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Out CA Leg. candidates advance

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recently released national report highlights violent incidents suspected of being motivated by victims’ sexual orientation, gender identity, and HIV-affected status. But numbers for San Francisco and the other cities lump in categories like employment discrimination that make it difficult to determine actual cases of violence.

Despite an overall drop in cases, murders are up, according to the study, “Hate Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-affected Communities in the U.S. in 2011.”

The report says that overall incidents decreased by 16 percent, 2,503 in 2010 to 2,092 in 2011. However, during the same period, murders increased 11 percent from 27 to 30.

The study says, “This reflects the highest number of murders ever recorded” by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, which released the review Thursday, May 31.

The high number could be the result of increased reporting by individuals to the various organizations that report data to NCAVP. Details on many of the 2,000-plus incidents in the report, which include information from individual and news accounts, appear to be extremely thin, but the data at least provide a snapshot.

The San Francisco-based nonprofit Community United Against Violence, which has changed its focus in recent years, is the local organization that provided data for the national report.

In the national study, people of color accounted for 87 percent of the murder victims in 2011. Half of the murder victims were non-transgender men, while most of the rest were transgender women.

Chai Jindasurat, NCAVP coordinator at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, said in an interview that from what he and other advocates know about the murders, arrests have been made in only four of the cases.

Locally, CUAV’s figures show 141 victims reporting incidents of hate violence in 2011, a drop of 34 percent from 2010.

The study says the decrease is “likely due to transitions in program structure and documentation processes. CUAV started to implement programming in 2011 that focused on deeper support and leadership development for survivors, which entails decreasing [the] number of individuals reached ... .”

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Don’t pop those balloons!

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he Dollies, one of the few AIDS/LifeCycle participants to dress for the occasion, get ready for their ride to Los Angeles Sunday, June 3 during opening ceremonies at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. From left, Jim Bruls, Justin Weber, Claire Reinbold, and Greg Hinds are four of the five friends who make up the team.

The 545-mile ride is produced by the San Fran-

cisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. More than 2,700 bicyclists (and 550 volunteer roadies) are now en route to LA, where the ride ends Saturday. SFAF officials said that this year’s ride raised $12.7 million for the two organizations. Each rider commits to raising a minimum $3,000, with the average being $5,000.

uesday’s primary saw a number of out candidates for state legislative seats, as well as a Riverside congressional seat, advance to the November general election.

Out male candidates faired particularly well in Jane Philomen Cleland: the June primary, where the top two vote-getters, Abel Guillen regardless of party affiliation, moved on to the fall contests. Lesbian Assembly candidates in Los Angeles and San Diego, however, failed to survive the June 5 election.

In the fiercely fought race for the Assembly seat covering the gay enclave of West Hollywood, neither of the out candidates placed first or second, according to unofficial returns Wednesday.

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9th Circuit rejects Prop 8 review

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glimmer of politics showed through Tuesday when the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request from supporters of California’s ban on same-sex marriage to review a circuit panel’s decision that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

In a dissent from the order refusing to have the full 9th Circuit hear the landmark Perry v. Brown case, three judges noted that just a few weeks ago, President Barack Obama had “ignited a media firestorm by announcing that he supports samesex marriage as a policy matter.” The three dissenting judges said that the refusal to review the circuit panel’s decision “silenced” Obama’s suggestion that the nation continue its “conversation” about same-sex marriage “in a respectful way.”

All three dissenters were appointees of Republican presidents: Diarmuid Fionntain O’Scannlain (Ronald Reagan), Jay Scott Bybee (George W. Bush), and Carlos Bea (Bush).

But politics or not, the refusal to give Perry v.

Brown full circuit court review is a major victory for supporters of marriage equality and means almost certainly that the “final chapter” in the historic litigation can now begin, said Chad Griffin, co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which organized and funded the lawsuit.

Attorneys for Prop 8 supporters said they will now file a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to review the 9th Circuit decisions. Theodore Olson,

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Lead attorney Theodore Olson, third from left, makes a point during a 2010 news conference with Chad Griffin of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, left, attorney Ted Boutrous, and co-lead attorney David Boies; the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request to hear a full court review of the case, known as Perry v. Brown, meaning the case is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

a lead attorney for the gay couples in Perry, said that, even if the Supreme Court refuses to hear that appeal, the litigation would be a “complete victory” for the plaintiff couples.

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QED public television and Union Bank honored four local heroes during a celebration at the Castro Theatre Tuesday, June 5. Recognized were, from left: Tom Nolan, former executive director of Project Open Hand; Roger Doughty, executive director of Horizons Foundation; Jei Africa, Psy.D., health equity initiatives manager with the Be-

havioral Health and Recovery Services Division of the San Mateo County health system; and Jeff Cotter, founder of the Rainbow World Fund. The program, hosted by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, will be broadcast on KQED 9 Sunday, June 24 at 6 p.m. and Wednesday, June 27 at 11 p.m. and on KQED LIFE Thursday, June 27 at 10 p.m.

LGBTs win seats on SF Dem panel

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n the race for seats on the local Democratic Party’s oversight panel, LGBT candidates captured a majority of seats allocated to the city’s eastside Assembly District 17 that covers many gay neighborhoods. Only one of two gay men running in the westside Assembly District 19 race was victorious.

Sixty-three people ran for the 24 seats on what is known as the Democratic County Central Committee.

Referred to as the “D triple C,” the panel elects one of its own members as chair of the local party and makes coveted endorsements in city elections.

Nine out contenders running for the 14 seats up for grabs in AD17 claimed victory based on unofficial returns Wednesday. Gay Supervisors David Campos (District 9) and Scott Wiener (District 8) easily won reelection to their DCCC seats.

Campos placed third with 18,426 votes behind fellow DCCC member and Board President David Chiu (District 3), who came in first place, and second place finisher District 11 Supervisor John Avalos.

Other out DCCC incumbents winning re-election were bisexual Police Commissioner Petra DeJesus; gay City Attorney spokesman Matt Dorsey; and lesbian Port Commissioner Leslie Katz. Lesbian former state lawmaker Carole Migden and gay political activist Rafael Mandelman also won re-election to the DCCC. Joining them on the party committee will be newcomers Bevan Dufty, a gay former supervisor who is Mayor Ed Lee’s homelessness policy aide, and Zoe Dunning, a lesbian retired Navy Reserve commander.

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Laurel Muniz, left, watches as candidates Petra DeJesus, John Avalos, and David Chiu, check the results of the race for seats on the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee at a small election night party Tuesday at El Rio bar in the Mission.

Rounding out the list of AD17 winners are attorney Alix Rosenthal, a DCCC incumbent, and newcomers District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen and Dr. Justin Morgan.

“It was a bittersweet election result, of course, for the great candidates and friends who didn’t win.

But thanks to all who ran; who took part in the campaigns; and who put up with us these last several months,” Dorsey posted on his Facebook page Wednesday morning.

In the AD19 DCCC race, where 10 seats were up for grabs, gay incumbent Arlo Hale Smith sailed to reelection while gay LGBT rights and housing activist Kevin Bard came up short. Smith placed first with 10,977 votes according to the unofficial tally; Bard finished in 14th place with 5,257 votes.

Other AD19 incumbents who won re-election are Bill Fazio, Hene Kelly, Mary Jung, and Tom Hsieh. Joining them will be Kat Anderson, Trevor McNeil, Kelly Dwyer, and Meagan Levitan.

With District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar also winning a DCCC seat in AD19, there will be six sitting supervisors on the party committee. Since that represents a majority of the 11-member board, the DCCC will now be subjected to the city’s sunshine ordinance and will be required to post agendas and minutes for its meetings.

Having so many elected officials, as well as a number of DCCC incumbents, former lawmakers and City Hall aides, running for the 24 DCCC seats, it had been expected those with less name recognition would find themselves hindered in the race. While that held true, Tues-

day’s election results also had some surprises.

Two DCCC incumbents, Leah Pimentel and transgender labor organizer Gabriel Haaland, failed to win re-election. Transgender schoolteacher Jamie Rafaela Wolfe also failed to win a seat, meaning for the first time in over a decade the DCCC will not have a transgender member.

In a note he posted to Facebook Tuesday night, Haaland wrote that he was fine with his defeat but was sorry to see Wolfe not win.

“I sat on the DCCC for 10 years, and learned a lot, met some great folks, and genuinely enjoyed serving. That said, I’m really sorry Jamie Rafaela Wolfe didn’t prevail. I had hoped that one of us would win and that there would be continued representation by someone from the transgender community,” wrote Haaland. “And while I’m happy for all of the candidates who got elected individually, I’m also sorry that so few progressives were elected which probably will mean a more moderate direction for the party.”

Other LGBT candidates coming up short in the DCCC AD17 race included gay BART community relations liaison Christopher Vasquez; taxi advocate Dean Clark; AIDS activist Stu Smith; and Democratic activist Rick Hauptman.

Once the new DCCC members are sworn in, their first order of business will be to elect a new party chair, as the current holder of the post, former supervisor Aaron Peskin, opted not to seek re-election to the panel.

Among those whose names have been mentioned as a possible successor are Dorsey, Mandelman, and Rosenthal.▼

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▼ Local trash company, state term limits winning

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oters in San Francisco and around the state made their choices on several propositions in the Tuesday, June 5 primary election.

Locally, Proposition A, which would have split local waste management collection and disposal into five separate contracts, was overwhelmingly defeated, according to preliminary results Wednesday morning, June 6. The city currently contracts with Recology.

The proposed measure lost by a vote of 76.6 percent to 23.4 percent.

“The voters understood that this measure would have had derailed so much that is successful about the current system that has created the highest ranked recycling program in the country,” Jordan Curley, a spokesman for Prop A opponents Keep SF Green, said in a statement. “The voters confirmed the strong, positive feelings and relationship they share with Recology and with the drivers on their routes. We look forward to working together to keep San Francisco green.”

In emailed comments, Prop A backer Tony Kelly said, “We’ve all heard of David and Goliath, because that’s one of the few times Goliath lost. Goliath won tonight.”

Proposition B, a nonbinding policy statement to limit outside activities in and around Coit Tower and set priorities for funds generated from its operation, was passing 53.6 percent to 46.4 percent as of Wednesday morning.

“This is a huge win for Coit Tower and for everyone in San Francisco and around the world who adores this special place and the amazing murals that reside inside,” Jon Golinger, chair of the Protect Coit Tower Committee, said in a statement Wednesday. “Yesterday, the voters of this entire city delivered a clear message to everyone at City Hall that the mismanagement and creeping commercialization of Coit Tower is unacceptable and must be fixed now.”

Prop B opponent Matthew O’Grady, executive director of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, said in a brief phone interview, “We certainly support the proper maintenance of Coit Tower and its murals,” but “we regret this short-sighted measure has passed.”

He said opponents were “glad to note” that Mayor Ed Lee has allocated $1.7 million “for maintenance and renovation at Coit Tower, including the murals ... but beyond that, it’s unclear what real effect this measure will

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Gay man takes first place in San Diego mayoral primary

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penly gay conservative Republican Carl DeMaio captured first place in San Diego’s mayoral primary election June 5.

DeMaio, 37, currently a City Council member, and the second-place finisher, Congressman Bob Filner (D), 69, will advance to the November runoff election to head the nation’s eighth-largest city.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, DeMaio had 32 percent, Filner had 30 percent, independent Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher had 24 percent, and out lesbian San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis (R) had 13 percent.

Uncounted absentee and provisional ballots – more than 100,000 countywide – are not expected to change the order in which the candidates finish. The percentages remained relatively stable throughout Tuesday night as returns came in.

DeMaio and Filner both support same-sex marriage, but DeMaio has said that as mayor he would focus on economic issues and not address social issues. His campaign has reported donations from anti-gay activists, including at least two who helped fund the campaign for Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California.

For his part, Filner is leading the effort to have the U.S. Navy name a vessel after Harvey Milk, the slain San Francisco supervisor who spent time in the Navy in San Diego decades before moving to San Francisco and launching his political career.

Current Mayor Jerry Sanders, a

Republican who could not run again because of term limits, has been an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage and testified in the federal case that struck down Prop 8 as unconstitutional. He has an out lesbian daughter and had endorsed Dumanis in the race.

In the final weeks of the nonpartisan race, DeMaio was the target of attacks on his boyfriend’s past criminal record as well as the donations from anti-gay donors. Nicole Murray Ramirez, a San Diego city commissioner and political columnist for LGBT Weekly, told the Bay Area Reporter prior to Tuesday’s vote that LGBT San Diegans should be concerned that DeMaio would become mayor if his opponent in the runoff was Filner.

But in an email to the B.A.R. following last week’s article about the race, Jess Durfee, chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party, said that, “the vast majority of the LGBT community is happy to support Bob Filner and is confident he will beat DeMaio in November.”

Durfee pointed out that party registration in San Diego is 40 percent Democratic, 27 percent Republican, and 26 percent decline to state. That is a change from previous years, when San Diego was a decidedly more conservative city.

Yet Filner’s vote count of 51,680 Tuesday pales in comparison when the other three candidates, all of whom were GOP members prior to Fletcher’s leaving the party, are combined. The trio nabbed 118,765 total votes, though it is unlikely Dumanis or Fletcher will endorse DeMaio in the runoff.▼

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San Francisco voters passed Proposition B, a nonbinding policy measure aimed at limiting outside activities at Coit Tower.

have.” O’Grady said that most of the allocated money is from a 2004 bond measure.

Two other measures competed for

voters’ attention at the state level.

Proposition 28, which amends the term-limit law to allow legislators to serve a total of 12 years, down from 14 years, was passing by a vote of 61.4 percent to 38.6 percent as of Wednesday morning, according to unofficial returns. It’s the first time that a measure to modify term limits was approved by voters.

The measure permits an officeholder to spend his/her entire 12 years in one chamber, the Assembly or the state Senate, or divide that time between the two bodies.

Prop 28 backers Californians for a Fresh Start said in a statement, “Voters understood the need to fix term limits and make the Legislature more accountable. ... Prop 28 will do exactly what it says: reduce time in office from 14 to 12 years without extending the terms of any sitting legislators.”

Results were less clear Wednesday morning for Proposition 29, which would impose an additional $1 tax on each pack of cigarettes sold in order to fund cancer research. Tobacco companies strongly opposed the measure

and poured millions of dollars into campaign ads.

Prop 29 was losing, 49.2 percent to 50.8 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results.

Beth Miller, spokeswoman for Prop 29 opponents Californians Against Out-of-Control Taxes and Spending, said in a statement Wednesday morning, “At this time we are very encouraged by the 63,000-vote lead but there remain a number of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted statewide. We expect to have a better idea of what that universe of uncounted ballots looks like from the counties later today.”

Chris Lehman, campaign manager for Yes on Prop 29, also noted the 60,000-plus vote gap, as well as the undetermined number of uncounted absentee ballots.

“Hopefully, we’ll find out by the end of the day what that number is,” Lehman said. “There’s a lot at stake here for people that have been fighting cancer ... for a lot of people, this is life and death, so they’re willing to stick it out and wait.”▼

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wo federal court decisions in the last week make it likely that same-sex marriage will have its day at the U.S. Supreme Court, probably next year.

In the first case in Boston, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled that the main part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. This is the section of DOMA that is wide reaching and prevents the U.S. government from recognizing the marriages of same-sex couples. It affects tax filings, immigration, and a host of other benefits that straight married couples receive.

Then in San Francisco on Tuesday, the next chapter of the federal Proposition 8 case unfolded when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it would not rehear the case. A three-judge panel upheld in February a district court judge’s decision that Prop 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban, is unconstitutional. Proponents of Prop 8 had appealed to the whole 9th Circuit for an en banc review (meaning a panel of 11 judges would reconsider the three-judge panel’s decision). But it turned out that a majority of 9th Circuit judges rejected that option, so now officials at Protectmarriage.com can petition the Supreme Court and they are expected to do so.

The high court could choose to hear both cases, accept only one of the cases, or – although it’s highly unlikely – hear neither of the cases. Most legal observers are of the opinion that the issue of same-sex marriage will be heard by the court. And even non-legal experts know that Justice Anthony Kennedy will be the swing vote and the one to watch when it’s time for oral arguments.

And when the case reaches the court, it will be a different landscape: In the three years since the Prop 8 case, Perry v. Brown, was filed, public opinion has shifted dramatically in favor of marriage equality. That will only continue in the months ahead.

Just say no to the 49ers booty call

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vandalism is that it’s the taxpayers who end up footing the bill for the constant cleaning and repairs. And every hour spent scrubbing sidewalks is one less hour that could have been spent on other critical tasks.

The vandalism has other implications, too.

It could prove difficult for city officials to secure private donations for future park restoration, if the properties are immediately vandalized. Additionally, San Francisco already has a reputation of not being a kid-friendly city and the regular destruction of public property does little to reverse that image. When the city and community join to step up and build beautiful, modern areas for kids to have fun in, a few lousy jerks deface it overnight.

In a follow-up story Wednesday, the Chronicle noted that there’s no easy solution to the vandalism. Surveillance cameras aren’t an option – the law prevents city officials from monitoring people in public spaces.

But we have a suggestion for parks chief Phil Ginsburg: he should get in touch with officials at the graffiti abatement program. We’re willing to bet that some of the tags include signatures of people known to the authorities and could lead to identifying the person or persons responsible in at least some of the incidents.

When that happens they should be sent a bill for the cleanup and reimburse the city.▼

Like irresponsible dog owners who don’t pick up after their canine companions, the vandals and taggers who have defaced children’s play areas at San Francisco parks should be ashamed of themselves. A San Francisco Chronicle story this week detailed the recent incidents of graffiti, stolen metal keys from a

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giant xylophone at Dolores Park, and other misdeeds that occurred just days after the opening of the play areas. The Helen Diller Playground at Dolores Park is a jewel and $3.5 million (mostly from private donors) was spent on the overhaul. Yet now the play items are broken and graffiti defaces the area, including the ubiquitous, ugly stenciled koi fish graffiti that have popped up around town masquerading as art. The park itself is in the midst of a complete facelift; one can only cringe at the thought of what vandals will do when it’s completed.

In the case of Duboce Park in the Castro, the city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars creating a new Youth Play Space – one step toward a complete renovation of the park – only to see it covered with graffiti just one day after the May 19 dedication.

Neighborhood leaders are upset and frustrated, and rightfully so. The Recreation and Parks Department is cleaning up the mess, but as the Chronicle reported, there are only two full-time workers to clean up thousands of tags in a park system that includes 220 parks, 178 playgrounds, 25 recreation centers, and nine swimming pools. The sad part about this

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ate one Friday night I was in the Castro being naughty but nice. My eyes fixed on a good-looking young black man who apparently was into much older men.

We talked for a while and then enjoyed one another, if you know what I mean. Then this pleasant and soft-spoken man asked me for a ride home to “Third Street.”

I thought it was a bit odd that once we were in the area, he kept pointing directions up the hill to where he lived. Whether he did not want me to be alarmed or he was just too ashamed; he never mentioned where he lived, by name.

The Alice Griffith housing projects, a.k.a.

Double Rock, is in San Francisco’s misunderstood Bayview-Hunters Point where Candlestick Park is located. For years, it has been my passion to help improve the reputation of the Bayview, especially the notorious Double Rock.

Humble Candlestick Park and the surrounding community have been nothing short of faithful to the 49ers since 1971 when the team began to share the stadium originally built in 1960 for the Giants baseball team.

Recently, and with great pomp and circumstance, a groundbreaking ceremony took place in Santa Clara for the 49ers new $1.2 billion stadium project. The fact that this stadium is a public facility, financed with public funds, and the ceremony was closed to the public, was a good indicator that someone was trying to hide an illicit affair.

We can differ on the morals of a one-night stand; however, after a 40-year relationship in the Bayview, the moral thing to do is to be more re-

spectful of an ex-lover who may still have strong feelings after a separation.

The Santa Clara mayor and city council lured the 49ers with an offer to relocate 35 miles south of the team’s 1946 birth and nuptials. With help from the NFL, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, and Goldman Sachs, they gave affluent Silicon Valley a $1.2 billion stadium, set to open in 2014.

Then, after only a month of construction, the 49ers crept back into bed with elected San Francisco officials in what appears to be a booty call, or one-night stand.

The 49ers, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and Supervisor Mark Farrell are attempting to have the city of San Francisco play a “host role” in a bid to bring the 2016 Super Bowl to the new Santa Clara stadium. This one-time event would help the team repay a huge chunk of its new stadium loan.

However, the 49ers were unwilling to help a struggling community with the economic lift a billion-dollar stadium project could give to Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco.

First, the team thought they were entitled to more from the city, solely for their bedroom (Candlestick) performance, where five Super Bowls were conceived. One could argue that the team is partly to blame for standing in the way of rebuilding the area. Then the team jumped at the opportunity to leave the city with the name San Francisco; inherited through marriage.

Now the team has placed a booty call to cashstrapped city officials who are horny enough to risk the reputation of San Francisco, “Everyone’s favorite city,” just to pleasure an unfaithful ex-spouse.

What the 49ers have forgotten is that it is best to make a clean break in a relationship

gone south (pun intended). Reaching back for favors from a scorned lover has disaster written all over it.

Urban myth tells about a man who dumped his dentist girlfriend for another woman. Knowing that the ex-girlfriend still had feelings for him, the man returned for a favor. He asked her to extract a bothersome tooth. The woman agreed but could not resist the subtle suggestion that caused her to lose her mind. The man woke up to the fact that she had removed all his teeth.

The rebuke of saying “No!” to hosting a Super Bowl would be fitting. We must let the world know that the 49ers are not going to treat San Francisco like a one-night stand, after a 66-year relationship in which five Super Bowls were raised.

The bidding process for a possible 2016 Super Bowl will begin this summer. The NFL Super Bowl Advisory Committee will decide in October on who will host Super Bowl L. San Francisco saying no to the NFL and the 49ers might cost the Bay Area millions in a onetime economic lift. However, the single statement could cause a self-serving NFL and a particular wealthy Ohio family to hear San Francisco say loud and clear, “I’m not that kind of girl.”

Contact Mayor Lee, Supervisor Farrell, and Supervisor Scott Wiener and let them know enough is enough before the San Francisco 49ers insist the city and the 49ers go Dutch on the Super Bowl Host City application fee. ▼ Allen Jones is older than Candlestick Park but not as dilapidated. He is a published author and solely responsible for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution declaring September 22, 2011 Oliver W. Sipple Day in San Francisco. For further information, you can contact him by email at jones-allen@att.net.

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A high water mark in housing crisis I read the story about Glendon Hyde, and believe it is the flood level high water mark in the housing crisis in LGBT San Francisco [“Milk Club prez survives apartment hunt nightmare,” May 31].

If Hyde weren’t president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, with presumably a lot of contacts and friends, (not to mention a potentially huge embarrassment to the city of Harvey Milk that he almost had to move) he would be in Fresno. He is fortunate.

All the other LGBT folk looking for refuge from a still unpleasant and often hostile country can just go to hell? Or rather, stay in whichever of the seven rings they already reside? Affordable housing initiatives are too little too late and have incredibly insensitive designs and restrictions. The second largest LGBT population in a large U.S. city by percentage after S.F. is Oakland. That’s hardly a surprise.

When I moved to SF in 1979 it was difficult to afford too, and usually we had to find roomies to share a flat in the Castro, or choose a studio in the former main gay area on Polk Street. However, it was nothing like as bad as it has become. Gay people turned a dowdy old neighborhood into what the Castro is. We made it pure excitement and liberating. Even as AIDS attacked us we still made the Castro hip. We unintentionally made it attractive to the influx of overpaid and usually straight wannabe hipsters who work down the Peninsula perhaps, and want to live in the cool place to be. Noe Valley got hit first, it seems to me, and then the tide came over the hill and flooded the Castro.

I have no solution to this, but I have an opinion: Straight people can live anywhere in America without fear of anti-

gay persecution. LGBT people cannot. We have to choose carefully because we don’t have nearly as many choices. I moved to Massachusetts in 2008. It’s not what it seems and it’s not for me, and now I find I cannot return to the place I lived for 30 years. If I hadn’t moved and lost my place I might be quite unconcerned, and I admit it. I don’t know if anyone else even cares at this point, but to me the pricing out of LGBT folk from the district we helped make better and a refuge, is tragic. That the president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic club almost moved to Fresno should be heard as a very loud alarm bell.

Peter Little Amesbury, Massachusetts

History of SF supervisors This is in response to recent comments made by Jose Sarria [“SF celebrates Milk, Sarria,” May 24, Political Notebook].

In September 1989 Cher’s recording of Diane Warren’s song “If I Could Turn Back Time” reached #3 on the Billboard charts.

The five supervisors who won in 1961 were re-elected in 1965. These being Peter Tamaras, Joseph Tinney, William Blake, Jack Morrison, and Roger Boras.

Four of the five supervisors who ran for re-election in 1963 won. These being John Ferdon, Charles Ertola, Joseph Casey, and Clarissa McMahon. McMahon was appointed in 1953 and won her first term in 1955.

Leo McCarthy and George Moscone were the new supervisors elected in 1963.

Robert V. Wood San Francisco

Volunteers needed for pink triangle compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he installation of the pink triangle on Twin Peaks is one of San Francisco’s iconic symbols during Pride weekend. But in order to install the canvasses, Friends of the Pink Triangle, which spearheads the project, needs about 100 volunteers later this month.

Patrick Carney, a local architect who helped form the friends group some 16 years ago, said that people should consider signing up now to help install the tarps Saturday, June 23 from 7 to 10 a.m. After that, the dedication ceremony will take place at 10:30. It is an emotional event where tribute is paid to those lost and calls are made to remember history. Speakers include political leaders, Pride Parade grand marshals, and community members.

The pink triangle was used by the Nazis in concentration camps to identify and shame homosexuals.

The pink triangle has since been reclaimed by the gay community and is now used as a symbol of pride.

Carney noted that in recent years, the Taliban in Afghanistan required non-Muslims to wear identifying badges on their clothing; in Iran, young gay men were hanged in public squares.

“This is why the Twin Peaks display is so important,” Carney wrote in a history of the triangle. “We must remind people of the hate and prejudice of the past to help educate others and prevent it from happening again. What happened in the Holocaust must not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”

Volunteers are asked to bring a hammer and gloves and wear closed-toe shoes. People should bring sunscreen. Carney said “fashionable pink triangle T-shirts will be provided to all who help.”

To sign up, visit www.thepinktriangle.org or call Carney at (415) 726-4914. The website has detailed driving directions. Additionally, volunteers are needed the evening of June 24 to help take down the installation, for one hour or more from 5 to 8 p.m.

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Mayor Ed Lee, surrounded by grand marshals and community leaders, took part in the pink triangle dedication ceremony last year.

LGBT center kicks off Pride Month The San Francisco LGBT Community Center continues celebrating its 10th anniversary year with its annual Pride kick-off party Saturday, June 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the center, 1800 Market Street.

The building-wide celebration of LGBT Pride includes the always-popular rooftop margaritas on the deck, live performances, DJs, and films, and a silent auction and arts lounge. Tickets are $30-$60 sliding scale (plus online fee) and it is a 21 and older event.

For younger folks and families, the first floor of the center includes free entry with special children, youth, and family activities.

Tickets can be purchased online at centerprideparty.com.

Gay youth prom in Hayward It’s time for LGBT young people to “dress to impress” as Project Eden’s annual gay prom for that will be held Saturday, June 9 from 7 p.m. to midnight at Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward.

This year’s theme is “Accept Me for Who I Am – No Hate.” Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

Advance tickets can be purchased at Project Eden, 22646 Second Street in Hayward.

Organized by Lambda GLBTQQ Support Group, a program of Hori-

zon Services Inc., the prom is open to youth ages 20 and under. For more information, call (510) 247-8200.

At the Pacific Center in Berkeley, staff and volunteers will hold a gay prom send-off event beginning at 5 p.m. Community members are invited to wish the young people well as they take pictures, show off their prom “swag” in their attire and head off for their evening of elegance. The center is located at 2712 Telegraph Avenue.

Youth, faith and family conference The Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area presents “Youth, Faith, and Family,” an afternoon conference that takes place Saturday, June 9 from noon to 5 p.m. at Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, 55 Eckley Lane in Walnut Creek.

The Reverend Roland Stringfellow, one of the organizers, noted that the conference is for faith leaders, educators, parents, youth leaders, and students who want to make congregations more welcoming by supporting LGBTQ and allied youth.

Sessions include harm reduction and suicide prevention, youth ministry outreach, support for parents, and youth sharing their stories. There will also be training on Breakthrough Conversations, a project that Equality California launched last year.

The cost for the conference is $25 general admission, $15 for Coalition See page 12 >>

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GLAAD ‘Likes’ Facebook at media awards

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ocial media giant Facebook was honored last weekend at the 23rd annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco.

Andrew Noyes, Facebook’s manager of public policy and communications, and Sara Sperling, head of diversity and inclusion, were in attendance to accept the award on behalf of the company, which recently went public in an initial public offering that saw its share value promptly plummet.

GLAAD presented the Special Recognition Award because of the company’s efforts against bullying as well as the inclusion of various rela-

tionship status options for Facebook’s LGBT users. A member can now list their relationship status as in a “domestic partnership” or “civil union,” in addition to the “single,” “married,” and “it’s complicated” descriptors.

“It’s a dream [to be representing Facebook]. You grow up and you hope to have a great job, and hope to do something that impacts the world,” said Sperling. “Here, Andrew and I are working for a company that truly impacts the world. And now we are getting recognized for it by such an amazing organization.”

Noyes told the B.A.R., “The work that we have been doing around antibullying and by offering the LGBT inclusive relationship status options,

that’s just the right thing to do, and we are just so fortunate to work for such a great company that supports that.” He also noted that he and Sperling were both huge supporters of GLAAD. Noyes, who acts as an LGBTQ community liaison between Facebook and LGBT groups, was an influential advocate within the corporation in launching the “Network of Support,” a panel of five leading LGBT advocacy organizations which take part in MTV Network’s “A Thin Line” campaign, assisting the company to address LGBTQ issues.

“Facebook has set the bar high for ensuring LGBT people have a safe space to connect with friends and family,” said GLAAD’s new President Herndon Graddick, in a statement.

“GLAAD is pleased to present this award to Facebook in recognition of its efforts to make their platform welcoming to everyone.”

In 2010, Facebook stood up to bullying by monitoring a memorial page for LGBT youth after another user posted violent anti-gay images and homophobic comments on the page. Immediately after, the company launched the Stop Bullying: Speak Up campaign, which assists students, teachers, and parents to help prevent bullying.

The award was presented to the company executives by Brittany McMillan, the high school student who founded Spirit Day via a Facebook

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Facebook officials Sara Sperling and Andrew Noyes

campaign. McMillan asked all her friends on the site to wear purple on a specific day last October. Little did she know that her request would go viral and be carried out by thousands, including Facebook, which encouraged employees to turn their profile pictures purple and wear the color to support LGBT young people. The trend reached as far as Oprah Winfrey, Regis and Kelly and even the White House, which changed its Facebook profile photo purple for the day.

McMillan, who was very shy about her first red carpet experience, told the B.A.R. that she was nervous but

excited to be at such a big event. She is currently involved with Seventeen magazine’s Pretty Amazing contest and has the opportunity to be on the cover of the magazine and win a $20,000 college scholarship.

“Right now, I made it to the top five, so I get to go to New York,” said McMillan. “People can go online and vote to decide who wins.”

The GLAAD awards salute fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives in the media. The June 2 event was hosted by Glee’s Dianna Agron.

When asked how it felt to be hosting the awards, Agron said, “It’s so surreal, I grew up here. This is something I could have never imagined.”

“From the moment we stepped onto Glee, this really became an important issue that we saw time and time again that people of all ages really like seeing people that represented themselves,” she added.

Other honorees at the ceremony included Grey’s Anatomy for drama series, Days of Our Lives for daily drama series, Max J. Rosenthal of the Huffington Post for digital journalism article, Wells Fargo for the Corporate Leader Award, and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes for the Golden Gate Award. Other winners from among this year’s 35 categories were honored at ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles earlier this year.▼

Queer women of color film festival grows up

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he eighth annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival is rolling out the red carpet in a big way this year at a larger and more central location.

It will also be showing seven films from Colombia and Chile.

This year the festival, produced by the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, is themed “I do, I don’t,” and focuses on marriage equality. It will move downtown to the Novellus Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from its former home at Brava Theater in the Mission district, opening its doors to more attendees than it ever has in the past.

The festival’s theme and international component is very timely considering President Barack Obama came out last month in support of marriage equality. A couple weeks later, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board passed a resolution in support of same-sex marriage.

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Madeleine Lim, left, founder and executive director of QWOCMAP, with team members T. Kebo Drew, managing director; and Liliana Hueso, program manager.

Marriage equality was the conversation among the new class of QWOCMAP film trainees during the four-month intensive training program in 2011. The conversation among the filmmakers was deeper than simply legislation, said Mad-

eleine Lim, 48, a butch lesbian and founder and executive director of QWOCMAP. The students examined what marriage equality meant for them as people of color and the See page 13 >>

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t was a night of family and friends at the eighth annual API Family Pride banquet that took place Saturday, June 2 at the Hotel Whitcomb in San Francisco. Luna Han, second from left, honored her mother, Stella (Sung Yim Cho), fourth from left. They were the first Korean family to be honored

in this project. Joining them at the table were Carolina De Robertis, left; Belinda Dronkers-Laureta, center; and Sujin Lee and Mimi Kim. API Family Pride celebrates stories of love and acceptance shared by family members and those who honor them.

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Candidates leading in Sacto, Oakland races

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gay man running to be Sacramento’s first out city council member is headed to a runoff while a lesbian judicial candidate in Alameda County waits to see if she clinches her race once all ballots are counted.

Down in San Jose, meanwhile, a gay man trying to return out leadership to the South Bay city’s government failed to knock out an incumbent councilman, despite a last minute flap over same-sex marriage.

According to unofficial returns Wednesday, June 6 Oakland resident Tara M. Flanagan, 48, was close to capturing the 50 percent plus one vote needed for her to win an open seat on the Alameda County Superior Court.

A family law attorney and former women’s rugby player, Flanagan garnered 48.99 percent of the vote in the three-person race. She placed first with 60,711 votes, far ahead of second-place finisher Andrew Wiener, a civil litigator/mediator who had 38,142.

Coming in third was family law attorney Catherine Haley, who nabbed 24,090 votes. If Flanagan falls short of the threshold to win the primary outright once the final tally is announced, then she and Wiener will advance to a November runoff.

She appears headed, either way, to becoming the second out lesbian elected to the East Bay court. In 2010 Judge Victoria Kolakowski, a transgender woman who identifies as lesbian, became the first out person to win a seat on the Alameda County Superior Court.

Kolakowski, who with her wife, Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird, lives in the same condo building in Jack London Square as Flanagan, endorsed Flanagan in her campaign. Flanagan had strong support from the Alameda court’s bench, which includes four judges who are LGBT, as well as the local Democratic Party.

“I think I ran a strong, tight campaign that was according to our game plan,” Flanagan told the Bay Area Reporter at her election night party for supporters. “I left no stone unturned.

I feel like my campaign team and I have given our all.”

She added that she was encouraged by the early returns.

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a four-person matchup by placing second for an Alameda County Assembly seat. He would be the first out person elected to the state Legislature from the East Bay should he capture the seat this fall.

Guillen, 37, who serves on the Peralta Community College District board of trustees, will face off against Alameda city councilman Rob Bonta for the open 18th Assembly District seat. Bonta came in first Tuesday with 15,245 votes or 36.84 percent; while Guillen, who earned a last minute endorsement from Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, placed second with 11,562 votes or 27.94 percent.

Placing in a distant third with 7,819 votes or 18.90 percent was AC Transit director Joel Young. While the local attorney was the presumed favorite going into Tuesday’s election, Young had been the subject of unflattering press reports about his personal life since last summer.

Republican Rhonda Weber, who didn’t mount much of a campaign, landed in fourth with 6,551 votes or 15.83 percent.

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Alameda County judicial candidate Tara M. Flanagan

Sacramento City Council candidate Steve Hansen

rights lobbyist turned biotech manager Steve Hansen placed first in his bid to become Sacramento’s first openly gay city council member. He now faces a tough runoff fight this fall.

Hansen, 32, a senior regional manager at Genentech, received 28.59 percent of the vote with a tally of 2,317 based on unofficial returns Wednesday. The second place finisher was Planning Commissioner Joseph Yee with 2,231 vote or 27.53 percent.

Placing a distant third in the race was attorney Phyllis Newton, with 22.19 percent or 1,789 votes. And in fourth place was Terry Schanz, a gay man who is a staffer for Assemblyman Isadore Hill (D-Compton).

Schanz nabbed 1,213 votes or 14.97 percent.

In an email Hansen sent to supporters Tuesday night shortly after the polls closed, he thanked them for helping him with his race.

“Whatever happens, I wanted to tell you how proud I am of the work you did to fight for us and earn the support of so many different kinds of people,” wrote Hansen, a former employee of the statewide LGBT group Equality California. “This campaign was your campaign to fight for a better Sacramento – one with a brighter future.”

Hansen and Yee, a local architect, will now face off in November for the District 4 seat, which encompasses the state Capitol and Old Sacramento.

Centered in midtown, the district is where most of Sacramento’s LGBT clubs, businesses, and residents are concentrated, earning the area its des-

ignation as “Lavender Heights.”

A member of the city’s redistricting panel, Hansen played a key role in ensuring the LGBT neighborhood was kept whole in one council district for the first time. His work paid off handsomely Tuesday night.

It could now give Hansen the boost he needs to win in November, as many LGBT residents are hungry to see an out person on their city’s council.

At his election night party at Liege Spirits Lounge in downtown Oakland, Guillen was joined by Quan and her husband, Floyd Huen, as he thanked supporters and talked about the fall campaign.

“We know we have a lot of work to do,” Guillen told the packed crowd.

“We need you to start walking with me and organizing tomorrow.”

Guillen referenced campaigning in the city of Alameda, where Bonta serves as vice mayor. “The reception was warm in Alameda,” he said to laughter.

Down in Riverside gay Democratic educator Mark Takano, the sole out candidate seeking a U.S. House seat in California this year, placed second in the five-person race for the 41st Congressional District seat. Based on unofficial returns, Takano garnered 36.3 percent of the vote, while the first place finisher was Republican John Tavaglione with 44.9 percent.

In one of the most competitive races for a state legislative seat, lesbian LGBT activist Torie Osborn and gay Republican leader Brad Torgan fell short in their bids for the 50th Assembly District seat covering not just West Hollywood but also the coastal city of

of the term of Ken Yeager, the city’s first out council member who stepped down in 2006 after being elected to a county supervisor seat. Oliverio then won election to a full four-year term in 2008.

Shortly after midnight Kline emailed Oliverio to congratulate him on his victory. In a Facebook posting, Kline also thanked those who contributed to his campaign.

“We fought for a cause that didn’t quite carry the day. Our cause for this city to pay attention to its neighborhoods and interests did not die tonight,” wrote Kline, 62, who lives with his husband, Layne Kulwin, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood. “The dreams of so many that we fought for will live on to triumph on another day.

Our time will come. Thank you.”

Gay socialist prez candidate losing Gay UC Berkeley graduate Stephen Durham, 64, lost his bid Tuesday to be the Peace and Freedom Party’s presidential candidate in California.

Based on unofficial returns, the organizer for the Freedom Socialist Party in New York placed third in the three-man race. He fell short with capturing just 26.5 percent for a total of 738 votes; the winner, Ross Anderson, came out on top with 43.4 percent or 1,208 votes.

Another gay presidential candidate, Republican Fred Karger, also placed last in his party’s nominating contest.

The Long Beach resident nabbed just 6,482 votes, or less than 1 percent, based on unofficial returns.▼

Gay man loses San Jose council bid A similar passion to see out leadership returned to San Jose’s City Council failed to help gay attorney Steve Kline in his bid for a council seat that covers the South Bay city’s LGBT areas.

Incumbent District 6 Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, 42, trounced Kline in the race. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, Oliverio easily sailed to victory with 67.45 percent of the vote. His tally came to 7,245 votes.

Kline, a political newcomer, received 25.11 percent or 2,697 votes.

He rode a wave of anger over a pension reform measure to garner strong union support and win the local Democratic Party’s endorsement.

And last week Kline attempted to use Oliverio’s vote against a measure urging San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to publicly back same-sex marriage to curry favor with LGBT and progressive voters.

But the strategy failed, as voters not only re-elected Oliverio, who is single and straight, to a second full term on the council, but they also passed the pension reform measure backed by both Oliverio and Reed.

In March 2007, Oliverio won a special election to fill out the remainder

Santa Monica.

Osborn, a former San Francisco resident who announced her Assembly bid in late 2010, was in third place Wednesday morning with 11,744 votes for 24.3 percent. Close behind in fourth was Torgan, with 11,730 votes for 24.2 percent.

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riends and co-workers gathered Friday, June 1 at the Oakland Peace Center for a memorial to Brandy Martell, a transgender woman who was murdered in downtown Oakland early in the morning on April 29. Janet Halfin, Clover Garcia, Brandy Blackman, and Terry Washington paused at a table of photos of Martell and shared their memories. Oakland police are continuing their investigation into the killing, which occurred when witnesses said a man went up to Martell as she was sitting in her car and shot her.

SF Gay Men’s Chorus ED leaving

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he executive director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus is leaving his post.

Teddy Witherington is set to become director of events at another locally-based nonprofit, Out and Equal Workplace Advocates.

“I’ve been with the chorus now for coming up on six years, and I turned 50 earlier this year,” Witherington said in an interview. “It was time to take stock and think about where I really could be of maximum service. I had intended to move on from the chorus at some point before the end of next year, so while those thoughts were going through my head and I was evaluating where I should be, this opportunity [with Out and Equal] came across the transom.”

Witherington’s last day as fulltime executive director of the chorus will be June 15. He’ll assist the chorus “on a much-reduced schedule” after that, and his last time with the chorus as its executive director will be July 13 for a performance benefiting the Matthew Shepard Foundation. His first day at Out and Equal will be June 25.

A Tuesday, May 29 news release from the chorus said the organization, also known as Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc., would conduct “a broad search” for Witherington’s replacement.

The chorus has 311 members and a budget of just over $1 million, said Witherington, whose salary with the organization is $90,000.

“The chorus is deeply grateful to Teddy for his exceptional contributions,” chorus board President Michael Tate stated. “Teddy has a long and passionate commitment to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and helping us build connections to each other and to the rest of the population.”

During Witherington’s tenure, the 34-year-old chorus “has achieved some of its most notable successes,” according to the organization.

Among other accomplishments, in 2010, the chorus embarked on the California Freedom Tour, a series of concerts in California cities where support for the state’s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban was strong. The tour was an effort to change minds among people who were likely more conservative and may have opposed marriage equal-

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus Executive Director Teddy Witherington

ity. Voters passed Prop 8 four years ago.

The chorus is currently working on Harvey Milk 2013, a multimedia stage production about the life and legacy of the slain San Francisco supervisor and gay icon. Witherington proposed the idea to the chorus board in 2010. The production will premiere next year.

In their statement, chorus officials also credited Witherington with “forging new relationships with foundations and doubling contributions from individuals.”

Among other previous posts, Witherington co-founded the European Pride Organizers Association, and he was the first executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee.

He said his single-biggest accomplishment with the chorus has been ensuring the security of the group’s endowment. Witherington said there’s currently about $377,000 in the fund, which is under the control of the Horizons Foundation. He said that every year, the chorus receives 4 to 5 percent of the average value of the endowment over the last three-year period.

Witherington said he’s excited about working for Out and Equal because when he started his profes-

sional career, he couldn’t have the photo of the person he loved at his desk.

“That’s the change I want to see in the world, is that no one has that fear about putting a photograph of the people they love on their desk at work, and that’s what it’s all about for me,” said Witherington, who’s been with partner Rob Basham, 46, for almost five years.

Asked about Witherington, Out and Equal Deputy Director Kevin Jones said, “Because events are such a critical part of what we do, the director of events is a position that’s important, and we were looking for somebody that was experienced, who had good connections, and who was able to bring creative ideas to our events.” He added, “We’re also looking to expand our events outside the U.S.” and Witherington brings “tremendous global experience and skills to the role.”

Prior to heading up San Francisco Pride, Witherington was the festival director for London Pride.

Witherington declined to disclose his Out and Equal salary because he wasn’t permitted to release it. Jones wouldn’t divulge Witherington’s salary, explaining his agency doesn’t share salaries “other than in regulatory filings.”▼

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Unplug and explore the outdoors in Vermont Vermont is also known for its microbrews and friends can raise a pint of specialty crafted beer at any one of the 21 microbreweries that make the state number one in the U.S., according to the Brewers Association’s website.

No matter what the season, Vermont, the second largest state in New England nestled snuggly between Canada, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York, is an outdoor adventurer’s wonderland.

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repare to unplug from the Internet. Vermont is about celebrating individuality, getting outdoors, and unwinding, as my girlfriend and I discovered on a recent trip to the Green Mountain State that left us wanting more.

As a committed urbanite it was a challenge getting me to disconnect from my tech gadgets, but near the end of our trip, sitting on the deck of our cabin at the Basin Harbor Club overlooking Lake Champlain, I was finally relaxed and not quite ready to go home.

I had taken a bike ride along one of the many trails earlier that morning, while my girlfriend played a round of golf. The night before we enjoyed a five-star meal in the main dining room and partied Dirty Dancing-style with the staff and other resort guests at the Red Mill, an old barn that was converted into a bar and casual restaurant. At the mill I succeeded in getting the ring onto the hook. Hooking the ring is a game of skill, swinging a brass ring tied to a string around a hook several feet away.

The Basin Harbor Club is a quintessential New England resort founded

by Ardelia Beach more than 125 years ago. It remains family-owned and -operated by Beach’s great, great, great niece and nephew Pennie and Robert H. Beach Jr., and attracts families and groups of friends year after year who enjoy boating on and swimming in Lake Champlain, long country walks, and any number of the other activities planned daily.

Vermont’s slogan should be eat, drink, play, and live well. Stopping to enjoy life and the scenery is what it is all about in the New England state that is filled with picturesque towns and friendly people.

Vermont is very gay-friendly; so gay-friendly that being queer is just as normal as apple pie. It was a bit dis-

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Moose Meadow Lodge innkeepers Willie Docto and Greg Trulson enjoy a morning cup of coffee on their deck at the country lodge.

concerting for my girlfriend and me that there isn’t a gayborhood and to learn that there wasn’t a gay bar in the entire state. We missed the feeling of being “different” and having our own space to gather with our community.

On the other hand it felt good to be outside of our San Francisco bubble and still be an out couple, especially in small town America.

Vermont is progressive on gay rights. It currently has a strong progay Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin, who while in the state Senate sponsored the marriage equality bill that was passed by the legislature in 2009. He appointed out lesbian Beth Robinson, an attorney and LGBT civil unions and marriage equality advocate, to the state’s Supreme Court in 2011. The state’s landmark civil unions law was amended to recognize such unions performed in other states, and the governor most recently supported two anti-bullying laws passed last month by the legislature.

Shumlin is also actively supporting LGBT tourism and why not? The state is home to more than a dozen LGBT-owned bed and breakfasts, res-

taurants, shops, and tour companies wanting to share everything the state has to offer to LGBT visitors and their friends.

This plethora of gay-owned travel businesses inspired the formation of the Vermont Gay Tourism Association in 2003. Northern Decadence, launched last year, is a festival that showcases the best of what LGBT and gay-friendly Vermont has to offer.

Easy living Everything is at Vermonters’ doorsteps, from urban life to serenity in the wilderness. Nothing is too far away. At any moment, any one of the more than 600,000 Vermonters, about 200,000 less than San Francisco’s population, can be high atop any one of the state’s 223 mountains or hanging out at any of its five lakes or eight rivers. Seventy-five percent of the state is forest and greenery that presents a dazzling display of color during the fall.

Lake Champlain, the nation’s sixth largest fresh water lake, provides a variety of boating and water fun during the summer.

Vermont’s natural beauty, easy outdoor living, and cozy communities attracted Jennie Date and Jenn Childress, owners of Singletrack Mindfulness, a mountain biking and yoga retreat and tour company. The two 39-year-old lesbians, who followed former partners to Vermont, stayed and found their passions for sports and each other about six years ago.

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The gayest month in sports

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his will arguably be the gayest month of the year on the LGBT sports calendar. Consider: • The month kicked off the weekend of June 1-3 with the Bingham Cup tournament in Manchester, England, the biggest rugby tournament in the world outside the rugby World Cup. San Francisco Fog had an incredibly successful weekend but came up just short in the finals. In the championship division, the Fog fell to the Sydney Convicts, 22-5. The Fog B team lost in the semifinals of the Hoagland Cup division, falling to the Melbourne Chargers, 8-0. For more information about SF Fog, visit http:// www.sffog.org.

• The same weekend, the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics championships finished up in Reykjavik, Iceland. Bringing home titles from SF Tsunami were Wayne Rogers, winning the men’s 200-meter breaststroke in 3 minutes, 18.57 seconds; Neil Hart, with a 7:20.67 time in the 65-69 men’s 400-meter freestyle, 2:04.91in the 100-meter backstroke

and 15:19.26 in the 800-meter free; Joe Grey, at 59.02 in the men’s 3034 100-meter free; Aram Yoo in the men’s 25-29 age division with 26.89 in the 50-meter freestyle and 30.56 in the men’s 50-meter backstroke; Kristian Nergaard, with a 9:16.93 in the 65-69 men’s individual medley; and John Harry Bonck, in the men’s 60-64 50-meter backstroke in 40.17 and a 7:43.32 time in the 400-meter individual medley.

Hart, Bonck, and Nergaard teamed with Ernst Halperin to win their 4x100-meter freestyle relay in 5:35.67.

Nergaard, Hart, Bonck, and James Winslow combined for a winning 2:33.10 time in the 4x50 meter freestyle relay. Hart edged Nergaard in their 1500-meter freestyle race, 29:39.17 to 30:47.10.

Complete results are available at http://www.igla2012.org. Information about SF Tsunami is available at http://www.sftsunami.org.

• The month will end with a bang, with the EuroGames going on in Budapest starting on June 27 (see http:// www.eurogamesbudapest.hu for details), and the 33rd annual Pride Run going on in San Francisco on June 23.

So the summit will not, as past conferences have, focus on iterating the problem so much as suggesting solutions and pushing for action. Here’s hoping that what emerges from Oregon are not the solitary flag-bearers of old, but organizational efforts pushing for a more accepting future.

Not exactly cricket

Nike will host an LGBT sports summit in Oregon later this month; Jason Alexander may not know much about cricket, but he played a gay man in the film Love! Valour! Compassion!

(See May 31 JockTalk.)

• But before that, athletic apparel manufacturer Nike, often the target of protests over the working conditions of factory employees, will be taking a stand for sports inclusivity with what is being billed as the first-ever LGBT sports summit. At a three-day conference, June 14-16 in Beaverton, Oregon, leaders from a variety of LGBT sports organizations, human rights groups, and ally programs will discuss ways to work together to proactively combat homophobia and transphobia in sports.

In the past two years, historic steps

for LGBT individuals have taken place in the world, and while homophobia continues to be a source of abusive rhetoric in the mainstream political arena and from far too many Sunday pulpits, in the sports world is slowly being reduced to childish tweets from thoughtless athletes and coaches who quickly are rebutted.

But as different groups try to carve out names for themselves and build their brands, there seems to be less cohesion in the movement, little coordination, and even less pro-active measures by the biggest collegiate and professional programs.

Really, Jason? You didn’t realize calling cricket a “gay” sport would be offensive?

Jason Alexander, most famous for his portrayal of George Costanza on Seinfeld and who scored thousands of gay fans for his sensitive portrayal of a gay man in the movie Love!

Valour! Compassion!, appearing on CBS’s Late Late Show, launched into a long “humorous” discussion of why he thinks cricket is a “gay” sport. Not a quickie quip, but a prolonged mocking of what he saw as effeminate mannerisms in the sport and the assertion that meant it gay.

Afterwards, he delivered an articulate apology through the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In it he says he did not realize the harm caused by belittling effeminate behavior and ridiculing gays until gay and lesbian friends clued him in.

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SF bloggers meet ‘Supergays’ on their travels

by Heather Cassell

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ne year ago, San Francisco lesbian couple Jennifer “Jenni” Chang and Lisa Dazols set out on a journey around the world to find who they term “Supergays” and record their adventures on their blog, Out and Around: Stories From A Not-SoStraight Journey.

Embarking on their global journey, the couple had no film or journalistic background, only an idea and help from a dedicated group of friends and community, personal financing, and some donations from fundraising.

The two trekked through Australia, South Africa, India, Nepal, Argentina, and San Francisco, interviewing LGBT people for their blog.

Their journey was mapped out based on countries where struggles for queer rights have rapidly emerged into movements or progressed into legal protections, destinations on their bucket lists, and countries where they spoke the language fluently. Aside from English, Chang speaks Mandarin and Dazols speaks Spanish.

Their goal was simple.

Courtesy of Out and Around

Lisa Dazols, left, and Jennifer “Jenni” Chang marched in a LGBT rights demonstration in Arica, Chile during their travels.

“We wanted to show role models within the queer community so that people in the states and also people in these countries can kind of get a chance to meet some of the Supergays who are doing extraordinary things,” Dazols, 33, said in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter at the couple’s home before thzzzeir worldwide adventure.

A year later the couple has a lot to celebrate at a homecoming party that is free to the public and takes place Wednesday, June 13 at 6 p.m. at Rebel bar, 1760 Market Street in San Francisco.

A short documentary they created premiered at Kashish, Mumbai’s international queer film festival and they have a column on the Huffington Post. The women climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Machu Picchu in Peru, and ventured through the Amazon, resulting in an amazing story that has gained widespread notice.

Personally, the couple will celebrate their engagement with friends and the community. They got engaged on a beach in Boracay, Philippines during their journey.

The couple will premiere a twominute trailer of a new documentary about their global search for the Supergays at their homecoming celebration.

“We hope that this film can inspire, educate, and build a community of

LGBT people and allies across the world,” wrote Dazols in an email after making it down from Machu Picchu in Peru and before venturing into the Amazon last month.

The couple hopes to bring the completed documentary to LGBT churches, film festivals, organizations, and schools.

Born nomads World travelers before they met, the two women, who have been together for more than three years, discovered “anytime we travel abroad we are always curious about gay life,” said Dazols, a Bay Area native.

Unbeknownst to Dazols, Chang, a Midwesterner born in Milwaukee and raised in Chicago, had long ago dreamed of taking off on a yearlong worldwide adventure.

In her 20s, while traveling in Asia, Chang met a honeymooning couple in Thailand who were traveling around the world until they ran out of money, she said. The encounter sparked her imagination, but it wasn’t until she met Dazols that it became reality.

Dazols began to catch Chang’s travel bug after various encounters and experiences. She recalled one conversation she had with a straight Chinese woman during a flight to China in 2010 to meet Chang, who was already in Beijing. Dazols said she whipped See page 12 >>

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Former Alioto aide Jerry Windley dies

by Cynthia Laird

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erry T. Windley, a longtime legislative aide to former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto, died suddenly May 30 at his home in Salem, Oregon. He was 57.

The cause of death was an apparent stroke or heart attack in his sleep, his husband, Michael Dalke-Windley, told the Bay Area Reporter.

“He wouldn’t wake up,” DalkeWindley said in a phone interview June 5. “I called 911 and they came and said he’s gone. I thought, where did he go?”

“He was a great guy. He was the best partner someone could have and I miss him horribly,” Dalke-Windley said.

The couple moved to Oregon just over a year ago, in May 2011.

Mr. Windley was described by friends as a passionate advocate for HIV/AIDS policy and legislation when he worked for Alioto as her legislative aide.

“He was an original member of ACT UP,” Alioto told the B.A.R. “He started BAY Positives,” an organization for young people living with HIV. Alioto said that Mr. Windley was instrumental in numerous pieces of legislation she had passed by the Board of Supervisors, including getting medications listed on the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program and the emergency legislation that used to have to be passed regularly for needle exchange in the city. He also worked on the smoking ban, Alioto said.

He helped with “over 100 pieces of legislation – HIV and gay rights,” she added.

“There was no better combination of passion about an issue. Jerry was an advocate with an activist’s passion,” she said.

Alioto met Mr. Windley in 1986 when they did an AIDS film together.

She was elected to the board in November 1988 and Mr. Windley joined her staff about a year later, she said.

Alioto was re-elected in 1992 and

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Jerry Windley

served as board president from January 1993-January 1995.

Mike Shriver, a friend of Mr. Windley’s, said his death was “hard to believe.”

“He re-activated the HIV com-

mittee of the Milk Club. He was a remarkable man and it’s a huge loss,” Shriver, a former health commissioner, said.

Other City Hall staffers also recalled Mr. Windley.

Bevan Dufty, now Mayor Ed Lee’s homelessness policy aide and a former supervisor, used to serve as an aide to then-Supervisor Susan Leal, who served on the board with Alioto.

“Jerry was larger than the dome as a board aide,” Dufty said this week.

“He was a very effective legislative aide and [helped with] the work that Angela did on anti-smoking. He was a staunch defender of Angela. He was very hard-working and a perfect match for Angela.”

After Alioto left the board, Mr. Windley worked for her at her law office for a time, and later worked for a small firm, Dalke-Windley said.

Dalke-Windley said that he and Mr. Windley, who had been together for 13 years, later moved to Idaho and lived there for about five years so that

Mr. Windley could care for his ailing mother, who died in October 2008.

Mr. Windley and Dalke-Windley returned to San Francisco in July 2008 so that they could be married during the time that same-sex marriage was legal in California. Alioto and other friends attended the ceremony, which was held in City Hall.

Mr. Windley was born April 3, 1955 in Montpelier, Idaho, along the Utah border, Dalke-Windley said.

His parents split up and Mr. Windley moved with his mother to southern California when he was a young child.

He graduated from Glendale High School and Boise State University, where he majored in political science.

Alioto said that the plan is to have Mr. Windley’s ashes scattered in the bay on Saturday, June 23. The memorial will be held at 2 p.m. at Fort Point. A gathering is planned for afterwards at her home. People wishing to attend should RSVP by calling 415-434-8700 and ask for Lashawn.▼

Ambassadors help inform Castro visitors

by Elliot Owen

Francisco” in 1972.)

Merchants in the Castro district are happy about the ambassadors, too.

Petyr Kane, owner of clothing stores Body and Citizen on Castro Street, sees no drawback to the program.

“Increasing foot traffic here is beneficial to everybody,” Kane said.

“Business aside, I care about my street and the history. It’s really nice to be able to share this with more people.

There are no negatives.”

While the program has publicized itself mostly through face-toface contact and word-of-mouth advertising, Campbell says they are exploring new ways to generate awareness. A Castro Ambassador Twitter account has been set up to tweet live updates about what’s happening in the neighborhood and

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ust under the iconic rainbow flag at the intersection of Castro and Market streets, you may encounter a friendly face in a navy blue jacket standing behind a table bannered with a large “i.”

Information is what the Castro Ambassadors bestow upon lost tourists, curious visitors, and even rushed San Franciscans who need help finding their way. This summer marks the second in operation for the program, which last year helped an estimated 6,000 visitors from over 35 countries worldwide.

“We station ourselves in these high traffic areas,” volunteer coordinator Brian Campbell said. “Typically, we’re at Harvey Milk and Jane Warner plazas because those tend to be the entry points for a lot of the visitors arriving by Muni or the F streetcar.”

The Castro Ambassador program is organized by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, which is a nonprofit, community-based organization founded in 2005. Its mission is to oversee the general well-being and improvement of the district.

“CBDs are established to provide additional services around cleaning, security, beautification, sidewalk sweeping, and greening on top of what the city already provides,” Castro CBD Executive Director Andrea Aiello said.

Property owners in the 20-squareblock district voted on a mail-in ballot to approve the Castro CBD and the special assessment fee required to fund the program. When property owners pay their property taxes, the assessment fee is collected simultaneously and allocated to the CBD. Last year, the organization’s budget was $408,000.

“The Castro Ambassadors program fits into the CDB as part of our charge to increase economic vitality in the neighborhood,” Aiello

Elliot Owen

Castro Ambassador Joe Iser helped tourists from Guatemala who visited the Castro last month.

explained. “This program focuses on making the neighborhood very welcoming, easy to maneuver, and friendly. We had one Italian tourist who said to one of our ambassadors last year, ‘Oh! You fell like an angel from the sky!’”

After just one pilot season, the ambassadors have formulated a stock of informational material in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese.

They provide directions to points of interest like the GLBT History Museum, Pink Triangle Park and Memorial, the Castro Theatre, Harvey Milk Mural, the former location of Milk’s Castro Camera Store, 16th Street’s AIDS mural, and even destinations outside the Castro like Twin Peaks and the Lower Haight’s Painted Ladies.

“The questions we got last year

really tailored what we provide this year,” Campbell said. “We have a better understanding of what people are coming to the Castro for.”

Tourists aren’t the only ones learning about San Francisco, either. Last year, the ambassadors discovered an interesting detail about their beloved neighborhood from inquiring French visitors.

“We had all these Frenchmen asking, ‘Where’s the blue house?’” Campbell said. “Nobody knew what they were talking about but there’s this blue house on 18th Street which back in the 1970s, a French singer stayed there and wrote a song about it that’s really popular in France. We came to discover that this small, unknown thing in our neighborhood was this big deal in France.”

(French songwriter Maxime Le Forestier released the song “San

Paris, and New York. Erik was fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and his parents’ native Estonian. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Western, Asian, and tribal arts, antiques, and antiquities.

In 1991, Erik moved from New York to San Francisco. He relocated to Guerneville in 1994 after receiving a position at Food For Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank. Among other duties, he served as interpreter for FFT’s numerous monolingual Hispanic clients. As a man living with HIV since the early 1980s, his wisdom, empathy,

and experience greatly comforted newly diagnosed clients. Erik also used his background in art and antiques when he began working at Sebastopol’s FFT Antiques in 2010.

He is survived by his mother Helle and his brother Hiller, both of Florida; and his partner Eric Keller, of Guerneville. A memorial celebration of his knowledge, wit, grace, and humanity will be held at 3 p.m. June 23 at Santa Rosa’s Center for Spiritual Living. For additional information, e-mail queries to kellereric04@gmail.com.

Obituaries >> Ilmar Erik Orav May 26, 1953 – April 22, 2012

After a yearlong battle with lymphoma, Erik Orav died peacefully at his Guerneville home on April 22.

Born in New York City and raised in Venezuela, he pursued his knack for languages and lifelong passion for art at institutions in Maine,

can be followed @visitthecastro.

While Castro Ambassadors exists only as a summer-long program now, the possibility for extending it to operate year-round could become a reality as the volunteer staff grows.

“We’re always looking for volunteers who are willing to approach people,” Campbell said. “We seek out those who need help. We’re bringing that benefit of immediately making people know that when they see a Castro Ambassador, that is someone who will help them get to where they’re going.”▼ For information about how to become a Castro Ambassador, visit www.castrocbd.org/content/ ambassador-program.

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of Welcoming Congregations members, $15 for webinar participation only, and free for ages 3-18. Lunch is included for the on-site attendees.

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out a photo of Chang to show the woman, who had never knowingly met a lesbian, and began talking about their lives together.

The woman “came away from that conversation educated and surprised because she could relate to [me] and that my partner was somewhat similar to her,” said Dazols, a social worker.

While in Beijing, the couple sought out gay bars and met several Chinese gay men who shared stories about their lives and struggles. Chang chimed in with another experience traveling to Taiwan where she met

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Prop 8

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cerning equal protection, due process, and the fundamental right to marry.

While Olson said upholding a narrow reasoning might still affect same-sex marriage in some states beyond California, upholding the broader reasoning could affect every state.

With last week’s 1st Circuit decision striking a core section of the Defense of Marriage Act also heading to the nation’s highest court, it is now likely the Supreme Court will have two major same-sex marriage cases on its docket in October.

The 9th Circuit case, if accepted, could ask whether states can take away the right to marry from same-sex couples or whether same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marriage and to be treated equally under marriage laws. The 1st Circuit case, if accepted, would ask whether the federal government can refuse to recognize marriages licensed by states to samesex couples.

David Boies, the other lead attorney for the Perry couples, said that, while the questions in each case are very “distinct,” the issues are closely related and could – if both are accepted

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took the plunge and formed Singletrack Mindfulness.

The two commute regularly by bike around Burlington.

“You can ride your bike from Burlington and in 10 minutes you are on a country road,” said Date, who likes the fact that within a half hour she can go skiing in the winter, biking in the summer, or take part in any number of outdoor activities.

The couple also likes exploring Vermont’s food culture.

“Another huge piece for me is the food,” said Date. “There is a huge local movement here. We don’t have necessarily fabulous restaurants; there are some good restaurants. But it’s not so much about that, it’s more about the access to farm fresh food, the cheese, the bread, and all the produce in the summer.”

Vermonters aren’t simply country bumpkins. Long since its founding as an independent nation in 1777 – before becoming the first state to enter the United States after the original 13 colonies in 1791 – Vermont’s residents have had an independent and socially progressive streak that gives them an air of country sophistication.

At the same time it retains a small town neighborly attitude that keeps residents closely connected to one another.

Modern day Vermont farmers are venturing into exploring viniculture, producing a variety of wines at local wineries, including experimenting with new grape varietals and creat-

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The 42nd annual Live Oak Park Fair takes place in Berkeley this weekend, June 9-10. The event features more than 100 high-caliber

artists and craftspeople and will showcase affordable contemporary art, fine crafts, handcrafted jewelry and accessories, clothing, quilts, and more.

The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days and admission is free. Live Oak Park is located at 1301 Shattuck Avenue at Berryman Street

in North Berkeley. There is some street parking and a shuttle will run every 30 minutes from the North Berkeley BART station. The park is wheelchair accessible and has paved pathways for strollers.

For more information, visit www. liveoakparkfair.com or call (510) 227-7110.▼

an email from the edge of the Amazon. “While we’ve met Supergay celebrities, we’ve also interviewed extraordinary LGBT individuals who have quietly made tremendous impact on their community.”

The people they met had far less resources and “sacrificed far more to help others,” Chang wrote about their travels through the developing world.

Dazols was encouraged by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, President Barack Obama, and other global leaders speaking out on behalf of LGBT human rights this year.

“When world leaders stand up for gay rights, sweeping changes can occur,” said Dazols. “We feel very hopeful about the global gay movement.”

There is only one question the couple is left with, Chang added, “What can we do to make a difference?”

To learn more, visit www.outandaround.com.▼

Inspired, Chang, 30, a senior manager at eBay Motors, and Dazols created Out and Around, but they never dreamed where their venture would take them or some of the heartbreak they witnessed.

Among the stories of 50 high profile leaders – haute couture fashion

designers, CEOs, Indian princes, elected officials, and Olympic athletes – there are also posts about LGBT activists in Kenya who receive death threats and a couple in Indonesia that faced familial pressures to marry other people, they said.

Winding down their adventure, the couple is grateful to return to the fog and comforts of home after a year of extreme climates and a bare minimum wardrobe. They are also hopeful about the future of LGBT rights around the world.

“This trip has really impressed upon me that one passionate, devoted individual can truly make a world of difference,” wrote Chang in

– be heard very close together.

The three-paragraph order June 5 stated that the request for a full court review “failed to receive a majority of the votes” of active judges. It also noted that the order would be stayed for 90 days to enable proponents of Proposition 8 to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The dissenting judges did not mince words in their three-paragraph dissent. They said the circuit panel’s 2-1 decision striking Prop 8 was a “gross misapplication” of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Romer v.

Evans. In that 1996 case, the Supreme Court said states could not pass laws that excluded gays from protection based on animus against the group.

The dissenters said refusing to give full 9th Circuit review to Perry v. Brown means the 9th Circuit judges “have now declared that animus must have been the only conceivable motivation for a sovereign state to have remained committed to a definition of marriage that has existed for millennia.”

Proponents of Prop 8, known as Yes on 8, filed the 9th Circuit full court appeal, asking it to overturn a decision by the panel in February. That panel decision found that California’s

ban on same-sex marriage violates the federal Constitution by stripping from same-sex couples a right they had (to marry) prior to passage of Prop 8. In order for a limited full court review to have been granted, at least 14 of the circuit’s 26 active judges would have had to say another review is warranted.

In the Perry case, two same-sex couples sued the state after being denied marriage licenses after the voter-approved constitutional ban on same-sex marriage went into effect in November 2008.

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled, in August 2010, that banning same-sex couples from obtaining marriage licenses violates the federal Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. He agreed to delay enforcement of the decision, pending an appeal by Yes on 8 attorneys to the 9th Circuit.

In February, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit, in a 2-1 vote, upheld Walker’s decision but on much narrower grounds. The panel majority – Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Michael Hawkins – said Prop 8 improperly removed from a group of citizens (gays) a right they already enjoyed (marriage) without suffi-

cient justification.

Reinhardt and Hawkins submitted a paragraph with the June 5 refusal order, saying they were “puzzled” by their dissenting colleagues’ “unusual reliance on the president’s views regarding the Constitution, especially as the president did not discuss the narrow issue that we decided in our opinion.”

“We,” said Reinhardt and Hawkins, “held only that under the particular circumstances relating to California’s Proposition 8, that measure was invalid. In line with the rules governing judicial resolution of constitutional issues, we did not resolve the fundamental question that both sides asked us to: whether the Constitution prohibits the states from banning samesex marriage. That question may be decided in the near future, but if so, it should be in some other case, at some other time.”

The “particular circumstances” they referred to were that the California Supreme Court had ruled, in May 2008, that the state constitution required that same-sex couples be able to obtain marriage licenses the same as straight couples. Thousands of couples did begin obtaining marriage licenses, but in November of that year

voters approved Prop 8, amending the state constitution to explicitly ban the recognition of same-sex marriage.

While attorneys and activists uniformly called the February 7 panel decision a major victory, they acknowledged that the decision did stop short of saying that same-sex partners, like straight partners, have a “fundamental right to marry.” Instead, it said Prop 8 deprived same-sex partners only of the “right to use the designation of ‘marriage.’” If it had ruled same-sex couples had a fundamental right to marry, said Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund’s legal director Jon Davidson, “the marriage laws of 44 states would have been cast into doubt. ...” And by rendering such a relatively narrow ruling, said Davidson and others, the panel reduced the likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court would take the case.

“The fundamental right to marry, as protected by the U.S. Constitution,” said Williams Institute legal scholar Jenny Pizer, “has to have the same contours throughout the country. So a decision concluding that same-sex couples have the same fundamental right as different-sex couples would call into question all the marriage restrictions states currently impose.”▼

ing unique blends of ice wine, said Andrea Van Hoven, a representative of Shelburne Farms and Vineyards, about the state’s emerging wine industry.

host a pond and hiking trails. It is luxurious, but at the same time feels like home and that’s just what the couple intended, they said. Guests like it too.

The lodge boasts an estimated 33 percent return rate and high occupancy, said Docto.

Trulson officiates at civil unions and weddings, including Navy Lieutenant Gary Ross to his partner Dan Swezy the minute the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy officially ended, at the lodge last September.

Trulson also officiates unions between couples throughout the state. He told the Bay Area Reporter that couples love the personal touch that bed and breakfasts’ provide.

“You are talking to a local who will tell you things and show you things that you wouldn’t get from a concierge,” he said.

Vermont is filled with charming inns and small restaurants and shops, many of them gay-owned or gayfriendly.

In Montgomery Center, close to the Canadian border, we stayed at the beautiful and luxurious Phineas Swann Inn, owned by gay couple Jay Kerch and John Perkins, who were more than hospitable, telling us all about the ski town. They suggested that we dine at Bernie’s Restaurant across the street. The small restaurant didn’t look like much from the outside, but it was almost hard to get a table and the food and service was casual, fun, and good. The following morning Kerch served up an indulgent breakfast that anyone would swoon over.

The dog-friendly bed and break-

fast housed in a converted farmhouse and barn is plush and affordable. My girlfriend and I needed a stepping stool to get into the pillowladen king size bed in our suite – I felt like the princess and the pea. The inn hosts many weddings and it is also a short drive to Jay Peak, a golf and ski resort that is undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation.

the diner, were wiped out by the storm last September, they said.

The community doesn’t “want to see us go anywhere,” said Ward, his voice strained as he held back tears chatting with me over lunch. Before leaving he pointed me in the direction of the Square Biscuit, a Southern restaurant in Northfield Village owned by a lesbian couple.

First, I strolled through the main center of Montpelier and stopped at the Vermont History Museum, an interactive maze that takes guests from the founding of Vermont to the present, housed at the Vermont Historical Society. It was there that I began to grasp the spirit of Vermont, learning about the industriousness of the state and all of the ways it reinvented itself and remained self-sufficient through our nation’s history. Many of Vermont’s picturesque towns turned 250 years old this year and last year.

During the days that followed my girlfriend and I explored modern Vermont, stopping off at wineries, microbreweries, and general stores as we drove along the winding mountain roads. We also couldn’t resist making a dessert stop at Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory.

Surprisingly, we didn’t spend much time exploring Burlington. We only spent an evening dining at Leunig’s Bistro and Cafe, one of Vermont’s most popular fine dining restaurants that is co-owned by out lesbian chef Donnell Collins, a former Californian; and an afternoon strolling through the shops at Church Street Marketplace before returning home.▼

Pride in Contra Costa County The Rainbow Community Center in Contra Costa County will hold its annual Pride celebration Sunday, June 10 from noon to 4 p.m. at Todos Santos Plaza, located on Willow Pass Road near Concord Avenue in Concord. Admission is $2. For queer Taiwanese that she later blogged about in Out and Around.

“For us, seeking community was one of the most meaningful parts of the trip,” said Dazols, who had studied abroad in Italy and Spain prior to working and living in Chile after college.

Venturing out

Northern Decadence Northern Decadence, unlike its more rowdy counterpart in New Orleans, is a culinary and cultural expo that takes place at Vermont’s Pride Festival in Burlington in late September. Just in time to enjoy the foliage season.

This is the second year Northern Decadence is beckoning visitors to come hungry to sample the gastronomic delights from cook-offs by Vermont’s best chefs to savory and sweet offerings from local businesses and farms.

Last year’s event was a two-day extravaganza that included a dance party cruise on Lake Champlain and an after-party. The cruise will be happening as a separate event this year and other events are currently being planned, said Willie Docto, cofounder and president of Vermont Gay Tourism Association, who is spearheading the event with the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.

Intimate retreats Docto also owns the Moose Meadow Lodge with his husband of nearly three years, Greg Trulson. The couple, who met at a bed and breakfast 20 years ago and love to travel, have owned the inn for 14 years, they said.

The cozy inn, tucked away up a long dirt road, rests on 86 acres that

more information, visit www.rainbowcc.org.

Berkeley crafts fair this weekend

Finding community In spite of the integration and spread out nature of Vermont’s LGBT community, finding queer people surprisingly wasn’t difficult due to my well-honed gaydar, good eye for rainbow flags, and local LGBT and straight business owners that gladly chatted up and pointed the way to other gay-owned businesses.

My first stop upon landing in Vermont was Montpelier where I found the simply named Coffee Corner Diner flying an inconspicuous rainbow flag the owners had just put up.

The corner diner on Main and E. State streets was taken over nearly two years ago – at the request of the retiring owner – by a gay couple Michael Raymond and Sean Ward.

The two men have been married for more than two years and have been together for more than 16 years. They had worked at the diner for years and are beloved by the community. The love showed as people steadily came through the door for a mid-afternoon bite to eat or cup of coffee and donated some extra dollars toward the couple’s Hurricane Irene fund. The two men’s entire life possessions, except

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Del Rey) with 12,519 votes for 25.9 percent. Less than 100 votes behind Butler in second place was Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom. The two straight Democrats will now compete against each other in November.

Butler had to move into the 50th Assembly District in order to run for the seat, as her current 53rd Assembly District was carved up due to redistricting. She does represent a small slice of the new AD50, but Osborn and her supporters refuted Butler’s claims to be the incumbent in the race and painted her as a carpetbagger.

Osborn’s poor showing Tuesday is a blow to lesbian former state lawmaker Sheila Kuehl, a former partner of Osborn’s who had fought hard to see her be elected. Butler’s first place finish is a win, on the other hand, for gay Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles), who had made her election a key priority.

Perez, who placed first Tuesday with 59.6 percent of the vote in the Assembly District 53 race, convinced Butler to seek the AD50 seat. He also pushed a gay WeHo councilman to drop out of the race and support Butler.

In a concession statement she posted to her campaign site Wednesday morning, Osborn once again took aim at the Assembly leader’s political maneuvering.

“Well, we made history. We built an

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rector, said in an interview that the reports last year included threats, harassment, wrongful termination from employment, and housing evictions apparently based on antiLGBTQ and HIV bias.

However, he said, “We don’t have the capacity” to provide specific data for the number of cases in each category. He also couldn’t say how many incidents were reported to police or involved formal complaints.

The nonprofit used to be better known for assisting victims with specific incidents through services such as its safety line and distributing whistles to people in advance of large events such as Pride. It also helped people get restraining orders and worked more closely with law enforcement.

Now, there seems to be more of a focus on addressing issues such as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Secure Communities program, which according to ICE’s website “helps to identify criminal aliens.”

Umezu said the nonprofit is try-

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bigger effect on their lives, said Lim. “How do we best advocate for our multiple communities?” asked Lim, who was already working in South America translating QWOCMAP’s unique filmmaking training program to emerging filmmakers with the assistance of their new friends at Mujeres Al Borde (Women on the Edge).

Reel girl power In 2010, QWOCMAP partnered with Mujeres Al Borde, a Colombian feminist organization that uses art – performance and visual – as its primary tool for social justice.

Mujeres Al Borde modeled its own filmmaker program, AL Edge Audiovisual School, and vision after QWOCMAP’s program. Members of Mujeres Al Borde worked with filmmakers in their own country and Chile under QWOCMAP’s guidance in a pilot program to produce the documentaries that will have their U.S. debut at the festival this weekend.

“To transform the world is important that our stories exist, are seen, heard, listened, shared,” wrote Ana

insurgent campaign that was vibrant, grassroots, people-powered. We drew over 2,300 individual donors, and dozens of newly engaged volunteers,” wrote Osborn. “But, it wasn’t enough to overcome a determined and aggressive Sacramento machine – and a praiseworthy surge by my Santa Monica mayor.”

Her hat tip to Bloom could presage Osborn endorsing him in the runoff against Butler.

Lesbian businesswoman Laurette Healey also came up short in her bid for the Assembly District 46 seat in the San Fernando Valley. She placed fifth in the six-person race with just 10.6 percent of the vote.

Gay Democratic candidate Brian C. Johnson, meanwhile, was holding on to second place in the AD46 race.

Unofficial returns had the charter school executive and education reformer at 20.3 percent with 6,691 votes.

“While it is still extremely close, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, I look forward to a vigorous campaign through November!”

Johnson wrote on his Facebook page after the polls closed.

In third place with 6,608 votes, or 20 percent, was Republican candidate Jay L. Stern. The first place finisher as of Wednesday morning, with 27.5 percent of the vote, was Democrat Adrin Nazarian, chief of staff to L.A. City Councilman Paul Krekorian.

In the nearby 51st Assembly District covering Los Angeles’ Echo Park and Eagle Rock neighborhoods, gay

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son race for the 78th Assembly District seat. She garnered 59.6 percent of the vote, while gay GOPer Ralph Denney also advanced to November by coming in second with 28.1 percent of the vote.

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Latino activist Luis Lopez was also holding on to a slim lead for second place as of Wednesday morning. Lopez had 5,453 votes for 24.5 percent.

Close behind in third place was Arturo Chavez, the district director for state Assemblyman Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles). Chavez had 5,204 votes for 23.4 percent. Should Lopez’s lead hold, he will face off in November against nurses’ lobbyist Jimmy Gomez, who placed first Tuesday with 8,362 votes for 37.6 percent.

In San Diego, lesbian Democratic Party leader Pat Washington failed to survive the primary race for the city’s 79th Assembly District seat. She landed fifth in the six-person contest with 8.1 percent of the vote.

Incumbent lesbian Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) easily placed first Tuesday in her three-per-

Two Democratic lesbian lawmakers near Stockton advanced to the fall general election. Stockton City Councilwoman Susan Talamantes Eggman placed first in her bid for the 13th Assembly District seat.

She trounced her four male opponents by capturing 39.7 percent of the vote for a tally of 15,485. Coming in a distant second was Republican K. “Jeffrey” Jafri with 21.5 percent for a vote count of 8,401.

Having captured more votes than the two GOP primary candidates combined, Eggman is all but assured of winning in November. If she does, she will be the first out woman of color elected to the state Legislature.

Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton), who came out publicly last fall, is facing a harder runoff fight for the newly drawn Senate District 5 seat. She placed first Tuesday with 41.3 percent of the vote for a tally of 38,547.

In second place was Assemblyman Bill Berryhill (R-Stockton) with 33,504 votes for 35.9 percent. In third was GOPer Leroy Ornellas with 21,190 votes for 22.7 percent.

The two Republicans combined captured nearly 16,200 more votes

ing to support “low- and no-income LGBTQ people of color who are surviving violence over a longer period of time, so in addition to getting the support around individual incidents of violence, we are also trying to address issues of isolation and leadership skills by providing opportunities to engage in the organization and learn about local issues that affect their safety, such as Secure Communities.”

He said the shift in CUAV’s focus stemmed from the three-year strategic plan officials launched in 2009. He said that guide was based on research they did with other LGBTQ anti-violence organizations in the U.S. and interviews with former CUAV clients.

“As a result of that information, we really heard there was a need to go deeper with the support we were able to offer,” Umezu said.

Rather than just a hotline, people wanted services like support groups and “long-term healing and wellness spaces,” he said.

The safety line used to be staffed by people 24 hours a day, but now callers leave messages.

The nonprofit currently has six

full-time, paid staff. In 2009, it had 13. Next year’s budget is projected to be approximately $505,000, close to what it’s expected to be for the fiscal year that ends in June, according to CUAV’s Pablo Espinoza.

Among other caveats for the national report, advocates said there are likely many cases not repre-

sented, such as victims who aren’t out and didn’t report incidents to anyone.

There are also holes in incidents that have been reported.

Out of the 2,092 incidents, there are 738 reports where those who compiled data know whether the incident was reported to police. In 52

Lucia Ramirez, a bisexual woman who is one of the founders of the 11-year-old organization, in an email interview translated using Google Translator. “Stories that happen in our towns and our cities, in our languages, our accents, our voices and words.”

It is “vital” that we “count,” she wrote. “Video is our best ally.”

The documentaries had their world premiere before an estimated 3,000 attendees at the Feminist Encounter of Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogota, Colombia last November.

“The films are incredibly powerful and very moving,” said Lim, who attended the conference with T. Kebo Drew and Liliana Hueso.

Moviegoers will have an opportunity to speak with two of the filmmakers, Cristina Rodriguez and Claudia (last name not provided), both workshop leaders and members of the school, after the showing on June 9. The talk is sponsored by the Astrea Foundation and the Global Fund for Women.

The filmmakers were unable to respond to a request for an interview for this article.

Dianne Gallo, a straight ally who is the program officer for the Americas of the Global Fund for Women, hopes

that the films created by Mujeres Al Borde, “can reach a broader audience.”

She hopes more “exchanges will happen in the future” that will “strengthen the transnational activism.”

Lim knew she wanted to be a filmmaker since she was 15 years old. Her desire to make movies came to her during a “huge dramatic” argument with her then-girlfriend. She stepped outside of the situation and thought this would make an “interesting film one day,” she said.

Drawn to the power of how stories unfold through moving images, Lim, who was born in Singapore to a family that had limited resources, immigrated to the U.S. more than 25 years ago to pursue her “big dream,” she said.

Landing in the San Francisco Bay Area, she took night classes, worked at cable access as a crew member, and graduated from San Francisco State University’s film program before she began her film career.

Simply being a queer woman of color filmmaker wasn’t enough for Lim, who often found herself one of a handful of women like her at film festivals, she said. The absence of seeing more women like her inspired her to launch QWOCMAP.

“I love being with other queer women of color, being with folks in the community. I couldn’t think of anything better to do,” said Lim, who for the past 12 years has taken the grassroots film organization from a $15,000 annual budget to an estimated $300,000 today. The organization is currently run by a staff of four and a half employees and is hitting a whole new stride this year.

Lim’s philosophy for queer women of color is not to wait for someone else to tell their stories and get it right, but take control and tell them themselves, she said.

The festival’s move from its home for the past five years was “very bittersweet,” said Lim. She and her staff tried everything to make the space at Brava work, but the venue simply couldn’t accommodate the number of moviegoers who came out yearly to the festival, she said.

The new venue will be able to seat 755 attendees, including more than 40 spots for wheelchairs and a section for service animals.

This year’s festival features Love Ability, a film about disabled lesbians made by Alisha Byrd, a 37-year-old disabled queer woman who wrote,

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than Galgiani, giving Berryhill a leg up going into the general election. It is also unclear how her sexual orientation will play out in the fall race.

Los Angles Assemblyman Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) will become the first out person of color elected to the state Senate as he ran unopposed for the newly drawn Senate District 33 seat. With the election this fall a mere formality, look for Lara to dole out his political contributions to other Democratic Senate candidates in order to build up clout prior to being sworn in to the Legislature’s upper chamber.

The rest of the state’s LGBT Legislative Caucus members on Tuesday’s ballot also came out on top.

In San Francisco state Senator Mark Leno is running for the newly drawn Senate District 11 seat, which no longer includes Marin or Sonoma counties. He received 81 percent of the vote Tuesday, while his GOPer challenger, Harmeet K. Dhillon, won 18.5 percent.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano captured 83.6 percent Tuesday in the city’s new 17th Assembly District. His gay GOP challenger, Jason Clark, received 16.4 percent of the vote.

On the Peninsula Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) received 56.1 percent of the vote in the new 24th Assembly District. His opponent in the fall will be Republican Chengzhi “George” Yang, who placed second Tuesday with 29 percent.

The three Bay Area Democrats are all expected to easily win their races come the fall.▼ percent of those cases, such reports were made, Jindasurat said. He said reasons for not reporting incidents to authorities include the fear “that they may not be believed.”

Police and other law enforcement officials in San Francisco frequently say they take anti-LGBT hate crimes seriously, though.

In April, Mia Tu Mutch, a transgender woman who was attacked in 2011, was among those honored by District Attorney George Gascón in recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Gascón had been adamant in charging the case as a hate crime.

In response to emailed questions Tuesday afternoon, June 5, however, Tu Mutch didn’t seem to have any particular fondness for law enforcement agencies.

“I received tremendous support” from CUAV, she said. “The solution is more community-based programs like that, not increased policing.”

The number for CUAV’s safety line is 415-333-HELP (4357). For more information on CUAV, visit www.cuav.org. To view the national report, go to www.ncavp.org.▼ produced, and directed the film. Lim also pointed out that the festival has increasingly offered gender queer and transgender films.

Lim is also very excited about Corazon de Familia (Heart of the Family).

The film about Chicana queer families, a part of the festival’s family series produced by QWOCMAP, will appear as a part of the festival’s same-sex marriage features.

QWOCMAP filmmakers are excited to present their films to a wider audience in the new theater.

“It’s an incredible moment to be able to invite and welcome everybody into their doors,” said Aba Taylor, a queer woman in her 30s, who is the director and producer of Coming in America, a film that explores the African queer diaspora.

She is humbled and a bit overwhelmed that her first film will be viewed by such a large audience, she said.

The QWOCMAP Film Festival is open to the public from June 8-10 at 700 Howard Street. Admission is free.

For the schedule, visit www.qwocmap. org/festival2012/schedule.html.▼ A longer version is online.

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Alex Dimitriades as Ari in director Ana Kokkinos’ Head On. Courtesy Frameline

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rameline 36, coming up June 14-24, honors the critic who first dubbed 1990s in-yourface outlaw LGBT films “the New Queer Cinema.” B. Ruby Rich, this year’s Frameline Award honoree, picked four for the film festival that still sting.

Head On In the opening frames of Australian lesbian director Ana Kokkinos’ sadly neglected exploration of the land Down Under’s vibrant but largely misunderstood Greek community,

19-year-old Ari (the ruggedly masculine, straightidentified actor Alex Dimitriades) appears tightly bound to his family’s wheel of life. Ari spins out of this family bosom into an underground world of drugs. We see Ari jacking off to the sights and smells of toilet sex, as if he could literally ejaculate himself from the head of his penis into a 24/7 world of total freedom.

Kokkinos detonates cutesy stereotypes about the fun-loving Aussie culture by showing the dark

underside of racism and immigrant-bashing, as well as the ethnic self-loathing that’s papered over in hits like Strictly Ballroom. (Roxie, 6/15, 5 p.m.)

The Living End This year, Gregg Araki’s fable of two lovers on a killing spree turns 20. The poster has a thuggishly cute, straight-acting boy holding a queer-acting, bottom-inclined film critic at gunpoint.

Shot in 1990 on a dimestore budget raised by a loan from the producer’s grandma, released in

1992 (three years before the miracle cocktails, and as a wave of long-term survivors was dying) to huge single-screen grosses in New York and here at the Castro, and generating heated debates in cafes and queer studies classes, this weirdly funny, terminally bratty romp has been significantly neglected in the wake of Araki’s more imposing masterwork, Mysterious Skin.

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Students in the spotlight San Francisco Ballet School presents a showcase

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he Bay Area Reporter has been covering the performances of the San Francisco Ballet School for nearly as long as the paper has existed. Some 30 years ago at the Opera House performance of the school, I met the B.A.R.’s superb dance writer Keith White, who was sitting in the row behind me and had come to cover the event. I was writing for Ballet Review, and like the critics of St. Petersburg,

London, Paris, and New York, we both considered the talent rising in the major school to be part of the dance “beat” – it was important to see the stars of the future. That year the rising star was Katita Waldo, who went on to become a ballerina with San Francisco Ballet (she retired last year).

White set the tone for this paper’s dance coverage – his column was like superb cocktail-party conversation

aimed at the highest common denominator, knowledgeable, civilized, sparkling, generous, gentlemanly. He left me his videos and his shoes when he died (of AIDS); I sometimes wear his shoes to a performance I think he’d want to see, and try to mention him whenever the occasion arises.

I think he’d have enjoyed last FriErik Tomasson day night’s performances, which have San Francisco Ballet School students perform in choreographer See page 29 >> George Balanchine’s Western Symphony.

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Cabana in Havana, and a B&W world

by Roberto Friedman

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irst things first. Thank you, San Francisco Symphony, for putting on such a splendid Black & White Ball, and for inviting Out There to it.

We were able to see one of our all-time musical heroes, Paul Simon, perform at Davies Hall with his band, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the Pacific Boychoir, and the San Francisco Symphony – not a bad little registry of talent. Simon sang songs from every phase of his storied career, and still had time for a rendition of George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun.” Was his choice to offer “Kodachrome” a sly jab at the proceedings (“Everything looks worse in black & white”)?

Then we visited many an open bar, sampled many a foodstuff, marveled at Bob Dylan’s son Jakob leading his rock band The Wallflowers, enjoyed Cyndi Lauper’s performative genius, flirted with the help, and were still

relatively cognizant when it came time for the Midnight Surprise. Perhaps that was the Midnight Surprise?

Anyway, it was the most fun one can possibly have in black & white – though our hangover the next morning was in vivid Technicolor. Let’s do it all again in two years!

For whom the cell tolls When HBO, director Philip Kaufman and the San Francisco Film Society presented the West Coast premiere of Hemingway & Gellhorn at the Castro Theatre last month as a special thank you to San Francisco for serving as its shooting location (we starred as Spain, Finland, Cuba, NYC, Shanghai, Key West and Idaho), Out There was thrilled to be in the house, packed as it was with TV industry people.

Permit us to share a few impressions from the dual bio-pic. Nicole Kidman as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn: just barely believable. Clive Owen as iconic au-

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Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, and Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, in director Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway & Gellhorn, a movie made for HBO television.

thor Ernest Hemingway: too much of a stretch, and we say that as a loyal Clive fan. David Strathairn as novelist John Dos Passos: we’re there in a big way, owning, as we do, a 1921 first edition of Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers. Santiago Cabrera as photographer Robert Capa: yum to the max. Peter Coyote as editor Maxwell Perkins: eminently literate and entirely appropriate.

Joan Chen as Madame Chiang Kai-shek: we’re so sorry. Other notable names in the cast include Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich (who knew he could act?), delicious Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro, indie queen Parker Posey, and Monk’s Tony Shalhoub.

The film’s Spanish Civil War segments are its strongest, partly because they’re the most developed, partly because Gellhorn was right, it was the “dress rehearsal” for WWII, and partly because it’s nice to see Americans (the Abraham Lincoln brigade, who went to Spain to fight the Fascists) willing to put their lives on the line for a worthy cause, not endlessly self-involved and always contemplating their smart-phone navels.

The sequence in which Gellhorn, in China to interview Madame Chiang Kai-shek, insults Madame to her face, is either a) unbelievable fancy, b) a faithful rendering of a fabrication in Gellhorn’s memoirs, or c)

pansy), and we do have mucho hair on our chest. We think Hemingway would approve of our drinking and smoking, especially in light of the modern nanny state. We intend to smoke both of our gift cigars on our office balcony, in memory of a couple of cigar aficionados llong gone. So just call us “Papa” O Out There. The hon also rises.

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evidence that Gellhorn was an incredibly stupid journalist, which we don’t believe for a second. We like Kidman best as the elderly Gellhorn, and not just because she looks a lot like Glenn Close. Detox the Botox!

The VIP party afterwards in a tent set up in the Castro parking lot was a deluxe affair, with Cuban food and drinks, stage-set palm trees and a blue marlin trophy, Cuban music and dance, and even a guy handrolling cigars! It was a little strange to be partying like a Cubano when that country is still under punitive embargo by the US – we forget why? Because they operate under a system that’s more equitable to the populace, and have universal health care?

Anyway, OT and our primo “plus one” Pepi wound up with the best seats in the tent when the colorful Cuban dancing began, and at first we were a little bit abashed about this. But then we thought: well, we’re more like “Papa” Hemingway than any of these HBO suits at the party. For one thing, we’ve spent our life as a natural-born writer, or as an editor, working with naturalborn writers. OK, we don’t go huntin’ or fishin’, but our granddaddy was a bantamweight prizefighter, our daddy tried to teach us to spar (before giving up on us as a total

Novelist Richard Ford was aalways one of those writers w whom other writers lionized, aand he won the Pulitzer Prize ffor Fiction, but we’d never read h his work before we picked up h his new novel Canada (Ecco).

M Maybe that’s because we read m mainly gay fiction; maybe it’s b because he always seemed so m macho, which for us is a turno off in a hurry. But we hadn’t re read many pages before we were ccompletely in thrall to his ficti tive world, and to the ease with w which he drew us in.

A 15-year-old boy’s life turns u upside-down when his parents in 1960s Great Falls, Montana, ro rob a bank as rank amateurs, and ar are quickly captured by police.

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Ironically, there’s too much exposition in this later part, but there’s a lot of atmosphere and good writing, too. If there’s a moral to the story, it’s that “no matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you’re willing to take credit for or draw your vital strength and pride from – anything at all can follow anything at all.”

At times in the novel’s second section, it almost feels as if we’re in James Purdy territory: Dell “let myself be ‘taken up’ by Arthur Remlinger, and by Florence La Blanc, as if being taken up by them was the most natural and logical consequence of my mother sending me away after the calamity of her own bad fortune.” The third, very short part visits an impending cancer death. So there’s quite a range here, in one tight 420-pp. novel. But after all, as the adult Dell cites in a maxim from art critic John Ruskin, composition is the arrangement of unequal things. Ford’s writerly composition is always artful, yet never reaching or precious.▼

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Higher authority

by Richard Dodds

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hat’s the point of praying to a god you’re pretty sure doesn’t exist? Not much, perhaps, but then again, it couldn’t hurt. Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know weaves together several stories, with their characters colliding at critical times, in a thoughtfully entertaining comedy-drama that poses eternal questions knowing full well there is not a chance in hell of answering them.

Theatre Rhino is concluding its current season with the area premiere of rising playwright Fodor’s 100 Saints, seen in New York in 2007 and gradually spreading its way to regional theaters across the country. Its appeal is easy to understand, with characters and storylines that are easily accessible but that also possess some quirks that gently distinguish them from their prototypes. Director John Fisher’s production at Thick House has a cast that understands how the characters fit into the enveloping drama, and it has been staged with sensitivity to the frequent changes in dramatic and comedic currents.

Because the taciturn, clearly unhappy Father Matthew, a Catholic priest on sabbatical, is in both the opening and closing scenes, and it is to him the other characters turn despite his I’m-on-a-break demurring, his story might be considered the play’s centerpiece. But the play’s other figures have lives beyond Father Matthew, which we see in distinct vignettes.

And because Father Matthew’s enforced holiday has come after the discovery of several artistically posed adult nude male photos he has ripped from a library book, the pedophilia scandals are on both our and other characters’ minds before he actually shows us the inoffensive George Platt Lynes photos he has purloined. “You can be called to God by beauty,” he says, “and you can be led away from God by beauty.” He doesn’t actually want to have sex with these vintage black-and-white men, he tries to explain, as much as somehow inhabit their bodies.

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Wylie Herman plays a priest on enforced sabbatical whose mother (Tamar Cohn) is confused by his unexpected arrival home in Theatre Rhino’s production of 100 Saints You Should Know.

Though Father Matthew feels unworthy of any sort of veneration, the aura of his priesthood is still a magnet to those with problems larger than they feel they can sort themselves. The cleaning woman at the rectory is being driven mad by her bitter daughter, and both seek out Father Matthew’s reluctantly forthcoming guidance.

Even the kid who delivers the groceries comes looking to absolutely the wrong person for answers to his sexual confusion. And then there is Matthew’s mother, in whose home he has taken refuge, who knows just which buttons to push as she wavers between pride and resentment in her son’s spiritual calling.

The summary above may not seem to provide obvious sources of humor, but it comes abundantly in the foolish games these people play.

A round of Scrabble between Matthew and his mother can literally spell out the comedy behind their eternal clashes. The cleaning lady, named Theresa, explains the oddly paired specialties of the saint for whom she is named. And when Theresa’s daughter and the delivery boy meet, there is comic mayhem – at least for a while.

Each member of the cast delivers a performance that draws us into his

or her individual world that seems to them so out of sync with any paths to happiness. There is a centering presence to Wylie Herman’s calm, forlorn depiction of Matthew, which, ironically, becomes a cipher’s calm in which the other characters imagine answers to their big questions. Theresa, the cleaning woman, finds a warm and open interpreter in Ann Lawler, as well as the motherly patience of a, well, saint, as she deals with her shrilly demanding daughter so vividly evoked in Kim Stephenson’s performance. Michael Rosen is goofily inviting as the delivery boy, and then there is the wonderful Tamar Cohn, who verges on a bravura mother-from-hell intensity but finds a way to hold onto shreds of sympathy before fully pulling us in at the very end.

Jon Wai-keung Lowe’s set comfortably provides for the play’s numerous locales, which reflect the seemingly disparate tales that are unfolding. When they all come together, it’s both tragic and redemptive. Now let us pray, tentatively.▼ 100 Saints You Should Know will run at Thick House through June 17. Tickets are $10-$30.

Call (800) 838-3006 or go to www.therhino.org.

Lower depths

by Richard Dodds

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ael Orlandersmith is a weaver of terrible tales, and our confusing reaction is that you wish they were true. Not that you would want the abuse, pedophilia, and incest depicted among a swath of characters to have been inflicted on anybody, but since this collection of monologues so vividly presented by Orlandersmith is billed as fiction, you have to wonder about the purpose of concocting such cruel and vile tales. If there existed a charge of crimes against fictional characters, Orlandersmith would risk arrest with Berkeley Rep’s world premiere of Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men. This is not to say that Orlandersmith is anything but a talented writer and performer, nor that the circumstances she creates for the characters haven’t been extracted from a reality that the playwright-performer may be versed in. But unlike Anna Deveare Smith, who builds her performance pieces from actual interviews centering on a specific topic, Orlandersmith creates the words and the worlds she inhabits. With that added responsibility comes the added flexibility to set a course that could lead to an amalgamating conclusion to justify the small and large atrocities depicted. But only a few platitudinous sunshine-y words are tossed our way to give some solace and connection after 95 minutes of human misery.

There are meaningful themes that

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Dael Orlandersmith created and performs a collection of damaged characters in the world premiere of Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men at Berkeley Rep.

do develop from the stories of several characters as Orlandersmith returns periodically to their narratives.

That children of abuse often become abusers themselves is a familiar family-studies construct, and it is sharply realized in a couple of the running stories. But a stand-alone monologue delivered by a child molester is structured to lull us in before adolescent anal blood starts flowing, and the character ends his apologia with the statement, “I was born this way,” awkwardly echoing a current gay-rights slogan. Other characters’ travails can be even more grotesque than this, but no spoiler alerts will be needed here.

Orlandersmith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Yellowman, is a black woman of ample size and

multi-hued braided hair. But her imposing visage seemingly morphs into male characters of different ages, races, and backgrounds as vocal delivery, body language, evocative writing, and Chay Yew’s unobtrusive direction let our imaginations handle most visual disconnects between actor and her characters. It’s a tour de force performance, to be sure, and can illuminate recesses of human behavior. But in the end, we are left behind without a lifeline in the swamp to which Orlandersmith has lured us.▼ Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men will run through June 24 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets are $14.50$73. Call (510) 647-2949 or go to www.berkeleyrep.org.

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Pushing boundaries Wheelchair women get their own reality show

by Jim Provenzano

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iphany Adams talks with an enthusiastic rush like any other 20something woman excited about life. Yet her excited tone may have something to do with the woman she’s dating. That, and the fact that other parts of her life have been videotaped since November, along with three friends of Adams’. The four women comprise the cast of the Sundance Channel’s new show Push Girls, possibly the most disabilityinclusive reality show in TV history.

Forget Glee and its fictional handicaps. All of these women have active lives in and out of wheelchairs.

A four-year Los Angeles resident, Adams originally hails from various Northern California cities: “Lodi and Tracy and Fremont, Stockton; I used to move every six to eight months,” she said.

Movement, especially since her car accident that left her barely surviving and now a paraplegic, is part of the show. The only cast member who’s dating a woman – she eschews the bisexual label, but has dated men – Adams’ most recent thrill was attending her high school reunion.

“I said I wasn’t going to go to my high school reunion unless I could do it ‘Hollywood,’” said Adams.

With a film crew on her tail, that event, which was also the anniversary of her car accident, took on a positive spin.

Although the show airs in early June, more episodes are being taped. “My life has been on camera for months.” That includes her relationship with Miyoko, a JapaneseAfrican American woman. “We have been dating for a little bit,” Adams said cautiously. Although she said she is “open in a sense; my dad and sister knew,” having her personal life become part of a TV show is a bit nerve-wracking.

Having endured a few troubled relationships in the past, Adams was hesitant to start anew. “But now they’re gonna put my relationship on the air,” she said, still sounding somewhat astounded. “Everyone’s gonna know the person I am. It’s not just my sexual orientation, but it’s pressure. My nieces and nephews had a vision of me. They don’t see me outside the family, how crazy I can be, dropping F-bombs,” she giggled. “I want to be an amazing role model to them.”

But Adams said the opportunity to become a larger role model for women with disabilities to be seen, and also be a bit glamorous, is the benefit. Her co-stars, each with their own story and renewed sense of self, have careers, relationships and challenges.

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Tiphany Adams: a role model.

Tiphany Adams (right) and the women of Push Girls.

Adams’ younger kin seem to be the most open about her national coming out. “It was beautiful for my 18-year-old nephew to say, ‘Auntie, I love you no matter what. I look up to you in so many different ways.’ It felt really good.”

Despite her trepidations, Adams agreed when asked if she felt like part of a larger media presence and cultural awareness of differentlyabled people.

“People are afraid of the ‘unknown’ unless they’re educated and informed.” She references a scene in the first episode of Push Girls where a mother pulls her curious child away from Adams. “I want to say, ‘It’s okay. This is our life. Don’t grab your kid when they want to touch our wheels. It’s all learning for others and teaching.’”

Adams has had to teach others (a career she aspires to), and become a bit of an activist in her own life.

She told of how she had to address accessibility issues on a Stockton college campus, from bathrooms to having to be carried three floors to a lecture hall when an elevator wasn’t working for several days.

“People assume a place is accessible when there’s a sign,” she said, explaining that the school has 30 bathrooms, but only five are ADAaccessible. “If something’s not done, I tell them they need to fix it.” She sees the show as entertainment for the curious, but also as a learning tool. “I have a voice here. I can make a difference for those who have always been in a chair, or with special equipment they have to use. I don’t have to accept things because they don’t know better. You have to go to an extreme sometimes.”

Finding a community of women with similar experiences, as in the reality show, has helped Adams grow beyond perceived limitations.

“I found we had things in common other than being in wheelchairs.”

The ongoing episodes of Push Girls will show that, including sharing aspects of the four women’s varied lives, a lot of which, Adams admits, won’t be in the show. As with all such formats, hundreds of hours

of footage are condensed into each episode.

“There’s so much stuff they capture, yet so much that won’t be included,” she said, like the frequent naïve or curious questions she gets

from strangers. “I’m really a strong believer that there is no naïve question. I guess it’s how you present it. There is definitely a certain level of respect that should come, especially when it’s personal. I’m willing to educate and give other people a chance.”

And she’s done that, whether attending Los Angeles and San Francisco Pride events, or even the Dinah Shore Classic women’s parties in Palm Springs. Or, she can poke a little fun. Bored with regaling the details of her car accident yet again, Adams said, “One time, I lied about having a parachuting accident. But this guy’s jaw dropped, because he actually had a parachuting accident!

So, I don’t joke about that stuff too often.”▼ Push Girls premiered on June 4, and airs on the Sundance Channel nightly at different times. www. sundancechannel.com

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Symphonic persuasion

by Philip Campbell

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ith relatively little fanfare, some welcome guest conductors and soloists have been rounding out the final weeks of the San Francisco Symphony’s centennial season. Stirring concerts at Davies Symphony Hall have showcased instrumental artists, one early and the other late in their virtuosic careers, and brought back two conductors to lead persuasive interpretations of less frequently performed symphonies by famous composers.

Bright, energetic and an intelligent champion of modern music, conductor David Robertson usually brings something new and intriguing to his concert bills. Last week he chose instead to reacquaint a willing crowd with a slightly weightier statement by a composer whose music is almost always typified as “sunny.”

The Dvorak Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70, is still typical of the composer’s seemingly endless supply of memorable melodies and rich scoring, but the argument is darker and more complex than ever before. The results of the brooding and strongly expressed work prove sophisticated and substantial without forgetting the writer’s earthy nationalistic roots.

Robertson obviously loves both the music and the composer, and his tight but expressive lead moved the orchestra to a special richness of tone. The dark underpinning of the low strings and the brilliant blaze of the brass brought the audience to an extended standing ovation and answered my question as to why Robertson chose the Seventh in the first place. It just might be Dvorak’s best symphony, even edging out the much more familiar Symphony No. 9, New World.

The evening had begun with a

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Conductor David Robertson led the orchestra to a richness of tone.

suitably sparkling how-de-do, Rossini’s happy little Overture to the opera L’Italiana in Algeri, and proceeded to a guest appearance by Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire. After a long career that has included guest shots with most of the world’s great orchestras, Freire was finally making his first appearances with the SFS. He has played here before, but not with the home orchestra.

Looking both elegant and pleasantly businesslike, Freire gave a beautifully sculptured reading of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor. His pacing and articulation were delightfully clear, and his handling of the lovely central Larghetto gave an emotional personality to the piece. If we left the hall thinking more about Robertson’s surprising passion for Dvorak, we still could savor Freire’s subdued brilliance and understanding.

Finland station The week before, Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska opened his remarkable program with the first SFS performances of Minea by fellow countryman Kalevi Aho. Aho’s bold and richly complex music is marked by exciting rhythms and shimmering orchestration. It is no wonder that he writes music that can be used for dance.

Minea is a very exciting and accessible piece lasting about a quarter-hour that builds in energy to an almost orgiastic conclusion. For Aho, it seems a bit more conventional than we are used to, and the nods to composers like Ravel and even Rimsky-Korsakov are more than a little obvious. They are probably meant to tip the listener to his overall intent anyway, and the local premiere certainly had the audience enthused and appreciative.

Vanska’s guest soloist was the young and incredibly talented violinist Hilary Hahn. Known for her understated determination and lovely stage presence, not to mention breathtaking technique, Hahn made her return to DSH with Prokofiev’s lyrical Concerto No. 1 in D Major. Hahn has often been accused of a distancing cool-

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Conductor Osmo Vanska.

ness in her approach, but that is really one of her best qualities, and it lends gravitas to her performances. Looking exceptionally pretty and petite in a beautiful gown, she had the audience audibly approving when she entered.

It wasn’t very long before Hahn had listeners listening instead of staring, totally absorbed in her powerful rendition, proving that big treasure does indeed come in small packages.

The second half of the richly satisfying concert was given over to Dmitri Shostakovich’s relatively neglected Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 54.

After a long and typically grave opening movement filled with incident and stern passages of deep reflection, the Sixth is appended by two more movements of also typical Shostakovich wit and buffoonery. Getting the whole work to seem inevitable is a challenge, but hardly so for Osmo Vanska. His remarkably clear lead was immediately obvious, and the orchestra was wonderfully attentive. The conductor’s beat and pacing made the composer’s seemingly wild mood swings appear quite reasonable. The Shostakovich Sixth deserves much more notice in the composer’s fabulous canon of symphonies.

If anyone can resist the humor of that great galumphing finale, they should have heard it with Vanska leading the band.▼

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Pride pages

by Gregg Shapiro

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ere are some books of LGBT interest, just in time for Pride month!

Reeling and rocking: Hal Leonards’ Music on Film series presents books about two movies close to queer readers’ hearts. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Limelight Editions) by Dave Thompson examines what is, to this day, still one of the gayest movie music musicals of all time, cult or non-cult. Purple Rain (Limelight Editions) by John Kenneth Muir looks at Prince’s groundbreaking 1984 movie debut.

In Dear Cary: My Life With Cary Grant (itbooks), now out in paperback, ageless, Oscarnominated movie star Dyan Cannon writes about her tumultuous marriage to Silver Screen legend Cary Grant.

Actor Steve Guttenberg, who played queer onscreen in P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! and starred alongside the Village People in Can’t Stop the Music, tells his story in his own words in The Guttenberg Bible (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s).

“Mobile dilettante” Johan Kugelberg writes about music and pop culture in the essay collection Brad Pitt’s Dog (Zero Books), which includes pieces dating from 2003-11.

Punk cabaret diva and firstrate belter Storm Large recounts her life with a bipolar mother, as well as her own sexual awakening and exploration, in the memoir Crazy Enough (Free Press).

Arriving just in time for the DVD/Blu-ray release of My Week with Marilyn, the colorfully illustrated Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon was Styled by William Travilla (Applause), by Andrew Hansford with Karen Homer, is a perfect fit.

Film Noir: The Directors (Limelight Editions), edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini, features queer filmmaker Nicholas Ray and the iconic Ida Lupino among its many subjects.

Trans-formative texts: Featuring a new epilogue, the paperback edition of Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be (Plume), by Chaz Bono, is the triumphant story of the most famous trans man of our time.

Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children (Cleis), edited

by Rachel Pepper, consists of 32 essays written by mothers from all walks of life.

Poetry of pride: He Will Laugh (Lethe Press), Doug Ray’s powerful debut poetry collection, relates the story of how two young men met, fell in love, and the profound impact of the suicide of one of them.

Something to look forward to in September by a prolific lesbian writer (and author of Heather Has Two Mommies), October Mourning (Candlewick Press) is Lesléa Newman’s latest, a cycle of poems about Matthew Shepard.

Telling the truth: Edited by Sarah Moon, with contributing editor James Lecesne, the Y/A anthology The Letter Q (Arthur A Levine Books/Scholastic) features more than 60 writers (including Doug Wright, Jacqueline Woodson, Richard McCann, Eileen Myles, Michael Cunningham, Jewelle Gomez, Christopher Rice, Amy Bloom and Paul Rudnick) and illustrators (such as Jennifer Camper and Eric

Orner) corresponding with “their younger selves.”

Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall (University of Wisconsin Press),

by St. Sukie de la Croix, includes a foreword by John D’Emilio, and covers a period of almost 300 years.

Written and illustrated (with watercolors) by the late gay writer Clyde Phillip Wachsberger, Into the Garden with Charles (Farrar Straus Giroux) is a memoir about “growing old and falling in love.”

Examining the camaraderie between straight women and gay men, Odd Couples (Duke University Press) is Anna Muraco’s study of “friendships at the intersection of gender and sexual orientation.”

Picking up where Clint Eastwood’s Hoover biopic J. Edgar left off, Darwin Porter’s J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson (Blood Moon)

promises to be an investigation into “the sexual secrets of A America’s most famous men a women.” and The entrancingly titled Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? and Other Reflections o Being Human (Scientific on A American/FSG)

by Jesse Beri answers a variety of fasciing n nating questions.

Told in brief, insightful ess says, Red Nails, Black Skates: G Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On a Off the Ice (Duke Univerand s Press) tells of queer critic sity E Erica Rand’s experiences in the s slippery world of ice skating.

Fictionally speaking: What q queer person doesn’t love sh shoes?

Adriana Trigiani’s New Y York Times bestselling novel T Shoemaker’s Wife (HarpThe e has something to fit almost er) ev every reader.

Earning her comparisons to M Renault, Madeline MillMary er acclaimed novel The Song er’s of Achilles (Ecco) retells The Il with a queer twist.

Iliad Denver-based writer Jerry L Wheeler’s Strawberries L. a Other Erotic Fruits (Leand th Press), an erotic collecthe ti consisting of 14 stories, tion p proves that oranges really a aren’t the only fruit.

Due out in the fall, the Y/A b book One in Every Crowd ( (Arsenal Pulp) is comprised o more than 40 short stories, of n new and drawn from other c collections,

by Ivan E. Coyo ote.

With more than a subtle n to Bette Midler, Songs for nod t New Depression (Circumthe spect Press) is the debut novel by filmmaker and writer Kergan Edwards-Stout.

Patrick Flannery’s first novel Absolution (Riverhead) is set in modern-day South Africa, and features a acclaimed but isolated South A African writer Clare and her o obsessive biographer Sam. A Sea of White Impatiens (Robertson Publishing) by C Chris Murphy introduces us t Gallagher family, including to a nine children, in Book 1 of all t Impatiens series. the Celebrity and fashion journ nalist Rupert James enters the r romance/mystery novel fray w Silk (Cleis), which utilizwith e the catch-phrase “revenge es i always in fashion.” is “Architect, friend, lover, m mystery” Edward is the main c character in Lewis DeSimo one’s anticipated new novel T The Heart’s History (Lethe P Press).

The debut novel by BoiParty ty.com co-director and head p promoter Justin Like Zirilli, G Gulliver Takes Manhattan (Amazon Encore) tells the story of Gulliver, who escapes to New York to make a new beginning, leaving everything behind in L.A. Described as “a work of dream logic,” Lambda Literary and FerroGrumley Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox’s new novel Basement of Wolves (Arsenal Pulp) is set in Hollywood, and centers on actor Michael-David and his rapidly deteriorating world.

Chris Kenry’s fourth novel, The Survival Methods and Mating Rituals of Men and Marine Mammals (Kensington) finds children’s book author Davis living through desperate times.

In the historical romance Purgatory (Bear Bones Books), poet and writer Jeff Mann writes about two young Civil War soldiers, fighting on opposite sides, but falling in love.▼

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100 Saints You Should Know @ Thick House Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of Kate Fodor’s play about family love, homosexuality and teenage life. $15-$30 (‘pay what you can’ previews May 31 & June 1). Wed & Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru June 17. 1695 18th St. (800) 838-3006. www.therhino.org

Barbara Cook @ The Rrazz Room Broadway icon performs an intimate concert of classic songs. $50-$60. 8pm. Thru June 10; various times. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Be Scene @ W Hotel Big Freedia

Gaily news

by Jim Provenzano

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une gets gayer and gayerer as events unfurl their lavender colors. Taste the rainbow!

First off, turn your radio on. David Kopay, the gay former pro football player, is the guest on Eric Jansen’s LGBT radio show, Thursday, June 7, on 91.7 FM. Kopay will also be discussing his participation in the June 23 annual SF FrontRunners Pride Run, June 23; proceeds benefit Out in the Bay. 7pm. www.OutintheBay.com Friday June 8, the eighth annual Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project’s threeday film festiva showcases features, documenDavid Kopay taries and short films focusing on same-sex marriage and other themes; panel discussions and parties, too. Free-$20. Thru June 10. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.qwocmap.org All gay erotica owes Bob Mizer a debt of gratitude. See Evolution of Athletic Model Guild at the Center for Sex & Culture, an exhibit of the historic sexy male nude photography and films, plus posters and ephemera, of erotica pioneer Bob Mizer, from coy to X-rated. Thru June 30. 1349 Mission St. 902-2071. www.sexandculture.org Saturday, June 9, attend the Pride QWOCMAP Kick-Off Party at the LGBT Center. The 10th anniversary party and funderaiser includes rooftop margaritas, live performances, DJs, films, silent auction and arts lounge. $30-$60. 21+.

1800 Market St. www.centerprideparty.com Sunday, June 10, Charlie Ballard hosts a special edition of his Hella Gay Comedy Show, The Beefcake Comedy Show at Deco Lounge, with straight but gay-friendly male comics performing shirtless! Saw Dem Eyes, Anthony Medina, Rajeev Dhar, Ryan Papazian, Sam Weber, Danny Dechi, Roman Leo, Matt Gubser, Rolf Skar. $10. 8pm. 21+. 510 Larkin St. 346-2025. www.charlieballard.com www.decosf.com Monday, June 11, Comedy Returns to El Rio, where gay and lesbian wits Scott Silverman and Karen Ripley perform at the comedy night. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. 522-3737. www.koshercomedy.com Also June 11, see some Marriage Equality Plays at the Bayfront Theater, when Bay Area Theatre Sports (BATS) perform marriage equality-themed short Bob Mizer plays by six playwrights at this benefit for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER). $25-$50 and up. 8pm. Fort Mason Center, B350. www.marriageequalityplays.com Celebrate the past at The GLBT History Museum’s upcoming lectures including Collaborative Practice and the Future of Queer Memory, an evening of discussion and performance with Atlanta-based performance collective John Q, E.G Crichton and Rudy Lemcke. Sunday, June 10. 6pm.

Wednesday, June 13, see Submerged Queer Spaces: Urban Archeology and Architectural Remains, composer-filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky and Wilfred Galila’s haunting documentary of San Francisco gay bars and bathhouses of bygone eras, and what replaced them. 7pm.

June 14, Religion and Homosexuality in 20th-Century America, a dual scholarly lecture with Rebecca L. Davis and Anthony Michael Petro, offers new perspectives on faith. 7pm.

And see the exhibit, Life & Death in Black & White: AIDS Direct Action in Beefcake at San Francisco, 1985–1990, which focuses Hella Gay Comedy on the AIDS activist photojournalism of Jane Philomen Cleland, Patrick Clifton, Marc Geller, Rick Gerharter and Daniel Nicoletta. Selection of other LGBT historic items also on display. $5.

New expanded hours: Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org Absorb that academic info and sweat it out with Big Freedia at Public Works. The Hard French DJs back up the “bootie queen” rap pop ladybutt-crazy sissy bounce New Orleans sensation. $16. 21+. Thursday June 14, 9pm-2am. Public Works, 161 Erie St. at Mission. www.ticketfly.com/ event/82325/

SF Pride’s swanky fundraiser, with hors d’eouvres, cash bar, sponsored comp drinks, and schmoozing fun. $50-$1000. 7pm10pm. 181 3rd St. W San Francisco, www.sfpride.org www.wsanfrancisco.com

Felice Picano, David Pratt @ Books Inc. Prolific pioneering gay author (Twelve O’Clock Tales) and first-time novelist ( My Movie) read from and discusses their new books. Free. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. www.booksinc.net

Garrin Benfield, David Gans @ Freight and Salvage, Berkeley Gay folk-rock singer and his friend perform at the popular coffeehouse. $20. 8pm.

2020 Addison St. www.garrin.com www.freighandsalvage.org

Gayle S. Rubin @ GLBT History Museum Prominent writer discusses her new book, Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader, which includes her groundbreaking essays that helped form feminist philosophy and queer theory. Free-$5. 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

The Full Monty @ Eureka Theatre Ray of Light’s new production of the Broadway musical hit (music/lyrics: David Yazbeck; book: Terrence McNally) based on the popular U.K. film about unemployed working-class men who decide to form an amatuer strip act. $25-$36. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru June 30. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. www.roltheatre.com

Mary Poppins @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Nixon in China @ War Memorial Opera House John Adams’ rhythmically rich recreation of Richard Nixon’s 1972 presidential trip to Beijing, while one of the most important American operas of the 20th century, is also incredibly entertaining. Thru July 3. In repertory with Giuseppe Verde’s Attila (June 12-July 1) and W.A. Mozart’s The Magic Flute (June 13-July 8). $21-$389. 301 Van Ness Ave 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. Thru June 24. Fort Mason Center, Building D, 3rd floor.

Marina Blvd at Buchanan. 441-8822. www.magictheatre.org

Anthony Clarvoe, Paul Walsh and Rob Melrose. Free-$20-$50. Fri-Sat 8pm.

277 Taylor St. Thru July 14. 525-1205. www.cuttingball.com

Crevice @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley

Slipping @ New Conservatory Theatre Center

World premiere of Lauren Yee’s dark comedy about a family shaken by a sinkhole that appears in their home, unveiling a strange alternative world. $10-$20. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Thru June 9. 1834 Euclid Ave. www.impacttheatre.com

Daniel Talbott’s drama about two high school students, and how one troubled gay teen and a charismatic athlete’s lives come together. $18-$32. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 10. 25 Van Ness Ave. www.nctcsf.org

Fwd: Life Gone Viral @ The Marsh David Ford, Jeri Lynn Cohen and Charlie Varon’s comic play about the foibles of Internet-ruled living. $20-$50. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. Thru June 10. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Good Goods @ Boxcar Playhouse Crowded Fire’s production of Christina Anderson’s play about a small Black town where the past and present link lost souls. $10-$35. Wed-Sat, 8pm, thru June 23. 505 Natoma St. 255-7846. www.crowdedfire.org

The Great Divide @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of Adam Chanzit’s timely play about a community divided over a gas pipeline’s economic and health effects in their town. $20-$30. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru June 24. 1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Lurid @ City Art

Touring production of the 2006 Broadway hit musical based on the classic Disney musical film. Tue 7:30pm. Thru June 10. 255 Almaden Blvd. (866) 395-2929. www.broadwaysanjose.com

Group exhibit of art in various media that explores interpretations of what is “lurid.”

7pm-10pm. Reg. hours 12pm-9pm Wed-Sun. Thru June 30. 828 Valencia St. 970-9900. www.cityartgallery.org

Show Choir! The Musical @ Children’s Creativity Museum

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh, Berkeley

American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory actor-students perform Mark McDaniels and Donald Garverick’s lively comic “mockumentary” musical about a teenage glee club. $20.50. Thru June 9.

221 4th St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

The lesbian comic’s Not Getting Any Younger, her witty solo show about “coming of middle age.” $15-$35, $50. Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm.

Extended thru June 30. 2120 Allston Way off Shattuck. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Sony Holland @ The Rrazz Room The gorgeous jazz singer who sings gorgeously returns for a night of cabaret classic songs. $35. 8pm. Thru June 10 (7pm).

2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Voca People @ Marines Memorial Theatre Unusual “alien” comic pop song theatrical octet lands amid their intergalactic tour. Special benefit night for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation June 7. $15-$39. (Benefit $35 and up). 8pm and other times .

Thru June 17. 609 Sutter St. at Mason. www.reaf.org www.vocapeoplesf.com www.marinesmemorial.com

Michael Hendron @ St. Dominic’s Church Solo concert of Romantic French music by the harmoniumiste, and the beautiful Catholic Gothic church; mezzo-soprano Celeste Winant guests. Free. 7:30pm. Bush St. at Steiner. www.StDominics.org

Mike’s Men: Sex, Guys and Videotape @ Magnet Exhibit of gay-themed drawings and videos, with limited edition prints and posters, all by filmmaker and artist Mike Kuchar. Mon, Tue Sat 11am-6pm. Wed, Thu Fri 11am-9pm.

Thru June. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Risk Is This @ Exit Theatre Cutting Ball Theater’s New Experimental Plays Festival, works by christopher Chen,

The Waiting Period @ The Marsh Brian Copeland’s popular solo show about his struggle with depression. $25-$50. Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm. Thru July 7. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Sat 9>> Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men @ Berkeley Repertory World premiere of Dael Orlandersmith’s drama about urban families fractured by abuse. $10-$73. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru June 24.

Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. (510) 6472949. www.berkeleyrep.org

The Cult of Beauty @ Legion of Honor Subtitled The Victorian Avante-Garde, 1860-1900, this new exhibit focuses on the British Aesthetic Movement; paintings, architecture and decorative arts by Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, E.W. Godwin, William Morris, Christopher Dresser and others. Free-$20.

Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru June 17.

Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3620. www.famsf.org

Earthquake @ California Academy of Sciences New exhibit and planetarium show with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about our ever-shifting earth. $20-$30.

Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm.

55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Jean Paul Gaultier @ de Young Museum The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first exhibition devoted to the gay French fashion designer. $6-$20. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm.

Friday night special events 5:30pm-8:45pm.

Thru Aug. 19. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. 750-3600. www. famsf.org

Lips Together, Teeth Apart @ New Conservatory Theatre Terence McNally’s darkly comic social drama about two straight couples’ behavior on a Fire Island weekend, with unseen gay men partying on either side of them. $25-$40.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru July 1.

25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

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Fri 8

The Art of Lenore Chinn @ The Luggage Store Gallery Exhibit/retrospective of works by the local artist who focuses on LGBT and Asian themes, plus a new commissioned mural, The Oracle Room. Opening reception June 8, 6pm-9pm. Wed-Sat 1pm-5pm. Exhibit thru June 24. 1007 Market St. at 6th. www.luggagestoregallery.org

Bruja @ Magic Theatre Luis Alfaro’s modern take on Euripides’ Medea stirs up a haunting story about the modern immigrant experience; directed by Loretta Greco, with scenic design by Andrew Boyce (The Lily’s Revenge). $22-$62. Tue

Yellow Submarine @ Castro Theatre The Beatles’ wonderfully strange 1968 animated Pop art film in a restored print. $7.50$10. 2:30, 4:445, 7pm, 9pm. Thru June 12. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

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La Quebradora @ Mission Cultural Center Curator Amy Pederson’s group exhibition about Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling culture, with videos, sculptures, paintings and performances (Wed nights 7pm). $5. Reg. hours Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Thru Aug. 5. 821-1155. www.missionculturalcenter.org

The Odyssey @ Angel Island We Players takes on another innovative environmental theatre project (their Alcatraz Hamlet was a sell-out), the Homerian ancient Greek adventure tale, performed at locations on scenic and historic Angel Island. $40-$78. $10 lunches available. Fri-Sun 10:30am-4pm (not including ferry travel times). Thru July 1. 547-0189. www.weplayers.org

Phantoms of Asia @ Asian Art Museum

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the LGBT International Court System. Thru Sept.15. 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.karenmassingpix.com www.sfpl.org

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. This week, Perry interviews Desiree Buford of Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival; and Michelle Bateman, President of Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.comcasthometown.com

Tommy Igoe Band @ The Rrazz Room Accomplished drummer welcomes guest stars. $25. 7:30pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

who explore advertising (Henecken) and vintage imagery with contemporary nudes and portraits (Teske). Thru June 30. 49 Geary St. 5th floor. 421-0122. www.kochgallery.com

Sex and the City @ Rebel Heklina and her crew do drag parody performances of episodes of the HBO series. $20-$25. 7pm & 9pm. Also June 18, 19 & 26.

1760 Market St. www.trannyshack.com

Wed 13>> The Iron Maidens @ Yoshi's All-female Iron Maiden tribute band rocks out. $22. 8pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/ artist/show/2787

Naked Girls Reading @ Stage Werx Theatre Women read (Mimi Rebecca, Tanya, guest Carol Queen) read selections of works by Oscar Wilde, while naked. $17.50-$20.

8pm. 446 Valencia St. www.nakedgirlsreading.com/sanfrancisco/

New exhibit of bold contemporary art with perspective on life, death, nature and other themes. $12-$15. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Photography in Mexico @ SF Museum of Modern Art

Radically Gay: The Life of Harry Hay @ SF Public Library

New group exhibit of historic prints documenting Mexican life and culture since 1920.

Also, The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, and a new mural by Dutch artist Parra. Thru July 29. Free-$18.

Open daily (except Wednesdays) 11am5:45pm.; open late Thursdays, until 8:45pm. 131 Third St. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org

New exhibition that celebrates the remarkable life and work of activist Harry Hay, who laid the foundation for the modern lesbian and gay rights movement. Special screening of Eric Slade’s award-winning documentary Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay, June 13, 6pm, Koret Auditorium. Free. Thru July 29.

Jewitt Gallery, lower level, 100 Larkin St. 557-4400. www.sfpl.org

Plantosaurus Rex @ Conservatory of Flowers New exhibit of prehistoric plants and flowers (giant ferns, spiky horsetails) from the Mesazoic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with life-size models of dinosaurs! Free-$7.

Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 21.

100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

Exhibit of colorful multimedia works by David Faulk and Michael Johnstone in a site-specific installation. 57 Post St. #905. www.visualaid.org

Sun 10>>

Thu 14>>

A Funny Night for Comedy @ Actors Theatre

19th Century San Francisco @ Robert Tat Gallery

Saints and Sinners @ Visual Aid

Natasha Muse and sidekick Ryan Cronin host a faux-talk show comedy night, with guests Mike Spiegelman, Brian Fields, Shanti and Eric Cash. $10. 7pm. 855 Bush St. 345-1287. www.NatashaMuse.com

Tue 12

The Klipptones @ Bliss Bar

Broadway legend performs his hit touring show, Steppin’ Out. $45$50. 8pm. Thru June 17 (4pm).

2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Local jazz vocal singer Joshua Klipp and his band perform at the intimate lounge. $10.

4:30pm. 4026 24th St. www.joshuaklipp.com

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

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Mon 11>> B.O.O.B.S. @ Martuni's New monthly cabaret show with the witty musical trio (Leanne Borghesi, Jessica Coker and Soila Hughes). $10. 7pm. 2nd Mondays.

4 Valencia St. at Market. www.boobs-cabaret.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Royal Families of the Americas @ SF Public Library, Harvey Milk/Eureka Valley Exhibit of photographs by Karen Massing of four years of pageantry and royalty in

Ben Vereen @ The Rrazz Room

Tue 12>> Dorothea Lange @ Scott Nichols Gallery Exhibit of prints by the acclaimed 20thcentury photographer. Thru June 30. Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm. 49 Geary St. 4th fl. 788-4641. www.scottnicholsgallery.com

The Drag Show @ Various Channels Stu Smith’s weekly LGBT variety show features local talents, and not just drag artistes.

Channels 29 & 76 on Comcast; 99 on AT&T and 30 on Astound. www.thedragshow.org

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th.

431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Robert Heinecken, Edmund Teske @ Koch Gallery Dual exhibit of photo-montages by artists

Sat 9

Fascinating exhibit of vintage prints from the Bay Area’s early days. Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm & by appointment. Thru Sept. 1 49 Geary St. Suite 410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

The Biggest Quake @ MCC Kirk Read welcomes eight San Francisco artists in varied backgrounds (Mark Abramson, Justin Chin, Brontez Purnell, Carol Queen, Kirk Read, Julia Serano, K.M. Soehnlein, Ed Wolf) read essays about AIDS, HIV, safe sex, and other epidemic-related topics. Free.

7pm. Also June 15 & 16. 150 Eureak St. at 18th. www.vimeo.com/42527187

Searching for Queertopia @ Galeria de la Raza Alex Hernandez and Neil Rivas’ exhibit examines the Vela de ‘Las Intrépidas,’ an event held annually in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, México, that honors its Muxe community. Muxe, a Zapotec term for what is known in the English-speaking world as Queer, has existed while evolving since Pre-Columbian times. Thu-Sat 12pm-6pm. Thru June 30. 2857 24th St. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Go Deep @ El Rio Man on man lube wrestling in the pit (an inflatable mini-pool), porn guys, drag queens, clowns, Boylesque performances, DJ Drama Bin Laden and Cajun food! 2nd Thursdays. 8pm-12am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Z Space When We Fall Apart, a new work by the innovative dance-theatre artist, with sets by architect Cass Calder Smith and live original music by Ben Juodvalkis. $25-$35. Most shows 7pm. Fri & Sat also 9pm.

Sun 5pm. Thru June 30. 450 Florida St. www.joegoode.org www.zspace.org

LGBTQ Mingle @ El Rio San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s gay schmooze session, with complimentary bike parking. Learn about riding in the Pride march with the Coalition. 6:30-8pm.

3158 Mission St. www.sfbike.org

Mangos With Chili @ Lorriane Hansbury Theatre Group showcase with queers of color, performing, reading, singing and sharing diaspora stories. $10-$20. 8pm. African American Arts & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. www.mangoswithchili.wordpress.com

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival @ Various Venues Annual large-scale festival of diverse traditional and modern dance styles from local andregional companies who performs Indian, African, Cuban, Native American, Gamelan and other styles. Performances at SF museums and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Thru July 1. $12-$58. 978-2787. www.sfethnicdancefestival.org

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100 guys named Mike

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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une was ushered in with Mike’s Men: Sex, Guys and Videotape, a flashy, sassy art exhibit by underground filmmaker/artist Mike Kuchar at Magnet on 18th St. Curators Eric Smith, Mark Garrett and Margaret Tedesco have put together a show of the auteur/illustrator’s work that will bring back warm (and sometimes hot) memories of the golden age of gay comic books.

Magnet was packed for the show’s June 1 opening reception. As the artist beamed with pride, attendees schmoozed, partook of wine and cheese, and admired some exquisite gay art. We were all one that night: everyone’s name-tag sported the name Mike. Spotted in the upbeat crowd were local luminary Marc Huestis, director John Waters and the B.A.R.’s very own John F. Karr.

New York City native Mike Kuchar first came to prominence as an underground filmmaker, often working with his late brother George. The brothers were the subject of It Came from Kuchar, Jennifer M. Kroot’s well-received 2009 documentary. Kuchar’s 1965 film Sins of the Fleshapoids, a campy, raunchy sci-fi/sex satire, served as a major influence on Waters’ career. Kuchar has continued to produce films over the years. In 2009, his homoerotic Swan Song revealed the sexual torment of a nude young man. But the film was hardly his swan song, as he continues to film, draw, and now teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

“I’ve always been interested in drawing,” Kuchar told the B.A.R. as he smiled at the crowd. “But it’s only a fraction of what I’ve done. These are my children. Most of the time I do film and video, but here it’s canvas and paper, which is nice.”

One piece stood out: the cover of Gay Heartthrobs comics, Issue #3, from the early 1970s. “Hi Dwayne, how are you today?” inquires the handsome man in leather. “Horny!” replies the cute young Dwayne, whose attire is similar to Daisy Duke’s from the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard.

“That was part of the big sexual revolution,” said Kuchar. “It’s all out of the closet now!”

Courtesy of the artist and [2nd floor floor projects] San Francisco

“Salty Sailors” (detail) by Mike Kuchar.

There were a number of new pieces on the Magnet walls. One can’t help but be impressed and amused by the graphic, homoerotic sexuality offered by Kuchar, sometimes in the most unlikely of settings. A naked caveman rides a dinosaur. Other drawings are more simple, illustrating, in that classic, early-70s gay comic-book style, the unabashed eroticism of two men enjoying each other’s bodies. This is definitely an adults-only show.

For us grown-ups, it’s an absolute delight.

Mike’s Men: Sex, Guys and Videotape shows at Magnet, 4122 18th St., through June 30. A limited amount of prints and posters are available for sale. www.magnetsf.org ▼

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Auteur and artist Mike Kuchar.

Coming up in leather and kink Thu., Jun. 7: Koktail Club Happy Hour at Kok Bar (1225 Folsom). Hamisi doing Hammy Time until 10 p.m. 5-10 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Thu., Jun. 7: Rubber Men SF and Leathermen at the Movies join forces for a night of dining and entertainment with a kink. Progressive dinner starting in the Castro at The Edge ending at Wicked Grounds, then to the Midnight premiere of Prometheus.

Starts at 5:30 p.m. Go to Facebook.

Thu., Jun. 7: Daddy Thursdays at Kok Bar. Shot & drink specials. 10 p.m.-close.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Thu., Jun. 7: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse.

Strip down for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Go to: www.stallionsaturdays.com.

Sun., Jun. 10: SF Men’s Spanking Party at The Power Exchange (220 Jones St.). $20 fee, ½ off for student or military. Go to: www.voy.com/201188/ Sun., Jun. 10: Norcal Leather and Bare Chest Beer/ Soda Bust at QBarSF (456 Castro). Benefits the Norcal Leather Fund; for the 2013 Bare Chest Calendar. $10 bottomless cup. 4 p.m. Go to Facebook.

Sun., Jun. 10: Jockstrap Beer Bust at Kok Bar. $8 beer bust, go-go studs. 3-7 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Mon., Jun. 11: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. 8-10 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Tue., Jun. 12: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust. 9-11 p.m.

Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Thu.-Sat., Jun. 7-9: Fist Fest West in Cathedral City.

The world’s largest weekend fisting event.

Go to: www.fistfest.com.

Tue., Jun. 12: Safeword: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel (363 6th St.). 6:30 p.m.

Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Jun. 8: Lick It: Black Light Party at The Powerhouse. DJ Guy Ruben, glowing demos, glistening dancers in nightlights. $5 cover goes to the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund. 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Go to Facebook.

Tue., Jun. 12: Ink & Metal at The Powerhouse.

9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Jun. 8: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). 10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Sat., Jun. 9: Leather Beer Bust at Kok Bar. $5 Rolling Rock, $3 all other beer and well koktails. 5-9 p.m.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sat., Jun. 9: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 9 p.m.-close.

Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf.

Sat., Jun. 9: Stallion Saturdays at Rebel Bar (1760 Market). Revolving DJs, afterhours fun! 9 p.m.-4 a.m.

Tue., Jun. 12: Kok Block at Kok Bar. Happy hour prices all night. Pool tournament 7-10 p.m.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Wed., Jun. 13: Dominant Discussion Group at the SF Citadel. 7:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Jun. 13: Golden Shower Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison), a male-only club.

Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play till late.

Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Jun. 13: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse.

Show off your nips for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

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Karrnal Knowledge>>

Bulge report

by John F. Karr

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ell, as the society pages would say it, tout la monde was at Magnet for last Friday’s opening night of Mike Kuchar’s nasty comix show.

There was I, of course, and an enigmatic fellow named Marshall who would not reveal what hidden recesses of my past he was from. And there were John Waters, Peter Berlin and Susan Stryker; there were Jack Davis, Marc Huestis (handing out flyers for his impending production of Marat/ Sade), and cutie Kyle with goddess knows how many other Feyboys; and there were Kevin Killian and Arthur Tress (one curator of the show pushed me up against an unfazed gent and said, “Let me take your picture,” and when he was done I asked the gent who he was, only to be embarrassed at not having recognized Arthur, but I do think our last meeting was shortly after the invention of the daguerreotype); and there was, of course, Mike Kuchar himself, quite rosy-cheeked and not at all his usual reticent self, but an ebullient bubbler. The only person missing was Leah Garchik.

So you see, it was such an event that all those names should have been in boldface.

Everyone enjoyed the art – it was so big! so raunchy! – and I glommed onto a DVD of several of Mike’s short gay films that was just up my, well, you know what it was up. It’s called Mike’s Men, and you can have it for $40 by contacting one of the exhibit’s curators, Eric Smith, at esoteric6@sbcglobal.net. It delivers 10 minutes of low-down porno comeon, and 40 minutes of poetic nudity within lovely flights of the lyric and sometimes sensual.

The first short is Animal, in which Marc Arthur – slender, frizzy-haired and soulful-eyed – brings out the feline within, both docile and animalistic, while reciting his poetry as rather beautiful psychedelic imagery wafts around our minds. Though there are many visions of Marc’s penis, the movie definitely isn’t porn, and barely gets close to erotica; its nudity doesn’t confer sexuality on the film.

But oh, boy, Statue in the Park sure is porn – the olden-day porn of the sticky-floored grindhouse showing grainy loops while some toothless fart masturbated in the back row

John F. Karr

Mike Diana provides classic porn thrills in this screen grab from Mike Kuchar’s short film Statue in the Park.

and shifty-lookin’ dudes with their jeans slung low loitered around the stinky urinal. There isn’t full nudity in the movie, yet it reeks of trashy sex for about 10 of its 18 minutes.

This is when we watch Mike Diana play janitor in a funky restroom, perhaps the very one where this loop is showing. He’s real Times Square candy, of the sort you found in Times Square before it was Disneyfied, a sinuous blond street-kid whose freshness is likely to tarnish mighty quick. Especially if he keeps wearing the white pants that are just barely held up by his pubis, with lacings fore and aft so loosened that the back is all buttcrack and the front shows more than a hint of creamy white, tender phallus shaft. The view is heartstopping no matter which way he turns. Then we see him at home, doing arm curls while the camera devours his shirtless torso. Then, pulling himself upward on a chinning bar, the camera cruelly cuts just as his crotch would come into view. I would’ve thrown something at the screen if my eyes hadn’t been bulging right up against it. But, wait! Now we see he’s wearing would could be called a posing strap, if it wasn’t so ripped to tiny shreds that our inner voyeur shouts Hallelujah! as we’re given crumbs of cock sightings. Mike cups his barely covered junk in his hand, and adjusts the almost visible goods. It’s a classic

bit of porn. Too bad it’s weirdly bracketed in an unnecessary frame featuring a pair of young girls. If this had been a vision of Mike alone, it would challenge some of Warhol’s male contemplations. It’s real art, base and low the way we like it.

Finally, there are a pair of lyric sequences. Tickled Pink features a willowy blond poet who recites his poem in a bower of flowers that seems an ode to Pink Narcissus, and Peek-aBoo spies in sylvan contemplation on an attractive, wistful, and naked lad. They’re arty and nice, I guess. But Mike the janitor is the art that transforms: instant dirty old men.▼

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French toast

by David Lamble

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he new French erotic thriller American Translation, from codirectors Pascal Arnold and JeanMarc Barr and out in a handsome DVD from TLA Releasing, gets considerable mileage from recycling a rudely exploitative plot: a serial killer is offing gay/rough-trade rent boys.

Pretty soon handsome corpses dot the Northern Gallic countryside.

The movie seduces us with the achingly beautiful serial killer’s smirk/ shrug, pairing him with an exasperatingly passive girlfriend/accomplice and adding just enough hip kinks and sweaty close-ups to salve our consciences until a jump-cut ending reveals whether every last gendarme is off on an August vacation bender.

Kicking off with 30 minutes of steamy boy/girl foreplay – Pierre Perrier absolutely nails the 0-to-10 disrobing, and doesn’t disappoint in the skimpy briefs department – the setup has bored American/French binational Aurore (Lizzie Brochere) slip away from her money-obsessed dad to hook up with pretty boy Chris

(Perrier). The Chris/Aurore affair sizzles the way you would expect an alliance between Elle models to if they ever stepped down from those expensively scented pages and actually fucked. Aurore’s dream of a clean, lean, humping boy machine is interrupted when the first dead hustler turns up spread-eagled in the back of

Chris’ van. You realize just how gulliible the girl is when she buys Chris’ slick, self-justifying monologue, w which includes the usual nods tow ward parental abuse – in this case, a stolid plumber dad who whipped tthe boy after allowing the mom to sslip away. The core of Chris’ selfp pitying rant plays like Genet 101.

“I don’t believe in good or evil aanymore. Today, there are those w who are hungry and those who h have fear. I have a terrible fear insside of me. You have that fear too, b baby. I recognized it. I didn’t want to be paralyzed by the fear growing in inside me. So I followed my imp pulses. Girls, boys – with the girls, I never paid. But with boys, money m makes things easier. Especially with th the young ones – I know where they h hang out, prostitutes or not. My age fr freaks them out. They trust me. They talk to me. They’re flattered I listen to them. I like their passivity, sometimes so unexpected. At the beginning it was just sex. Then one day, with some girl, I forget her name, I felt something bizarre.”

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Reality bites

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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emorial Day marks the finale of the season finales and the official beginning of the summer TV season. Alas, the summer season also means the harsh slap of reality. Or rather, reality TV. Which is heavy on the scripting and light on the actual reality, despite the pretense of cinema verite. For example, you know you want those Real Housewives to slug each other and then see real blood. Hey, we’d be satisfied with even a real lipstick smear, but we think with the fake lips it’s required that one wears the lip lacquer that doesn’t come off.

So as reality summer begins, how better to kick off the season than with Emmy-winning comedian Jim Parsons dropping the bead that he’s gay? Now that’s real reality. And what a stunner, right? Parson’s throwaway in an interview that he’s a homo was almost as much of a non-surprise as when Ellen, Rosie O’Donnell and Clay Aiken came out.

Personally, we were more shocked to learn that the boyish-looking star of the hilarious Big Bang Theory is 39 than that he’s been in a long-term relationship with another man. Parson has been doing gay stunts on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show and fielding gay repartee with Ferguson’s sidekick, the gay skeleton Geoff, as a regular guest for some time. Plus, no straight man is as tidy as Parsons always is.

Nevertheless, it was a nice volley into the hot season. We were thinking maybe next year Parsons could host the Tonys with Neil Patrick Harris, who is also an Emmy winner, also on CBS and also an out queer. After all, Parsons says it was his role in a high school production of Noises Off that made him realize how deeply the acting bug had burrowed in him, so why not the Tonys? And wasn’t being in the drama club also the first sign that he was gay? We’ve always liked Parsons and think he’s hilarious on BBT as well as on his numerous stints on late-night talk shows (check out his guest spot on Letterman on May 31 at CBS.com). We’re happy to have him obviously out instead of just obvious.

Speaking of obvious, it is such a good fit having Harris host the Tonys.

Not only is he a natural host, but he’s a natural song-and-dance man. (Check out his Prop 8 revue on YouTube. Fantastic.) This year’s Tony Awards show is June 10. And who doesn’t want to stay in on a Sunday night and watch closeted queers and out straight people win awards for theatre? You know the cast of Glee and Rosie O’Donnell will be watching. Our money is on Audra McDonald (Private Practice) winning her fourth Tony for her role as Bess in the revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Check out the interview with her on PBS. Amazing voice, amazing actress, just amazing.

Glee-tastic!

Speaking of theatre, what a season finale on Glee! Is Rachel really going to New York? (And her gay fathers

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It helps the film’s mystique that the two leads have all but vanished – hence they remain forever frozen as these characters. Craig Gilmore has the tricky job of making his sarcastic, weary-before-his-time critic “savaging other people’s art at 25 cents a word” sympathetic as he spins trancelike through his HIV “death sentence.”

(His doctor is played by the late queercinema genius Mark Finch.)

Mike Dytri is a punk terrorist (stolen from the John Waters playbook)

wouldn’t be meeting her at the train?

Really?) Is Quinn really staying in Ohio? Is Santana going to take her mother’s money and make it on her own? Is Britney going to work in the chicken factory? And what will Kurt do now that Rachel is headed to New York and he isn’t? And where was Unique in the season finale? Despite all the questions left unanswered, we loved seeing some of our faves. Kurt’s father doing a song-and-dance routine for him was priceless.

But we’d really like to see Kurt and Blaine break up next season. Blaine is so boring, we’re tired of his caterpillar eyebrows, and we find him neither sexy nor funny, nor believable even as a human being, let alone a gay teenager.

We’re not sure what next season will bring, but Glee execs have said that people have to graduate, and Glee has to move forward.

We warn, however, against too many changes. We remember the last ghastly season of ER, when all but a few regulars had left. So terrible.

And last week we finished suffering through the final season of House out of loyalty. When you dump half your main characters and bring in a bunch of new ones, how do you expect to maintain your audience? Who knew Cuddy was the soul of that show?

We aren’t interested in new people as place-holders. Better to just fade away and radiate.

Speaking of the House series finale, we were underwhelmed. We loved the one-hour special that preceded it about behind the scenes at House, with the all the behind-the-scenes people and a lot of the actors we used to love who returned for the series finale. But most of them were gone this season. And we tried to ignore the cognitive dissonance that came with hearing Hugh Laurie speaking with his full English accent. Yes, that bit of cinema verite was absolutely delightful and helped mitigate how devastatingly uninteresting and unmoving the actual series finale was. For a show that was super-edgy and had so much queerness over the years, it was sad to see House go out with such a whimper.

Speaking of whimpering, we were horrified by the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy, in which there was a lot of blood and a lot of screaming. We love this show: we love how queer, feminist and integrated it is (the characters of color are central, not dropped in to fake diversity). But one of our few complaints about creator Shonda Rhimes is that every season she ends with a cliffhanger where someone has to die.

So this season, in the two-part finale, there was a plane crash. Not just any plane crash, but a small plane crashing in the mountains on the way to Idaho or Utah, one of those states where there’s lots of woods and mountains, but not too many people to come and rescue you when you are stranded and nearly dead in the woodsy mountains.

It’s a lot of the characters we love, because it’s a transplant team. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and her husband Derek (Patrick Dempsey), of course.

who “kidnaps” Jon into a crime binge that is as politically constructed as the hetero lovers-on-the-lam were for Godard’s 1965 assault on the senses Pierrot le Fou. (Castro, 6/22, 11 a.m.)

All Over Me In this haunting lesbian coming-of-age movie from the Sichel sisters (director Alex, writer Sylvia), smartly set against New York’s 1990s “riot grrl” alternative rock scene, a young dyke breaks down crying. Claude (Alison Folland) is 15, and coming from a world where a girl needs a guitar every bit as much as a main squeeze. Suddenly, she hears the anthem of her soul: Patti Smith’s

Comedian and TV star Jim Parsons came out. Big surprise?

Meredith’s sister Lexie (Chyler Leigh), who is one of the heart-and-soul characters in the show. Lexie’s great love and Derek’s best friend, Mark (Eric Dane). Christina (Sandra Oh), Meredith’s other great love. And Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), Callie’s wife and co-parent to their child, Sophia.

Mostly everyone was injured except for Meredith, who was in shock.

But we were stunned when Lexie died soon after the plane crashed because the tail section had crushed her legs and more. It was shocking and totally unexpected. Rhimes had warned viewers that someone was going to die, and possibly more than one someone, but still we were unprepared to see Lexie bleed out right there, trapped under the fuselage and gasping for breath while Mark told her she wasn’t going to die and Christina tried to not be Christina and held her hand. It was a gruesome finale.

But what really concerned us in this season’s finale: Arizona, who sustained a compound fracture of her leg in the crash, also started to cough up blood at the end of the episode, as we cut to Callie (the incomparable Sara Ramirez) at home with their little girl. No! Grey’s has consistently been a show that surprises, shocks and unsettles the viewer. But it’s the strong cast that keeps the show together. The idea that Callie and Arizona, one of the best (and only) lesbian couples on the tube and absolutely the longest lesbian pairing on TV, would be separated by an untimely death is just too awful.

A few seasons ago, in another cliffhanger, Arizona asked Callie to marry her while they were driving to a weekend getaway. As Callie was about to answer, a truck came out of nowhere and Callie went through the windshield. She nearly died. The two women married when she recovered.

So, seeing the gravely injured Arizona, we’ll be worried til September, when season nine begins, that she might not make it.

Fortunately, we have a new lesbian couple to watch in the interim: Karen and Dani on Bold & the Beautiful.

Karen is part owner of a major corporation run by her homophobic and basically woman-hating (no one hates women like straight men with power) brother, Bill. He doesn’t know she’s a lesbian, yet. But now that the couple’s daughter Caroline has revealed her familial secret to her boyfriend, how long will it take for others to discover the truth? Especially since Bill’s wife Katie just revealed her own secret to the two women on the June 1 episode:

Speaking of sexual storylines, when we saw the promos for two of the new reality shows, we thought perhaps there might be some queer action happening. Doesn’t Three, with three women looking for love, sound promising? We thought so. We kinda thought menage a trois, actually. But no. Just another tease. This CBS show is merely a re-vamp of ABC’s notorious The Bachelor/Bachelorette series.

Only with three women who want to be friends and also find men at the same time. Unless these women are Mormons and are all going to marry the same guy, we’ll pass on this one.

Then there’s ABC’s creepily voyeuristic The Glass House. The promos show women and men in silhouette behind opaque glass doors in sexually provocative poses. The voiceover tells the viewer that they direct the action.

Sound pornographic? Sound like you could have some fun with that? Yes, that’s what we thought. We anticipated some girl-on-girl action, even.

But again, no. This is just a re-vamp of CBS’ irritating Big Brother franchise.

So close a re-vamp, in fact, that CBS tried to get the show pulled from ABC. Look for 13 pretty yet mindless bodies plus one unattractive person, all with nothing better to do with their lives than be streamed on live video 24/7

“Pissing in a River.” Claude realizes all she’s about to lose at childhood’s end.

Set in Hell’s Kitchen, All Over Me recalls the special bittersweet moments of adolescence when a teen discovers that her best friend is becoming a stranger. Ellen (Tara Subkoff) is a user, and smart enough to tease Claude in bed. Ellen’s real passion is for drugs and bad boys – Cole Hauser plays a working-class tough who thinks he’s top dog in this hood until he confronts Luke, an in-your-face, anarchist gay punk-rocker brazenly created by Psychotica frontman Pat Briggs. (Castro, 6/20, 11 a.m.)

I knew I was going to love my phone chat with B. Ruby Rich when my eye happened to fall on the paragraph in her witty account of life as a pioneering feminist critic, Chick Flicks, in which she describes a scarring close encounter with Hitchcock remarkably similar to my own.

“I was in the seventh grade in 1960 when I walked with a classmate, unwarned and unaccompanied, to see Psycho. We spent much of the movie with our coats over our heads. I didn’t take a shower for the next eight years, [initiating] my lifelong affection for baths and aversion to horror mov-

she and Bill are having a baby, even though Katie will be risking her life to do so (she’s a heart transplant recipient).

We’re looking forward to this storyline playing out over the course of the summer, when the soaps always heat up their controversial stories to reel in new and younger viewers. Because of Karen’s relationship to many of the characters on the show, because she’s reprising a role from years ago, this will definitely be a front-burner story. It is also made more intriguing by the fact that Crystal Chapell, who plays Dani, was previously part of one of the only lesbian storylines ever on daytime in the last two years of Guiding Light. So she does a good lesbian coupling. In addition, Joanna Johnson, who plays Karen, came out herself a few days before her character debuted in the lesbian storyline on B&B, because she felt it was the honest thing to do. (Johnson has a wife and two young children.) We’d like to see more of this art-imitating-life on the tube, especially in narrative series. Our only regret is that CBS’ B&B is on in the same time slot as NBC’s Days of Our Lives, which also has a front-burner gay storyline with Will Horton.

Three on a match

doing nothing even remotely intriguing. Yawn. Almost anything would be more interesting than this show.

But not Breaking Pointe. This may be the biggest disappointment on the reality scene this summer. This CW show features a group of aspiring ballet dancers, none of whom are gay, and their trials and tribulations. We love ballet, yet we hate this show. The dancers are in Middle of F’ing Nowhere USA, not New York, the home of real ballet, and there are just so many bloody toes and bulging vertebrae we can look at in the course of an hour. And there’s precious little dancing, which is counterintuitive.

We saw more dancing on Smash than here. Better to watch one of the contest shows like America’s Got Talent, which is having its best season ever.

Or just rent Black Swan and Turning Point, and get the ballet troupe drama out of your system.

Our favorite reality series this summer start this week on Fox when the vicious Brit chef Gordon Ramsay returns. You don’t have to be a foodie to love Hell’s Kitchen and Master Chef, but it helps. HK presents 16 chefs aspiring to win an appointment to a major restaurant as head chef, plus a quarter mil to sweeten the sauce.

There’s always somebody queer, there’s always a lot of in-fighting, there’s always people you love and ones you love to hate, and the challenges are real, not nonsense like they are on Big Brother or The Glass House.

Plus, you learn a lot about cooking and get to see what happens in a real kitchen when someone like Ramsay is cursing in your face because your chicken is raw in the middle and you could kill someone.

Master Chef has a different premise. Regular folks with a passion for cooking try to impress a trio of chefs headed by Ramsey to see if they can win the Master Chef title, some money and placement as a chef. It’s amazing to watch so many amateurs doing such great things with food in such a short time. And having the three judges judge makes it a nail-biter every episode. But will anyone be cooking from the Game of Thrones cookbook?

That we’d pay to see.

The most intriguing reality series this summer, however, is Push Girls, which premiered on the Sundance channel June 4. It’s a must-see. The show centers around four women in wheelchairs: Tiffany, hit by a drunk driver at 135 mph in high school and paralyzed for life. Mia, also paralyzed in high school by a brain aneurysm.

Auti, who lost her legs in a car wreck but who used to be a back-up dancer for Milli Vanilli. And Angela, another woman made quadriplegic by an accident. The women talk about how life can change in an instant, but while theirs have, they are living amazing lives and doing more than most people who are not disabled. This show is fun, poignant, inspirational and really compelling. The women are smart, interesting and drop-dead gorgeous, and the show makes you think about what disability really is.

So even though the tube this summer will be a roller coaster ride, you really must stay tuned.▼

ies. Cinema was never the same after Psycho, but, girl-child on the verge of puberty, neither was I.” Swapping adolescent war stories – hers from a barely lower-middle-class Boston clan, “Jews without books” – we recalled the now 20-year-old magical moment when she slapped the tag “New Queer Cinema” on the rambunctious “outlaw” films showing up at hip festivals from Sundance to Toronto and Amsterdam. My questions about the quartet of gems she’s showing this year led her to a feisty See page 29 >>

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elissa Manchester’s connection to the gay community is long and enduring. From her early days as a Harlette, one of Bette Midler’s original backing singers, to her rise through the singer/songwriter ranks during the 1970s and her ascension to full-fledged divahood, Manchester has remained on our radar. Playlist: The Very Best of Melissa Manchester (Arista/Legacy), a 14-track compilation that brings us up to date, presents Manchester in the various phases of her career. I spoke with Melissa earlier this year about the collection and her contributions to popular music.

Gregg Shapiro: Playlist: The Very Best of Melissa Manchester is your third domestically issued compilation.

How do you think it compares to 1983’s Greatest Hits and 1997’s Essence discs?

Melissa Manchester: This is more of a musical journey. I wanted to in-

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You were an early signing to Clive Davis’ Arista Records, along with Barry Manilow. Do you have any memories of that time that you would like to share?

Clive actually inherited Barry and me from Bell Records. Bell Records was originally a singles label. In those days they used to have singles labels and album labels. I was assigned to Bell Records as an album artist on a

singles label, so what they did was left me alone, which was really radical.

When Clive absorbed Bell into Arista, it was not business as usual. There was a huge engine behind you. He had very big plans. Sometimes we butted heads, sometimes we had great success together.

“Come in from the Rain” is one of your most covered songs. Are there versions for which you have a special fondness?

Barbara Cook’s version is exquisite.

Since she is my musical hero, I was honored to have her record that. The thing is that as a songwriter you yearn to have people record your songs. In the day and age of everybody writing their own stuff, I was thrilled with anybody’s recording of “Come in from the Rain!”

You co-wrote it with Carole Bayer Sager, an example of how well you play with others. What do you think it is that makes you a good collaborator?

interesting, I’ll start to hear music, and then we’re off and running.

Singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester.

I’m really interested in how people think. What was unusual about the songs that I wrote with Carole is, the songs all came out of conversations.

Therefore the tone of the songs was very conversational. The listener always feels like they are in the moment. That’s part of Carole’s remarkable talent, that she can pull that out.

What happens to me is if I’m having a conversation with somebody who’s

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Film critic B. Ruby Rich.

Scene from director Gregg Araki’s The Living End.

for Camille Paglia.

“I used to say that for gay men, these historical reclamations really demanded a kind of archeology, but lesbians couldn’t use archeology, they had to have alchemy, because there was nothing to be dug up. And

that’s the point that The Watermelon Woman makes: that in order to find this mythical past she literally had to invent it, because it did not exist.”

(Roxie, 6/15, 9:15 p.m.)

David Lamble: I remember when

The Living End opened at the Castro.

I think it did about $85,000 over a weekend, and I thought, “This [New Queer Cinema] can put butts in seats, which for the directors trying to make these films is pretty damn important!”

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become (like all graduations) more informal occasions socially, more oriented towards the friends and families of the kids involved. But the work presented onstage was more rigorous and better executed than any school show I’ve seen in years. It was also more fun.

Ballet is like figure-skating – it is very geometric, the simplest things are difficult, and any child can see if they are well-executed, and can easily and accurately rank those who did them better than others. This is the source of the popularity of the art – for the audience, the accuracy, skill, and momentum can be thrilling, and for the young artist, it’s the ultimate test of co-ordination. Teenagers will go to bed early, they’ll train til they’re exhausted, and get up and practice some more – the potential for mastery is so appealing.

The choreography for even the smallest of the SFB children was a compliment to their intelligence.

Their tasks required that they take responsibility for their own movements while also developing a group-mind, create a little world, and move in harmony with each other. It started to lift off with Level I and II boys, who were arrayed (by Jeffrey Lyons) like an orchestra in three banks, performing in counterpoint. It was uncannily like looking at a symphony by Haydn, since the older boys in the middle were doing larger phrases while the smaller kids were mostly jumping in place, but with different timings. They had to count, to know how to be still,

You were one of the divas that gay teen Clarke idolized in Dirty Girl. What does your long history of being idolized by the LGBT community mean to you?

It’s something I don’t take lightly.

I really feel honored, because the gay community has always supported divas worth supporting! I was raised around gay people, so it’s not anything other than part of my everyday life. My father was a bassoonist at the Metropolitan Opera, and my mother was one of the first women designers on Seventh Ave. The gay community has been part of my home.

Are there plans for a memoir from you?

People have asked me to write a memoir. I think I have a book in me, but it’s too early for me to write a memoir because I feel like I’m living my second act. I’m eager to see how it turns out.▼ B. Ruby Rich: To this day, Gregg Araki says the New Queer Cinema created this opening in the theatres for his career. I think that’s why the term stuck, frankly. I’d like to think it’s because I had such a brilliant idea, or I wrote so well, but really it became an instantly effective marketing tag. I used to joke that the only people who were angrier with me than the people left out of the article were the people included in the article.

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discourse on her favorite: African American writer/director/actor Cheryl Dunye’s “fake” docu-drama about a little-known black Hollywood actress from the 1930s.

The Watermelon Woman “Apart from The Living End, from 1992, the rest of my picks are a little later, because I really wanted to prioritize some of the films by women, and they weren’t there at the beginning. It took them a little while longer to have anybody give money to make them.

“The Watermelon Woman remains one of the great films of that era. In fact, I’m delighted because I got Zoe Leonard’s permission to use one of her fake portraits of Faye Richards, the imaginary actress that Cheryl Dunye conjured up. Actually, I missed my big chance: she wanted me to play a professor who talks about watermelon and the watermelon woman, and I couldn’t do it because my father was dying at the time. So she had to settle

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clude never-before-released duets.

I wanted to pay tribute to my first bandmate Cooker LoPresti, with whom I sang “I Can’t Get Started with You.” I also wanted to include two songs that had been used in films within the last two years: “Rain Bird,” a song I wrote for the film Dirty Girl with one of its stars, Mary Steenburgen; and the only live recording of “I Know Who I Am,” which was used in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls. I also wanted to include two songs that I wrote by myself, “Talking to Myself” and “Shine Like You Should.”

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San Francisco Ballet School students in Thatcher’s Spinae.

San Francisco Ballet School students in Bournonville’s La Sylphide.

when to go, and contain their anxieties. I was thrilled for them.

The whole junior division section was cleverly set to the Czerny Etudes (orchestrated by Riisager) that Harald Lander used for his ballet Etudes – a ballet Lander designed to show the exercises the Paris Opera Ballet used to achieve their perfection – so the demonstration built to levels of complexity and mastery in homage to the other great schools, and by the time we got to the higher levels of the school, the choreography (by Parrish Maynard) echoed and quoted Lander’s fantastically exciting combinations, including perpetual-motion turns that were nailed right to the accents in the music. Nothing too long; the kids made their excellent impressions, looked very happy to have done so

well, and rushed off, with new waves coming in turn.

After the compulsory figures came the dancing: first, a classic piece, the glade scene from Bournonville’s La Sylphide, the great Romantic ballet, then a glamorous suite of dances, fluid, shifting, subtle, like the sanddunes it was named for.

Lauren Parrott was lovely as the Sylphide – her dancing was soft, clear, gracious. It held up well against memories of performances here last year by the Royal Danish Ballet, for whom the ballet was choreographed originally, and where it has been in continuous production ever since. It is a Romantic tragedy and a great work. It is important for a school to give dancers great material to measure themselves against, and to inspire them.

The artistry of the dancer playing the

Sylphide lies in continuous motion, creating poses in mid-air that look foreshortened, as if seen from below (like the figures in Renaissance ceiling frescoes). It is a dance of light jumps with frequent half-turns, as if tossed in the breeze, with occasional poses on pointe that last longer than the visionary flashes. Suddenly a pose will be held and mold gently as she comes around the corner to face us, as if the sun were coming out. Then she’s off floating again. They all danced it well, especially Max Cauthorn as the hero; Miranda Silveira stood out as a demisoloist with exquisite batterie, ease and delicacy in her phrasing.

All the dancers in Francisco Mungamba’s dreamy Dunas looked marvelous. They were Kathleen Dahlhoo, Lacey Escabar, Brett Fukuda, Lauren Parrott, and Mimmi Tompkins, with Devon Carbone, Trygve Cumpston,

Just like the gay writers in the 1980s who didn’t merely want to be in the “queer” section or the queer bookstore.

It happens to anybody who’s part of a group that hasn’t previously been allowed in.

You have a book coming out early next year.

It’s The New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut. The title’s kind of a joke, but it’s going to be my version of what I think is memorable about what I’ve written. Half the book is new writing.▼

Max Cauthorn, Alexander Reneff Olson, Aaron Renteria, and Wei Wang.

Mungamba re-used the fabulous scarlet-satin gowns designed by the choreographer Redha for SFB’s production of Pavane Rouge some 20 years ago, to similarly hypnotic effect.

After an intermission, the dancers came back with a rip-roaring performance of Balanchine’s immensely entertaining Western Symphony, which was fully staged in Karinska’s costumes with John Boyt’s set.

“My idea in this ballet was to make a formal work that would derive its flavor from the informal American West, a ballet that would move in the framework of the classic school, but with a new atmosphere.” His success was so great, his cowboys and dance-hall girls dancing to old tunes like “Red River Valley” and “O, Them Golden Slippers” make the ballet so much fun, that its importance can be underrated.

It is not just a romp – it’s fantastically well-made, and it requires that dancers enjoy dancing the hardest steps in the book, and make it look like a new kind of fun.

The corps were uniformly delightful – of the soloists, the men outshone the women. Outstanding were Kevin Murdoch-Waters (who not only has the perfect stage-smile, he has the technique and stage savvy to back it up) and Christopher Warhuus, whose dancing in the first movement could be put on any stage anywhere and give great pleasure. Warhuus and Escabar have already had offers from professional companies for next year. I am certain more contracts will be made public soon.▼

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Piteous war ou never know what’s going to happen when you turn a Requiem loose. Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, which turned 50 on May 30, received a much more orderly celebration on its big anniversary than it did at its premiere, commissioned for the consecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral, a non-human victim of WWII. In 1962, forces ranging from unsympathetic construction workers not yet finished with their huge task to government and church officials unclear about artists’ needs – and more than a little wary of what the deeply pacifist, not to mention homosexual Britten might be up to – nearly prevented the War Requiem from happening.

Reliable voices report that the anniversary performance of what has since become regarded as one of the great works of the last century, led by Andris Nelsons, had its own scuffles with the cathedral’s acoustics, but prevailed powerfully. For those of us ex-cathedra, Gianandrea Noseda’s stunning new recording with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live), drawn from live performances in October 2011, more than compensates.

What no one could have foreseen was that these anniversary performances also came as a requiem for one of the work’s creators: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, for whom Britten wrote the baritone part, who sang the premiere and the first recording, and who died in his sleep, at 86, on May 18. No singer’s death in my experience has so stunned the music community. Though FiDi hadn’t sung publicly since his retirement in 1992, one could no more imagine music without him than the world without the sun. His recorded output alone ran to nearly 5,200 items, some of them individual songs but others whole song cycles and opera roles, making him probably the most recorded singer of all time. He also was a natural if highly refined stage animal.

More to the point here, he knew first-hand the horrors of WWII. Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943, he was captured by American soldiers in Italy in 1945, and began singing publicly over the next two – for his fellow prisoners of war. His professional career began in 1947, with Brahms’ German Requiem.

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War Requiem, in the “Libera me” section, is the imagined face-to-face meeting of two soldiers, killer and victim, set to the words of Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Encounter.” Before the ovations at the premiere, Fischer-Dieskau, having just sung the haunting baritone part (“The pity of war, the pity of war distilled”), despite being a seasoned man of the stage, fled to the choir stalls. “I was completely undone,” he later wrote.

“I did not know where to hide my face. Dear friends and past suffering arose in my mind.”

Clearly the piece brought up friends for Britten, too, since he dedicated it to four men from his and Pears’ past, one certainly and the other three most likely queer.

At the core of the work’s greatness is its masterful interweaving of the standard Latin Requiem text with the acute, memory-searing verse of Owen, the great poet of WWI and undoubtedly gay. When Britten’s sometime-friend Christopher Isherwood heard about his work on War Requiem, he sent the composer a book containing a photo of Owen, which the composer replied he was delighted to see. “I am so involved with him at the moment, & I wanted to see what he looked like.

It’s just what I expected really.”

Whatever its tribulations, the premiere performance bowled its listeners over, as did, perhaps even more, the composer-conducted studio recording made the following year. A balanced view of the work and that recording has been elusive ever since. It’s no slight to Britten’s extraordinary achievements to say that the new Noseda recording is in every respect finer. With his keen ear for detail in a performance of tremendous sweep and impact, Noseda blows away the sonic fog of war that hovers over Britten’s recording, no thanks to producer John Culshaw.

Although there’s not a moment’s slack, Noseda’s interpretation is both spacious and space-conscious.

Scrupulous with time, it breaks free of any normal construct of time.

The musicianship all around is as risk-taking as it is immaculate.

Ian Bostridge and Simon Keenlyside, singing with rare intensity even for them, render Owen’s texts so clearly you don’t need to read along, and soprano Sabina Cvilak nails the aching angularity of the Latin lines. The orchestra and choruses perform as if this is the only piece in their repertory and they live only to re-create it.

By drilling down to the core of this piece, the musicians dash to bits the criticism most often leveled at the War Requiem: that it is, in one way or another, dated. War in its familiar old face has rarely seemed so urgent a matter as this powerful new War Requiem makes it.▼

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