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The tan trailer where Ken Patrick Neville, Stachaun Tyking Jackson, and Eric Wayne Gillespie lived. Neville is charged with murder in the death of Jackson.

Murder in Marin

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Marin County man has been accused of shooting to death his roommate’s lover at the waterfront campground resort where the three shared a trailer.

The Marin County District Attorney’s office has charged Ken Patrick Neville, 56, of Dillon Beach, with the murder of Stachaun Tyking Jackson, 19.

People who knew Neville and the other man, who’s 53 and whose name was not released by authorities, indicated the older two mostly kept to themselves, but described Jackson as friendly.

The Marin Independent-Journal identified the other man as Eric Wayne Gillespie.

The paper said Gillespie, Neville’s roommate, committed suicide over the weekend. Citing a sheriff ’s detective’s report, the paper also said that just before last Thursday’s shooting, Jackson had refused to leave the trailer when Neville and Gillespie wanted him to and had broken in “through a window.”

After “one of the men called 911, Jackson allegedly threatened them,” ordering them to cancel the 911 call, the paper reported. Neville said he eventually pointed a gun at Jackson, who was by then unarmed, and told him to leave, but Jackson “lunged at him,” and Neville “fired his gun,” the paper said. “Gillespie told investigators he did not actually see the shooting but heard the gunshot.”

In response to emailed questions about the suicide and the detective’s report Wednesday, Lieutenant Jamie Scardina, an investigator with the Marin County Sheriff ’s office, said, “I still have not released the name of [Neville’s roommate] due to domestic violence laws and confidentiality reasons. I cannot comment because the death did not occur in our jurisdiction and it is not our investigation.” Scardina confirmed details from the detective’s report included in the Independent-Journal and said a knife had been found at the scene.

It was unclear where Gillespie died; officials at eight county coroner offices contacted by the Bay Area Reporter did not have his body.

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rawing upon a report finalized Tuesday, the two gay members of the Board of Supervisors are preparing to introduce legislation in the coming months focused on LGBT seniors issues.

Titled “LGBT Aging at the Golden Gate: San Francisco Policy Issues and Recommendations,” the document is the work of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force that has been meeting since the fall of 2012. With its vote March 25 to adopt the report, the task force is now officially disbanded.

“Our problem isn’t aging. It is how we are being dealt with in our environment as we age,” said Larry Saxxon, who served on the task force.

As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the bulk of the report’s recommendations deal with how the city’s housing crisis is impacting LGBT seniors. The task force’s suggestions run the gamut from building more affordable housing for LGBT seniors and increasing eviction protections for them to providing rental and homeowner assistance and legal services to help them maintain their housing.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who called for the creation of the task force, told the B.A.R. this week that dealing with the housing issues requires more than

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Members of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force and city support staff acknowledged the end of their 18 months of work and had cake at their final meeting March 25, which also saw the adoption of their final report.

a “quick fix” and is part of the broader policy debate City Hall is currently engaged in around housing issues.

“It is not a quick fix kind of situation.

There is a long-term need for us to focus on our housing crisis,” said Wiener, who represents the gay Castro district where evictions of seniors and people living with HIV have been on the rise.

Wiener and gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, who also called for the task force’s formation, will be calling on the board to hold a hearing in the coming weeks for the task force to formally submit its report to the supervisors.

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Cox wows San Francisco audience

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Laverne Cox, left, poses with 16-year-old Jewlyes Gutierrez at the reception following Cox’s appearance at the Nourse Theatre in San Francisco.

crowd of 1,200 people greeted transgender actress and advocate Laverne Cox with a standing ovation during her recent appearance at San Francisco’s Nourse Theater for her first Bay Area speaking event entitled, “Ain’t I A Woman? My Journey to Womanhood with Laverne Cox.” As part of an ongoing series to host conversations about race, class, and gender, the California Institute of Integral Studies sponsored Cox’s program during which she used her story as an African American transwoman from a working class background to illuminate how the intersections of race, class, and gender shape the lives of trans women of color.

“In terms of lectures, Laverne was definitely one of the more high profile programs we’ve had,” Karim Baer, director of public programs at CIIS, said following the March 19 event. “Feedback has been very positive both at CIIS and from the public. Everyone is still pretty high.”

Cox is best known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset, a transwoman incarcerated for committing credit card fraud, in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, which is set to return for a second

season June 6. In addition to her on-screen star quality, Cox’s dynamic storytelling ability combined with her scholarly knowledge is quickly becoming recognized as central to her talent repertoire.

“Storytelling is vital activism,” Cox told the Bay Area Reporter in an email. “It’s so important for people to see folks they can relate to in the media and also, for me to tell my truth, and to amplify the voices of other trans women whenever I can.”

Before Cox began her story, she paid special tribute to two people.

“I have to be completely honest,” she told attendees, “I’m a little emotional, a little nervous tonight because there’s a couple people in the audience who are major for me, and I just want to acknowledge them.”

Transgender activist Cecilia Chung, a senior adviser for the Transgender Law Center, a health commissioner at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and recent honoree of the California State Assembly’s Woman of the Year Award, received the first shout-out.

The second special recognition went to transgender activist, community elder, and current executive director of the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.

“I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for her and people like her,” Cox told the audience. “She’s a living legend.”

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SF bi homeless man receives a ‘HandUp’

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dam Reichart has struggled to make ends meet since he first arrived in San Francisco in 2009. Having ridden a bike across country from Florida, a journey that took nearly eight months, in order to scatter a friend’s ashes in Golden Gate Park, Reichart’s plan to build houses in the East Bay for a friend fell through.

He landed work as a dishwasher at the Cliff House, but his past in the Sunshine State soon caught up with him. He returned east to deal with his felony warrants for drug possession and then hitchhiked his way back to California in October 2010.

But he began using crystal meth and drinking and lived in Golden Gate Park. The city’s homeless outreach team obtained a room for him at a single-room-occupancy hotel; while there a counselor convinced him to enter rehab with the promise he could return to the SRO when he finished.

“He promised I would never be homeless again if I got off the crystal.

Well, here it is four years later, and I am still homeless,” Reichart, 44, who is bisexual, told the Bay Area Reporter over a cup of coffee during a recent interview at a Castro cafe.

To get by, Reichart often sells copies of the Street Sheet, a newspaper focused on homeless issues, in front of the Mollie Stone’s grocery store in the heart of the city’s gay district. He lands odd jobs, sells bikes he builds, and panhandles; when he has enough money he will stay at an SRO on 6th Street.

“I smoke marijuana but otherwise I am clean,” he said. “I go to AA when I have to.”

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Scardina said that the older men, who lived in a trailer at Lawson’s Landing resort full time, reported the incident at 2:30 a.m. Thursday, March 20.

“They said there had been a disturbance at the trailer, and somebody had been shot, and they asked for paramedics and law enforcement to respond,” said Scardina.

Jackson was dead on the trailer’s deck, with a gunshot wound to his torso, when authorities arrived, said Scardina.

Both of the older men were initially detained, but only Neville was arrested Thursday, while Gillespie was released.

Scardina said the “disturbance” involved a fight, but he wouldn’t say how it had started or what had happened during the fight.

Neighbors “did not report the gunshot,” but they heard “arguing,” he said. The other campground residents “didn’t have the exact wording of what they heard. They had heard disputes in the past coming from that trailer, so it certainly wasn’t anything new they were hearing the night of the homicide,” he said.

Asked whether Neville had confessed to the crime, Scardina said, “I’m not going to disclose at this time what his statement was,” and he also wouldn’t say whether Neville had given any indication he’d shot Jackson in self-defense.

He said investigators found two revolvers belonging to Gillespie at the trailer, and they think one of them was used to kill Jackson. The DA’s complaint lists the weapon used as a .38 caliber Special Smith and Wesson revolver.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Barry Borden said Neville didn’t enter a plea at his court date in Marin

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called HandUp. The tech startup aims to connect donors to homeless people through online donations targeted to specific needs.

“He was one of our first people,” said HandUp founder Rose Broome.

“Adam has a lot of people who want to help him and this tool gives them a way to do that online. And there is accountability some people want in order to make their donation.”

The site has signed up 120 homeless people in the Bay Area to date, mostly those living in San Francisco.

It asks donors to add $5 to their donation to cover its costs as 100 percent of the money pledged on HandUp goes toward the person on the street.

“We do not take a cut. We even subsidize the credit card processing fees,” said Broome, who has raised $500,000 from investors to cover HandUp’s operating expenses.

The cash raised is never seen by the homeless people, as the company works with the city’s Project Homeless Connect to direct the money toward paying the designatCounty Superior Court Tuesday morning, and at Neville’s request, the case was continued to April 8 for further arraignment, entry of plea, and discussion of bail.

Neville is in custody on a “no bail” hold, meaning he can’t bail out, said Borden.

The public defenders who Borden said are involved with the case didn’t respond to interview requests Tuesday.

Unclear relationship, recent problems

It isn’t clear what the men’s relationships with each other were, but there had been problems at the trailer in recent months, according to Scardina.

Gillespie and Jackson had been “in a romantic relationship” for a year and a half to about two years, authorities said.

Asked whether Neville and Gillespie were partners or husbands, Scardina said investigators were still trying to determine the relationship between the three men. However, he said the older men “had been roommates for about 14 years.”

Scardina said the men have claimed they were only roommates, not partners or husbands. He also said he had no evidence to support that Neville also was in a relationship with Jackson.

Jackson had a Guerneville address and also stayed at the trailer from three to five days a week, Scardina said.

Borden said he couldn’t comment on the alleged fight before the shooting or the men’s relationships.

In July, there had been another “disturbance” at the trailer that resulted in someone being taken in on a psychiatric hold “and brought to the county crisis unit,” said Scardina. He declined to say who had been held.

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Reichart used the site to raise money to get dentures. His bottom teeth are completely gone, and his few remaining upper teeth are so rotten that he has been systematically getting them pulled out.

He raised $1,000 through his HandUp profile, though he plans to use most of the money to stay in an SRO while he recovers from his dental surgery in early April. A Castro resident he befriended turns out to be a dentist who is donating his services.

“I think Adam is representative of individuals who have had extended periods of homelessness and that becomes a barrier to exiting the streets,” said Bevan Dufty, director of the mayor’s Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement office. “We are coming out of a time where resources were very limited, so priority is given to people very sick. Adam is not very sick, but his dental problems are keeping him from securing work and contributed to his not being able to pay for any housing.”

Reichart’s new goal is to find 20 people willing to donate $50 each month for a one-year commitment so he can remain housed for a year and build his strength back up in order to find permanent work. He had been washing dishes at a Castro eatery, but the work was exhausting and when he called out sick two days in a row he was let go.

“You can help a guy change his life by cutting out a cup of coffee a day for a month,” said Reichart. “If I was walking down the street you wouldn’t know I was homeless. I never thought I would be homeless this long.”

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In another incident, which Scardina estimated occurred in December, “deputies responded for an unwanted subject,” but when they arrived, they couldn’t locate the subject. The unwanted subject was Jackson, he said.

Scardina said he didn’t know what the specific problem with Jackson had been at that time. He only knew that Jackson “was going to be told not to come onto the property anymore.”

Then, in another call “within the last month, one of the parties wanted us to tell Mr. Jackson he was no longer welcome on the property, and if he didn’t stop coming by, they were going to seek a restraining order,” said Scardina. “We don’t have any information that a restraining order was sought or obtained.”

Scardina couldn’t immediately say whether Neville or Gillespie had been complaining about Jackson in the two recent incidents.

‘The quietest one’

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Correction The March 20 article, “Surrogacy provider faces forced bankruptcy,” inaccurately contained information about Geoff Moss, who was listed in the story as a former vice president of Planet Hospital.

According to Mr. Moss, he was an independent contractor. Additionally, Mr. Moss’s name has been removed from the story because he was not directly contacted about allegations made against him.

The online version has been corrected.

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Lesbian eliminated from American Idol

by Khaled Sayed

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he had made it to the top 10 and had a crowd of supporters at a San Francisco restaurant cheering her on.

But in the end, MK Nobilette, an out lesbian singer, was eliminated from American Idol last week.

Nobilette, 20, the first openly gay contestant on the show, will go on to perform in the “American Idol Top 10” tour. She was dropped from the show after singing Pink’s “Perfect.”

Over 50 people were jammed into the dining room at Cava Restaurant March 19 to watch the Fox show and cheer on Nobilette, including her lesbian moms, Mindy Spatt and Laurie Nobilette, who raised their daughter in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood. She went to Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.

Spatt, communications director at The Utility Reform Network, was not surprised to see her daughter come out on the show right away as the season began.

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American Idol contestant MK Nobilette, who had a large following in her hometown of San Francisco, was eliminated from the show last week.

“We are a gay family, she has two moms and grew up in San Francisco,” Spatt said. “I don’t think she realized what a dramatic thing it was to say.”

While Nobilette was trying to find herself, she thought about becoming a firefighter, but music was always on her mind. She sang for kids she babysat, close friends, and even on street corners in the city.

According to Spatt, an aunt of Nobilette’s who is a big fan of American Idol convinced her to try out when the show was in San Francisco for auditions last December.

Nobilette said on a PopStop TV interview that if she didn’t mention her sexual orientation, it would have been obvious. She was upfront about who she is and wanted the whole world to know that she is gay.

“It would have been on all over the social media. It isn’t something I wanted to hide. Reality TV shows can have gay people on them,” Nobilette said.

Spatt couldn’t agree more and feels great about her daughter performing before millions of people.

“We are very proud, not only about her singing, but of the way she conducted herself from the minute she came out, throughout all the press and interviews. She has been very articulate, humble, and spot-on,” Spatt said.

Laurie Nobilette, a nurse practitioner at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, never saw this coming, although she knew that her daughter had potential.

“I never realized how much she wanted to do this, but I think she didn’t realize it either until she was actually doing it,” Laurie Nobilette said.

Although MK Nobilette wasn’t a standout at school academically, she made up for it in music and vocal studies, her mother Laurie Nobilette said.

“We are grateful to SOTA for doing their best to educate her,” Laurie Nobilette said. “She got a great music education there, which she wanted to focus on, and I think her voice really developed when she was there. She learned a lot of good techniques.”

American Idol is a popular show that is watched by millions of people in the U.S., including those living in parts of the country where being gay isn’t accepted.

“Of course there will always be homophobia,” Spatt said.

“We know it is a conservative audience, but we know that she has a great base of supporters here. Overall, from what she told me, it has been a positive experience.”

Judy Garboyes, a close friend of Spatt’s, believes that MK Nobilette became a role model Khaled Sayed for young gay kids everywhere.

She isn’t surprised that NobiLaurie Nobilette, left, and Mindy lette came out right away early Spatt were proud of their daughter, MK Nobilette’s, appearance on in the show.

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“Obviously she had to, she

isn’t your typical American Idol girl, Garboyes said. “People saying she is only getting votes because she is gay.

No! She has a voice. The first time I played music with her, I told her mom that she has a voice.”

Garboyes played music with

Nobilette twice at Dolores Cafe, and once at the Dyke March in 2012.

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month ago Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a harsh anti-gay bill that made homosexuality a crime punishable by life in prison. Even though the Obama administration sharply criticized the law, it is sending additional military aircraft to the country to help Museveni capture rebel commander Joseph Koni. The administration is sending a mixed message, and one that is not easily solved. On the one hand, Koni is the leader of a guerrilla group that wants to topple the current government in the African country. On the other hand, the current government just made being gay a crime, causing the White House to review America’s relationship with Uganda. As Jennifer Cooke with the Center for Strategic and International Studies recently told the New York Times, “The tension between security and human rights is going to dog all of our foreign policy interests, but we should ask: How important is this security relationship? Because Museveni has not been a consistent force for stability in the region.”

The U.S. is cutting funds to organizations in Uganda that backed the anti-homosexuality law, including the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda. But the council won’t see its funding cut entirely. The Times noted that it will still receive $2.3 million for treating HIV/AIDS patients; but another $6.4 million that was intended for the organization will be given to other non-governmental groups in Uganda, according to a White House official. The new law also potentially threatens the safety of LGBT tourists in Uganda and the liberty of those who

show support for Uganda’s LGBT community, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden told the paper. As a result, about $3 million in U.S. funds designated for eco-tourism will be redirected to non-governmental groups.

What’s clear from this muddled mess is that the situation in Uganda is not good for LGBT people and yet President Barack Obama has chosen a strategy of careful trade-offs.

We understand the reality of trying to stop Koni, a rebel whose fighters are believed to have slaughtered thousands of villagers in Uganda and neighboring countries, but we believe a more forceful response is needed from the U.S. concerning the anti-gay law. This is definitely not about boycotts or sanctions – neither of which had an impact on Russian President Vladimir Putin after he signed the anti-gay propaganda law in his

country – but if the U.S. is going to use a carrotand-stick approach, we advocate for robust diplomacy that helps LGBTs in Uganda.

For starters, the State Department should ramp up efforts to help Ugandan LGBTs who want to leave the country. It’s not easy getting out of Africa, but when newspapers are outing gays on their covers and people are living in fear of being killed, intervention is needed.

The State Department should be working more closely with nonprofit advocacy groups in the U.S. that can accept refugees or those seeking asylum. Currently there are too few agencies and too much demand. Many LGBT community members in the Bay Area want to help but there is little organization among fundraising groups and no easy way to donate.

The Huffington Post reported last week that Secretary of State John Kerry plans to send experts on LGBT issues to Uganda and Museveni has committed to meeting them. We hope he keeps his word. Kerry, making the announcement at a university speech, said it was an example of the “tailored approach” to the State Department’s developing strategy on international anti-LGBT legislation, the website reported.

We’ll see how this approach works. Perhaps it will result in a better understanding of LGBTs. While we advocated for a possible reduction in foreign aid to Uganda several years ago when the anti-homosexuality bill first made headlines, it’s apparent that the cost of such an action is too great, especially for people living with HIV/AIDS. A case-by-case review of anti-gay laws may be the best solution, but if learning more about LGBTs doesn’t result in repeal of some of these laws, the administration will have to take a harder line.t

Finding a response to Fred Phelps

by Robert Shively

consistency he proved that a lack of intellectual reasoning applied y initial responses to Fred to biblical interpretation renders Phelps’s death have been as any conclusion morally bankrupt. wide ranging as any blog, TwitNo self-respecting Christian orter feed, or Facebook rant. Some ganization could align themselves wish a retaliatory response to his with such bizarre public displays death, wanting to take revenge (not even the Ku Klux Klan supand protest his funeral with equal ported him). Phelps was their ferocity and malice as he inflicted embarrassing Id: the shadow side on so many. But now I find myof the conservative religious right self aligning with those who want screaming out of the closet. Being to ignore his passing. I want him the extreme right he pushed many and his Westboro Baptist Church two steps toward the center with rendered inconsequential. By some modicum of tolerance (adwriting this, I acknowledge I may mittedly not progress enough).

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For Phelps’s part in the LGBT I saw him once in person pro- Fred Phelps made several trips to San Francisco to picket LGBT civil rights movement, I must testing Metropolitan Community events, including this March 1999 demonstration against a domestic thank him. I agree with blogger Church-San Francisco in March partners ceremony in City Hall.

JanJDad: 1998. I recall being oddly excited “He achieved the most epic we were important enough for Phelps’s public presence was not the reason fail in modern history. Not only him to haul his “God Hates Fags” posters all media coverage of the AIDS crisis was so paindid he not inspire a single person to his point the way from Topeka, Kansas to our little slice ful. In the 1980s, politicians and conservative of view, he drove millions away in revulsion. of heaven here in the Castro district of San evangelicals were too busy ignoring the epidemFor everything he lost in personal credibility Francisco. By then his vitriolic hate speech was ic. The challenge and hardship then was trying and respect, he helped fortify the well being getting national attention. The actual event to gain some degree of dignity and respect. Efof those he sought to destroy.” This irony prowas underwhelming, with more police present fecting public policy was a dream. Phelps and vides some solace. (in the 20s) than actual members of his group his cohorts had been protesting since the 1970s.

That Phelps, unwittingly, advanced civil rights (about 15). The Reverend Jim Mitulski and the At the time, nobody listened to him either. and religious tolerance is cause for celebration Reverend Penny Nixon coached their congreIn the 1990s, however, something hapat his passing. I celebrate this while working to gation on nonviolence: not retaliating in kind, pened that changed everything. Mataccept the challenge of my mentors. For but giving back love to that which is tossed at thew Shepard’s murder – beaten in truth, all spiritual disciplines ask the us in hate. They challenged us to rise above his and found tied to a Wyoming same: to rise above the hate that is tossed bilious rage. They also invited him to come in fence – tore at the heart of the at us, end cycles of violence, and take to worship. Not getting the angry response he LGBT community, and shocked personal responsibility to transform desired, he left for the next media opportunity. the nation with its brutality in a the hate we receive into love.

Their pastoral challenge then still resonates way that the hundreds of thouPerhaps you will join Wilson in for me now. The moderator of UFMCC, the sands of deaths of gay men from praying for those he hurt, and for Reverend Dr. Nancy Wilson, has offered someAIDS had not. And here stepped his group’s turn from hate. And, thing similar: forward this bizarre group properhaps, you can join me in offering “The harm Fred Phelps has done is undenitesting Shepherd’s funeral. Phelps’s thanks for the anti-example he set for millions. able. We grieve over every family member who revolting national media attention continued Better still, perhaps you will follow Judy questioned whether God loved them because with as many visible LGBT funerals as he Shepard (mother of Matthew Shepard), who of the destructive messages of Fred Phelps. Yet, could find. And when he could no longer feed gave this comment to the Advocate last week: our faith teaches us that hate is a dry and biton that issue he moved beyond LGBT funer“Regarding the passing of Fred Phelps, (huster fruit. It is only the persistent and repeated als to those of fallen American service people. band) Dennis and I know how solemn these modecision to love that can break the cycles of haThis new, unjustifiable, protest made plain his ments are for anyone who’s lost a loved one. Out tred. We choose love.” and his group’s naked cry for attention. of respect for all people and our desire to erase As I write this now, I figure if not love (I That his group grounded their hate as faith hate, we’ve decided not to comment further.”t humbly confess I am not there yet), I can, at must have grated against every right-wing conleast, choose to find my way past disgust and servative Christian. That he grounded his faith The Reverend Robert Shively is the anger. In order to do that I need to broaden my on a literal interpretation of the Bible must senior pastor at Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco. memory of what he did, and did not, achieve. have been equally disturbing to them. For in his

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Grindr could do more to stop HIV

Thank you for writing about San Mateo County’s efforts to reduce HIV and STD transmission, and the positive reception the health department has found [“Grindr now STD outreach tool,” March 27]. Talk about deception: I found Grindr’s assertion that in their experience the most effective approach in partnering with organizations to educate users via events and targeted messaging to be a slick PR deception. I’d love to see the data they use to support that assertion, if they’re talking about reducing transmission.

Grindr messages are much more about getting one’s pecs shaped than getting one to pee in a cup or a swab in their mouth. Shame on them and the other apps that could be doing so much more about the one issue they could really help on: stopping the epidemic. They could, free of charge, provide access to health workers and links to directories of where to get tested, sent out frequently, and placed as banner ads.

Tony Lobor San Francisco

Used again

The recent voting by the political action committee at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club for issues and candidates for the June ballot has been hijacked by the hordes of one-time voters taking advantage of the club’s allowing all votes to be counted no matter the dedication of its core membership. For instance, Nancy Pelosi, whom the Milk Club has rejected time and time again, was not endorsed by the PAC but voted in by the “membership.” A superior court judge candidate, Kimberly Toney Williams, was recommended by the PAC but was rejected by the membership in favor of candidate Daniel A. Flores. The PAC is made up of dedicated active members and the board of the Milk Club.

The Milk Club likes to think of itself as a gathering place for fair-minded people dedicated to democratic principles. We think we are superior to that other club, which some believe is corrupted by money, cynical politicians, and wannabes. Sorry, but when it comes to voting for candidates and issues that the club’s dedicated members spend time and energy vetting, we can match the other club’s cynicism.

For years the cynical packing of our club has muted our voices when voting is most important. This not only reflects poorly on the club’s leaders but on our integrity as a model of democracy in action. Why spend our precious

time and intelligent vetting of issues and candidates if all is lost on one night of voting? Why even bother being a member when City Hall comes in force to undo hours of research and thoughtful weighing of the pros and cons of issues and candidates. We should be known for the quality of our membership and not the quantity, which we like to boost as our influence on politics of the day. No, no our quality is dissipated as we are cynically used like an ATM machine. We need to stop the distortion of our core principles for the sake of appearing to be ethically and democratically above corrupting influences.

Having members of City Hall, unions, or the Democratic establishment should not be the goal of the club and somehow we have to mute their influence. We need to establish strict rules such as requiring all voters to attend at least three of the last five membership meetings in order to qualify for voting. Another way would be for the recording of all members’ attendance at membership meetings and eliminating those who only attend a meeting where crucial votes take place, such as the ones where we will spend our money and time influencing the voting public.

The Milk Club is noted for its influence and every action we take has long-term debilitating effects when we allow corrupting self-interest interfere with our decision making processes.

Denise D’Anne San Francisco

Be wary of tech gifts

In reading this article [“LGBT aging panel seeks tech support,” March 13] I would like to simply comment that we should be careful in taking money from large groups, whose main concern is their own self-interest. Whether it be tech, or other industries, large entities have only one concern: their profit, and they will go after their profit over anything else. We can be seduced by their money, but in the seduction we lose sight of those we serve, and care for the most the underprivileged.

It has been apparent for a long time that the reports and articles in the Bay Area Reporter, focus not on those who have the least, but those who are the upper middle class and above. We need to start focusing on the vast majority who have no money, no political clout. We need to return to the values of Harvey Milk and to the pioneers in our community.

Fr. River Damien Sims, Director Temenos Catholic Worker San Francisco

Alice, Milk LGBT Dem clubs endorse in June races

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he city’s two main LGBT Democratic clubs have taken divergent positions in the more hotly contested June primary races for state offices, particularly in the two races with gay candidates.

In the closely watched contest for San Francisco’s Assembly District 17 seat, the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club voted Monday, March 24 to endorse the straight candidate, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu.

Last fall the more progressive Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club gave an early endorsement to gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos. The seat is currently held by gay Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who is termed out of office this December and backing Campos to succeed him.

In the statewide race for controller, the Milk club voted this month to endorse gay Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles), whereas Alice is backing Betty Yee, who represents northern California and the Bay Area on the statewide Board of Equalization. Perez would be the first out candidate elected to a statewide office should he win the seat.

In 1994 Tony Miller, a gay man appointed to fill the vacancy created when March Fong Eu resigned as secretary of state, ran for a full term but lost his race.

Alice’s snub of Perez struck Bill Barnes, a gay former member of the local Democratic Party’s oversight body, as a missed opportunity

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David Chiu won the Alice club’s endorsement for his Assembly race.

The Milk club endorsed David Campos for the Assembly last fall.

to help elect an LGBT person in a statewide race.

“This is the first time we have a gay person running for statewide office who is viable,” said Barnes.

“This race is not getting the focus it deserves.”

Alice Co-Chair Ron Flynn told the Bay Area Reporter that while the club saw Perez as “obviously a good candidate,” it sided with Yee based on her resume being a better fit for the job of controller and due to her strong ties to Alice members.

“What Betty has been doing lends itself to that office,” said Flynn.

Another factor for the club, added Flynn, was the lack of women serving in statewide offices. That argument won out over those for seeing an LGBT person win a statewide race.

“Betty is plainly a qualified woman for statewide office,” Flynn said.

The historic nature of Perez’s race, said Milk Co-President Tom Temprano, was a determining factor in the club’s endorsement vote.

“The chance to endorse and support a historic candidacy for the first ever statewide LGBT elected official,” noted Temprano, “the membership felt strongly we should be doing.”

Helping elect Campos as the city’s first Latino assemblyman, in addition to maintaining LGBT representation in the Assembly seat, was also a factor in the Milk club’s endorsement in that race, added Temprano.

“I am proud to see the club having endorsed and ready to strongly advocate for two LGBT candidates of color who are both running in historic races,” he said.

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Quaint Carmel is great for a weekend trip

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hen you see a passageway, try not to go out the same way you came in,” advised Gael Gallagher, who leads the daily Carmel Walks walking tour of Carmel-bythe-Sea, a quintessentially quaint California seaside city just two hours south of San Francisco.

I had the pleasure of taking the tour earlier this month and exploring a good part of the Monterey Bay Area.

Carmel-by-the-Sea is home to just 3,800 residents and is one of the most unique communities in the world thanks to its founders a little over a century ago. The early developers sold land in small lots encouraging a sense of community with a lot of folks living together in walking distance of each other. Carmelby-the-Sea got its biggest boost in population from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as quake survivors headed south to start over in the Monterey Bay Area.

While people call Carmel-by-the-Sea simply “Carmel,” technically Carmel is the unincorporated area surrounding Carmelby-the-Sea and it’s not to be confused with Carmel Valley Village, which most shorten to “Carmel Valley,” an unincorporated Monterey County community inland that is known for its wine tasting rooms and sunny weather.

Carmel-by-the-Sea is known for its picturesque storybook architecture and its aforementioned passageways that connect the galleries and restaurants that keep tourists coming back year after year.

The best way to see Carmel-bythe-Sea and the surrounding sights in Monterey County is through a guided tour. One of the best is gayowned and -operated. Evan Oaks

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Harbor seals enjoy the sunny beach near the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

runs Ag Venture Tours and takes visitors on a number of tours throughout Monterey County and as far south as Big Sur to the Hearst Castle in neighboring San Luis Obispo County. Oaks has an encyclopedic knowledge of the wine and agricultural industry in Monterey County and he offers some tours that concentrate on vineyards and wine tastings while others give more of an overview of the region’s most popular attractions.

The square mile of seaside property that makes up Carmel-bythe-Sea is best explored on foot. A couple of must-do walking tours do the job well. The aforementioned two-hour Carmel Walks tour offers a fascinating history lesson on the city and takes walkers on some of the charming back alleys that you would probably never find on your own. The tour runs Tuesday-Saturday starting at 10 a.m. with a 2 p.m. walk on Saturday. Reservations are

required and it costs just $25.

The Carmel Food Tours is another must-do excursion. The tour starts at 11 a.m., lasts about three hours and costs $69, a bargain considering that gourmet food samplings along the way are included. People often find a favorite restaurant on the tour and return for dinner. The tour is also perfect for day-trippers who are looking to sample food from the restaurants that have made Carmel-bythe-Sea famous. The Carmel Walks and Carmel Food tours complement each other well as there is only a little overlap between the two.

Carmel-by-the-Sea has been LGBT friendly for decades but has never been GPS friendly. One of the city’s quirks is that none of the homes or buildings is numbered. Everybody picks up mail at the post office. Some homes are named to avoid confusion. You also technically have to get a permit from City Hall to walk the streets in high heels. That law was enacted in the 1960s to prevent lawsuits from people tripping on the city’s sidewalks, which sometimes can be made uneven by root growth.

Clint Eastwood famously helped repeal the law barring people from eating ice cream cones in the street after he was elected mayor in 1986. That law was designed to protect art galleries from sticky fingers.

You can get a sample of Monterey County’s famous wine crop without leaving Carmel-by-the-Sea. Wrath in the Carmel Plaza and Mazoni Cellars on San Carlos between Ocean and 7th offer a great selection of wine tastings from the county. Carmel-bythe-Sea offers a number of fine dining options where visitors can sample the region’s wines. Il Fornaio in the historic Pine Inn offers superb patio and outdoor dining in the heart of downtown. Grasing’s Restaurants on San Carlos between Mission and 6th is famous for its farm-fresh produce

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Accommodations

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Gael Gallagher of Carmel Walks stood in front of the “El Paseo” sculpture, one of the passageways in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

from the Carmel Valley.

Speaking of deliciously fresh, locally produced food, the largest grower of organic food in the U.S., Earthbound Farms, was founded in the Carmel Valley. The Earthbound Farm stand at 7250 Carmel Valley Road is a great place to stop for lunch and take a stroll through an organic garden and see how the food is produced. The farm stand offers all-you-can eat free raspberry picking over the late spring and early summer. The rule is that you can’t take any home with you.

The world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium is the biggest attraction in the county and is a must-stop for any visitor to the area. The aquarium is located on Monterey’s famed Cannery Row. The old cannery buildings now showcase shops, art galleries, and restaurants that draw tourists from all around the world.

The Monterey Movie Tours is a good way to see the major attractions along the scenic 17-Mile Drive and beyond. The bus shows film clips as it cruises by the most picturesque places in Monterey County where those films were shot. The bus makes a few stops, including one of the most photographed trees in the world, the Lone Cypress, which stands on a bluff along the 17-Mile Drive. You can see your favorite sights and then

The Monterey Bay Area is known for its boutique hotels and bed and breakfast inns. Carmel-by-the-Sea has a number of historic places to stay. The Pine Inn was the city’s first hotel, built in 1889. The upscale property was once up the hill and literally rolled down Ocean Avenue to its present location close to the ocean. A full complimentary hot American breakfast buffet is included with your stay.

Carmel-by-the-Sea is one of the most dog-friendly cities in the U.S. thanks to legendary actress Doris Day, who lives nearby and celebrates her 92nd birthday next month. Day coowns the Cypress Inn, which famously features a “Yappy Hour” afternoon social where dogs are very welcome.

The Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley is the place to be if you want to stay at a full service resort hotel.

The hotel boasts a spa, fitness center, croquet court, and two restaurants.

Its location in Carmel Valley means that it often stays warm and sunny there when the coast is socked in with fog. The hotel’s Wickets Bistro is open for casual dining for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The Centrella Inn in the charming town of Pacific Grove was built in 1889 and has been restored to give its guests the feel of what it was like for San Franciscans to vacation in the 19th century when the train used to run there. The Centrella includes a free hot breakfast and cocktail hour.

The hotel is a couple of blocks from the ocean and it is a pleasant mile or so walk along the water to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row. You can walk to a number of wonderful restaurants in the area or, if you want to splurge, check out the fabulous 1833 Restaurant near downtown Monterey.t

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he San Francisco branch of the American Association of University Women held its 130th anniversary luncheon and awards program during Women’s History Month at the Presidio Golf Club. Cathy Corcoran, right, the chapter’s out president, accepted a proclamation recognizing the organization’s milestone from Mayor Ed Lee, which was presented by Roberta Guise at the March 22 event. Commendations were also presented from out state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). In a statement, Corcoran said that she was thrilled that one of the oldest women’s organizations in San Francisco has “had a steady impact on the lives, studies, and careers of girls and women for more than a century and a quarter.”

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AHP marks 30 years of AIDS care

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ne of the first organizations to recognize the importance of addressing mental health needs of people living with HIV/AIDS marked 30 years of service with a recent reception at its Market Street offices in San Francisco.

According to its publications, the UCSF Alliance Health Project recognized early on that the HIV/AIDS epidemic had a devastating psychological impact on people. It was among the first organizations to emphasize mental health and wellness and to provide emotional support and therapy to HIV-positive and HIV-negative people, as well as their loved ones.

Today, AHP’s services include case management, individual and couples counseling, and psychiatry.

It also provides education and training in addition to its HIV/AIDS publications. Support groups are available for lesbians with disabilities, people coping with trauma, transgender folks, the newly positive, men over 50, and LGBTQ folks coping with sex and sobriety.

AHP has an annual budget of just under $8 million, said spokeswoman DK Haas. It serves about 6,500 unduplicated clients, and that fig-

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Supervisor Scott Wiener attended the UCSF Alliance Health Project’s recent 30th anniversary reception.

ure includes HIV tests and provider training that AHP is contracted to do around California.

The agency’s longtime executive director, Dr. James Dilley, reflected on its growth over the years at the March 21 event.

“A friend of mine asked me what it is like to be part of an organization that has gone from those early days to today, and my answer was gratitude,” Dilley said. “And, as Hillary Clinton famously said, ‘it takes a village.’ That is certainly true not only in raising a child, but in raising an organization.”

Another speaker was AHP medi-

cal director Dr. George Harrison, who said that he couldn’t imagine working anywhere else.

“The heart of AHP is our clients,” Harrison said. “We have served thousands of clients over the years.

Our substance abuse treatment, individual and group therapy, crisis interventions, outreach – our patients really benefited from all these services. They come to us and they open their hearts to us when they are undone by their situations.”

Harrison started working at AHP in 1993 when he was finishing his fourth year of residency.

Jen Shockey, a longtime HIV prevention worker who does training at AHP, shared some of her experiences with the audience as well.

“My work at AHP is very rewarding because of AHP being here since the beginning of the HIV epidemic.”

Shockey said. “I feel like everything that was taught to me was taught by each and every person that touched my life in the field, whether I was doing HIV testing and counseling, or working with different folks in the LGBTQ community throughout my years in HIV prevention.”

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Center plans for trans visibility, Soiree events

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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he LGBT Community Center is preparing for its inaugural Transgender Day of Visibility event next week and looking ahead to next month when it will celebrate its 12th anniversary.

The trans visibility event is a celebration of transgender lives, said Clair Farley, the center’s manager of employment services and a trans woman. The Transgender Day of Visibility was created a few years ago in response to the lack of LGBT holidays celebrating trans people, with the only well-known event being the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which mourns the loss of trans people to violence and does not always acknowledge and celebrate living members of the trans community.

This is San Francisco’s first year participating.

The center and the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative will hold a program at the center, 1800 Market Street, Monday, March 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. Speakers will include Ayme Kantz of Wells Fargo, Antonio Zeledon of Larkin Street Youth Services, Mia Tu Mutch of LYRIC, Carolyn Laub of GSA Network, and Farley. Nikki Calma will emcee.

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Center board member Angel VanStark and employment services manager Clair Farley talked about upcoming events at the LGBT Community Center.

Obituaries >>

Ray Workman

July 26, 1947 – March 7, 2014 Our beloved Ray passed away from liver cancer March 7, 2014 in San Francisco. Ray was born on July 26, 1947 in Compton, California to his beloved parents. He graduated from high school in Compton.

Ray moved to San Francisco 30 years ago. He was a travel agent and last worked as a receptionist for the Environmental

Protection Agency office in the city.

Ray had a sincere passion for live theater, especially musicals. His favorite musical was Hello Dolly, which he saw over 500 times. He recently saw it for the last time in Reno, Nevada. The last movie he saw was Nebraska.

His father, mother, brother, and lover preceded him in death. Ray is survived by his brothers, Robert of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Richard of Fresno, California, their families, and many friends. A memorial service will be held at the New Conservatory Theatre, 25 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, on Saturday, April 12 at 2 p.m.

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Cox

From page 1

In an interview with the B.A.R., Miss Major, as she is known, said she felt “thrilled” that Cox looks up to her, and glad to see a public gesture of appreciation toward elders despite not living in a society that caters to that.

“When you do this kind of work, those moments don’t come along often,” Miss Major said. “I was so enamored and honored by her, for who she is and how she got there.

She really is a beacon.”

Cox detailed her story – born a twin to a single mother in Mobile, Alabama, she was aware early on of the intersecting oppressions she would grow up experiencing. Her family was working class, African American, and the kids at school accused her of “acting like a girl.”

“From preschool to high school I was bullied pretty much everyday,” Cox told the audience. “ ... Everyone’s gender is being policed in this society and if each of us decides today, ‘I am not going to be the gender police,’ then we can begin to create spaces of gender self-determination.”

After graduating high school, Cox moved to New York City to attend Marymount Manhattan College.

At the time, Cox self-identified as gender nonconforming and stepped into the nightclub scene, a space she used to openly explore her gender.

Almost 16 years ago, she began her transition and stepped into womanhood.

She also talked about experiencing transmisogyny through street harassment saying, “I’ve come to believe that calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence,” a conversation point she used to pay homage to Islan Nettles, a 21-yearold African American transwoman beaten to death by street harassers in Harlem last year.

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Marin murder

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a bay popular for fishing, empty beer bottles were neatly arranged on the deck, which also held some fishing and workout equipment, a desk, and lawn ornaments. No one answered the door at Neville’s trailer or at several neighboring trailers.

An older blue-green Saturn was parked outside the home. A state Department of Motor Vehicle registration bearing Jackson’s name, a document from 24 Hour Fitness, and a soccer ball were visible through the windows.

Standing in a small shop near the men’s trailer, Carl Vogler, 43, who’s co-owned Lawson’s Landing for 10 years, said that of the three men, Neville “was the quietest one. He didn’t really come out very much.”

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LGBT seniors

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torney’s office to craft legislation to press for two of the task force’s suggestions. The measure will require all city departments and agencies contracted by the city to work with seniors to collect data on how many of their clients identify as LGBT as well as require staff at those agencies and departments to have culturally competent training about LGBT senior issues.

“We are hoping to do the legis-

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trans people receive that tell us we should not exist,” she continued.

“To be here tonight in front of you, a proud transwoman proclaiming my identity, for any trans person to proclaim their identity – is a revolutionary act in a world that says we should not exist.”

After Cox closed with an encouraging message to continue having community conversations “across difference with love and empathy,” a question and answer segment was opened, which provided the space for an especially memorable moment.

Moderator and CIIS Dean of Alumni Richard Buggs was passed a hand-written question that read: “I’m 6, and I get bullied. Since I get teased at school, I go to the bathroom in the office. What can I say to the kids who tease me?” Cox invited the student to the stage while explaining that teachers and parents should, instead, be having the hard conversations.

“You’re perfect just the way you are,” Cox told the youngster once he arrived on stage accompanied by his mother and uncle, Ryan Li Dahlstrom. “I was bullied and called all kinds of names, too. And now I’m a big TV star ... Just know you are amazing and that you are chosen.”

“It was a really powerful moment,” Dahlstrom, a self-identified mixed-race genderqueer trans person, said, “a sweet way to highlight alliances across different generations, races, and gender identities.

One thing I love about Laverne is that she grounds spaces she speaks in by honoring the legacy of trans people, especially trans women of color, who’ve made it possible for us to be here today.”

A reception with Cox following the program was attended by 110 people, including Miss Major and 16-year-old Jewlyes Gutierrez, a transgender student at Hercules Middle/High School. Gutierrez was charged with battery after a fight Jackson “was out and about the most” and was “really friendly,” he said. The young man could often be seen walking a border collie by the name of Nigel.

Gillespie “was nice,” and “would come by every once in a while,” he said, though he did not refer to Gillespie by name.

Neville and Gillespie had moved in in June, said Vogler. He estimated that Jackson moved in in July. He didn’t know what the relationships between the three men were, and he’d never seen all three of them together.

Kerry Apgar, 53, who works at the shop, said Jackson “was a very nice young man” who “had a smile that lit up the room.”

Anyone with information in the case is encouraged to call the sheriff ’s office at (415) 479-2311. The incident number is SO 14-1532.t lation within a few months,” said Wiener.

Campos did not respond to a request for comment by press time Wednesday.

Other areas the supervisors plan to address more immediately include ensuring senior facilities in the city are LGBT friendly and providing LGBT seniors with economic empowerment tools such as job training. They are also likely to recommend that either the board or the city’s Department of Aging and Adult Services form an implementation panel to ensure the task force’s report is not shelved and forgotten about.

“We will need to do more work in the future. This is not the end,” said attorney Bill Ambrunn, who chaired the task force. “It is the end of the task force, but we will need to do more work.”

A copy of the final report can be downloaded at http://sf-hrc.org/lgbtaging-policy-task-force-lgbtaptf.t

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related to long-term bullying broke out late last year. Charges were not brought against her alleged attackers. Prosecutors and defense attorneys last month agreed that Gutierrez could enter a restorative justice program.

Cox visited with Gutierrez at the reception, a “heartwarming” moment, according to Miss Major.

“That’s something that Jewlyes will always have in her memory if she ever needs the strength to get through something,” Miss Major said. “That will back her up.”

Cox is writing a memoir set for release in 2015, and is currently raising funds to create a documentary about the incarceration of Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald, an African American transwoman who, in 2011, fought back against attackers, which ended in an accidental stabbing death of one. McDonald spent 19 months in a men’s prison and was recently released.

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Center

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The center is starting its transgender visibility program a few days early with an appearance by bestselling trans author Janet Mock Friday, March 28 but tickets sold out in eight hours. Due to limited capacity, the event continues to be free but the center has ended online registration.

Soiree

The center’s anniversary party, Soiree, is set for Saturday, April 5 at City View at Metreon. Tickets are available. Last week staffers talked about the center and the birthday party.

“It’s an exciting time for the center,” said Roberto Isaac Ordenana, the center’s director of development. “We’re celebrating our 12th anniversary. The center is important: we connect people to each other, we provide services to the most vulnerable.”

He pointed out that up to 70 percent of transgender people are unemployed or underemployed, while many LGBT youth are homeless.

The center works toward alleviating these issues, and has in fact accomplished much in that regard.

“As the land of hope and opportunity for many in the LGBT community, San Francisco is not without its challenges,” said Rebecca Rolfe, the center’s executive director. “Soiree allows us to celebrate how far we’ve come, but it’s also an important chance to band together and help those in need.”

Angel VanStark, 21, is a center success story. Once homeless, the young

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AHP

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cy has an internship program where psychotherapy students can apply to spend a year with the organization.

During this time the students volunteer to help LGBTQ people work on their mental health concerns.

AHP has long had an HIV testing program – it started the firstever anonymous test sites in 1985 – and Perry Rhodes III, a program manager for the test and counseling unit, said it provides tests seven days a week at the 1930 Market Street of-

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For Alice, Campos’s argument for maintaining LGBT representation did resonate, said Flynn, but it was Chiu’s arguments that he would be a strong ally that won the club’s support.

“David Chiu is never going to turn his back on the community and will come to the community and ask it to be part of his inner circle. Not that Campos won’t do that, but with Chiu we don’t feel like there is a non ally there,” said Flynn. “We want allies at the table and to reward our allies by letting them know that we will be there for them.”

In the race for the open Office 20 seat on the San Francisco Superior Court, the two clubs are also split, with Milk backing Daniel A. Flores and Alice behind Kimberly Toney Williams.

While Alice is behind Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom’s reelection bid, Milk again snubbed the city’s former mayor.

“He was no fan of ours when he was mayor, and we remain not a fan of his now that he is in Sacramento,” explained Temprano.

The two clubs have taken a similar stance in the open secretary of state race, as both decided not to endorse any of the candidates, who include state Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and state Senator Alex Padilla (D-Los Angeles). At Alice no one in the race could meet the 60 percent threshold needed to secure its backing; with Milk Yee had won a

“Ninety percent of transgender people are discriminated against in the workplace,” she said. “When I came to the city I didn’t understand why I couldn’t find work. I was so busy fighting discrimination, I didn’t know where to go.”

But like VanStark, she found help at the center.

“The dialogue is changing,” she said. “There’s been a big change in the media.”

Farley wants that dialogue to be about solutions. Through her office, she works with trans people to help them achieve their dreams. This includes a program with the Transgender Law Center to help people who are transitioning in the tech field, where, she says, there are more transgender workers than people may realize.

“The big thing in tech is moving forward,” said VanStark. “You cannot have those conversations unless you have diversity.”

Funds raised at Soiree will help provide services at the center. Ordenana promises there will be good food and drink, a jazz tribute to the San Francisco Beat Generation, a silent auction, performances from Veronica Klaus and The Cliptones, and much more.

“The center’s budget is $2 million per year,” he said. “This event raises $150,000 for the center. The proceeds support center programs.”t

man’s radiant smile shows how happy he is with the changes that have come into his life. Now working in the tech industry, he’s moving into his first apartment. VanStark now sits on the center’s board of directors, and is the District 8 representative on the San Francisco Youth Commission.

“I faced a lot of challenges in regards to identity and finding community,” he said. “I came to the center’s employment fair. I got college credits and a job through the program. The center is the center for making sure youth and transgender people are employed, and for making youth and people of color recognized.”

VanStark remains involved with the center so he can pay it forward.

“The center has provided me the unique position where I can talk about these issues and people listen,” he said. “Being given this opportunity has enabled me to relate to multiple communities and to help people. I feel inspired to make sure everyone is represented.”

VanStark and Ordenana described some of the specific services the center offers to youth: HIV testing, crisis support, self defense education, budget counseling, assistance in finding housing, and more. Anyone can stop in and apply for service.

“Youth ask us how they can get involved and make it more youth supportive,” Ordenana said. The center, he noted, hosts an average of 200 events per month, with 70 active community partnerships.

Farley talked about how trans people face employment discrimination even in a liberal city such as San Francisco.

Soiree takes place April 5 from 6:30 p.m. to midnight at City View at the Metreon, 135 4th Street.

Tickets are $95, with VIP tickets going for $150. For more information, visit www.sfcenter.org.

fice and through a mobile unit that goes to the Castro. Mobile testing services are offered at Castro and 18th Street on Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Sundays from 12:30 to 3 p.m., and Monday nights from 6 to 8 pm.

Among the attendees at the anniversary party was gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. “AHP is a great organization for many years I used to come here for HIV testing,” Wiener said. “I also work closely with the organizations on budget issues and I was able to get some funding for their programs.”

Wiener noted that while AHP fo-

cused on AIDS in its early years, the agency is now able to look at other issues its clients face.

“Even though the HIV epidemic is still with us, it is more under control, and we are able to highlight some of the other health needs in our community around mental health, substance abuse, health care for transgender people, and health care needs for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer seniors,” Wiener said. “AHP does a terrific job of moving these needs forward and making sure that people are getting the health care that they need.”t

nod from the club’s political action committee but lost favor with members for opposing affirmative action legislation.

On Wednesday, Yee was arrested on bribery and corruption charges, according to authorities. Local media outlets reported that the FBI investigation dates back several years.

As for the other statewide races, Alice and Milk are in agreement in supporting the re-election bids of Governor Jerry Brown, Attorney General Kamala Harris, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. The two clubs also both support state Controller John Chiang’s bid to become the state’s next treasurer and former Assemblywoman Fiona Ma’s race to succeed Betty Yee in her Board of Equalization, District 2 seat.

In the other local races, both clubs are endorsing the re-election bids of Congresswomen Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo/San Francisco) and Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) as well as Assemblyman Phil Ting (DSan Francisco).

pervisors,” stated Yeager in an email response to the B.A.R. “Beyond my work on LGBT issues, I believe my lack of an opponent speaks to the years I have spent working to address diverse issues ranging from health, transportation, public safety, and environmental issues.”

Yeager serves on the board of the California State Association of Counties with his gay counterpart, San Diego County Supervisor Dave Roberts. It is believed that in addition to Campos and his gay colleague, Supervisor Scott Wiener, there are only four out county supervisors in the state.

A fifth one could be elected in June if either Sheila Kuehl, a lesbian former state lawmaker, or gay West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran become the first LGBT person to win a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Kuehl and Duran are both running for the board’s open District 3 seat.t

Yeager glides to final term

Gay Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager is assured a third and final term on the board as no one filed to challenge his re-election bid. His name will still appear on the June ballot, but no matter the vote count, he will be officially reelected at that time.

“I am pleased that I will have another four years to represent my constituents on the Board of Su-

Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

This week’s column reported on the LGBT Legislative Caucus’ endorsement of two gay Assembly candidates.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8615019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550771

In the matter of the application of JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, is requesting that the name JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, be changed to JACK SORIANO WHITEFORD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 13th of May 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035670700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADISON DREW PHOTOGRAPHY, 1209 37TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW Y. LEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/20/14.

MAR 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035687900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLUIDITY, 143-A PIERCE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JEFFREY ARNOLD TAYLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/28/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/14.

MAR 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035676500

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035681000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALADDIN BAIL BONDS, 835 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TWO JINN INC, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/25/14.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035706000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COLD STONE CREAMERY, 119 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed CRISELDA DIAZ & EDWIN DIAZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/05/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/14.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035697700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NIMBLY, 25 TAYLOR ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company and is signed NIMBLY LLC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/14.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550181

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SEW; WALKERSHAW CLOTHING; 29-1/2 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed CONNIE WALKER & IRA SHAW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/24/14.

In the matter of the application of: NATESH DANIEL, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NATESH DANIEL, is requesting that the name NATESH DANIEL, be changed to NATHAN DIESEL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 13th of May 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOUIS, 914 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LOUIS GOUDEAU, LLC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOELANI, 1700 A UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DELIGHT LOW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/85. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/14.

MAR 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035689600

MAR 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550160

In the matter of the application of: NASER ABBAS SALMAN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NASER ABBAS SALMAN, is requesting that the name NASER ABBAS SALMAN, be changed to SALMA SALMAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 6th of May 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550171

In the matter of the application of: JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, is requesting that the name JOHN LANCE WHITEFORD, be changed to JACK SORIANO WHITEFORD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 13th of May 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035688800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FISHERMAN’S WHARF APPRENTICE, PIER 28, THE EMBARCADERO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN H. MELLOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/18/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/14.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035700300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUCKY HER, 601 CALIFORNIA ST #1600, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARIA-LALAINE B. LEGASPI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/14.

MAR 13, 20, 27, APR 03, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035666200

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035691100

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035700000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF WEB SOLUTION, 3532 21ST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOERG KLEINEBRAHM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035678000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOU IT NOW, 3015 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LOUISE WO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/18/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/24/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035714700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HENRY’S HUNAN RESTAURANT, 674 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MATMAR CO. INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/13/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035711600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOT POT ISLAND, 5512 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HAN HU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/12/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035715500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FYRN, 2901 MARIPOSA ST #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BROUGHTON WOODWORKING, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/13/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035717400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMOKE & MIRRORS; SMOKE&MIRRORS; SMOKE&MIRRORS HAIR; SMOKE&MIRRORS HAIR AND FASHION PLAYGROUND, 256 SUTTER ST, 2ND FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SMOKE AND MIRRORS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/19/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHANKEL STUDIOS, 3376 23RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed JASON PAUL SHANKEL & MARIA ISAACS SHANKEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/14.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035701300

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035725700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HILLS PLAZA MARKET, 345 SPEAR ST #115, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed HILLS PLAZA MARKET LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PROGRESSIVE GROUNDS, 400 CORTLAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed AZIZ A. BENARAFA & KHAMMAR MARCO BOUJEBHA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/01. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BANDIDOS, 2200 A MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed SNAKEBITE, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHEZ JULIEN, 100 BUSH ST #110, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VISIONARY PARTNERS GROUP INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035710400

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035706600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FASHION SPOT, 824 STOCKTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 9410. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed W & W INTERNATIONAL TRADING LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035719100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AE ACADEMY LLC, 415 STOCKTON ST, 4TH FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed AE ACADEMY, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/17/14.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-029240600

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: COLD STONE CREAMERY, 119 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by ICE CREAM ENTERTAINMENT LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/06.

MAR 20, 27, APR 03, 10, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035737700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DEJURE DESIGN, 129 27TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/24/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035727600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RECRUITING LIKE A BOSS; RECRUIT L.A.B.; RLAB; 350 TOWNSEND ST #717, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed UKACHI N. OKORONKWO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/19/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035731400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OPTUM CREATIVE, 268 BUSH ST #4315, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WALTER E. PEARCE JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035702300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NENAH’S DOLCI, 1390 MISSION ST #701, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARITZAYANA ORTIZ PEREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035728600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KOTAS CONSTRUCTION, 130 MONTEREY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON KOTAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035697500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STEFFAN SPA, A MASTER HEALING ARTS STUDIO, 3150 18TH ST #244, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL T. STEFFAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/14.

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MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035727800

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MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035701600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE UPS STORE 6520, 4104 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JING STORE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035727000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SABRA GRILL RESTAURANT, 419 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SABABA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035733900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KING’S MARKET, 2398 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SILVERMAN, LLC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/14.

MAR 27, APR 03, 10, 17, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035727400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NO DEPRESSION, 460 BUSH ST, 2ND FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FRESHGRASS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/14.

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BART presently intends to enter into no more than two, three-year Agreement(s). It is anticipated that the total amount awarded for each agreement under this RFSOQ shall not exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00); however, there is no guaranteed minimum level of compensation as more particularly described in the RFSOQ No. 6M8073.

A pre-submittal meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at 300 Lakeside Drive, LKS 15, Conference Room, 1500, Oakland, CA 94612. Prospective Proposers and subconsultants are urged to make every effort to attend this only-scheduled pre-submittal meeting.

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REPORT CITES HEALTH GAPS

Traditionally, IOM committees are asked to identify research gaps and priorities within a field. “But that paradigm does not fit for this area,” chair Dr. Robert Graham said at the March 31 news conference releasing the report.

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The Bay Area Reporter decided to update its look now that we’re 40.

So we’ve made some slight design changes in both sections of the paper, with new fonts, and in the case of the Arts and Culture section, a new name.

Most significantly, our website has been updated to allow for video with stories, and readers can now comment directly on our online content if they are friends on Facebook.▼

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report released last week detailed the need for more federal research and data collection on the health of LGBT people.

“Lesbian, Bob Roehr gay, bisexual, Dr. Robert Graham and transgender individuals experience unique health disparities.

Although the acronym LGBT is used as an umbrella term, and the health needs of this community are often grouped together, each of these letters represents a distinct population with its own health concerns,” stated the summary of the report, written by the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

“Furthermore, among lesbians, gay men, bisexual men and women, and transgender people, there are subpopulations on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic based status, geographic location, age, and other factors,” the report continued.

While that summary statement is not news to anyone familiar with the LGBT community, the fact that it was made in the IOM report, which was commissioned by the National Institutes of Health, adds new meaning and credibility to shaping health policy, which that heretofore had been lacking.

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or 40 years now, the Bay Area Reporter has informed, entertained, and frequently miffed people in San Francisco and beyond.

The paper started when Bob Ross – chef, Tavern Guild president, and bar culture insider – launched it with business partner Paul Bentley. The first issue was dated April 1, 1971 but hit the streets on April 2, Ross’s 37th birthday. Ross pasted up all the pages by hand, copied them, and delivered them to local bars.

In the beginning, nobody took the paper too seriously.

Cleve Jones, who said he had an “up and down” relationship with Ross and who was a close friend of slain gay icon Harvey Milk, started reading the paper after his arrival to San Francisco in 1972.

“To be honest, it was sort of a silly publication,” said Jones, who now works with the Courage Campaign. “Most of the other young people didn’t really have much it. It was basically just announcementsuse for about whatever specials were going on at whatever bar.”

The front covers of many early 1970s issues were dedicated to the Imperial Court’s

Despite setbacks, LGBT scene in San Jose is ‘vibrant’

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he past year has seen several setbacks in San Jose’s LGBT community, even as data from the 2010 census recently revealed that the South Bay berg is now the 10th largest city in the country.

Recent events, however, have made it seem that for a city with almost 1 million people, there’s not much strength in the gay community there.

Last month, the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center canceled its 30th anniversary party, which had been planned for March 26. Only about 40 tickets had been sold.

Last November, the Silicon Valley AIDS Leadership Center, which had organized the annual Walk for AIDS, announced its closure.

And about three months before that, in August, the Gay Pride Celebration Committee of San Jose Inc. opted not to hold a parade.

Of course, problems at LGBT organizations aren’t unique to San Jose. Several San Francisco agencies have been struggling financially. And people with Pride and the DeFrank center indicate they’re all right.

“We have a vibrant community, and when we can engage them, I think that they’re there,” said Ray Mueller, who joined San Jose Pride’s board earlier this year.

One example is last Thursday’s LGBT night with the San Jose Sharks hockey team. Tickets sold out in 10 days.

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Rick Gerharter Members of the Kaiser Permanente contingent enjoyed the sun and music as they headed down Market Street at last year’s Pride parade.

t’s been a rough year for organizers of the 43rd annual San Francisco LGBT Pride parade and celebration, but Pride chief Earl Plante still sounds enthusiastic about this year’s theme, “Embrace, Encourage, Empower.”

Plante, CEO of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, said that to him, the theme means, “embracing all aspects of our community” and “diversity at all levels.” It also invokes “empowering the broader global LGBT movement.”

“San Francisco Pride is a thought leader ... it has been since its inception,” Plante said.

This year’s Pride festivities begin Saturday with the festival in Civic Center, from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, the celebration in Civic Center runs from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The parade kicks off at 10:30 a.m. at Market and Beale streets and ends at Market and Eighth streets. The Pride festival is free, but a donation of $5 is suggested.

There will be jubilation in the streets as well, following Wednesday’s historic victories at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Phyllis Lyon is escorted down the Rotunda stairs in San Francisco City Hall by Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, left, and Mayor Ed Lee.

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n a stunning double victory, the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday issued decisions that strike down both a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban.

The DOMA decision, a 5-4 split, was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and joined by

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The Pro-Latino contingent marched in the 2008 San Jose Pride Parade; officials are not yet sure if there will be a Pride Parade this year, although the festival is scheduled for August.

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the four liberal justices of the court. It strikes DOMA as unconstitutional because it the guarantees of equal protection violates and due process.

The DOMA dissent, based largely on matters of standing, was led by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the court’s three other conservatives.

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ay Army private Bradley Manning was stripped of his grand marshal status and is 3,000 miles away in Maryland at his court-martial but supporters will honor him in Sunday’s San Francisco LGBT Pride parade anyway.

Mueller said the event will generate about $1,000 for this year’s Pride, which is August 2021. A block of about 300 tickets, ranging from $36 to $73, were reserved for the hockey night.

“I think the Sharks event proves people out there to go to something there are that isn’t the usual ‘Let’s go to a gay bar and have a fundraiser,’” said Mueller.

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The Bradley Manning Support Network contingent, which has marched in San Francisco Pride parades for the last two years, is expected to be teeming with activists, probably a couple politicians, and supporters of the WikiLeaks whistle-blower.

In a statement released this week, Manning’s local supporters said in essence that they didn’t care that the San Francisco Pride board refused to honor him – Manning will be their grand marshal.

Manning, 25, is accused of leaking some 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website. He has confessed to some of the charges against him, but is being court-martialed on other charges.

The most serious, aiding the enemy, could send him to prison for life.

After initially naming Manning as a grand marshal in late April, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board reversed itself two days later. Initially Pride board President Lisa Williams, in a statement, said that it was a “mistake” to name Manning a grand marshal. Later, the board came out with a sec-

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The DeFrank center has been hobbled by financial and leadership problems years and currently has no full-time in recent executive director. However, Chris Flood, the DeFrank’s board president, indicated that the center’s doing better than it might appear.

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The Free Bradley Manning contingent, shown here in last year’s parade, is expected to be larger on Sunday. ond statement that said Manning couldn’t be considered for a community grand marshal slot because he is not local.

After a contentious community meeting May 31, the Pride board declined to recognize Manning in any way for the Pride celebration.

Joey Cain, a former Pride Committee board president and a former parade grand marshal,

was the person who nominated Manning for the honor. He has been by turns, angry, hurt, and disappointed in how the controversy has played out, and the lack of communication and transparency from Pride officials.

“There’s a major leadership problem at Pride that needs to be addressed,” Cain said in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

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n his play The Habit of Art, Alan Bennett imagines a late-life meeting between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten in which the former collaborators fuss at each other over, among other things, openness about their homosexuality. As he wrote the play, Bennett, never particularly secretive about his own gayness, found himself more in sympathy with Britten’s restrained approach to being gay.

“It’s not something that rules my life, and I don’t want to be in anyone’s pigeonhole,” the 79-year-old author of such plays as Habeas Corpus, The Madness of George III, and The History Boys said from his home in London. “I wouldn’t be like Ian McKellen, for instance. He makes gay activism a part of his life, and I just want to get on with my work.”

Bennett was on the phone in support of Theatre Rhino’s current production of The Habit of Art, which premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2009, and is having its Bay Area premiere under John Fisher’s direction at Z Below Theatre. Fisher also plays Britten, and Donald Currie has the role of Auden.

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Playwright Alan Bennett followed up The History Boys with The Habit of Art, which imagines a cantankerous late-life meeting between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten.

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n March 29, the beautiful Castro Theatre takes a brief break from screening films and becomes a comedy club. On that night, a Who’s Who of drag stardom will take to the stage and perform a series of standup routines. There will no doubt be much laughter. There may even be a few sharp observations about real life.

“I’ll be sharing stories about growing up as a gay kid in a working-class neighborhood in the Bronx,” said Coco Peru, a seasoned stage and film performer.

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The art behind all the drama

by Roberto Friedman

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nspired by the world premiere of Bauer by Bay Area playwright Lauren Gunderson that opened at San Francisco Playhouse last weekend (reviewed in this week’s issue), Out There visited the Weinstein Gallery on Geary St. in Union Square to take in The Realm of the Spirit, a Rudolf Bauer retrospective spanning five decades of his oil paintings and works on paper. He lived from 1889 until 1953.

The gallery’s executive director Kendy Genovese gave us an indepth tour of the exhibit, which covers Bauer’s career from his earliest drawings and magazine illustrations through his breakthrough in “nonobjective painting,” his term for abstract art as one of its earliest practitioners.

Originally championed by the captain of industry/art collector Solomon R. Guggenheim, Bauer’s art formed the centerpiece of Guggenheim’s first museum. But drama and scandal followed artworld success – now we know all the juicy details – and in 1952, his work was banished to the basement of the Guggenheim Museum. Bauer’s place

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“Andante” (1938), oil on canvas, painting by Rudolf Bauer.

in art history was effectively erased. The play explores the arc of this true and tragic story.

Viewers to the gallery will be surprised, as we were, to find the extent of Bauer’s early representational work, as well as his forays into styles associated with Futurism and Cubism. Audiences of the theatrical work will hear the whole sordid story of why this early adapter abandoned his art practice. In both places, art meets the messy business of life.

On the block

Last weekend auction house Pre-

miere Props sold off a collection of 34 newly uncovered photos of James Dean, along with their negatives, at their headquarters in El Segundo, CA. The photographs were taken by Gus Vignolle, photojournalist for Sports Illustrated. Vignolle covered Dean when the movie star raced in a new Porsche Speedster for the first time, in Palm Springs in March 1955. Vignolle also published the sports-car newspaper MotoRacing in October 1955, which included some of these photos in a four-part series.

The negatives had been missing for over 50 years when Vignolle’s daughter Zaz Vignolle Clark uncovered them while sorting through her father’s effects. Vignolle had met Dean at the actor’s first auto race, and Dean raced only two more times before the fatal accident in his new 550 Porsche Spyder on his way to a race in Salinas, CA. He lived fast, died young.

In addition to these photos, Premiere Props auctioned over 1,000 movie and TV props, costumes and rare classic posters, including the curtains that adorned the windows and doorways in Tara in Gone With the Wind – some were subsequently used by Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) to create her famous “Curtain Dress”; Ingrid Bergman’s custom dress form and stand used at Selznick’s Studios during the 1940s, when David O. Selznick put her under contract; a Roman Army shield from Cleopatra; a gorilla horse soldier head from Planet of the Apes; strands of James Dean’s hair obtained by Gordon Bau, the makeup supervisor on Giant; strands of Elvis Presley’s hair kept by Presley’s hairstylist and barber, Homer M. Gilleland; and strands of Marilyn Monroe’s hair found by make-up artist Sydney Guilaroff on the set of the ill-fated, unfinished feature Something’s Got To Give. We don’t know about you, but we think it’s kind of creepy that make-up and hair people were saving the stars’ clippings in order to cash in on them later. But that’s Hollywood!

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Thanks are due to the Hyatt Regency Monterey for inviting Out There and Pepi down the coast for a two-night stay on the Monterey Peninsula last week. While OT is quite the city mouse, we find it’s a necessary restorative to get out of the metropolitan area every now and again to gain some perspective. As Northern California is truly one of the most beautiful places on earth, it’s easy enough to take off and visit somewhere great. The MontereyCarmel-Big Sur area is only two hours away by fast car, and by that we mean a car that Pepi is driving.

We stayed in a room with a kingsize bed and a balcony overlooking the golf course, so we came to recognize the metallic ping when a golf club hits a new, porcelain-sounding golf ball. We saw the latest thing in golf bags, which provide their own locomotion by remote control. We had a luxurious dinner at TusCA Ristorante, treated to a tasting menu devised by the charming Chef Mike Behan. And we lunched at Knuckles Sports Bar, where we considered asking management to switch the channel on our in-booth TV from all-sports, all-the-time to Russia Today. A great sojourn; we were in good hands thanks to the hotel’s Julie Sherman, Joelle Morris, David Lambert and Joe Manuguerra.

Also last week, The Epiphany Hotel, the new Joie de Vivre Hotel on Hamilton Ave. in Palo Alto, invited us to a media preview dinner at its restaurant Lure + Till. The indoor-outdoor restaurant’s innovative Northern Californian cuisine is prepared by Executive Chef Patrick Kelly, formerly of Gitane and Angèle. The sneak peek highlighted Lure + Till’s craft cocktail program, house-made tonics and sodas, and experimental offerings, including barrel-aged Negronis. We sampled bar manager Carlos Yturria’s excellent P.D. (Smirnoff vodka, rhubarb and lemon), Peninsula Punch (Kappa Pisco, lemon and pineapple),

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Artist’s rendering of The Epiphany hotel, just opened in Palo Alto.

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and Bright Idea (La Vida Mezcal, prickly pear, lemon agave nectar and absinthe). The repast included raw Hamachi and Alaskan halibut; Black Chitarra pasta and lobster; tagliarini, hen jus, slow-cooked egg and turnip; Black Kingfish with black trumpet mushrooms, Meyer lemon confit, cauliflower puree and treviso; and New York Strip, braised oxtail, whipped bone marrow, broccoli raab, and potato croquette. An excellent feast all around.

In the men’s room, one urinal is emblazoned with the UC Berkeley logo, there for the peeing pleasure of the Stanford community. A proud alumnus, we took good aim.t

Cabin fever

by David Lamble

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he new erotic thriller Tumbledown reaches a scrumptious climax as two beautiful boys celebrate

hot sex with their favorite ice cream flavors.

“What kind did you get?”

“Cookie Dough. What kind did you get?”

“Caramel and chocolate.”

“Ice cream has got to be the best after-sex food.”

“Or before sex.”

The 21st feature by Maine backwoods soft-core artiste Todd Verow, Tumbledown is that most curious of queer straight-to-disc efforts, a tasty little gem that, despite some real flaws, just kept growing on me, finally earning this qualified rave as well as a spot on my guilty-pleasures shelf. The set-up is deceptively simple: bald, butch, mid-40s dude Jay (Verow) orders two straight vodkas (no lime) and proceeds to pick up hunky bartender Rick (co-writer/producer Brad Hallowell). The pair hit Jay’s mountain cabin, where they’re joined by Jay’s beau, bottle-blonde cutie Mike (Brett Faulkner’s horn-rim glasses complete the aesthetic foreplay).

The blonde and the barkeep hit it off, neglecting Jay. The crux of the piece is Jay’s revenge and the engrossing chaos that ensues.

There are minor goofs and implausible touches – a man ingests a date-rape drug from a plastic water bottle where the seal has been broken; the film’s minimal casting makes it appear that Maine has about a dozen inhabitants – but ultimately these and the just-abovesoap-opera acting don’t detract

from a potent scenario that caters to necrophiliac fantasies, executed with the innocence of a Hardy Boys serial. Propelled by nifty cast chemistry and pseudo hard-boiled, wiseass dialogue, Tumbledown easily justifies its 80 minutes, with erotic touches prompting the replay button. It’s a lovely moment when Jay, having just fucked a drugged-out Rick without a condom, proceeds to wolf down a couple of hamburgers while sitting next to the still-unconscious hunk. Jay then carefully puts away the condiments before retiring to the bedroom.

Verow, who set the bar high with an early stumble adapting Dennis Cooper’s serial-killer novel Frisk, has now produced his minor classic.

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All the drama behind the art

by Richard Dodds

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here was to be no happy ending for artist Rudolf Bauer, at least not in his lifetime, but the brief moment of spiritual renewal that playwright Lauren Gunderson provides is a fantasy that feels just right. In Bauer, Gunderson creates dramatic tensions from situations built for that effect, but also from ideas that don’t suggest ready dramatization.

Presented in director Bill English’s exquisite production at San Francisco Playhouse, this world premiere from the prolific Bay Area playwright is a swirl of hurts, hopes, regrets, love, hate, and forgiveness that finds an order that Bauer himself sought for his art.

It’s not important to know the background of Bauer’s complicated and prematurely stunted career as a pioneering abstract artist, for Gunderson creatively weaves this history through the more immediate dramatic confrontations of the play while we see visual examples of Bauer’s stylistic evolution in the in-

creasingly imaginative large-format projects designed by Micah J. Stieglitz.

The 95-minute play takes place in a large room (designed by English) holding a few blank canvases but that is otherwise blank itself.

This was the studio where Bauer once painted, and where he insists a meeting with the woman who is his long-estranged lover, patron, savior, and perhaps, betrayer, takes place.

Bauer’s wife would much rather entertain in a more fashionable room in the house, but the artist wants the dreaded guest to see this studio that reflects the creative death he blames on her.

That guest is Hilla Rebay, who championed Bauer’s work in their native Germany, rescued Bauer from Nazi imprisonment through bribery, and convinced Solomon R. Guggenheim that Bauer should be a major part of the artworks he was assembling for the museum that bears his name.

But despite the vastness of this seeming largesse, Bauer unwittingly

Sea stories

by Jim Piechota

Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea: Stories by Dan Lopez; Chelsea Station Editions, $14 on’t be deceived by its diminutive size. Dan Lopez’s just released debut story collection Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea is a powerhouse of literary dexterity. There are five stories collected here, and all are linked by the sea, the seduction of water and tide, and the release of waves and surf.

Group therapy can’t seem to buffer the pain and loss of two soldiers

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returning home from Afghanistan to empty nests and abandoned relationships in the emotional title tale.

Buoyed by their shared grief, both men sift through the embers of their pre-war lives until a kiss and a poem about the sea binds them in unexpected and hopeful ways.

Elsewhere, undercurrents of regret and remorse are found running just beneath the cordiality of friendly conversation. In “Coast of Indiana,” a day at the shore finds two lovers, mired in the ever-present uncertainty and fallibility of relationships, contemplating a relocation to the area while one seems to be moving in a whole

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Louise Bauer (Susi Damilano, center) tries to mediate between her artist-husband Rudolf Bauer (Ron Guttman) and his former patron (Stacy Ross) in the premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Bauer at SF Playhouse.

signed a contract vetted by Rebay that not only gave Guggenheim more than 100 of his completed works but also required that all future works go to the foundation in exchange for a stipend and a house in New Jersey. His work was now legally considered “output,” as he bit-

terly notes in the play, and this has killed his creative drive. Bauer’s wife Louise hopes that Rebay’s visit will somehow pull her ailing husband from his voided life, but if this is to happen, scarred-over wounds must first be reopened.

As Bauer, Ronald Guttman is

different direction from the other. “I wanted to explore this coastline – not for Peter, but for myself – this lake that could shake off its serenity like a heavy sweater and riot like a boundless ocean,” he ponders. “I could cut across the surface of the water without anything ever sticking to me.”

A “threadbare pair of paintspeckled jeans” worn by a pert young deckhand seems to ignite a firestorm of erotic emotion on a gay holiday excursion in “The Cruise,” until the young worker decides to make a desperate move overboard in front of all his lustful admirers.

The final story, “Volumes Set

Against a Twilight Sky,” begs for a better title, but steals the show as the collection’s capstone. A gay widow embarks on a cruise to honor the longtime relationship he shared with his partner, only to discover a very different scenario once he reads his lover’s “bitch-session” diary. “The things he brings up, it’s like reading a list of every single thing I ever did to upset him,” the narrator laments.

He soon becomes hopelessly mired in regret, noting that “a part of me will probably always feel like I wasted nearly a quarter of a century on a relationship that had never worked.”

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superb as he creates a character of external resignation masking internal rages. Susi Damilano is an exemplar of loving patience as Bauer’s wife, and she helps ground the play at its start and finish. But the middle round goes to Stacy Ross, who makes a grand entrance in her fashionable 1950s attire (costumes

by Abra Berman) and proceeds to variously attack, insult, and placate her hosts in a powerful performance that includes a slow burn of unforgettable ferocity.

Sound designer Theodore J.H. Hulsker and lighting designer Jordan Puckett also need to be acknowledged for their contributions to this artistic endeavor about twodimensional art that furrows deep into three-dimensional human flesh. Bauer is a highlight of this theatrical season, as it would be of any season.t Bauer will run through April 19 at San Francisco Playhouse. Tickets are $30-$100. Call 677-9596 or go to www.sfplayhouse.com.

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Lobby boy & bedroom girl

by David Lamble

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eep your hands off my lobby boy!” One of the great pleasures of seeing a new Wes Anderson film for the first time is one’s appreciation of the Houston-born, singularly witty filmmaker’s wildly original use of the English language. This is especially true for his latest effort, The Grand Budapest Hotel, inspired by the writings of Eastern European novelist Stefan Zweig, a melancholy comic fairy tale set during the perilous time preceding World War II. Although the film features a host of characters too numerous to name, its principal delight centers on the avuncular relationship that develops between the hotel’s fabled concierge, Monsieur Gustave (an extraordinary Ralph Fiennes), and an apprentice bellboy, Zero (winsome newcomer Toay Revolori). I confess that my appreciation for this platonic romantic intergenerational male “couple” stems in part from my momentarily mistaking the term “lobby boy” for “lovey boy.” The latter would be much too-on-the-nose for a filmmaker who generally keeps his possible homo-shadings deeply buried in subtext. Monsieur Gustave and his lovey lobby boy spend a great deal of the film’s 100 minutes fleeing danger together with a manic energy not often observed since Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis’ drag duo in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot. As you may recall, Some Like It Hot also climaxes with its “ladies” fleeing hoodlums in a ramshackle hotel.

Peopled by Anderson’s usual repertory company – Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman – the plot, based on a story by

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Anderson and co-writer Hugo Guinness, is too Byzantine and downright silly to render in great detail. Suffice it to say the pleasures of GBH mostly arise from exchanges bordering on a new brand of camp between Zero and Monsieur Gustave.

“What happened?”

“What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the loving shit out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinski. You should take a long look at his ugly mug that morning. He’s actually become a dear friend.”

Gustave and Zero spend a great deal of the film barely escaping the clutches of a vicious family, headed up by Brody, who are trying to deprive Gustave of his rightful share of an inheritance left him by a recently deceased lady of means. Among the highlights is this drop-dead droll monologue delivered by Gustave to the lady in her open casket.

“You’re looking so well, darling.

I don’t know what sort of cream they’ve put on you down at the morgue, but I want some.”

As with the best of the Marx Brothers (A Night at the Opera, Duck Soup), this inspired nonsense, including the deadpan farce of Gustave and Zero being repeatedly asked for their papers by authorities of an increasingly sinister stripe, is great satire. Anderson has confessed to Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that the comic spark behind The Grand Budapest Hotel derives in part from his deliberately mashing together events preceding both WWI and WWII. Ever bit as arch and precious in its conception and execution as Anderson’s previous romp Moonrise Kingdom, GBH benefits from inspired, deadpan, double-take reactions by lobby boy Toay Revolori, who fulfills the same function in this film that

Scene from director Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Jared Gilman did as a child who takes on a child bride while running away from his Boy Scout troop in MK. Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 “If I asked you to take my virginity, would that be a problem?” “No, I don’t see a problem.”

In the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up department, the Internet Movie Data Base informs us that American film star “Shia LaBeouf was asked to send pictures of his penis to obtain the role” of Jerome in Danish auteur Lars von Trier’s latest crash-testdummy-style melodrama posing as a sexual satire. LaBeouf, accurately taking the measure of his would-be employer, “subsequently decided to send in personal sex tapes of him and his girlfriend having sex in order to convince Lars von Trier to cast him.”

Sitting with a paying crowd at Landmark’s Embarcadero Cinemas, I was alternately fascinated and revolted by Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1.

You have to give von Trier his due as an artist with a sublime knack

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Felicity Gilbert, Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin in Danish director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I.

for coaxing actors through brazen, almost unimaginably bizarre scenarios concerning lust, love and the often uncomfortable connections between the two.

The story opens with a battered and bloodied woman, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), rescued and tended to by an elderly man, Seligman (an excellent Stellan Skarsgard). Joe proceeds to tell her story through a series of flashbacks. We see a young Joe as an almost emaciated waif (Stacy Martin) embarking on an English commuter train, egged on by a girl chum. The lasses challenge each other to have sex with as many men on the train as possible, the prize: a bag of chocolates.

We flash ahead to Joe’s deflowering by a cocky young stud, Jerome (a great, non-flashy turn by a very hunky LaBeouf, who has been quite unfairly maligned in some reviews).

The sex is forthright, right up to the

ever-shrinking boundary between simulated and for-real. The problem with Nympho is the classic one that has dogged von Trier throughout his notorious career: his provocations are opportunistic, pushing the buttons he knows so well with his targeted affluent, English-speaking audience, and in the process becoming both pornographer and pious critic of same, both defender of female virtue and rank exploiter of women on screen, both pandering to the male gaze and self-righteous critic of the same.

Von Trier’s approach of having it both ways is captured in a sizzling rant by the wife of one of Joe’s lovers (Uma Thurman), who brings her three school-age sons to Dad’s love nest. “Would it be alright if I show the children the whoring bed? Let’s go see Daddy’s favorite place.”

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he 26th annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2013, will be presented on April 24 at the Auditorium of the New School in New York City. The Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, began honoring a gay or lesbian writer for his or her body of work in 1989, and is now partnered with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present awards each spring.

María Irene Fornés is the 2014 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 80s. Born in Cuba, Fornés is a pivotal figure in Hispanic-American, LGBT, and experimental theater. She has written more than 40 stage works, including Tango Palace (1963), The Successful Life of 3 (1965), Abingdon Square (1987), and Letters from Cuba (2000). The Bill Whitehead Award is given to a woman in even-numbered years and to a man in odd years, and the winner receives $3,000.

The Publishing Triangle began giving the Shilts-Grahn awards for nonfiction in 1997. Each winner receives $1,000. The Randy Shilts Award honors the journalist whose groundbreaking work on the AIDS epidemic for the San Francisco Chronicle made him a hero to many. This award recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year by or about gay men, bisexual men, and/or transmen, or that has a significant influence upon the lives of queer men. Finalists for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction: Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy, by Jim Elledge (Overlook); Oye Loca:

From the Mariel Boat Lift to Gay Cuban Miami, by Susana Peña (University of Minnesota Press); Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous Gender Creative Son,

by Lori Duron (Broadway Books/Crown); White Girls, by Hilton Als (McSweeney’s).

The Judy Grahn Award honors the American writer, cultural theorist and activist (b.

1940) best known for The Common Woman (1969), Another Mother Tongue (rev. ed., 1984), and A Simple Revolution (2012). It recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or transwomen, or that has a significant influence upon the lives of queer women. Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction: Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, by Julia Serano (Seal Press); Growing Up Golem, by Donna Minkowitz (Magnus Books/Riverdale Avenue Books); Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, by Julia M. Allen (SUNY Press); Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Crown).

The Publishing Triangle established its poetry awards in 2001.

Each winner receives $500. The Audre Lorde Award honors the American poet, essayist, librarian, and teacher. Lorde (1934-92) was nominated for the National Book Award for From a Land Where Other People Live, and was the poet laureate of New York State in

1991. Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry: Butch Geography, by Stacey Waite (Tupelo Press); Enchantée, by Angie Estes (Oberlin College Press); She Has a Name, by Kamilah Aisha Moon (Four Way Books); Swoop, by Hailey Leithauser (Graywolf Press).

The Thom Gunn Award honors the British poet Thom Gunn (19292004), who lived in San Francisco for much of his life. Gunn was the author of The Man with Night Sweats (1992) and many other acclaimed volumes. Finalists for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry: All the Heat We Could Carry, by Charlie Bondhus (Main Street Rag); Sacrilegion, by L. Lamar Wilson (Carolina Wren Press); The Talking Day,

by Michael Klein (Sibling Rivalry Press); Unpeopled Eden, by Rigoberto González (Four Way Books).

The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction is named in honor of Edmund White, the esteemed novelist and man of letters. The Edmund White Award awards a prize to an outstanding first novel or story collection. The winner receives $1,000. Finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut See page 21 >>

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Cinematic vision lost in the dunes

by David Lamble

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n the new documentary Jodorowosky’s Dune, first-time doc-maker Frank Pavich, previously known for co-producing the Charles Busch drag drama Die, Mommie, Die!, provides an exhaustive and exhausting account of a genial mad man’s dream to escape the label “Midnight movie maven,” and instead to film a visionary sci-fi blockbuster.

In 1975, Alejandro Jodorowosky was a Chilean filmmaker of Jewish-Ukrainian descent whose only claim to fame in the U.S. was the acid-fueled, cheeky Western spoof El Topo, a film whose singular appeal to a young druggie crowd virtually invented the Midnight movie genre, a niche later commandeered

by The Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon.

At 84, Jodorowosky is a frizzyhaired, still impish provocateur desperate to be remembered as more than an Encyclopedia of Film footnote. The man insists that he possessed a grand cinematic vision that transcends the outré lifestyles of his young American fan-base.

“I wanted to make something sacred, a film that gives LSD hallucinations without taking LSD, to change

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Artwork by Chris Foss from Jodorowosky’s Dune.

young minds all over the world.”

In some ways, Jodorowosky was seeking to follow the path of American expatriate director Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001: A Space Odyssey definitively invented the sci-fi epic as blockbuster material, replacing the Western as the ultimate peripatetic genre for depicting the evolving American soul. Where Kubrick had picked science-fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke as his avatar, Jodorowosky stumbled upon

Frank Herbert’s massive 1965 classic Dune. That this phone-book-sized cult hit might prove unfilmable seems never to have occurred to the Chilean director, who, in a revealing aside, admits he never actually read it. It’s as if to have done so would have spoiled the fun of imposing his peculiar vision on the material.

The strength of Jodorowosky’s Dune is how seamlessly Pavich weaves his subject’s still-feverish memories with the parallel accounts

of his surviving collaborators, backed up by B&W storyboards, the color costume sketches, and most of all, his pop-savvy casting instincts. Imagine Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and David Carradine hamming it up in a 14hour inter-planetary saga. And here’s the catch: after spending two million bucks on pre-production expenses, Jodorowosky needed another 5 to 15 million to mount his dream, and the Hollywood money boys were frankly scared to write that big a check for a filmmaker who hewed too closely to the thin line between mad genius and feckless fool.

As a film experience, Jodorowosky’s Dune feels much longer than its 90-minute running time. At times I longed to stop the relentless talking heads, inside-baseball account of a never-made movie, with even a few scraps of test footage.

This autopsy of a dream makes a good case for how much this dreamer influenced the work of his successors. You can definitely find Jodorowosky’s DNA in George Lucas’ Star Wars, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and the Aliens franchise, to say nothing of James Cameron’s Avatar. But how much you care depends on just how big a fan you are of the sci-fi summer epics for

Movement of the spirit

by Tim Pfaff

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or most of the world outside Russian Orthodoxy, the liturgy of that Christian sect is, fundamentally, mood music that sometimes appears atmospherically in movies. That it is instead, at more than a millennium, one of the oldest continually practiced forms of musical worship in world religion, and a survivor of assaults against it as powerful as Soviet Communism, gives it a spiritual weight greater than just that of the subterranean bass sounds with which it is most commonly associated.

Conspirare, out gay chorus master Craig Hella Johnson’s superb a cappella ensemble, is noted for producing CDs of considerable concentration of theme, and surpassing beauty. With The Sacred Spirit of Russia (Harmonia Mundi) it has taken a step further. Skillfully side-stepping the “greatest hits” approach it could have taken with this vast repertoire, Conspirare offers instead a complete liturgy (Christmas, with, to be precise, one “outlier” number taken from Passion Week), the music for which all derives from 20th-century composers only one of whom, Vladimir Martynov, is alive today.

Salutes to Conspirare for giving us only the sung liturgy. It’s the occasional practice – it’s tempting to say fad – of the authenticists these days to include the readings, preaching and other spoken elements that

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Pianist Cedric Tieberghien

would have been part of an actual worship experience, bothersome in recording for being less rewarding of repetition.

Johnson delivers the music complete and in proper sequence, from the opening Doxology (a hymn to God’s glory) to the closing “Our Father.” Taking such a logical step has the virtue of maintaining musical variety – and, at a deeper level, the tracings of the movement of the spirit – in the proceedings, making it an extended arc of music, meaningfully arranged and developed.

In short, the individual pieces have work to do that, as an operating liturgy ought, keeps the listener on track. Minus the acoustic of a great Russian cathedral, this turns out to be important.

Conspirare takes to the material as if its members were, collectively, Old Believers. The flawless sense of ensemble that is its calling card pays particularly rich dividends in this repertoire. The only moment that jostled me out of the proceedings was in Martynov’s “Beatitudes,” when the music sent the trebles (real, biological women in Conspirare) frolicking at heights that proved an uncomfortable tessitura, and the tone frayed some. But even that came as a positive reminder that this is performance, not ritual, of human music imagining the world of the celestial.

Pavel Tchesnokov’s literally aspiring “Cherubic Hymn,” beginning the section of the “Liturgy of the Faithful,” marks a moment where the music goes for elevation as well as depth, and the singing brings gooseflesh. The choristers’ superb diction throughout adds a further measure of tingle.

The preponderance of the music is by Alexander Katalsky, Alexander Gretchananinov, Pavel Tchesnokov, with Sergei Rachmaninov weighing in (lightly, it turns out) at the beginning of the Closing of the Liturgy section. There’s not a bland note to be heard, and much that is stirring, but for this listener the music peaked with the two contributions of Georgi Sviridov, music with an unmistakable mystical bent. His “Christmas Troparion” fully realized its subtitle, “Inexpressible Wonder.”

The truly astonishing music, though, is the four “Sacred Con-

certos” in the liturgy’s penultimate section. Sviridov leads with “A Wondrous Birth” that builds ineluctably along an ineluctable path to a radiant, full-voiced “Alleluia.” Andrei Ilyashenko’s “We Should Choose to Love Silence” is an astounding piece of inward writing that, as realized by Conspirare, rather argues the opposite. And in Tchesnokov’s wrenching “Do Not Cast Me Off

in My Old Age,” a pleading chorus incorporates the answering sound of basso profundo Glenn Miller’s ground-shaking pleas.

“Alleluia” is a frequently heard expression in this remarkable music, always appropriate in context and never slighted. Once you’ve transited this music with Conspirare, you’ve not been merely entertained; See page 22 >>

14-year-old boys that have, since the mid-70s, banished serious films from American summer schedules.

Jodorowosky might have rescued his baby if he had had the marketing savvy to divide his 14-hour megafilm into three bite-sized parts. The doc of his bitter defeat is in some ways like one of those what-if alternative history books. What if a Jodorowosky-produced Dune had preempted or significantly altered David Lynch’s whole post-Eraserhead career? Instead, when Jodorowosky’s option on Dune expired, it was picked up by Lynch, whose unrated 1984 version runs 177 minutes and was almost universally panned.

Leonard Maltin called it “joyless, oppressive, not to mention long.”

After his Dune imploded at the box office, Lynch rebounded with one of the greatest films of the 1980s, his masterwork Blue Velvet, transforming Dune’s intrepid boy space-warrior Kyle MacLachlan into Blue Velvet’s sexually precious Hardy boy detective, Jeffrey Beaumont. As MacLachlan would pen to me atop his autograph on a making-of Blue Velvet book, “David, it’s a strange world.”t Opens Friday at the Embarcadero Cinema in San Francisco.

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O&A Out &About

Fri 28

Dance Anywhere

ODC/Dance Downtown @ YBCA

Mommy Queerest @ Exit Studio

The innovative local dance company’s 43rd season includes the world premiere of builder and bones, 2013’s Triangulating Euclid, Two if by Sea, and Unintended Consequences: A Meditation. Special preconcert LGBTQ Night Out March 28, 7pm with host Juanita More. $20-$75. Wed 7:30, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 4pm. Thru Mar. 30.

701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.odcdance.org www.ybca.org

Kat Evasco’s stirring and darkly comic solo show (cowritten with John Caldon) explores her family life as a lesbian Filipino whose mother is also a lesbian. $15-$25.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru March 29. 156 Eddy St. www.divafest.info

Unusual Shorts @ Oddball Films

Today show

by Jim Provenzano

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omorrow and tomorrow, muttered some Shakespearian manic-depressive with issues. But never mind that guy! Think about today, and all the good things going on. Sing, dance, listen, look, smell. Okay, if you’re in certain neighborhoods, don’t smell.

But enjoy today.

Lottie’s Ghosts @ Brava Theatre Center

Thu 27 Afternoon of a Faun/ Tanaquil Le Clercq @ Opera Plaza Cinema Director Nancy Buirski will be present at a local screening of her film about the talented Balanchine ballet dancer who was paralyzed by polio at age 27. Post-screening discussion also includes San Francisco Ballet’s ballet mistress Anita Paciotti. VIP post-screening reception at Hayes Street Grill. $15-$50. 7:15pm. 601 Van Ness Ave. 793-9317. wordsondance.org www.landmarktheatres.com

Shakiri’s autobiographical storytelling show about her ancestors and radical 1960s Oakland gets a West Coast premiere; directed by Edris CooperAnifowoshe. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm.

Thru April 6. 2781 24th St. at York. 6417657. www.brava.org

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Mar. 27, Jack Goes Boating (6pm) and Magnolia (8pm). March 28, Happiness (7:30) and 25th Hour (9:45). $11. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. castrotheatre.com

Enjoy wacky offbeat vintage short films.

Mar. 27: Pop! Goes the Classroom, groovy educational 1960s films. Mar. 28, Erotic Oddities. Thu & Fri, each $10, 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Venus in Fur @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre presents a new production of the Broadway hit

by David Ives, about straight sexual domination. $20-$72. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Also Sun 7pm. Out with ACT April 2. Thru April 13. www.act-sf.org

New Experimental Plays Festival @ Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theater’s 15th annual new experimental theatre series includes staged readings and productions of five new plays. $20-$50 (5-play pass). Fri & Sat thru March 29. 277 Taylor St. 525-1205. www.cuttingball.com

Pilot 64 @ ODC Theater The 64th cycle of the showcase of new works created by six upcoming choreographers in an intensive 11-week workshop; Julie Binkley, Gerald Casel, Rafaella Falchi, Alyce Finwall, Alexandra Kamerling and Carmen Roman. $15. 8pm.

Also March 29. www.ODCdance.org

Sun 30 Michael Nava

Fri 28 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Carnival Warmup @ MCCLA Gallery The band Orquesta Adelante and dancers with Brenda Perdue perform at this fundraiser for the Mission Carnival events; food and drinks on sale. $15. 7pm-10pm.

Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. 643-2785. www. missionculturalcenter.org

Bread and Circuses @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Impact Theatre’s spicy mix of new and action-packed (i.e. violent) short plays by several playwrights. $10-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru April 6.

1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. www.impacttheatre.com

Classical Concerts @ Old First Church Mar. 28: contralto Karen Clark sings Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with a chamber music quartet. 8pm. Mar. 30, 4pm: Junior Bach festival. April 4, 8pm: Clarinet Thing, the instrumental quartet. $14-$17 each. 1751 Sacramento St. 4741608. www.oldfirstconcerts.org

Crystal Springs @ Eureka Theatre Kathy Rucker’s drama about a mother who gets caught up in her daughter’s online world. $20-$65. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru March 23. 215 Jackson St. (800) 838-3006.

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The Habit of Art @ Z Below Theatre Alan Bennet’s “very British comedy” about gay artists Benjamin Britten and W.H Auden’s imagined meeting, takes on the nature and purpose of theatre, poetry and music, is directed by Theatre Rhino’s John Fisher. $15-$35. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm.

Thru April 13. www.TheRhino.org

Jay Jeffers @ Coup D’Etat Interior designer’s book party for Collected Cool: The Art of Bold, Stylish Interiors.

6pm-9pm. 111 Rhode Island St. www.jeffersdesigngroup.com www.coupdetatsf.com

Jewish Music Festival @ Various Venues This diverse array of concerts includes soloists, bands, singers, instrumentalists, traditional and modern Afro-Semetic jazz.

Various venues (Yoshi’s, Freight & Slavage, JCC East Bay) and admission ($22-$30).

Thru April 1. www.jewishmusicfestival.org

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Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ hilarious Cockettes revival returns, with many of the ebullient cast members. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru May 31. 575 10th St. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Roy Hargrove Quintet @ Yoshi’s The celebrated five-man jazz ensemble, led by the Grammy-winning trumpeter, returns for a five-night residency. $16-$28; prixfixe dinner available ($38). Wed-Sat 8pm & 10pm. Sun 7pm & 9pm. Thru Mar. 30. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

The Scion @ The Marsh Solo performer Brian Copeland’s new show focuses on privilege, murder and sausage in his retelling of the triple murder crime at the Santos Linguisa Factory. $15-$60. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru April 18. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Daisy Egan @ Hotel Rex

Tony Award-winning versatile singer performs a music and story-filled concert. A portion of proceeds benefit the LGBT Center. $25-$45. 8pm.

Also March 29, 8pm. 562 Sutter St. 8571896. www.societycasbaret.com

Dance Anywhere @ Bay Area The tenth anniversary spontaneous dance event includes professional and amateur dancers performing in indoor and outdoor spaces in San Francisco, Oakland Berkeley and in other cities. 12pm. For locations, visit www.danceanywhere.org

The Importance of Being Earnest @ Russian River Hall, Monte Rio Curtain Call Theatre company’s production of the Oscar Wilde pun-filled comedy. $15-$20. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. 20347 Highway 116, Monte Rio. (707) 524-8739. www.russianriverhall.com

Magnificent Magnolias @ SF Botanical Gardens See blooming magnolia trees and exhibits.

Also, daily walking tours and more. Thru March 31. Also, Woods to Wildflowers, outdoor exhibits of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods; thru May 15.

Free-$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 66121316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

Mark M. Garrett @ Dogpatch Gallery

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

Exhibit of the local artist’s hand-cut mapwork art. Special sound performance

by Jorge Bachman, March 28, 7pm. Thru April 19. 2295 3rd St. at 20th. www.markmgarrett.com www.dogpatchcafe.com

This exhibition is organized by The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, in association with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The foundation sponsor is the Henry Luce Foundation.

The presentation Foundation, the S the Lisa and Doug

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Queer Open Mic @ Modern Times Bookstore Collective

Sheila E. @ Yoshi’s Oakland

The eclectic queer reading and performance series, cohosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Blythe Baldwin, this month features slam poet Lauren Wheeler.

Free. Sign-ups 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. 2919 24th St. www.queeropenmic.com

The talented veteran percussionist-vocalist (“The Glamorous Life”) performs music from Icon, her first CD in 12 years, with her band. $33-$60. 8pm & 10pm. Mar. 29, 7:30 & 9:30pm. Mar. 30, 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland. (510) 238-9200. yoshis.com

San Francisco City Chorus @ St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

Women on the Move @ Brava Theater Center

The chorus performs Gustav Holst’s haunting “Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda” and Edward Elgar’s “The Music Makers, Ode for Alto and Chorus.” Featured guests are mezzosoprano Michelle Rice and harpist Emily Laurance. John R. S. Walko, SFCC accompanist, performs his own orchestral transcriptions on the organ. 1755 Clay St atVan Ness. Also March 30, 4pm, at First Presbyterian Church, 2619 Broadway at 2th St., Oakland.

Shit & Champagne @ Rebel D’Arcy Drollinger’s “whitesploitation” drag satire musical play kicks up the laughs; also starring Matthew Martin. $20-$25.

Fri & Sat, 8pm. Extended thru April! 1772 Market St. at Octavia. www.shitandchampagne.eventbrite.com

Holy Near and Gina Breedlove perform, at a benefit concert for Dance Brigade’s youth company Grrrl Brigade (both dance groups also perform). $15-$30. Silent auction and raffle at 7pm. Concert 8pm. 2781 24th St. at York. 826-4441. dancemission.com brava.org

Work MORE! #6 @ SOMArts Gallery Mica Sigourney’s collaborative drag art performance and installation. Show & opening 7pm-1pm. Exhibit includes 22 avante and traditional drag performers: Monique Jenkinson (Fauxnique), Robbie Sweeny, DiegoDiegoDiego.com, Vain Hein and Kolmel WithLove (Lydia Brunch), Dean Disaster, Dorian Katz, Robbie Sweeny, Ryan Crowder, Sugah Betes and others. Performance and panel April 16, 6pm. Closing reception April 24, 6pm. Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 12pm-5pm.

934 Brannan St. work-more.org somarts.org

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Crosscurrents @ MoAD

Sat 29

Africa and Black Diasporas in Dialogue, 1960-1980, an exhibit of contemporary art.

Thru April 13. $5-$10. Wed-Sat 11am-6pm.

Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Accidental Death of an Anarchist @ Berkeley Repertory Comic actor Steven Epp stars in Dario Fo’s political farce about bureaucratic duplicity and political corruption. $29-$57. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Roda Stage, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

ArtSpan Art Auction @ SOMArts Cultural Center Bid on 100-plus artworks at the nonprofit’s annual auction. $50-$155. 5:30 preview (VIPs), 6:30-10pm. 934 Brannan St. www.artspan.org www.somarts.org

Drag Queens of Comedy @ Castro Theatre Miss Coco Peru, Sasha Soprano, Shangela, Peaches Chriust, DWV, Lady Bunny, Heklina, Bianca Del Rio and Pandroa Boxx perform at a wacky night of drag comedy. $35-$100. 7pm & 10pm. 429 Castro St. www.thedragqueensofcomedy.com www.castrotheatre.com

Feisty Old Jew @ The Marsh Charlie Veron’s new solo show about a fictional elder man who hitches a ride with surfer-hipsters, and rants about what he hates about the 21st century. $25-$100.

Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm. Thru May 4. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Intimate Impressionism @ Legion of Honor

Fri 28

The exhibition includes nearly 70 paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., featuring the work of 19th century avant-garde painters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. Free/$25. Thru Aug. 3. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3600. www.legionofhonor.famsf.org

Jason Brock @ Martuni’s Our popular local crooner offers a musical tribute to female pop stars of the 1980s (Whitney, Tina, Kate Bush, Nell Carter and more) at the intimate martini bar’s lounge. $25. 4pm. Also March 30, 4pm, and April 2, 7pm. 4 Valencia St. jasonbrockvocals.net

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh Lovebirds, the lesbian comic’s new solo show, portrays an array of wacky characters, from different eras, each searching for love. $15-$50. Thu & Fri 8pm.

Sat. 8:30pm. Extended thru April 12. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Medea @ Buriel Clay Theatre African-American Shakespeare Company’s production of Euripedes’ classic tragedy about Jason’s vengeful wife. $12-50-$50.

Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Mar. 30. 762 Fulton St. african-americanshakes.org

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Collection of short plays with several unique takes on the moments before, during and after “I do” by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moisés Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, Jose Rivera, Paul Rudnick, and Doug Wright, conceived by Brian Shnipper. $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru April 27. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Fascinated with the astonishing natural beauty of Lake George in upstate New York, Georgia O’Keeffe reveled in the discovery of new subject matter that energized her signature modernist style. From magnified botanical compositions to panoramic landscapes, the works in this exhibition offer a deeper understanding of the spirit of place that was essential to O’Keeffe’s artistic evolution.

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Tipped & Tipsy @ The Marsh A “Best of Fringe” show, Jill Vice’s solo work portrays an array of characters from the bartending world. $15-$50. Sat 5pm, Sun 7pm. Thru April 6. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

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Still Life, Floral & Trompe L’Oeil @ John Pence Gallery Exhibit of fascinating paintings by various artists. Thru April 26. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Sat 10am-5pm. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com

Tue 1 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Sun 30

The celebrated dance company performs new works LIFT (Aszure Barton), Four Corners (Ronald K. Brown), plus D-Man in the Waters (Bill T. Jones) , and Ailey works Night Creature, Pas de Duke, and Revelations in three programs. $30-$92.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 2pm, Sun 3pm.

Thru April 6. Bancroft Way at Dana St., UC Berkeley campus. calperformances.org

Macy’s Flower Show @ Macy’s Union Square

Meditation Group @ LGBT Center

The annual festive series of floral events takes over the popular department store, with displays, parties, special events, and floral display demonstrations by Billy Cook, Emily Dreblow and others. Tours Wed-Fri 2pm, Sat & Sun 12pm & 2pm. Thru April 6.

170 O’Farrell St. 397-3333. www.macys.com/events

New weekly non-sectarian meditation group is led by Daishin Sunseri; part of the Let’s Kick ASS AIDS Survivor Syndrome support group. Tuesdays, 5pm, 1800 Market St. LetsKickASS.org sfcenter.org

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Arthur Szyk and the Art of the Haggadah @ Contemporary Jewish Museum New exhibit of 48 fascinating and richly detailed illustrations of Hebrew stories by the early 20th-century artist (thru June 29). Also; Jason Lazarus: Live Archive, an exhibit of unusual work by the Chicago artist who explores collective public archives, personal memory, and the role of photography and collecting in contemporary art and identity (thru March 23). Also, To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History (thru July 1). 2pm-5pm.

Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org \

Georgia O’Keeffe @ de Young Museum Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George, a new exhibit of paintings focusing on the artist’s New York landscapes. $25. Thru May 11. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoungmuseum.org

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Dawn Harms, BARS’s new Music Director, conducts an evening and matinee concert of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture, Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet & Strings, Grandjany’s Aria, and Hansen’s Symphony No. 2 (“Romantic”) featuring Dan Levitan as harp soloist. Reception follows concert. $15$35. 1111 O’Farrell St. www.bars-sf.org

Screenings preceded by 30-minute organ concert of Disney songs, performed on the Mighty Wurlizer by David Hegarty. $10-$16. 7pm nightly thru April 6. Also 2:30 March 30 & April 6. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Mon 31 Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the exhibit The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, includes archival materials from the historic chorus, leadcurated by Tom Burtch, with a touchscreen display by multimedia producer John Raines. And, Premarital Bonds: Creating Family Before Marriage Equality.

Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Piper Kerman @ Nourse Theater

Fri 28 Lauren March at Queer Open Mic

City Arts and Lectures presents the author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, in conversation with Life After Murder author Nancy Millane.

Proceeds benefit the Prison University Project. $20-$27. 7:30pm. 275 Hayes St. 392-4400. www.cityarts.net

New exhibit of visual art representing the 2,500-year-old health practice.

Other ongoing exhibits as well. Free (members)-$12. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Thu 3 Cultural Odyssey @ Buriel Clay Theater Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor’s 35th anniversary celebration concert of music, theatre and film. $10-$30. Thu-Sat 6pm11pm. Gala party April 5. African American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. www.culturalodyssey.org

David Sokosh: American Tintypes @ Robert Tat Gallery The fine art photography gallery presents an exhibit of Sokosh’s contemporary faux-vintage imagery, created with a 19th-century Wet-Plate Collodion process. (artist talk April 5). Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm.

Thru May 31. 49 Geary St., #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Human Rights Film Festival @ USF Presentation Theater

The gay author of the award-winning Henry Rios mysteries has a party, reading and signing for his new work, The City of Palaces, a departure from his previous work, with historic Mexico as a main theme. Food, music as well. 3pm-5pm.

2128 Folsom St. at 17th. www.michaelnavawriter.com www.stablecafe.com

Sing-Along Beauty and the Beast @ Castro Theatre

Yoga: The Art of Transformation @ Asian Art Museum

Annual screening of worldwide human rights-themed shorts and features. Free.

Thru April 5. 2350 Turk Blvd. at Masonic. www.usfca.edu/artsci/hrff

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company @ YBCA

Fri 28 Holly Near at Women on the Move

Wed 2 Every Five Minutes @ Magic Theatre World premiere of Scottish playwright Linda McLean’s about a family dinner gone strange when a returning son slips into an unimaginable dreamscape. $20-$60. Wed-Sat 8pm. Tue 7pm. Sun 2:30 & 7pm. Thru April 20.

Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg D, 3rd floor. 441-8822. magictheatre.org

Painting the Clouds With Sunshine @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon, the company known for reviving lost musicals, presents the world premiere of Greg MacKellan and Mark D. Kaufmann’s new musical that features old songs from 1930s musicals; a jaded newspaperman and a struggling waitress find romance in Tinseltown. $25-$75. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm Sun 3pm.

Thru April 20. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndStMoon.org

Sonny Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm.

Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

40th anniversary season of the celebrated post-modern dance company includes the west Coast premiere of Times Bones (a dual-space work that is also performed in the Forum, and continues in the Lam Research Theatre) and The Gate of Winds (developed with the Jerusalem-based Kolben Dance Company). Free/$35. ThuSat 7:30pm. Sun 3pm. Thru April 6. 700 Howard St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Sean Hayes, Conspiracy of Beards @ The Chapel The blues guitarist and the men’s 30-member choir share a concert. $25.

9pm. 777 Valencia St. www.thechapelsf.com

Well Strung @ Feinsteins at the Nikko The talented string quartet performs – and sings – classical and pop favorites with a new flair. $35-$50. $20 food/drink minimum. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru April 6. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 3941111. hotelnikkosf.com/feinsteins.aspx

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. For bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com, and our new merged section, www.ebar.com/bartab

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s March draws to a close, we wanted to note a couple of egregious lapses on the tube, then move on to our regular programming. March is Women’s History Month. We have seen not a single PSA about this (as opposed to Black History Month), nor have we seen one newsy segment on any network.

This includes the all-news formatting of both CNN and MSNBC as well as the we-are-always-politically-correct scheduling on PBS. This news blackout of half the globe was even true on March 8, which was International Women’s Day. Not one network noted the day or its significance.

Not. One. We remind everyone that women are 52.3% of the American population. More than half. There are 3.7 billion women worldwide. In a month with 31 days, with the vast array of achievements by women – including lesbians like Jane Addams, who founded social work and Dr. Alice Hamilton, who founded occupational medicine – it’s egregious that none of these women have been given the notice they deserve.

It would have been seemly for the networks to address the continuing lack of recognition of women in American (and global) culture, society and history. Thanks for instead underscoring just how invisible and expendable women of all orientations, races and ethnicities are to you. Insert outraged expletives here.

Now, on the missing Malaysian plane and Crimea: These are major news stories, yes. They are not, however, the only news stories. American news outlets have utterly ignored the riots in Venezuela, and have also failed to report the 7 U.S. drone strikes in 12 days this month in Yemen (h/t Rania Khalek, Truthout) that killed more than two dozen civilians, including children. Didn’t this horror deserve some mention?

And then there was this: on March 7 two lesbians, Britney Cosby

and Crystal Jackson, both 24, were brutally murdered in Galveston, TX, their bodies tossed behind a dumpster. The detective we spoke with for an article for Curve magazine described the murder scene, the house where the women lived, as “a bloodbath.” Jackson died from a single gunshot to the head. Cosby’s daughter, Britney, was bludgeoned to death. She had numerous skull fractures and a broken neck. She died from classic gay-bashing overkill. On March 14, Britney’s father, James Cosby, was arrested after a preponderance of evidence suggested that he was indeed the (alleged) killer.

Not one mention on any national network news. But then the women were lesbians and African American, thus least likely to get news coverage even for such a violent hate crime. Cosby’s father repeatedly commented on his daughter’s lesbianism in homophobic ways, but our money is on him never being charged with a hate crime.

Meanwhile, on March 19, ABC News broke the story of Donna Perry, formerly Douglas Perry, an alleged serial killer of prostitutes in Spokane, WA. Perry says she changed genders to stop murdering women. ABC News reported that Spokane police linked Perry to the killings of three prostitutes, Yolanda Sapp, Kathleen Brisbois and Nickie Lowe, through DNA evidence. ABC also reported that Perry had told another prisoner that she had killed nine prostitutes because they were “pond scum” and not using their uteruses properly.

According to ABC, Perry, who says she had sex reassignment surgery in Thailand in 2000 to stop killing, is claiming she is not responsible for the murders because they were committed by another person, her previous male self. The Perry story got so major attention; the Cosby/ Jackson story got none. The Perry story can be found at ABCnews. go.com/Health. The Cosby/Jackson story can be found nowhere. Draw

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Lesbian Jane Addams, who founded the discipline of social work.

your own conclusions.

And now for the fun stuff. Like when President Obama appeared on NBC’s Ellen on March 19, ostensibly to discuss Obamacare and a little March Madness as the Prez is a bracket fiend from way back. Michigan State for the NCAA 2014 win, he says!

Ellen told Obama that she had broken his retweet record on Twitter with her Oscar selfie shot. He replied, “I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt, getting a bunch of celebrities together and feeding them pizza.” It’s a fun bit between the two of them about the President at home without Michelle and the girls, and with his two dogs, along with some other more serious stuff.

You can see it here: http://www.ellentv.com/videos/0-6ydodlse/. We have to admit, it still wows us just a bit to see the President talking to a lesbian talk-show host in a satellite feed from the Oval Office. We know it was all about the Obamacare pandering, but we really kinda didn’t care. In a weak, utterly unpolitical moment, we enjoyed it. You will, too.

As much as we love Ellen, we love SNL’s Kate McKinnon playing Ellen almost as much. McKinnon, the first out lesbian cast member on the long-running NBC comedy show, has been a featured guest on Ellen, of course. But this week she was nominated for an American Comedy Award, which is, you know, huge.

McKinnon’s portrayals of Ellen and Justin Bieber are fabulous. You can see her at nbcsnl.tumblr or on YouTube. Prepare for hilarity.

Also entertaining was world-class swimmer and out lesbian Diana Nyad on the debut of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Amid a plethora of innuendo about “cutting the rug,” Nyad became the first out lesbian to perform on DWTS in 18 seasons.

Bruno called her the “million dollar mermaid,” and while she is definitely more graceful in water than she is on the dance floor, she gave it her all. We were, however, irked by the negative tone DWTS used on both Facebook and Twitter to frame her dancing (something we also saw a lot of when Chaz Bono was a contestant). Whereas viewers were asked, for example, who loved Billy Dee Williams, DWTS asked about Nyad, “Was she a fish out of water?”

Not a jellyfish sting, perhaps, but a sting nonetheless. Is there a homophobic taint at DWTS? Don’t they know their main audience is straight women and gay men? We hope Nyad gets to stick around a few more weeks, but it definitely looks like she has a target on her back.

Speaking of targets, the March 18 season finale of ABC Family’s (lesbian) mystery drama Pretty Little Liars left us with our mouth wide open. Wide. We’re not sure we can take the wait until next season.

Soothing the pain of loss has been Shay Mitchell, who plays the lovely lesbian Emily. Mitchell has been

Dr. Alice Hamilton, who founded occupational medicine.

doing the rounds of talk shows because, well, everyone wants to see her because everyone loves Emily.

We admit we even lowered ourselves to watching the Bethenny Frankel show because Mitchell was on. (We know, but it was just the one time.) What we love about Mitchell is she gets “ally.” Though not a lesbian in real life, she totally understands the importance of her character to young lesbians struggling to come out. She talks about it in every interview, and we love her for it.

We also love how ABC Family has become such a gay-friendly network. Other networks might want to model that. ABC Family has “family” in their name, yet seems not to have lost a single sponsor.

Hmmm.

You know Jack

Speaking of gay-friendly, Chris Meloni has been somewhat off the grid since leaving Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011 after 12 years. He then did a brief turn on HBO’s True Blood in 2012 as Roman Zimojic. Meloni debuts March 27 on Surviving Jack, a dark comedy of the sort Fox excels at. The show is hilarious, so definitely worth DVRing in the tough Thursday night lineup. We also like to support our allies, and Meloni is a major one. The actor whose breakout role was playing the bisexual Chris Keller on HBO’s Oz has received awards from both GLAAD and HRC for his work benefitting LGBT causes.

We’re hoping for a little gay to break out in Surviving Jack.

Speaking of breaking out, we are absolutely loving NBC’s new drama Crisis. We weren’t sure about this hostage/terrorist/conspiracy drama set in Washington, D.C., but we will watch anything with lesbian heartthrob Gillian Anderson at least once, and that was all it took. Crisis debuted March 16, so catch up on demand or on Hulu.

We’re beyond pleased to see three new shows debut this month with African-American leads: Crisis (Lance Gross), NBC’s Believe (Delroy Lindo) and ABC’s Resurrection (Omar Epps). We hope this signals a tone change on the tube, which has, as with lesbians and gay men, yet managed to match the black demographic in the country with comparable representations on the tube. Two NBC shows with black leads were cancelled early on in the past two seasons: Deception and Ironside.

These three new shows are superb dramas with stellar casts, but having three black male heroes for kids (and adults!) to see on the tube?

That’s priceless. Lindo is a particular favorite of ours. He also starred in Fox’s short-lived The Chicago Code (which also had an African-American lead, Jennifer Beals) in 2011.

I Spy, the first TV show with a black lead (Bill Cosby), debuted in 1965. It shouldn’t have taken near-

ly 50 years to have other network shows with black male leads. The only other dramas with black male leads are Showtime’s House of Lies, starring Oscar nominee Don Cheadle, now in its third season, and BBC America’s Luther (which we have written about extensively here over the past few seasons), starring Idris Elba, who previously starred for two seasons of The Wire.

We’re pretty sure kudos are due to Shonda Rhimes for making ABC’s Scandal such a huge hit with an African-American lead. Not that Kerry Washington doesn’t deserve full credit for making Olivia Pope such a complex and engrossing character, of course, but Rhimes is the powerbroker with her ironclad ratings bonanza on Thursday nights, one of the two highest-rated nights on the tube, the other being Sunday, where those three new dramas are featured.

The reality is, as we have been saying for two decades in this very space, we have to have minorities behind the camera to get them in front of the camera. This is true for LGBT people, and it’s true for people of color. And alas, although women are the majority, they read as a minority on the tube, so it goes double for women. If we want representation, we need writers and directors from our always marginalized groups.

There’s no good segue into this, so we’re just going to drop it in: Bates Motel, Orphan Black, Mad Men. Set the DVRs, you just don’t want to miss these shows now that they are (or almost are) back. And Orphan Black fans, two words: Tatiana Maslany. Because Cosima is possibly the best lesbian ever on the tube.

With so many new shows on prime time right now as well as returning faves, forgive us for neglecting daytime a little bit. Yet not one, not two, but three new gay male characters on ABC’s General Hospital made us sit up and take notice.

General Hospital has had one gay male character for a little over a year now. We wrote about Felix DuBois (newcomer Marc Anthony Samuel) when he first flitted onto the GH landscape as the ultra-queeny black gay nursing student friend of the show’s (then) only Latina, Sabrina (Teresa Castillo), another nursing student.

Like oh-so-many gay male characters on the tube, Felix was solo with no one to be gay with and filling that two-for-one slot of being gay and of color. He also wasn’t connected to any of the major players on the GH landscape initially, so he was expendable and very much a recurring character. But all that changed when Lucas Jones (Ryan Carnes) returned to Port Charles.

Lucas is the adopted son of Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Tony Jones (Brad Maule), and nephew of Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary), one of the two longtime male leads on GH. Lucas has also been revealed as the bio-son of Julian Jerome (William deVry), a new major player in Port Charles.

Now Felix is involved in a threerace three-way with Lucas and the other gay male character on GH, Brad Cooper (Parry Shen), head lab tech at GH whom Felix has been seeing, and with whom he is in love.

When last we left the trio, Lucas and Brad were talking about going to a party together very cozily by the elevators while poor, love-struck Felix looked on from the nurses’ station.

Whut?! It seems very unfair that Felix has been on the landscape for more than a year, has been wooing Brad for a few months, and now Lucas, who literally just arrived, is moving into position with Brad.

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Soundtrack check

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forgettable 1979 film starring Jacqueline Bisset, the late Maximilian Schell and a pre-Priscilla Terence Stamp, Together? had one thing going for it, its overlooked soundtrack. Newly reissued on CD (Real Gone Music/RCA), Together? features a score by Burt Bacharach (who had a bit of a late-1970s slump himself) with songs by Bacharach, Paul Anka and Libby Titus (aka Mrs. Donald Fagen). Guest vocalists include Jackie DeShannon (who also had her own history with Bacharach), Titus and Michael McDonald.

It’s very Bacharach and very much of its time, but it also deserves to be heard by those who missed it the first time around (am I the only one who still has it on vinyl?), particularly fans of DeShannon, Titus and McDonald.

If the fashions and hairstyles in David O. Russell’s Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American Hustle didn’t satisfy your 1970 jones, than the retro jukebox that is American Hustle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Legacy) should do the trick. Classic tunes by Elton John (“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”), Electric Light Orchestra (“10538 Overture”), Wings (the Oscar-nominated “Live and Let Die”), Donna Summer (“I Feel Love”), America (“A Horse with No Name”) and Bee Gees (“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?”), as well as soundtrack-specific selections (Lebanese-American singer Mayssa Kanaa’s reading of “White Rabbit,” Danny Elfman’s “Irving Montage”), give this soundtrack

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Fiction: An Honest Ghost, by Rick Whitaker (Jaded Ibis Press); How to Shake the Other Man, by Derek Palacio (Nouvella); If You Could Be Mine, by Sara Farizan (Algonquin Young Readers); Letters Never Sent,

by Sandra Moran (Bedazzled Ink).

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We also would add that there has been no sex happening here. We don’t mean to be pushy, but in real life, gay men have sex. They don’t do a Jane Austen-style dance as they prepare to prepare to prepare to have sex. We’re all for romance on the soaps with everyone, gay or straight, but we see the straight couples falling into bed with amazing regularity, and we do not see that with the few gay and lesbian characters on the soaps. We’d just like a little continuity. It makes no sense to believe that sisters will steal sisters’ husbands (Bold and the Beautiful) or grief-stricken friends at a support group for parents whose children have been killed would have sex outside their marriages (Young & the Restless) while gay men and lesbians languish, hoping one day for a kiss.

We’d also like to find a way to move gay and lesbian characters past the coming-out story. On GH, Lucas told cousin Lulu that he’s not sure what dad Julian thinks about his being gay.

Well, you’re 30: say something. You aren’t in high school or college like Bianca Montgomery was when she came out on All My Children.

We expect this boy-boy-boy story to move front-burner, because triangles always do. And Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) is urging Felix to be sure Brad knows how he feels. So it could move fast and furious. Maybe.

Meanwhile, over at Days of Our Lives (which has just been renewed for two more years, so these charac-

its hustle, if you will.

Overlooked by Oscar (the musical doc 20 Feet From Stardom took home the trophy), the 1970s are alive and well in the Big Star doc Nothing Can Hurt Me. The 21-track Nothing Can Hurt Me: Original Soundtrack (Omnivore) features 20 previously unissued tracks (rough mixes and demos from the early-to-mid-70s, as well as “movie mixes” for the film) by Big Star, the influential rock band fronted by the late Alex Chilton. “September Gurls,” a hit for the Bangles, is among the selections.

Scott Spencer’s bestselling 1979 novel Endless Love was made into a film starring Brooke Shields and directed by gay filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli in 1981. Universally derided, the film essentially stunted Shields’ film career (something not even The Blue Lagoon could do). The movie did produce a massive hit single, the Diana Ross/Lionel Ritchie duet on the theme song. In 2014, Endless Love, like another dreadful 1980s movie, About Last Night, has the remake treatment, complete with Endless Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros.). Before you ask, no, the song “Endless Love” is nowhere to be found. That said, on the merits of being an exciting various-artists compilation, this Endless Love soundtrack couldn’t be any cooler. A new recording by queer twin duo Tegan and Sara, “Don’t Find Another Love,” is one reason to own this soundtrack.

Others include “Pumpkin Blood”

by Nonono, “All Our Endless Love”

by The Bird and The Bee, “All of journal founded in 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space.

Julie R. Enszer, Ph.D., is the current editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom. Its Sapphic Classics are reprint editions of iconic works of lesbian poetry. The first, Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature, was published in April 2013; the second Sapphic Classic, Cheryl Clarke’s Living as a Lesbian, came out in January 2014.

The Ferro-Grumley Award for ters will be around for a while), Will (Guy Wilson) and Sonny (Freddie Smith), Salem’s gay power couple, are getting married. This will be a first for daytime. All My Children and One Life to Live both had lesbian weddings, but no gay weddings on daytime yet.

Will and Sonny have also been seen in bed together, so that is huge, considering just a few years ago the endless wait for the gay consummation between Noah and Luke on As the World Turns happened behind closed doors. And that there’s no sex over at General Hospital.

Now if only The Young & the Restless and Bold & the Beautiful could manage to find some gay characters. It has always astonished us that B&B, one of the most popular soaps in the world (it has a huge European market), has never had a gay character and only got lesbian characters last year because a character turned out to have two lesbians for her parents. But those women have only been seen sporadically since, neither even showing up for their own daughter’s wedding. (Attention to detail, people!) Imagine the actual fashion industry (as opposed to the fashion industry of B&B) sans anyone gay. Seriously, you can’t say anything past that, can you?

So in the hope that gay men will come to Los Angeles on B&B, or that the women of Y&R will finally realize they’d be happier with each other, and of course to see some of the fab new series as well as your old favorites, you really must stay tuned.t

Me” by Tanlines and “Right Action”

by Franz Ferdinand.

Had enough of the 1970s? How do you feel about the 1800s? Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave took home some major awards at the Oscars. The soundtrack Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (Columbia), assembled by John Legend, is a combination of traditionals, standards and originals.

The disc features performances by Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark Jr., Alicia Keys, Laura Mvula and John Legend, as well as music from Hans Zimmer’s score.

If your head is still reeling after the broadcast of NBC’s “live television event” production of The Sound of Music, you are not alone.

But here’s the good news: while she’s no Julie Andrews, Carrie Underwood can sing. This makes listening to The Sound of Music: Music from the Television Event (Masterworks) a much less traumatic experience, because you don’t have to watch Underwood struggle to act. Plus, how can you possibly exist without Audra McDonald’s rendition of “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”?

Adding color to Alexander Payne’s black & white Oscar-nominated

black comedy Nebraska, Mark Orton of Tin Hat Trio fame continues his creative relationship with the director (The Descendants, Sideways) on the soundtrack Music from the Motion Picture Nebraska (Milan). Orton employs a light and delightful touch (“Herbert’s Story,” “The Old House”) so that you are aware of the music, but it doesn’t overwhelm you in the least. This marvelous soundtrack will elicit an emotional response from the listener, whether or not they have seen the movie (which, by the way, is a must!).

In 2013, movies about people trapped and alone (Gravity) and dealing with the isolation that can sometimes come with aging (Nebraska) were popular. In the case of the Robert Redford movie All Is Lost, about a man adrift at sea, you get both in one drenched package.

All Is Lost: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Community Music) is credited as “Music Composed and Produced by Alexander.” The Alexander in question is Alex Ebert (formerly of Ima Robot, currently of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros). Ebert does an effective job of creating drama and tension throughout this soundtrack, which

never feels intrusive or distracting.

The success of Y/A novel series movie adaptations such as Twilight and The Hunger Games logically spills over into the territory of movie soundtracks. Divergent, starring Shailene Woodley, is set to be the next movie blockbuster for the Y/A crowd. Naturally, there is music to accompany the film on Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Interscope). Featuring a roster heavy with Interscope-related artists such as Ellie Goulding, Zedd, Woodkid, Kendrick Larmar, Pia Mia and others, this soundtrack stands on its own.

Acclaimed Showtime series House of Lies has also earned its own soundtrack, House of Lies Soundtrack (Capitol). With an emphasis on blues (Gary Clark Jr.’s “Bright Lights,” Aloe Blacc’s “Take Me Back,” “Clean the House” by Fat Freddy’s Drop, and Michael Kiwanuka’s “It Always Comes Back Around”), jazz (“Heartbreak” by the James Hunter Six, and Count Basie’s “Belly Roll”) and electro hybrids of both (“Midnight Sun” by Isaac Delusion,” “Smoke Filled Lungs” by Basecamp), House of Lies is for sophisticated listeners, and that’s the truth.t

LGBT Fiction honors the memory of authors Robert Ferro (The Blue Star, Second Son) and Michael Grumley (Life Drawing), life partners who both died of AIDS. The winner receives $1,000. Finalists

for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction: All This Talk of Love,

by Christopher Castellani (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill); If You Could Be Mine, by Sara Farizan (Algonquin Young Readers);

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lison Fraser, an award-winning cabaret artist, offers a most unusual and haunting cabaret-styled CD, Tennessee Williams: Words and Music. The singer performs popular jazz standards that were featured in various plays by Tennessee Williams. Sprinkled throughout the disc are brief dramatic readings from Williams’ work, often with a jazzy background score.

It’s quite a concept, and it works. Fraser all-butconducts a seance with her voice, channeling Williams from the distant past, and allowing us a peek inside his soul.

Williams (1911-83) was a Southern gentleman who wrote brilliant, groundbreaking plays like A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was openly gay as early as the 1940s. His works were gothic melodramas about mad, frustrated Southern ladies, some of whom were thought to be stand-ins for Williams himself. Williams’ writings opened windows into many tortured souls.

“Tennessee Williams is a doorway I can walk through,” Fraser told the B.A.R. “By saying his words and singing the songs he lived and chose to include in his plays, our listeners can walk through that doorway with me and enter his singular world.”

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It’s still too early to be calling it a “revival,” but the music of Karol Szymanowski, a Polish composer born in the year of Parsifal and one of the more important gay composers of the 20th century, is appearing with ever-greater frequency on disc. Latest up is pianist Cedric Tieberghien’s superb CD of the Etudes of Opp. 4 and 33, the Masques, and the Metopes (Hyperion).

Szymanowski’s music underwent vast changes over its course, some of the transitional phases vague enough in character that a listener

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of being bullied every day. Movies and TV were my escape.”

Peru, who says he doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a man in a dress, tipped his hat to one of his comedy inspirations. “I grew up in the 1970s. I loved Bea Arthur on Maude. I studied her comic timing, and was obsessed with her voice.”

Peru’s path to the stage came about in an unexpected way. He came out in the early 90s, when the AIDS crisis was still at its worst. Wanting to help, he went to a few ACT UP meetings.

“I wanted to get involved in the gay community,” he said. “But there was a lot of internal fighting at ACT UP, so I couldn’t do it. It was hard enough to see people dying as a young gay guy.

I thought everyone was going to be supportive. But I still had the desire to be an activist.”

He could tell stories. “Storytelling is the best way to change hearts and minds,” he said. “All my stories are autobiographical. I’m embracing what I was taught to hate about myself.”

Drag Race contestant Bianca Del Rio also speaks from her own life.

“My definition of comedy is truth,”

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acter speaking them.

“Do you remember Jean Harlow?” Fraser asks in a genteel Southern drawl. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could sprinkle those ashes over the ground like seeds, and out of each one would sprout another Jean Harlow?”

This line, from Williams’ play Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, is followed by the song “Sweet Leilani,” a gentle love song.

“The great legacy of Tennessee Williams is that the outsiders of this world have as much right to the pursuit of happiness as the insiders,” said Fraser. “His plays are populated with the fragile, the lonely, the discarded, the misfits, the down-and-out and the spat-upons. To have their lives unfold theatrically through Tennessee Williams’ deeply compassionate eyes is to have a clean window looking out on a better world, a world in which everyone’s story is worth telling, everyone’s life is worth living, and everyone’s dream is valid, no matter how far they veer from the social norm.”

In one track, Fraser tells part of Blanche’s story from Streetcar.

The monologue “Sister Blanche Is No Lily” is spoken with a plaintive piano background. It’s followed by the song “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,” which was heard in Williams’ “Clothes for a Summer Hotel,” yet it also underscores the empty circle Blanche found herself trapped in,

and the better life she yearned for.

Some of the songs might be quite familiar to listeners. “Yellow Dog Blues,” written by jazz legend W.C. Handy, was performed in a rather naughty, tongue-in-cheek style by Mae West in the film She Done Him Wrong (1932). As performed by Fraser and heard in Williams’ Summer and Smoke, it becomes a bluesy tribute to a survivor.

The disc is a document of The Tennessee Williams Songbook, a concert that Fraser premiered in New Orleans last year. The music on the 16 tracks is provided by The Gentleman Callers, a New Orleans jazz band. Arrangements were provided

by Allison Leyton-Brown, who coproduced the CD with Fraser.

For Williams’ devotees, Words and Music should stand as a brilliant tribute to a great writer’s legacy. Those unfamiliar with Williams’ work might be inspired to seek his plays out after listening to his words as performed by the smoky, sexy vocal stylings of Alison Fraser.t

could be excused for failing a dropthe-needle-test. It’s not always clear to the ear – as it is in Chopin, Debussy, and Scriabin, composers Szymanowski admired – what the individual etudes are studies of, but they declare Tieberghien a pianist of high consequence with a vivid musical imagination. It’s stand-upand-cheer playing, really.

But where the composer and his interpreter cast real spells are in the Masques and Metopes, each a clutch of three pieces with poetic titles whose relationship to the music is not always clear, but who make their mark with impact both dazzling and subtle. “Scheherazade,” like its titular namesake, tells a strictly music story with a cumulatively

spellbinding effect. “La Serenade de Don Juan” gives little evidence of having heard Mozart’s version, but its Spanish accents limn a lothario of patent sexual allure. The Metopes, a triptych of musical “poems,” paint “The Isle of the Sirens,” “Calypso,” and “Nausicaa” in colors and textures specific to the piano – wonderfully creepy trills, difficult to play – evoking Debussy and Ravel without imitating either, and Tieberghien revels in them.

This is repertoire in which Tieberghien is up against Piotr Anderszewski and Rafal Blechacz, two of the most gifted pianists of their generation – and, abetted by Hyperion’s superb recording, he holds his own.t

she said. “So the aesthetic is more about observations than joke-telling. There are so many funny things in everyday life that everyone can relate to. I just choose to say them on stage.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be a drag show if there weren’t a little bitchiness. “I love insults,” said Del Rio. “I am a drag queen!”

Sasha Soprano, a San Francisco native, is another of the performers whose art imitates life. She said she grew up in the Castro, and that she doesn’t have a coming-out story.

“Sasha is a creation of what I grew up around, which was wealth,” she said. “Sasha is basically this character who makes fun of wealth and privilege. I’ve seen it first-hand growing up. Watching families fight, divorces, political messages, and so much more crap that comes from money.

Sasha is basically a Paris Hilton who likes to make fun of herself.”

The jokes can hit pretty close to home. “My real-life experiences are my script,” Sasha said. “I have a tendency to tell people about my family, and people think I’m making it up! I come from a very eccentric family. Imagine people with too much time on their hands, as well as money. That combination makes

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Some of the others who’ll grace the Castro Theatre stage that night are the legendary superstars Lady Bunny, Peaches Christ and Heklina.

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he exhibition Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library stands out due to the show’s highly skilled artwork, from start to finish. In addition, you can’t help but be delighted by the charm and sophistication that underlie it as a whole.

Historian Trina Robbins, author and curator of the exhibition, happens to personally own the largest collection of original work by early20th-century women cartoonists, and the exhibit is made up of part of that collection. The works of eight

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recalled the time McKellen put him on the spot several years before Bennett had officially come out as gay in a 2005 autobiography. McKellen had organized a benefit performance against an anti-gay Thatcher-era law, and Bennett accepted McKellen’s invitation to participate.

“He asked me more or less in front of a very large audience whether I was gay or not, and I said my concern has always been that there was very little sex of either sort. I said it’s like asking someone who just crossed the Sahara Desert whether they wanted Malvern water or Perrier water.” For the record, Bennett has been with his partner Rupert Thomas, a magazine editor, for 22 years – “so that’s fairly well established,” Bennett said with the wry humor first revealed as a member of the legendary Beyond the Fringe satirical group.

But despite Bennett’s claim that his sexuality is “almost incidental” to his creative output, he acknowledged that he was drawn to the Auden-Britten pairing in The Habit of Art very much because of their contrary means of homosexual expression. In the play, set in 1973, one of the rent boys that Auden was famous for hiring shows up at an awkward moment at the apartment Oxford has provided its famous son. Britten has come there to seek Auden’s advice on whether or not to continue on an opera based on Thomas Mann’s novel Death in Venice, fearing that it reflects too closely his own pederast interests and could harm his reputation.

While there is no record of Auden and Britten meeting in later life, the two had in fact collaborated on several operas in the 1930s, and to Bennett, a reunion was at least historically plausible. “Indeed,” the playwright said, “when Britten was working on Death in Venice, somebody said that the ideal person to do the libretto would be Auden, and of course, that didn’t go down well at all with Britten.”

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cartoonists make up the show, and except for two, each artist is given a case of her own.

Beginning with the early-1900s child-like cartoon comic strip of Grace Dayton, it goes on to the somewhat more sophisticated wall posters and newspaper advertisements of Nell Brinkly’s theater musicals.

Continuing on, a whole case is devoted to Edwina Dumm’s covers of books of music. A dog, Tippie, is used in the title of each book. Tippie’s Tunes and Tippie’s Halloween Serenade are two examples.

From here, “The Fighting Women of World War II” section comes into play. The artwork is noticeably larger and more detailed than

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The tale beautifully unearths all the hesitancy, the doubtfulness, and the secrecy lining even the most solid partnerships, reminding us that any fissures in the framework get worse before they get better.

It takes immense skill and intuitive finesse to formulate such characterization and story development in the span of just a few pages. There is not a word wasted or a false note throughout this 60-page slice of gay fiction. Lopez demonstrates an artistry not often found in a debut collection; there is cohesion, passion,

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Michael DeMartini, left, plays a flustered playwright as Justin Lucas, as an actor playing a rent boy, and Donald Currie, as the actor cast as poet W.H. Auden, rehearse a scene in the play within the play that is Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art at Theatre Rhino.

rupted by the adolescent tempter Tadzio. “You fancy it the story of your life,” Auden tells Britten. “You like boys, Ben. No dressing up Tadzio as a vision of Apollo can alter that fact.”

In developing the script with director Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre, Bennett found that his principal characters were providing needed background for the audience by repeating things they would have already known. To solve this problem, and to provide himself with some opportunities for outright fun, The Habit of Art became a play about putting on a play about Auden and Britten. We are in fact watching a rehearsal that the actors who play Auden, Britten, and other characters interrupt with various complaints about their dialogue and situations.

“Do we need talking furniture?

I know I’m old-fashioned, but why does the furniture talk?” complains the actor playing Auden. “This is a poet. The world talks and everything in it,” replies the weary, unnamed playwright.

Later the actor playing Auden’s sexual hire for the night worries, “I’m too old. I’m supposed to be playing a rent boy, and I’m not a boy at all.” The patient stage manager assures him, “It’s only a phrase. You’re a rent person. It’s theater, love, the magic of.”

In addition to laughs that the and searing pain in his writing.

Still, for all its elegance and emotional heft, one yearns for a longer work from this gifted author. Instead of dropping us off after a mere taste, give us a story with sensitive characters who keep us entranced for hundreds of pages into nights when we should be sleeping yet can’t resist knowing what happens next.

Lopez is a San Francisco writer who has written for numerous LGBT periodicals, and here he steps out of the shadows and into the limelight of a blossoming career as a storywriter and, if readers are lucky, a novelist.t

previously. Woman’s sexuality and detailed comic book stories are emphasized.

Cartoonist Dale Merrick’s creation, “Brenda Starr Reporter,” has a unique sophistication that makes it stand out. The face of Brenda Starr is distinctly large, perhaps even gigantic-looking, and more detailed.

A black-and-white drawing of it shows large, sensuous lips, heavily made-up eyes, and full hair. Because of Starr’s full sexuality and dashing quality, you are immediately attracted to her.

The exhibition is currently showing on the fourth floor of the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. It closes on June 5.t rehearsal framing device provides, there is also humor in the serious play about Auden and Britten that is being rehearsed. “The play does take up a lot of themes,” Bennett said, “but I think the driving theme is that you must go on, go on creating. And if you can, you feel that’s your salvation.”

Looking at Bennett’s resume, with scores of credits in theater, television, film, and books – including a recent London hit titled Cocktail Sticks – it doesn’t seem he has had any trouble going on. “It may look like that now, but it never seems like it at the time. Each time it feels like, ‘Oh, I can’t do this.’ You really don’t have a choice if you want to go on living, but it takes everything you’ve got.”

Bennett said he doesn’t particularly worry about age, though he said when he buys something as simple as a kitchen appliance, he is conscious that it will probably outlast him. “And I’m conscious of how far the world is drifting away from me, how much I don’t understand, and how you get pushed aside.”

Bennett and Thomas make their home in Primrose Hill, a fashionable London neighborhood lately fancied by film stars and pop singers – though their names mean nothing to him. “Every morning there’s a group of paparazzi on the street,” Bennett said, “and I walk straight past them, and they never turn their heads.”t Theatre Rhino’s production of The Habit of Art will run at Z Below Theatre through April 13. Tickets are $15-$35. Call (866) 811-4111 or go to www.therhino.org.

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Skate Nights are Wheely Fun

by Jim Provenzano

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ith a history going back decades, roller skating and its various gay nights continue to offer up fun on wheels, both in Redwood City and at a church on Fillmore Street. Both locations bring lighthearted nightlife with an innocent sense of fun.

Although its designated “gay night” is on Tuesdays, David Miles, Jr., also known as “the Godfather of Skating,” assured me that any of the several weekly nights, and even a new daytime slot, are more than gay-friendly.

On last Saturday’s Black Rock roller disco night, several mostly straight participants donned festive Burning Man styles, including retro shorts and socks, fake fur and LED hats, as ‘70s funk and disco pumped through his installed speakers at the former Sacred Heart Church on 554 Fillmore Street at Fell. As stained glass window depictions of Jesus and Mary looked down, attendees whirled in circles, with a few gravitational mishaps.

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W Christopher Daniels works the pole at The Nob Hill Theatre.

hat on Earth do you do when you’re young, gay and totally misunderstood in a tiny Canadian town? Well, if you’re horny, smart and sexy, like our hero, Christopher Daniels, you immigrate to the US and exercise your freedom to become a fierce dancer, ass-slinging porn star and an award-winning escort. Then, you write a book about the whole damn thing!

Mr. Daniels’ tell-all, Money’s On The Dresser, opens up all the drawers (wood and cotton) and exposes the strange and steamy world of sex, drugs, travel, money, secrecy and screws a modern twist on male bonding. During his recent scorching run at the Nob Hill Theater, Christopher sizzled before my camera with a special pole-dancing number, after which, the questions and answers commenced.

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Miles Jr.’s love of roller skating goes back to 1979, when he made a visit to Golden Gate Park.

“I heard about people skating in the park, bought a pair of skates,” he said. “In the beginning, we used to hang out on the bridge in between 9th and 10th avenues. We started a skate patrol, because they were gonna ban skating in the park. We were doing that up until 1996.”

Currently, of course, skating and rollerblading remain popular –and allowed– in the park and other areas. Miles Jr. prefers to keep the events simple.

“You don’t see food trucks or sales banner there,” he said of his outdoor events. “I’ve worked hard to keep it simple, but the world wants you to promote yourself.”

And that he does, but modestly, with his website and, for a time, his own local cable access TV show.

When Sacred Heart Church was closed, the building remained dormant for a time, until Miles Jr. found a way to re-open it for fun in November 2013. But it wasn’t without a bit of controversy.

“Some people from the church felt like they got ripped off,” he said

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of the closure.

“To them, it’s still a church. I couldn’t ignore them. People were in tears, so I let them in, I offered a family aspect to our events. They still have their feelings about it, but they’re happy about what we’re doing.”

After all, Miles Jr. noted, roller skating is a form of celebrating life, “which is what religion is supposed to be about.”

And Miles, Jr. has been spreading the gospel for years, with events at The Women’s Building (in association with IndieFest), at the former Cell Space in SoMa, and with rolling outdoor events that preceded the birth of the cycling event Critical Mass.

“What was really weird, at Sixth Avenue and Kennedy Drive, we were calling that the Church on Eight Wheels for years,” he said. “Now, look what’s dropped into our laps; an actual church!”

Miles, Jr. did propose a conundrum. “I’m a bit perpelexed by a ‘gay night,’” he said. “What’s gay music?”

Mention of a few pop music divas, and perhaps a song or two from the score of The Rink aside, his playlist of classic funk and disco seem festive enough.

“My family has been so way past the uptightness since I came to San Francisco from Kansas City,” said the 58-year-old father of three children, who even met his wife 35 years ago at a skating event.

“My skate scene has basically been the same from the 1970s to this day.

I’ve been going to Burning Man for 14 years,” where he’s packed a small skating floor and music. “It’s something that has pushed my whole skating experience. I’ve never been involved in anything so inclusive.

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as his fans and friends continue to keep rolling.

His biggest recent events have been held in an airplane hangar at The Presidio, and a Target-sponsored 17-day event at the Alameda Country Fair.

“We’re mobile anyway,” said Miles, Jr., whose LED-lit mini-van, a signpost of his events, was parked outside the church’s entry. “We can move anywhere. This is the way we can bring skating to anyone.”

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events.”

Since the Church on 8 Wheels events aren’t held in a nightclub, they have to skirt a few concerns.

Without a costly DJ license, a playlist is set on computers and iPods.

Alcohol is not allowed, but private parties allow a little BYOB and food, just no glass bottles.

Attendees do need reminders, as Miles, Jr. announced on a recent night, “Do not hold a can or anything in your hand, If you do, you will fall down.”

And people do fall down, so a general ‘At your Own Risk’ policy prevails, as do a few participants’ fashionable and functional knee pads, and even a few helmets.

“You don’t want to be drunk or stoned while skating,” Miles Jr. said.

“The Women’s Building events have a full bar, but you have a different crowd there.”

Attendees needn’t be daunted by

the more proficient skaters, since beginners are encouraged with lessons.

“We’re not trying to be great skaters, just plug in to the grooves,” said Miles, Jr. As a founder of the California Outdoor Rollerskating Association, he’s been promoting skating events of all kinds, including organized cross-state events. Miles Jr. is actively working toward saving venues and converting old ice rinks into roller rinks, as he did in Santa Barbara.

The Church on 8 Wheels has a two-year agreement to use the space. That may be extended, but Miles, Jr. isn’t daunted by change,

Roller skating has long been a part of the gay scene, going back to the 1970s. Who can forget the romantic collision in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, where Michael “Mouse” Tolliver met Jon Fielding?

In real life, gays have long been having fun at the rink.

As author/editor Jack Fritscher wrote about local athletes in his essay, “Gay Jock Sports,” in Drummer 20, January 1978, “Sports is a way to practice competition, a way to learn physical/political/moral self-defense, even if only expressed through busloads of men heading Tuesday nights to South San Francisco to roller skate. More than pirouetting, the Folsom Street men turn the rink into a poppered roughhouse of rollerball. Every Tuesday night, the big motor-coach bus, parked on Castro Street across from the Castro Theater, sits with its motor running as it filled up with men, pouring out of the bars, carrying skates and bottles of poppers for sniffing while skating around the roller rink.”

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buses), where Rainbow Skate has been attracting LGBT skaters to its Wednesday night events.

Manager Brad Leary has been running events there for nine years, but the rink has been open for much longer, and a gay skate night has roved from place to place, “for close to 35 years,” said Leary. “It started off in Alameda, and then I believe San Ramon after that, and then San Mateo.”

The San Mateo Rolladium hosted Wednesday Night events until The Rolladium closed in 2001. Rainbow Skate then moved to the Redwood Roller Rink in Redwood City.

Leary assures potential first-timers that the trip from San Francisco is only a half hour drive, or a CalTrain away (the rink is a ten-minute walk from the nearest station).

“We get a combination of people from South Bay and elsewhere,” said Leary. “It’s pretty mixed between men and women, and popular for birthday parties.”

Leary also mentioned their annual Halloween party, which includes a costume contest. Other holiday events are held, along with Retro Night (disco classics played each first Wednesday), and the monthly Underwear Night (each month’s last Wednesday).

For many, the mere mention of roller skating may inspire refrains from the camp Linda Blair film Roller Boogie, the Olivia Newton-John cult classic Zanadu, or even that film’s stage adaptation that starred Cheyenne Jackson.

But Leary confided that the music isn’t always blasts from the past. “We have to be mindful of the younger crowd,” he said. “The retro nights nights appeal to the older crowd 40 and up, like myself.”

That age group includes Leary’s partner Kimeron Hardin, who spins tunes as DJ Special K. “Younger kids like the older music, too,” he added. “What’s fun about that night is people dress up.”

And while some may sport rollerblades for outdoor fun, the rink maintains a ‘four-wheels’ policy.

Leary and Hardin inherited the event when the previous promoters moved on. “It’s nice for us to be involved in the gay community here, and what many people enjoy is that it’s a non-alcoholic event.”

But that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of fun.

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Redwood Rink’s Leathermen at the Roller Rink nights, held in May in 2012 and 2013, will enjoy a third go, thanks to organizer Andy Scheer.

“People have said, ‘Oh, I wish you would do it more often,’ but for now it’s good once a year,” said Scheer.

“The first time we did it, the timing worked out that it was after all the seriousness of the contests, IML [International Mr. Leather] and Mr. San Francisco Leather, so it gave people a chance to have fun.”

DJ DamNation (aka Folsom Street Events Director Demetri Moshoyannis), provided pop tunes.

While leatherfolk participated in good numbers (more than 75 attendees each year), the dress code is by no means strict.

“It’s more than just leather,” said Scheer, “but includes kinksters and fetishists.”

So, yes, you may encounter a man in a jock strap and gas mask on wheels.

Scheer said that the event grew out of similar alternative events, such as the Leather nights at local movies and museums.

“I think there’s a need for people to do something other than the usual things we do, like go to bars.”

Among the community are some experienced skaters. As with other venues, newbies are welcome, but a pair of kneepads might be a good idea to go with one’s jock, fetish or kink gear. The combination has led to quite a good time.

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A recent Rainbow Skate Halloween party

“Some people get so bound up in being their leather ‘personas,’” added Scheer, “that I think Leather Skate Night lets them relax. Once you get out on the roller rink, you really learn how to have fun.” t

Rainbow Skate is held each Wednesday night, and Leather Skate night will be held in early May, at Redwood Roller Rink, 1303 Main Street, Redwood City.

Church of 8 Wheels’ Gay Roller Disco Nights are Tuesdays at the former Sacred Heart Church, 7pm to 10pm. Black Rock Roller Disco is each Saturday, 7pm-10pm. Other events weekly. 554 Fillmore St. $10 entry. $5 skate rental. www.churchof8wheels.com

The next IndieFest Roller Disco (held first Fridays) is April 4, at the Women’s Building, 3543 18th St. at Valencia. Disco Attire Encouraged! 21+. $10. 8pm-12am.

Skates rentals available or bring your own. www.sfindie.com

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In Fine Form

by Donna Sachet

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ita Moreno was in fine form for her day in the Castro last weekend, bringing the breadth of her remarkable career to our Castro Theatre. The earlier part of Saturday included the kids with a wellattended Sing-Along West Side Story and Marga Gomez, but evening brought a raucous screening of The Ritz, Terence McNally’s seldom revived camp classic of comical highjinks in a New York bath-house.

As we entered the Castro Theatre, we were greeted by two hunky

men clad only in white towels; this was going to be fun! Upstairs, Ms. Moreno held court, autographing her autobiography and welcoming generations of admirers. We were warmly welcomed and tickled at her recognition that we had brought a hard-cover copy of Rita Moreno: A Memoir, saying “Only the best for you, Ms. Moreno!”

At the VIP reception and inside the theatre, we greeted K.C. Dare, Phil Ruth, Jeff Doney & Xavier Caylor, Steven Satyricon, Philip Stover, Mark Paladini, and many others. The first two rows were re-

served by Mark Pellegrino for his husband Stuart Kent’s birthday celebrants and row J was filled by the staff and regulars of Twin Peaks.

After incredible film clips and a dazzling tap performance by Matthew Martin, the star descended the aisle of the Castro Theatre for her on stage interview. The room erupting in one of the loudest and most enthusiastic welcomes we have ever witnessed.

Ms. Moreno beamed as she ascended the stage and generously thanked Mark Huestis for making this all possible. The interview was

Jones, and Matt Buchanan. Sangria and hot dogs were the perfect items for this week-night gathering, where David outlined the progress of his campaign for the State Assembly.

Complete details of this and other upcoming races can be found in our colleague’s political column in this paper.

Not one to waste an entire outfit on a single event, we moved on to Musical Monday at The Edge with sexy bartenders, a packed house, and videos from a wide variety of musicals. We are never quite ready for all the guys moving their lips

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pro Charles Zukow, and Christopher Lee of Leftwich Events.

After a couple of cocktails, we were guided into the Grand Ballroom, as the guest of the charming Annie Appel and the Bay Club, where over 500 guests dined on an excellent dinner. Local television personality Liam Mayclem emceed the presentation of awards, ranging from Rising Star, Unsung Hero, and Community Spirit to Innovation, Beyond the Call of Duty, and Lifetime Achievement and representing seemingly every hotel, small and large, in San Francisco. Beyond all

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Rita Moreno with Mark Huestis at the Castro Theatre.

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Rita Moreno at the Castro Theatre.

fast-paced and wide-ranging with Mark only needing to hint at a topic before she took off with entertaining anecdotes and behind-thescenes revelations. After that, only The Ritz could have held our attention, full of timeless gay humor and campy theatrics. Now that’s a day in the Castro!

On Sunday we made a point of dashing over to Martuni’s to catch a performance by visiting Irene Soderberg, longtime advocate for our community. She delighted the loyal crowd, most of whom we knew, including Emperor Brian Benamati and Tony Onorati, Jimmy Strano, Tommy Dillon, Diana Wheeler, Ray Tilton, and Alan Choy. It was heartwarming to see such a turnout.

Monday’s fundraiser for Supervisor David Campos at the home of Bevan Dufty and Christopher Vasquez was packed with LGBT movers and shakers, including Neil Giuliano, Thom Lynch, Wayne Friday, Tom Temprano, Suzy

(and bodies) in perfect sync to everything from Oklahoma and Rent to the latest from Disney and the Muppets! Give it a try some upcoming Monday!

Last Wednesday, we accepted the invitation of the Hotel Council of San Francisco to present one of their Hotel Heroes Awards at the Fairmont Hotel.

This unusual alliance coordinates a number of activities within the hospitality industry, including this annual recognition program, started by the legendary Chip Conley, Founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. Who could resist an invitation to an opulent event at the Fairmont?

At the reception in the Gold Room, we were pleased to run into various friends and contacts, including Tom Klein, General Manager of the Fairmont, Sharon Chism from Hotel Whitcomb, Tom Sweeney from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, SF Travel’s Joe D’Allessandro, PR

the festivities, we were again in awe of the excellent Fairmont service provided every step of the way, particularly from familiar faces, serving, bartending, and facilitating with panache.

This Saturday, swing by Daddy’s Barbershop around 6PM as we join Lenny Broberg in cutting the ribbon for this newly enlarged and remodeled Castro business. You know how we love ribbon-cuttings. At 7PM and 10PM, head to the Castro Theatre for Drag Queens of Comedy, featuring Coco Peru, Sasha Soprano, Peaches Christ, Lady Bunny, Heklina, and more. These gals are pros and no topic is off the table!

The following Saturday, April 5, the Reigning Emperor J.P. Soto and Reigning Empress Misty Blue invite you to Investiture at 180 11th Street, starting at 5PM. Expect pageantry and camp, food and drinks, entertainment and shenanigans, as they induct their new court and Imperial Crown Prince Kevin Lisle and Imperial Crown Princess Emma Peel step down, welcoming their next in line.t

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Irene Soderberg, Jimmy Strano and Donna Sachet at Martuni’s

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Cheers to the Dive Bar Get drunk on ‘Tipped and Tipsy’

by Heather Cassell

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t’s no secret that San Francisco is a drinking town, from glitzy downtown nightclubs serving up $15 cocktails concocted by the latest mixologists, to the neighborhood dive bar.

It’s an establishment in every neighborhood, nearly as ubiquitous as cafes on every corner, a place where locals gather after work or on the weekends to watch a game or simply to pop in for a drink or two and to say hello to their favorite bartender.

The bar is also often a scene for live entertainment with a cast of colorful characters, particularly the regulars and the host of their party, the bartender, directing the show.

This is where Jill Vice, playwright and performer of Tipped and Tipsy, sets the stage for Happy’s, a dive bar anywhere in our fair drinking city. Happy’s is frequented by three regular customers – Ace, Ernest and Pat – amidst 14 other characters, including the bar owner Rico, and Candy, their bartender who calls the shots while serving up their drinks and cutting them off when they’ve gone too far.

The story gravitates around Candy’s battle to save Pat, a former champion boxer, from drinking himself to death, and the regulars and owner who comically rally around the cause by offering drinks to Pat, who has been cut off by Candy with Rico’s approval.

Vice, a physical comedian and improv artist, drew upon thirteen years of experience working behind San Francisco’s gay and straight bars to create her hilarious, and at times poignant, one-woman show currently playing at The Marsh through April 6.

BARtab recently chatted with

Vice, the creator of Tipped and Tipsy, named the “Best of Fringe” at San Francisco’s Fringe Festival this past fall. She talked about 13 years of working at San Francisco bars that inspired her hit one-woman show. Vice uses her unique performance style that brings each character vividly to life through rapid transitions without a pause or narration. She also discusses playing a somewhat closeted gay man, and her love of gay patrons.

Heather Cassell: Why do you believe Tipped and Tipsy has really hit a nerve with critics and audiences?

Jill Vice: That’s a good question.

I think [my style] is a little bit different than anyone has seen before.

I switch really fast between characters. I think that’s something that seems to have generated some excitement. Then you know it’s just a topic that I think that a lot of people can relate to. We’ve all been in a bar.

Why name the bar Happy’s?

People have a lot of pride for their dive bars and dive owners have a lot of pride for their bars, because they don’t even realize that it’s a dive.

There is definitely some irony there.

The owner of this bar is very proud of it. He named it Happy’s because he’s sort of in denial; it’s just a place where people come together to be happy.

It is a magical place, you know it is this legal drug that we are somehow allowed to have and we are allowed to dispense. It’s become a culture in our society that is very important. It plays a very powerful role.

The serious part of your play is that one of your characters, Pat. The bartender, Candy, is trying to save him from drinking himself into death and oblivion, kind of

like Leaving Las Vegas.

Yeah. Absolutely. It’s a story about a group of regulars. One of them is sort of an ex-boxer named Pat, who is absolutely deteriorating because of his alcoholism. So, she’s trying to save him by getting him off it, but she’s also trying to do what’s right.

It’s something that comes up when you are a bartender. I mean you have people that you have to keep a look out for and you’ve got to cut people off on a day-to-day basis.

Who is the gay character in your piece? Would this kind of be your homage to gay men that you like and respect?

Absolutely. His name is Ernest and he probably would not be thrilled about me telling you because he’s a little bit closeted. He’s not flamboyant about his love life. He’s not somebody who necessarily wants to share it, especially with the bros. He loves being considered being one of the guys, so he keeps it under wraps. It’s pretty obvious in the piece.

I’ve worked at a few gay bars; some of the best bar owners that I’ve worked for. Some of my favorite regulars have been the gay boys. They are just the best crowd that I’ve ever worked for, period; by leaps and leaps.t Tipped and Tipsy is currently showing through April 6, Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m., at The Marsh Studio Theater, 1062 Valencia Street. Tickets are $15 - $35 sliding scale and $50 $100 reserved seating. For more information, visit www.themarsh. org or call 415-282-3055, 1 – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Heather Cassell is a travel and entertainment writer for the Bay Area Reporter and other publications. www.GirlsThatRoam.com.

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Underwear Party @ Powerhouse Strip down to your skivvies at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Some Thing

Bleaux @ Beaux

Mica Sigourney and pals' weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Haute Toddy and Linsay Slowhands' twerky poppy fun night at the stylish Castro bar-nightlcub. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland

Themed Nights @ The Brig

Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am.

Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

If you're looking for a new sexual adventure, check out this new space.

Weekend events take place Fridays through Mondays, and the intimate venue with a jail theme offers slings, tables and various spaces for erotic play. Sat-Mon, above PopSex960 at 962 Folsom St. at 6th St. www.BrigSF.com

Fri 28 Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

Wild Child @ The Chapel The winner of the Austin Music Awards' 2013 Best Indie and Folk Act perform new music from their CD The Runaround.

Robert Ellis headlines. $14. 9pm. 777 Valencia St. www.wildchildsounds.com www.thechapelsf.com

Carnival Warmup @ MCCLA Gallery

Fri 28

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Thu 27 Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Porn performer J.R. Matthews leads a sexy downstairs event in the strip club's playroom. $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

The Crib @ 715 Dance night for the younger guys and gals. 9:30pm-2am. 715 Harrison St. www.thecribsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5.

9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover.

9pm. 3152 Mission St. 829-2233. www.virgilssf.com

Dot Photos @ SupperClub

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences

Opening reception for an exhibit of photos

by Tom Schmidt, aka Dot, of SupperClub performers (dancers, singers, acrobats, drag queens, and circus arts performers).

9:30pm-1am. 657 Harrison St. at 2pm. www.supperclub.com

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Fauxgirls @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

The classic drag show includes acts by Victoria Secret, Alexandria, Chanel, Maria Garza, Mini Minerva, Kipper, Ruby LeBrowne, and Lulu Ramirez. No cover, and cheap drinks! 8pm. 124 Ellis St. www.fauxgirls.com

Thrillpeddlers' hilarious Cockettes revival returns, with many of the ebullient cast members. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru May 31. 575 10th St. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

La Femme @ Beaux

Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St.

New ladies' happy hour at the new Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose

This diverse array of concerts includes soloists, bands, singers, instrumentalists, traditional and modern Afro-Semetic jazz.

Various venues (Yoshi's, Freight & Slavage, JCC East Bay) and admission ($22-$30).

Thru April 1. www.jewishmusicfestival.org

Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.BeatboxSF.com

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories; hosted by Walt Anthony; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. www.SFMagicParlor.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland's premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10$15. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15.

9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

Club Booty @ Space 550 Club Papi and Elliot Live's gay & lesbian hip hop dance night, every 4th Friday, with DJs Danni Boy and Mike Biggs. 10pm-3am. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.clubpapi.com

Darling Nikki @ Slate Queer dance party celebrates its two-year anniversary, with DJs Durt, Finn, and Lady Ryan. $5. 9pm-2am. 2925 16th St. at South Van Ness. www.slate-sf.com

Fedorable @ El Rio Free weekly queer dance party, with gogos, prizes, old groovy tunes, cheap cocktails. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. 2823325. www.elriosf.com

Sat 29 Jason Brock

Go-Beaux @ Beaux Gogo-tastic weekly night at the new Castro club. Bring your dollahs, 'cause they'll make you holla. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. Check out the new expanded front lounge, with a window view. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops

Jewish Music Festival @ Various Venues

The weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time's assured. $8-$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th St. at Harrison. www.BootieSF.com www.DNAlounge.com

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun

Weekly event, with Latin music, half-off locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men's bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge

The band Orquesta Adelante and dancers with Brenda Perdue perform at this fundraiser for the Mission Carnival events; food and drinks on sale. $15. 7pm-10pm.

Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. 643-2785. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe

www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

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Fri 28 DJ Durt O’Shea at Darling Nikki

Roy Hargrove Quintet @ Yoshi's The celebrated five-man jazz ensemble, led by the Grammy-winning trumpeter, returns for a five-night residency. $16-$28; prxfixe dinner available ($38). Wed-Sat 8pm & 10pm. Sun 7pm & 9pm. Thru Mar. 30. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned.

9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge Retro disco tunes and a fun diverse crowd, each Thursday. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Hard @ Qbar DJ Haute Toddy spins electro beats; cute gogo guys shake it. $3. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Enjoy eight bars, more dance floors, and a smoking lounge at the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. March 21, Valentino's birthday bash. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Sheila E. @ Yoshi's Oakland The talented veteran percussionist-vocalist ("The Glamorous Life") performs music from Icon, her first CD in 12 years, with her band. $33-$60. 8pm & 10pm. Mar. 29, 7:30 & 9:30pm. Mar. 30, 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Shit & Champagne @ Rebel D'Arcy Drollinger's "whitesploitation" drag satire musical play kicks up the laughs; also starring Matthew Martin. $20-$25.

Fri & Sat, 8pm. Extended thru April. 1772 Market St. at Octavia. www.shitandchampagne.eventbrite.com

Sat 29 17th Anniversary @ The Lexington Club The popular women's bar celebrates its "Edge of Seventeen" as the hotspot for dykes and queers for almost two decades.

DJs Jenna Riot and Rapid Fire spin tunes, gogo gals shake it, and drink specials will get you happy. No cover. 7pm-2am.

3464 19th St. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm.

1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Drag Queens of Comedy @ Castro Theatre Miss Coco Peru, Sasha Soprano, Shangela, Peaches Christ, DWV, Lady Bunny, Heklina, Bianca Del Rio and Pandora Boxx perform at a wacky night of drag comedy. $35$100. 7pm & 10pm. 429 Castro St. www. thedragqueensofcomedy.com www.castrotheatre.com

Homo @ Qbar Locoya Hill's extra-gay top 40-pop night is back, because the Castro needs more homo-genius fun. DJ Brooks and gogo studs. $5. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.qbarsf.com

Jason Brock @ Martuni's Our popular local crooner offers a musical tribute to female pop stars of the 1980s (Whitney, Tina, Kate Bush, Nell Carter and more) at the intimate martini bar's lounge. $25. 4pm. Also March 30, 4pm, and April 2, 7pm. 4 Valencia St. www.jasonbrockvocals.net

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Sun 30 Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. 3pm-6pm, with an '80s-themed dance party 7pm-1am. $5. Also now open daily 11am-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Body Positive Comedy @ Club OMG Queenie TT, Steve Lee, Carrie Avritt, Nina G, Steve Danner and Kelli Lynch perform stand-up at this fundraiser for SF State's Disabled Students Association. $5. Jell-O shots, raffles, and more. 43 6th St. www.clubOMGsf.com

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Full of Grace @ Beaux Weekly night with hostess Grace Towers, different local and visiting DJs, and pop-up drag performances. No cover. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Pollo del Mar's weekly drag shows takes on different themes with a comic edge.

8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Weekly game night for board and electronic gamers at the warehouse multipurpose nightclub. 21+. 6pm-12am. 1425 Folsom St. www.showdownesports.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops

Jock @ The Lookout The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers. This week, SF Fog Rugby Club! 3pm-7pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Liquid Brunch @ Beaux No cover, no food, just drinks (Mimosas, Bloody Marys, etc.) and music. 2pm-9pm.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Strip down at the strip joint; no follin'!. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Showdown @ Folsom Foundry

GlamaZone @ The Cafe

Brunch @ Hi Tops Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Sun 30

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Queenie TT at Body Positive Comedy

Mon 31 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with Cock and Bull ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Irish Dance Night @ Starry Plough, Berkeley Weekly dance lessons and live music at the pub-restaurant, hosted by John Slaymaker. $5. 7pm. 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.thestarryplough.com

Karaoke @ The Lookout Paul K hosts the amateur singing night.

8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany's weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm, with a RuPaul's Drag Race viewing as well.

4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge The casts of local and visiting musicals often pop in to perform at the popular Castro bar's musical theatre night. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Wed 2 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Broadway Bingo @ Feinstein's at the Nikko

Trivia Night @ Harvey's BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover.

8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Underwear Night @ SF Eagle Strip down to your skivvies at the popular leather bar. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show @ the Chapel Enjoy a comic Christopher Guest movie double feature. No cover. 8pm. 777 Valencia St. www.thechapelsf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos and retro drink prices. Check out the new expanded front window lounge. 9pm-2am.

4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Thu 3 Gym Class @ Hi Tops

Joe Wicht and Katya Smirnoff-Skyy cohost the weekly fun musical theatre trivia singalong night. Pull up a comfy chair or sofa, enjoy a cocktail or three, and test your Broadway knowledge. Kanpai Lounge, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. No cover.

7pm-10pm. 394-1111. www.hotelnikkosf.com/feinsteins.aspx

Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

MAD MANhattan @ Starlight Room

Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

The new weekly event includes classic cocktails created by David Cruz, and inspired by the the show Mad Men, plus retro food classics like a prawn cocktail and oysters Rockefeller, all with a fantastic city view. 6pm-10pm. 21st, Sir Francis Drake Hotel. 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Miss Kitty's Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata.

No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 6473099. www.wildsidewest.com

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. April 3, Reel to Real with screened movie clips, chats with animators and special effects wizards, projections and a paparazzi-style photo booth. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park.

379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe Enjoy amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.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

Shanté, You Stay @ Toad Hall BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly viewing party of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6, with a live drag show challenge. 8:30-11:30pm.

4146 18th st. at Castro. www.toadhallbar.com

Sports Night @ The Eagle The legendary leather bar gets jock-ular, with beer buckets, games (including beer pong and corn-hole!), prizes, sports on the TVs, and more fun. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tue 1 13 Licks @ Q Bar Weekly women's night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm.

3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550

Sat 29 DJ Brooks at Homo

Cocktailgate @ Truck Suppositori Spelling's wild weekly drag show night. $3. 10pm-2am.

1900 Folsom St. www.trucksf.com

The popular country western LGBT dance night; enjoy fun foot-stomping twostepping and line-dancing. $5. 5pm10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm.

Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunday's a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts 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.starlightroomsf.com

Thu 3 Well Strung

Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Bombshell Betty’s Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 5527788. www.elbo.com

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

Grand Opening @ Golden Bull, Oakland Yep, a new gay bar in the East Bay, celebrates its virgin night. 4pm-2am. 412 14th St., Oakland. thegoldenbullbar.com

Ink & Metal @ Powerhouse Show off your tattoos and piercings at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am.

1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio Women's burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5-$10. 7pm.

3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

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Your performance at The Nob Hill Theater was spectacular!

What was that like for you?

It was a great experience. This was my fourth time dancing at Nob Hill, and I think it has gotten better every time. I used to be so nervous before my shows and now I think I’m finally at a place where I feel comfortable and I have a great time.

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Obviously, your physique is classical ballet-trained. When did you begin dance training and how do you maintain it today? What is your fitness regime?

I started training in dance at the age of 11. I was a professional up until three years ago when I left and focused on the porn, escorting, writing and traveling full time. I was doing Crossfit training for about three years until I started having a lot of hip and knee injuries. I left that last summer, and now I do more of a full-body work out anywhere from three to four days a week. I really don’t particularly enjoy going to the gym, but it’s one of those things I force myself to do.

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In your book, you detail the vicious bullying you faced growing up in rural Canada. Were your initial forays into bodybuilding a response to it?

It was a combination of things. At the age of 27/28 I was about 150-160 lbs and I still looked very “twinkish.” I really wanted to be bigger and more muscular. I looked at the guys I jerked off to in porn and secretly wanted the bodies they had, but really had no motivation or anyone pushing me to get in the gym and get bigger.

In fall of 2009, a guy I had chatted with on Adam4Adam.com had seen me in person and for some reason he felt the need to write a pretty vicious email saying things like I looked hot in my pictures but he couldn’t believe how skinny and gross I looked in person. His email was really mean-spirited and I have no clue why he felt the need to tell me this stuff, but I think it was at that point when I decided that was enough motivation to get my ass in the gym and bulk up. As Sharon Tate said in Valley of the Dolls, “You know how bitchy fags can be.”

Was your entree into erotic film a desire to express your repressed sexuality, or something else?

My entry into adult films was based solely on the fact that I knew it would promote my escorting and make me more money. It wasn’t until my fourth or fifth shoot that I began to enjoy it and I began having fun with it. I’ve never really thought of myself as hot or incredibly goodlooking, so the idea of being in porn never occurred to me. The work has, surprisingly, been fairly consistent, so I’ve stuck with it.

How did you decide to begin escorting? Describe your first experience for my readers.

I decided to begin escorting after I went through a break up with my ex of four years. I needed to find my own place, because I was the one

who left the relationship. I needed money quickly to get started on my own, so I decided to give escorting a try. The idea had always intrigued me and I secretly wanted to do it. I figured it was now or never, so I put an ad up on Rentboy.com, and within a few days I was seeing clients. The first meeting was really good. It was with a local guy in Las Vegas. He was in his 60s and retired. He worked in production in shows on the Las Vegas strip and he was a genuinely sweet man. We talked for about one hour then moved into the bedroom.

He held me and asked me questions about my life and then gave me a massage. He had a medical condition where he couldn’t get hard or cum so he just wanted to give me a massage. It was a great experience.

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been really supportive and I’ve had a lot of fun.

What, if any, emotional toll does escorting take? How do you combat that?

It can be exhausting sharing such a personal and intimate part of yourself with others. Combine that with traveling, shooting porn and trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle can be tough, but it is possible to stay sane. I try to keep good people in my life and always take time for myself to stay sane. Combine that with some puppy love, good wine and a perscription for Xanax, and I’m good to go!

What clients’ desires surprised you most?

How most of them just want to be loved and accepted for who they are.

Essentially, I believe that’s what escorting is all about.

Are you asked to bareback professionally and personally?

Your response?

Yes and yes. Have I done it? Yes. I’m not going to pretend to be something I’m not. It happens... I don’t advertise myself as an escort who barebacks, but I’d be a liar if I said it hasn’t happened. As far as my personal life, I have used condoms and I’ve barebacked (who hasn’t?). Sexual health is important to me, which is why I get tested at least every three months and always try my best to make the best decisions with my health and my sex partners. I’m HIV-negative and Cornelius Washi ngton Christopher currently on a waiting list to Daniels at at The Nob Hill be in a study on Prep/TruTheatre. vada, which I hope to begin in the next month or so.

After receiving escorting awards, are you treated difWhat’s the ratio of closferently by your porn star escort eted/married vs. openly gay and peers? Any resentment, etc.? bisexual men? Women, if any?

Not that I know of, but you never What’s the difference, if any, in know. I have made so many great their approach to you? friendships in the porn and escorting About 80 percent of the men I see industry and I would say everyone, identify themselves as straight, bi or for the most part, is friendly and supare in the closet. Gay men generally portive of each other. Sure, we can don’t have to pay for sex – Damn all be bitchy and say shit about each you, Grindr! – but it does happen. other. But for the most part, we all get Woman have contacted me, but I along. We’re all doing the same line don’t think I could go through with of work, so there is sort of a brotherit. hood among male sex workers.

What perception of escorts Describe the escort award would you most like to change? events, for those who’ve never That we’re fucked-up damaged been. people with screwed-up childhoods.

It kind of felt like the Oscars but I mean, we are, but no more than there were drag queens, guys in harthe rest of society. nesses and a few hundred porn superfans.

What perceptions of clients would you most like to change?

What did it feel like to win?

That they all look like Richard It felt great to win, although the Gere. whole thing was a little surreal. I now have an award that says that I Your Nob Hill Theater Underam the Number One Escort in the ground Playroom “Circle Jerk World... well, for 2013, at least. My with A Porn Star” event was great! one-year reign of terror ended in Tell my readers what it’s like.

New York at the Hookies on March I don’t jerk off and tell …unless a 20. camera is there, so you’ll just have to come and see for yourselves!

How do your industry peers regard the success of your book?

What type of sex would you I think they think it’s great. We’re like to have more of professionall very supportive of each other ally? Privately? and everyone has been very happy I’ve had it all and I continue to for me. seek out new experiences, and I’m game for just about anything!

How do your clients feel?

So far, so good. Everyone has What are your professional and been really supportive and helpful. personal goals? Any that would surprise your fans?

As with after Oscar wins, did Honestly, at this point, I’m not your rates increase? sure. I’m still doing what I am doNope. They stayed the same. ing and enjoying it. I just moved to Business has been good and the title Los Angeles, and I’m continuing has put my name out there more to work in porn, dance and escort. and got me more gigs dancing and This is a new chapter in my life and doing personal appearances. It’s I’m looking forward to seeing what’s been a fun year and people have next.t

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Un-bare-able Love

by John F. Karr

I’m heartbroken that more and more porn companies are producing bareback movies. I’ve said I wouldn’t review them, and that’s now limiting my purview. And what about the obviously discarded promise once made by some makers of safer sex movies that they wouldn’t hire performers who’d barebacked in films. That could limit the employment of a lot of guys.

Or will it? Perhaps wildly popular Trenton Ducati will be the test. Will safer sex companies continue to hire him, now that’s he’s barebacked for LucasEntertainment?

And what shall I do about Lucas?

Despite his turn to bareback, Michael Lucas still produces safer sex features. Shall I refuse to write about those, in light of the bareback movies? While I’m arguing that to myself, I watched the recent LucasEnt feature, Love & Devotion. I liked very much Michael’s previous titles that so successfully added emotional content to scenes, and I like Love & Devotion. Though I’m glum about Michael’s bareback work, I’m heartened to find affection in a film. It’s a rare thing, for sure, and its presence would makes this fine movie recommendable even if it were less good. And don’t go thinking that heat, intensity, and rugged fucking have been sacrificed on an altar of affection. You can whisper, “I love you,” and still punch someone’s lights out, you know.

Only two episodes of this fivescene, three-hour movie specifically display love, but the others show a devotion to slow and thorough sex—the kind we call lovemaking, and which I laud for its deep cleansing action. Also to be lauded is the use of crossfade and dissolve in the montages that accompany each scene’s credits.

I always wonder why this sort of effective filmmaking never shows

least, for a tasty moment.

And when Tyler sits on it, instead of oof and grunt, it’s panting and quivering and drawn out “ah,” along with whispers of “Baby, oh, baby.” A partial OCS is followed by cum-flavored kisses.

Derek Parker nestles in an easy chair, reading Out of Africa, until Jessy Ares dislodges him so they can suck cock like they mean it, not as a display of athletic prowess. Ares delivers some great rimming, and a fast-paced plugging that escalates on to an OCS that should satisfy anyone’s cum hunger. I guess we’ll never know if Parker finished the Dineson.

LucasEntertainment Seth Treston is smooth, nicely put together, and Rafael Alencar and Seth Treston are sure knows how to han- featured on the box of Love & Devotion. dle an oversize cock. lingering eye-locks. He goes for peWhich is good, since nile depth charge, and gets it, elicithis partner is massively ing a lotta cum, very thick and chalk hung Rafael Alencar. white. Some of it lands in Treston’s This dude’s stock in mouth. trade has always been And then there’s Mr. Ducati, to act as trade. He’s paired with blond twink Justin a rude fuck who gets Cruise. It’s a good scene, and Ducaserviced. Well, he ti’s everything he usually is. But I gets serviced here, but was hoping he might extend his the tone is, well, toned range, and he doesn’t connect on down. He’s not entirely pacified, a level any deeper than usual. He though, and Treston still has to tell doesn’t provide much foreplay, and him to slow down his quick inserhis porn patter is his usual clichés. tion. Alencar doesn’t entirely beThen, gazing at Cruise’s back while come the suave Latin lover, however, fucking him doggie style, Ducati ad and skips byplay, like caressing and libs, “God, you’re beautiful.” Where was this sort of comment when he was looking Cruise in the eye? Am I quibbling? Ducati looks glam, fucks hard, and Cruise gets a substantial mouthful of Ducati dick butter.

The last scene features handsome and mightily hung Vito Gallo topping an appreciative Jed Athens.

Their delicious 69 is the movie’s first, and then we’re introduced to Jed’s somewhat amazing asshole.

It’s a neon pink tube of the greatest circumference, surrounded by a broad aureole of the same bright color—like the apron of a putting green that has a crater where the cup should be. It deserves a little more screen time than it gets, as well as LucasEntertainment the kind of rimming the scene’s diJessy Ares and Derek Parker rector, Adam Killian, might give it. are a standout couple in Love & Chris Crisco co-directed. Fine work, Devotion. fellas.t

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In Love & Devotion, it’s good lovin’ for Micah Brandt and Tyler Wolf.

up in porn. You’d think it would be complimentary. Sexographers so frequently call themselves filmmakers, but rarely, if ever, make use of the tools of filmmaking. Lucas, along with mr. Pam, consistently makes the best-looking movies around. That’s true of Love & Devotion, which is also distinguished by its generously long scenes, with their slow but well-sustained pace, and by the presence of foreplay.

The distinguishing feature of Micah Brandt is his stout, handsome and light-complexioned cock. His partner, Tyler Wolf, is a handsome, light-complexioned man of color, with a scrumptious butthole. I love watching guys with hard-ons walk around, which this pair does—at

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