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Repeal vote likely for trans law by Seth Hemmelgarn

ackers of a new California law meant to protect transgender students are preparing to fight for the legislation as anti-trans activists announced they’ve submitted more than Jane Philomen Cleland 600,000 signatures to Frank Schubert place a referendum on next year’s ballot. The Privacy for All Students coalition had had until Sunday, November 10 to gather 504,760 valid signatures to put a referendum against Assembly Bill 1266 on the November 2014 ballot. AB 1266, which Governor Jerry Brown signed into law in August, aims to make sure that transgender youth can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs, and facilities that match their gender identity. In a news release Sunday, Privacy for All Students said it had submitted more than 620,000 signatures to election officials. It could take several weeks to determine whether the coalition submitted enough valid signatures. In an email to the Bay Area Reporter, Frank Schubert, the anti-trans campaign’s manager, said the high signature count “does not guarantee we are going to be on the ballot. ... [I]t will all depend on how many of the signatures are verified as being valid and I expect it to come down to the wire.” The coalition indicated volunteers collected about 400,000 of the signatures, while paid signature gatherers collected “just over” 220,000. In the news release, Schubert, the mastermind of California’s now-defunct Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban, stated, “The validity rate of volunteer signatures is considerably higher than those for a paid signature drive. Historically, elections officials invalidate a significant percentage of signatures but many of our volunteer petitions have a validity rate of over 90 percent. We will be completing our internal validity checks over the next few days, but we believe the referendum has a good chance of qualifying.” Gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), who authored AB 1266, said in a statement, “It’s a sadly familiar story that goes back to Proposition 8” and previous anti-LGBT efforts over the years. “The people who oppose my bill for transgender rights mistakenly think that they can overturn a movement with their petitions,” he added. Ammiano said even if the referendum sucSee page 9 >>

Vol. 43 • No. 46 • November 14-20, 2013

by Seth Hemmelgarn

A Veterans honored in SF

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eterans rode and marched in this year’s annual Veterans Day Parade Sunday, November 10 in San Francisco. Among those participating was World War II veteran Paul Georky, who rode in the American Legion Alexander Hamil-

ton Post 448 contingent. The American Legion post is made up of mostly LGBT veterans. Parade organizers also paid tribute to veterans of the Korean War, which is marking its 60th anniversary this year.

g e n d e r- n o n conforming high school student from Oakland is recovering from burns suffered after another high schooler set their skirt on fire on an AC Transit bus. The youth being charged in the attack, which has received Luke Sasha heavy media attention, is Fleischman expected to enter a plea this week, while officials at both youths’ schools are expressing sympathy for the victim. According to Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson, officers responded at 5:20 p.m. Monday, November 4 to “a report of a person who was intentionally set See page 8 >>

Pride members fail to remove Currie by James Patterson

t a planning meeting of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee this week, members were unsuccessful in removing treasurer David Currie from the organization’s board of directors. The vote from the 36 members present was 6-29. Some members were upset with what they see as his role to declare “no winners” following the chaotic 11-hour annual election in September and his silence during the Chelsea Manning controversy earlier this year. The meeting, held November 12 at Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco in the Castro, was attended by approximately 45 people and turned chaotic at times as many voiced lingering concerns and frustrations over the conduct of board members at the September 15 annual meeting. Board member John Caldera, who arrived late, distributed a letter to members calling for them to support a motion to remove Currie from the board “without cause.” Caldera took his seat close to Currie but the treasurer stared in the opposite direction. Vocal member support for Currie’s removal was based on the belief he supported former board member Lou Fischer’s claim of no winners at the election. Board secretary Justin Taylor said that former board member Pam Grey, voted off in September, took minutes at the annual meet-

ing that show Currie had Pride press release, signed by not supported the no Williams, that rescinded the winners decision. Taylor organization’s grand marshal said Currie supported honor to Manning, the Army the newly elected board private who was convicted of members. leaking classified government This was an unusual documents to WikiLeaks. declaration as Taylor adManning is now serving a 30mitted Grey’s minutes year prison sentence. had not been approved “I would have said ‘hell no’ by the board and he had to that statement,” Haines only recently received said, voice shaking. He said he them. Still, the board was disappointed San Franwas silent as to the accucisco Pride had let that occur. racy of the unapproved Haines endorsed the Pride Rick Gerharter minutes. Neither Taylor Committee’s second press renor interim Executive SF Pride treasurer David Currie lease stating Manning’s nomiDirector Lisa Williams nation was improper as she would offer the Bay Area was not local. Reporter contact information for Grey for her “It was based on policies and procedure,” he confirmation of the contents of the minutes. said, but the community paid no attention to Members asked Currie to explain why he it. Haines, who is black, said it was the comsupported fewer board seats in the election. munity’s anger over Manning that “wiped out He revived criticisms of the past board when African American members” from the board. he reminded members they had not known Williams was up and down, standing and how many board seats were open for the elecsitting, during the long debate on the Mantion. His support of fewer seats was “because ning controversy with which she was so deeply big changes would be difficult to manage” and involved. he felt it better to “grow the board in a more Currie spoke for 10 minutes on why he logical way.” should continue as treasurer. Virginia, Taylor, Former board member Shaun Haines, seekand Joey Cain temporarily left their seats. Curing a new board appointment after he lost rie said he brought better financial managere-election, took the floor to deny any involvement to San Francisco Pride and “pushed hard ment in the incendiary April 26 San Francisco See page 9 >>

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ocal events commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance will take place in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley next week, highlighting those killed in anti-trans attacks over the past year. All events take place Wednesday, November 20 and are free and open to the public. The recent attack on a genderqueer Oakland teen likely will also be on the minds of many attendees. Luke Sasha Fleischman, 18, remains in a San Francisco hospital after suffering second and third degree burns after their skirt was set on fire while they dozed on an AC Transit bus last week. Richard Thomas, 16, has been arrested in connection with the incident. [See story, page 1.] In San Francisco, the annual Day of Remembrance event will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. in the rainbow room at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. “Again this year, we’ve lost countless members of our community – most of whom are women of color,” Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, said in a statement. In addition to those lost to violence, several other deceased trans leaders will be mourned, including Jazzie Collins, a longtime activist, and artist Christopher Lee. For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/of4rxak. In Oakland, the annual commemoration, sponsored by Tri-City Health Center’s TransVision program, will be held in front of City Hall, in Frank Ogawa Plaza, at Broadway and 14th streets. The venue is accessible by the 12th Street BART station. Tiffany Woods, one of the organizers, said the event will start at 5:15 p.m. and end by 6:30. Community members will speak, as well as elected leaders. There will be a reading of the names of those who were killed. After the ceremony, there will be an optional candlelight vigil that will walk to the corner of Franklin and 13th streets, where Brandy Martell was killed in April 2012. Her murder is still unsolved. The memorial will conclude with a release of balloons. For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/n2qavdr. In Berkeley, a Transgender Day of Remembrance event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the chapel on the

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Tiffany Woods, center, spoke at last year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance event in Oakland.

Pacific School of Religion campus, 1798 Scenic Avenue. Organizers said that this year’s theme is “No More Silence,” and that they want to go beyond photos and lists of names. “It is time to mourn, yes, but it is also time to sing, to dance, to light the dark, and to say no more silence,” read an announcement. The evening service is a production of 4M Ministries with PSR’s worship life leader. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was started by Bay Area Reporter columnist Gwen Smith in response to the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts in 1998. For more, see her column this week on page 6.

Horizon philanthropy series Thursday

Horizons Foundation will hold its November philanthropy series, “State of the Movement” update tonight (Thursday, November 14) at the Bank of America building, 555 California Street in San Francisco. The evening begins with a hosted reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by a discussion panel at 6:30. Leading state, national, and international advocates will share their insights on the past year’s victories and look ahead to what’s in store for the LGBT community in California, nationally, and globally. Panelists include Julie Dorf, senior adviser at the Council for Global Equality; Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; and John O’Connor, executive director of Equality California. Attendees must RSVP by calling Jenna Heath at (415) 398-2333, ext. 115.

Health care forum for LGBT seniors

The San Francisco Organizing Project and an interfaith coalition will host “Shaping Our Future: SF Seniors and Health Care” to discuss the needs of aging LGBTQ people Tuesday, November 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, 290 Dolores Street. City officials are expected to attend to discuss the future of Healthy San Francisco and how the city can better support families who are caring for aging loved ones. In addition to the Sha’ar Zahav, organizers include Congregation Sherith Israel, Star of the Sea Catholic Church, and St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church. For more information, call Geoff at (415) 699-9259.

Military recruiters topic of SF Pride meeting

The presence of military recruiters at this year’s San Francisco Pride festival upset some in the community. While lesbians and gays are allowed to serve openly now that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy has been repealed, transgender individuals remain prohibited from serving. Some trans leaders and allies were critical of the California National Guard recruiters who were on site in Civic Center Plaza during the June Pride festivities. Now, with a new board of directors overseeing the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, a community meeting to discuss the military recruiter issue will be held Tuesday, November 19 at Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco, 150 Eureka Street. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the forum will start at 7. For its part, National Guard officials told the Bay Area Reporter in June that they had “very productive” See page 3 >>

Vicki Marlane exhibit opens by Matthew S. Bajko

series of weathered photos, from a black and white snapshot of a young boy to that of a woman wrapped in a feather boa, are part of the personal trove on view in the new exhibit Vicki Marlane: I’m Your Lady. The memorabilia, which includes a gold lame sequined dress, a silver high-heeled pump, jewelry, and other effects, retrace Marlane’s childhood on a farm in Eldred, Minnesota, her career as a carnie performer and her eventual transformation into a beloved trans performer in San Francisco. “We have a lot of photographs from all different parts of Vicki’s life,” said Don Romesburg, who

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Ramon Silvestre puts the finishing touches on the Vicky Marlane: I’m Your Lady exhibit that opens Friday at the GLBT History Museum.

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Remembering, and looking ahead by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

ifteen years ago, in an apartment in Allston, Massachusetts, a transwoman of color named Rita Hester was stabbed to death. It was her death – as well as the death of Chanelle Pickett three years earlier – that led to the Transgender Day of Remembrance. In those 15 years, what was born out of a rainy night in front of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco has led to an international event, observed locally November 20. I’m plenty biased, having founded the Transgender Day of Remembrance, but I think it might be fair to say that TDOR has helped pave the way for modern transgender advocacy around the world. After so long, you might question the relevance of the event, and wonder why we need to still have such a potentially depressing commemoration as one of the biggest annual transgender-related observances. As the late Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker is known for stating, “Why so serious?” In many cases, TDOR has expanded into a transgender aware-

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conversations with LGBT community members at this year’s festival. Pride board member Joey Cain said in a news release that the Pride Committee wants to hear from community members, stakeholders, former and present military members, activists, and others on how the organization should proceed regarding providing vendor space to branches of the armed services at the June 28-29, 2014 Pride festival.

SF Pride holiday food and toy drive

In other San Francisco Pride news, the nonprofit is holding a food and toy drive to help those in need during the holidays. Canned and dry goods and new toy donations will be accepted at the Pride office at 30 Pearl Street, 4th floor November 12 through December 13. San Francisco Pride will end the drive with a donation booth Saturday, December 14 in Jane Warner Plaza at Castro and Market streets from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

AIDS survivor group hosts town hall

The grassroots Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survivor Syndrome) will hold a town hall forum Wednesday, November 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Valencia Gardens Community Center, 390 Valencia Street (at 15th Street) in San Francisco.

ness week, or even a month of trans-related activities. Some have attempted to “lighten” the event, attempting to turn it into an affirmation of life, rather than a memorial for those we’ve lost and a call for action. Some have even gone so far as to try to turn TDOR events into beer busts and similar parties. These are the rare cases, as most know how to treat a memorial like a memorial. In the early 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and an extended series of gains for gay and lesbian rights, many celebrated, oblivious to a rising backlash. In 1977, success turned to defeat as Anita Bryant and other anti-homosexual crusaders fought back in Dade County, Florida; St. Paul, Minnesota; Eugene, Oregon; and Wichita, Kansas. It was only after the Briggs initiative – which would have barred gays and lesbians from being public school teachers – was defeated in California that the tide started to again turn. One could argue that the transgender community – which has had a number of successes in rights

gains over the last few years – is now facing its own backlash. The passage of Assembly Bill 1266, which has secured rights for transgender students in California, has led to a seemingly successful petition drive to repeal the bill. It will likely be on the ballot in 2014, and there is, in my opinion, a better than average chance it will succeed. This is exactly what our foes want, given some recent stinging defeats around samesex marriage. They view us as easy prey. So do those who murder us. One of the main opponents of AB 1266 is the Pacific Justice Institute. It has spent a lot of time and money discussing a transgender youth in Florence, Colorado. The institute wants to claim that she is “harassing” other students in her high school simply by lawfully using the women’s restroom. Institute officials helped turn this story into the lightning rod for AB 1266 repeal. It has also helped cause the young woman in question to end up suicidal and depressed. I fear we’ll see more of this in the next year, as the AB 1266 fight goes to the voters. Meanwhile, in Oakland, California, high school student Sasha Fleischman, who identifies as genderqueer, fell asleep on an AC Transit bus. As Fleischman slept, another high school student allegedly set fire

to the skirt Fleischman was wearing. I want to applaud those who have since raised more than $20,000 to aid in the skin grafts and other care Fleischman will require, as well as those students and teachers who wore skirts in support of their classmate at Maybeck High School last Friday. At the same time, I want to note that the 16-year-old who allegedly committed this crime, was, according to his mother, simply “joking,” and “didn’t know it would go that far.” Fleischman could have been killed by this so-called joke. This year, the Transgender Day of Remembrance will once again have far too many names on the list of those to honor in their passing. There will still be many more we may never hear about. We’ll talk about Ashley Sinclair, Kelly Young, Domonique Newburn, Islan Nettles, Cemia “CeCe” Dove, Eyricka Morgan, Evon Young, Artegus Konyale Madden, and all the rest of those listed at http://www.transgenderdor.org. How many more will we lose? As long as there are still people trying to beat back our liberties, still so willing to try to tar our needs for public accommodation rights as a gateway for pedophiles and rapists, still eager to cause us harm in the eyes of the general public, then

we will continue to be attacked and killed. We will continue to be vulnerable to harm from the homophobic and transphobic as well as those who think that setting fire to our clothes equates with a “joke.” This is why it still matters, why it is still relevant: because we are still dying. We are still being killed at an alarming rate. Our deaths are reported in the United States alone roughly every two weeks – it’s far higher around the world. We should not be hearing of a transgender youth moved to suicide because right-wing bullies have opted to use her story as a way to fundraise against other young transgender women like her. We should not be seeing people of any gender identity set on fire as some sort of sick attempt at a laugh. We should not be seeing so many people murdered simply for being perceived as transgender by their killers. On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor those we’ve lost – and we continue to fight for all.t

Organized a few months ago, the group is dedicated to reclaiming long-term AIDS survivors’ lives and envisioning the future. Organizers said people will tell their stories and discuss various emotional symptoms. For more information about the group, visit www.letskickass.org.

will join queer youth and hack for social good at the inaugural Hack 4 Queer Youth hackathon November 22-24 in San Francisco. The event, sponsored by Maven, will catapult LGBTQ youth forward by pairing them with talented teams of tech professionals to develop innovative web and mobile applications that will enhance vital services. There is no cost to attend. The public is welcome to go to the final session on Sunday to see what apps

have been produced. Maven is an interactive virtual community for LGBTQA youth to network, organize, and educate for social change. The hackathon takes place at Mozilla’s San Francisco office, 2 Harrison Street. For more information, visit http://mymaven. org/hack.

offer an online training entitled, “Basics of Alzheimer’s and Dementia for LGBT Care Partners” Wednesday, November 20 from 10 to 11 a.m. The seminar will give participants an opportunity to learn more about dementia and caregiving concerns. There is no cost for the session. To register, go to http://webinar. kintera.org/LGBT. For more information, contact Edie Yau at eyau@ alz.org or 1-800-272-3900.t

DSCS hosts Open Palm Awards

Dolores Street Community Services will hold its Open Palm Awards benefit Wednesday, November 20 at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street in San Francisco. There will be a reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the awards program at 7. This year’s honorees include gay Supervisor David Campos, who is being recognized for his support of housing and homeless services. Campos has been working with DSCS as it completes the city’s first emergency shelter focused on serving homeless LGBT adults. DSCS will also recognize the law firm O’Melveny and Myers, LLP, for three years of exceptional pro bono work that resulted in a winning defense of community members arrested during an unlawful immigration raid. Tickets for the evening are $125 per person, with a special nonprofit employee rate of $75. To order, visit www.dscs.org.

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genderqueer high school student’s skirt was set on fire while they dozed on an AC Transit bus in Oakland last week, resulting in serious injuries. The mother of the 16-yearold suspect, who was arrested and is being charged with hate crime enhancements, claims it was “a joke.” The suspect himself reportedly told police that homophobia caused him to light the fire. The story of Luke Sasha Fleischman, the victim, and Richard Thomas, the alleged perpetrator, has received widespread media attention locally because it was unusual and frightening. But what’s been the reaction from Oakland city leaders, including the only out lesbian member of the City Council? Mostly silence. What should city leaders be doing? They should proactively and forcefully speak out against homophobia and transphobia, especially among the city’s young people. Yet Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland’s only out elected official, would only provide a comment after we asked for one. This alleged crime has not been denounced by Mayor Jean Quan or the candidates who want to replace her next year: Joe Tuman, Bryan Parker, and, if media reports are accurate, City Councilmember Libby Schaaf. Had this incident occurred in San Francisco, you bet LGBT political leaders would be speaking out. The skirt-burning happened just weeks before the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, which honors murdered victims of transphobia. Fleischman is lucky they weren’t killed. Still, Fleischman’s facing several surgeries as a result of secondand third-degree burns. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Debbie Fleischman told the Oakland Tribune that Fleischman considers themselves agender. “He likes wearing a skirt,” she told the paper. “It’s his statement. That’s how he feels comfortable dressing.” [Fleischman’s father, Karl, posted a message on Facebook this week indicating that Sasha Fleischman prefers the pronouns “they,” “them,” and “their” when referring to Fleischman in the third person.] Setting someone on fire because of their clothes is not a joke or prank gone awry. As Al-

ameda County prosecutors correctly see it, it’s a felony, and Thomas surely isn’t laughing at the possibility of life in prison because he apparently couldn’t handle someone dressing differently. But the silence of Oakland’s city officials is also problematic. Adults and youth need to hear leaders reject this senseless violence, just as they regularly condemn the gun violence that kills children. Community leaders need to raise their voices. As more transgender, agender, and gender non-conforming people come out at younger ages, other kids need to learn that it’s okay to accept rather than reject them. Shying away from genderqueer stories won’t make them go away. In fact, transgender and other gender non-conforming students are likely to be front and center next year. Transphobes – led by Frank Schubert of 2008’s anti-gay Yes on 8 campaign – have almost qualified a referendum for the 2014 ballot that seeks to repeal a groundbreaking law, Assembly Bill 1266, which ensures that transgender youth can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs, and facilities that match their gender identity.

For years we’ve heard the false arguments that transgender women will infiltrate women’s restrooms and assault biological women – and we’ll probably see a nasty ad campaign complete with the mysterious transgender sexual predator in the girl’s restroom as these religious zealots desperately attempt to end equality. It’s a sorry time we live in whereby schoolchildren can be persecuted for who they are. The adults behind this anti-trans campaign are even sorrier. They’ve clearly lost the marriage equality battle and are now targeting transgender people. Why else would the National Organization for Marriage get involved in an education issue? Oakland’s politicians seem paralyzed, unable or unwilling to proactively comment on matters that affect city residents. Setting a person’s clothing on fire aboard a bus is not rational. This was a senseless act of violence that could have ended tragically. And if Mr. Thomas’s family members really believe his alleged actions were done in jest, well, they have serious problems. It’s time for Oakland leaders to stand up for vulnerable residents. The louder the message, the more likely it will resonate. Silence is no way to make the city safer for its citizens.t

No room for out athletes in NFL by Allen Jones

o you still insist it would be a great idea for professional athletes to come out of the closet while playing their particular sport? The recent unfolding events surrounding the Miami Dolphins, where one player basically quit the team and the coach suspended another player in the widely reported bullying incident for the reason “conduct detrimental to the team,” tells me this is another reason gay athletes should stay in the closet. Earlier this year, NBA player Jason Collins announced he is gay to the delight of every homosexual except one – me. Collins is now playing the blame game and was not signed by any team in the offseason. He remarked that he thinks the reason he has not hooked up with another NBA team has to do with him coming out. I partly agree. I blame his bad timing more than the other valid reasons for a team taking a pass on this much older player. Collins’s announcement this spring in Sports Illustrated came on the heels of my April 11 guest opinion piece, “Reasons to stay in the closet,” published in the Bay Area Reporter. Now, I have another reason to suggest gay athletes stay in the closet; the NFL will not have the maturity needed for at least another 10 years, if ever. For the record, “bullying” or “hazing” as has been reported does not best describe what may have happened at the Miami Dolphins’ facility where there were allegations of racist epithets by suspended player Richie Incognito, who is white, directed at Jonathan Martin, who is black, and who abruptly left the team last month. Furthermore, the reason of conduct detrimental to the team given by the coach for suspending Incognito is weak at best. Yes, I believe a racial slur and threats of harm were made in

reference to Martin and his family. However, Martin never approached his coaches about Incognito’s conduct prior to his leaving the team, nor were the remarks by Incognito made to anyone else on the team. As reported, Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin, commenting on investigating the two incidents said, “It’s going to be comprehensive, it’s Associated Press going to be objective and we as an organization are Teammates no more: Miami Dolphins player Richie Incognito, going to give our full co- left, was suspended after Jonathan Martin suddenly left the operation. If the review team. Now the NFL and the Dolphins are investigating alshows that this is not a legations of bullying. safe atmosphere I will take whatever steps necfensive lineman Martin. Therefore, common essary to ensure that it is. sense tells me that there is no way in hell we I have that obligation to the players I coach can reasonably expect that the same atmoon a daily basis.” sphere would be safe for an openly gay athlete, Well that’s nice, coach. But with half an inch taller or even one pound heavier. all due respect to your obligation as With all the shenanigans that accompany a coach, I am not buying it. There today's professional athletes, we should face is a better chance that the Tampa it. Boys will be boys and if we expect these Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville athletes to be professional at anything, we can Jaguars will be this season’s Suonly hope for the day when they wake up and per Bowl teams. (Check their realize the game is over. records as of Week 10.) According to a March 2009 Sports IllustratThe “comprehensive” investied report, by the time NFL players are retired gation will not answer two quesfor two years, 78 percent have gone bankrupt tions, even if the final report is as thick as the or are under financial stress because of joblessYellow Pages. ness or divorce. • How does a player like Incognito, once votWe expect these same men to understand ed the NFL's dirtiest player, continue to have a homosexuality? Get real.t job after nine years in the league? • How does a player like Martin, smart enough to tackle classical studies at Stanford University, forget how to communicate? The NFL locker room environment in 2013 is not safe for the 6-foot-5, 312-pound of-

Allen Jones is a prison reform activist living in San Francisco and author of Case Game-Activating the Activist. His autobiography of a black, crippled homosexual is in the San Francisco Public Library.

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With Moore out, few LGBTs seek state office in CA by Matthew S. Bajko

ith less than seven months to go before the June 2014 primary election, there are few LGBT non-incumbent candidates seeking state legislative seats next year. The number recently fell to three with the surprise announcement by Peggy Moore, a lesbian political consultant based in Oakland, that she was ending her state Assembly bid. That leaves just two gay men and one bisexual male candidate, all Democrats in the Bay Area, who have announced bids for state Assembly next year. The trio is a significant drop from 2012, when 10 out non-incumbent candidates had sought Assembly seats, including three gay Republicans. That year two out Assembly members ran for state Senate seats. At this point no LGBT people have announced bids for Assembly and Senate seats in southern California, according to LGBT political insiders. Nor have any out GOPers announced they will seek legislative office in Sacramento. And unlike in 2012, none of the current eight members of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus are running for seats in the Legislature’s other chamber. Rather, three will be seeking re-election to their Assembly seats and two will be termed out of office. Gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and gay Assembly Speaker John Perez (DLos Angeles) will both depart in December next year after having served six years in the Statehouse’s lower chamber. Perez is running next year to become the state’s controller, becoming the first out person to seek statewide office in California since Tony Miller sought the secretary of state position in the mid-1990s after he was appointed to fill the term of March Fong Eu when she was named an ambassador in the Clinton administration. No matter if Perez wins that race, the LGBT legislative caucus could decline to six members in 2014 if its ranks are not replenished. It most likely will see gay Campbell Mayor Evan Low join the caucus as he is considered a frontrunner in the race for the 28th Assembly District seat now held by his boss Paul Fong (D-Cupertino). Should he capture the South Bay seat, Low would be the first out LGBT state legislator of Asian descent in California. Looking at harder paths to victory are gay San Francisco Supervisor David Campos and bisexual East Bay Municipal Utility District board member Andy Katz. Campos is competing against board colleague Supervisor David Chiu for Ammiano’s 17th Assembly District seat. The race is likely to be one of the more fiercely competed state legislative contests next year, and should Chiu win, it is unclear if he would be able to join the LGBT legislative caucus as a straight ally. Across the bay Katz, a Berkeley resident who is the government affairs director at Breathe California, is facing a tough fight to survive the June primary, where the top two vote getters regardless of party affiliation will advance to the general election in November. He is in a crowded field of six likely candidates for the 15th Assembly District. The seat includes portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, stretching from Oakland’s Montclair district in the south to Hercules in the north. The cur-

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rent officeholder, Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), will be termed out next fall. Katz’s candidacy had been overshadowed within LGBT circles by that of Moore, who worked on President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. A former chair of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club, Moore had recently won the LGBT political group’s sole endorsement in the race. But Moore quietly ended her Assembly bid last month, posting a message on her Facebook campaign page the day before Halloween to announce her decision. “Despite the best supporters ever, I am stepping down from the race for CA District 15 Assemblymember. This was a tough decision, but this is not a good time for me or my family to take on a race for elected office,” wrote Moore. The Stonewall club will now meet Tuesday, December 3 to consider throwing its support behind Katz. This time, rather than the group’s board voting on the endorsement, it will be up to club members to decide. Katz will need to garner 60 percent of the vote to secure the endorsement. “Assembly District 15 lost an opportunity to elect one of the most dynamic LGBT figures to emerge from the recent elections when Peggy Moore dropped out,” gay Oakland Port Commissioner Michael Colbruno, who heads the club’s political action committee, told the Bay Area Reporter. “This is a glaring example of why we need public financing in state races, as only the well-to-do and prolific fundraisers can run for office. Fortunately, we still have a talented field of candidates in the race.” There is still time for more out legislative candidates to emerge. The filing deadline to declare one’s candidacy with the secretary of state’s office is March 7. At least one gay Republican is said to be mulling a run. West Hollywood resident Brad Torgan is contemplating a second bid for the 50th Assembly District seat. In 2012 Torgan sought the seat covering the gay enclave adjacent to Los Angeles as well as the coastal city of Santa Monica. But his bid came up short in the June primary, in which he placed fourth. It remains unclear if any other out Democrats will seek open seats next year. (It is almost unheard of for a sitting Democratic state lawmaker to face an intraparty challenge). With the change in the state’s term limits law that allows newly elected Assembly members the chance to serve 12 years in the lower chamber before having to step down, it means there could be fewer oppor-

tunities for LGBT non-incumbents to be elected to the statehouse in coming years. Yet few are voicing worries about the current dearth of LGBT nonincumbent candidates that have announced 2014 bids. “I am not overly troubled by our LGBT candidate pool at this point,” said Fremont resident John Cleary, northern co-chair of the LGBT Caucus of the California Democratic Party. Equality California Executive Director John O’Conner, whose statewide LGBT advocacy group endorses in state legislative races, was also nonplussed when asked about the lack of LGBT people seeking state offices. “We could have eight two years from now in that election cycle. This one election in and of itself does not make a trend,” said O’Connor. “If we go two years and four years more with few candidates I might be scratching my head, but I don’t think that will be the case.”

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Dunning likely next Alice co-chair

Lesbian retired Naval Commander Zoe Dunning is set to become the next female co-chair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in San Francisco, the Political Notebook has learned. The moderate political group staggers the election of its male and female co-chairs every other year, and the two-year term of current female co-chair, Martha Knutzen, expires January 13. Male co-chair Ron Flynn began his two-year term this past January. Nominees for female co-chair are due to the club’s co-chairs by Monday, November 18. But several sources in recent weeks have said that Dunning is the only candidate seeking the position. Alice members will vote at the January 13 meeting for the new female co-chair and make up of its board of directors as recommended by the club’s nominations committee. Dunning, currently co-chair of Alice’s political action committee, did not respond to an interview request Tuesday. In June 2012 she was elected to a seat on the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and serves as its first vice chair. Dunning works as the director of change management for Walnut Creek-based consulting firm Future State. She made history in 1993 when she came out as a lesbian and won her discharge case with the military. This year she was a vocal defender of San Francisco Pride’s decision to rescind naming as a parade grand marshal Chelsea Manning, who See page 6 >>

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The merchants of Castro by Raymond Flournoy

he Merchants of Upper Market and Castro will soon be rebranded as Castro Merchants, a move approved by unanimous vote at the group’s November 7 meeting. The motivation for the name change was to find a simpler, more marketable name for the business district. “We found that people associate Upper Market with the area up around Twin Peaks,” explained MUMC President Terry Asten Bennett prior to the vote. When members questioned how the name change would be received by business owners along Market Street toward Church Street, Bennett indicated that the name change had been well-received along Market Street. “We were surprised how much they identified with the Castro name,” added MUMC administrator Richard Magary. The name change was telegraphed by the organization’s choice of domain names for its website, www. castromerchants.com. Now that the name has been settled, Bennett said that the board is working on a new logo. The name change was opposed by former MUMC president Patrick Batt, who declined to attend the vote. “I’ve told them my opinion and they know how I feel, so I figured rather than be the lone voice in opposition I’d spend my time at my business,” said Batt. Batt questions the idea that anyone sees “Upper Market” as the stretch of Market Street to the west, and he is concerned that the name change gives up the stable, unifying

MUMC branding built up over the previous decades. “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” said Batt. “MUMC used to be a strong voice representing the Castro district, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a news report that asked MUMC to comment on something.”

Castro set to welcome holiday shoppers

The Castro is gearing up for the holiday season, with MUMC sponsoring the decorations and the neighborhood tree, which once again will stand in the plaza in front of Bank of America (501 Castro Street). The annual treelighting ceremony will take place on Monday, December 2 at 6 p.m. Bay Area Reporter society columnist Donna Sachet will host, with holiday music supplied by the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, among other groups. City Hall will be represented by gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose district includes the Castro neighborhood. But before that event, American Express has declared Saturday, November 30 “Small Business Saturday,” when people are encouraged to support their locally-owned small businesses. MUMC is a local sponsor of the event. AmEx cardholders can qualify for a $10 rebate by shopping at a participating small business. For more information, visit www. shopsmall.com.

Coffee lovers strike gold at Eureka

One of the businesses that the aforementioned Batt is tending to is the newly opened Eureka Cafe (451 Castro Street). Batt and co-owner Bill

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Co-owners Patrick Batt, left, and Bill Singleton welcome customers to their newly opened Eureka Cafe on Castro Street. Batt is also the owner of Auto Erotica and a former president of the Merchants of Upper Market at Castro.

Singleton opened the doors to the newly renovated space October 23. The site previously housed a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream shop and local gelateria Naia, and Eureka is continuing the tradition by serving ice cream alongside Blue Bottle coffee and pastries from San Francisco bakery Crepe and Brioche. Singleton left the corporate life to pursue his dream of opening a cafe, and his goal for Eureka is to provide “an upscale cafe experience ... that’s particular to this neighborhood.” Toward that end, the pair has focused on partnering with local vendors. The cafe carries Awesome Bars granola bars and Maison de Monaco jams, both made in San Francisco, and they are looking for other local brands to add to the menu. They hope to add sandwiches and empanadas soon. Both Singleton and Batt are gay men, and they note that Eureka is one of the few coffee shops in the area that is gay-owned and gayoperated.

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FitnessSF, the local chain that famously broke off from the Gold’s Gym chain after disagreements about anti-gay donations, has announced plans to open its sixth area location in the fall of 2014. The newest gym will be located at 1 10th Street in Market Square, the new home of Twitter’s headquarters.

Talbott Teas wants to be your favorite thing

What is it like to have Oprah Winfrey declare you one of her “favorite things”? Talbott Teas founders Shane Talbott and Steven Nakisher found out first-hand in 2010 when their line of teas was featured on Winfrey’s show. It turned out to be one of the final editions of her famous “favorite things” series. The company started in 2003 when Talbott began creating custom tea blends specifically for his salon customers. Nakisher, the business

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side of the duo, saw the popularity of the product and convinced his husband to package the teas for distribution outside of the salon. Soon the pair sold the salon and invested their money into the growing tea business. Based in Chicago, the pair had the idea to create a blend specifically for Winfrey, and through connections they were able to send the newly created “Field of Purple Flowers” blend to her show. Within a few months they received word that Winfrey loved the tea and wanted to feature Talbott Teas on her show. A producer asked the duo, “Are you ready for your life to change?” Overnight, the small business skyrocketed, and the duo realized that in order to move to the next stage they needed funding. After an appearance on the ABC show Shark Tank, they were acquired by Emeryville-based Jamba Juice. Now their selection of teas is offered in many Jamba Juice stores and on the website, and they are expanding into retailers such as Wegmans and Whole Foods. Talbott currently serves as the vice president of innovations at Jamba Juice, and Nakisher sits on the board as he continues to develop other ventures. The two have been together for 17 years, and they never saw the fact that they are gay as a hindrance to fulfilling their dreams. “If anything, being part of a community might have helped us to get the support to get [Talbott Teas] off the ground,” noted Talbott. Nakisher added, “My hobby is business and Shane’s passion is making products, especially these teas. Our success was really because we were true to who we are.” To see the full line of teas, visit www.talbottteas.com/.t

Obituaries >> Phillip Bauer

Basics of Alzheimer’s and Dementia for LGBT Care Partners

Phillip Bauer, 63, died peacefully in his sleep on September 24, 2013 while on vacation in Rome, Italy. His good friend, Bruce Occena, recalls how happy Phillip was in fulfilling his goal to visit Rome. He enjoyed being a resident of San Francisco for over 30 years. He worked for the UCSF AIDS Health Project (now known as Alliance Health Project), as well as Baker Places. As a phlebotomist and a counselor he offered dedicated support services. His clients and patients included people living with HIV and those with substance

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was convicted of leaking classified materials to WikiLeaks and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Dunning’s wife, Pam Grey, had served on the San Francisco Pride Committee’s board of directors during the Manning controversy. In September, Grey failed to win reelection to her board seat. Tonight (Thursday, November 14) Alice is hosting its annual Fall Awards event. The 2013 honorees include Reese Aaron Isbell, a former club co-chair who will receive the Leadership Award, and Alice’s elected Official of the Year AssessorRecorder Carmen Chu, who last week ran unopposed to fill out the remaining year of a four-year term. The free event takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Chambers Eat and Drink, 601 Eddy Street, in San Francisco. To RSVP visit https://www.facebook. com/events/221762207993304/.t Web Extra: For more queer politi-

abuse issues. Phillip is survived by a brother, Larry (Cindy) Bauer; a sister, Marcia (Ron) Kokoczka; a niece, nephew, and great niece. Philip was preceded in death by his father and mother, Joseph and Catherine Bauer, and a sister, Sr. Mary Colleen Bauer SC. Phillip will be greatly missed by his many dear friends. Cathy Cahur remembers his smile and wit. Marcia notes that Phillip’s great sense of humor will live on in all who knew him. A memorial to celebrate Phillip is scheduled for Saturday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 100 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. The gathering will take place in the meeting room below the rectory. All are welcome. For more information, contact Cahur at (415) 553-8776 or cathycahur@comcast.net. cal news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on state Republican legislators’ improving scores on an LGBT equality index. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 3592632, (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Online content this week includes the Bay Area Reporter’s online column, Political Notes; and articles about a group of LGBT Russians visiting San Francisco; a reported rape at De Anza College; and a virtual trans arts museum seeking votes on nominees. www.ebar.com.

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Gay Livermore coach sues school for firing by Roger Brigham

gay former Livermore high school football coach and English teacher is suing the school, claiming he was harassed and fired because of his sexual orientation – and he says it is the second time he has been fired for being gay. “I was fired when I was teaching and the varsity defensive coordinator at Bradshaw Christian School when the administration found out I was gay,” Burke Wallace told the Bay Area Reporter. “That’s one reason why I switched to teaching in the public schools – for the legal protections.” Wallace, 33, was the head of the English department and the head football coach at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory during the 2012 season but was not brought back last season. His civil lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court against the school, its parent company Tri-Valley Learning Company, and 20 unspecified individuals, alleges his termination followed a pattern of harassment and work-

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on fire” while riding a bus at Ardley Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. Luke Sasha Fleischman, 18, was found “suffering from burns to his lower body,” Watson said in a statement. Richard Allen Thomas, 16, allegedly had fled the scene but officers soon arrested him, with the assistance of the Oakland School Police, Watson said. Police didn’t share Fleischman or Thomas’s names but

place hostility once school administrators learned he is gay. Livermore Valley Prep had a 1-9 record in football the season before Wallace coached there. The team improved to 3-6 under him and after the season he founded a campus gay-straight alliance. “I didn’t really have time outside of coaching and teaching in season to do it before,” he said. Wallace said he didn’t discuss his sexuality with his students or players. “I don’t want [my orientation] to define me,” he said. “It’s not something I talk about. I keep things private. But after I started to do the GSA, I think more students started to suspect. In the weight room during the offseason, a player asked me point blank, ‘Coach, do you have a husband?’ I said yes and he looked at me for a moment and then said, ‘Oh, okay cool.’ He seemed fine with it. But [then-athletic director] Rick [Richardson] was there and witnessed that and that’s when all this began as far as I can tell.” Wallace and his husband, Ryan,

were married during the summer after having gone through a civil commitment ceremony previously. “They fired him because he is gay,” John Furstenthal, Wallace’s attorney, said, “and before that they treated him very badly.” Wallace “has been subjected to different terms and conditions of work because of his actual or perceived sexual orientation,” the suit alleges. “More specifically, defendant’s employees used multiple inappropriate comments about sexual orientation. During the football season of 2012, Mr. Wallace acted as head football coach. He mentioned his husband in passing, and was immediately subject to different treatment. Many supervisors, especially Rick Richardson, openly discussed his sexual orientation with others, including other coaches, parents, teachers, administrators, and students. That discussion described how it was a bad idea having a gay football coach. Eventually, Mr. Wallace was fired from his football coaching job this spring because of his sexual orientation. He was constructively terminated from his teaching job as well because of the negative treatment he faced because of his sexual orientation. He was capable of doing his job at all times.”

Burke Wallace is suing his former school, alleging he was fired because he is gay.

their identities have been disclosed in Alameda County records and numerous media reports. The Oakland Tribune was the first media outlet to report many details of the case. The San Francisco Chronicle reported this week that in a letter shared on Facebook, Karl Fleischman, Sasha Fleischman’s father, wrote, “Even though Sasha appears to be a boy, the fact is, Sasha selfidentifies as ‘agender,’ and prefers the pronouns ‘they,’ ‘them,’ and ‘their,’ when people refer to Sasha in

the third person.” Fleischman’s family hasn’t responded to the Bay Area Reporter’s interview requests. In documents provided by the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, OPD Officer Anwawn Jones wrote that Thomas had set fire to Fleischman as Fleischman slept. Thomas “stated he did it because he was homophobic,” wrote Jones. In a brief call with the B.A.R., Jones said he couldn’t answer most questions because the investigation is ongoing, and he referred inquiries

to Watson, who hasn’t responded to the B.A.R.’s interview requests. However, he said, “a good Samaritan” had “stepped in and put out the fire” during the incident. Jones said Fleischman “is in stable condition” and “is doing well, for all intents and purposes,” but faces “a long road of recovery.” Police haven’t yet released video from the incident. Fleischman has been at the burn unit at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco. The Alameda County District At-

Courtesy Burke Wallace

The defendants “intended to humiliate and distress plaintiff and to convey the message that he was powerless to defend his rights to be free from a discriminatory and harassing work environment,” the suit alleges. “Defendants abused their authority and directly injured plaintiff by their ratification of defendants’ employees’ personnel decisions and actions.” Wallace is seeking lost and future wages, general and noneconomic damages, attorney fees, and punitive damages.

Wallace said he began his coaching career in 2002 in the Los Angeles area while still attending college. He started teaching and was the head varsity coach at a Christian school in that area in 2004-2006, then moved to Bradshaw Christian in Sacramento. Employees of mid- to large companies were ruled to be protected against workplace harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in a 1998 unanimous Supreme Court decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, and such actions are also not permitted under the state Fair Employment and Housing Act. But there are exemptions for religious institutions, which is why Wallace was without legal recourse against Bradshaw Christian. Wallace and Richardson both were succeeded this year by the school’s current athletic director and football coach, Fred Biletnikoff Jr., son of the former Oakland Raiders great, and who coached the Spokane Shock in the Arena Football League for the first two games of the 2011 season before being fired. Livermore Valley Prep finished 1-7 this season. Derek Austin, attorney for TriValley, could not immediately be reached for comment.t torney’s office filed the complaint against Thomas and is charging him as an adult. He faces felony charges of aggravated mayhem and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Both counts carry a hate crime enhancement. Thomas appeared in Alameda County Superior Court Tuesday, November 12 before Judge Gordon Baranco, and had been expected to enter a plea, but that was put over until Friday, November 15. Like See page 9 >>

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ceeds, “it would not change the fact that non-discrimination against transgender people is already the law in California and will already protect all students’ access to the appropriate facilities.” Courts have backed those rights, he said, and the Privacy for All Students effort is “nothing but bullying at the ballot box and only makes sense as a way for these groups to raise more money by throwing fear into their supporters and misleading people about what the law does.” The law is set to go into effect January 1, but according to Privacy for All Students, if the group collected enough valid signatures, the law will be suspended until voters approve or reject it.

Marlane exhibit

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co-curated the new show installed in the Corner Gallery of the GLBT History Museum in the Castro. The items selected are meant to showcase Marlane’s private and public personas. “She was a trans woman who also performed as a drag queen,” said Romesburg, adding, “She had a full private life” when she was not performing at Tenderloin bar Aunt Charlie’s.

Burned student

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other defendants, Thomas was kept in a cubicle during his court appearance and couldn’t be seen from most of the viewing gallery. After Tuesday’s hearing, attorney Daniel Shriro, who appeared with Thomas Tuesday, declined to comment on the charges but said Thomas is “absolutely entitled to a vigorous defense.” He wouldn’t comment on whether Thomas has a criminal history. Several people who appeared to be in court to support Thomas declined to speak with reporters.

Support for Fleischman

Trevor Cralle, school and admissions director at Berkeley’s Maybeck High School, where Fleischman is a senior, said Fleischman is liked by other students and “top notch” in academics. Fleischman had never had problems at Maybeck, said Cralle. Several people at Maybeck, including Cralle and students, wore sarongs or skirts last week in solidarity with Fleischman, who often wore skirts, he said. Officials at Oakland High School, which Thomas attended, also expressed support for Fleischman. Amy Dellefield, who serves as student activities director at Oakland High, among other roles, said in an email that Thomas “was only a student at our school this year, and his attendance was terrible during that short time. We didn’t have much of a chance to get to know him. He’s been to several schools in the [district] in the last few years.” Thomas is “not representative of our student body as a whole,” added

Pride

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for transparency” after the Manning “horror” ensued. He said there was no one else on the board who could serve as treasurer, a clear swipe at Caldera, who challenged Currie for the job at the October meeting. Among board members, only Virginia focused on Currie as he pleaded his case to members. Caldera continued to shake his head in disagreement with virtually everything Currie said. During member comments, Caldera jumped to his feet and said Currie was “confrontational” and

Preparations

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AB 1266 backers are preparing for what could turn into costly a campaign if the referendum makes it onto the ballot. Masen Davis, executive director of the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center, said in an interview that his organization’s been working with other AB 1266 co-sponsors, including Equality California, to work on implementing the law, as well as “building a coalition.” However, Davis said, “I’m not convinced at all” that the referendum will qualify. He said, “Based on the number of signatures they submitted they’d need at least an 81 percent validation rate,” which Davis said he understands is “higher than average.” If the anti-trans activists succeed, though, “We’re going to need people

to step up and support transgender youth, and we will do everything within our effort to protect the law and make sure the truth about our youth gets out there.” Privacy for All Students’ campaign could be tough to beat. In 2008, Prop 8’s backers successfully used children in their ads against same-sex marriage, scaring many voters into thinking children would be harmed if marriage equality were allowed in the state. In a recent interview with the B.A.R., Karen England, executive director of the Sacramentobased Capitol Resource Institute, a key coalition partner, said, “a girl shouldn’t have to be forced to shower physically with a boy in the same shower.” The idea of boys being allowed to walk into girls’ bathrooms whenever they want would likely be

a theme of the coalition’s campaign. Opponents of AB 1266 even refer to the legislation as “The co-ed bathroom law.” Asked how he and others would combat such a theme, Davis said, “It’s no doubt that they will do their best to mischaracterize the law and transgender youth. I believe strongly that if we can get the true experiences and true lives of transgender people out in the media, people will see through the opposition’s lies.” The anti-trans coalition has received some backing from Bay Area contributors, including Audrey Ellerbee, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. In September, she contributed $500, state data show. Ellerbee told the B.A.R. she made

the contribution “because I thought it was an important issue to get on the public ballot.” One thing that bothers her about AB 1266 is “it seems that parents don’t really have a role or a voice to play in what happens either to their children” who identify as transgender or a similar gender identity, or for parents of students who don’t, she said. “I think children are so young. I think it’s important parental involvement not be restricted for things like that,” said Ellerbee. She added that she didn’t think her affiliation with Stanford “has anything to do with her contribution,” and asked for it not to be mentioned. In a follow-up email, she said she’d made her comments “strictly under the auspices of my identity as a public citizen.”t

“When she was offstage she wasn’t made up as a drag queen,” he said. “She looked like the woman she was.” Born Donald Sterger, Marlane escaped her small-town Midwest life by running off at age 17 to work as a “sideshow hoochie-coochie dancer,” an Alligator woman, and part of a six-legged woman in a traveling carnival, according to the exhibit. She settled in San Francisco in 1966 and underwent sex reassignment surgery in the 1980s. Following a decade-

long retirement in San Diego, Marlane returned to the city by the bay. In 1998, her show “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” debuted at Aunt Charlie’s. It evolved into popular weekly Friday and Saturday shows called “The Hot Boxxx Girls.” Known as “the lady with the liquid spine” due to her performance moves, Marlane was featured in the 2009 independent film Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight. The movie will screen on a continuous loop as part of the museum show.

Several items depict her struggles late in life aging with AIDS, such as a pair of her glasses and her medical marijuana ID card. Marlane died in 2011 at the age of 76 due to AIDSrelated complications. “Being able to perform and find her late career persona at Aunt Charlie’s in some ways sustained her and saved her life during those last two decades,” said Romesburg. Friend Felicia “Flames” Elizondo, who maintains Marlane’s estate and personal effects, worked with

Romesburg on selecting the items for the show. She hopes it illustrates the role transgender people have played in the fight for LGBT equality. “There a lot of unsung heroes out there, Vicki is one of thousands of untold stories,” she said. The show runs through February 28 with an opening reception set for 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, November 15. Admission is $5 (general), $3 (California students); the museum is located at 4127 18th Street, San Francisco.t

Dellefield, and students “felt so bad about what happened that they took up a school-wide collection and raised over $500 in less than an hour for Sasha’s relief fund.” A follow-up drive was planned for Tuesday, she said. Nicole Karam is a substitute teacher who last week was working at the school. Karam, who doesn’t know Thomas, said some of the students who know him have said, “he was probably just thinking it would be funny” and set Fleischman on fire “as a prank.” Karam said that before the incident, she heard students in the hallway using the word “faggot.” She said she corrects them, and officials at the school have been working to address such attitudes, but students in Oakland “have not been taught anything, really, about gay people in their curriculum.” Amy Wilder is an Oakland High School resource specialist who’s an adviser for the school’s gay-straight alliance and who also works with students who have special needs. Wilder, an out lesbian, said, “Oakland High is making a really strong effort to make our school safer,” and has been taking several steps even before Fleischman was attacked. The school is in its third year of implementing a grant designed to make schools safer. Among other steps, the school has adopted Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support, a national model that includes the expectation that all staff intervene if they hear terms such as “faggot” or “the nword” and use “the same language in messaging,” said Wilder, who doesn’t know Thomas.

The school also has a Not in Our School program, which includes curriculum and training designed to help combat hate speech against LGBTs and other groups. There is a system where students may report bullying at the school, but Wilder said there haven’t been many incidents being reported, and she wasn’t aware of any that have involved LGBT students. “We’ve seen a drop in bullying,” said Wilder, and Oakland High’s school climate score data have “improved.” She said she doesn’t know if that can be correlated with the interventions, “but there’s certainly a lot of professional development and resources to help staff address these issues.” There are about 10 students in Oakland High’s GSA. Some students come every week, but “I think a lot of kids don’t come because they don’t really feel like they need the support,” said Wilder. “They’re out, they’re proud, and they’re doing their thing.” Wilder said Fleischman’s mother is organizing a march that’s set to

“disrespectful” to members at the annual meeting and urged members to unseat him. Member Marilyn Murrillo urged likewise. Members peppered Currie to disclose more on the Manning decision and severance for former San Francisco Pride CEO Earl Plante. Currie said he was “out of town when Manning’s decision took place” and said he had no role in it. Information on Plante was confidential, Currie said. Under questioning, Currie agreed to stand for election at the next annual general meeting. Starchild asked Currie to call on President Barack Obama to issue a pardon for Manning. Currie declined.t

Bay Area backing

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Students and staff at Maybeck High donned skirts and sarongs last Friday in support of Luke Sasha Fleischman.

begin at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, November 14 at Oakland High, at the corner of MacArthur and Park boulevards. She said marchers would proceed along the route of the 57 bus, which Fleischman had been riding, to St. Paul Lutheran’s Church, 1658 Excelsior, Oakland. Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, an out lesbian who serves as the council’s president pro tem and once sat on the AC Transit

board, “is deeply troubled by this brutal attack against Sasha,” her spokesman Jason Overman said in response to emailed questions. “Our youth deserve to feel safe when they leave home – and this kind of violence is vicious, it’s ignorant and it’s simply inexcusable ... She is touched to see the community’s outpouring of support – and hopes it can help to cultivate a new awareness and tolerance around gender identity.”t

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OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035426400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRO AUTO & TOWING, 1425 WALLACE AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDRES TOBAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/13.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035462800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INN ON FOLSOM, 1188 FOLSOM ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed S&S HOSPITALITY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/13.

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OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035448300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 7107 TOURS, 201 WEBSTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 7107 TOURS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/13.

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OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 10/16/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: J AVERY ENTERPRISES INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at SAN FRANCISCO INT’L AIRPORT, DOMESTIC TERMINAL 3, BOARDING AREA E2.320, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94128. Type of license applied for

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NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035460800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RONALD YEE CONSULTING, 100 FOREST KNOLL DR., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RONALD YEE. 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 10/29/13.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035467900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AETHER DESIGN CO, 330 24TH AVE. #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed X. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/13.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035448200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ISTANBULS COLLECTION, 2133 UNION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ANATOLIAN ART INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/13.

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Dated 10/24/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: GUAVA & JAVA SFO INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at SFO T3 BOARDING AREA E 2.315, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94128. Type of license applied for

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NOV 14, 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035463000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BALM COSMETICS, 788 VALENCIA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SHIPMAN ASSOCIATES, INC. DBA THE BALM (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 10/30/13.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Dated 03/22/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SAN FRANCISCO EAGLE BAR LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 398 12TH ST., SF, CA 94103-4330. Type of license applied for

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In the matter of the application of: DEIRDRE J.G. PORTER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner DEIRDRE J.G. PORTER, is requesting that the name DEIRDRE J.G. PORTER, be changed to DEIRDRE PORTER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 16th of January 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 14, 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035458300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LANDMARK THEATRES EMBARCADERO CENTER CINEMA, 1 EMBARCADERO CENTER STE. PL1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CINEMA BEVERAGES HOLDING COMPANY, LLC (TX). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/13.

NOV 14, 21, 28, DEC 05, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035475000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERVE PD, 987 RHODE ISLAND ST. #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SERVE PD 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 11/05/13.

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Dancer Yannis Adoniou in choreographer Tomi Paasonen’s Those Golden Years.

Kunst-Stoff, hail & by Paul Parish

iga Hz, the last ballet in KunstStoff ’s show last Saturday night at the ODC Theater, came to us in Smell-o-rama. It was a very familiar, slightly toxic smell: the glue on pack-

farewell! ing tape. By the time the six dancers had entered and ripped open their coils of tape, wrapped a length around a pipe at shoulder-height, then crossed the whole stage to tape it to another pipe at the other side, they’d created an image of the worldwide web in shiny cellophane that gave off See page 23 >>

Tomi Paasonen

Irresistible Matisse by Sura Wood

enri Matisse sure knows how to light up a room. Matisse from SFMOMA, a petite jewel-box of a show at the Legion of Honor, may occupy only a single gallery, but it brings the space alive with warmth, audacious color and adventurous forms. The exhibition of mostly small-scale artworks, from the early days of his career through the 1930s, is yet another off-site venture for SFMOMA, which is sharing its collections with See page 22 >>

La Conversation (The Conversation) (1938), oil on canvas by Henri Matisse, collection SFMOMA. Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society

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To Monsignor with love by Roberto Friedman

he 2014 edition of the Orthodox Calendar is quite up-to-date, paying tribute as it does to marriage equality. The calendar-makers call their work inspired by “the story of young gay couples from Eastern Europe sharing a common dream of one day being able to wed their beloved at the altar of St. Basil’s or St. Sophia’s, or any other Eastern rite church. In celebration of the fact that love, regardless of sexual orientation, exists and can be celebrated everywhere and by everyone, we bring you a fantastic selection of artistic pictures.” But really, no excuse is necessary. “Starting today, anyone can discover our 12 seductive artistic pictures of Orthodox priests and their guests by ordering from our store at www.orthodox-calendar.com. The price for the classic wall calendar is only Euro 16.99, and you can buy our limited edition calendar with an uncensored cover for only Euro 29!” Surely defrocked priests are a steal at twice the price. The comely calendar models are our kind of religious icon.

Skating away

Last Wednesday we started our day bright and early by attending the Icebreaking ceremony at this year’s Holiday Ice Rink in Union Square. Skating in the heart of the cosmopolitan Square continues daily, 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m., until Jan.

20, 2014. It costs $11 for skate rental (tickets available at the rink ticket window, or online at unionsquareicerink.com). The rink will be the venue for this year’s installment of Drag Queens on Ice: An Eleganza Extravaganza presented by Visit Mendocino County, coming up on Thurs., Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. A rink publicist told us of a perfect moment last year when she saw a squadron of drag queens descend upon Union Square from the West as the San Francisco Bulls hockey club approached from the East. “It was so San Francisco!” We whole-heartedly agreed. Then we headed to the W San Francisco for a press lunch welcoming new Executive Chef Jason Rea to Trace restaurant. Rea’s cuisine is prepared from locally sourced and sustainable ingredients – so local, in fact, that our yellowtail crudo was studded with flowers from the W’s rooftop garden upstairs. The uni mixed with pasta was sourced from Fort Bragg. Fresh veggies came from the city’s wealth of farmers’ markets. And – this was a new one – the roasted beet salad was sweetened by honey “from our bees” who reside on the hotel roof. The chef brought over a few of their honeycombs for us to compare, explaining that honey from each comb tastes different because “the bees are sourcing it from different pollens, from different plants and flowers.” This is a new frontier:

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Mr. January from the 2014 edition of the Orthodox Calendar.

delegating the sourcing of ingredients to the producing animals themselves – who presumably don’t have culinary degrees, but learned the ropes from being on the job. Delicious work all around, bees.

Back in print

American gay author Christopher Coe published two novels before his early death of AIDS in 1987. Now the first of these, I Look Divine (1987), long out of print, is being republished by Bruno Gmuender Verlag. Really more of a character study than an episodic story, the novel describes the life of Nicholas, a supreme narcissist, as his brother collects his things following his untimely death in New York City. Nicholas’ natural habitat was found in grand hotel bars in capital cities and resorts around the world. His favorite place was right in front

We see him in an underground bar in Rome, “a place where men could dance together, and most of the men were dancing, but not together. There were no pairs; there were mirrors. There were mirrors on walls, on columns, and the most beautiful men in Rome were dancing alone, each one by himself, entranced with himself.” We see Nicholas getting along in this self-regarding world by taking in “what he referred to as his chess winnings. For about 10 years, until the end of his 20s, Nicholas referred to the cigarette cases, the clothes, the paintings, all that he was given by men, as his winnings. “’Look at my new frock,’ my brother would say, his voice up an octave with delight. ‘Look at my new bibelot.’ Gimcrack. Cadeau. Objet pas exactement trouvé.” It’s a frivolous, glamorous world that comes alive in this tale, even if it’s ultimately tragic. Its style harkens back to pre-AIDS gay literature, to Williams and Capote, and even further back, as novelist David Leavitt notes in his introduction, to Ronald Firbank and Wilde. Still, “though AIDS is never mentioned in I Look Divine, its specter haunts the novel.” It’s a miniature masterpiece brought back from the dead.

Our bad of a mirror. “The mirrors make me wonder how Nicholas felt when he looked at himself,” his unnamed brother muses. “I wonder if Nicholas really believed that cheekbones have bad days.” He was a creature of his society.

Due to a production error, the photo credit for a photograph in last week’s edition was inadvertently omitted. The picture of actor Jared Leto appearing at this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival was taken by photographer Steven Underhill. We regret the omission.t

Whoopi honors Moms Mabley by David-Elijah Nahmod

hoopi Goldberg understands the importance of honoring those who came before us. In her debut as a filmmaker, Goldberg tips her hat to Jackie “Moms” Mabley (1894-1975), the boundary-smashing black comic who helped open a few doors for people like Whoopi herself. Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You, for HBO, juxtaposes clips of Mabley with new interviews

of current comics, both black and white, who have looked to Mabley for inspiration. Goldberg recalls a childhood in which seeing someone – anyone – black on the tube was considered an event. Even in those pre-civil rights days, Mabley dared to talk about things that “simply weren’t discussed in polite society,” like racism and sex. She didn’t mince words, and didn’t care if she made people uncomfortable. “They called me trigger,” she says in one clip. “I think that’s what they

said.” A regular performer at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, Mabley commanded a salary of $10,000 per week as early as the 1930s. She occasionally appeared in male drag. Though she had been married, survived by children and grandchildren, it was an open secret that she also had affairs with women. She was a rape survivor. Though Goldberg doesn’t ignore these facts, they’re somewhat glossed over. Viewers’ curiosity might be piqued when

one interviewee talks about the quiet backstage acceptance towards Mabley’s same-sex attractions. This is barely discussed before Goldberg moves on to the next topic. Viewers might also wonder how Mabley was affected emotionally by having been raped not once, but twice. Though the film acknowledges these acts, they’re given little more than a passing mention. Goldberg focuses primarily on Mabley’s third act, which included an occasional film role and a great deal of television. This offers viewers an abundance of clips that illustrate how gutsy she was. At this point in her career, Mabley presented herself as a horny old lady who preferred young studs over “old geezers.” Dressed onstage as a cleaning woman, she gleefully boasted about her sexual conquests. She had her serious moments. In the aftermath of the Kennedy and King assassinations, she recorded a cover of Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John,” a tribute to the fallen

leaders (including Pres. Lincoln) who did so much to improve the lives of African Americans. A clip of her singing the song on Hugh Hefner’s 1960s talk show is gut-wrenching. Though she wasn’t blessed with a singing voice, Mabley performs the plaintive lyrics from a place deep within her soul. “She actually knew those guys,” said Goldberg. “She knew Kennedy and King.” Nearly four decades after her death, Jackie “Moms” Mabley remains an inspiration not only to black performers, but to all marginalized people who might be dreaming of a life in the performing arts. At a time when black women had no voice, she made sure that her voice was heard. People are still listening today.t Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You plays Nov. 18 on HBO. The film will also be available for online viewing and On Demand.

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Dressed onstage as a cleaning woman, Moms Mabley boasted about her sexual conquests.

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Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley.

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His own private (& public) Idaho by Richard Dodds

he playwright was on the telephone from Moscow. But no international phone rates were involved. Samuel D. Hunter was visiting family in his hometown of Moscow, Idaho, which he described as “a blue pocket in a red state.” Often his plays are set in the Potato State, some featuring central gay characters, while others seek empathy for fundamentalist Christians who fervently condemn homosexuality. It’s a dichotomy that the gay playwright doesn’t see as a contradiction, but he has heard a few voices with opposing opinions. In his newest play, The Great Wilderness, now in rehearsals at Seattle Rep, the central character has spent a lifetime trying to convert gays into heterosexuals. “He’s at the end of his life, taking stock of everything, including the damage he has done to his family,” Hunter said. “But the play really doesn’t sit in judgment of him. When we did readings of the play, there were several members of the gay community who were a little bit outraged because it was not judgmental enough. And just the other day I was at auditions, and

some prominent member of the gay community was like, why should I care about this character? This is the response I gave him: Empathy is always a good thing.” The Great Wilderness will have its world premiere in January in Seattle, but Bay Area audiences will have their first chance to experience this rising playwright when A Bright New Boise opens Nov. 14 at the Aurora Theatre. Boise is often referred to as Hunter’s “breakout play,” starting off with a well-reviewed New York production in 2010, and spreading rapidly through the country. While there is a character that Hunter subtly indicates is gay, the playwright says whether or not audiences catch the reference is not a critical issue. Instead, he said, the emotional trajectory of that character’s father is at the heart of the play. Will is an evangelical Christian who has recently fled to Boise following a tragic scandal at his rural church, and now works at a big-box crafts store where he tries to bond with a son long ago given up for adoption. Life has become so dismal for Will that his only prayer is a quick arrival of the Rapture’s end times. Again, em-

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Obie-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter often sets his plays along religious divides of his home state Idaho.

Robert Parsons (left) plays an evangelical Christian escaping a church scandal who tries to introduce himself to an estranged son (Daniel Petzold) in A Bright New Boise at Aurora Theatre.

pathy is what the playwright hopes to evoke, along with humor, until darker themes come to dominate. “I spent a lot of years writing about religion from a more distant place where the protagonist was somebody who did not hold these religious beliefs and was encountering them in their lives,” Hunter said. “It took me awhile to come around to the fact that the perspective of the religious person is not one we’ve seen before. It’s really interesting

watching people with a literal belief in the Bible or any book negotiate that with living in 2013. I think that’s where the dramatic tension comes from.” A sixth-generation Idahoan, Hunter, 32, actually grew up in a liberal Episcopalian home. But for academic rather than religious reasons, he attended a fundamentalist Christian high school. “One of my friends outed me to the administration,” he said, and he left the school to fin-

ish his senior year at the local public school. “But it wasn’t this binary thing where they found out I was gay and the next day I was expelled. The situations were incredibly thorny and complicated and tragic, and I don’t like to get too specific. It just became very apparent that I needed to leave, so the decision was my own.” All of his plays, he says, have autobiographical components, though

member who can command attention is Megan Stern as Molly, the girl who will eventually give birth to J.M. Barrie’s Wendy. There is definitely grrrl power on the stage with Stern. As the boy who becomes Peter Pan, Joey deBettencourt gently

connects with the play’s most serious role. There is enough humor and imagination in Peter and the Starcatcher for, say, 90 minutes of high-velocity, low-tech fun. According to my calculations, that makes

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Pandemonium by Richard Dodds

eter and the Starcatcher is the slow boat to Neverland. Not that what’s on stage at the Curran is in any way sluggish; quite the opposite is true. This touring edition of the New York hit is energized to the point of mania, its cast like the social directors on a drifting cruise ship trying to distract the guests with endless variations on the same antic humor. A wonderfully bizarre musical number opens the second act, presaging that the vessel is charting a new course, but that promise is illusory. It’s all aboard for more fart jokes, puns, increasingly wrongheaded anachronisms, and a frantically rendered, complex plot that doesn’t earn its length. Adapted from Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s novel that provides a backstory for Peter Pan, the action unfolds as if a vagabond band of Victorian-era actors has taken over an old theater and must use abandoned stage detritus for any sets and props, and their own imagination for special effects. As adapted for the stage by Rick Elice, and directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, it’s a concept that is easy to embrace, but you may find it hard to gain release from the returned embrace. There are moments that recur throughout the production that dis-

play laudable imagination. Strings of white pennant flags manipulated by actors on either side of the stage become the ominously oversized chomping teeth of the crocodile who will come to haunt Capt. Hook. There are laughs as the theater’s imaginary fourth wall comes and goes, along with often-clever word play, and there is a definite gay streak that periodically appears. But too many winks to the audience can become cloying, and the modern-day references become annoying when so arbitrarily inserted. On one hand, having a character try to speed up exposition by saying “people have paid for nannies and parking” is funny because it latches together the old and the new. But references to the America’s Cup, Michael Jackson videos, and Philip Glass’ atonal music bounce around like balls thrown to a missing catcher. While Peter, an orphan with no name at the play’s start, is the title character, the best role belongs to John Sanders as pirate nonpareil Black Stache. Prone to malapropisms, he may think a discussion has descended into “splitting rabbits.” Perhaps he means “splitting hairs,” another pirate tactfully suggests. You might see elements of John Cleese and Peter Sellers in Sanders’ performance of fierce frolic as the future Capt. Hook. Another cast

MEGAN MULLALLY & STEPHANIE HUNT WITH THEIR BAND, NANCY & BETH

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John Sanders plays the pirate who becomes Capt. Hook in the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the Starcatcher at the Curran Theatre.

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16 • Bay Area Reporter • November 14-20, 2013

It’s a Castro Theatre November by David Lamble

look at the masters of cinema and some proudly rude reimagining of the gods (Chandler) by other gods (Altman) flesh out a cheeky November at the Castro Theatre. The Big Lebowski (1998) In this most improbable cult classic (cult members gather yearly at SF IndieFest), the Coen Brothers provide a loopy setup for every wobbly straight-boy drug/booze/gender joke capable of being hatched at a bowling alley. Imagine a jovial blue-collar crowd on four tabs of acid. In the 1940s, this shaggy-dog tale would have starred W.C. Fields. A scruffy Jeff Bridges fills in as a

righteous goofball who gradually becomes aware that he’s in with a far rougher crowd than his bowling bros. A scene that provides a clue as to whether “this Bud’s for you” comes as an older crime boss quizzes Bridges’ smiling slob. “Mr. Lebowski, –” “No, you’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude!” The Long Goodbye (1973) This ballsy take on Raymond Chandler’s LA finds his anti-hero private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) betrayed by a drinking buddy, the smooth-talking Terry Lennox, spiked by the out-of-the-box casting of ex-Yankee hurler Jim Bouton, then basking in the titillation of his tellall locker-room memoir Ball Four.

We first see Marlowe sleeping off a bender, only to be awoken by a finicky tabby-cat. Departing from the 1946 Bogart portrayal of Marlowe in The Big Sleep as the last gutsy guy with a private code of honor, Gould’s slacker feels close kin to his wise-ass army surgeon in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H. Altman and screenwriter Leigh Brackett create a seedy Hollywood strip as a metaphor for the swine-like behavior of the Nixon era. Marlowe, who gets no respect from cat, client, or cop, is an immediate suspect when Terry’s wife is found brutally murdered. A Vito Russoworthy scene has a hard-ass detective gay-baiting Marlowe. “Marlowe with an e: What’s that, a fag name?” Altman had a special feel for this era’s mind-bending upheaval in male/female roles. No one who caught this one in its first release will ever forget the painful jolt of Mickey Spillane-style brutalism, softened by Altman’s dark humor, in Marlowe’s humiliation at the hands of a sadist gangster who smashes a Coke bottle in his girlfriend’s face. “Now, that’s someone I love! And you, I don’t even like! You got an assignment: Find my money!” A product of a time when Altman ruled like a cinema potentate, this delicious spoof, released the same year as Chinatown, is the epitome of what going to the movies in the early 1970s was all about (both 11/14). Lawrence of Arabia (1962) It can’t be stressed too often that W. must have skipped class the day this intimate David Lean epic was taught at Yale. In this queer-friendly entry in the Lean canon, the sight of Lawrence’s faithful teen Bedouin companions seeing to his every need in the desert reminds us of the good side of those days when there wasn’t a word for gay fit for the screen. These jolly scenes are balanced by the moment, a mortification of the flesh, when Lawrence’s homo leanings are put to a nasty test by Jose Ferrer’s Turkish commander. Recent Lawrence scholarship only enhances the pleasure of a rugged allmale world whose political lessons still sting. The film is also revered for the star-making screen debuts of Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. Doctor Zhivago (1965) Lean’s lavish soap opera/heroic melodrama version of Boris Pasternak’s romantic masterwork novel, set against the backdrop of the Revolution and its Stalinist aftermath, holds up almost as well as Lawrence, with Maurice Jarre’s haunting score competing with a stellar ensemble in their prime (both 11/17). Rebel Without a Cause (1955) It’s the movie that arguably launched America’s enduring love for teen heartthrobs, at least when played by dudes with the emotional chops. The James Dean/Sal Mineo coupling remains a treasured queer iconic moment, from a time when AnthonyPerkins and Tab Hunter’s movie dates were facilitated in separate jalopies. Rumble Fish (1983) Francis Coppola really tied one on in this stylish version of an S.E. Hinton young adult novel. Matt Dillon

A Bright New Boise

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he avoids lifting literally from his life. “I think the main character is always locking into some emotional struggle that I’ve had in certain ways,” Hunter said, “But I can’t imagine being fettered by writing about something that specifically happened to me. It would seem so myopic.” Hunter attended NYU after high school, and has pretty much made New York his home ever since with his husband and dramaturge John M. Baker. But his dramatic heart is

Jeff Bridges with his bowling bros in the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski, playing the Castro Theatre.

Tom Hulce with his loony laugh in Milos Forman’s Amadeus.

looks especially delicious in the movie’s mainly B&W palette, with dashes of color for the fish. Dillon is trying to live up to a weird toughguy older brother. Dennis Hopper is three years away from reviving his career as Blue Velvet’s bad-ass daddy Frank Booth. This misfire is notable for the presence in the cast of a very young Sofia Coppola, observing her smart-ass daddy (both 11/21). Contempt (1963) Before he lost his mind and feel for great cinema to that horrible Maoist crap, JeanLuc Godard enjoyed a spellbinding 1960s. This lesser-known work (at least in the U.S.) is about moviemaking (11/20). Band of Outsiders (1964) The highly regarded follow-up to Godard’s first New Wave masterwork Breathless is also a wildly revisionist gangster film. This one should not be missed by fans of Bertolucci’s 2002 classic The Dreamers. Buffalo 66 (1997) If you’re not up for Brown Bunny, then this should be your Vincent Gallo experience, with an insanely good supporting cast (both 11/27). Purple Rain (1984) The movie that recalls the lovely fuss about that

guy named Prince. Amadeus (1984) Whether or not you’re part of the tiny cult who feels Tom Hulce earned a piece of F. Murray Abraham’s Best Actor Oscar for his loony laugh alone, director Milos Forman knew how to capture the serio-comic essence of this musician bio romp (both 11/16). The Wizard of Oz (1939) 3-D was about the only creative process that hadn’t been slapped onto Hollywood’s re-invention of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic. Another box is now checked off a movielover’s bucket list. (11/24) We Were Here (2011) David Weissman and Bill Weber’s doc is cradled in intimate storytelling: five people who by film’s end feel like personal friends describe how AIDS challenged everything they knew about themselves and their adopted hometown. Illustrated by heartbreaking video/photo albums of men who perished in the earliest days of the plague (including the B.A.R.’s AIDS obit issue), the film shows the human underpinnings for the “San Francisco AIDS model” that preserved a community until life-saving drug cocktails arrived. (12/1)t

continually drawn back to Idaho. “Going to that fundamentalist school presented a really interesting conflict for me early on, the cognitive differences between all these values I held and the things I was being taught,” he said. “And when homosexuality entered that conflict, it became even more intense. It was a very formative experience.” Now he sees a deadlocked society in which one side accuses the other of degeneracy while that side returns with charges that literal scriptural beliefs border on insanity. “I think a lot of LGBT people think,

well, the other side is on the decline so we just have to let them die out,” Hunter said. “That may be true, but I think there’s a greater understanding that can be achieved not by saying, oh, their homophobia is illegitimate, but by maybe introducing the slightly controversial idea that their views come from a deeply held belief very dear to them. It’s never a bad thing for us to understand what that means.”t Tickets and info on A Bright New Boise, running through Dec. 8, are available at auroratheatre.org.

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Composers, Inc. turns 30 by Michael McDonagh

elebrating an anniversary is always a big deal, and the newly Berkeley-based Composers, Inc. is observing its 30th one this 2013-14 season. The group, which plays the music of serious American composers both famous and largely unknown, kicked off its series this Tuesday with New York’s celebrated Cygnus Ensemble. The stylistic breadth of their program indicated the kind of music that Composers, Inc. has in store this season. Reached by phone at his Mount Vernon, NY home, Cygnus’ guitarist-composer Bill Anderson is eager to talk. “The program we’re doing for Composers Inc. has some interesting and amusing works,” he says in a steady but fully engaged tone. “Sebastian Currier’s ‘Broken Consort’ is one of the first pieces we commissioned before he became

Courtesy the artists

Composers, Inc. brought Cygnus Ensemble to Berkeley this week.

super-famous. We’re also doing David Meltzer’s ‘Brion,’ which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Martin Rokeach’s ‘Sleepless Night.’” There

Collaboration nation by Gregg Shapiro

lvis Costello has a soulful side that dates all the way back to “Alison,” a classic track from his 1977 debut album My Aim Is True. From that time forward, Costello found ways to include R&B flavor in his works, such as on “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down,” “Watch Your Step,” and a cover of Van McCoy’s “Getting Mighty Crowded.” Further explorations of the genre came on collaborations with Burt Bacharach (1998’s Painted from Memory) and Allen Toussaint (2006’s The River in Reverse). He continues his flair for finding excellent collaborators on Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note) by Elvis Costello and The Roots, a meeting of the political minds. Costello and The Roots give listeners something to think about while tapping their toes on “Walk Us Uptown” and “Trip Wire.” Night (Sony Classical) pairs classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein and singer/songwriter Tift Merritt for unexpected pleasures. A unique musical intersection, Night is a song cycle incorporating originals (“Colors,” “Feel of the World”), classical compositions by Bach and Purcell, and fascinating covers of Billie Holiday’s “Don’t Explain,” Patty Griffin’s “Night” and Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly Now.” Individually, Philadelphia’s Grammy-nominated Musiq Soulchild and Chicago’s Syleena Johnson have been doing their part to keep neo-soul and contemporary R&B fresh in a world overrun by the likes of pre-fab corporate creations. So imagine what happens when the pair teams for a set of original “soulful reggae” tunes, as they do on 9ine (Shanachie). Songs “So Big” and “Bring Me Down” allow the artists to shine. Successful collaboration She & Him features actress/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel and indie musician M. Ward performing accessible pop tunes with a retro girl-group bent. Volume 3 (Merge) continues in the same vein, but also includes covers of more recognizable tunes, such as “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” and Blondie’s “Sunday Girl.” As for the originals, the surf-

and-sunny “I’ve Got Your Number, Son” and the chilly drama of “Snow Queen” delight. Adam Green has a history of collaboration beginning with the time he spent as half of the duo The Moldy Peaches, with Kimya Dawson. After releasing a handful of solo records, Green returns to the world of collaboration on Adam Green & Binki Shapiro (Rounder). Generating a retro vibe, Green and Shapiro are a sort of musical beauty and the beast – think Dean & Britta or Frank & Nancy Sinatra. It’s not a novelty disc, with memorable tunes “Just To Make Me Feel Good” (with its Bowie-esque guitar) and “I Never Found Out.” On West Coast Cool (Summit), gay jazz vocalist and lyricist Mark Winkler shares the spotlight with Cheryl Bentyne of Manhattan Transfer fame. The complementary duo has an unforced air about them, as if they’ve been performing together forever. Fascinating song pairings such as Winkler’s “Drinks on the Patio” with “Take 5,” and “Talk of the Town” with “Girl Talk,” indicate that serious thought was put into song selections.t

are four other works on the program, including a world premiere by local Allen Shearer, and one by Anderson called “My Morphine,”

which he says is a cover and total recreation of Gillian Welch’s song of the same name featured in the Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which he calls “beautiful, numbing, and chromatic.” The program seemed to have something for just about every taste. It’s certainly a far cry from the 12-tone pieces that dominated contemporary music concerts in the 1950s and 60s. “We’re all dinosaurs,” Anderson observes, noting the disappearance of groups like the esteemed Speculum Musicae. “I’m happy to play concerts in the little new-music ghetto, but I’m always looking for ways of making music that spills into other audiences. Young composers should not be discouraged from composing. There’s always hope for composers. Be supportive.” Composers, Inc. is clearly doing this, with four concerts this season. You get the thorny Elliott Carter,

and a piece by one of the most imaginative Bay Area composers, Dan Becker, as well as one by local light Robert Greenberg, who’s more known for his user-friendly music lecture series. Anderson ends our talk with insights on how the “forbiddingly” complex 12-toner Milton Babbitt’s music was received in the 60s, and how it’s heard now. “People looked at his work as academic, but it sounds warm, fuzzy, and bourgeois today. Perception changes because we’re changing, so everything is in motion in a very interesting way.” Who knows what these composers will sound like to the next generation, or the one after? But one thing’s for sure. Composers, Inc. is fully supportive of American new music now.t www.composersinc.org

<< Out&About

18 • Bay Area Reporter • November 14-20, 2013

O&A

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Out &About

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Olympians Festival @ Exit Theatre

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel

Annual festival of a dozen new works with contemporary takes on classic Greek mythology. $10. Various times. Thru Nov. 23. 156 Eddy St. www.sfolympians.com

The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

The Pianist of Willesden Lane @ Berkeley Rep Acclaimed pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek performs the solo stage adaptation of her book (co-written with Lee Cohen) about her mother when she was a young Jewish musician trying to survive the Nazi Germany regime. $29$89. 8pm (other Wed 7pm) Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 8. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Porgy and Bess @ Golden Gate Theatre

Hooked on Symphonics

Kit Fox Valentin

by Jim Provenzano

ou know the biggies (SF’s Symphony and Gay Men’s Chorus), but this week, hear independent, smaller and alternative choruses and orchestras tune up with new and classic works in their repertory. Add a few drag and “Sweet transvestite”-enriched shows to keep the camp flowing.

Thu 14 Adrian Brooks @ SF Public Library Veteran poet, activist and author of the novel Roulette reads from his republished 2007 book. 6pm. James Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.adrianbrooksblog.blogspot.com www.sfpl.org

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park The visually stunning Montreal circus brings their new show Amaluna, loosely based on Shakepeare’s The Tempest, to their big tent. $50-$140. Tue-Sat 8pm. FriSun 4:30pm. Also Sun. 1pm. Thru Dec. 31. Third St. at Terry A. Francois Blvd. www. cirquedusoleil.com

Graham Nash @ Yoshi’s Legendary singer-songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) performs a concert of classic and new music with pianist James Raymond and guitarist Shane Fontayne. $89. 8pm. (Also at Yoshi’s Oakland on Nov. 13). 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com Also, Nash has an onstage conversation and book signing event at Nourse Auditorium, Nov. 15, 7pm. 275 Hayes St. commonwealthclub.org

Ideation @ Tides Theatre SF Playhouse performs Aaron Loeb’s darkly comic suspense thriller about corporate consultants who aren’t quite sure about an ethically ambiguous project. $10-$20. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. (no shows Nov 28, Dec 4/5). Thru Dec. 7. 533 Sutter St. 677-9596. sfplayhouse.org

I Married an Angel @ Eureka Theatre 42nd. Street Moon’s production of Rodgers & Hart’s lighthearted musical about a man whose wife turns out to be a celestial being. $21-$75. Previews. Opens Nov. 2, 6pm. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Nov. 17. 255-8207. 42ndstmoon.org

Literary Death Match @ Contemporary Jewish Museum “Unscrolled” takes on the Torah, with Jewish authors reading selections from Reboot’s Unscrolled, a modern interpretation of the Torah by some of today’s best known writers. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Lua Hadar @ Hotel Rex Society Cabaret presents the French vocalist and her band, who perform songs made popular by Edith Piaf. $20-$45. 8pm. Also Nov. 15 & 16. 562 Sutter St. 857-1896. www.societycabaret.com

Megan Mullally & Stephanie Hunt @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Emmy Award-winning actress ( Will & Grace ) and fellow actress Hunt ( Californication ) perform unique versions of cabaret classics, with the band Nancy and Beth. $45-$66. 8pm. Also Nov. 15, 8pm. Nov. 16, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre

Thu 14 The Rocky Horror Show

Cleverly-paired double features and special events. Nov. 14: The Big Lebowski (7pm) and The Long Goodbye (9:15). Nov. 15, Warren Miller’s Ticket to Ride (8pm). Nov. 16, Prince’s Purple Rain (2:30, 8pm) and Amadeus (4:40). Nov. 17, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1:30) and Doctor Zhivago (6pm). Nov. 19, special event with Chef Rene Redzepi ($30-$65, 7pm). Nov. 20, the 50th anniversary restored print of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (with Fritz Lang, Jack Palance and Brigitte Bardot). Nov. 21, Rebel Without a Cause (7pm) and Rumble Fish (9:05). Reg. admission $8.50-$12. 429 Castro St. castrotheatre.com

National touring production of the Broadway revival of George Gershwin’s classic musical, which won a 2012 Tony Award; performed with a 23-piece orchestra. $40-$210. Tues-Sat. 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Wed 2pm. Thru Dec. 8. 1 Taylor St. at 6th. (888) 746-1799. porgyandbessthemusical.com www.shnsf.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new exhibit, Vicki Marlane: I’m Your Lady, which displays video, images and ephemera documenting the pioneering local drag, cabaret and carnival perfomer, known for decades of performances. Thru Feb 28, 2014. Also, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, includes archival materials from the historic chorus, leadcurated by Tom Burtch, with a touchscreen display by multimedia producer John Raines. Also, Be Bad… Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have raised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits. Exhibit thru Oct. 27. Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Shakespeare Night at the Blackfriars @ Phoenix Arts Theatre George Crowe’s comedy about a playwriting contest, London Idol 1610. $20-$25. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Nov. 17. 414 Mason St. (510) 276-3871. www.subshakes.com

Sidewinders @ Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theater presents the world premiere of Basil Kreimendahl’s play about a couple who find themselves in a genderblurring other world. $10-$50. Thu 7:30, Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 2pm & Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 17. 277 Taylor St. 525-1205. www.cuttingball.com

Underneath the Lintel @ American Conservatory Theatre Actor David Strathairn performs Glen Berger’s intriguing solo drama about a librarian haunted by ghosts unleashed from a mysterious antique book. $20-$95. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Nov. 6, Out with A.C.T. LGBT night includes afterparty. Thru Nov. 17. Geary Theatre, 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Remembering LGBT Historic Sites @ Women’s Building The GLBT Historical Society hosts a workshop that invited LGBTQ community members to share stories and add to a historical record of queer spaces, both public and private. Free. Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

The Rocky Horror Show @ Boxcar Theatre Live performance of the original Richard O’Brien musical about sexed up aliens transsexuals that became a cult film. $20-$55. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Dec. 21. 505 Natoma St. at 6th. www.sfrockyhorror.com

Shocktoberfest 14 @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ new show takes on a creepy-fun Halloween theme, with a Grand Guignol-style tale of Jack the Ripper, the famous London serial killer, plus the oneact Salome and more fun. $25-$35. ThuSat 8pm. Thru Nov 23. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Strange Shorts @ Oddball Films Unusual vintage short films, Thursdays and Fridays. Nov. 14, Sex, Hygiene and Shockucation. Nov. 15, Kennedy Family film rarities. Each $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Top Guys @ Stage Werx Theatre SF Indie presents a wacky stage parody of the the ‘80s Tom Cruise film Top Gun. $20. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Dec. 14. 466 Valencia St. at 15th. 820-3907. www.sfindie.com

Fri 15 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Holiday shows now on sale. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Bitch & Tell @ The Garage Footloose’s offbeat variety show includes comedy, cirucs and other acts. $8-$10. 8pm. 8pm. Also Nov. 16. 715 Bryant St. (800) 838-3006. www.ftloose.org

Dissident Futures @ YBCA Fascinating exhibit and series of events about visions of post-disaster Bay Area imagery; a future imagined in maps, videos, artwork and even a disturbing animal laboratory installation. Also, Kota Ezawa’s Boardwalk, an installation tribute to the Seaside Heights boardwalk (which was just destroyed by fire after barely enduring Hurricane Sandy). Thru Nov. 30. Also, Migrating Identities, an eight-artist exhibition visualizing cultural diversity in the U.S. Thru Nov. 30. 701 Mission St. 9792787. www.ybca.org

Flyaway Productions @ Joe Goode Annex Give a Woman a Lift, Jo Kreiter and Sean Riley’s latest acrobatic dance work, includes suspended wall and aerial choreography. $20-$25. Wed-Sat 7:30pm & 9pm. Thru Nov. 16. 401 Alabama St. www.flyawayproductions.com

My Beautiful Laundrette @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Previews begin for the U.S. premiere of Hanif Kureishi’s tale (adapted by Andy Gram and Roger Parsley) about two gay men in 1980s England and their unlikely romance spurred by co-owning a laundromat. $25-$5. WedSat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Dec. 22. 25 Van Ness Ave at Oak. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

San Francisco City Chorus @ Mission Dolores Basilica Artistic Director Larry Marietta conducts the 34th anniversary celebration season concert of rarely-performed 19th-century choral masterworks by Carl Maria Von Weber and Anton Brucker, with several soloists and organ accompanist John R.S. Walko. $12-$20. 8pm. 3321 16th St. at Dolores. Also Nov. 17 3pm, at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, 2619 Broadway at 27th. www.sfcitychorus.org

Sat 16 Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ St. Mark's Lutheran Church Guest Conductor Cyrus Ginwala leads the symphony in performances of Kenton Coe’s Ischiana Overture, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto featuring Jassen Todorov, and Britten’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell with readings from “Letters from a Life.” $15-$35. 8pm. Also Nov. 17, 4pm. 1111 O’Farrell St. at Gough. (800) 5954TIX. www.bars-sf.org

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo @ SF Playhouse Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist drama about the ghost of a tiger who changes the lives of U.S. Marines and an Iraqi translator. $30-$70. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Nov. 16. 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

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David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition @ de Young Museum New exhibit of 300 portraits, still lifes, and landscape paintings by the gay British painter. Free-$25. Thru Jan. 20. Also, The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, an exhibit of 150 pieces of exquisite Italian jewelry made between 1950 and 1990, including gems from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal collection. Thru Feb 17. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. famsf.org

Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Berkeley Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show explores the 1960s: Beatles, Black Panthers, MLK, JFK and the KKK. $20-$50. Sat 8:30pm and Sun 7pm thru Dec. 15. 2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. themarsh.org

Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dance-theatre team. $15-$30. 4:30 and 7pm. Saturdays thru 2013. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 623-5300. capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza New twice-weekly (Sat & Sun) live outdoor music concerts presented by the Castro/ Upper Market Community Business District. 2pm and 3pm. Free. Castro St. at Market. 500-1181. www.castrocbd.org

Oakland Symphony Chorus @ First Covenant Church Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes are performed by the chorus abd symphony, with Dr. Lynne Morrow conducting. Free. 7:30pm. 4000 Redwood Road, Oakland. www.oaklandsymphonychorus.org

Other Cinema @ ATA Gallery Weekly wacky short film and video screenings. $6. 8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. www.othercinema.com

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SF Hiking Club @ Presidio

Will Durst @ The Marsh

Join GLBT hikers for a 9-mile casual tour of San Francisco’s Presidio National Park. Meet at 10:00 at the top of the Lyon Street steps at Lyon and Broadway. 378-5612. www.sfhiking.com

Boomeraging: From LSD to OMG, the comic wit’s one-man show about aging Baby Boomers. Tuesdays thru Dec. 17. $15-$50. 8pm. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.TheMarsh.org

Various Exhibits @ California Academy of Sciences New exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth. Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties most Thursday nights. $20-$30. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Speed Dating for Lesbians @ Rainbow Heart Studio, Berkeley

Mon 18

Lesbian and bi women meet and greet with a holistic relationship coach Kathleen Marte and family therapist April Hamilton. $ 6:30-9:30pm. 1450 Cornell Ave., Berkeley. consciousspeeddating.eventbrite.com

David Perry’s LGBT-themed talk show features a variety of local and visiting guests. Rebroadcast various times thru the week. www.comcasthometown.com www.davidperry.com

10 Percent @ Comcast Cable

California Native Plant Bloom @ SF Botanical Gardens Seasonal flowering of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 6612-1316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

Healthcare Reform Information Fair @ Bayview YMCA Informational day of updates for HIVrelated and other concerns related to the Affordable Healthcare Reform Act. Free. 2pm-4pm. 1601 Lane St. 552-5552.

Porchlight Storytelling @ Verdi Club The theme this time is There Will Be Blood: Stories about Family, with Chris Caen, Karen Duffin, Sean Keane, Brontez Purnell and Jay Beamen, plus others TBA. $15$20. 8pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.verdiclub.net

Tue 19 The Art of Dr. Seuss @ Dennis Rae Fine Art Fascinating intimate exhibit of rarely seen hand-made hats and other works (prints, paintings, sculptures and drawings) by Theodor Geisel, the author/illustrator of the immensely popular children’s books. 781 Beach St. 292-0387 www.dennisraefineart.com www.drseussart.com/hatsoff

Butterflies & Blooms @ Conservatory of Flowers Popular exhibit transforms the floral gallery into a fluttering garden with 20 species of butterflies and moths. Speical holiday botanical terrarium ornamentmaking workshop Nov 13, 2pm-4pm ($45). Holiday centerpiece-making workshop with supplies include, Nov. 20 ($50). Reg. hours, 10am-4pm. Free-$7. Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Extended thru March 16, 2014. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years @ Robert Tat Gallery Exhibit of photos from five decades of prints by the fine art photographer and photojournalist. Thru Nov. 30. 49 Geary St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Moonface @ Swedish American Hall

In Grand Style @ Asian Art Museum In Grand Style, Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty, a new exhibit of works from 1392-1910. Thru Jan. 12. Also, Proximities 2, a contemporary exhibit of works by Bay Area artists focusing on the concept of family, and cultural and geographical distances. Thru Dec. 8. Also, Art of Adornment, Southeast Asian Jewelry ; Thru Nov 24. Free (members)-$12. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 5813500. www.asianart.org

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco @ First Unitarian Universalist Church We Celebrate!, a classical concert, includes choruses from Lick-Wilmerding High School and the University of San Francisco. $10-$20. 7pm., 1187 Franklin St. www.lgcsf.org

U.S. Department of Illegal Superheroes @ Galería de la Raza Opening reception for Neil Rivas’ multimedia exhibit, a mix of dark parody and journalistic critique of government agencies, immigration policies, and racebased politics. 7pm. Free. Reg hours WedSun 12pm-6pm. Thru Jan. 18. 2857 24th St. at Bryant. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Pianist-vocalist performs live. $14-$16. 8pm. 2170 Market St. cafedunord.com

Sat 16

Sun 17 Science Exhibits @ The Exploratorium Visit the fascinating science museum in its new Embarcadero location. Free-$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu

Lesbian/Gay Chorus

Wed 20 Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay @ Oakland Museum Exhibit of 1935-36 photos showcasing the original construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Thru Jan 12, 2014. Also, Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay, about our landscape and its people. Thru Feb 23, 2014, in the renovated Gallery of California Natural Sciences. Wed-Sun 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). Thru June 30. 1000 Oak St. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org

Thu 21 Jan Daley

Q Salsa @ Symbolic Dance & Fitness LGBT same-sex partner dance lessons; five weekly sessions $17 each or $65-$75 for the series (free for 12 to 18). Thru Nov. 27. 8:309:30pm. 672 South Van Ness Ave. www.QueerBallroom.com

Smack Dab @ Magnet At this tenth anniversary show, cohosts Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts read from their recent works, along with the regular open mic (sign-up 7:30). Free. 8pm. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.magnetsf.org

Twisted Sisters @ City Hall Gallery Twisted Sisters: Reimagining Urban Portraiture, a large-scale photo exhibit and art exchange between SF and Zurich. Thru Jan. 27. SF City Hall, North Light Court, and various outdoor kiosks. www.sfartscommission.org

Xavier Castellanos @ Social Kitchen & Brewery Exhibit of colorful landscapes by the local artist, at the stylish yet casual restaurant/ bar. Thru Dec. 10. 1326 9th Ave. www.xavierart.com www.socialkitchenandbrewery.com

Thu 21 Bacon, Babes & Bingo @ Café DuNord The game night and wild show’s last event for a while. Enjoy music from Jessica Rose and Jinx Jones, hostess Dottie Lux, burlesque gals, prizes galore. Proceeds benefit local charities. $10-$25. Happy hour 5pm-7pm, Bingo time 7pm-11pm. 2170 Market St. www.baconbabesandbingo.com www.cafedunord.com

Hymns to Hermes: The Poetics of James Broughton @ SF Public Library Local activist and archivist Joey Cain’s exhibit of the gay poet and filmmaker includes rare personal items from his estate. Exhibit thru Jan. 16. James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, Main Library, third floor, 100 Larkin St. sfpl.org

Jan Daley @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The former Miss California, stage and screen actress performs “Where There’s Hope – A Tribute to the Love Songs of Bob Hope’s Legacy.” $25-$35. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. ticketweb.com

Fri 15 Vicki Marlane exhibit. See Our Vast Queer Past

Jason Lazarus: Live Archive @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit of unusual work by the Chicago artist who explores collective public archives, personal memory, and the role of photography and collecting in contemporary art and identity. Also, two exhibits about Jewish life: To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History (thru July 1) and Work in Progress: Considering Utopia (thru Jan 20). 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

LevyDance @ Fort Mason Center The innovative local dance company performs Romp, an interactive site-specific dinner-dance experience. $30-$50. 8pm. Thru Nov. 23. General’s Residence, Franklin St. at MacArthur Ave., www.levydance.org

Thomas Dolby @ Swedish American Hall The pop genius performs with his new band Invisible Lighthouse. $25-$60. 8pm. 2170 Market St. www.cafedunord.com

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

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • November 14-20, 2013

Vidal between the sheets by John F. Karr

ere’s a mess of a life recounted in a mess of a book. In case we don’t believe that the title, In Bed with Gore Vidal, doesn’t mean exactly what it says, the book is subtitled Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master (Magnus Books, paper, $19.99). As promised, this first effort from journalist Tim Teeman takes us not only between the sheets, but most explicitly between the legs of the celebrated Mr. Vidal, as well as of a raft of performers, politicos, pimps and prostitutes, as it recounts Vidal’s sexuality and sexual exploits. If scurrilous gossip is your dish, here’s a couple tureens worth. All of it verified by multiple sources. It was hard to be a healthy homo in the McCarthy era, when Vidal came of age, and Vidal was conflicted about his sexuality. It didn’t help that he was simultaneously courageous and foolhardy when in 1948 he published his first novel, the undeniably

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Young, handsome, aristocratic Gore Vidal.

gay The City and the Pillar. It defined him as a gay man, which caused Vidal to spend his lifetime in denial. After constructing a public image of the way he wanted to be, and concocting a philosophy of sexuality

that excused his homosexuality, Vidal came to believe his own fictions, and was stuck within them for life. The result was an unhappy, cynical, self-destructive man. One with a rather insatiable sex drive. Author Teeman has been an editor and feature writer for The Times of London, most recently as their US correspondent, and a prolific celebrity profiler. In his first book, he guides us through a sexual lifetime, with chapters devoted chronologically to Vidal’s family life, his first love, his carousing with Hollywood stars, and his decades-long living arrangement with the man he would never acknowledge as his spouse. Sympathy and compassion are raised as Teeman details the long marriage, along with news of Vidal’s contribution to gay politics. It would be humanly impossible not to grieve as one reads of Vidal’s long decline and sorry death. Ultimately, we see a man who is to be praised for his courage, and blamed, perhaps not overly much, for his cowardice. Tee-

man tells a story that’s hairraising and heart-rending. While it’s commendable that In Bed with Gore Vidal raises pity and understanding for Gore Vidal as it dishes out the sordid details, it’s pitiable that it’s done in such a sloppily organized and badly edited book (if it was edited at all). Author Teeman lauds the nearly-legendary Don Weise for editing the book, yet if Weise got within a mile of the transcript, I feel sorry for his waning talent. The book is repetitive beyond endurance, freighted with clumsy and confusing syntax, and exhibits a total ignorance on the usage of commas. Yet for the history it contains, for the amount of pertinent information it adds to the record, it should be imperative for both historians and fans. Too bad that

for the haphazard way it has been organized, edited and published, it will perhaps be dismissed, ignored, or relegated to the shelves way at the back.t

Szymanowski’s sensuality by Tim Pfaff

n retrospect, the extraordinary Handel revival of our time could almost look inevitable. It didn’t, even while the full musical canon was, so to speak, fired during the “Handel Year,” the composer’s birth anniversary. The music is consistently beautiful, characterful, or both, so what further advocacy was needed? Championing, it turned out, of armies of musicians and scholars prepared, as they were, to make the sounds Handel had in mind. And though Britten was a successful composer throughout his lifetime, who would have thought his birth anniversary would find the world wanting to hear all of his music, over and again? Perhaps more amazing, then, is the steady surge in interest in the music of their gay colleague, Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, who’s become the focus of a revival without any help from his “dates” (1882-1937). Two recent CD releases – one of them part of a project to record the composer’s complete works – make the strongest case

possible for the return of this exotic music to the active repertoire. Valery Gergiev, by The New Yorker critic’s recent reckoning the most highly paid and powerful of today’s front-rank conductors, has completed his Szymanowski symphony cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra with the Third and Fourth flanking a stirring account of the choral Stabat Mater (LSO Live). With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the increasingly important young conductor Edward Gardner, who’s leading the complete-works series, weighs in with an even more moving Stabat Mater and a rich account of the ballet (with soloists and chorus) Harnasie (Chandos). Szymanowski’s homosexuality was well known by his associates in the arts during his lifetime, though, given the era, it was hardly trumpeted. But the sensuality and exoticism

of his best work – not to mention the undisguised homoeroticism of his single opera, King Roger – have long made him a cult favorite among knowing gay listeners. Now he’s being served to a welcoming larger audience. I keep wondering why MTT isn’t all over the stuff. Still, Szymanowski’s music has a flavor all its own, and not everyone, the musically enlightened included, acquires the taste for it. The “gayest” work on these recordings (though it’s all subtextual) is the Third Symphony, Song of the Night. There’s an intense charge, of a French, Ravel-ish sort, to the work as a whole, and its text is a Polish translation of a poem by Rumi, now widely thought to have been samesexual. The compound floats on a heady perfume that breaks over the listener like waves. Its unique atmosphere derives from the composer’s extensive travels in Sicily and North Africa, where, clearly, he was beguiled by more than charged harmonies of ceremonial night music and Islamic chant. We know that he was held rapt by

the preponderance of male beauty in those regions, and knowing listeners have long known the erotic overtones of Szymanowski’s setting of Rumi’s poem: “Oh! Sleep not my dearest friend this night.” With its wordless choruses and Scriabinesque ecstasies, the score does hug the angels’ side of kitsch at times, but it’s powerfully affecting in a genuine way, too. Pierre Boulez’s recent recording was an important act of advocacy for the work, but there’s no denying that Gergiev gets farther down with it, to the good. Can we take time for a station break here? The very complex, virulent controversy surrounding Gergiev at the moment is anything but pointless, and my own list of reservations about him, as musician and individual, would be longer than this review. But given his place in the opera world, I’d need far harder evidence than I now have to believe that he himself is homophobic, like his buddy Putin. There’s some proof to the contrary in his commitment to Szymanowski, and in the finegrained, not to say loving attention

he gives the music, about which he cannot be naive. Then there’s the fact that when he’s good, he’s sensationally so. Gergiev does seem to favor ham-fisted pianists, but the fine playing he gets from Denis Matsuev in the Fourth Symphony (which is really a piano concerto) is yet another salute to the primacy of the music for him. The piece is often compared to Bartok’s Third Concerto, one of the miracles of 20th-century music, by which (and only by which) it suffers. But it’s both compositionally ingenious and emotionally deep, and these musicians play it superlatively. The Stabat Mater, too, is fine – all you want, really, from the composer’s undisputed masterpiece of choral music. It’s simply more powerful and touching yet in Gardner’s version. That’s partly due to Chandos’ clearer recording in a better acoustic; the Barbican is always a problem in LSO Live recordings. But Gardner’s interpretation, keen of detail, long of line – and Lucy Crowe’s penetrating soprano – really could make you weep. There are a surprising number of competing recordings of Harnasie, Szymanowski’s two-part ballet, including Rattle’s, but Gardner’s now heads the list. Based on the story of a Robin Hood-type bandit, it’s the composer’s longest and most complex foray into making a new amalgam of the music of his own culture. Gardner’s got everything, including the dance pulse.t

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November 14-20, 2013 • Bay Area Reporter • 21

Black boys on the fast track to opportunity by David Lamble

n one of Ang Lee’s most intimate gifts to his adopted homeland, Taking Woodstock, a young, gay Jewish kid, still living at home and not yet out to his parents, screams at his manipulative immigrant mom in the middle of the 1960s’ defining cultural moment. “Out of hundreds of thousands of people here, I’m the only one having breakfast with his parents!” A similar “oy vey” moment pops up in the first minutes of American Promise, a proud bi-racial New York couple’s prodigious record of their first-born son’s 12-year journey to college. Flashback to 1996, and filmmakers Joe Brewster (Harvard/Stanford-trained psychiatrist) and Michele Stephenson (McGill University-educated critical studies major) find themselves with a bright five-year-old, Idris, headed off to kindergarten at the elite, predominantly white Dalton School. The couple, wanting more than an expensive home movie of this big step, and enamored of Michael Apted’s pioneering 7-Up doc series, decide to film their boy from Dalton Day One. Experienced filmmakers, they realize their film will be more relevant if they collaborate with another minority couple and shape 800 hours of film and digital video into an inquiry on the “underachievement” crisis confronting a generation of black male students, statistically likely to attend underresourced public schools, and only half as likely to get a college diploma as their white peers. The filmmakers recruit Brooklyn couple Anthony and Stacey Summers, who volunteer their first-born, Seun, as the lucky guinea pig. For the articulate, dreadlocked, 18-year-old Seun, his life was forever on film: possibly defying mom and getting a

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Idris, Miles, and Joe Brewster in Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson’s American Promise.

tongue-piercing, being slow to answer in class, or escaping a family tragedy by sleeping on the couch of his school counselor. “My mother signed me up for it when I was in pre-school, so I didn’t even know what was going on. I just went to school one day and somebody filmed me. Nobody told me about this, it was like, man, weird, who does that?” The answer is two pioneering artist parents determined to look Dalton, this prestigious, rich, white gifthorse, in the mouth, determined to see if there isn’t some secret cabal that makes their boys more likely to be flagged as educationally vulnerable or discipline problems. Early on, Idris is accused by a Dalton dean of “elbowing” a classmate. The parents get an on-camera rebuttal. “They think I hit Sam, but I didn’t. They gave me two days’ suspension because they say I hit him, and another day’s suspension because they say I’m lying.” “Are you lying?” “No! He called me a big bully!” American Promise’s early scenes

are replete with musings by smart, anxious minority parents sensing that Dalton is not giving them straight answers about the adjustment to white perceptions of decorum by sons who are anything but troublemakers outside of school. Idris and Seun bravely soldier on, ducking grownup perceptions about who they should be as “model” black boys on an express track to fame and fortune. Small for his age, Idris frets about competing on the Dalton basketball squad, voicing a common kiddesire to play in the pros. Following a tough game against a long-haired squad of Catholic schoolboys where Idris fails to aggressively capture the ball, his dad rants during the car-ride home about whether this backsliding on court isn’t the sign of a lack of effort in the classroom. “It’s laziness. Anybody else would have gone for the ball. We have to see the writing on the wall.” Later, Dad will feel guilty after Idris is diagnosed as dyslexic. The discovery of this common learning disorder prompts the parents to start a

Michele Stephenson

Scene from filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson’s American Promise, coming to the Roxie Theater.

virtual 24/7 learning boot-camp, to keep their kid from an inferior college and a diminished shot at life’s big-picture goals. Eventually, Seun ups the stakes by switching from Dalton to an all-black high school that stresses the self-esteem boostershot of being with one’s own kind. The charge could be leveled that the filmmakers – ambitious for their kid to make the Ivy League while their film succeeds at Sundance – shadow both boys’ progress with their increasingly neurotic agenda. American Promise is both a pioneering look into this country’s education gap, and also, at 135 minutes, a trudge through the minutiae of the American upper-middle-class struggle. As much as he might deny it, Harvard man Joe Brewster is looking to shoehorn Idris into the Obama model. The film’s wide net pays big dividends as Seun takes a school trip to Africa. During a coed sleepover, the boy details his complex ethnic roots. “I’m Irish, Trinidadian, Asian, Polish, West Indian and Na-

tive American.” During a chat about slavery, a light-skinned teen with Irish heritage hatches a saucy reply to the ancestor game. “I’ve decided to answer all questions about where you’re from by saying, ‘Product of the [African] Diaspora.’” The boy heroes of American Promise get a kind of sweet revenge on the system and their overprotective parents by scoring colleges best-suited to their real needs. Just as Taking Woodstock’s long-suffering gay hero Elliot Tiber manages to make the chaotic festival weekend his escape from his terrifying Jewish mom, Idris and Seun show how “at-risk” boys can duck labels and oppressive parental control by following the American penchant for improvising one’s life on the run. This astutely observed slice of America in crisis arrives as a new Gotham mayor debates driving his bi-racial boy to school, and as many LGBT parents score the best for their kids from a dizzying variety of school menus. (Opens Friday at the Roxie.)t

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22 • Bay Area Reporter • November 14-20, 2013

Time of his life by Jim Piechota

Lasting City by James McCourt; Liveright Books (W.W. Norton & Co.), $26.95 ames McCourt, now 72, has certainly lived an interesting life, and his newly-published memoir Lasting City is a testament not only to that legacy, but also to the allure and beauty (and rarity) of good writing. This autobiography, aptly subtitled The Anatomy of Nostalgia, traces his years as a native New Yorker, beginning with a life-altering event: his mother’s death in 2003, and her last intentions for her son to “tell everything.” McCourt takes great pride in doing just that. After reaching back decades to describe bittersweet episodes from his Irish-Catholic upbringing in the 1950s, the author recants his younger years flouncing through New York City, sharing engaging conversation with a former Broadway showgirl (now a diner waitress)

and an inquisitive Indian cab driver, then dipping into provocative memories from his sexual heyday mastering the catacombs of the Everard bathhouse; the humid, carnal pleasures found on Fire Island; and nightly jaunts beating the bushes in Central Park’s Ramble, a place McCourt pungently describes as “the haunt of the sexually intrepid male homosexual horndog on the scent.” It comes as no surprise that this memoir is so accomplished, unique, and real. McCourt’s publication history includes more than a few greats: Mawrdew Czgowchwz, a novel centered around the opera, is as brilliant as his campy interlinked novellas in Time Remaining, followed by a first foray into nonfiction with Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985. Here, the memories ebb and flow with an elegance and urgency that keep the nostalgia turning over onto itself. McCourt’s histrionics demand to be re-read and enjoyed as he shares

the lush seasons of his sexual peak spent with many men (surrounded by steam or flora and fauna), his triumphs, his heartbreaks, but most of all, his gleeful joie de vivre. More than just a love letter to the bygone era of rough-and-ready New York City, the memoir affords the reader the opportunity to look back in time without regret or consequences. These immaculately re-imagined historical threads form a tapestry of McCourt’s vibrant life in and around the Manhattan playgrounds of the 1970s and 80s. For older readers, it will be a book to savor, filled with knowing acknowledgments of a forgotten era, and for younger readers, an educative look back to a time when “business” was handled face-to-face. Lasting City is a divine scrapbook of poetry, fantasy sequences, quotations, daydreams, and feverishly recanted reminiscence, every bon mot gilded with the fraying gold foil of an aging queen’s memory.t

All-American lives by Jim Piechota

Our Naked Lives edited by Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone; Bordighera Press, $15 ife partners and dual editors Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone have worked since 2008 on compiling 15 essays that explore the complex, provincial, and culturally prideful experience of being gay and Italian American. The impetus for the collection Our Naked Lives derived from author, poet, and gay rights activist Carosone’s master’s thesis on the marginalization of Italian American literature. After an extensive search, he discovered only two works of gay Italian writings, and decided to counter this glaring lack of queer visibility by canvassing popular gay Italian writers and outspoken gay voices for contributions. Their nonprofit publisher Bordighera Press, based out of New York City, is dedicated to representing the voices of Italians in North America through distinguished works of prose, poetry, opinion, and research. The press’ library of

books in the Via Folios series forms an impressive oeuvre on the ItalianAmerican way of life. Carosone provides the poignant opening essay, with a moving amalgam of prose and poetry recounting major landmarks in his lifetime: the loneliness of his youth, struggles with identity, fear, coming out, and living harmoniously within what he calls a “cruel world.” The liberation of minds and hearts from the restricted confines of the closet is what unifies many of the selections in the anthology. “Good Catholic boy” John D’Emilio describes his journey from being content with living a closeted gay life to coming clean about a New Jersey teaching gig he is offered on a new gay studies curriculum. Much to his mother’s chagrin (“I could almost hear her teeth clench and see her jaw tightening,” he writes), D’Emilio carries on and eventually, and quite surprisingly, it’s his parents who arrive at the necessity to share his orientation with the rest of the family. Joseph Federico, who contributes one of the shortest pieces in the

book, admits to experiencing “inner turmoil” at 21, swiftly abated by a confidential chat with his grandmother, then becoming truly one with a family who “loves me for me, and the fact that I just happened to turn out gay didn’t really make a lick of difference.” Elsewhere, “gay guido” Michael Luongo ruminates on the global state of homosexuality with a jaunt through Italy. Celebrated Manhattan photographer Joe Oppedisano humorously writes on his mother’s effect on his comeuppance as a gay man. Felice Picano comments on religion, his parentally-inspired “un-Italian-American” feelings, and a counteradmittance that “being Italian-American was sexy, even a little risque” back in his youth, as he feels it has become today. Bay Area writer Tom-

Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society; Ben Blackwell

Portrait de Sarah Stein (Portrait of Sarah Stein) (1916), oil on canvas by Henri Matisse, collection SFMOMA.

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other venues during its three-year renovation. And there’s certainly no arguing that these nearly 30 paintings, drawings and bronzes (the latter medium represents this French master’s least impressive explorations) shouldn’t be languishing in storage. While it’s true the show is more of an appetizer than an entrée, you can stay for hours should you be so inclined, and even then it’s difficult to tear oneself away from the captivating shapes and irresistible beauty. It was Sarah and Michael Stein, the forward-thinking, art-collecting expat sister-in-law and brother of Gertrude, who brought the first Matisse paintings back from Paris to San Francisco, shortly after the earthquake in 1906. In so doing, they triggered an earthquake of a very different sort; no one had seen paintings like these, and though they may seem tame by today’s standards, people were shocked by works that would revolutionize the vocabulary of modern art. Many found Matisse’s bravura color schemes and their application startling, his brushstrokes choppy and savage, and his aesthetics radical and uncouth. Of “The Girl with Green

mi Avicolli Mecca reflects on the beginnings of his work as a radical queer activist, and offers an ironic

Eyes” (1908), which we’re told was bought “still wet and unsigned” by the collector and brought to the Bay Area in 1911, the San Francisco Examiner, in its infinite wisdom, wrote, “Matisse paints faces crazed by absinthe drinking.” That unenlightened interpretation is not one that visitors to the Legion are likely to share. Other collectors soon put their brave boots on, and it’s to their daring that San Francisco owes its status as an important repository of his work. Matisse repaid his visionary patrons, Sarah and Michael, in part by painting their portraits (1916). They’re on view, as is “The Conversation” (1938), a vivid oil painting where two chic women are seated next to each other in a solarium. In Matisse’s hands, they’re exotic creatures integrated into a tropical paradise with palm fronds, bright, sunshiny yellows, vermillion, and deceptively childlike, playful shapes intimating his cut-out paper collages. His favorite model may have been his daughter, Marguerite. He did 30 portraits of her, including a 1906 charcoal drawing when she was 12 in which she’s seen in three poses on the same page. In one, she’s napping, resting her head on her arms, and in another, she regards her fa-

look back at his arrival in San Francisco in 1991, when he “found a great and affordable place in the Castro two days after I arrived. You could do that in those days.” Dr. Frank Spinelli, whose own upcoming memoir Pee-Shy tackles surviving and coming to terms with sexual abuse as an adult, offers a touching story about processing his father’s untimely death, and his and his partner Chad’s acceptance into his own Italian family. Perhaps most witty is gay comic (and head writer for Joan Rivers) Tony Tripoli’s essay on not just being an Italian American, but possessing the gift of a big, beautiful Sicilian derriere, noting that Italians “are the only white men with this ass.” This insightful collection of gay Italian-American histories expands an undernourished niche genre in queer literature.t

ther intently with an expression that implores, “Can I please go now, Dad?” These and other drawings are succinct and perfect. Like “Woman Leaning” (1906-07), nothing need be added, subtracted or changed. Matisse brought his unerring eye for beauty and joie de vivre to every artistic pursuit. He could take a coffee cup and transform it into a thing of beauty (“Café Table,” ca. 1899), and one can hardly lavish enough praise on what he does with a pedestrian white vase brimming with pink, orange and red blooms asserting themselves in a world of turquoise (“Flowers,” 1907). The loose, free-flowing style and wild cacophonous colors of seascapes such as “Bord de Mer” (1906), and the fauvist “Le Bonheur de vivre,” a primal setting where one might find Pan chasing nymphs through the bushes, make you wish you were there. Matisse only visited San Francisco once, in 1930. The story goes that he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd when his train rolled into the station. Visiting this small, intense exhibition is like being a member of that welcoming party, standing on the platform cheering his arrival, grateful for his presence.t Through Sept. 7.

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Dancers Lindsey Renne Derry and Parker Murphy in 98-13. Navid Baraty

Kunst-Stoff

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fumes that filled the whole house. The antics that followed got crazier and crazier as their overstimulated bodies hung on this spider web, got tangled in it, rising to inspired conniptions before they all collapsed. What kept it interesting – it could have been a one-liner – was the fusion of queer performance art, the drag subculture, and ballet – a la Jack Smith or Tony Rizzo – so that the attitude ranged from the sardonic to the sublime, with many curiously inwrought gems of choreography right up against pratfalls and diatribe. The tone had been set by their costumes, fish-net tights that encased their faces and their whole bodies, which made them look both familiar and strange. Kunst-Stoff makes brilliant use of Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt, whereby the familiar is altered enough so that it seems you’ve never seen it before. So they were nude inside their

piebald tights, which denatured their faces but revealed the usual landmarks (nipples, breasts, thighs, butts, cocks and balls) of beautifully puttogether dancers’ bodies. The weekend presented five dances in two shows that marked both the company’s 15th anniversary and their farewell to bricks-and-mortar existence in San Francisco. It was a fabulously enjoyable event. Each piece had aspects of cabaret, of weird modern dance, and of noble ballet, mashed up in a unique way that gave great pleasure to the mind. Kunst-Stoff (the name is German for artificial or plastic) was formed in 1998 by two European dancers – Tomi Paasonen, Finnish, and Yannis Adoniou, Greek – who had met in Germany and danced in the Hamburg Ballet before coming to SF, where they were both stars in Alonso King’s contemporary ballet company Lines. Paasonen had a glorious plastique – you’d never forget seeing him rotating in grand pirouettes in the

Dancer Yannis Adoniou in Solo for Yannis: he oozed through positions.

most gorgeous positions. Adoniou was equally beautiful, but you could never remember him in any position – it was all a hot, molten, sensuous flow. He oozed through positions. When Paasonen’s visa expired he went back to Germany, while Adoniou made the company happen here, teaching choreographing, getting wild and wonderful gigs. They danced at Burning Man, at allnight art parties reminiscent of Jack Smith’s, in Willits; in SF, they’d take over the whole of ODC or Dance Mission, and install something in every room. Perhaps too often, they’d get into a Magritte-like black suit and put stockings over their faces and go rigid to mock bourgeois conformism. More fun was the all-white futurist dystopia at Brady Street, where a Pillsbury doughboy/ Michelin man ran the show. I’ve never enjoyed Adoniou’s work more than his 1999 disco-

dance Saturday night; he tricked out music by Prince, George Michael, the Boomtastics, in brilliant little combinations of ballet warm-up steps, the while hurling computergenerated whirling lights at the figures onstage that made them all seem to be floating on LSD. Parker Murphy and Levya Tawil lipsynched with great style. They’re not leaving forever; dancers historically have had a nomadic existence, and right now they need greener pastures. They are giving up their studio, the large room at Civic Center above Burger King, where they’ve not only taught dancers and prepared their own work, over the years they’ve shown an impressive array of the superb contemporary dancers in experimental work. I’ll never forget seeing Anthony Rizzi’s An Attempt to Fail at Groundbreaking Theater with Pina Arcade Smith there. Dragged to it by Danny Nico-

letta, to whom I’m forever grateful, I finally saw the kind of gay underground theater that I’d only heard and read about. Rizzi caught that freaky tone of the drag artist who’ll never believe in gay marriage and the white-picket fence of public respectability, who distrusts conformity from the bottom of his soul, and totally distrusts the academics who champion his kind of work and use it as the basis for their performance theory. It’s not a coincidence that I found my colleague the Bay Guardian critic Rita Felciano at Rizzi’s show. Nor was it a coincidence that when Adoniou entered the audience during a fourth-wall piercing moment in his solo Those Golden Years (created for him by Paasonen), he took a veil from his nearly-sacred costume and handed it to Ms. Felciano. It was a fitting tribute, the most emotional moment of the whole evening for me.t

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Bar’), “Would it become yet another effectively-windowless gay bar slinging toxic drinks and blasting bad pop music to an empty, albeit sticky, dance floor, we feared?” And, with the opening of Churchill’s, they answer, “Well, we now have an answer. And thankfully, that answer is no.” Regarding the new bars, the SFoodie blog on SFWeekly lets us know that “Brass Tacks, the former Marlena’s, Gets Post-Gay on Hayes” and tells us “it’s all very tasteful, but conservative, like a gay psychologist’s office.” Does this less than gay-positive vibe indicate a simple lack of interest in gay San Francisco and its history from the tech world? A good place to cast your eye for answers is just to the south of us, toward the Silicon Valley. How did the gay community fare there during the last dotcom bubble? In San Jose, if you were looking at gay bars you would believe that there had been no change from the late 1990s to the present. There were a handful in the late ‘90s and there is still only a handful today. On the Peninsula, the toll is a bit grimmer. As I noted in a BARchive article (‘Bars, Baths and Beyond’, Dec. 2011) the last gay bar in San Mateo county closed in the early part of the last decade. So when it comes to the gay community, it doesn’t appear that we can expect an infusion of cash –or even positive interest– from tech workers. There do not seem to be young tech entrepreneurs who are opening gay bars – here, on the Peninsula or in San Jose. In preparation for this article, I spoke with Marlena (aka Absolute Empress XXV of San Francisco, Marlena the Magnificent, aka Garry McLain) and suggested that perhaps there were fewer bars generally in San Francisco. Marlena gave me a patient look –the kind you give to a child of suspect intellect– and said, ‘There are more bars than there ever have been in Hayes Valley.” And this is true. Within a few blocks there are at least seven, including Dobb’s Ferry, Two Sisters, Noir Lounge and Fig & Thistle – at least two of which opened in the last year. So the notion that getting new licenses for bars is too difficult and/ or too expensive does not seem to be the reason more gay bars aren’t opening. Regarding gay bars and their life and death, Marlena said, “My bar was almost straight by the time I closed it.” And reflecting on the changes in our community, he reflected, “When I came here there were over 100 bars, now there are less than 30.” What Marlena says is well worth paying attention to, because we have seen this story played out before. As Nan Alamilla Boyd notes in Wide Open Town, a History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, “Between 1949 and 1959 there were always at least four and up to seven bars or

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Rickhouse exterior (formerly Ginger’s Trois).

A busy afternoon at Driftwood.

nightclubs that lesbians frequented within a few blocks of each other.” Currently San Francisco has two lesbian bars, and the number of gay bars is now less than any time since at least before Stonewall and probably since the 1950s. The lesbian neighborhood, with cafes and baths that inhabited Valencia Street in the 1980s, is a thing of the past, as are businesses like the Brick Hut, Mama Bears bookstore and Ollie’s in the East Bay. And this doesn’t seem to be something that can be placed at the door of the older members of our community who spent their time in business and paid their dues. Examples like Giovanni’s Room (the LGBT bookstore in Philadelphia) exist where the owner Ed Hermance, now in his 70s, is looking for a buyer, much like Marlena did for Marlena’s. In order for these businesses to continue in the community, it requires a new generation of owners to step forward. Not that this will be easy in our current economic climate. Marlena himself commented on the difficulty he has had in finding a space to open a consignment shop with other Empresses to sell outfits due to current rents. And aside from the difficulty which higher commercial rents cause, there are other economic implications to the closing of gay bars. For the people who work in them, finding a replacement job can be difficult. I asked Kirby White, bartender at Aunt Charlie’s and manager at Flippers (now one of the few obviously gay-friendly spots in Hayes Valley) if this was an issue. He responded that, “Some of them can’t find jobs anymore.” None of the bartenders from Marlena’s found jobs at Brass Tacks and only one at Emperor Norton’s (the former Deco Lounge). When Kimo’s closed, two of the bartenders went down the street to the recently opened Mark’s. An inherent problem in keeping a job when a bar closes is the downtime associated with renovations, which can put several months between paychecks. So along with the longtime survivors of HIV who find themselves out of apartments in Ellis Act

holidays and potluck dinners that take place in bars. Gay and lesbian bars provide a community space where sexual identity is not assumed to be heterosexual, as it is often still assumed to be in the world at large. The notion that gay bars exist to exclude heterosexuals is about as specious as thinking the people speak Spanish to exclude English speakers. Much like the ability to learn Spanish, straight people can learn to exist in a world where it is not assumed that you are always straight. And much like learning a language, you may find that you actually like living in a world that does not rigidly define your sexuality. It would be nice to think that the dissolution of gay and lesbian neighborhoods is simply due to greater integration and acceptance by the society. But a quick look at bar reviews on Yelp.com will help dispel this notion. For example (in a review of the Lone Star Saloon): ‘If you are looking for ear-deafening 70s rock and 50+ years old guys who look like they have been drinking for the past 50 years and go to bars in the same clothes they go to bed,

Michael Flanagan

Brass Tacks’ open window (formerly Marlena’s).

evictions and the up to 30 percent of people in shelters and on the streets that identify as LGBT, there is yet another part of the gay community that finds themselves in a tough economic climate in tech boom San Francisco.

No Homo

In discussing the existence or disappearance of gay bars, it’s worth considering the question, ‘Why do we need gay bars?’ To a certain degree this is like asking why women want separate spaces (like the Women’s Building or the Lexington Club) or why ethnic minorities want bars for members of their own community (like Esta Noche). Bars function as community building and support institutions. The benefits which occur at places like Aunt Charlie’s address issues which are important to people who go there, like support for homeless LGBT youth and support for the health of sex workers. At many of these bars, like The Cinch (and in the past at places like Maud’s) the bar acts as a space for people who have been alienated from their birth families. This can be seen in some of the meals served at

this is the bar for you.’ Or, in a review of Hole in the Wall: ‘Kept wondering if this was some sort of “Cheers” for the unshowered. Like maybe this is where the gay homeless people go over a long day of panhandling and public urination to relax and spend their hard begged for change.’ Clearly, if we are looking for a benevolent world which accepts people regardless of their age or economic status, let alone their sexual orientation, we should look elsewhere. After reading several reviews of bars throughout the Bay Area where men report nervously about having their asses touched or being cruised, you will probably reach the same conclusion that I have. Though much is made of ‘post-gay’ culture, what is clear is that ‘post’ in this phrase is closer in meaning to ‘after’ (as in post-apocalypse) as opposed to ‘no longer a problem.’ It is, of course, possible that the shrinking LGBT entertainment world in San Francisco could be a result of a more positive climate in other parts of the United States. I was shocked when visiting Salt Lake City last year when my host pointed out See page 4 >>

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Getting There

A Ride-Share Survey by Ray Aguilera

or all its charms, San Francisco can fall short when it comes to getting around town. Sure, we’re all squeezed into a compact square, but when it’s 4:00 in the afternoon and you need to get from the Sunset to the sunny patio of El Rio to dance it out at Hard French pronto, your options can be limited. Thankfully, the city is awash in alternative transportation options that can fill in the gaps left by MUNI and the city’s decrepit taxi system. For girls and boys on the go (or the go-go platform), learning to navigate these services can be livesavers, whether you’re indulging in nightlife, or just scooting across town for a hangover brunch. The most well-known of the new alternative transportation services is Lyft. Just fire up the app, and summon a nearby pinkmoustachioed car to your location. Lyft rides are usually easy to come by, and the cars are cleaner than any SF taxi I have ever ridden in. Traditionally, riders sit in the front seat, and there’s the near-obligatory fist-bump when you hop in. There are often several cars nearby, and response times are usually under 10 minutes, except for peak late-night times. Lyft is cashless, perfect for nights when you started out with a wallet full of twenties and ended the night with a belly fully of beer, some fuzzy memories, and $1.75 in quarters in your pocket. Instead of a set fee, Lyft works on “donations.” And yeah, those are totally air quotes. To avoid running afoul of taxi regulations, Lyft works on a donation model. After your ride is complete, a message pops up on your phone with a suggested donation (including tip) which you can adjust up or down as you see fit. You can also rate your driver on a five point scale. But don’t get too excited, cheapskates. A driver explained that in addition to passengers rating drivers, drivers also rate passengers. Stiff your driver a few too many times and you’ll earn yourself a low rating, and you’ll quickly find yourself with fewer and fewer drivers willing to pick you up. A jaunt from the Lower Haight to the far reaches of Potrero hill cost about 25 percent less using Lyft than the return trip did in a taxi. All the

drivers I encountered were friendly and eager to chat. If anything, that’s the one downside of Lyft—riding shotgun usually means you’ll have to make small talk, rather than sit quietly in the back of a taxi. On the other end of the spectrum is Homobiles, a queer-friendly option run by Lynnee Breedlove. Drivers are volunteers (Homobiles is working on their non-profit status right now) and riders are free to donate whatever they can to support the service. While Homobiles might seem like just another ride-share option, after riding around with Lynnee one afternoon, it’s clear that he’s got a bigger picture in mind than just driving people from here to there. Homobiles users range from drag performers on their way to gigs, to tourists on their way across town. Homobiles offers rides to anyone, regardless of their orientation, gender expression, or ability to donate. Breedlove sees it as a way for the community to take care of each other. “If someone need a ride, we’ll give them a ride,” said Breedlove. “No one is turned away for lack of funds.”

Alfredo Mendez

A mustached Lyft car

Homobiles promises (and delivers). While Lyft drivers tend to be techies who can talk about app development, “disruption,” and pissed off cabbies running them off the road, the conversation in the Homobile bounced from affordable housing to playing in bands and wild nights out at London’s Royal

is available 24/7 by sending a text to (415) 574-5023 with your name, location, and destination. If you need something a bit more upscale (or just bigger) check in with Uber. Using the smartphone app, you can summon a traditional black town car, an SUV, or an UberX, typically a midrange sedan

Vauxhall Tavern. And if you’re lucky enough to catch a ride with Lynnee, you’ll be greeted by J. Snow, Homobiles’ adorable canine mascot who rides shotgun. There’s no app to summon a Homobile, but the service

that isn’t quite as fancy as a black car, with a smaller price tag to boot. Unlike Lyft or Homobiles, using an Uber is a more straightforward monetary transaction. Rates start at $3.50 + $2.75/mile for an

The Uber app on a phone.

He told me several stories of Homobiles swooping in to pick up drag queens who suddenly found themselves in uncomfortable situations late at night. The goal is keeping people safe, and a nonjudgmental ride is what

The Ex-Gays

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the four gay neighborhoods there. If you don’t feel compelled to move to a large city, or to the coasts, you can build communities closer to where you were born. But the list of cities with the highest concentration of gay couples from the census bureau still indicates that the top ten cities are all coastal cities, with San Francisco now in third place below Fort Lauderdale and Seattle. And it is also true that many clubs are truly mixed, as I noticed at a recent appearance of Kristin Hoffman and Joey Arias at Feinstein’s in Hotel Nikko. So we may be gaining spots which function as surrogate gay bars depending on what events are scheduled there. Fortunately the dissolution of gay entertainment spots is not a problem which has gone unnoticed. The response to the closure of the Eagle and its subsequent reopening indicate that though some bars have closed,

Emperor Norton’s Boozeland (formerly the Deco Lounge)

we do not have to assume this is a downhill path with no possibility of a positive outcome.

Under the Golden Gate, a loose group of drag and gay activists, held a ‘Straight Bar Takeover’ on

October 19 at Playland, which reminded many of past actions such as the Queer Nation kiss-

UberX, up to $15 + $5/mile for an SUV. Those base fares are quite a bit higher than taxi rates but 1) your Uber will actually show up, and 2) the service uses professional commercial drivers (for Black Car & SUV rides). But keep in mind that those prices are starting points. To regulate demand, Uber uses “surge pricing” which multiplies the cost when there is particularly high demand (read: most of the times you’d actually need to use it). Trying to get home from The Stud at three in the morning last weekend would have cost one and a half times the normal rate, while a ride from Golden Gate Park after Outside Lands ran two-and-a-half times Uber’s normal rates. Like Lyft, the Uber app handles payment, so you don’t have to worry about having cash on hand, and the cars are nicer than taxis, with lowkey pro drivers that won’t bug you (or spend the entire ride talking into a cell phone). Uber rides can get costly, but the rides are reliable, clean, and professional. But is it legal? That’s a good question. Lyft and Uber have been the subject of high-profile legal wrangling lately, including drivers being placed under citizen’s arrest at San Francisco International Airport over the summer, and a more recent suit from drivers who claim that they should be considered employees, rather than independent contractors. All of that has left many scratching their heads trying to figure out where these services fit in. They’ve been operating in a See page 9 >>

ins at straight bars in the 90s, or Guerilla Queer Bar during the dotcom boom. Although Under the Golden Gate isn’t planning any future actions, but a representative said via Facebook that the dialog was continuing. When I was discussing this topic with Marlena, he said something which I found quite poignant. “We wanted equality, but we’re having a hard time dealing with it, though we still should be proud of ourselves.” It may not be equality that we are having difficulty with, but identity. In the past, the people who have been at the forefront of both the political and entertainment world in the LGBT community have been people with extraordinary and dominant personalities, such as José Sarria, Rikki Streicher, Harvey Milk and members of the International Imperial Court System (including Marlena himself). The next grand persona may be in our midst now, waiting to bring the community to the next level. Only time will tell.t

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Leather: What's Your Fetish? by Scott Brogan

am beginning a new series about the various fetishes enjoyed and explored by our community. Entries in the series will pop up from time to time, space permitting. Depending on what’s going on in our community at the time, some columns will focus on latest news. When not focusing on the latest news, I’ll focus on a particular fetish. My goal is to provide some education about little known fetishes, clarification of some that are well known, or just give some basic information. Sometimes I’ll be serious, sometimes humorous, and sometimes with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Top. Bottom. Switch. Power Bottom. Versatile Pushy Bottom. Pushy Top. These are some of the names we call ourselves. Maybe I shouldn’t say “names” but should say “identifiers.” We use these names to identify ourselves - sometimes jokingly, usually seriously. Why would I talk about tops and bottoms in an article about fetishes? That’s simple. I believe that for many of us being a top or bottom or vers is a fetish. When we think of fetishes today, we imagine more overt things like flogging, electric play, fisting, pissing, or bondage. Ask any serious power bottom and you might be surprised to realize that being a bottom is as much of a fetish as submitting to a dom when being tied up, or whatever their other fetish might be. You might also be surprised that being a bottom or top is their only fetish. It’s all they are “into” and focus on. Nothing wrong with that. It’s my opinion that being a top or bottom is, with some exceptions, everyone’s first fetish. That’s what we first get into. That’s what we first experiment with. Usually it’s fucking. Giving or receiving. When flirting, it’s one of the first things negotiated when things begin to get serious. Who will be the bottom and who will be the top, or if both will be (or all if there’s more than one person involved). It’s the same for any fetish. Some enjoy the negotiation process (aka “the chase”) as much or more than the actual acting on the fetish. Even when we progress into other fetishes, we still experiment with being a top or bottom. Do we like to tie up or be tied up? Maybe both? For the purpose of this article, I’ll stick with the basics: fucking.

Bottoms

Man, do bottoms get a bad rap. How many times do we hear the derogatory phrase “Oh he’s just a bottom?” It’s always meant as a slam.

Hot gogo guy is tops... and has a nice bottom at this year’s Folsom Street Fair

The bottom is less of a man, or less of a person, or less of anything. But always less. We’re all guilty of this. When did that negativity start? Is it because the bottom is considered more passive so therefore more feminine, the “female role?” Or is it because it’s assumed the bottom doesn’t do much, and just lays there? Nothing could be further from the truth. It really does take a real man to be a good bottom. Joke as we want, we know that’s true. Tops don’t have to prepare as much. Thank God for the Shower Shot, possibly the greatest invention since Gutenburg’s printing press. It definitely is close, at least in my book. Bottoms don’t just hose out. Oh no. We have to watch what we eat as well. Any serious bottom will watch his diet if he thinks he’s going to get fucked later that day or night. Nobody likes surprises. For any serious bottom, especially a power bottom, nothing is more embarrassing. Power bottoms, as some are called, are bottoms who can take a long hard fucking without complaint or serious discomfort. Lots of bottoms out there enjoy getting fucked, but after a while they peter out (so to speak). Power bottoms

not only take a good fucking, they usually like it in the form of a gangbang. All night. That brings me to that other greatest invention since the printing press: the sling. The sling is a bottom’s (power or not) best friend. Get a power bottom comfy in a sling and he’ll take it all night. Happily so. There’s nothing better than the look on a satisfied power bottom’s face. Watching a power bottom in action would be a close second. Having what I call an “ass orgasm” is an incredible feeling. Having an ass orgasm and then coming while still getting fucked? Heaven!

Tops

Tops normally don’t get a bad rap. To this day, guys still say they’re a top whether they are or not. They think it makes them more masculine, more sexy. A real top will know that’s crazy. A real top will enjoy fucking. Domination is key. Taking control of the bottom is an incredible feeling. Having a bottom completely give himself to you is the ultimate in satisfaction. Likewise, feeling a bottom cum while fucking him is one of the best sensations ever. Many times this will cause a top to cum right away. But tops don’t have it that easy either. The pressure is on to “perform.” Gotta keep it hard. If a top isn’t hard, a rude bottom will brush

courtesy Andy Cross

Andy Cross at the recent Mr. & Ms. Santa Clara County Leather contest.

him off. Is it any wonder we have such elixirs like Viagra, Cialis, and Caverjack? A soft top is a lonely top.

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Cookie Dough’s 50th @ Rebel

Sat 16

Celebrate five decades for the adorable local drag queen, hosted by Heklina, Pollo Del Mar and Landa Lakes, with more than a dozen drag performers, and DJs Pinky Ring and MC2. No cover. 10pm-2am. 1760 Market St.

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

Fedorable @ El Rio Free weekly queer dance party, with gogos, prizes, old groovy tunes, cheap cocktails. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. 2823325. www.elriosf.com

Friday Nights @ De Young Museum Season 9 of the popular weekly early evening museum parties continues, with live music and performance, exhibitthemed workshops and food and drinks. 5pm-8:30pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Go-Beaux @ Beaux Gogo-tastic weekly night at the new Castro club. Bring your dollahs, ‘cause they’ll make you holla. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Sun. 17

Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an everchanging lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Special holiday show tickets, including New Year’s Eve, also on sale. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/ wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 4314695. www.hitws.com

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Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun

Sat. 16

Beatpig with Walter, Juanita and Side Kick.

urely you’ll enjoy this week’s array of entertainments, including Thomas Dolby, Dengue Fever, and a few local celebutantes’ birthday parties. Yes, you can invite me, but don’t call me Shirley.

Open during renovations, the popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Hard @ Qbar DJ Haute Toddy spins electro beats; cute gogo guys shake it. $3. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Hardbox @ Powerhouse

Thu 14 Comedy Thursdays @ Esta Noche The revamped weekly LGBT- and queerfriendly comedy night at the Mission club is hosted by various comics (1st Thu, Natasha Muse; 2nd Thu, Emily Van Dyke; 3rd Thu Eloisa Bravo and Kimberly Rose; 4th Thu Johan Miranda). No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 307916th St. www.comedybodega.com

Friends Live @ Rebel Heklina, D’Arcy Drollinger, Leigh Crow and pals perform drag parodies of the hit TV show about a bunch of annoying white New Yorkers who hang around a coffee shop too much. $20-$25. 7pm & 9pm. Weekly thru Nov. 21. 1760 Market St. www.trannyshack.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, half-off locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men’s bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Pan Dulce @ The Café Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Shocktoberfest 14 @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ new show takes on a creepy-fun Halloween theme, with Grand Guignol-styled tales of Jack the Ripper, the famous London serial killer, plus the one-act Salome and more fun. $25-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 23. (800) 8383006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.BeatboxSF.com

Megan Mullally & Stephanie Hunt @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Emmy Award-winning actress (Will & Grace) and fellow actress Hunt (Californication) perform unique versions of cabaret classics, with the band Nancy and Beth. $45-$66. 8pm. Also Nov. 15, 8pm. Nov. 16, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

HYSL @ The Lookout Shots, drinks and DJed fun with the adorable David and Trevor. $2. 10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

Enjoy the intimate groovy disco night with DJ Bus Station John. $7. 10pm2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www. auntcharlieslounge.com

Eight bars, more dance floors, and a smoking lounge; the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland

Picante @ Esta Noche

Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Weekly show with drag queens and the Picante Boys; hosted by Lulu Ramirez; DJ Marco. 9pm-2am. 3079 16th St. 841-5748. www.jceventssf.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Guy Ruben and Gehno Aviance DJ at this Barechest Calendar night, with hot MMA and martial arts demo bouts and gogo boxers; prizes include sessions from Max Crossfit and Abada Capoeira Arts Center. Dress up in jock-ular gear. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Fri 15 Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

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Release @ Club OMG Weekly party at the intimate mid-Market club; rotating hosts and DJs, Top 40 dance remixes, giveaways, gogo hunks. Free before 11pm. $3. 9pm-2am. 43 Sixth St. www.clubomgsf.com www.facebook.com/ReleaseSF

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Some Thing Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. Nov. 15, special DJ John Fucking Cartwright. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Beatpig @ Powerhouse Vroom! It’s an auto-erotic night with Juanita More, DJ Side Kick and host Walter, with an S&M demo by Josh Runyon. $5 benefits the Transgender Law Center. Hog heaven happy hour 9pm-10pm. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time’s assured. $8-$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th st. at Harrison. www.BootieSF.com www.DNAlounge.com

Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarous fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

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Live bands, DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland’s premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10-$15. Dancing 9pm4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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Chili Cookoff @ The Mix Get ready for some sizzlin chili at this food-filled competition. 3pm. 4086 18th St. www.sfmixbar.com

Club Gossip @ Cat Club Mixed gay-friendly goth-electro-retro-ish club night; monthly (2nd Sat.). $8. 21+. 9pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

I Just Wanna Fuckin’ Dance @ Beatbox Celebrate Locoya Hill’s 35th birthday at the fun dance night, with DJs Chi Chi LaRue, HectorFonseca; midnight performance by Mercedez Munroe. $15-$25. 10pm-6am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

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Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular country western LGBT dance night celebrates a decade and a half of fun foot-stomping two-stepping and linedancing. $5. 5pm-10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

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

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Magic Show @ Hotel Rex Old-fashioned magic show with Sebastian Boswell III, Adam Sachs and guest performers, weekly in the parlor of the elegant downtown hotel. Two-drink min. Light fare menu. Saturdays thru 2013. $25-$30. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. 895-0090. www.MagicattheRex.com

Sun 17 Brunch @ Hi Tops Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Tea Rex @ Beatbox DJ Cory Craig spins tunes at this monthly daytime dance event (3rd Sundays), tied into Bear Pride events. 4pm-8pm. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

Mon 18 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with “Cock and Bull” ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Wed 20 Booty Call @ Q Bar

Dengue Fever @ The Independent Fascinating indie band performs. 8pm. 628 Divisadero. 771-1421. www.theindependentsf.com

Fauxgirls @ Infusion Lounge

Juanita More and Joshua J’s weekly night packs the intimate stylish bar with grooves and a groovy younger crowd. $3. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.juanitamore.com www.QbarSF.com

The upscale monthly drag show –the longest running in San Francisco- at the downtown nightclub includes guest star Felicia LaMar, and the regular fab cast. 7pm-9:30pm. 124 Ellis St. www.fauxgirls.com

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops

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Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Retro-classic drag show (2nd and 4th Wednesday) at the classic Tenderloin bar, featuring Collette Ashton, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Davida Ashton and Joie de Vivre. No cover. 10pm. 133 Turk St. 441-2922. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio Women’s burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5-$10. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Pan Dulce @ The Café Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. SFMagicParlor.com

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Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany hosts the weekly drag and musical talent show, which starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge The popular Castro bar shows fun musicals each week. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

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The legendary leather bar gets jock-ular, with beer buckets, games (including beer pong and corn-hole!), prizes, sports on the TVs, and more fun. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Compete for $200 prize in this amatuer strip contest, or watch the newbies get naked. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm11pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

13 Licks @ Q Bar Weekly women’s night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The RuPaul’s Drag Race winner performs a new single from her horror-themed CD. 10pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf. com Also Monday, Nov. 18, a video premiere at The Midnight Sun, 9pm, 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

The classic leather bar is back, with the most popular Sunday daytime event in town. 3pm-6pm (Also now open daily 11am-2am). 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Steve Aoki @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Kink’com’s monthly party includes cocktails, (mostly) female models in person, and sexy bondage performances. $20. 7pm meet & greet. 8pm rope show. 9pm photo ops and mingling, 11pm champagne and dancing. 21+. 1799 Mission St. at 14th. 431-5300. www.ArmoryClub.com

Grammy-nominated DJ & producer spins, with Borgore, hip hopper Waka Flocka Flame and electro group Keys N Krates. $30-$45. 8pm. 99 Grove St. www. aokifyamerica.com www.ticketmaster.com

Sugar @ The Café Fun club night with sexy gogo guys, drag acts and drink specials; 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sat monthly. Free guest list before 11pm. 841-5748. 9:30pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Fête de Kink @ Armory Club

Full of Grace @ Beaux New weekly night with hostess Grace Towers, different local and visiting DJs, and pop-up drag performances. This week, DJ Robin Simmons. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall New weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey’s Bebe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun

Bombshell Betty & Her Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room

Weekly screenings of vintage music videos, and retro drink prices. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 5527788. www.elbo.com

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Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. One-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Moonface @ Swedish American Hall Pianist-vocalist performs live. $14-$16. 8pm. 2170 Market St. www.cafedunord.com

Bacon, Babes & Bingo @ Café DuNord The game night and wild show’s last event for a while. Enjoy music from Jessica Rose and Jinx Jones, hostess Dottie Lux, burlesque gals, prizes galore. Proceeds benefit local charities. $10-$25. Happy hour 5pm-7pm, Bingo time 7pm-11pm. 2170 Market St. www.baconbabesandbingo.com www.cafedunord.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down like the strippers, and enjoy a beverage at the erotic male theatre. $20. 8pm and 10pm. Also Sept 28. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating new nature museum; plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. 21+. $10-$12. 6pm10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. calacademy.org

Thomas Dolby @ Sweidsh American Hall The pop genius perform with his new band Invisible Lighthouse. 2170 Market St. $25$60. 8pm. www.cafedunord.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Retro disco tunes and a fun diverse crowd, each Thursday; DJ Bus Station John plays records. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland  Hip-hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guests. No cover before 11pm and just $5 afterward. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

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Soma Country @ Beatbox Sundance Saloon’s monthly SoMa twostepping dance night now takes place every Tuesday. $8. 8pm-12am. Lessons 8pm. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www. sundancesaloon.org www.beatboxsf.com

Torch @ Martuni’s Veronica Klaus hosts the weekly night of cabaret, jazz and blues music, with Tammy L. Hall and special guests. $15. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.facebook.com/veronica.klaus

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Game Face

Sports fans love HiTops Photos by Steven Underhill

he Giants didn’t make it to the World Series, and the 49ers are not exactly thriving, but that doesn’t stop sports fans from enjoying watching a game or three at HiTops (2247 Market St. www.HiTopsSF.com) , the popular LGBT and straight-friendly sports bar. Weeknight events include trivia and bingo nights, and shotslinging jockstrapped dudes. Weekends include a tasty brunch menu, and seasonal winter game-viewing like basketball, ice hockey and wrestling. Yes, more wrestling, please. And another delish chicken sandwich! – J.P.

up. Power bottoms are merciless in

Leather

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their constant need for satiation. The sweat that drips off a top who’s really working it is a huge turn on. Then there’s the build up, those moments before he cums. It’s hot to watch a top who’s literally on top of you, looking down, sweating, and then he convulses into his orgasm. Yep, that’ll get a bottom to cum. But stay inside the bottom as he’s cumming. Nothing’s so tacky as a top who pulls out right away. Enjoy it a bit. And if you can, stay inside until you have to piss. That’ll get the bottom going, or cummin’, or just happy. And warm.

Vers.

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feeling. Ah, more Heaven! It seems

Obviously he was here for Fol-

that in the past few years or so more and more guys are versatile. Either that or maybe more and more guys are simply being honest, no longer afraid of the stigma attached to being a bottom. In the end, we’ll probably still make jokes about bottoms and judge tops for not performing. That’s ok. Who cares? As long as we’re having fun, right? Besides, as I like to say: It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t in that sling.

som Street Fair. He then traipsed off to Houston to judge the Mr. Third Coast Leather contest, followed by more judging at the Mr. Renegade Leather contests in L.A. He came back for Halloween (as he should, it’s one of our high holy days in San Francisco), and cohosted the “Freak Show” at the Eagle as well as traveling a tad south to judge the Mr. & Ms. Santa Clara County Leather contest. But no, Cross is not judgmental - no he’s not! He’s just being asked to judge lots of contests, like the Mr. Palm Springs Leather contest (part of their fantastic Palm Springs Leather Pride Weekend). What really sounds like fun is an event he’s going to in December: The 12 Kinks of Christmas. Now, that should be fun. That’s going to be in Michigan with Woody Woodruff. I wonder if we can get the two of them to negotiate who’s top and who’s bottom, and then give us videos of the result? Andy, pretty please?t

Where’s Andy Cross?

Speaking of tops and bottoms, what’s up with Andy Cross lately? You know, our intrepid International Mr. Leather/Mr. SF Leather/Mr. Powerhouse Leather and all around sexy, charming man. Well, he’s just been all over the place. I haven’t seen him in person in a while, but that’s not because he hasn’t been in town. He has. I just didn’t get a chance to experience his smile and charm in person.

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Andy Cross cohosted a Halloween Circus Freak Show with Moni Stat at the Eagle Oct. 31.

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Wide Open by John F. Karr

he first rationalization Michael Lucas offered for introducing barebacking into his films was medical—Truvada could prevent transmission of HIV. The second was that he would only film committed couples. Now, dropping that sham, he’ll rely on the effectiveness of regular blood tests for performers. Last week, Lucas announced that Trenton Ducati had become the company’s Exclusive bareback performer, for a period of three months. That short window of Exclusivity means Ducati’s HIV status can be easily documented and sustained. I’m herewith documenting my sustained grief at the arrival of barebacking as the sodomie mode du jour. A number of websites have recently become bareback providers, with Lucas joining Bel Ami, Kris Bjorn and others among mainstream providers. We’ll see if Michael’s move propels other American companies into bucking for bareback dollars. Now, I’ll get back to the survey I began last week of recent Titan

titles, paying special attention to some newer performers. Before I saw Anthony London’s three suck-n-fuck titles for Titan, I saw the constant top man being upstaged by his bottoms and their dildos in the two fetish scenes he filmed for Hot House, and then another two for Titan. Tall, mature, and masculine, the hairy uncut dude’s got loose balls and a sharp tan line. He’s a fine looking man—a stand-in for Titan’s David Anthony in most everything but personality. I find him bland. In Scruf (sic), he shows no qualms in throating all of Jesse Jackman’s cock. He’s aided no doubt by its sudden and sharp mid-shaft downward bend that strikes me as uncomfortablelooking, but which any throat would certainly find anatomically accommodating. New face Jay Bentley is altogether more memorable in his Scruf scene with Dirk Caber (Jackman’s real-life boyfriend). Bentley’s Exclusive to Titan, and worth seeking out. He’s made three Titan flix, and he’s mighty attractive—he’s attractively put together and his eyes sparkle. He’s black, or perhaps of mixed race,

yet so lightskinned you’d only think of that when noticing the tight curl of his hair. I wasn’t in the mood for a sexo when it came time to screen Scruf, but this pair’s low-key, sensual smooching quickly got me there. Caber’s hot stuff, as usual, offering nifty little fillips to the delish cocksucking he offers Bentley. They share a close and continuous communication that’s mighty effective, and Caber, as usual, favors his partner and us with his warm, sexy smile, as Bentley bounces on his bone. You’ll want to check out Resort, where Titan once again pairs Bentley smartly with Christopher Daniels. Scruf also has a good poolside scene with cockringed Rogan Richards (thick-bodied and rough-looking) topping Titan Exclusive Dario

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Exclusive Titan man Jesse Jackman smooches Anthony London in Scruf.

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Lynnee Breedlove of Homobiles, with mascot J. Snow.

Getting There

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bit of a gray area, but things are looking up for ride-sharers. In September, the California Public Utilities Commission approved new regulations that allow these services to operate legally, provided they provide driver training, conduct background checks, and carry at least $1 million in commercial insurance coverage. Taxi-starved San Franciscans will no doubt benefit, but the highlyregulated cab companies aren’t happy. I asked one cabbie how he felt about his new competitors, and was treated to an expletive-ridden tirade about “unqualified drivers” stealing his customers. He got so worked up that he ran a red light. On the flip side, all the ride-sharing drivers I spoke with seemed unfazed by the complaints of the taxi industry, and confident that there’s enough room for several options. So which ride-sharing service is best? Frankly, it’s impossible to choose. Lyft is fantastic (and nearly ubiquitous), but we love the community-driven focus of Homobiles, and the easy elegance of Uber. The next time you’re stranded waiting for a phantom MUNI that never arrives, one of these newfangled car services might be just the thing to get you home safe and sound.t

Beck (leaner, patrician). There’s only a sentence or two spoken in the entire flick (when Titan says it’s All Sex, they mean it), and the music, by Discopup and Orlando Moneyshot, is fine and sexy accompaniment. Wide Awake features more new faces. Most notable, to me at least, is Nick Prescott, a versatile Titan Exclusive who has only been in two movies—in this one, he’s a power bottom to hot fucker Justin King, while in the fetish-oriented Ass Attack he fiercely topped, dildo-ed and fisted his sub). Johnny Parker isn’t a Titan Exclusive, but has only appeared in four films, two of them for Titan (this one, and the fetish sexo Power Play, which finds the husky-bodied guy stroking side by side with Hunter Marx with sounding rods down their shafts). The extra meaty and bearded Parker, who has furry abs and a halo of sandy-colored hair surrounding his unshaven balls, shares a warm outdoor scene with Jesse Jackman. While Jackman rides nicely atop Parker’s cock before they flip-fuck, theirs is not the sort of coupling that announces Parker as a star. Self-confident blond Nick Prescott earned my quick attention. He’s got cropped hair, facial scruff, and a tight body, and somehow manages to infuse an almost surly toughness with a welcoming personality. Partner Justin King’s not a gentle fucker, and Prescott has to resist in self-defense while he’s giving in—a mixture that gives greater effectiveness to the act. Still, the final scene’s the best,

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Adam Champ fucks Titan Exclusive George Ce, in Wide Awake.

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