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SF LGBT Democratic clubs focus on District 5 supervisorial race by Matthew S. Bajko

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Ridgely to leave SF Pride after parade by Meg Elison

fter five and half years in the position and six annual celebrations, San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee Executive Director George F. Ridgely Jr. has announced that this will be his final turn at the helm of the organization. He will leave after this year’s parade and festival in late June. According to a May 6 news release, Ridgely, a gay man, has accepted a position with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, where he will manage permits and reservations. See page 10 >>

HHS rule puts religious objections on ‘steroids’ by Lisa Keen

new Trump administration regulation permitting religious bias came carefully wrapped up in the language of civil rights: Its text promises to “re- The U.S. Departmove barriers” for ment of Health and people who want to Human Services has work in health care, finalized a religious support a “more di- refusal rule for medverse” field of health ical and nonmedical care workers, and health workers. stop “discrimination in health care.” But LGBT activists and allies see a wolf in sheep’s clothing and read it as an invitation to people who harbor personal bias toward LGBT people to exercise that prejudice under the cloak of “religious or moral conviction.” The new final rule will go into effect 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register. The See page 10 >>

ix months before voters in San Francisco’s supervisorial District 5 head to the polls to elect their representative at City Hall, the city’s two LGBT Democratic clubs are turning their attention toward the race. Monday, May 13, the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club is hosting a debate with three of the candidates seeking the seat that covers the Western Addition and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods. It has invited Supervisor Vallie Brown, whom Mayor London Breed appointed to the seat last July when she resigned after being elected in June, as well as two of her challengers, tenants rights activist Dean Preston and Ryan Solomon, a gay man who is a bartender at the Castro district bar Badlands. Preston, founder of the advocacy group Tenants Together, narrowly lost to Breed in 2016. In that race he was endorsed by the more progressive Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and is likely to secure its early endorsement this year when the club’s members vote at their May 28 meeting. Solomon and a third candidate, film producer Nomvula O’Meara, are also seeking Milk’s early endorsement. Whoever wins will serve out the remainder of Breed’s term through 2020 and will need to run

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next November for a full four-year term. The outcome of the race will do little to change the balance of power on the Board of Supervisors. Progressives are considered to hold a sevenperson majority on the board, with Brown seen as being among the four more moderate supervisors. All three of the other members of the moderate bloc – Supervisors Catherine Stefani (D2),

Shamann Walton (D10), and Aisha Safai (D11) – have endorsed her, as has Board President Norman Yee (D7). Preston meanwhile has the support of progressive Supervisors Gordon Mar (D4), Hillary Ronen (D9), Matt Haney, (D6), and Rafael Mandelman (D8), the lone LGBT member of the board. Three See page 7 >>

SF planners object to nonprofits in upper Market St. retail spaces by Matthew S. Bajko

an Francisco planners oppose allowing nonprofits to lease out vacant sidewalkfronting storefronts along upper Market Street in the city’s gay Castro district. And they also object to requiring health care providers, like urgent care clinics, to seek a conditional use permit in order to open in ground floor spaces along the commercial corridor. Their concerns were laid out in a staff report regarding a zoning change proposal that District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is pursuing for the business district in the gayborhood. His aim is addressing the glut of empty storefronts along Market Street –mainly between Church and Castro streets – that has been exacerbated by the opening of new mixed-use developments with housing over retail spaces in the area and changes to consumers’ shopping habits away from brick-and-mortar retailers to online sites. The city’s planning commission is expected to take up the proposal at its meeting Thursday (May 9). It would then head to the Board of Supervisors’ for approval before being sent to Mayor London Breed for a final sign-off. As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in

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The former site of the Sweet Inspirations bakery and cafe on Market Street is one of several vacant storefronts in the Castro.

March, art studios, nonprofit offices, and restaurants serving wine and beer would find it easier to open along upper Market Street under the zoning changes. Mandelman, a gay man elected to the board in June, spent months conferring with neighborhood leaders on the legislation. Wine shops and restaurants that only sell

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wine and beer would no longer need to seek a conditional use permit if they wanted to open in a ground floor space; those selling or serving liquor and spirits would. Businesses would be allowed to stock more items for sale on the sidewalk in front of their stores, such as gardening supplies, plants, and building materials. The zoning changes come as several restauSee page 6 >>

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Vandalized Castro park plaque repaired by Meg Elison

ity crews have repaired a plaque at Pink Triangle Park and Memorial in the Castro that was apparently defaced by vandals. As the Bay Area Reporter first reported online May 1, a board member of the organization that oversees the small park reported he discovered the plaque was partially covered with a white substance. Sister Gaia Love with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and president of the Eureka Valley Foundation, which oversees the park, alerted the B.A.R. last Wednesday afternoon and sent a photo showing a white opaque substance smeared over and defacing the sign. The damage was called into the city’s 311 system rather than being reported to police, said Rachel Gordon, spokeswoman for San Francisco Public Works. Love said that foundation board member Gerald Abbott made the discovery. Abbott did not respond to requests for comment. The B.A.R. reached out to the city

to determine whether it had a plan for the plaque’s restoration. Gordon wrote in an email that workers from the department’s paint shop attended to the damaged plaque last Friday, stating: “They were able to clean up the plaque pretty well, but not perfectly. At least it doesn’t look vandalized anymore with splatters.” The plaque, although no longer covered with paint, has certainly seen better days. Recent photos show the protective coating over the brass face of the memorial marker is cracked and peeling. The rest of the park is also demonstrably in need of repair and upkeep, with a gradual but remarkable loss of the loose pink stones meant to fill the triangles marked into the ground. The B.A.R. has previously reported on efforts to rehab the park. Formally dedicated in 2003, Pink Triangle Park is a site of some significance for the queer community of San Francisco and LGBT people around the world. It was the first permanent and freestanding memorial commemorating the deaths of 15,000 gay men in Nazi concen-

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City crews have cleaned up the plaque at Pink Triangle Park and Memorial, which was apparently vandalized.

tration camps during the Holocaust. The plaque serves as a didactic, explaining the meaning of the park and memorial. According to FBI statistics, hate crimes have been increasing in frequency over the last three years,

with double-digit gains in yearover-year incidents voluntarily reported. With so many recent violent attacks against Jewish communities across the country, any vandalism of a Holocaust-related site is a notable offense.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is Jewish and represents the Castro, said he was concerned about the incident. “Pink Triangle Park is a beautiful memorial to LGBTQ people who were persecuted during the Holocaust and serves as a reminder of the persecution that queer people continue to face around the world today,” he wrote in an email. “The recent vandalism in the park is deeply concerning. My office has been in touch with the park’s board leadership and I am committed to helping them address this and other maintenance challenges and remain a welcoming and opening public space long into the future.” In an email, Love noted an upcoming meeting for the board of the Eureka Valley Foundation at which a campaign to fundraise for repairs and upkeep would be discussed. Sister Gaia declined further comment until after the board meeting, which took place after press time. t

Gay Pittsburg man sues city for seizing property by Meg Elison

ittsburg resident Larry R. Reasoner is suing the East Bay city and several officials over a recent incident in which he alleges he was involuntarily committed while his home and belongings were confiscated and – in many cases – destroyed. Reasoner, 65, filed the suit last month in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He claims that this was the final skirmish in an ongoing battle with Pittsburg police Lieutenant Roderick DuPont, who targeted him because he is gay. “There’s a long history between Mr. Reasoner and Officer DuPont,” plaintiff’s attorney Tyler Welti with law firm Venable LLP said, when asked about the background of this case. “We’re focused on the most recent and pertinent issues: the improper service and execution of this warrant, the destruction of nearly everything

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Reasoner owns, and the loss of his home and property. But there’s a lot more there.” The suit alleges that in the course of his duties, DuPont asked Reasoner why he and his partner didn’t just leave the city, elaborating, “Why don’t you move to San Francisco where your kind belong?” The alleged pattern of harassment and intimidation documented in the suit go back several years, including an order to Pacific

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Gas and Electric Co. to turn off Reasoner’s electricity, and a compound accumulation of large fines for alleged nuisance code violations. Reasoner claims this behavior escalated due to DuPont’s vocal homophobia. DuPont is named in the suit as the primary aggressor in the matter. Reasoner’s account of events describes a long-term campaign of harassment that used nuisance charges to cover an overt dislike of gay people that included Reasoner and his now-deceased partner, Ignacio Rodriguez. Reasoner describes DuPont’s actions as including insisting on his right to enter and “inspect” the plaintiff’s property without a warrant, taking photos of Reasoner from his squad car, and making comments on how gay people need to be “fixed.” The alleged actions against Reasoner took place between January 2014 and December 2017, when Reasoner was placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold according to the complaint. On the day of his commitment and the seizure of his property, Reasoner reported that DuPont told him,

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suit alleges that the abatement was carried out illegally in the absence of the property owner, and dependent on a warrant that lacked sufficient particularity. Reasoner claims the city and its agents have not provided him with any information on how he can reclaim his property, or even an inventory of what was seized. When asked about his feelings on the matter, Reasoner told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview, “I lost everything that I worked my whole entire life for. Forty-seven years in construction ... I lost it all. I ended up with nothing, not so much as a pair of socks. “My Nacho committed suicide, thinking he’d be a burden on me if we got kicked out,” he added, referring to his deceased partner. “I probably won’t get anything back. I’m scared of payback from the police and the city. But I deserve to be paid for what I lost. And DuPont should be in prison for the rest of his life.” Neither the city of Pittsburg nor Fernandes Towing responded to requests for comment.t

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“I’m going to teach you a lesson you will never forget.” Once Reasoner was placed in medical custody on DuPont’s orders, DuPont allegedly acted on an incomplete warrant served on insufficient notice, towing cars and motorhomes, emptying Reasoner’s storage units, dumping and destroying the plaintiff’s tools, family photos, antiques, and other personal possessions. The suit details the fate of Reasoner’s motorhome and fifth-wheel trailer: Fernandes Auto Wrecking and Towing Inc., named in the suit for acting as an agent of the city, towed Reasoner’s motorhome to its lot. Once it was stowed there, Fernandes Towing allegedly allowed an employee to live in it without Reasoner’s knowledge or consent. Reasoner claimed he received photos from an individual with access to the tow lot that prove the trailer was occupied by a tenant there. The suit claims that the fifth-wheel and motorhome were later destroyed by Fernandes Towing at DuPont’s request. The city of Pittsburg has placed a cost of abatement lien on Reasoner’s property totaling over $33,000. His

ustavo Alvarez had had enough, according to his lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, following a pattern of what Alvarez described as ongoing harassment from the Palo Alto Police Department because he is a gay Latino man. This alleged harassment came to a head February 17, 2018, when Alvarez claims police officers pulled Alvarez out of his home, then assaulted, searched, and detained him. While Palo Alto police has its own official version of what happened that day, Alvarez’s suit claims he installed video monitoring equipment in his home in preparation for just such an event. Alvarez’s account describes specific assaults perpetrated against him by Sergeant Wayne Benitez, who also allegedly made inflammatory statements during and after the incident as a means of instructing the other police officers on the scene: “See how quickly they behave when we put our foot down? And that’s what we don’t do enough of.”

Benitez is one of several officers named in the complaint, which also includes Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen. The suit alleges that the harassment began with a claim of driving on a suspended license, despite the fact that Alvarez was never detained on that charge. Instead, Alvarez states in court documents that arresting Officer Christopher Conde escalated this initial “hunch,” calling for backup to remove Alvarez from his home and arrest him. Alvarez was officially booked on a DUI charge, though his suit states that no field sobriety test was conducted, and Santa Clara County has declined to prosecute on that charge. The officers involved in the arrest were not wearing body cameras at the time, but they were recording audio. Alvarez’s home security footage has been synced to the police recordings in order to establish a more complete version of the incident, and the result submitted as evidence. The footage has not been released to the media. Alvarez alleges that Palo Alto police were definitely aware that he is a gay

man, and mocked and abused him specifically for it in the course of his arrest. The verbiage used is not recorded in the case. Alvarez is seeking damages in excess of $10 million, for damage to his property, injury, and the stress this incident has caused him as a minority member of his community. Alvarez and his attorney, Cody Salfen, declined to comment. The Palo Alto Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. t

Correction Due to an editing error, the surname of Dennis Xiong and the name of Miss GAPA Shu Mai were incorrect in the May 2 article, “GAPA troupe to perform in Asian American festival.” The Asian American Women Artists Association is co-presenting the opening reception, not the entire festival, as the article stated. The online version has been corrected.

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Time to induct Sarria in CA hall

riends and colleagues of the late Jose Julio Sarria are once again working to get him inducted into the California Hall of Fame, after former governor Jerry Brown nixed that idea several years ago. Unlike the 2015 effort, however, the new governor, Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, is believed to be more inclined to bestow the posthumous honor on Sarria, a Latino gay man and drag queen who was the founder of the Imperial Court System and the first out gay person to seek elective office in the U.S. His 1961 bid for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was unsuccessful, but he garnered a lot of votes and showed countless other potential LGBT politicos that they, too, could seek elected office. Today, there are hundreds of out LGBT elected officials around the world. Newsom should induct Sarria into the California Hall of Fame, which presently doesn’t reflect the diversity of the Golden State. While the inductees are all worthy, there are only a handful of out individuals, and Sarria’s career certainly meets the criteria of an individual who made a lasting contribution to society. Significantly, Sarria was an inspiration to many LGBTs at a time when it wasn’t common for us to be out, or stand up for ourselves in the face of discrimination. He was a source of strength that gave LGBT people the courage to organize and fight back against anti-gay police discrimination. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, which many view as the birth of the modern gay rights movement. It’s important to

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recognize that Sarria was organizing and fighting against societal and institutional homophobia on the West Coast years before the 1969 rebellion. Lesbian Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who helped lead the 2015 induction effort and is doing so again this year – along with gay state Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco) and gay Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) – told us at the time that Sarria “helped end raids of establishments that catered to LGBT people and helped move our community toward equal treatment under the law.” The three legislators met this week with Newsom and had a “good conversation,” according to participants at the meeting. As we editorialized supporting his induction four years ago, Sarria was a pioneer in the city’s nascent but growing gay community. Besides his political activism, Sarria’s crowning at

the Beaux Arts Ball in 1964 led to the founding of the Imperial Court System, over which he reigned as Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco, the Widow Norton (the imagined widow of Emperor Norton, a local 19th century eccentric). The Imperial Council of San Francisco, a charitable organization, is more than 50 years old and was the first of numerous imperial courts around the world. It has raised millions of dollars for charitable causes and is an important way for LGBTs to connect through drag culture. Since the last attempt to induct Sarria there has been an explosion of drag culture with TV shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “Pose,” and the drag exhibit at the Met. Drag queen story hours at public libraries are a big draw for kids, even as they are protested in some parts of the country. Sarria was responsible for laying the groundwork for creating an out and proud LGBT community and deserves to be recognized in the hall of fame. This year, in addition to the Legislative LGBT Caucus, the trustees of City College of San Francisco have passed a resolution in favor of Sarria’s induction; the Board of Supervisors is expected to soon vote the same. Sarria died in 2013 at the age of 90. He remained active until the end, attending coronations, promoting the Imperial Court System, and fighting for LGBT rights. This isn’t the only decision that Newsom is expected to make that would reverse one of Brown’s. It’s an important one that will recognize and preserve the memory of a Latino LGBT trailblazer for present and future generations of queer people. t

Why we still need Pride by Brian Rogers

pring is here! Finally our dreary winter will give way to a beautiful display of the natural beauty in Sonoma County. For lifelong LGBT activists like myself, the longer days of spring also mean Pride season is approaching. As vice president of Sonoma County Pride, that means shifting into high gear as we finalize preparations for our 32nd Pride weekend celebration, May 31-June 2, in Santa Rosa. Each year that means selecting a theme that resonates and relates to the time we live in and which says who we are (or want to be). In 2017, for example, with the streets full of protesters over President Donald Trump, our theme was “Rise Up” and we added a rally that year. In 2018, beginning to recover from the horrendous firestorm the fall before, our hopeful theme was “Together We Rise.” Now, we find we live in a divided nation. Our social media obsession has placed us in our own private silos, virtual echo chambers of our own making. Fake news and meanness in public discourse have alienated many and led to a sharp spike in incidents of hate crimes. Eroding trust in our institutions can numb us and corrode our spirits if we let them. For 2019, we reject the negativity and join hands to bring back the LOVE. In 1967, thousands of young people from around the country descended on the Bay Area for the Summer of Love. Our world changed forever that summer. In that same spirit and as an as antidote to hate, Sonoma County Pride has declared 2019 the “Year of Love.” In collaboration with community nonprofit partners the Year of Love will include a dozen events large and small focused on positive change and promoting the love for our fellow human beings. The board of directors of Sonoma County Pride proudly invites our neighbors from the entire Bay Area to join us in beautiful Sonoma County as we celebrate the power of love. Join us as we come together to celebrate the goodness in the world through a weekend-long series of events that offer a wide range of options for your entertainment pleasure. Events include two dance parties with entertainment, a talk by Jim Obergefell of marriage equality fame, an admission-free Pride parade and festival, an LGBT short film festival, a community youth and trans picnic, Pride pets in the park, a wine event hosted by GED magazine, and a Lagunitas Brewing Company taproom party with drag entertainment. On the main festival stage featured performers include Janice Robinson, Tatianna, Spencer Ludwig, Reyna, and DJ Jimmy Hits. Join us as we turn Santa Rosa into one big gay party. Detailed information on each event

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Dykes on Bikes from Lake County led last year’s Sonoma County Pride parade in Santa Rosa.

is located on our website at www.sonomacountypride.org. If you haven’t visited Sonoma County or Santa Rosa in a while, you might be surprised how the countryside has healed and how charming the downtown has become. Our area is renowned for its food culture and downtown Santa Rosa is no exception. The reunification of Old Courthouse Square has yielded a walkable downtown with great restaurants, pubs, and (of course) wine and beer tasting options. The character of the area is charming, especially at night in the summer when the string lights are draped from trees. “Stonewall to Sonoma, A Heritage of Love” is the theme for this year’s parade, presented by Hansel Subaru for the second year. Sonoma County Pride dedicates our 2019 parade to the spirit of the Stonewall uprising. History was made on June 28, 1969 when a diverse group of mostly street kids took on the New York City police force in an inspiring display of bravery and resistance during one of their regular gay bar raids. Homosexuality was a criminal offense that short time ago. The Stonewall uprising (or riots) sparked an ongoing resistance and inspired us. It gave us resolve to continue the fight, chipping away at injustice and learning to reject shame and embrace our true selves with Pride. The first NYC Pride rally occurred one month after the Stonewall riots, when 500 people gathered for a “Gay Liberation” demonstration in Washington Square Park, followed by a candlelight vigil in Sheridan Square. In the years since, Pride celebrations have been held worldwide, in big cities and small towns. Many young men and women first found personal empowerment and self-acceptance attending their first Pride. For those who remember the era before Stonewall, coming out was not an option. To survive, most lived double lives, concealing their shameful secret. In addition to criminalization and dis-

crimination, physical violence was all too common. Until Stonewall, millions of LGBT people had never dared question the status quo. That act of disobedience set off a movement whose true legacy is still unfolding. Stonewall was a transformative event for me as well. Sixteen years old and growing up in Texas, I knew from my earliest awareness that I was different from the other boys. I also understood without questioning that I must hide that difference or face certain humiliation and shame. Stonewall caused an epiphany in me, learning that there were many other “different” kids out there and that together we could make change happen. There is a tribe for the “others” and that is my tribe. I resolved to fight for our right to exist and be happy, and I’ve done that ever since. For the past 30 years I have volunteered and served on many boards; first in Las Vegas and now in Sonoma County. I am fortunate to work for the progressive and enlightened Graton Resort & Casino. It’s a wonderful and inclusive place; the resort encourages my work for Sonoma County Pride. For the fifth year, Graton Resort & Casino is our entertainment presenting sponsor, allowing us to punch above our weight for booking great talent. (Graton Rancheria Tribal Chairman Greg Sarris is a gay man and the resort has given to the LGBT and wider communities over the years.) Each year there are venues to secure, sponsors to find, permits to be filed, entertainers to hire, vendors to accommodate, a parade to stage, volunteers to recruit and train, meetings, meetings and more meetings. I have often been asked why we take on all that extra work. I always give the same answer: there’s no way that I can’t do it. For our second year in our new venues, Sonoma County Pride is expanding the footprint of the parade and festival, adding more vendor space and a second community stage. Come recharge your spirit by gazing at the emerald green hills, consider your small place in the universe while surrounded by towering redwoods, and discover new wine tasting and dining experiences. Our Pride parade and festival have scaled to nicely match the setting; festive, but with a laidback Sonoma County vibe. Channel the positive collective energy and you’ll find yourself refreshed. Sonoma County Pride has partnered with several local hotels, which are offering special rates to our Pride weekend guests. You can find those on our website, along with registration links. Full details about all our events, transportation, parking, bicycle valet parking, and much more are available on our website and Sonoma County Pride Facebook page. Hope to see you the first weekend in June. t Brian Rogers is Sonoma County Pride vice president, sponsors and logistics.

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Newsom urged to name drag icon to CA hall of fame

by Matthew S. Bajko

n effort to have gay icon and drag queen Jose Julio Sarria inducted into the California Hall of Fame is being revived this year now that Governor Gavin Newsom is leading the Golden State. Sarria, who died in 2013 at the age of 90, made history in 1961 with his unsuccessful bid for a San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat. It marked the first time an out gay person had sought elected office in the U.S. In January 2015, LGBT community leaders launched an effort to see Sarria be named to the hall that year due to it being the 50th anniversary of the Imperial Court System, which he established in San Francisco and has become a major LGBT philanthropic group throughout North America. The campaign on behalf of Sarria, who was also a veteran and a prominent Latino leader, had broad support from across the state, with not only LGBT elected officials and community leaders backing it, but also veterans groups and the Latino community. Yet then-governor Jerry Brown turned a deaf ear to the calls to include Sarria among the Californians inducted into the state hall. Speculation turned to members of his administration being wary of adding a drag queen to the list as behind the snub. Now that Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco who has a long record of supporting LGBT rights and causes, is the state’s governor, LGBT community leaders have renewed hope of seeing Sarria finally join the ranks of other Golden State residents in the hall of fame. Past LGBT inductees include the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay artist David Hockney, lesbian tennis star Billie Jean King, and the late lesbian astronaut Sally Ride. A trio of members of the Legislative LGBT Caucus – chair gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), vice chair gay Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), and lesbian state Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) – are co-chairing the effort to induct Sarria. The caucus met with Newsom Monday, May 6, and formally asked him to consider doing so. “Jose Sarria is one of the people who made it possible for people like me to get elected to office. He ran for office during a time period when LGBT people simply didn’t do that,” noted Wiener in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “He broke a barrier. Even though he didn’t win, he did well. He got a lot of votes.” His candidacy “sent a powerful message” to the city’s political establishment, added Wiener, “that there was a strong LGBT constituency that politicians needed to pay attention to and work with that constituency. What Jose Sarria did was extraordinary and helped shift the future course of our movement.” Gay San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman plans to introduce a resolution next week that would have the full Board of Supervisors in support of naming Sarria to the hall. “Jose Sarria was an important person in queer and San Francisco history,” Mandelman told the B.A.R. “He was dreaming dreams for queer people long before most queer folks knew those dreams could be dreamed. And certainly before Harvey Milk.” In April the board overseeing City College of San Francisco renewed its support of seeing Sarria be included in the hall. In a letter sent to Newsom by the board’s current gay president

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and vice president, Alex Randolph and Tom Temprano, they urged the governor to heed the community’s call for honoring the gay icon. “His story and relentless work on behalf of his nation and community inspired thousands of members of the LGBTQ community to fight for equality and run for office, the two of us on the City College Board of Trustees included,” wrote Temprano and Randolph, who worked for Newsom’s mayoral administration. “Almost 60 years later, over 680 openly LGBTQ leaders are serving in elected office.” They also noted how Sarria, in 1965, after proclaiming himself Empress of San Francisco, founded the Imperial Court of San Francisco. The drag charity grew into an international system that continues to crown empresses and emperors in San Francisco and cities across North America. City leaders in 2006 renamed a block of 16th Street fronting the Harvey Milk/Eureka Valley Branch Library in the gay Castro district in honor of Sarria. “Jose was a distinguished WWII veteran, a LGBTQ trailblazer, a human rights activist, a lifelong volunteer and mentor, and most importantly a proud Californian,” wrote the community college leaders. “His legacy embodies the spirit of California and the California Dream.” Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art founder Chris E. Vargas included Sarria in his special installation as part of the Oakland Museum of California’s new exhibit titled “Queer California: Untold Stories.” At the opening last month, Vargas told the B.A.R. that he supported seeing Sarria be inducted into the hall. “There are a lot of things in his biography that merit that recognition,” said Vargas. Current members of the Imperial Court system launched the initial effort to induct Sarria and maintained pressure on Brown’s office throughout his most recent second term. They are hopeful that Newsom will come through and commit to doing so. “I do not know it is true, but I understood from some good sources the drag part of Jose stopped Brown. And these were pretty good sources,” said San Diego resident Nicole Murray Ramirez, who was elected an empress of the Imperial Court in 1973 and currently holds the title of Queen Mother I of the Americas, Canada, United States, and Mexico. “They ignored he was a veteran and civil rights leader first. All due respect he definitely deserves to be inducted. Not that the others don’t, but he deserves it more.”

As for Newsom, Ramirez told the B.A.R., “I believe that this is the governor that will do it.” According to Wiener, Newsom and the caucus members “had a good conversation” about why they felt Sarria merited induction into the hall of fame. Newsom did not disclose, however, to the lawmakers whom he intended to induct this year. A spokesman for Newsom did not respond to a request for comment for this article. His senior adviser on strategy and communications, Daniel Zingale, last fall wrote in a column for the nonprofit news website CALmatters that Newsom should open up the process for inducting people into the state’s hall of fame to the public. Zingale, a gay man, also suggested that former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick be one of the honorees having put a national focus on the issue of police brutality and killings of African Americans by taking a knee during the singing of the national anthem at football games during the 2016 season. “Let the people weigh in online for your inductees to the California Hall of Fame,” wrote Zingale. “Even small ways of giving the public a say in insider decision-making could begin to add up.” Zingale had previously worked for former first lady Maria Shriver, who is now separated from former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. She helped launch the California Hall of Fame and had hired to run it John O’Connor, a gay man who would go on to serve as executive director of Equality California, the statewide LGBT rights organization. At EQCA’s forum earlier this year for local elected LGBT leaders from around the state, Atkins asked the attendees to sign on to the campaign to induct Sarria and send letters of their own to Newsom’s office. The public is also invited to send in letters on behalf of Sarria; they should be addressed to Governor Gavin Newsom, California State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814. Ramirez asked that people also email a copy of their letter directly to him at nicolemrsd1@gmail.com. To learn more about the California Hall of Fame and its inductees, visit its website at http://www.californiamuseum.org/inductees. t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on two CA LGBT groups early endorsing gay Democrat Pete Buttigieg for president.

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LGBT biz group increases focus on South by Matthew S. Bajko

year after Erin Uritus took over as CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, she is turning the nonprofit’s attention toward the 13 states that comprise the southern United States and lack robust protections for LGBTQ workers, if they have any at all. The agency is rolling out a Southern States Initiative this year and will be hosting two forums, one in Dallas and another in Atlanta, in July. The agency, which advocates for LGBT-inclusive workplaces, is also strengthening its international focus. It has targeted three countries – India, China, and Brazil – to focus on, as each serves as a hub in their regions for multinational companies and has significant local LGBT communities. “Everybody knows it is good for business to be inclusive,” said Uritus in a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter to discuss her first year on the job. “The companies we work with are extremely attuned to that and want to attract the best talent.” It is that tenet of business that Out & Equal wants to harness as it embarks on its work in the South. The initiative stemmed out of hearing directly from employees of companies, such as Cracker Barrel, Walmart Inc., and others with large footprints in the region, and the challenges they face in states like Alabama and Mississippi that lack workplace protections for LGBT people. Both states are on the banned travel lists maintained by the state of California and the city of San Francisco restricting the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for unnecessary trips to either. In fact, of the 10 states that landed on the “no-fly lists” for adopting anti-LGBT laws, all but two – Kansas and South Dakota – are located in the South. Nonetheless, Out & Equal is using its southern initiative to emphasize that the adoption of anti-LGBT laws by state leaders shouldn’t preclude companies located in them from ensuring they are protecting their LGBTQ workforce. “We want to provide specific content and conversations in these re-

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rants have opened along upper Market Street or ready to soon welcome patrons. As the B.A.R. reported on-

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gions that are relevant to these companies,” said Uritus. “What we know to be true is that companies have a very big footprint, not just in the U.S. domestically but around the world frankly. These companies are trying to make sure their inclusion policies are broad enough to include all employees.” Out & Equal started in San Francisco in 1996 and also has staff in Washington, D.C., where Uritus is based. Last January, she succeeded the group’s founder and former CEO, Selisse Berry, who stepped down in August 2017. Uritus oversees a staff of close to 20 people and a budget set this year at $7 million. Uritus, 45, who identifies as pansexual and queer, is a divorced mother of two daughters. She has worked in Africa and the Middle East during her professional career, and has been involved with Out & Equal in various capacities since 2002. As she told the Business Briefs column shortly after becoming CEO last January, she devoted her first year on the job listening to the agency’s various stakeholders and creating a new strategic plan for it. She credits her doing so with helping to ensure there was a smooth transition with the leadership change, something she recommends incoming executive directors or CEOs of other LGBT nonprofits also undertake when following in the footsteps of longtime leaders of line May 2, beer hall Willkommen from San Francisco-based Black Hammer Brewing, at 2198 Market Street, is opening this week, and nearby Brewcade won approval last Thursday to expand its arcade busi-

their agencies. “I wanted to understand what the needs were and what people were excited about,” said Uritus. “I really wanted to understand how people were being challenged in their workplaces given where we were at, particularly with recent legislative changes.” One issue that came up in her talks with corporate leaders was their desire to understand the terminology being used by younger LGBTQ employees, who are more likely to eschew calling themselves gay or lesbian and instead use terms like queer or nonbinary. How best to address the needs of transgender employees also came up a lot in her discussions, said Uritus. “Companies already have an appetite to take being LGBTQ inclusive further,” she said. “We were walking the talk of our mission.” Another top priority for Uritus is expanding the agency’s global focus. Its forum in India last year attracted 170 attendees from 100 companies, while a roundtable event it held in China drew 90 attendees from 50 companies. In Brazil its annual conference has seen a significant spike over the last four years, with 400 attendees from 140 companies at the 2018 forum. Having already established a foothold in the country, Out & Equal used its relationships with Brazilian business leaders to confront head-on the homophobic views and anti-LGBT policies of the country’s new president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Working with executives from JP Morgan Chase & Co. based in Brazil, the nonprofit was able to recruit a number of business leaders, who tend to be more conservative, to sign on to a letter that explained why equality was important for their companies. “What we are excited about is seeing big, multinational companies leading the way to build these corporate alliances on LGBT issues in countries overseas,” said Uritus. Rather than retreat from the trio of countries because their leaders are pursuing anti-LGBT policies, Out & Equal plans to remain and further bolster the work it has already been doing in global business circles to fight for acceptance and equality. “It is really important we do business the way we have been globally, by building up these relationships and

ness at 2200 Market Street. Mandelman’s proposal would allow arts activities, nonprofits, and child care centers to open on the first and second floors of a building along upper Market Street without

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an Francisco district attorney candidate Suzy Loftus, center, campaigned in the Castro Saturday, May 4, talking to voters and merchants about her ideas to reform the criminal justice system and listening to their

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concerns about the neighborhood. Loftus is one of several candidates running for the seat in November, as current DA George Gascón announced last year that he would not seek another term.

not helicoptering in to do this work and then we leave,” said Uritus. To learn more about Out & Equal, visit its website at https://outand-

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Guerneville store releases cookbook

The owner of Big Bottom Market in the gay resort town of Guerneville has released a cookbook tied into the store’s beloved biscuits. Titled “The Big Bottom Biscuit: Specialty Biscuits and Spreads from Sonoma’s Big Bottom Market,” the 192-page hardcover tome costs $18 and is being published by Running Press, a division of Hachette. In addition to including the recipe for the biscuits, there also various ideas for dishes to serve with them, like Moroccan chicken and pulled pork. “Big Bottom Market is known for our biscuits,” said co-founder Michael Volpatt. “Oprah (Winfrey) in 2016 named our biscuits and honey one of her favorite things. We have been riding that wave ever since that announcement ... it really transformed the business.” Volpatt, a gay man and PR professional, partnered with several friends to open the specialty grocery in 2011. It was part of a wave of new LGBTowned businesses that brought a hipper, more urban vibe to the Sonoma County town’s commercial district. Five years ago, Volpatt first pitched the idea of writing a cookbook. After deals with two other publishers fell through, he inked a contract with Running Press, which released it April 30. It features 53 recipes, including numerous ways to enjoy the biscuits.

the need for a conditional use permit. Such a business would need to apply for the permit if it wanted to open on the third floor or higher. Since planning staff has no problem with arts uses moving into the commercial corridor, they are going even further than the supervisor and recommending that such uses be allowed to lease a space on the third story or higher without a permit. “Arts activity uses can be integral uses for attracting patrons to an NCD,” wrote Diego Sanchez, who oversees legislative affairs for the planning department, using the acronym for neighborhood commercial district. “It is not uncommon that individuals attending an arts event look to dine or shop afterwards. Permitting arts activity uses to the greatest extent helps to capture this potential synergy.” But the planning department is taking the opposite approach to nonprofits, recommending they be prohibited on the first floor of a building but allowed without the need to seek permits on the third story and higher. “Philanthropic administrative service uses resemble office uses in that they typically do not lend themselves to attracting customers or clients from off the street,” wrote Sanchez. “The Planning Code recognizes this fact by not considering them active commercial uses,

Volpatt, who refers to the cookbook simply as “Biscuits,” teamed with photographer Kelly Puleio, who lives in San Francisco’s gay Castro district, and food stylist Matt Jernigan, a creative director who has worked with Pottery Barn and California Closets, to create the sumptuous imagery to illustrate the recipes. “The nice thing about the book is that the biscuit recipe is easy to make,” said Volpatt. “And there are so many other recipes beyond the biscuits that you can make without the biscuits.” As for the signature baked goods, the recipe is a hodgepodge of ingredients and techniques from various recipes that the market tested out to come up with its own. “We make them from scratch, the biscuits,” said Volpatt. “The recipe we came up with on our own. It is a combination of recipes cobbled together to be something we love and our customers love.” To learn more about the business, visit its website at https://www.bigbottommarket.com/.

Castro sidewalk sale returns

As is tradition, the Castro Merchants business association is hosting a sidewalk sale this weekend to coincide with the annual Small Business Week. Stores throughout the gayborhood will be taking part by setting up outdoor tables of merchandise Saturday, May 11. While there is no set timetable, it usually runs between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Honor Roll

As part of the city’s observance of Small Business Week, Mayor London Breed honored nine local businesses, including the queer-owned El Rio. Designated a legacy business by the city, the Mission district bar received a Community Leadership Award from the mayor during a private City Hall ceremony Wednesday. “El Rio has a long history of supporting the neighborhood and the community, and offering a welcoming place for everyone – regardless of who you are or who you love – to gather and enjoy themselves, especially on the dance floor,” stated Breed. t Got a tip on LGBT business news? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

suitable to promoting an active, pedestrian orientation on important commercial streets. As such, philanthropic administrative service uses can be considered too insular and inappropriate for the 1st story of buildings on commercial corridors and land use controls should be modified in accordance.” Mandelman told the B.A.R. Tuesday that he still believes nonprofit uses would be one solution for filling the vacant commercial spaces along upper Market Street and that he wanted to hear more from the city planners on what their concerns are with allowing such uses. “I share their concerns about market-rate offices; I think that has the potential to raise rents. I have been less concerned about nonprofit offices,” said Mandelman. “This is consistent with what we were hearing with the community groups we were working with. I don’t want to do something rash or unwanted. We want to hear more about what they are thinking.” Asked if he could tailor the nonprofit uses to those that align with the goals of the Castro LGBT Cultural District, Mandelman responded he was unsure if that would be legally possible. The special district won support from the city’s historic preservation commission last week and will now be taken up by the supervisors for final approval. See page 9 >>

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Castro patrol improves medical response compiled by Cynthia Laird

astro Community on Patrol has purchased a portable automatic external defibrillator to improve response to medical emergencies. The volunteer safety organization and gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman transferred the AED unit to the San Francisco Patrol Special Police in a brief ceremony April 22. PSP services are paid for by merchants, residents, and the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District to provide additional law enforcement to supplement the police department. PSP officers are already in the area and often arrive at emergencies before police or fire units, CCOP officials said in a news release. “Minutes count when someone experiences a sudden cardiac arrest,” CCOP chief of patrol Greg Carey said in the release. “We are lucky that fire station 6 usually provides quick response, but [it] is sometimes engaged with other emergencies. Having an AED within the area provides an added critical response.” Carey noted that in addition to the AED unit, several CCOP volunteers have recently been certified in first aid, CPR, and AED. CCOP volunteers will begin carrying Narcan, the medication that can reverse opioid overdose, within the next month after receiving proper training and certification. CCOP was established in 2006. Tax-deductible donations to the organization can be made through SFSAFE, which serves as its nonprofit fiscal sponsor, through a link on its website at www.castropatrol.org.

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Greg Carey, center, chief of patrol for Castro Community on Patrol, recently handed over an automatic external defibrillator to San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officers TJ Jones and Cody Clements, right. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, second from left, was joined by a San Francisco police beat officer at the brief ceremony.

Open house at PRC’s new service center

PRC will celebrate the official opening of its new integrated service center and community hub Wednesday, May 15, at 4 p.m. at 170 Ninth Street in San Francisco. Mayor London Breed will preside over the ribbon cutting ceremony and continue the work of the late mayor Ed Lee, who supported the merger of the AIDS Emergency Fund, Positive Resource Center, and Baker Places into PRC, according to a news release from the agency.

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gay former city supervisors – Tom Ammiano, Mark Leno, and David Campos – are also backing Preston in the race. Shanell Williams, a bisexual woman who serves on the city’s community college board, had planned to seek the seat but dropped her bid this winter citing personal reasons for doing so. She has yet to endorse in the race. Both Brown and Preston are wellknown in the district and either could win the special election for the supervisor seat. Overshadowed already by the 2020 presidential race and competing for attention with the citywide district attorney and sheriff contests – it remains to be seen if there will be competitive races for mayor, city attorney, public defender, or treasurer – it will come down to who can get

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more of their supporters to vote. Brown, 62, formerly worked as a legislative aide to Breed and is a long-

“Providing a continuum of care and resources in one location is an essential part of our efforts to help people exit homelessness and to care for the city’s most vulnerable populations,” Breed said in the release. The new center, a $6 million project, provides services such as mental health counseling, drug rehabilitation, housing support, and job reintegration to over 5,000 people in need every year. About 90 staff work out of the building. Brett Andrews, PRC CEO, said in the release that the merger and opening of the center “represents the culmination of input from many stakeholders and many hours of planning and implementation, based on a unifying vision – to help secure a permanent home, to integrate our social and treatment services, and to strengthen our nonprofit sector through strategic partnerships.” For the Bay Area Reporter’s previous story on the new center, go to ebar.com/news/news//273837.

Key West Cocktail Classic comes to SF

The world’s largest annual LGBTQ bartender competition will make a stop in San Francisco later this month. The Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic kicked off in March in Dallas. The San Francisco event will take place Monday, May 20, at 7 p.m. at Hamburger Mary’s, located at 531 Castro Street. The theme for this year’s event is “Visibility: Making it Loud and Clear,” attaching to the new Stoli branding campaign. Contest participants will be judged on their Stoli-based cocktails. They also must use an element of their presentation to represent a person,

time resident and community activist in the district. She has long had ties to the LGBT community and married a gay male friend during the height of the AIDS epidemic so that he would have health insurance. She told the Bay Area Reporter that she sees herself as playing the role of Switzerland on the board, working with her colleagues in both political camps to address the city’s issues. “The city expects us to work together. They don’t want us to fight and come to a stalemate; they want to see solutions. So that means we all need to come together and work together,” said Brown. “And so that’s what I’ve been trying to do on different issues is reaching out and having them come in and let’s work together on this issue because I know we care a lot.” Preston, 49, grew up on the East Coast and moved west after meeting his wife, a fifth-generation San Fran-

New era begins at SFFD

ayor London Breed, left, pins the chief ’s badge on newly sworn-in San Francisco Fire Department Chief Jeanine Nicholson Monday, May 6, during a ceremony at City Hall. Nicholson becomes the first LGBT fire chief and the second woman to run the department. The 25-year SFFD veteran and breast cancer survivor said that she’s “excited to serve the city in this new

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capacity.” Breed pointed out that the new chief worked her way up in the department and that her “experience and resilience have prepared her to lead the men and women who are out there every day protecting our residents.” For the Bay Area Reporter’s interview with the new chief, see https://bit.ly/2V8JSge.

place, film, song, or movement that brought a new spotlight to something in the community that was previously unseen. Judges will factor in bartenders’ creativity and knowledge. Fourteen finalists, one crowned in each city, will then win a seven-day, allinclusive trip to represent their city at the grand finale in Key West June 4-10. “For six years now, the cocktail classic has recognized bartenders and establishments that celebrate gay bars as the original safe spaces for the LGBTQ community,” Patrick Gallineaux, Stoli vodka national LGBTQ ambassador and manager, said in a news release. Part of SPI Group, a leading premium spirits business, Stoli Group was established in 2013 as the division responsible for the management, distribution, and marketing of SPI’s global spirits portfolio. Admission to the Castro event is free. The first 100 people to RSVP and check-in at 7 get to sample all cocktails and vote. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2VCAkhX.

Historic property photos now accessible to the public

Historic San Francisco property photos that were preserved by Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu’s office are now available in the San Francisco Historical Photographs Collection at the main library. Previously only kept in work files of the assessor’s office, the initiative was made possible through Chu’s recent efforts to modernize and digitize

ciscan, at college in Maine; the family lives near Alamo Square. He told the B.A.R. he is running again because the same issues he focused on three years

hundreds of thousands of real estate vital documents in the office. That led to over 94,000 photos being accessible. The span covers the late 1940s through the early 2000s and includes commercial and residential property in the city. “San Francisco history is rich and worth preserving,” Chu said in a news release last week. “Our view into how our city once looked and felt is an important reminder of where we came from. I’m proud to be the catalyst for making these historic photos available for generations to come. Our history shouldn’t be boxed away and forgotten.” New city Librarian Michael Lambert said the library has created a searchable database and map for members of the public to be able to locate images of specific properties. “The photos are an invaluable resource for people trying to find pictures of their own house or neighborhood,” Lambert said in the release. “They also contain abundant documentation of back alleys, street and building signs, automobiles, and other details of daily life – essentially Google Street View for the past 60 years.” To check the database, visit http:// www.sfpl.org/sfphotos.asr. Photographs can be requested using an online photo request form. When available, photographs and negatives can be viewed at the main library, 100 Larkin Street, during Photo Desk open hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. t ago continue to impact the district and city. See page 10 >>

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Fundraising

When it comes to collecting dollars, the only hard data available is from reports campaigns had to file with the Federal Elections Commission by March 31, covering the first quarter fundraising. In the 2012 Republican primary, gay candidate Fred Karger raised only $588,000 for the entire twoyear campaign. So Buttigieg, with $7 million in the first three months, is well beyond that mark.

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Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg

Compared to other Democratic presidential candidates – not including Biden, who entered the race only last month – Buttigieg’s total fundraising haul ranks only ninth. He raised only about one-third of what Sanders did ($20 million) and only about half of what Senator Kamala Harris (California) did ($13 million), though Harris is polling just below Buttigieg in the latest surveys. That said, if one looks at how much money came in from individual contributions (from individual persons and $2,800 or less per election), Buttigieg’s $7 million (all of it from individual contributions) ranks fourth among the Democrats. (He’s behind Sanders with $18 million from individual contributions, Harris with $12 million from individual contributions, and Beto O’Rourke with $9 million in individual contributions.) In an even broader context, it’s worth noting that President Donald Trump has raised $30 million, but only $7.3 million of that was in individual contributions. These dollar figures are only one marker of a candidate’s potential viability in the race, and data from contributions and polling are hurdles candidates must clear in order to secure a spot in the Democratic primary debates, which start in June. Buttigieg has qualified, along with Harris, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, and businessman Andrew Yang, according to fivethirtyeight.com. A closer examination of FEC records indicate that, in the first quarter, Buttigieg received almost no money from the LGBT community’s best known politicos. For instance, FEC records show no direct individual contribution to Buttigieg in the first quarter from San Francisco philanthropist and former ambassador James Hormel, Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts, or Hollywood producer David Geffen. Former Clinton appointee Roberta Achtenberg contributed to the campaigns of both Buttigieg and Harris in the first quarter, as did D.C. Democratic activist Steve Elmendorf. But it’s simply too soon to pronounce where the LGBT community is investing its money in the presidential primary. Most voters, including many LGBT voters, didn’t know Buttigieg for much of the first quarter, and Buttigieg has, in recent weeks, just started going to LGBT fundraisers in big cities to seek the community’s support. And it’s too soon to predict whether LGBT donors will decide to put their money behind an out candidate if they feel forced to choose between him and a supportive Democrat who is seen as a better challenger to Trump. On April 30, the Boston Globe released a poll showing that, of 429 voters likely to vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, only 5% said they thought Buttigieg could beat Trump in the general election. (That compared to 35% who think Biden can and 13% who think Sanders can.) And then, there are the poppies – those unpredictable issues that pop up

in every campaign – issues a candidate must march through without getting pulled down. Already, Buttigieg has had to explain – and essentially apologize for – using the phrase “all lives matter” in the context of a South Bend conflict between police and the black community in 2015. Many people feel the phrase “all lives matter” is an attempt to undermine the efforts to draw attention to pervasive attacks on black people, especially by police. Confronted about the 2015 statement, Buttigieg said he “did not understand at that time” that “all lives matter” was starting to be used as “a sort of counterslogan to Black Lives Matter.” “Since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism,” said Buttigieg, “I have stopped using it in that context.” He’s had to deal with continued criticism, too, for his decision not to release audiotapes secretly recorded by South Bend’s African American former police chief, whom Buttigieg demoted. Supporters of the police chief want the tapes made public in hopes of exposing the racist attitudes of some South Bend white police officers. Buttigieg said he wouldn’t release the tapes because they were made in violation of the Federal Wiretap Act. He said he demoted the police chief because the chief failed to notify him that the chief was the subject of a criminal investigation by the FBI and, so, he felt he could not trust the chief. He’s had to address smallish dustups around his being a fan of Eminem, a rapper notorious for anti-gay lyrics, and chicken from Chick-fil-A, a company whose foundation has funded and promoted anti-gay candidates and positions. Buttigieg, asked about both on “The Breakfast Club,” a nationally syndicated radio talk show, said he admires Eminem’s “militant pride” in his hometown of Detroit but “it’s not like you can excuse the homophobia.” As for Chick-fil-A, he said, “I do not approve of their politics, but I kind of approve of their chicken.” “We’ve got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people,” said Buttigieg. “There’s two things that can happen when you are conscious of your identity. One is it turns into all these ways of separating ourselves from each other, and it just turns into one big, ‘You don’t know me.’ But the other way we could do it is we can say, ‘OK, I’ve got this experience, you’ve got that experience, what can we talk about that brings us together. What do we have in common?” There’s no doubt Buttigieg’s identity of being gay will be another – perhaps the most difficult – challenge he’ll have to negotiate along his road to the White House. A poll released April 30 by Quinnipiac University found that 70% of 1,044 voters polled nationwide (including 46% of Republicans) are “open” to electing a gay man president. But 52% of voters are not ready to do so (margin of error 3.5%). The New York Times published an article recently suggesting the “wall” against electing a gay candidate might be crumbling. The Times asked the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s gay chairman, Ray Buckley, whether voters “need to see something else first, something other than gay?” Buckley said that was true of “any candidate that isn’t a straight white male.” “Can Mr. Buttigieg win the presidency?” asked the Times. “[Barack] Obama’s victory proved everyone can dream of becoming president, Trump’s victory proved anyone can become president,” said Buckley. “Buttigieg has just as much the ability to win as anyone else.” t

Sports>>

May 9-15, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 9

Semenya decision is elitist crap by Roger Brigham

pologists for the new International Association of Athletics Federations rule, which bars Caster Semenya and other women athletes who were born with differences in sexual development, or DSD, if their natural testosterone levels are above average, strike a noble pose, claiming they need to defend the alleged integrity of women’s athletics. They say that although this ruling apparently disproportionately affects non-Caucasian women from the Southern Hemisphere there is nothing inherently racist about it. They admit the exclusionary measure denies opportunity to some women but proclaim it is necessary to defend opportunities for the subset of women it defines under a definition of its own making. Which might be credible if there weren’t so little science to support their stance, no humanitarian or ethical leg for them to stand on, or if the Olympic sport didn’t have such an appalling history of sexism. Package the ban as pretty as you like, it remains the same old elitist crap. This time, it’s personal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport last week denied an appeal by South African Olympic gold medalist Semenya to block a proposed rule by IAAF that bars women with high natural testosterone levels from competing in middle distance races from 400 meters to the mile. Semenya, a lesbian, has won two Olympic gold medals at 800 meters and has succeeded internationally in 400- and 1500-meter races. The rule is the second attempt by IAAF to block women who have DSD, but this one narrowed the events to those routinely contested by Semenya, even though IAAF’s own study, which has been widely criticized by other scientists as being badly flawed, showed no link between testosterone levels and performance at those distances. (See May 2 article, “Semenya loses ruling over testosterone.” Mixed reactions have roiled social media. Champion Women, for example, praised the ruling for the benefit of all women in sports (without mentioning what it does to the affected women whose opportunities are

Market St. retail

From page 6

“We could consider it, but I would want to get legal advice on something like that,” said Mandelman. “It sounds complicated.” One form of retail that has sprouted along upper Market Street in recent years is medical office use. Two emergency walk-in medical clinics have opened, while primary care provider One Medical is constructing an office in the former Myriad food hall that had taken up roughly half of the ground floor retail space at 2175 Market Street at the corner of 15th Street. Under current rules, such businesses do not require a conditional use permit in order to open. But they would under the zoning change Mandelman has proposed. Rather than ban them outright, Mandelman prefers requiring them to seek support from the neighborhood in order to open. But the planning staff does not support such a requirement, noting that the city’s Health Care Services Master Plan calls for “unhindered access to health care services,” especially for seniors and people with disabilities. Sanchez contended such businesses add to the vibrancy of commercial districts. “Often when one visits the dentist or chiropractor, one also attends to other errands in the same commercial corridor, helping multiple businesses with one trip,” he wrote in his report. Mandelman, however, told the

A TV screen capture shows Caster Semenya after a victory at 800 meters over the weekend in Dubai.

taken away), used weight categories in wrestling as an example of how sports slot athletes into different categories based on physical differences (without mentioning those groups exist in combat sports for safety reasons), and directed readers of its Facebook page to a pro-ban article, without mentioning it was written by one of the people who supplied support arguments for IAAF. Helen Carroll, former sports project director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, countered by suggesting people read a New York Times column that cites numerous studies that show testosterone is not the enormous universal driver of athletic performance its reputation suggests. “Of course, it’s one thing for myths to persist in the public imagination,” Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca M. Jordan-Young wrote. “But what has puzzled us in nearly a decade of research is how these ideas have gained so much traction among the organizations that regulate sports, when the evidence needed to support them is largely absent or contradictory. The idea that testosterone is the miracle molecule of athleticism, and, accordingly, that people with higher levels would obviously perform better, combines several beliefs: that ‘athleticism’ is a kind of master trait that describes similar characteristics in different athletes, that ‘athletic performance’ across different sports B.A.R. he continues to support requiring such businesses to seek permit approval in order to open along upper Market Street. Overall, he believes city planners are in agreement with the need to make zoning changes to the corridor. “I think they were broadly supportive of the legislation and so they are generally in agreement with the legislation. It is not unusual for them to have proposed changes,” he said. “I think some of the proposed changes make some sense, others not. There may be fundamental disagreement about ground floor medical.”

Planning director responds to permit issue

As the B.A.R. previously noted, Mandelman hopes the zoning changes will reduce the amount of time it takes for a new business to open along upper Market Street. According to a report released this winter by the city’s budget and legislative analyst, it takes a year for most businesses in the commercial corridor to secure their permits from the planning department. The report also found that, when combined with obtaining a building permit and approval for construction work performed, it takes new businesses roughly 18 months to secure all the necessary approvals they need in order to open their doors. And as the report noted, during that time “the associated commercial storefronts are often vacant.” Yet planning director John Rahaim, a gay man who has held the

generally requires the same core skills or capacities, and that testosterone has a potent effect on all of them. That’s simply not true.” In a statement, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice said, “The recent ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport against Semenya is not only a major setback for intersex human rights but reveals how intersex people – especially those who are black and brown – continue to be dehumanized and systematically excluded from all spheres of life, including sports. As often happens, the news about the ruling and the ensuing media coverage revolved around medicine and testosterone levels – not the human at the center of the ruling, her rights, her body, and her life. The ruling not only stigmatizes intersex people, but also fails to recognize the truth of what it means to be a competitive athlete – natural genetic advantages that set you apart to win. Advantages that are celebrated not regulated, be they cardiac capacity, lactic acid levels, etc. The fact that genetic endowment is not regulated in men’s sports goes to show that the IAAF ruling is an overt form of gender policing, and not at all an issue of sports justice.” Madeleine Pape is a former 800-meter runner from Australia. When she competed against Semenya in the world championships in 2009, she echoed the voices around her challenging Semenya’s right to compete. She told NPR this month that she’s changed her view since then. She also noted that track survived very well for years without making a stink about naturally occurring testosterone and that raises questions why now this rule is being introduced and seemingly aimed at Semenya in particular. “I think it is very fair to be asking why women of color from the global south and from sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, are overrepresented amongst the women who’ve been accused of having an unfair advantage,” Pape said. “When we think about why Semenya, and why have her performances, in particular, raised the ire

of a number of people, you have to wonder whether sexuality plays into it. I mean, she’s openly a lesbian. She is ... I would describe her as ‘nonconforming’ in terms of her gender presentation. And I think the sport of track and field, as much as I love this sport – and, you know, it’s the No. 1 love in my life – I think we have a little way to go still when it comes to accepting both diverse gender identities, and also abandoning our ideas about heterosexuality.” Tennis great Martina Navratilova, who has been criticized for her stance against trans-inclusive policies in sports, condemned the court’s decision, saying, “The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases, and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.” Semenya, who won her 800-meter race in an IAAF competition in Qatar over the weekend, said she would not take the hormone suppressants to compete. “Hell, no!” she said. Ever hear of the “Nanny State” concept? Ever heard of chauvinism leading men to be overly protective of women, thinking they need to prevent them from having to deal with boogeymen and dangerous conditions because they are too weak and dainty to handle things on their own? Well, track and field’s Olympic history suggest there’s a garbage pail of that in this IAAF rule. You’ve all probably heard about how women were blocked from running the Olympic marathon because the “experts” said their bodies could not handle the strain. I think we can safely say that’s been well exposed as a bunch of crap. But what about the 800 meters Semenya has dominated in recent years? That was first run in the Summer Olympics in 1928 – and then dropped until the 1960 Olympics. Why? Because bogus newspaper reports falsely claimed most of the women collapsed at or near the finish. Because the socalled experts of the time argued that

women weren’t built to handle the rigors of the distance. Because Notre Dame’s football coach, covering the Amsterdam Olympics for the Pittsburgh Press, told readers, “It was not a very edifying spectacle to see a group of fine girls running themselves into a state of exhaustion.” And those studies that talk about what the testosterone range is for women, the range they say Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and other DSD women (intersex babies occur an estimated once in every 1,500 to 2,000 births) exceed? They determine that by eliminating Semenya et al. from the data on which they base their conclusions. And by the way, higher than normal testosterone levels occur in men’s sports. They don’t ban those players or tell them to take birth control pills to bring their levels down. They measure the athlete’s individual testosterone baseline and than watch to make sure it is not artificially jacked up later. Any advantage that a naturally high testosterone gives is accepted. Period. To summarize: the IAAF is knowingly adopting a discriminatory rule and for the first time barring individuals from competition for having naturally occurring high hormone levels; the rule was tailored not to cover the races in which some slight correlation between testosterone levels and performance were found but simply the one in which one of its star athletes competes; the rule seems to disproportionally affect women of color from the Southern Hemisphere – and we’re supposed to be fine with that? Elitist crap. As for Semenya? “God has decided my career, God will end my career,” she told BBC. “No man, or any other human, can stop me from running. How am I going to retire when I’m 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics. It doesn’t matter how I’m going to do it. What matters is, I’ll still be here. I am never going anywhere.” To learn more about issues affecting intersex individuals, visit the Intersex Society of North America at http://www.isna.org.t

job for 11 years, during a recent editorial board meeting with the B.A.R. pushed back against recent media reports blaming his department for the length of time it takes businesses in the Castro to obtain their permits and open their doors. “The vast majority of those vacancies in the Castro aren’t even asking for permits,” said Rahaim, thus any implication “that our processes are what’s holding up people moving into their spaces” isn’t true. Nonetheless, “with respect to the retail spaces,” added Rahaim, “I think that it does take too long to get approvals for many retail spaces, and it’s partially because we require a lot of businesses to go through a planning commission hearing that in most places would be approved as a right.” While the city can do more to speed up the permit approval process for small businesses, and is working to do that, Rahaim pointed to other factors causing the vacancies not just in the Castro but across the city. “What is the real issue right now with retail is online shopping and how that’s what’s having a dramatic effect on where people shop and how people shop and the type of businesses that can go on street level,” he said. The planning department is looking at if the city should no longer require ground floor retail in certain buildings, said Rahaim, such as those located on side streets near commercial corridors. But he doesn’t envision dropping that requirement

along upper Market Street. “It’s hard for me to imagine we wouldn’t require retail on Market Street or Castro Street. But there’s a lot of other streets where, I think, we don’t actually require it, but we try to get developers to do what we call

active ground floor,” he said. “And so what constitutes an active ground floor and how do you make it active and pedestrian friendly ... we’re in a new era, with respect to retail, and we have to start looking at this stuff differently.”t

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10 • Bay Area Reporter • May 9-15, 2019

SF Pride

From page 1

That job is expected to start in July. “Producing the largest event in San Francisco is no small feat, as I am sure anyone can imagine,” Ridgely wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. “I have been blessed to work with some very dedicated individuals during my time with Pride. I have an immense amount of respect for everyone I have worked with, and I feel fortunate to have been given the privilege to join this group of individuals and lead the organization.” He added that he’s “grateful” to the many volunteer board members he has worked with over the years, including current President Jacquelene Bishop, and former board leaders Michelle Meow and Gary Virginia. “The state of the agency is strong as we head into our 50th anniversary in 2020 and look to the years beyond,” Ridgely added. Ridgely, 55, led SF Pride through a tumultuous yet successful period,

Ridgely was hired in the wake of the controversy over the board election (https://www.ebar.com/ news///244142) of transgender community grand marshal Private Chelsea Manning in 2013. He came on board following the departure of former executive director Earl Plante and the membership’s election of new board members after the Manning fiasco.

HHS rule

Assessing options

A spokesman said Pelosi’s office is “assessing our options” for countering the new rule. So, too, are LGBT groups. “There were already robust conscience protections,” said Robin Maril, associate legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, referring to the 2011 rule adopted by the Obama administration. “This puts that on steroids.” Jamie Gliksberg, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal Defense and Edu-

Hired after controversy

From page 1

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to this reporter’s query about when that is, but LGBT activists expect it to be in the coming days. As the Bay Area Reporter reported online last week, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera immediately filed a lawsuit in federal district court against HHS, calling the new rule unconstitutional. The suit seeks a court order preventing the rule from going into effect. Such conscience laws, or religious refusal rules, have been in place for almost a decade at the federal level and in some states. They have been primarily aimed against women who seek an abortion or emergency contraception, terminally ill patients wanting to accelerate a painful dying process, and LGBT people generally. The new federal rule announced by HHS May 2 replaces a 2011 rule that applied to only three federal statutes. The new rule will apply to 25 and will enable HHS to strictly monitor compliance and withhold federal funds for noncompliance. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (DSan Francisco) blasted the Trump administration’s action as an “open license” to discriminate against LGBT people in health care. “These bigoted rules are immoral, deeply discriminatory, and downright deadly, green-lighting open discrimination in health care against LGBTQ Americans and directly threatening the well-being of millions,” said Pelosi in a statement.

including the withdrawal of organizational grand marshal Black Lives Matter in 2016 over the increased presence of police in the festival, and financial success in doubling Pride’s annual budget during his tenure to $3.2 million in 2019. The 2016 change in security protocols, including the addition of metal detectors at entrances to the celebration, was the result of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others. The mass shooting by Omar Mateen, who was killed by police, took place just a couple of weeks before the San Francisco Pride parade.

District 5 race

From page 7

“The biggest issues to people I talk with in District 5 are housing, affordability, fear of displacement, and homelessness,” said Preston. “Those issues are all related and continue to be big issues in District 5.” Solomon, 34, was born in Pennsylvania but moved with his family at an early

At the time, Ridgely said he supported the “democracy, accountability, and transparency” platform then-board president Virginia and other board members pledged to the community following outcry at both the old board’s decision to honor Manning and its subsequent reversal. (Manning is an Army private convicted of espionage who had her sentence commuted by President Barack Obama shortly before he left office. She was jailed again in 2019 for refusing to testify to a grand jury.) According to the release, Ridgely steered the organization through a number of momentous occasions during his tenure. In 2015, San Francisco Pride was at the epicenter of celebration as the nation welcomed in legal marriage for all. This year, SF Pride will join a global community in recognizing 50 years since the Stonewall riots in New York City, a seminal moment many consider one of the first actions in the modern LGBT rights movement. In 2020, San Francisco will cel-

ebrate 50 years of Pride celebrations since the first commemoration in 1970. “It has been the singular privilege of my life to lead this iconic organization along the path to its 50th year,” said Ridgely in the release. “I am grateful for the broad support I have received, and I am humbled by the lessons I have learned. San Francisco is an emblem of strength, an incubator of resistance, and a beacon of hope for LGBTQ+ people around the world. “This Pride organization, parade, and celebration is a true collection of thousands of voices; and we strive to be inclusive and inspirational,” he added. “I thank all of those who had faith in me to serve as the executive director; and in my new role with Rec and Park I look forward to continuing to serve this great city that I love to call home.” Ridgely told the B.A.R. that a debt of gratitude is owed “to the thousands of individuals who over the past five decades conceived, fostered, nurtured, and grew this movement since its inception in 1970.”

“Rooted in resistance to oppression, the Pride movement has proven to be an enduring and effective agent for change,” he wrote. “However, the work is far from over.” The SF Pride Board of Directors praised Ridgely’s guidance and hard work over the years. It is planning a search for a new executive director to fill the role ahead of next year’s celebration. According to SF Pride’s 2016 IRS Form 990, Ridgely’s salary and benefits were listed as $126,472. The 49th annual Pride parade and festival will occur without interruption relating to this change in personnel, the organization stated. Pride will take place June 29-30, with the parade happening Sunday, June 30, in the heart of downtown San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. A twoday celebration and rally is scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza and the surrounding area. For more information, visit www. sfpride.org. t

ists on the competing contentions about its effect on access to services.” The timing of the rule release coincided with President Donald Trump’s remarks to the National Day of Prayer event at the White House. The president devoted one sentence to the new rule. “And just today, we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students, and faith-based charities,” said Trump.

transition treatment violates fundamental human rights.) While the LGBT community is concerned that the new rule will encourage and facilitate discrimination against patients based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the Trump administration said, in the rule, that it is attempting to address a “significant increase in complaints” since November 2016 alleging discrimination based on “religious beliefs or moral convictions.” An analysis section of the new rule states, “it is important not to assume that every patient who wants a particular service is offended by the provider’s unwillingness to provide that service ...” But even if a patient does feel emotional distress when a health care provider refuses to provide a service, said the analysis, “Congress ... did not establish balancing tests that weigh such emotional distress against the right to abide by one’s conscience.” The likelihood seems strong that an LGBT person would experience distress when they are denied a medical service, especially given that the new rule allows even clerical personnel, janitorial staff, and, in some circumstances, ambulance drivers to refuse service based on “religious beliefs or moral convictions.” “Scheduling an abortion or preparing a room and the instruments for an abortion are necessary parts of the process of providing an abortion ...” explains HHS in its analysis. Regarding emergency medical personnel, HHS said, “EMTs and paramedics are trained medical professionals” and their right to decline service “would depend on the facts and circumstances of each case.” The department said it would not permit instances where “the connection between an action and a procedure is irrational ...” LGBT health centers around the country were quick to condemn the new rule. Sean Cahill, director of health policy research at Boston’s Fenway Health, called the new rule “extremely alarming.” He said it is “designed so that government employ-

ees and health care providers can deny service or treatment to LGBT people by claiming that providing such service or treatment would violate their religious beliefs or sincerely held principles.” Dr. Magda Houlberg, chief clinical officer for the Howard Brown Health clinic in Chicago, said the rule “puts the personal beliefs of health care providers above their sworn duties to follow science, give all medically accurate information, and serve their patients.” HHS did not respond to a request for how support and opposition for the proposed rule broke down among the more than 242,000 comments from the public since the proposed rule change was published in the January 26, 2018 Federal Register. But the rule change announced last week is seen as the latest Trump administration attack on the LGBT community inspired by religious right conservatives supporting the president. Trump’s efforts to show favor to particular religious beliefs – those hostile to LGBT people – began in May 2017, when he signed a religious liberty executive order that directed all departments to “vigorously enforce federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom.” It specifically directed HHS to “consider” amending regulations “consistent with applicable law” to “address conscience-based objections.” In October 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued an eight-page memorandum to all departments, providing “guidance interpreting religious liberty protections in federal law.” And three months later, HHS proposed its Conscience and Religious Freedom rule. “Since Day 1,” said Pelosi, “this administration has waged a cruel campaign of intolerance and discrimination targeting the civil rights of our most vulnerable communities. House Democrats fully, flatly reject these attacks on LGBTQ Americans and on the rights of all Americans to get the health care they need and will fight these hateful actions.” t

HHS ‘unaware’ of discrimination Courtesy Lambda Legal

Lambda Legal attorney Jamie Gliksberg

cation Fund, said her organization has represented “a large number of LGBT people denied care” by health care entities. The new rule, she said, “is doing a real harm to LGBT people by encouraging more.” An analysis section of the new rule specifically rebuffed statistics on the denial of service to LGBT people, saying, “those statistics were general in nature and did not assist the department in estimating what degree may be attributable to the lawful exercise of religious beliefs or moral convictions.” Surprisingly, HHS’s analysis of the new rule acknowledges that the “department attempted to quantify the impact of this rule on access to care” but was not able to do so. It said it could not find “enough reliable data” and that analysis itself was “subject to too many confounding variables” to enable HHS to “arrive at a useful estimate.” “For instance, the department is not aware of a source for data on the percentages of providers who have religious beliefs or moral convictions against each particular service or procedure that is the subject of this rule,” states the analysis. The analysis did not explain why HHS was moving ahead with the rule change despite this stated lack of significant information, except to say, “The department finds that finalizing the rule is appropriate without regard to whether data ex-

age to the East Bay and lived in a number of cities there, including Antioch and Walnut Creek. When he turned 18 his parents cut him off and he moved into San Francisco within the year. A renter in the Haight, he’s worked at Badlands for six years and was stabbed last year by a homeless man. He credits the staff at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for saving his life. “I am quite aware running for any-

Under the rule, any entity receiving HHS funds – including “religious nonmedical health care institutes” (such as foster care agencies) – are covered by the new rule. The rule, entitled “Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority,” claims, “The department is unaware of any cases claiming denial of services regarding [HIV treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and infertility treatment] brought under any of the statutes implemented by this rule.” “In the event that the department receives a complaint with respect to HIV treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis, or infertility treatment,” states the rule, “the department would examine the facts and circumstances of the complaint to determine whether it falls within the scope of the statute in question and these regulations.” But later in the discussion of the rule’s development, HHS acknowledges having received “comments expressing concern” that the new rule “could impact counseling or referrals for LGBT persons.” It brushed off that concern, noting, without explanation, that “many medical treatments and services performed by health care providers are not ‘part of ’” a federally funded health care program. The rule suggests HHS will deal with refusals to provide “sterilizations performed in the context of gender dysphoria” on a case-by-case basis. (Gender transition treatments do not require sterilization, and the United Nations has said that requiring sterilization as a condition of

thing is going to be difficult,” Solomon told the B.A.R. “I thought I had a voice to give for everyday citizens, especially of this district. I am a working-class citizen; I rent and struggle. The majority of our constituents are in the same boat as I am.” Alice’s candidate debate will take place Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the African American Art & Culture Center, located at 762 Fulton Street. t

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May 9-15, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 11

Cuba’s Pride events suddenly canceled by Heather Cassell

uba’s National Center for Sex Education abruptly announced the cancellation of its two biggest Pride celebrations Monday, just as a delegation from San Francisco-based Rainbow World Fund had embarked on a visit to the country. The Cuban Conga scheduled for May 11, and the annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Camagüey scheduled for May 17, will not happen this year, officials of the community social networks of CENESEX, as the center is called, announced May 6 in a post on its Facebook page. Officials cited “new tensions in the international and regional context directly and indirectly affect our country” and the “implementation of the policies of the Cuban state,” as the reason for the two main events being shut down.

Courtesy For Human Liberation

Mariela Castro Espin, right, director of CENESEX, marched in the annual Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia in Havana, Cuba.

Gay longtime AIDS activist Cleve Jones is with RWF on the trip and will be honored by CENESEX, which is led by Mariela Castro Espin, an ally who is the daughter of former Communist Cuban President Raul Castro

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants. Case No. CGC-19-574377 PLAINTIFF CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC’S NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE VERIFIED SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT Date: Time: Dept.: Judge:

May 16, 2019 9:30 a.m. 501 Honorable Charles F. Haines

Action Filed: March 7, 2019 Trial Date: Not set PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on May 16, 2019 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in Department 302 of the above-captioned Court, located at 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, California, Plaintiff California Barrel Company (“Plaintiff ”) will and hereby does move this Court for an order permitting Plaintiff to file a Verified Second Amended Complaint, which is attached hereto as Exhibit A to the Declaration of Gerald M. Murphy in Support of Plaintiff motion for leave to a file verified second amended complaint filed herewith. This motion is made pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 473 on the grounds that Plaintiff California Barrel Company seeks to amend its pleadings to add facts alleged in the second verified amended complaint that were alleged in the original verified complaint but inadvertently omitted in the first amended Complaint. Plaintiff discovered that the first amended complaint was based on an earlier draft of the original complaint and not the version that was filed with the court. As such, Plaintiff seeks to amend the complaint to restore those allegation that were inadvertently omitted from the first amended verified complaint. “Defendants” (“Persons Claiming any interest in, or Lien upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof ” [CCP Sec. 751.05]) will not suffer any prejudice by Plaintiff ’s proposed amendment, and the amendment should be allowed in order to put forth all potential liens and encumbrances to title at the time of the default hearing or trial. This motion is based upon this notice, upon the accompanying memorandum of points and authorities, upon the accompanying declaration of Gerald M. Murphy and Charles Thornton, upon the papers and records on file in this action, and upon any evidence and argument presented at the hearing of this motion. Dated:

May 6, 2019 LUBIN OLSON & NIEWIADOMSKI LLP, Gerald M. Murphy (SBN 99994), The Transamerica Pyramid, 600 Montgomery Street, 14th Floor, San Francisco, California 9411. Telephone: (415) 981-0550. Facsimile: (415) 981-4343. gmurphy@lubinolson.com Attorneys for Plaintiff CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company By: Gerald M. Murphy Attorneys for Plaintiff CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company

and the niece of the late Cuban revolutionary and president Fidel Castro. Jones was going to be a grand marshal at the now-canceled parade in Havana. RWF Executive Director Jeff Cotter issued a statement late Tuesday. “We just received the news, but we are, of course, still going,” Cotter said. “It’s disappointing that the two congas (Pride marches) have been canceled. They are a powerful means to organize and show the strength and vitality of the LGBTQI community. We hope that they will return next year.” The May 10 event at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater honoring Jones will go forward, and Cotter said that many other activities will also be held as planned, including arts exhibits and performances. CENESEX’s decision to cancel the marches complied with the “policy of the Party, the State and the Revolution” under the auspices of Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health, officials stated. Officials indirectly referred to mounting Cuba-United States tensions. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump threatened to impose a full em-

bargo on the Caribbean island nation, along with additional sanctions, in response to Cuba’s ongoing support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The announcement came a week after Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act went into effect, the Washington Blade reported. The Pride cancellation announcement confused and angered detractors and supporters of the event throughout Cuba’s LGBT community. “Shame on those who made that decision!” Adiel Gonzalez Maimo, a 29-year-old gay Cuban man, commented on the Facebook post. “I don’t agree, I don’t agree!” Gay San Francisco HIV/AIDS activist Michael Petrelis wrote via Facebook Messenger from the Dominican Republic that less than a week ago LGBT May Day celebrants were waving rainbow flags and hugging and kissing each other. Gonzalez Maimo and other LGBT activists who support CENESEX believe that its leaders are making the

wrong decision and that it raised concerns about the center’s ties to Cuba’s government. “We cannot go back,” wrote Gonzalez Maimo in a message via Facebook. “I still believe in CENESEX, and support Mariela’s work. I believe in her, but now they are not doing well by accepting the orders from someone else in government.” LGBT activists are planning an alternative Pride demonstration to counter the canceled Pride event on Saturday. Petrelis is pleased to see LGBT Cuban resistance and wished he could be there. As previously reported, he was banned from Cuba (www.ebar.com/news/ news//274086) earlier this year. “I am happy to see LGBTI Cubans are planning a gathering in Parque Central this Saturday afternoon,” wrote Petrelis. “The cancellations are galvanizing the queers.” t A longer version of this column is at www.ebar.com.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants. Case No. CGC-19-574377 SUMMONS ON FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT [CCP § 751.05] The people of the State of California, to All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, defendants, greeting (See Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] attached.): You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, plaintiff, filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court and county, within three months after the first publication of this summons, and to set forth what interest or lien, if any, you have in or upon that certain real property or any part thereof, situated in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, particularly described as follows: REAL PROPERTY, SITUATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COMPRISED OF SIX (6) PARCELS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING A PORTION OF PARCEL A, AS SAID PARCEL A IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN GRANT DEED RECORDED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2016-K334613 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE BEING ALL OF MARYLAND STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO BEING ALL OF LOUISIANA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE BEING A PORTION OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 406.42 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 3, AS SAID PARCEL 3 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 18.79 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 125.39 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 63.85 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 271.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FOUR BEING A PORTION OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MICHIGAN STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 157.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 4, AS SAID PARCEL 4 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 2 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 9.01 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 11.12 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596); THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 6 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON SAID WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 143.4 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 18.62 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FIVE BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID MICHIGAN STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 18.62 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 1.31 FEET, AND 2) NORTH 87°24’17” EAST 18.63 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 1.12 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL SIX BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID GEORGIA STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PARCEL 1 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 33 FEET TO THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF HUMBOLDT STREET, EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 33 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCELS ONE THROUGH SIX BEING PORTIONS OF APN 4175-017. ATTACHED HERETO IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE INDEX MAP, AND BY THIS REFERENCE, MADE A PART HEREOF. And you are hereby notified that, unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, to wit: quiet title to the Property consistent with the legal description above, against all adverse claims of all claimants, known and unknown, as of the date the Complaint in this case was filed. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, DATE: APR 15 2019 Clerk, By JUDITH C. NUNEZ, DEPUTY [SEAL], CLERK OF THE COURT Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] The following persons are said to claim an interest in, or lien upon, said property adverse to Plaintiff: 1. PG&E, 245 Market Street, N10A, Room 1015, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, CA 94177; 2. City and County of San Francisco, Office of the City Attorney, Room 234, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102, 3. Trans Bay Cable LLC, One Letterman Drive, C5-100, San Francisco, CA 94129; 4. San Francisco Port Authority, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111; 5. California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region, 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94612; 6. NRG Potrero LLC, c/o GenOn, 1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 2000, Houston TX 77056 SUMMONS_revised041619.indd 1

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Legal Notices>> PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM AND ORDER TO GO TO COURT (SMALL CLAIMS COURT) MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 3501 CIVIC CENTER DR, RM 113, P.O. BOX 4988, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94913-4988 NOTICE TO THE PERSON BEING SUED DEFENDANT: HERBERT DERUNGS AKA HERBIE CHRISTIANSEN, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER: KIA BRUMETT CASE NO. SMC 1910123

Notice to the person being sued: You are the defendant. The person suing you is the plaintiff. You and the plaintiff must go to court on the trial date listed below. If you do not go to court, you may lose the case. If you lose, the court can order that your wages, money, or property be

taken to pay this claim. Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. Read this form and all pages attached to understand the claims against you and to protect your rights. ORDER TO GO TO COURT: The defendant and plaintiff must go to court June 21st, 2019, 10:30 am. Clerk, by Q. Roary, Deputy, James M. Kim.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554758

In the matter of the application of: VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN, C/O TERRY A. SZUCSKO #258096, CFLS, LVOVICH & SZUCSKO, P.C., 50 OSGOOD PL #500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it

appearing from said application that petitioner VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN, is requesting that the name VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN be changed to VIKKI ANN CERNIGLIA; LUCAS COLE FRIEDMAN be changed to LUCAS COLE CERNIGLIA; and MAXWELL FINNEGAN FRIEDMAN be changed to MAXIMILIAN SAMUEL CERNIGLIA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 23rd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554753

In the matter of the application of: MIGUEL CORDERO, 1839 15TH ST #465, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MIGUEL CORDERO, is requesting that the name MIGUEL CORDERO, be changed to MIGUEL-ANGEL CORDEROCHAVEZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 23rd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038613700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WANGND. COM, 355 OCTAVIA ST #34, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMES WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CEBE VISUAL ARTS, 167 SKYVIEW WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHE BERAUD.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/31/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038605900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAMED UP & PRETTY YOUNG BALLER, 1471 KANSAS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CELINA HARRINGTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, 280 NEWHALL ST #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CRYSTAL TIMMS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038602100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLUSH NAILS SPA, 1791 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed UT SON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038606400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CARBON CORPORATION, 530 HOWARD ST, LOWER LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALEXANDER WOLFE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038572800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EJ FOOD DISTRIBUTOR, 301 TOLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBWAY SANDWICHES 36339, 1099 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LETAP GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/27/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBWAY SANDWICHES 7307, 2375 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LETAP GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/27/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LORRAINE D. ELLIOTT IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302771

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LORRAINE DRISCOLL ELLIOTT, LORRAINE D. ELLIOTT, LORRAINE ELLIOTT. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JENNIFER REZENTES in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JENNIFER REZENTES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: MAY 15, 2019, 9:00 a.m., Dept: 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102-4514. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: BRYAN D. CORYELL, 420 AVIATION BLVD #201, SANTA ROSA, CA 95403; Ph. 707-543-4900.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554777

In the matter of the application of: JIAYI LI HAYNER, 1222 HARRISON ST # 4408, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JIAYI LI HAYNER, is requesting that the name JIAYI LI HAYNER, be changed to MADISYN LI HAYNER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 6th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038589900

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554786

In the matter of the application of: JOSE LUIS JIMENEZ GOMEZ & METADEL GEBYAW YIRDAW, 1617 HOWARD ST #12, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOSE LUIS JIMENEZ GOMEZ & METADEL GEBYAW YIRDAW, is requesting that the name MARCOS JIMENEZ GOMEZ, be changed to MARCOS JIMENEZ-GOMEZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 11th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038621900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAGOMEDOV LAW GROUP, 534 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YULIYA MAGOMEDOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038613800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUGA STUDIO, 499 ALABAMA ST #112, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NOBUTO SUGA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038620400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A.G.WELLNESS & CO., 126 TERRA VISTA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANGIE WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/18/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038618500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TAX & ACCOUNTING SERVICES, 474-A 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIE T. DIEP. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038596100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BONDED BEGINNINGS, 20 QUARTZ WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EMILY GOVERNALE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/05/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038618200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL PARCE CAFE, 517 O’FARRELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAURICIO BEJARANO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JGKSF CONSULTING, 153 ALPINE TERRACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JO ELLEN GREEN KAISER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038615200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOUADRA FOUED, 1208 CONNECTICUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual and is signed FOUED CHOUADRA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038602200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MAGIC OVEN, 214 SHRADER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOYCE LAGOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRULLLA SOFTWARE, 875 VERMONT ST #101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SLAWOMIR LIGUS. 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 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038592100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A F SEWING CO., 245 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE #302, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QI FEI LI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/03/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHACHI’S, 1008 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL NEMIROVSKY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MG HAIR AND BEAUTY SALON, 2772 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XIAOMEI PENG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: URBAN FLEUR, 660 4TH ST # 525, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JANE DAVID. 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 04/12/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038604300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE WOODS, 910 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SANDRA CHU. 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 04/11/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038600600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VISUAL PRESENTATION, 301 8TH ST #210, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JEANNE HANGAUER & TAINA KISSINGER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/99. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/09/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038617400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FINESSE PAINTING INC., 601 VAN NESS AVE #E610, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FINESSE PAINTING INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038590400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL TESORO TAQUERIA AND GRILL, 710 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FAJITA EXPRESS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038588800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASON DINER, 320 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed KI YOUNG CHUNG & SARAH CHUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SASA BEAUTY, 1112 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SA & G 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 04/12/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHIC CHICK SIAMESE EATERY, 2550 GEARY BLVD # 306, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MITT SINTH LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/12/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/12/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554789 In the matter of the application of: AARON EUGENE BALDWIN, 183 EUREKA ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner AARON EUGENE BALDWIN, is requesting that the name AARON EUGENE BALDWIN, be changed to AARON FURTADO BALDWIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 11th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038631100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DALY CITY FALCONS BASKETBALL CLUB, 207 SKYLINE BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HIEN TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/29/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038629900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AWAKENED SELF, 109 STONECREST DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SANTIAGO ROCHA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/26/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/26/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038627500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LCR CONSTRUCTION, 29 FAIRLAWN AVE, DALY CITY, CA 94015. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUCIANO DA CONCEICAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038626100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOVE IS IN THE HAIR, 1163 BUSH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIAS LOPEZ SOTO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/23/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038624300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRESENCE, 1600 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JULIE PHAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038625000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GLIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, 1049 MARKET ST #602, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GLIDE LABS, INC (DE). 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 04/23/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038626400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREENFORCE PATROLS, 2031 UNION ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GREENFORCE SECURITY INTERNATIONAL GGGG YY PPP LTD, LLC (NM). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/19.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037833500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: DALY CITY FALCONS BASKETBALL CLUB, 207 SKYLINE BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by HIEN TRAN & JUNES AUBE VALDEMORO. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/17.

MAY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2019 SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: MARY LOUISE CABALLERO, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PETITIONER: JOSE DAVID ESQUIVIAS CASE NO. FDI-19-791213 NOTICE!

You have been sued. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTICE – RESTRAINING ORDERS FOLLOW BELOW: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: JOSE DAVID ESQUIVIAS, 1450 THOMAS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124 (415) 724-6448, Date: FEB 22, 2019 Clerk of The Court, Dennis Toyama, Deputy. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasicommunity property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554812

In the matter of the application of: TRUNG HIEN LE, 1356 THOMAS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TRUNG HIEN LE, is requesting that the name TRUNG HIEN LE, be changed to HIEN TRUNG LE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 20th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038634400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARI HAIR, 1538 PACIFIC AVE #113, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARICRUZ ZAMORA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038615000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PAYO’S KITCHEN, 548 MARKET ST #15585, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FARIMA SAFDARI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038638200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TIMOTHY MOUSE HOUSE, 601 DIAMOND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAREN MARGARET BURYN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038639000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OASIS LAW GROUP, 100 PINE ST #1250, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHELSEA M. WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038635600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VELOCETI, 746 11TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT JON MOON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038630700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BALL BUSINESS CONSULTING, 124 KIRKWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DONTAYE BALL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/29/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038633200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLYNN PTA, 3125 CESAR CHAVEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS LEONARD FLYNN ELEMENTARY PTA (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038637000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A GENTLE REST, 3019 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed A GENTLE REST VETERINARY CORPORATION PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038634800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BULGARA, 279 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BULGARA GROUP 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 05/01/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PINPOINT LOCAL, 2443 FILLMORE ST #380-6582, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TOUCH A STAR, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038624100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OXBRIDGE, 2115 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed POLYAK PRECIOUS METALS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038612200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOBS ON BAKER STREET, 601 BAKER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, and is signed BOB’S LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038559900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: A GENTLE REST, 3450 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by a limited liability partnership and signed by A GENTLE REST VETERINARY CORPORATION PC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038079600

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: 3201 OCTAVIA ST APTS, 3201 OCTAVIA ST #102, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by INTER-COUNTIES REALTY CO INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/03/18.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019

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Vol. 49 • No. 19 • May 9-15, 2019

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Out & about in Asian American film by David Lamble

Scene from director Nick Neon’s club-kid spoof “Zero One.”

Courtesy CAAMFest

he 37th edition of CAAMFest, formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, includes two LGBTQ shorts programs and a bevy of narrative features and docs on subjects of interest to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. See page 17 >>

The French do it in fractions by Sura Wood

Jean Gabin in “Maigret Tend un Piege” (“Maigret Sets a Trap”) (1958).

{ SECOND OF THREE SECTIONS }

Courtesy Roxie

oir fanatics, rejoice! You don’t have to wait until November, when the sixth installment of “The French Had a Name for It” (by far the catchiest title for a series yet devised) arrives at the Roxie Theater and zeroes in on the 1960s. In the meantime, you can get a midway fix of the down-anddirty genre with “The French Had a Name for It 5 ½.” See page 17 >>

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14 • Bay Area Reporter • May 9-15, 2019

Cultural connections around the Bay by Roberto Friedman

ossibilities for engagement with the arts and culture of the Bay Area do sometimes seem infinite. Take Out There’s last week, for example – please! Last Wednesday night we were part of the high-spirited opening night for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theatre, comic master Buster Keaton starring in “The Cameraman” (1928). The term “silent film” is a bit of a misnomer, because the screening was accompanied by composer Timothy Brock conducting his original score performed by a terrific orchestra of students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It was ear-filling joy. Keaton’s film offers plenty of physical slapstick, such as a scene in a natatorium changing room that’s a hilarious commentary on locker-room etiquette and our idea of personal space. There’s also some rambunctious jostling on a doubledecker bus that rivals anything encountered on a Muni Metro at rush

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Buster Keaton and Marceline Day star in “The Cameraman,” directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton.

hour. It was the world premiere of the classic film’s 4k digital restoration by the Criterion Collection, Warner Bros., and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. The 2019 SFSFF Award was presented to the Cineteca di Bologna, a premier film archive and center of film research, preservation, and restoration. Cineteca director Gian Luca Farinelli accepted the award onstage, accompanied by a

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translator and an ASL interpreter. The party afterward at McRoskey Mattress Company was super fun, full of merry-making cineastes, food, libations and live, old-timey jazz music. Then on Thursday, we joined a tour of the exhibit “Hans Hoffman: The Nature of Abstraction” at the Berkeley Art Museum (through July 21) – did you know admission to their galleries is free on the first

arlon Brando, considered by many to be the greatest film actor of all time, was in a bit of a career slump when he agreed to play the lead in 1971’s “The Nightcomers.” The star had been labeled boxoffice poison after a series of bombs. Still, he was director Michael Winner’s first and only choice for the role of Peter Quint. “He could play the 12-year-old girl, the nanny, the dog, he’s a genius,” Winner says in an introduction to “The Nightcomers,” newly restored and released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber, purveyors of classic cinema for the home video market. The film is a prequel to Henry James’ classic 19th-century ghost story “The Turn of the Screw,” which was famously filmed as “The Innocents” by director Jack Clayton

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nated by the strange stories he tells them. When Mrs. Grose tries to get Quint and Miss Jessell sacked, Quint tells the children that death is the only way people can be united. The children decide to kill Miss Jessell and Quint in order to stop them from leaving. It’s a disturbing tale, though many reviewers have argued that it’s an unnecessary film. In James’ original tale, the causes of Quint’s and Jessell’s death are never revealed, giving the story an ambiguity that makes it more eerie. By showing how Quint and Jessell died, the ambiguity of “Turn of the Screw” is threatened. As Quint, Brando displays his usual star power, though the thick Irish accent he assumes for the role is a bit cartoonish. Still, he is a commanding presence, enjoying entertaining the children and tormenting Miss Jessell, both drawn to and repulsed by him. The scenes in which Quint ties Jessell up and slaps her are disturbing, but not as disturbing as the scenes in which the kids emulate them. Due to the sexual nature of the story, Miles and Flora are presented as a bit older than they were in James’ novela. Verna Harvey, who plays Flora, was 19 when the film was shot, though her character is younger.

Brando gets able support from the small supporting cast. As Miss Jessell, future “Dynasty” star Stephanie Beacham gives a strong performance as a repressed woman who finds herself drawn into Quint’s rough-andtumble world. Thora Hird, a British character actress, is good as the stern Mrs. Grose, horrified by what she sees. Harvey and Christopher Ellis, both one-hit wonders, will make some viewers cringe as Miles and Flora descend into a perverse world. The elegantly appointed film was shot on location in a 16th-century manor in Cambridgeshire, England, which provides for some impressive visuals, though as the story rarely leaves the house or surrounding grounds, the film does feel a bit claustrophobic. While not the masterpiece that “The Turn of the Screw” and “The Innocents” were, “The Nightcomers” is still a reasonably well-done film that adds context to the original story. Whether or not that context is necessary remains open to debate. Kino Lorber’s restored Blu-ray of the film presents clear, sharp visuals and crisp sound. The extras menu offers the film’s original theatrical trailer, a short intro from director Winner, and Winner’s featurelength commentary track.t

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Riffing on a Toni Morrison novel by Jim Gladstone

oe Trace and his wife Violet tell two sides of the same story in “Jazz,” an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1992 novel now in its West Coast premiere at the Marin Theatre Company. It’s the story of their long, troubled marriage. But by play’s end, the couple seems prepared to let go of their differences. “It don’t matter how you see it or how I see it,” Joe (Michael Gene Sullivan) tells Violet (C. Kelly Wright) as they embrace in a moment of reconciliation. “We make it the way we want it.” That’s a lovely, poetic approach to moving beyond the nuanced differences that arise in a couple’s individual recollections of their long-ago youth. And it’s a nice description of the simultaneous counterpoint and harmony in the play’s namesake music, divergent solo riffs within a greater collaborative whole. But it also feels like the ad hoc credo of a playwright, Nambi E. Kelley, who hasn’t quite settled on an artistic point-of-view and is shifting too much responsibility for making her work coherent onto its audience. It’s hard to tune into the variations and echoes between Joe and Violet’s distant memories – Did they initially couple up out of romance or practicality? How was each of them affected by the childhood loss of their mothers? – when the actions of their recent past are so jarring. In the play’s early scenes, we learn that Joe, in his 50s, has had

an affair with Dorcas, a 17-year-old Harlem neighbor (Dezi Soley), then shot her dead after she left him for a boy her own age. Violet, in a fury, arrives at Dorcas’ wake, knife in hand, and stabs the corpse. While staged in an unsensational, almost ceremonial fashion by director Awoye Timpo, these acts of violence are difficult to set aside in one’s mind. All the more so because they go not just unpunished, but barely even noticed. There are no police investigations or social approbation. Violet even forms an unlikely post-mayhem friendship with Dorcas’ aunt Alice (Margo Hall), who seems bizarrely untroubled by the loss of her young charge. One could argue that the lack of law enforcement speaks to white authorities turning a blind eye in 1920s Harlem, or that the nonplussed neighborhood reaction reflects a numbed-by-horror legacy carried by these descendants of recent slaves. But one would be making that argument based on prior study of American social history or Toni Morrison’s novel, not on information being clearly communicated from the stage. Even when played two times – once through Joe’s eyes, once through Violet’s – a scene in which the couple’s rural Virginia home is destroyed by a white mob could easily be missed because it’s rendered so hastily and abstractly. After virtually no scene-setting or build-up, a single row of small flower-pots

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True Belle (Margo Hall) comforts Country Violet (C. Kelly Wright) with stories of Golden Gray in “Jazz” at Marin Theatre Company.

is toppled on the stage. Kelley and Timpo expect this passing gesture to emotionally evoke an entire era of southern racism. It barely registers. Twice.

intended, but fail, to summon a broader cultural context for the more intimate stories in “Jazz.” Marcus Shelby’s original score, incorporating jazz and its forebears, blues, country and gospel, is pleasant enough, but it’s presented as recorded background music and never feels integral to the action. While a few early lines of dialogue refer to jazz as “the music of the disorderly” and a source of moral decay, we never feel a powerful presence of music in the lives of the play’s characters. The occasional moments when they break into song feel like filler, not epiphany. Kimie Nishikawa’s modernist mausoleum of a set and Jeff Rowlings’ chilly James Turrell-like lighting effects feel disconnected from the play’s time period and folkloric texture. While the Toni Morrison novel that inspired this production also has a multi-voiced, focus-shifting, non-linear structure, a book allows its audience the freedom to revisit and reconsider ambiguous passages, to pause and parse meanings. For stage adaptations, the most confusing aspects of a book are often clarified. In “Jazz,” they’ve been amplified.t

Dorcas’ vague account of a riot in which her parents were killed and Joe’s memory of a parade celebrating black soldiers returning home from WWI are also

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ay flowers at the Castro Theatre. “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986) Frank Oz reboots this Roger Corman classic about a very strange plant store. This version benefits not only from big-budget technology but also from a magnificent ensemble led by Disney studio actor Rick Moranis as the nerdy Seymour, Ellen Greene as his squeaky-voiced love interest, and Steve Martin as a brutal S/M biker. John Candy contributes to the black comedy as a local radio DJ. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975, UK) Jim Sharman directs this classic Midnight Movie with a campy script. Great example of a film that failed in prime time distribution but found a teen/20something audience who saw it an amazing number of times, bringing props like rice for the wedding scene. Notable for Tim Curry’s sexy MC and Susan Sarandon’s early career turn as the naive Janet who, with her cleancut boyfriend (Barry Bostick), stumbles into the Transylvanian coven. (both 5/10) “King Kong” (1933) This early sound classic from director Merian C. Cooper takes its cues from “Beauty and the Beast.” With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong. “Godzilla” (1954, Japan) Monster movie from director Ishiro Honda was inspired by Japanese reaction to the American atomic bomb attacks that ended WWII, and started an endless fear of radiation and the monsters (literal and figurative) that arose from the atomic age. (both 5/11) “Giant” (1956) Edna Ferber’s novel became an instant classic with stellar performances from two queer icons, Rock Hudson and James Dean, for whom it was a last screen

performance, released after his death in a California road accident. It’s about Texas’ evolution from a cattle and agriculture economy to an extraction economy based on oil. “There Will Be Blood” (2007) Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano are bitter rivals in this astonishing drama about the origins of the

Western oil industry. Day-Lewis is the oil wildcatter whose great wealth turns him into a nearpsychotic tycoon and sets him up for a life-and-death struggle with a duplicitous preacher (Dano). Based loosely on Upton Sinclair’s novel “Oil!,” adapted for the screen by director Paul Thomas Anderson, the film won Oscars for DayLewis and its cinematographer, Robert Elswit. (both 5/12) “The Big Sleep” (1946) Howards Hawks helms this Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall postwar noir. Based on Raymond Chandler’s first novel, it benefits from the script by moonlighting William Faulkner, Jules Furthman & Leigh Bracket. “The Drowning Pool” (1975) Paul Newman reprises his turn as private detective Lew Harper (1966’s “Harper”), based on characters created by Ross McDonald. Director Stuart Rosenberg keeps the proceedings slick and entertaining. (both 5/15) “Escape from New York” (1981) John Carpenter’s take on dystopian society: 1997 Manhattan has been turned into a prison colony. Veteran cast includes Disney hand Kurt Russell, Western vet Lee Van Cleef, mad dog Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, soul singer Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton. “The Fog” (1980) John Carpenter ghost story is set in a California coastal town haunted by a century-old shipwreck. Top-notch cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, John Houseman. (both 5/16-17) “The Exorcist” (1973) Helmer William Friedkin presents William Peter Blatty’s bestselling novel in a screen version either frightfully scary or funny, depending on your background. With Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb. “Amityville II: The Possession” (1982) A Long Island-set horror film that’s absolutely not for everyone. (both 5/24)

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Three queens & an ace by Tim Pfaff

– in a Mormon household where there was nothing worse than “homo-sex-u-al-ity,” as the adolescent Lance hears a church deacon drawl it – by the author and later, startlingly, by his older brother, Marcus, are nail-biting spell-binders. Queens for days. Gratefully, Lance has made his own coming-out story one for the books, well beyond this one. As a writer and film- and video-maker, he becomes a master teller of other people’s stories, only principally Harvey Milk’s. Lance credits all manner of stories – not the least the ones his gay friends in LA uninhibitedly tell his speechless mother about their lives on her first visit to her uncomfortably, newly out

son – as the germs of larger life and the ground for societal changes as big as the Supreme Court’s “gay marriage” decision, in which Lance played a pivotal role he doesn’t overstate. There would be ample room for Lance to boast in this memoir, but you wait for it in vain. He’s done what he’s done and, here, told us how, with film-industry luminaries and gay activist colleagues, but even more compellingly through his deep, unbroken involvement with his family of origin and the transfer of that experience to what is now his own family, one-year-old child included. He’s made surrogacy a subject of some of his most recent activist work. “My mom and I share a gift of the kind of passion that’s tough to ignore,” Lance observes midway. “After all, we’d both been trained by the best storytellers on earth: old Southerners with Jack Daniel’s on their breath, preachers leading congregations in Mormon and Baptists churches, and prophets beamed in from Salt Lake City to every LDS church on the globe.” He’s wincing at his mother’s denunciation of all things gay moments before he, in his mind, prematurely ejaculates, “I’m gay.” “One single tear had betrayed me. And once I felt it there was another, and another,” he writes. “A good Southern mom can read tears like tea leaves.” With “Mama’s Boy,” now you can, too.t

Talley produced some notorious Vogue issues, especially 1996’s “Gone With the Wind” satire, with Naomi Campbell as Scarlett O’Hara, and whites such as John Galliano playing servants. He wished his grandmother could have seen the 2013 issue with Michelle Obama on the cover. His critics spewed offensive remarks, calling him Queen Kong, or speculating the only reason Vreeland employed him was because he slept with her (LOL). He endured due to “his faith and ancestors.” “Keep cultivating your own garden” is his mantra, fulfilling his own promise to become a survivor, hoping at almost 70 that he isn’t a “dried-up well.” The documentary features interviews with Wintour, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Whoopi Goldberg.

Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am. christens him the “Nelson Mandela of couture, the Kofi Annan of what you got on.” But Talley’s ruminating aloud about his life at his White Plains, NY estate is the principal attraction. The archival footage of groundbreaking fashion shows, Talley fitting journalist Tamron Hall’s dress for the final Obama State Dinner, and his superlatives about Melania Trump’s inaugural wardrobe are captivating, yet so much is left unsaid. Director Kate Novack, who produced the documentaries “First Monday in May” (on Wintour) and “Page One” (on the NY Times), gives us an endearing portrait of Talley but either didn’t press him or was unsuccessful in her attempts to address the elephant in the room, namely his sexuality. Not that there is any doubt Talley is queer, as viewer’s gaydar barometers will reach stratospheric heights at his campy remarks/attire. Instead, we are told, “Listen, I have no love life. I’ve never had a love life. I’ve never fallen in love, experienced love. The moment has passed.” These are almost the same sad words shoe designer Manolo Blahnick uttered about his romantic attachments in the documentary made about him, armor to protect against any prying revelations. It’s a shame, since Talley is so forthcoming about his racial struggles. One can only imagine how Talley’s story would be an inspiration to young fashionista LGBTQ people of color. Similar to Blahnick, Talley’s work is his life. Though hardly gospel with its lack of transparency, audiences will relish this grandiose, urbane, fearless portrait.t

ts truth notwithstanding, I’ve wearied of the too-oft-repeated Joan Didion quote, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In a warmer voice all his own, Dustin Lance Black has given it a new lease on life with his memoir, “Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas” (Knopf). The only thing that might argue against its fundamental modesty – but doesn’t, as you sink ever deeper into it – is its 400 pages. Reverence is at its heart, but never too imposingly to preclude what Black, the deep-in-the-heart-of-Texas son of the South, is up to, in his borrowed words: spinning a yarn. As in Wagner, names are a thing here, but they change along lines of evolving family love more than pre-determined destiny. This being the boy’s own story, the throughline is Black. But the indisputable Lilliputian giant of his tale is his mother, Roseanne. With a little help from her middle son, who’s happy to keep her second married name, her first name shortens to Anne. Her pet and only name for him is “Lancer,” but Dustin doesn’t reappear until he’s called to accept the Oscar for his screenplay for “Milk,” and then only reported as the single syllable – “Dus-” – the writer with excruciatingly acute hearing remembers before bolting out of his chair to deliver an acceptance speech that marked his arrival as a front-line advocate for LGBTQ rights. In the book, he’s only Lance, though if you’ve ever heard his husband,

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“Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas” author Dustin Lance Black.

British Olympic diver Tom Daley, say it, you will forever hear it as “Lahnce,” with a wee dollop of double entendre. In 1950, at the age of two, Anne gets polio, two vestigial legs, a hideously and increasingly misshapen spine, a childhood and adolescence spent in hospital beds and a lifetime of altogether outof-the-ordinary paraplegia. Spared some if not all of the ghastly surgeries visited on polio sufferers of the time, she decides wheelchairs are for other people and learns to walk on crutches with leg braces, a rebellion against the life she was “promised.” It turns out the promise she will not break, and passes on to Lance,

is to disbelieve limits and pledge lifelong allegiance to the Southern creed of “family first.” As the reader watches her marry, more times than a Mormon strictly should, bear three children out of her own shriveled body, raise a succession of nuclear families in poverty conditions, it becomes less and less surprising that she later becomes a medical technician, her final job managing the flow cytometry labs at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Her work turns out to have direct bearing on AIDS research. The esteem of GIs she nursed along the way earns her the sobriquet “Queen,” but it’s not a title she is able to keep for herself long. The successive stories of coming out

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live for beauty and style. Fashion is fleeting; style remains. Beauty can be a flower or a gesture. You must cultivate your own aesthetic.” These are the opening philosophical musings of Andre Leon Talley, the genial, flamboyant subject of the new documentary “The Gospel According to Andre,” released on DVD by Magnolia Home Entertainment. Talley is a pop culture mainstay as the dapper legendary high priest of fashion, soaring into Met galas or television soundstages with his lavish billowing capes, multi-colored kaftans, and eye-popping jewelry, giving his unconventional opinions on today’s fashion mores and misdemeanors. The film allows him to bolster this persona, but we rarely witness any vulnerability or candid disclosures

behind this larger-than-life invented image. Born in Jim Crow-era Durham, North Carolina, Talley was raised by his disciplined grandmother Bennie Smith, a lifelong domestic maid. She was Talley’s Polaris, who taught him to strive for excellence, believing success was the best revenge. His “moral code to dress well” began at an early age. He observed African American women coiffed in their finery (especially hats) for church. He discovered Vogue in the public library, and fashion became an escape to how he wished life should be, a valuable lesson for the boy who would be pelted by rocks by white students on Sundays when he shortcut across the Duke campus to buy magazines. Watching Julia Child inspired him to learn French, and he obtained a graduate degree in French

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studies from Brown University. He became friends with nearby Rhode Island School of Design undergraduates, who opened his eyes to style, liberating him to be who he became. He immigrated to New York in 1974, volunteering at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute run by the imperious Diana Vreeland, who noticed his talent right away. She taught him the language of clothes. He saw her (always respectfully addressed as Mrs. Vreeland) with the same starry eyes as his grandmother. Many years later when he bought the deceased Bennie’s house, he redecorated some of the rooms as homage to Vreeland. He became a receptionist at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, later writing for it. His first assignment was Karl Lagerfeld, who liked him and gave him free shirts and scarves. He danced every night at Studio 54, eschewing the club’s sex and drugs, according to friend Fran Lebowitz. In 1978, he became the editor of Women’s Wear Daily in Paris. He finally secured his dream job as Vogue’s editor in 1983, knowing more about fashion history than editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, his protector and advocate. He became a “black superhero,” breaking down racial walls in haute couture, not with loud protests about being black and proud, but being himself and developing his own style with little regard for others’ opinions. He even wore a pink alligator coat with a turban on his self-described manatee 6’6’’ frame.

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CAAMFest 2019 runs May 9-19 at venues throughout San Francisco and Oakland: the Castro, Roxie, Kabuki, New People, Asian Art Museum, SF Public Library Main Branch, Waverly Place, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, OMCA and Piedmont Theatre. “Chinatown Rising” Harry & Josh Chuck take a documentary trip through a half-century of activism in San Francisco’s vibrant Chinatown. (Castro, 5/9; Opening Night Gala: AAM) “Yellow Rose” (US, Philippines) Diane Paragas directs the story of aspiring Texan country singer Rose Garcia (Eva Noblezada). Directorial debut, Filipino American musical delight. (Kabuki, 5/11; Piedmont, 5/16) “When We Walk” Awardwinning TV director Jason DaSilva continues his series of films on his struggles with multiple sclerosis (MS). This episode deals with his adventures as a new parent. (Kabuki, 5/12; Piedmont, 5/18) “Geographies of Kinship” Deann Borshay Liem tells stories of Koreans who have been adopted by American families. (Roxie, 5/19) “The Joy Luck Club” (1993) Amy Tan’s bestselling novel, about the travails of a quartet of Chineseborn women and their assimilated American daughters, is brought to the screen by Wayne Wang with a diverse cast: Victor Wong, Lisa Lu, 80s brat-pack star Andrew McCarthy. (Waverly, free, 5/18) “The Dragon Painter” (1919) William Worthington directed one

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French Noir

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Sprinting over the course of a long weekend May 10-13, it showcases 13 features on mostly double bills, and “Retour de Jean,” a rare 32-minute segment from a post-WWII anthology. Directed by suspense maestro Henri-Georges Clouzot (“Les Diabolique”), it stars Louis Jouvet as a disabled war veteran who discovers an escaped German POW hiding in his bedroom. The films span four decades, from the 1930s through the 60s, a period, according to series programmer Don Malcolm, when the French invented film noir, and created masterpieces and first-rate movies in far greater numbers than previously imagined. “I needed to cover all four

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of the first Asian American films. This silent feature, starring Sessue Hayakawa, is an example of the visual qualities that early-film fans treasure. With live music score composed by Japanese American singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura. (New People, 5/11) “Leitis in Waiting” (2017) Three gifted filmmakers – Joe Wilson, Dean Hammer & Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu – present a thoughtprovoking and moving exploration of Christian-inspired persecution of “Leitis,” a class of individuals on the South Pacific island of Tonga exploring gender fluidity. The filmmakers make a strong case for the conclusion that the Leitis were forced into domestic servitude to grease the wheels for the island nation’s pivotal tourist industry. (OMCA, 5/17) “In This Family” (2018) Director Drama del Rosario dramatizes his at first painful, then funny experience

of coming out in a conservative Catholic Filipino family. Using family photos and a witty direct address to the camera, del Rosario describes how his once rabidly homophobic

decades to ensure folks understood that noir starts in France in 1932, not anywhere else,” he says. That the stylized form didn’t originate in America, he adds, “is a controversial contention, but I’m confident that ultimately this will be seen as ‘how it really was.’” You can judge for yourself when the mini-fest kicks off Friday with “The Sleeping Car Murders.” In this debut feature from director Costa-Gavras (“Z”), six people travel on the Midnight Special from Marseilles to Paris, but one is dead on arrival when the train reaches its destination. Believing someone among the five surviving passengers committed the crime, the police investigate, but the suspects are summarily knocked off one-by-one, Agatha Christie-style, leaving the

remaining two to solve the crime and discover the culprit before they become the killer’s next victims. Who among the big-name cast will make the cut or be fingered as the murderer? Yves Montand? Simone Signoret? Jean-Louis Trintignant? When not pondering this existential question, one can savor the widescreen imagery of this 1965 film that, Malcolm says, “reminds us that the French were still pushing the envelope when classic noir was essentially over in America. It also shows that, even in the 60s, French noir was combining the psychological aspects of noir and the paranoia and violence of the thriller.” Sunday night focuses on 1949, a watershed year, says Malcolm, when French noir began to turn back toward the urban jungle and away from its “provincial and gothic components.” The evening delivers a pair of films where the exotic American expatriate, famed screen siren Maria Montez, plays the tawdry femme fatale to the hilt. In “Wicked City,” a tale of amour fou shot on location in Marseille, she’s a bewitching nightclub prostitute stalking the erotic imagination of a sailor obsessed with her (JeanPierre Aumont, Montez’s real-life husband). After she suddenly vanishes, he goes AWOL to search for her and is sucked into the vortex of the underworld on the waterfront. In the lurid “Portrait d’un Assassin,” a project Orson Welles once considered directing, she’s a sadistic carnival owner who systematically destroys an inept, morally flawed daredevil (Pierre Brasseur). His first step on the road to ruin is trying and failing to murder his cloying wife. In an unsuccessful attempt to kill her, he mistakenly injures Montez, a thrill-seeking temptress who gets her kicks daring men to take life-threatening risks. She doesn’t die either, and that’s bad news for him. One need look no further than the fate of her previous lover (Erich von Stroheim), paralyzed and permanently confined to a body brace. Some might think it was time to pack their bags, but no, our hero falls under her spell and swiftly

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Pierre Brasseur and Maria Montez in “Portrait d’un Assassin” (1949).

dad had a startling change of heart, an act of grace that also benefited his lesbian sister. (“Flip the Script” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/11) “Sworded Love” (2018) American shorts director Tina Takemoto creates a diverting collage of fractured images. (“Follow Me” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/12) “Zero One” (2018) Nick Neon directs a deft club-kid spoof about a guy whose buddy swears they should get “Great Gatsby” drunk one night. When confronted with a cute white dude who’s “touching his junk” in the club’s men’s room, our hero James protests, “I’m not giving you a blowjob in here!” (“Out/Here” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/13) “About a Short Film” (2018) Kevin Yee has great fun spoofing “the plight of the Gay Asian Musical Comedian from Canada (legally).” A pal notes, “I know you’ve been doing unsuccessful YouTube videos

for 10 years.” It’s a great showcase for the sort of talent that could command a network sitcom. (“Out/ Here” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/13) “Speak Easy, B” (2018) Directors Becca Park & Jun Shimizu serve up a clever 14-minute collage that begins and ends on a couch. A young lesbian is lashing out over her breakup with a blonde female lover. (Warning: a tricky segment involving projectile vomiting may not be everyone’s cup of tea.) (“Out/Here” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/13) “Bed & Breakfast” (2018) Anna Mikami directs a comic short concerning two couples (one hetero, one lesbian) who collide at one of those tasteful bed-and-breakfast establishments that can shame anyone from any background. (“Out/Here” shorts program, Kabuki, 5/13)t Info: caamedia.org.

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Scene from directors Becca Park & Jun Shimizu’s “Speak Easy, B.”

abandons all reason. Cooler minds prevail in three films featuring Jules Maigret, the intrepid, no-b.s. police commissioner who appeared in over 76 novels and 28 short stories by author Georges Simenon. Sex, crime and night fog converge in the first screen adaptation of a Maigret novel, Jean Renoir’s moody “Night at the Crossroads” (1932), where one finds the cerebral detective scoping out an alluring, opium-addicted beauty while on the trail of a smuggling ring. The festival concludes with two more films led by Maigret that hone the template for atmosphere and character that came to define noir. In “Maigret Sets a Trap” (1958), an unjustly overlooked gem directed by Jean Delannoy, the ever-suave, late-career Jean Gabin, in full-on sangfroid mode, portrays the methodical sleuth closing in on a brutal serial killer (Jean Desailly) whose

exploits – murdering Parisian women in the Fourth Arrondissement in the dead of night – have set off a citywide panic. Sharing the same bill is “The Head of a Man” (1933), a twisted psychological thriller with Harry Baur turning in a nuanced performance as Maigret. Director Julien Duvivier’s film takes the audience on a bone-chilling voyage into the mind of a deranged killer, while titillating the rest of our senses with the raucous anarchy of 1930s Parisian nightlife. Descending into sordid worlds that are at once tempting and repugnant as he hunts his quarry, the stoic detective is in increasing danger of getting too close to the criminal he’s pursuing and losing himself, a convolution that has its roots in Simenon’s perverse imagination.t May 10-13 at the Roxie. Info: midcenturyproductions.com

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Zoetrope’s zesty wines and dinners New food and wine pairing makes for a marvelous midweek meal by Jim Provenzano

hen North Beach’s Café Zoetrope offered an invitation to their Winemaker’s Dinner, it was an offer we couldn’t refuse. Godfather jokes aside, the stylish restaurant, owned by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and his related winery, has a special midweek dining option that’ll fill your stomach while offering a bit of education about various wines. Most are also available for purchase by the bottle. See page 19 >>

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A fun group gathering at Café Zoetrope. The fabulous Sentinel Building, home of Café Zoetrope.

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Set on the ground floor of the historic and beautiful Sentinel Building, the pivotal North Beach setting should please any visitors you have coming to town, or for locals who want to enjoy touristy areas with a local comfort. The triangular café’s décor includes classic film posters and memorabilia, and a variety of wines for purchase. Not being particularly learned about wines, I found that informational notes offered by Sandy Walheim of Virginia Dare Winery were fascinating. How will this year’s rain effect future harvests? What’s the difference between a Malbec and a Syrah? Walheim shared info on each of our glassfuls, paired with food.

and represent an upper tier of quality and distinction from a very distinctive place, including Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Viognier, Syrah, Petite sirah and Cabernet. We tasted

the Chardonnay (2016 vintage, Russian River, Dutton Ranch) with the first course, and Vioginer (2017 vintage, Russian River, Catie’s Corner) with the dessert course.

Lydia, the chef at Café Zoetrope, prepared the appetizers (socca with roasted beets, and seared ahi tuna) and entrees, which were delicious. The duck leg confit brought savory seasonings with lentils and sweet potatoes. But the braised pork shank with pomegranate glaze and a creamy polenta hidden under the big bone left us astounded. With those dishes, we enjoyed two wines from the Francis Coppola Reserve group, and two wines from the Director’s Cut group. As Walheim told us, Francis Coppola Reserve wines are a group of six wines with very Our Wednesday Winemaker Dinner included limited production. They are (left) Duck Leg Confit and (right) Pistachio Cake. from individual vineyards

Readings @ City Lights Bookstore May 9: ZYZZYVA contributors Cate Lycurgus, Dean Rader, Jordan Kantor, Rusty Morrison, and Mira Rosenthal, 7pm. May 12: Jo Lendle (All the Land ), 5pm. May 15: Saskia Vogel ( Permission ), 7pm. 261 Columbus Ave. www.citylights.com

Significant Other @ SF Playhouse

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We Have Iré @ YBCA Forum

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Thu 9 110 in the Shade @ Gateway Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s energetic production of Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones and N. Richard Nash’s popular romantic musical. $30-$70. WedSun thru May 12. 215 Jackson St. www.42ndStMoon.org

Andrea Lawlor @ The Bindery Author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl reads from and discusses her novel about a queer shapeshifting punk music fan/ bartender. 7:30pm. 1727 Haight St. www.booksmith.com

California and the Stonewall Riots @ GLBT History Museum Discussion with author/historian Marc Stein ( The Stonewall Riots:

a Documentary History), 7pm. May 16: opening reception for The Mayor of Folsom Street: Alab Selby’s Legacy, an exhibit of the leather culture pioneer (7pm). Also, SoMa Nights: 1980s-1990s Queer Club Photography, and Two-Spirit Voices: Returning to the Circle. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre May 9: CAAMfest opening night screening of Chinatown Rising (6:30pm). May 10: Little Shop of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. May 11: King Kong (1:30, 7pm), Godzilla (3:25, 9pm) and King Kong vs. Godzilla (5:15). May 12: Disney’s Moana singalong. May 12: Giant (3:30) and There Will Be Blood (7:15). May 14: High Life (7pm) and The Beach Bum (5pm,9:10). May 15: The Big Sleep (7pm) and The Drowning Pool (9:05). May 16 & 17: Retored 4K prints of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York (5:30, 7pm) and The Fog (8:55, 9:25) $8-$11. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Comedy Night @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley Laugh it up with Diane Amos (the Pine Sol Lady), Karinda Dobbins, Emily van Dyke, Brandi Brandes, with MC Lisa Geduldig. $15-$20. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. www.koshercomedy.com

Dorrance Dance @ YBCA

Joshua Harmon’s witty romantic comedy about a gay men who endures all his friends’ weddings. $20-$100. Thru June 15. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Weightless @ Strand Theater

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Fri 10 Black Love @ Strut Poetry, storytelling and comedy celebrating queer Black artists. Wine, soft drinks; free. 8pm-10pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory @ Golden Gate Theatre Touring company of the musical stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s popular tale about a contest to tour the magical sweets factory. $40$226. Thru May 12. 1 Taylor St. www.shnsf.com

Smuin Ballet @ YBCA

American Conservatory Theatre’s and Z Space present the Kilbanes’ rock musical about sisterhood, love, betrayal and rebirth. $15-$65. Tue-Sat 7:30pm, thru May 12. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

Dance Series 02 is performed. $34-$81. 7:30pm. thru May 5. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. Also May 17, 23 & 31 thru the Bay Area. www.smuinballet.org

Wimples of the World @ Harvey Milk Photo Center

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Group exhibit of art, portraits and photos of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.Thru May 11. 50 Scott St. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Michelle Dorrance’s innovative company takes tap-dance to new dimensions in ETM: Double Down. $15-$70. Thru May 11. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.dorrancedance.com

Max Vernon’s glam-rock gospelpop musical, about a man who’s transported back in time to a historic 1960s New Orleans gay bar. $35-$60. Live music pre-show Wednesdays. Thru June 9. 25 Van Ness Ave. www.nctcsf.org

We Have Iré @ YBCA Forum Pauk S. Flores’ new music theatre work explores the true stories of Afro-Cuban immigrants living in the U.S. $25-$30. 7:30pm. Thru May 12. 700 Howard St. www.ybca.org

The White Crow @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

Parivar @ Strut Queer South Asian community meeting with music, performances, video, food and more with hosts Anand Vedawala, Anjali Rimi and Sanjeev Chahl. 5pm-8pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

One thing I do know from my years as a waiter; the best wines almost slip past your lips with their subtlety, and these wines brought a variety of flavors. The other two wines in the dinner were part of the winery’s Director’s Cut group, brought from Sonoma County. We tasted the 2017 Pinot noir and the 2016 Cabernet. As Walheim put it, Director’s Cut is styled to be fruit-forward in expression, backed up by complimentary oak. For dessert, we shared servings of pistachio cake and lemon pie between sips of Reserve Viognier. Altogether, the meal and wine pairings are a mere $65 per person. For reservations for 5:30 and 7:30pm seatings, or other dates: (415) 291-1700.t

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Gordon Silveria @ Strut

New film about gay ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev. 1 Embarcadero. landmarktheatres.com/sanfrancisco

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Show Me as I Want to Be Seen @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

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Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist, Surrealist, and activist Claude Cahun; thru July 7; Also, Lew the Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo, an exhibit of the prolific tattoo artist’s work, tools and life; thru June 9. 736 Mission St. www.thecjm.org

Amy Sueyoshi @ SF Public Library The author of Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental” discusses her book’s themes. 2pm, Skylight Gallery, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Shut Up and Draw @ Strut

The Importance of Being Earnest @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Oscar Wilde’s classic “trivial comedy for serious people $35-$70. Thru May 19. 2018 Addison St., Berkeley. www.auroratheatre.org

The Jungle @ Curran Theatre Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s acclaimed drama about French refugee camp immigrants, set in an up-close immersive and intimate staging. $79-$165. Thru May 19. 445 Geary St. www.sfcurran.com

Queer Ancestors Project @ Strut Foglifter Press’ release event for a queer youth group of contributing writers and printmakers’ anthology and the exhibit closing party. 7:30pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Queer California: Untold Stories @ Oakland Museum Multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, rare historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11. Also, Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, Ray Troll’s colorful illustrations paired

Free LGBT drawing space for silent drawing and sharing of works. 7pm-9pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Various Exhibits @ SF Public Library

Tue 14

Ani DiFranco @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley

with paleontologist Kirk Johnson’s research. Also, Take Root: Oakland Grows Food and other exhibits. Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. www.museumca.org

Sun 12

SF Hiking Club @ Las Trampas Park Join GLBT hikers for a nine-mile hike in Las Trampas Regional Park. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen, hat, sturdy shoes. Meet 9:00 at Rockridge BART. www.sfhiking.com

42nd Street Moon’s two nights of cabaret fundraiser shows, with multiple performers (Darlene Popovic, John Brown, Heather Orth and more), VIP seating with complimentary wine. $35-$75. 7:30pm. Also May 13. 215 Jackson St. www.42ndstmoon.org

Who Killed Sylvia Plath? @ The Marsh

Expedition Reef @ California Academy of Sciences

Lorri Holt performs Lynne Kaufman’s fascinating solo play about the tragic demise of the poet. $25-$100. Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5:30pm. Thru June 16. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

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

Monet: The Late Years @ de Young Museum New exhibit of the French Impressionist’s great later works, including Water Lilies ; thru May 27. Also, modern and historic art, including embroidery, Maori portraits and installations. Free/$15. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.famsf.org

Muldoon Elder @ Laguna 500 Intimate exhibit of paintings and drawings by the local artist. 500 Laguna St. www.thelaguna500.com

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

In Search of the Glass Slipper, Perci Chester’s ‘70s gay community photo exhibit; thru May 16. Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, an art exhibition of historical research and ephemera about early twentieth century immigrant and activist Matilda Rabinowitz; thru May 19. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Tue 14 Ani DiFranco @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley The veteran indie musician discusses her new memoirs No Walls and the Recurring Dream. $20-$35. 7pm. 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley. www.berkeleyarts.org

Perfectly Queer @ Dog Eared Books Charlie Jane Anders, Joseph Cassara, Baruch Porras Hernandez, and Sara Cahill Marron read from their works; plus, wine, cheese and donuts. Rick May and Wayne Goodman cohost. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Smoke & Mirrors: The War on Drugs @ AAACC Exhibit of works by six muralists and 20 artists focusing on pot use, hemp, and historical elements of cannabis in communities of color. Tue-Fri 12pm-6pm. Sat til 5pm. Thru Aug 31. 762 Fulton St. www.aaacc.org

Wed 15 Border People @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle’s new solo show embodies multiple characters based around the U.S./Mexico border wall controversies; extended thru June 22. $25-$100. Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Exclusion @ Presidio Officers Club Exhibit documenting the Presidio’s Japanese-American incarceration during World War II; other exhibits show the history of the former military base and the SF peninsula. Free, Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Thru Spring 2019. 50 Maraga Ave. www.presidio.gov/officers-club/ exhibitions/

Thu 16 American Psycho @ Victoria Theatre Previews begin for Ray of Light Theatre’s production of the darkly satiric musical based on the 1980s Bret Easton Ellis novel. $15-$40. Thru June 8. 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

MAX 2019 @ Various Venues Media Art eXploration, a space, arts and science festival of performances, exhibits, talks, and parties all over the Bay Area. Thru May 18. https:// mediaartexploration.org/

New Strands Festival @ Strand Theater New theatre works-in-progress, readings, a master class series, and special happy hours; including a new rock musical by The Kilbanes; new works by playwrights Luis Alfaro, Emily Feldman, Robert O’Hara, Jiehae Park; mentalist Vinny DePonto, and more. Free/RSVP online. Thru May 19. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

Various Exhibits @ Asian Art Museum Kimono Refashioned, thru May 5. Also, contemporary works by Kim Heecheon and Liu Jianhua; Tattoos in Japanese Prints and The Bold Brush of Au Ho-Nein, both thru Aug. 18; also, eexhibits of sculpture and antiquities. Sunday café specialties from $7-$16. Free-$20. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

With(out) With(in) the Very Moment @ SF Arts Commission Exhibit about LGBT lives, and surviving AIDS, with Elliot Anderson, Adam Ansell, Ed Aulerich-Sugai, Mark Garrett, Cliff Hengst, Nancer Lemoins, Mark Paron, Anton Stuebner, and featuring Alternate Endings, a series of video programs by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art. Thru June 22. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfartscommission.org t To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Walking Distance Dance Festival @ ODC Theater Three programs, eight days in and near ODC’s theater and studios. $15-$60. Thru May 19. 3153 17th St. www.odc.dance

Mon 13 Gender Queer @ Cartoon Art Museum Mais Kobabe’s Gender Queer, thru July 1, and other exhibits. 11am5pm. 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.org

Gordon Silveria @ Strut ‘Queers in Space,’ an exhibit of the artist’s scifi comic illustrations. Thru May. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Lest We Forget @ Civic Center Plaza Luigi Toscano’s outdoor photo exhibit of 78 large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors; thru May 19. https://bit.ly/2uSNrfO

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Charlie Jane Anders at Perfectly Queer @ Dog Eared Books

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Funny Lady Maureen McVerry at Oasis By David-Elijah Nahmod

n Saturday May 18, funny lady Maureen McVerry will perform Verry McVerry 2019, her everevolving, long-running cabaret act, at Oasis. It’s a show that she has performed for an impressive 25 years. Verry McVerry has previously been staged at New Conservatory Theater, the Herbst Theater, The Plush Room, Venetian Room, as well as venues in New York City and Los Angeles. But Oasis holds a special place in her heart. “I’m kind of a South of Market gal,” McVerry told the Bay Area Reporter. “I got my big break at Oasis. For a brief time I replaced Sarah Moore as Mr. Roper in Three’s Company Live. My drag name is Marine Layher. Matthew Martin was my sweet spouse and he will always be my wife. It was so much fun and I am a huge fan of my wife and my other co-workers, Heklina and D’Arcy Drollinger. I am so grateful they let me into their world.” Verry McVerry was born when McVerry, who is primarily a stage actress, did a Stephen Sondheim revue in Marin County, in which she

played seven characters. She found that she enjoyed the challenge of playing multiple roles, and so she developed her solo show. She says that she loves the process of picking all the songs and being the person in charge, and while the show always changes, the title of the show has remained the same. “The show always reflects my life,” she said. “Back in the early ‘90s I was involved with maintaining a marriage and raising children, and so I did songs which reflected that time in my life. And now I’m in a totally different spot of my life, and so the show is always evolving. We all play a million different roles. I think actors are the ones who are most aware of this. I’m in a whole new role in my life. I’m the crone!” McVerry recalls being offered a role in a production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday In The Park With George, when the producers wanted her to play the old lady. “I’m aware of that, and that’s okay,” she said. “Those are the parts I play now. That’s what your life is, you’re always moving into a new role.” McVerry said that she was very

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happy to be going back to Oasis, which she noted was her favorite nightclub in town and is thrilled that they gave her a Saturday night to do her show. “You see such a cross section of humanity at Oasis and I appreciate that,” she said. “It’s a drag club. When you see me in eyelashes, I’m in drag!” She doesn’t like to give away too

much information about her set, but did reveal that she’ll be singing a song called “Love Will Kick Your Ass,” and plenty of Sondheim. There will also be a Burt Bacharach medley. “Every time I do a solo show I think that somebody should talk me out of it because it’s so much work,” she said. “But, on the other hand, it makes me appreciate being in a play

so much more because I don’t have to do all the work. I don’t have to do publicity, and I don’t have to come up with the set or figure out the stage management.” Her stage career is quite extensive. Over the years McVerry has appeared in numerous shows at American Conservatory Theater, including as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Mrs. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol. She has also worked at Marin Theater Company, SF Shakespeare Festival and 42nd Street Moon, among many others, and is the winner of seven SF Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards and two Dramalogue Awards. She has also done film and television. “I’m very lucky. I got into some big hits when I was very young,” she says. “I never really worked hard at finding parts and I’m just so lucky that some directors still call me to read for them. I feel very fortunate. I took a vow of poverty. I love theater and I managed to have a life that I love.”t Maureen McVerry, Saturday May 18, 7pm at Oasis, 298 11th St. $20-40. www.sfoasis.com

Celebrating ten years of Comedy at El Rio

Comedy Returns host and comic Lisa Geduldig

by David-Elijah Nahmod

t’s been ten years since comic extraordinaire and hostess with the mostess Lisa Geduldig began doing her monthly comedy shows at El Rio, and on Friday May 17 at 7pm, Geduldig will host a special show to celebrate this milestone year for Comedy Returns To El Rio. Geduldig has put together quite a lineup of seasoned comics, including Bernadette Luckette, a veteran of NBC, Comedy Central, A & E and MTV. Also appearing are Bay Area comics Ian Williams, Arjun Banerjee (whose therapist describes his style as “warm, inviting, yet witty”) and Justin Lucas, who recalls his early days in the business. “In March of 2011, after realizing that being a registered nurse was not quite for me, I thought I’d try something that my close friends had always encouraged me to do: Wear deodorant, and perform stand-up comedy,” said Lucas. “Sooner than expected, comedy producers invited me to their showcases; stand-up competition judges advanced me to being a finalist, or the winner; and a certain amazing newspaper [this one] credited me with being Best Male Comedian in 2015. I had found my path to fulfilling my destiny, showbiz, and Tom’s Original Unscented.”

Lucas, who played Jonathan Groff ’s HIV tester in HBO’s gay soap opera Looking, describes his comedy as “very family-impersonation and strange-character based.” “I also try to incorporate as much crowd work as possible to keep things fresh and interesting, at least for me,” he said. “Through my comedy, I try to convey the hilariosity in simple real-life situations.” Lucas’ goal in performing com-

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edy is simple; to change people’s moods to one that is relaxed and worry-free. The seeds for Comedy Returns to El Rio were planted many years ago, when Geduldig was in her 20s. (“100 years ago” she says). She was serving as Best Woman at a friend’s wedding and gave a very tongue-in-cheek speech. Everyone who was there asked her where she performed. “I didn’t perform, I was just a wise-ass,” she recalls. A few months later, Geduldig found herself at El Rio for the Wednesday night comedy shows which were performed there at the time. She saw a flyer on the bulletin board for stand-up comedy wannabes and went to a class at a house in Bernal Heights on a few consecutive Tuesdays. There was a makeshift stage and a mic, and the guy who was teaching the class invited several of his friends to be the audience. Soon they held ‘class’ at El Rio where Geduldig performed a set. She did well, and was asked by former El Rio owner, the late Malcolm Thornley, if she wanted to do five minutes sometime. “A couple of months later, I got up the courage and called him and did five minutes and the rest is history,” she says. After twenty years as a stand-up performer, Geduldig decided to relaunch El Rio’s defunct comedy shows. She called the show Comedy Returns To El Rio, and thought she would do it for six months or a year. “But now it’s been ten years, so the name seems kind of silly,” she said. In addition to Comedy Returns to El Rio, Geduldig is the force behind Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, an annual Christmas comedy extravaganza which she always holds in a Chinese restaurant. Kung Pao celebrates its 27th season this year. She explains how the name Kung Pao was chosen. “I made a list with three columns: comedy, Jewish, and Chinese Restaurant,” she says. “I put words in each column and came up with Kung Pao Kosher Comedy because it felt like it encompassed all those categories and was a fun name. And I like alliteration. My other idea was Barrel of Latkes. I’m glad Kung Pao Kosher Comedy won. It’s become a household word.” Geduldig explains what she looks

for when she books a comic. “Funny, unique, intelligent, unoffensive, relatively clean,” she said. “I try and book shows with gender parity, though occasionally the show may accidentally be all women and one token man to make up for all the shows with line ups of all men and one token woman, and a cultural, ethnic diversity.” For her own comedy, Geduldig said that she hopes to convey laughter, enjoyment, non-offensive humor, “with some occasional stealth education and soapboxing thrown in, and a reprieve from all the drek

going on.” This 10th anniversary reminds Geduldig that she’s getting older. “But it also means longevity and that a show I thought would last for six months or a year is still going strong at ten years,” she said. And what does Geduldig hope the next ten years will bring? “Longevity for both events and an end to the fascist regime in power,” she says. “Not me, Trump.”t Comedy Returns 10th Anniversary Show, May 17, 7pm. $10-$20. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

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May 9-16, 2019

Mother’s Day Ball @ SOMArts Drag ball with many prizes in multiple categories. No cover, paid tables available. 9pm-2am. 934 Brannan St. www.facebook.com/ events/298368214158285/

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

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Thu 9 Ginger Minj @ Oasis The RuPaul’s Drag Race competitor performs her live show. $27-$50. 7pm. Also May 10. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest, with sexy prizes. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Michael Feinstein @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The master pianist and jazz singer performs at his own nightclub, with a band. $80-$115 ($20 Food/drink min). Also May 10, 11, 12. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko.com

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

Puff @ The Stud Cannabis fun (but no smoking or near the bar), drag show, stoner raffle, DJs Dank and Prince Wolf. $10. 6pm8:30pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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

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Erasure-esque @ The Ivy Room, Albany

The popular two-stepping linedancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons. $5. 6:30pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays 5pm10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

The Erasure tribute band performs. MILF and Steel Hotcakes also play. $10-$13. 8pm. 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. www.ivyroom.com

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Women’s punk band performs. $10. 4pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com

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Performance and reception, with poetry, storytelling and comedy with Na’amen Gobert Tilahun, Beatrice L. Thomas, Karinda Dobbins and Imani SimsWine and beverages. 8pm-10pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

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

Boy Division @ Cat Club Monthly queer wave dance party with DJs Xander, Tomas Diablo, Daniel Skellington and Melting Girl, this time with a ‘red light’ theme. $5-$10. 9:30pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. http://www.sfcatclub.com/

Cubcake @ Lone Star Saloon Bears, cubs, chubs & treats night with DJ Dreamcast. $5. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Disco Coalition @ Lookout Juanita MORE! and Go BANG! present the weekly series of community-building party-fundraisers for local LGBTQ nonprofits. 5pm-8pm. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

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Lick It @ Powerhouse Lance Holman’s monthly leather night, with DJ Blackstone. $5. 10pm-1am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com

Seoul Train @ Oasis Kpop and more dance night. $10-$15. 9pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

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Mon 13 Eels @ Regency Ballroom The spooky rock band performs, with Robert Ellis and Texas Piano Man. $43. 8pm. 1300 Van Ness Ave. www.theregencyballroom.com

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

Sample wares from 30+ NorCal wineries, plus beer, cider, food, and funk band Pride & Joy. $40-$80. 12pm-5pm. 2 Broadway, Oakland. www.eventbrite.com

Dragathon 3000 @ Oasis Queens in Space, a drag competition fundraiser for Ryan’s Fund: The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Financial Assistance Network. 6pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Hard French @ El Rio Groovy R&B dance party with DJs Lizzy, Cinnamon Beans,Brown Amy and Carnita. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, May 11 is Queens in Space, with KaiKai Bee Michaels, Piranha, Madd Dogg 20/20, Johnny Rockitt, Loma Prietta, Gia and guest-star Ginger Minj. $15-$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

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

Wed 15 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Florence + The Machine @ Concord Pavilion Pop musician and her band perform. $19-$400. 8pm. 2000 Kirker Pass Road, Concord. www.florenceandthemachine.net

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

Laugh the Night Away @ Oasis Comedy night with host Sergio Novoa, Ameera Nasser, Ruby Gill and others. $15-$20. 6pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 5512500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Thu 16 Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies @ Oasis

Hoe is Life @ The Stud Slutty party. $5-$10. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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

Second festive and hilarious night of dragsters reading excerpts from unintentionally campy celeb tell-alls, with Cruzin’ d’Loo, Thee Pristine Condition, Roxy Cotton-Candy, Cristal Guysir, Intensive Claire and Carrie Fisher-Price; hosted by James J. Siegel. $20. 7pm. 289 11th St. sfoasis.com

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Dad Bang @ Public Works DJs Todd Terry, Minx, Juanita MORE! and Nonsuit spin at the big warehouse event. $13-$17. 9pm-3am. 161 Erie St. https://publicsf.com/

Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland

Thu 16

BeardHaus @ Lone Star Saloon

Breeches & Leather Uniform Fanclub night. $5. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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

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

Art & Wine Festival @ Jack London Square, Oakland

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Sat 11

DJs Justime & Prince Wolf spin at the bear bar, with snacks, JellO shots and fun decor. $5. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun

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

Tue 14 Cock Shot @ Beaux

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

RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewings @ Area bars

The weeknight party gets going with DJ Chad Bays. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Enjoy the popular drag show at Oasis, Midnight Sun and other bars. 9pm, weekly.

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Sex is a smorgasbord by Race Bannon

’ve noticed a creeping trend lately when it comes to how some people present their sexualities, kinky or otherwise. This happens mostly online on cruising sites and apps, but it seems to be happening increasingly during face-to-face engagements I’ve witnessed. What I’ve noticed is how remarkably precise and specific some people have become with their stated sexual identities and options. Not only have sexual positions and power dynamic roles often been demarcated, but the erotic options within those structures are listed with no wiggle room for adventure or exploration. My ex, Guy Baldwin, had a wonderful metaphor he’d use in his presentations and writings about sexuality, kink sexuality in particular, but it pertains to all of sexuality. I’ve poached this metaphor many times because it’s so good. Guy would liken sexuality to a smorgasbord. While there may be a seemingly endless variety of foods on the table, few people like them all. Nor should they feel compelled to like them all. We can pick and choose those that we like and leave the others for people with different tastes. The goal is to have an enjoyable meal, not to try everything on the table. Just as with gastronomic tastes, sexual tastes vary. Some like spaghetti and some like egg rolls. Some like both. No choice is better than another. It’s all a matter of personal preference.

Plus, we get to choose different foods each time we walk up to the table. How many of us have eaten the same meal every time? Few of us. We like variety in our food. Most of us like variety in our sexuality too. Also, people change. Many people’s erotic fantasies and activities grow, shift and morph in different directions throughout their life. People might grab and try something new off the erotic smorgasbord table today that they wouldn’t have dreamed of considering five or ten years ago. Yes, some people have incredibly specific and narrow ranges when it comes to their sexuality. They have every right to those choices. My fear though is that with such specificity being more common lately people will come to believe that’s how our sexuality should function. Few things are less interesting than someone presenting their erotic menu in painstaking detail with their favorites essentially circled and underlined, but without them ever once uttering something akin to “What’s on your menu and what do you like?” This happens all the damn time. Those people should teach a class titled How to Turn Off a Sexual Partner in 60 Seconds or Less. While this column caters to the kinkier among us, the problem of rigidity happens a lot in vanilla sex situations too. How often have you read an online hookup profile that lays out the exact and very specific way you’re supposed to please them with nary a mention of their open-

ness to pleasing others? I would guess you’ve seen it often if you peruse those sites and apps at all. Like what you like. Do what you want to do with your sexual partners. If it’s highly specific, fine. It’s your sexuality. I just think that most people would end up with better sexual situations by remaining open to exploring things outside of their usual erotic box and especially being more open to focusing on pleasing their partners as much as themselves, even if that means sampling something new that their partner has selected from the erotic smorgasbord.

SF Eagle turns 6, Eagle Plaza is born

On Sunday, April 28, I attended the SF Eagle’s Sixth Anniversary Block Party. The event served as a fundraiser for the SF Pride Parade Leather Contingent while celebrating and raising funds for the soon to break ground Eagle Plaza, the world’s first city-sanctioned outdoor plaza dedicated to honoring the leather communities. The block party was extremely well attended with great entertainment, visiting city, state and community dignitaries, and a kickass lineup of renowned DJs providing music. As part of the festivities, four people were presented with Eagle Feather Award plaques for their long-term dedication to helping the leather communities: Rachele Sullivan, Jason Husted, State Senator Scott Wiener, and Lance Holman. The Eagle Plaza construction project is expected to break ground shortly with the hopes that it will be completed by Folsom Street Fair in late September 2019.

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A large crowd was in attendance both inside and outside the SF Eagle at the recent 6-year anniversary block party.

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Rachele Sullivan backstage at the SF Eagle 6-year anniversary block party just before going on stage to receive an Eagle Feather Award for her longstanding work in the leather communities.

Congratulations to the SF Eagle on six years of reviving the bar from closure to now clearly again being one of the most important leather community institutions functioning in our city.

The Eagle Plaza is still actively raising funds to complete the final phases of the project which include various types of leather markers, which will differentiate the Plaza from other city public spaces. People, clubs, organizations and businesses can help fund these markers by becoming an officially recognized donor with various donation levels available from $100 to $10,000 or more. You can adopt a garden, adopt a tree, have your name on an inlaid stud, sponsor the leather pride flag, be an Eagle Plaza VIP or fan club member. Check out the Eagle Plaza donation levels available by visiting their website and click on Donate. www.eagleplaza.org.t

For Leather Events, visit www.ebar.com/events Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. www.bannon.com

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