. The films, biographical, girl’s coming-of-age in a strict, est work is for suckers, or as Walt poetic and musical, profile a musitraditional society. Living with her tells a cash-strapped wino, “Credit’s cian (Soleyman Vaseghi), a painter well-to-do parents in Tehran, Ava like sex: some get it, some don’t.”

Van Sant gets the details of Skid Row so right that the film is a poetic time capsule, with cans of Bud, quarts of Thunderbird, boxy old cars and a copy of The Oregonian that lets us see the exact day of filming: October 17, 1984. (both 7/15) “Empire Records” The employees of Empire Records, an independent music store on the verge of being sold to a large conglomerate, stage a fundraising party to raise enough money to buy the business. Allan Moyle, director of “Pump Up the Volume,” cranks it up with this comedy about an eventful day in the lives of the young slackers, doers and dreamers. With Anthony LaPaglia and Rory Cochrane. (7/17)

“Harold and Maude” This Hal Ashby-directed classic co-stars Bud Cort (Harold) as a deadpan 20-yearold obsessed with suicide, and a loveable Ruth Gordon (Maude) as a fun-loving eccentric about to turn 80. The pair bond at a funeral and develop an odd-couple romantic relationship in which they explore the meaning of life, underscored by an offbeat pop score by Cat Stevens. (7/25) “Todo Lo Demas (Everything Else)” Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza plays a government clerk who punishes her clients as life has punished her. But when she loses her cat, she goes into crisis. (starts 7/27)t

n 1977 I was holding down a news gig at a popular Dallas/Fort Worth FM Rock station when a bulletin came down over the wires that “The King of Rock-n-Roll,” Elvis Presley, had been found dead in a bathroom at his Graceland mansion by his cook. My first move was to call famed “rockologist” Greil Marcus to tap into his thoughts about exactly what we had lost now that “Elvis had left the building” at the shocking age of 42. Forty-one years later, famed documentary director Eugene Jarecki delivers an impressive cast of show-biz heavyweights – rapper Chuck “Fight the Power” D, Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among others – to give their take on Presley from the backseat of his 1963 Rolls-Royce, a vehicle whose mid-film breakdown is itself a shocking development. Opening Friday at the Clay Theatre in San Francisco, Berkeley’s Shattuck Cinemas, and the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, “The King” is a vastly entertaining and at times uncomfortably intimate account of a life whose rise and tragic fall Jarecki asserts is a metaphor for a parallel demise of the American Empire. The film is an R-rated cinema rollercoaster ride that takes us from Elvis’ very modest beginnings to a mid-1950s debut that carried him, not only to the top of the pop charts, but also to the role of American cold-war weapon.

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Scene from director Eugene Jarecki’s “The King,” which comes to a tragic end.

“The King” makes the case that Elvis was trapped between two daddies: Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who sought to make crossover stars out of black singers like Big Mama Thornton; and a less savory daddy, Col. Tom Parker, who succeeded in turning Elvis into a rock-n-roll cash machine right up to and even after his late-1950s induction into the American Army. One of the odder segments in the

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Drag to riches by Jim Piechota

attitude (if there is indeed such a thing), she doles out the tough love and barely breaks a sweat or bats a 301 false eyelash. But fair warning: if you are hypersensitive about ev-

erything and easily offended, this is definitely not the book for you. Though her season of “Drag Race” has long since come and gone, the outspoken social critic still admits to remaining somewhat of a household name, “at least in the houses of gay men, fag hags, and parents who keep wondering why their teenage son, Billy, doesn’t have a girlfriend, yet seems to know a lot about contouring.” In an effort to answer the emails, letters, and Facebook posts she regularly receives about everything from a “stinky snatch” to “integrity bullshit” to the best places to relocate, Bianca spits out the truth in a give-and-take session of “your needy questions and my bitter, unqualified responses.” Ever the equal opportunity offender, Del Rio doesn’t disappoint.

my’s Tale,” the critically acclaimed memoir “Not My Father’s Son,” and the scrapbooky essay and photo collection “You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams.” “I did some writing today,” says the Scottish Swiss Army Knife as he heads toward a performance of his friend Basil Twist’s surreal underwater puppet show. “And I went to yoga. “I’m actually very good at relaxing,” Cumming insists. “I’m a very focused person. I can compartmentalize everything.” But even within his cabaret compartment, Cumming can’t resist multitasking. “Legal Immigrant” finds him advancing his solo performance career and his liberal political activism simultaneously. “I’ve always admired America, and I still think it’s a great country,” says Cumming, who became a citizen in 2008. “But when the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services changed its mission statement this year to remove the phrase ‘a nation of immigrants,’ it just made

me furious. “I find it to be a terribly menacing thing, the way the government is dealing with refugees and people who want to move to the United States from abroad. I think we should remind ourselves of the contributions that immigrants have made. Including their contributions to the arts. So while I do a range of songs as usual in this concert, I make a point of taking time to talk about their provenance, to show that the lyricists and composers that make the music Americans love came from everywhere.” As in past solo shows, Cumming manages to infuse his patter and song selection with serious commentary while retaining an impish humor all the while. His repertoire is Courtesy the subject nothing if not eclectic, ranging from Marlene Dietrich to Alan Cumming supports himself. Pink to Sondheim to his fellow Scots, The Proclaimers.

Blame It on Bianca Del Rio by Bianca Del Rio; Dey Street Press, $21.99

s the winner of the sixth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and the queen of her own expanding empire, insult comedienne extraordinaire Bianca Del Rio’s (aka Roy Haylock) latest venture is a companion piece to her current comedy tour of the same name. The artfully packaged pseudo-advice book “Blame It on Bianca Del Rio” is framed around Bianca’s call for fan letters, and while the questions may be somewhat standard fare, Del Rio’s answers are anything but. Sharp-tongued, with a heavy dose of black humor and good-natured

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It’s a project he pulled together in the midst of shooting the first season of “Instinct,” the CBS television series in which he plays an openly gay crime-solving psychologist. In the past year, along with these two major undertakings, Cumming found time to record his segments as host of “Masterpiece Mystery” on PBS; collaborate with his husband, illustrator Grant Shaffer, on a children’s book; and tend to the business of his Manhattan nightspot, Club Cumming. This comes on the heels of seven seasons playing Eli Gold on Cumming’s first CBS series, “The Good Wife.” During that run, he managed to squeeze in a few other activities, including shooting several feature films, returning to Broadway in his Tony-winning role as the Emcee in “Cabaret,” recording three albums, participating in several LGBTQ public service campaigns, and writing three books: the novel “Tom-

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The first section deals with folks’ queasiness around larger-sized “tubby” children, troubles with hiding acne (apply foundation “with a trowel”), and hilariously counterproductive counsel for those looking for love, romance, or friends (“people who hold your hair when you vomit”). Perhaps the funniest part, a brassy, penis-heavy chapter on sex called “You’re the Top!,” concludes with a short list of Bianca’s favorite fetishes. She answers plenty of candid questions on manners, work relations, and avoiding pooping while traveling by air (“on days when I fly, I have Imodium for breakfast, a butt plug for lunch, and I douche with Glade”). In response to a question about dishonesty and integrity, Bianca shoves our current political

leap off the canvas. As famous as he is today, Sandro Botticelli, an architect of ethereal The show focuses on barefoot femininity, was England’s self-anointed nearly forgotten until he Pre-Raphaelites, a frawas rediscovered in the ternity of young, literary, 19th century by art critic 19th-century British rebels John Ruskin and the Pre of the Victorian period Raphaelites. Spotlit and ocwho formed a Brotherhood cupying a dark wall it has in 1848. Its core foundto itself, Botticelli’s temers, including John Everett pera painting “Idealized Millais, a child prodigy Portrait of a Lady (Portrait admitted to London’s Royal of Simonetta Vespucci as Academy of Art at the age of Nymph)” (ca. 1475) was 11; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, reputed to be modeled on a who reordered his names Renaissance noblewoman to reflect his obsession with regarded as the most beauhis hero, Dante Alighieri; tiful creature in Florence, and William Holman Hunt; and an intimate of the ranged in age from 19 to 21, powerful Medici clan. Her with little exposure to art, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco bejeweled, wavy reddish the world, or experience in hair, woven with ribbons, general. One-for-all-and- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, “Love and the Maiden” (1877). Oil, gold paint and the cameo resting on all-for-one insurrectionists and gold leaf on canvas. her alabaster skin contrast challenging the prevailing with a black background aesthetics of the era, they set weaving a relatable narrative of a The PRB admired Netherlands that accentuates her stunning proout to break the Royal Academy’s coterie of ambitious revolutionaries artists such as Jan van Eyck, whose file. She suffered a tragic death at an rules, determine for themselves jettisoning the establishment, cock“Arnolfini Portrait” (1834) had the early age, her unattainable perfecwhat constituted truth and beauty, sure as only the young can be that greatest impact on them of all the tion frozen in time for posterity. and figure out what made someone they can change the world. early art they encountered. The As they matured, the PRB dean Old Master, and how to become Seeking authenticity in nature first gallery pairs Van Eyck’s “The veloped an affinity for works by one on their own terms. and early European painting, Annunciation” (1432-36), which 16th-century Venetian Renaissance Organized thematically and folthe PRB retreated to a time that highlights the jewel tones and layartists whose sensuality and reverlowing a loose chronology, the show pre-dated Raphael. They had no ered symbolism they revered, with ence of beauty, tinged with mystery links these upstarts with an abunquarrel with the High Renaissance Millais’ “Mariana” (1850-51). That and melancholy, appealed to them. dance of masterpieces by the medivirtuoso – after all, he made their painting’s central figure, based on With their lush colors, beautieval and Italian Renaissance masters list of “immortals,” which included a character from Shakespeare’s fully adorned women in luscious who were their sources of inspiraTennyson, Keats and Jesus Christ “Measure for Measure,” is poured fabrics, and emphasis on mood, tion. Exhibition curator Melissa – their disdain was reserved for his into a brilliant, sapphire blue velvet atmosphere and intoxication of Buron, who spent years researching imitators. Raphael’s youthful selfdress that begs to be touched. Hands the senses, what’s not to like? In and pulling together the art – many portrait (1504-06), painted when he on her hips and eyes closed as if in his later period, at the height of institutions were persuaded to lend was about the same age as members the middle of a morning yawn, she his career, Rossetti departed from adored works from their respecof the Brotherhood, is prominently faces a stained glass window with his characteristic precision for the tive collections – illuminates and displayed in a splendid gilded frame. a view onto a garden, a bench with free-handed brushwork found in brings immediacy to a chapter of Like the magnificent picture frames scarlet upholstery behind her, and portraits of the luminous though art history that for many is distant throughout, it’s a work of art that autumn leaves strewn on the floor. haughty “Monna Vanna” (1866), and academic. She also succeeds in completes the vision it showcases. The glowing saturated colors nearly

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administration right into the fire pit without hesitation, opining that “Donald Trump lies every 3.7 seconds. It doesn’t bother him in the least, and it doesn’t bother his family either.” The book is also loaded with fullcolor photographs of Bianca in her glossy, glittery, professionally-costumed, smug-scowling splendor, in all sorts of compromising positions and situations. Brilliantly hilarious, politically incorrect (to put it mildly), and supremely offensive to every color, creed, and community imaginable, Bianca Del Rio’s brusque bitchfest is a must-have for fans and a mustbuy for the few remaining stragglers who haven’t heard of her and need a good laugh at everyone else’s expense.t While Cumming will only play a single performance of “Legal Immigrant” in San Francisco, his 10-night run of the show in Manhattan last month captured both his typical frenzy and his egalitarian spirit in a nutshell. “The previous time I did a cabaret in New York,” explains Cumming, “it was at the Café Carlyle. To be honest, it’s so expensive there that most of my friends couldn’t afford to see it. “I had this idea that it would be very fun – and very me – to do the show at the swanky Carlyle at 9 o’clock, and then grab taxis and rush across town to do it again at Joe’s Pub, where it’s less expensive. My agent didn’t think the Carlyle would allow it. But I just insisted.” Cumming’s taxi pulls over at the theater. “Thank you,” he says. “I’ve arrived.”t

and “Veronica Veronese” (1872), a sultry, red-haired, ruby-lipped beauty enveloped in plush green velvet, who’s plucking the strings of a violin with a distracted air. The artwork alludes to the palette and lavish textiles of late Renaissance master Paolo Veronese, who painted “Lucrezia” (ca. 1580-83), hanging nearby. It’s hard to miss the parade of glorious redheads; so many, in fact, it’s easy to lose count. The final gallery includes massive tapestries, examples of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts such as “Works of Geoffrey Chaucer” (1896), considered the most beautiful book ever printed. But none can compete with the grandeur, some might say hubris, of William Holman Hunt’s “The Lady of Shalott” (ca. 1888-1905). This last major Pre-Raphaelite painting, more like a shrine by virtue of its dominating size, was inspired by a poem about a woman imprisoned in a tower. Forbidden to look out the window, she must perceive the outside world solely through its reflection in an all-seeing, all-knowing mirror – a nod toward Van Eyck. She’s depicted with her long auburn mane swirling around her head, dressed in a sumptuous gown with an iridescent blue-green bodice and gathered taffeta skirt. Deeply romantic, its elements of mythology, religion and medieval romanticism are wrangled into a spectacular, altar-like frame. Overdone? Yes, certainly, but what a mighty culmination of a show whose title reads like the opening of a fairy tale. All that’s left for visitors is to brace for re-entering the real world.t Through Sept. 30; legionofhonor.famsf.org

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Nightlife Events Gooch

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ur celebrations shift from the rainbow to a cautious red, white and blue. Make your own postJuly 4th fireworks.

Sat 7 Listings on page 22

Moving forward after Pride and through despair by Juanita MORE!

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f last week wasn’t rough for you – and I’m not talking about your Pride hangover – you’ve somehow been avoiding the news, or you are stuck in a safe little bubble, then I really have no idea why you’re reading this column. See page 23 >>

Juanita MORE! at her Pride weekend party at the former Fillmore West.

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Mother @ Oasis

Sun 8

Little Miss Nasty @ Oasis

Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes; DJ MC2 plays grooves. July 7: special guest Miss Vanjie! $10-$20. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

PowerBlouse @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE! and Glamamore’s monthly drag virgin makeover night, this time with Peter Pinon. $5. 9pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Sun 8 Big Gay Beer Bust @ The Cinch Benefits and plenty of beer at the historic neighborhood bar. 3pm-7pm. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com

Big Top @ Beaux

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 5 Baloney @ Oasis The fun, sexy, hilarious (and occasionally disturbing) gay male burleque strip show returns with all-new acts, and some new hunks; choreography by Rory Davis, and MC Michael Phillis. $27.50-$60. 7pm. Also July 6, 7. 298 11th St. www.sfbaloney.com

Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down with the strippers at the uninhibited play party in the downstairs arcade. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Intersection @ The Stud Mixed DJ night with Yha Yha, residents Nihar, Gayphex Twin and Russel E.L. Butler. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Karaoke Dokey @ Flore Monty Quilla hosts the new weekly amateur singing night. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

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

Picante @ The Cafe Lulu and DJ Marco’s Latin night with sexy gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance event celebrates 20 years. Free thru April 29; $5 after. 5pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays. 550 Barneveld Ave. sundancesaloon.org

Fri 6 Art Murmur @ Oakland Galleries Monthly First Friday night of artist exhibits, live music, food trucks, drinks and outdoor gatherings. 6pm9pm. Downtown Oakland. www.oaklandartmurmur.org

Bear Trap @ Lone Star Saloon Beer, bears, food and beats at the monthly party. $5. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Desperate Living @ The Stud Post-Pride sleazy drag fun with Voodonna Black, Vanity, Donna Slash, music by Composite, and DJ Spaz (Suppositori Spelling). $5-$10. 10pm3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Friday Nights at the Ho @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. www.whitehorsebar.com

Loretta Lynn Tribute @ Ivy Room, Albany Join Crying Time, Lisa Marie Johnston, Misisipi Mike, Cindy Emch, and other musicians in a tribute to the first lady of country music. $10. 8:30pm. 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. www.ivyroom.com

Ror:Shok @ SF Eagle Dark goth, glam and grooves. $5. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Safada @ Oasis Enjoy Brazilian, Baile funk and Latin beats with DJs Kahtuaba, Ember Alert and Black Unicorn, with drag acts Paju Munro, Persia, Frida Mont, Yves St. Croissant and others. $8. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Stank @ Powerhouse Leon Fox hosts the sweaty smelly armpit and shirtless night, with SpunkLube giveaways. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Sat 7 Circus @ Port Bar, Oakland The Oakland bar celebrates its second anniversary, with Carnie Asada, gogo studs, and DJ Magic Matt, bubbly. 7pm-9m. 2023 Broadway. (510) 8232099. RSVP: portbaroakland.com

Frolic, Woof @ SF Eagle The fursuit dance party (8pm-2am) is preceded by the canine fetish ‘human pup mosh’ gathering (3pm-6pm). $5$10. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

GAMeBoi SF @ Rickshaw Stop The monthly Gaysian dance party, with Kpop and more. $8-$15. 9:30pm-2am. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Go Bang! @ The Stud

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

Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada’s fun drag night with Carnie’s Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Gina Yashere @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge Sing along to shows tunes on video, lip-synched, and live, at the Castro bar. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Swing Left @ El Rio Join Swing Left SF, Indivisible SF, Sister District SF, SF Democratic Party, Democracy Action, Ladies of the Resistance, and Resistance Labs at a kick-off party of the first ever ResistA-Thon. Get out the vote and flip the House. 6pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

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

Tue 10 Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun Weekly fun night of games (video, board and other) and cocktails. 8pm-12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

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

Little Miss Nasty @ Oasis

Thu 12 Ngaio Bealum at Comedy @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley

Truck Tuesdays @ SoMa Location The weekly new super (semi) secret sexy play party in the tradition of Truck Bar. 9pm-1am. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/1848132005238191/

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femme and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Juanita MORE! and DJ Frisco Robbie’s new weekly event, with Latin, Hip Hop and House music, gogo gals and guys, and a drag show. $5. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. portoakland.com

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

Queeraoke @ El Rio Dulce de Leche and Rahni NothingMore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and Thee Pristine Condition perform weekly, plus karaoke for queens. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Ngaio Bealum, Francesca Fiorentini, Victor Pacheco, and Lisa Geduldig perform at a benefit for RAICES: The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. $15-$100. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. www.ashkenaz.com

Levonia Jenkins @ Oasis Gender Fluids with Martha T. Lipton, Brooklyn’s bearded drag performer Greg Scarnici’s offbeat comedy songparody show. $20. 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

Sara Gazarek @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The accomplished jazz vocalist performs a concert of her own songs, with accompanist Peter Eldridge. $19$45. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com/

Green Eggs and Bam! @ Flore

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland

Drag shows and brunch at the central restaurant-café, with hostess Camille Tow. Shows at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Acclaimed SoCal singer-songwriter performs music from his fifth album, Santa Rosa Fangs. Katie Toupin opens. $15-$18. 8pm. 2174 Market St. www.mattcosta.com

Gigante @ Port Bar, Oakland

Comedy @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley

Celebrate disco DJ legend Steve Fabus’ birthday at the popular retro groove night, with guest DJ Jimmy DePre, plus Fabus, Sergio Fedasz and Prince Wolf, and Trocadero veteran Ann Nicholson’s visuals. $5-$10. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Matt Costa @ Café du Nord

Grace Towers’ weekly drag show at the fun local bar. 9pm-12am. 4049 18th St. www.mobydicksf.com

Weekly beer bust and benefit for local charities. 9pm-11pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

People Like Us @ Neck of the Woods

Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820.whitehorsebar.com

Dick at Nite @ Moby Dick

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon

Michael McDonald @ Rodney Strong Vineyards

Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland

New weekly piano bar sing-along night with alternating hosts Maria Konner, Kitten on the Keys and Alan Choy. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Thu 12

The L.A.-based women’s rock music burlesque show scandalizes with saucy dance numbers. $20-$55. 7pm (4pm rooftop pre-party). 298 11th St. www.littlemissnastyofficial.com

Mon 9

Club 88 @ Flore

Members of The Band – Levon Helm and the Rick Danko Group– perform classics folk rock songs. $27-$49. 8pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe

Dusty Porn and Elsa Touché cohost a benefit for Dimensions Clinic for Queer Youth, with performers a dozen drag king acts. $14. 5pm. 406 Clement St. neckofthewoodssf.com

Wed 11

The Weight Band @ Yoshi’s Oakland

The smart British comic returns for a night of insight and laughs. $25-$30. 7pm. 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. www.thefreight.org

The veteran soloist, and member of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, performs his hits and new music. $89-$129. 6pm. 11455 Old Redwood Highway, Healdsburg. rodneystrong.com

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

Sat 7

Jason Brock @ Martuni’s

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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Attendees of Juanita MORE’s sold out Pride Sunday party.

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Above: Juanita MORE! (right) at her Pride Sunday party, with the amusing costumed version of her dog Jackson. Below: Attendees of Juanita MORE’s sold out Pride Sunday party.

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Let’s rewind a little, starting with Pride weekend. As you probably know, my name is virtually synonymous with Pride weekend celebrations in San Francisco, and for the 15th year in a row, this year was no different. Except for the fact that this year, I held my first ever Saturday night party at the former Fillmore West, which in its heyday hosted the biggest acts of the Flower Power era. It was a huge success, and I hope that people with big dreams continue to breathe life into this longdormant event space. My Sunday party was tradition, full of love and smiles as expected. Thousands of San Francisco’s most gorgeous men, women, and genderqueer beauties crammed into the patio space at Jones for stiff drinks and stiff... well... if you went, you know, and if you didn’t, I hope that you were somewhere surrounded by

those you love and those you want to love. To top it off, by attending my Pride events the past few months, you helped raise over $77,000 for TRUTH (TRans yoUTH), a youthled partnership between the Transgender Law Center and the GSA Network amplifying the voices of trans and gender non-conforming young people, and creating safe spaces for them to share their struggles, learn empathy, and build public understanding. Pride is the time of year when our city displays to the world –in its most extravagant way– just how fabulous our community is. And while it’s important to live our best personal lives, I have always considered Pride an especially great opportunity to give back to our community. I call on all of my friends and colleagues to take that opportunity going forward. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting these events.

Blue Monday

Regardless whether you partied too hard, stayed up too late with a new or rediscovered lover, or balanced everything just right and had a quiet night in, Monday morning hit like a ton of bricks. That’s because Monday morning, the Supreme Court began dropping a string of decisions that affirmed discriminatory redistricting laws, allowed anti-abortion centers to lie to their patients, approved not-my-President’s hateful Muslim travel ban, and gutted public sector unions. Meanwhile, our country –which some of us used to recognize– has been locking up thousands of inno-

cent migrant children and forcing toddlers to appear in court, often without legal representation. When I was young, I would hear stories about my grandmother, who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, spending time as a young girl traveling freely between Mexico and the United States with her father, who was a railroad worker in the early part of the 19th century. My greatgreat grandfather was a traquero, a labor worker who laid track connecting Mexico with the United States, making it easier for migrants to travel throughout North America. It’s tragic to think this country once took pride in forging new ways to bring us together, and now we’re building walls that will take a very long time to break down. It’s a lot to handle, and a lot of people have been reaching out to me, asking what to do and how to get involved. I’ve seen people who I love drift quickly to despair, shouting out in social media posts that this is the end of times and that we’ll never recover. I totally get it. Times are tough, but we need to be hyper-aware, even if at times it’s painful to pay attention. Many of us knew that this was coming. We knew because his entire campaign was based on hatred of other people. Hatred of Mexicans, women, the Muslim community, differently-abled people, and the media. Over the past two years, we’ve organized marches and filled the streets protesting the degradation of women, science, and LGBTQ rights, and we’ve repeatedly braced

ourselves and shown strength in the face of white supremacy.

Step up, fight back

I know what to do, because it’s what our community has always done. Whether in the face of hatred or greed, or when left alone to battle through a plague, we have always stuck together, and we have watched out for ourselves, for each other, and for the most vulnerable among us. The only way forward is to live our lives unapologetically and without fear. We must continue to step up and fight back. I understand despair. I have felt despair, and I have felt weakness. Even though I’m the most confident no-bullshit queen in this bright and layered city, I’m still human, and I still need my community. But at the end of the day, I’m going to need you to step up with me. I need you to be by my side, and I’m going to need you to bring all of your friends and family, too. If you can do that, I am committed to doing the same. We have fought our way through the darkest times, and we have all lost loved ones along the way. This current darkness may be no less dangerous, but our Pride is more than just a weekend, and we must be as proud and resilient as ever. So get ready to step up, or get off my back, because I’m ready to fight, and I’m going to do it in heels. If there’s one thing I’m certain of, it’s that I’m not gonna stop being your mother, taking your lead, and caring for this community until I get to my grave, and that will be on my own terms, when I’m damn good and ready.t

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Protestors in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, two of 700 marches on June 30 decrying the separation of children from their immigrant families.

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Thu 12

Straight White Men @ Marin Theatre Company

Oedipus at Palm Springs @ Gateway Theatre

Young Jean Lee’s serio-comic play about identity and privilege. $10$37. Thu-Sat 7:30pm. Sat & Sun 2pm, 4pm. Thru July 15. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. marintheatre.org

That Summer @ Roxie Cinema Goran Olsson’s fascinating documentary of lost footage about Edith and Edie Beale of Grey Gardens fame, with celebrities of the era. $8-$11. 7pm. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com

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For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 5 Castro Art Walk @ Castro Venues Monthly (1st Thursdays) strolling events at participating bars and galleries, with artist exhibits and mini-chats, including Dog Eared Books, Blackbird Bar, Spark Arts and more. 6pm-9pm. castroartwalk.com

Flower Piano @ SF Botanical Garden The festive annual series of informal and programmed outdoor concerts

on a dozen pianos set in scenic locations around the Garden includes scheduled concerts and ‘open piano’ performances each day, plus gala nighttime fundraiser parties ($45). Free daytime entry for SF residents; otherwise $2-$8. Thru July 16. Golden Gate Park, 1199 9th Ave. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/ flowerpiano

The Hunchback of Notre Dame @ Victoria Theatre Bay Area Musicals’ new production of the Disney Menken/Schwartz/ Parnell Broadway musical based on the novel. Previews. $35-$65. ThuSun 7:30pm, 8pm, 2pm. Thru Aug. 5. 2961 16th St. www.bamsf.org

In Braunau @ Strand Theater World premiere of Dipika Guha’s nuanced dark comedy about an American couple who turn Hitler’s Asutrian home into a bed & breakfast. $30. Thru July 7. 1127 Market St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Michelle Meow Show @ Commonwealth Club Meow and cohost John Zipperer discuss LGBT issues with different guests. Weekly, 12pm. 110 Embarcadero. www. commonwealthclub.org

San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Dolores Park The acclaimed theatre company returns with Rotimi Agbabiaka, Joan Holden and composer Ira Marlowe’s new political satire, Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical, where a disgruntled Trump voter goes back to the Socialist movement on 1912. Free ($20 donations). At parks and venues throughout Northern California, thru Sept. 9. sfmt.org

Soft Power @ Curran Theater David Henry Huang and Jeanine Tesori’s contemporary comic political satire and musical, about East-West relations and biases. $29-$165. Thru July 8. 445 Geary St. sfcurran.com

Fri 6 Angels in America @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tony Kushner’s multiple awardwinning two-part epic drama about the 1980s, AIDS and politics, returns to the Bay Area. $40-$100. Tue-Sat 7pm. Most Wed, Thu Sat & Sun also 1pm. Thru July 22. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Art Murmur @ Oakland Galleries Monthly First Friday night of artist exhibits, live music, food trucks, drinks and outdoor gatherings. 6pm-9pm. Downtown Oakland. www.oaklandartmurmur.org

Michael McDonald @ Rodney Strong Vineyards The veteran musician performs his hits and new music. $89-$129. 6pm. 11455 Old Redwood Highway, Healdsburg. rodneystrong.com/

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley

Sat 7

Opening reception and Frida-fest (fashion show, crafts, lookalike contest) for the group exhibit of works inspired by Frida Kahlo. $5$10. 2pm-5pm. thru Sept 16. 1601 Civic drive, Walnut Creek. www.BedfordGallery.org

Grease @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley Berkeley Playhouse’s student production of the 1950s-themed hit musical. $22-$40. Thru Aug. 5. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ The Stage, San Jose South Bay production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Tony-winning hit trans rock musical. $30-$65. Wed & Thu 7:30pm, Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Thru July 8. 490 South 1st St., San Jose. www.thestage.org

Make Believe: The World of Glen Keane @ Walt Disney Museum Exhibit of animation art by the prolific artist ( Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan ). Thru Sept 3. 104 Montgomery St, The Presidio. $5-$25. 10am-6pm. www.wdfmuseum.org

Serge Gay, Jr. @ Strut Opening reception of Vibrant colorful works by the local artist. 8pm-10pm. Thru July. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org www.sergegayjr.com

Way Bay 2 @ BAM/PFA, Berkeley Large group exhibit of 200+ works of art, film, performance and archival materials; thru Sept 2. 2155 Center St. Berkeley. www.bampfa.org

Wild SF Walking Tours @ Citywide Enjoy weekly informed tours of various parts of San Francisco, from Chinatown to the Haight, and a ‘radical’ and political-themed LGBTinclusive tour. Various dates and times. $15-$25. wildsftours.com

Mendocino Music Festival @ Concert Halls

Adam Strauss returns with his hit solo show about treating his OCD with hallucinogenic mushrooms. $20-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru July 7. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.com

The smart British comic returns for a night of insight and laughs. $25-$30. 7pm. 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. www.thefreight.org

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

Opening reception for Hand to Hand, the artist’s exhibit of paintings. 8pm-10pm. Thru July. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

The Mushroom Cure @ The Marsh, Berkeley

Gina Yashere @ Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

Shotgun Player’s production of James Ijames’ comic play about a white male artist, snubbed for arts funding, who hires a Black woman as his front. $8-$40. Thru Aug. 5. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. https://shotgunplayers.org

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Enjoy multiple genres of music by dozens of musicians in 30+ concerts. $12-$55. Thru July 21. Preston Hall (44867 Main St.), Tent Concert Hall (45035 Main St.). www.mendocinomusic.org

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Mon 9 Art + Pride @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Group exhibit of Pride-themed photography and mixed media dozens of by LGBT artists and photojournalists. Thru July 22. 50 Scott St. harveymilkphotocenter.org

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

Matthew Nance @ Commonwealth Club The retired Intelligence officer and author discusses, with Quentin Hardy, his book, The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin’s Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West. $7-$20. 6:30pm. Taube Auditorium, 110 The Embarcadero. www.commonwealthclub.org

Tue 10 Community Meetings @ Strut Meetings for harm reduction, cycling, book club and more, most weekdays. www.strutsf.org

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Serving fluidi-tea Levonia Jenkins at Oasis by David-Elijah Nahmod

ith song titles like “Crackpipe,” a parody of the Amy Winehouse hit “Rehab,” as well as a video titled “So C*nt”, Levonia Jenkins is pretty outrageous. Jenkins, a self-described YouTube sensation, brings her stage act Gender Fluids to Oasis on July 12. A drag queen with a beard, Jenkins claims to be a “Like Whore” in a video in which she demands that people like her Facebook and Instagram posts. “I’m a like whore, I need more, more, more” she sings. “I’m so hungry for likes, Sally Struthers did an infomercial about me!” Jenkins is all about self-promotion. She is the brainchild of performer and Saturday Night Live associate producer Greg Scarnici, who says that Jenkins is his “alter-shego.” “Shego is just a play on ego and Gender Fluids is a play on being gender fluid and … you get the gist,” Scarnici tells Bay Area Reporter. “Wordplay is a huge part of drag culture and I like to incorporate it into my work.” Scarnici, who has lived in New York City his entire life, said that he has no coming out story, because everyone knew he was gay before he did. “Like most gay artists, I started entertaining family and friends as soon as I cartwheeled out of the womb,” he recalls. “Comedy and performing always came naturally to me, and I started getting on stage during the fifth grade for a talent show, which

Left: Greg Scarnici as Levonia Jenkins Right Above: Levonia Jenkins works and serves face. Right Below: Greg Scarnici’s book, I Hope My Mother Doesn’t Read This.

led to character parts in plays in high school and college. From there I started doing my own public access TV show, Talking Trash, and then did my first one-man show in the East Village in 1995.” That show was called Man-aThon. It featured nine gay actors who lived in the same apartment building. At about this same time, Scarnici began working at SNL. “I work closely with the writing staff, who come to my department to rewrite their sketches throughout the week,” he said. “We’re the ones who alert every department about casting changes, costume changes, and music additions. I also work closely with the director as he shoots the musical guests and cue him so he is able to cut the song and catch all the best elements of a performance.”

Scarnici explained how his “alter shego” came to be. “Levonia is a non-gender-conforming bearded woman, a.k.a. Italian, who hails from Brooklyn, New York,” he said. “She’s sort of an absurd R&B singer from the ‘80s who makes ‘90s-inspired house tracks and talks in her own kind of madeup language. Levonia was created on Fire Island during a drunken brunch when my friend Johnny Lopez and I decided to shoot an impromptu video we posted on YouTube. The video went viral and voila, Levonia Jenkins was created!” Scarnici added that he’s gotten no backlash for using terms like “shego” or “half-woman” to describe Levonia. “Nowadays, everyone is so concerned with being PC and worrying

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Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine’s fascinating musical about painter Georges Seurat and his sculptor grandson gets a local production. $20-$125. Tue-Thu & Sun 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 8. 450 Post St. 2nd floor, Kensington Park Hotel. www.sfplayhouse.org

Trans Resistance is Beautiful @ SF LGBT Center Group exhibit of original art from trans liberation activist-artists Micah Bazant, Chucha Marquez, Ethan X Parker, Art Twink, Amir Khadar, Rommy Sobrado-Torrico, Mojuicy, Edie Betts, and others. Thru July 27. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

Thu 12 Divine Bodies @ Asian Art Museum New exhibit of sculptures and works about the Buddha, humans and their environments; thru July 29. Also, Pema Namdol Thaye’s A Guided Tour of Hell (thru Sept. 16), Traces of the Past and Future, plus exhibits of sculpture and antiquities. Sunday café specialties from $7$16. Free-$20. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

Perfectly Queer @ Dog Eared Books Authors Andrew Demcak, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Trebor Healey, Kathleen Knowles, and Eric Sasson read at the LGBT night. 7pm. 489 Castro St. dogearedbooks.com

Roy Scranton @ Commonwealth Club The author of We’re Doomed. Now What? discusses climate change and his Arctic visits. $7-$20. 6:30pm. Taube Auditorium, 110 The Embarcadero. www.commonwealthclub.org

Various Events @ Oakland LGBTQ Center Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops, including Bruthas Rising, trans men of color meetings, 4th Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Film screenings, 4th Saturdays, 7:30pm. Game nights, Fridays 7:30pm-11pm. Vogue sessions, first Saturdays. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org

Wed 11 The Clyde Always Show @ The Marsh The Bard of the Lower Haight’s comic monologue solo show. $20-$100. Wed, 8pm thru Aug. 29. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Empowerment in Print @ GLBT History Museum Empowerment in Print: LGBTQ Activism, Pride & Lust, a miniexhibit of periodicals from the collection. Angela Davis: OUTspoken, and Faces of the Past: Queer Lives in Northern California Before 1930, part of the Queer Past Becomes Present main exhibit. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Oedipus at Palm Springs @ Gateway Theatre Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of The Five Lesbian Brothers’ dark comedy about two vacationing couples. $20. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. Thru July 22. 215 Jackson St at Battery. www.TheRhino.org

Yarn: Storytelling with Heather Gold and Friends @ Contemporary Jewish Museum The erudite comic hosts a night of storytelling, with Cintra Wilson, Betsy Salkind (who was a writer on Roseanne ), Virgie Tovar, and Julia Jackson. $15. 7pm. 736 Mission St. www.thecjm.org

about whether the Woke Police are going to arrest them for using the wrong term,” he said. “In this case, I’m a bearded drag queen who does comedy – I’m from the LGBT community, who toys with gender identity, and if someone is offended because this character is a half-man or half-woman, they should ask themselves why their concept of gender needs to be so binary. For me, doing

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bearded drag is a way to confront people’s concept of gender identity and make people realize that gender is fluid. Half-man, half-woman; call shim what you want. It’s all love!” Scarnici is also an author. His cleverly titled book I Hope My Mother Doesn’t Read This is now available through Thought Catalog Books. He admits that, when writing it, he realized that many of the stories were salacious and that he honestly thought, “Gee, I hope my mother doesn’t read this story about me accidentally doing a bump of crystal meth with my coke dealer when I was 19.” And so his book title was born. So what do his mother think of Levonia? “My mother and father are from another generation, so they don’t fully understand drag, let alone bearded drag,” Scarnici said. “But as I’ve started to find more success and she’s seen people reacting to Levonia and wearing her T-shirts online, she’s starting to see the joy in it and what Levonia brings to people.” And now San Francisco audiences will have their chance to see Levonia Jenkins in the flesh when she takes to the Oasis stage. Levonia will, according to Scarnici, “be singing her greatest shits, lip stink, debut original parodies, share her spin on gender identity, hook-up apps and so much more. A cabaret en-gaygement not to be missed!”t Levonia Jenkins, Gender Fluids at Oasis, 298 11 Street. Thursday July 12, 8pm, $20. www.sfoasis.com www.gregscarnici.com

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